Ministers and officials to be banned from contact with groups labelled extremist

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

58% : Michael Gove, the communities secretary, will tell MPs on Thursday that officials should consider whether a group maintains "public confidence in government" before working with it.
51% : These principles are meant to mitigate the risk of "undertaking engagement that undermines government's core aims to maintain public confidence in government; uphold democratic values; and protect the rights and freedoms of others.
45% : Gove, who has overseen the formulation of the new definition, said it would "ensure that Government does not inadvertently provide a platform to those setting out to subvert democracy and deny other people's fundamental rights". Related: Extending extremism definition risks fuelling unlawful protest, warns Greenpeace UK But deep concern was expressed by Jonathan Hall KC, the government's independent reviewer of state threat legislation who referred to a lack of safeguards and the labelling of people as extremists by "ministerial decree".

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