(National-UAE) For almost two decades, British politician Michael Gove has made it his mission to push for more stringent measures to tackle extremism in the UK.
Now, after Prime Minister Rishi Sunak warned just days ago that the country was being torn apart by rising domestic tensions, Mr Gove will have his chance to change the system when he overhauls the UK’s definition of extremism, which has not been altered for more than 10 years.
Prof Ian Acheson, senior adviser at the Counter Extremism Project, was commissioned by Mr Gove seven years ago to look into Islamist extremism in prisons.
“He has always been committed to tackling the threat posed by those who advocate hateful ideas in the high-level posts he has held in government as secretary of state for education, justice and now at the department responsible for communities,” Prof Acheson told the National.
