Will Gove’s extremism definition worsen Tory divides?

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🗓️ 14 March 2024

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Michael Gove has unveiled the government’s new legal definition of extremism, which will decide whether organisations can receive government money. Conservative MPs, and three former Conservative home secretaries, have said doing would be a mistake. Is Gove doing more harm than good?

Max Jeffery speaks to Katy Balls and Paul Goodman, former editor of Conservative Home.

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0:30.0	Hello and welcome to Coffey House Shots, the Spectators Daily Politics Podcast. I'm Max Jeffrey and I'm joined today by Katie Bulls and Paul Goodman the former editor of Conservative Home
0:37.6	Michael Gove has unveiled his new definition of extremism and named five groups that he says will be assessed against it.
0:45.2	Katie can you give us the details first please?
0:47.2	Yes so I think this has been much anticipated and you've had lots of fighting which
0:51.5	isn't completely unusual but lots of fighting before
0:53.9	Michael Gove has even confirmed what was happening.
0:56.5	You've had free former Conservative Home Secretaries warning that extremism should not be politicized should not become point scoring a
1:04.4	letter that was signed and appeared in the guardian and that include pretty Patel which
1:08.1	I think some summon the party what what just happened but therefore it all comes I mean I think this has been
1:14.9	discussed for some time to be very clear but obviously I think the context we're
1:18.3	probably seeing it in right now is Ritchie student gave a speech at the very
1:21.8	beginning of the month on extremism, suggesting that effectively it was spilling out in lots of unseemly ways when it comes to the right and the left. He did it on the day that George
1:34.2	Galloway won the by-election in Rochdale and this today was Michael Gove saying
1:40.0	how they plan to take some extra measures to counter extremism.
1:43.4	So it all rests upon a new definition of nonviolent extremism,
1:47.6	which as you told the Commons today, it would include what we count to this is the promotion or advancement of violence
1:54.9	hatred or intolerance and Gove said that this is a more precise and rigorous
2:00.0	definition than what has come before. As for what it actually means in terms of
2:05.6	policy changes all those affected is the new definition is going to be used to
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