By James Mildred2024-03-15T11:12:00
Concerns are growing that Christian organisations could be blacklisted by the government’s new definition of extremism, says James Mildred
A few weeks ago, the Prime Minister Rishi Sunak stood outside No. 10 Downing Street and gave a speech about extremism.
In it, he extolled British values which he defined chiefly as our “commitment to a liberal, parliamentary democracy”. He said, “Islamist extremists and far right groups are spreading a poison, that poison is extremism.”
The main point of the speech was to announce the government would bring forward a new definition of extremism. This would then be followed by a new strategy to tackle extremism. These were published yesterday. Here’s the new definition:
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