Hate preachers will be banned from coming to the UK in fresh crackdown amid alarm at Islamist extremist threat
RISHI Sunak is launching a crackdown on hate preachers stepping foot in the UK over fears they are trying to stoke violence and division in our streets.
Ministers are increasingly concerned that Islamist extremists from Pakistan, Afghanistan and Indonesia are targeting the UK.
They are drawing up a list of dangerous extremists who will be added to visa warning lists and blocked from coming here.
It comes after the PM delivered an impassioned speech outside No10 to warn of extremists “spreading poison” and leaving Jews afraid to walk Britain’s streets.
A government source said: “The PM has been clear, enough is enough.
“We are a country of kind, decent, tolerant people and we will not allow hate preachers from overseas to come here to spread division and tear us apart.
“This government has taken firm action to tackle extremism and will go further to protect our democracy and keep the British people safe.”
Border Force can stop people coming to the UK if they are “non-conducive to the public good”.
This usually just applies to those who pose a national security risk.
But No10 reckon it can be extended to others.
The PM is also expected to come up with new guidance on how to cut off dodgy groups that preach extremism from having a role in any part of public life in the coming weeks.
But the government’s attempts to come up with a legal definition of extremism is understood to have run into problems.
Michael Gove has been heading up attempts to come up with a widened definition of what extremism is to include those who vilify Britain.
It was one of Rishi’s campaign pledges when he ran for leader.
No10 ran an exercise with lawyers involved to see how the definition would work in practice.
But they found it was so broad it would accidentally include the SNP in it, government insiders familiar with the exercise said.