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HANSARD Extremism Definition and Community EngagementAgain, I am grateful to my right hon. Friend and commend him on the work he did in the Home Office during his time there. He will have known that there was an already existing…14 Mar 2024HANSARD Extremism Definition and Community EngagementI am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman for the points he makes. His question gives me an opportunity to clarify that we will proceed with caution and that this definition…14 Mar 2024HANSARD Extremism Definition and Community EngagementI met them both in the preparation for the work we have done today. I think it was the case that the independent adviser on antisemitism, Lord Mann, whose work is outstanding,…14 Mar 2024HANSARD Extremism Definition and Community EngagementI could not agree more. It is the principle of Milton’s “Areopagitica” that governs my approach towards free speech: ideas should contend on the plain of argument and people…14 Mar 2024HANSARD Extremism Definition and Community EngagementI deprecate the personal attack on Sir Paul Marshall, who is a distinguished philanthropist and a supporter of Ark academies—state schools that have done so much, including in the…14 Mar 2024HANSARD Extremism Definition and Community EngagementI absolutely take the hon. Member’s point. The key thing here is that sometimes there are organisations and individuals that seek to operate by presenting one face to one group…14 Mar 2024HANSARD Extremism Definition and Community EngagementMy hon. Friend makes a very important point. In our schools and other institutions, we should make sure that people from every background are acquainted with our history and…14 Mar 2024HANSARD Extremism Definition and Community EngagementAs I mentioned earlier, speaking as someone who was the victim of a determined effort to kill me, and because the individual who was trying to kill me went on to kill a friend and…14 Mar 2024HANSARD Extremism Definition and Community EngagementMy hon. Friend is correct to draw attention to the fact that there have been occasions recently when people motivated to make a particular point have crossed the threshold. I know…14 Mar 2024HANSARD Extremism Definition and Community EngagementBecause we will publish the evidence behind them.14 Mar 2024HANSARD Extremism Definition and Community EngagementMy hon. Friend makes a very good point, related to that made by my right hon. Friend the Member for Newark (Robert Jenrick). The Home Office is vigilant about who it allows to…14 Mar 2024HANSARD Extremism Definition and Community EngagementAll of us have a responsibility to be vigilant about the dangers of extremism. I am grateful to many media outlets for shining a light on extremism, from the BBC to The Times .…14 Mar 2024HANSARD Extremism Definition and Community EngagementIt is precisely because I share the concerns raised by my hon. Friend that we have made the definition tighter. I am sure she is aware of the existing wording of the 2011…14 Mar 2024HANSARD Extremism Definition and Community EngagementI thank the hon. Gentleman for his question, but I hope he will appreciate that both I and the right hon. Member for Ashton-under-Lyne (Angela Rayner) are determined not to…14 Mar 2024HANSARD Extremism Definition and Community EngagementI am sorry that the hon. Gentleman feels it necessary to make a party political point about my colleagues. I extend to him the same courtesy that I extend to every Member of this…14 Mar 2024HANSARD Extremism Definition and Community EngagementWhen my right hon. Friend held my current post, he took forward immensely valuable work to counter anti-Muslim hatred and antisemitism, and to support organisations fighting both.…14 Mar 2024HANSARD Extremism Definition and Community EngagementI am grateful to my hon. Friend, who has endured the consequences of extremism himself and has been a very valuable voice for religious freedom for many years. He makes two…14 Mar 2024HANSARD Extremism Definition and Community EngagementI think it was the Labour Government, when Gordon Brown was Prime Minister, that raised concerns about some of the activities and views expressed by members of the Muslim Council…14 Mar 2024HANSARD Extremism Definition and Community EngagementI am very grateful to my hon. Friend, whose experience not only in Northern Ireland, but working abroad to promote peace and inclusion, is to be commended. He is quite right. The…14 Mar 2024HANSARD Extremism Definition and Community EngagementI congratulate the hon. Member on his election as Member of Parliament for Rochdale. As he rightly points out, we have known each other for several decades. During that time, I…14 Mar 2024