The major statement made this week by Rishi Sunak’s government to update and expand the list of organizations labeled as “extremist” and impose new restrictions on their operations is covered in the Politics at news podcast.
The meaning of the plan will change when it launches on Thursday, subject to cross-government approval.
“Vocal or active opposition to British values” is how the nine-year-old concept of extremism is defined.
The “promotion or advancement of ideology based on hatred, intolerance, or violence or undermining or overturning the rights or freedoms of others, or of undermining democracy itself,” is going to be the revised definition, a source has revealed.
Although the precise wording of the new language has not been made public, government sources affirm that this is the intention behind it.
