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The long-overdue banning of Hizb ut-Tahrir

20 January 2024

9:00 AM

20 January 2024

9:00 AM

Well, better late than never, I suppose. This week the Home Secretary James Cleverly announced that the government has finally decided to ban the Islamic extremist group Hizb ut-Tahrir. For some readers this may sound like a familiar story.

In the aftermath of the 7 July 2005 terror attacks in London, the then prime minister Tony Blair declared that ‘the rules of the game are changing’.

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