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Will Durrant

Tories repeat calls to strip activist of UK citizenship amid ‘insincere’ apology

Dual-national Alaa Abd El-Fattah was recently released from years of detention in Egypt (Jordan Pettitt/PA) - (PA Archive)

Senior Conservatives have repeated calls to strip Alaa Abd El-Fattah of his British citizenship despite the activist’s apology for historic tweets in which he appeared to call for violence against Zionists and the police.

Shadow home secretary Chris Philp said that if he were in Government, he would be “deporting” Mr Abd El-Fattah, who was recently released from years of detention in Egypt.

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