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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Kiran Stacey, Rajeev Syal and Ben Quinn

Michael Gove to name organisations affected by new extremism definition

A man in a suit and blue tie sits holding some papers
Gove is expected to announce that the expanded definition will focus more on ideology than purely on words or actions and that government bodies will not engage with or fund any such group. Photograph: Danny Lawson/PA

Michael Gove wants to use parliamentary privilege to name groups that he says fall foul of his new definition of extremism, despite pushback from government lawyers who have warned about the legal implications of doing so.

The communities secretary is understood to be keen to name individual groups when he presents his new counter-extremism strategy on Thursday, which he says will target organisations that undermine British democracy.

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