{"id":1699,"date":"2024-03-14T12:03:33","date_gmt":"2024-03-14T12:03:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/260web.com\/news\/gove-to-update-commons-on-how-government-is-redefining-extremism\/"},"modified":"2024-03-14T12:03:33","modified_gmt":"2024-03-14T12:03:33","slug":"gove-to-update-commons-on-how-government-is-redefining-extremism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/260web.com\/news\/gove-to-update-commons-on-how-government-is-redefining-extremism\/","title":{"rendered":"Gove to update Commons on how government is redefining extremism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gove to update Commons on how government is redefining extremism<\/p>\n<p><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/260web.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/teARPQ.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p data-reactid=\".fuxkzubfoy.0.2.0.0.1.0.1.0.$lx-tabs0.0.$lx-commentary.$lx-commentary.2.0.1.1.1:$post-65f2c9d44268143d286d2ecb.0.6.0.0:$post_0\">Michael Gove\u2019s announcement today of a new definition of extremism<br \/>\nhas been widely trailed and briefed over recent weeks.<\/p>\n<p data-reactid=\".fuxkzubfoy.0.2.0.0.1.0.1.0.$lx-tabs0.0.$lx-commentary.$lx-commentary.2.0.1.1.1:$post-65f2c9d44268143d286d2ecb.0.6.0.0:$post_1\">That means we can already map out the likely contours of<br \/>\nthe debate around this issue in Parliament later today.<\/p>\n<p data-reactid=\".fuxkzubfoy.0.2.0.0.1.0.1.0.$lx-tabs0.0.$lx-commentary.$lx-commentary.2.0.1.1.1:$post-65f2c9d44268143d286d2ecb.0.6.0.0:$post_2\">From the government\u2019s point of view, a new definition is<br \/>\nneeded in order to deal with what they fear is a rising tide of extremism &#8211; especially since the 7 October attacks by Hamas on Israel and the subsequent outbreak of conflict in Gaza. <\/p>\n<p data-reactid=\".fuxkzubfoy.0.2.0.0.1.0.1.0.$lx-tabs0.0.$lx-commentary.$lx-commentary.2.0.1.1.1:$post-65f2c9d44268143d286d2ecb.0.6.0.0:$post_3\">We saw the scale of the government\u2019s concern just<br \/>\nunder a fortnight ago, when Rishi Sunak stepped outside No 10 and addressed<br \/>\nthe nation about the issue. <\/p>\n<p data-reactid=\".fuxkzubfoy.0.2.0.0.1.0.1.0.$lx-tabs0.0.$lx-commentary.$lx-commentary.2.0.1.1.1:$post-65f2c9d44268143d286d2ecb.0.6.0.0:$post_4\">The critiques of the government\u2019s approach roughly fall<br \/>\ninto two camps.<\/p>\n<p data-reactid=\".fuxkzubfoy.0.2.0.0.1.0.1.0.$lx-tabs0.0.$lx-commentary.$lx-commentary.2.0.1.1.1:$post-65f2c9d44268143d286d2ecb.0.6.0.0:$post_5\">There are those who believe the government <strong>risks creating<br \/>\nmore division<\/strong> \u2013 that was the warning earlier this week from the Archbishops of<br \/>\nCanterbury and York, but it is also a view held by some Labour MPs, while three<br \/>\nformer Conservative home secretaries warned against the politicisation of<br \/>\nextremism.<\/p>\n<p data-reactid=\".fuxkzubfoy.0.2.0.0.1.0.1.0.$lx-tabs0.0.$lx-commentary.$lx-commentary.2.0.1.1.1:$post-65f2c9d44268143d286d2ecb.0.6.0.0:$post_6\">Then there are those who fear the <strong>consequences for free<br \/>\nspeech<\/strong>. That includes some Conservative MPs who worry<br \/>\nthat people like anti-abortion campaigners or those with gender-critical views<br \/>\ncould end up being captured by the new definition.<\/p>\n<p data-reactid=\".fuxkzubfoy.0.2.0.0.1.0.1.0.$lx-tabs0.0.$lx-commentary.$lx-commentary.2.0.1.1.1:$post-65f2c9d44268143d286d2ecb.0.6.0.0:$post_7\">We will get a clearer idea of the kinds of groups the<br \/>\ngovernment believes the new definition covers when they publish a list of newly-classified<br \/>\nextremist groups, probably within weeks.<\/p>\n<p><noscript data-reactid=\".fuxkzubfoy.0.2.0.0.1.0.1.0.$lx-tabs0.0.$lx-commentary.$lx-commentary.2.0.1.1.1:$post-65f2c9d44268143d286d2ecb.0.6.0.1\"><\/noscript><br \/>Published at Thu, 14 Mar 2024 07:12:14 +0000<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gove to update Commons on how government is redefining extremism Michael Gove\u2019s announcement today of a new definition of extremism has been widely trailed and briefed over recent weeks. That means we can already map out the likely contours of the debate around this issue in Parliament later today. From the government\u2019s point of view,&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/260web.com\/news\/gove-to-update-commons-on-how-government-is-redefining-extremism\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Gove to update Commons on how government is redefining extremism<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1698,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uk-politics","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/260web.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/260web.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/260web.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/260web.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/260web.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/260web.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1699\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/260web.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/260web.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/260web.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/260web.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}