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"Leaked documents that made their way into Sunday's Observer showed how civil servants working under Gove's direction are looking to broaden the definition of "extremist" to anyone deemed to undermine the UK and UK institutions. The definition reads "Extremism is the promotion or advancement of any ideology which aims to overturn or undermine the UK’s system of parliamentary democracy, its institutions and values."
https://averypublicsociologist.blogspot.com/2023/11/a-curious-case-of-reluctant.html#UK #politics #Tories #Labour #authoritarianism
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