It was the left that was always the bastion of free speech, and still is in my opinion. The far right have never been free speech advocates, but there are some on the right, not usually far right imo, jumping on the free speech bandwagon as part of the culture wars, this often involves dollops of hypocrisy of course.
Regardless, what she said is a stupid thing to say and does her argument no favours, she of course should have the right to say it but if she genuinely believes that then I think she’s a deplorable person and nursing maybe wasn’t the profession for her, even many of us can agree the tories are a nasty, shambolic party.