PM to announce new counter extremism policy tomorrow – HATE preachers will be banned from using the internet or working with children under a crackdown on extremism to be unveiled by David Cameron tomorrow.
The prime minister will publish plans to create a blacklist of “radicals” and “extremist” groups subject to banning orders.
Last night he vowed to plough £5m over the next six months into funding “moderate” Muslim groups and charities in a move to counter the “poison” peddled by militants.
Some of the money will be spent setting up a newspaper to be run by moderate imams to counteract Isis propaganda.
Ministers will also join forces with internet companies to form a group to tackle the proliferation of extremist content online.
The prime minister will signal that the government will revive the so-called “snooper’s charter”. This will give greater powers to the intelligence services to monitor the activities of suspected terrorists.
Ministers say that it will be voted on early next year.
In a speech tomorrow the prime minister will also announce plans for a new extremism bill which will:
■ Outlaw groups that “foment hate”
■ Force public sector organisations to boycott those on the blacklist
■ Slap “extremism disruption orders” on those seeking to radicalise young people online, banning them from using the internet or communicating via social media
■ Close mosques where extremist meetings have taken place
■ Let employers check whether an individual is an extremist and bar them from working with children
■ Strengthen the powers available to Ofcom, the media regulator, to strengthen sanctions against channels that broadcast “extremist content” or give a platform to “hate preachers”.
Cameron will also pledge to act on a current review of the operation of sharia courts and announce that new arrivals in the country should respect “British values”. In a foreword to the strategy Theresa May, the home secretary, defines these as “democracy, free speech, mutual respect and opportunity for all”.
The prime minister said: “We need to systematically confront and challenge extremism and the ideologies that underpin it, exposing the lies and the destructive consequences it leaves in its wake. We have to stop this seed of hatred even being planted in people’s minds and cut off the oxygen it needs to grow.”
The extremism strategy will target militants even if they do not specifically advocate violence as well as racists, anti-semites and those who spread conspiracy theories.
A new community engagement forum will funnel cash to groups such as the Active Change Foundation, a youth centre in east London which trains young communiuty leaders, and Inspire, a women’s counterextremism organisation which runs workshops for Muslim women across the country.