Safety fears prompt Gove to reconsider naming and shaming ‘extremist’ groups

The Communities Secretary is not expected to publish a list of extreme groups caught under a new definition to be announced this week, despite calls from campaigners and Conservatives to name and shame organisations.understands that as well as concerns about legal challenge, Mr Gove has been warned by officials that doing so could put people belonging to those groups in danger.

He is currently consulting other Cabinet ministers as part of the regular “write-round” process to achieve a collective position before the announcement, which is designed to add policy meat to Rishi Sunak’sSecurity Minister Tom Tugendhat was forced on Monday to deny the Government is politicising the issue after three former Conservative home secretaries called for cross-party consensus in tackling extremism.

Asked whether he thought the Prime Minister had been politicising the issue in his speech outside Downing Street, Mr Tugendhat told: “No, I don’t. I think what the Prime Minister did was he set out the reality of what the British people are facing.“It doesn’t matter whether you’re Labour or Conservative, whether you’re Jewish or Muslim, whether you’re Christian or atheist.”

“The PM has made very clear that it is the Government’s intention to stand up for the UK’s position as a patriotic, liberal, democratic society, and we denounce those on all sides who seek to spread hate and poison,” Mr Sunak’s official spokesman said.

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