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This is the best summary I could come up with:
Michael Gove wants to use parliamentary privilege to name groups that he says fall foul of his new definition of extremism, despite pushback from government lawyers who have warned about the legal implications of doing so.
The communities secretary is understood to be keen to name individual groups when he presents his new counter-extremism strategy on Thursday, which he says will target organisations that undermine British democracy.
Downing Street said on Monday: “This is in response to the fact that in recent months we’ve seen an unacceptable rise in extremist activity, which is seeking to divide our society and hijack our democratic institutions.
Gove will on Thursday say the government is changing its official definition of extremism to catch groups that subvert British democracy and to focus more on ideology than purely on words or actions.
On Monday evening, three non-governmental organisations – Liberty, Friends of the Earth and Amnesty International UK – became the latest to warn against making the definition of extremism too broad.
In a joint statement seen by the Guardian, the three groups said: “Any suggestion that the government or political parties should ban all meetings or engagement with legal civil society organisations or sections of the electorate, is profoundly anti-democratic and sets a dangerous precedent.”
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