Hate preachers are to be banned from entering the UK.
It is understood that officials will identify the most dangerous extremists from countries including Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Indonesia and add them to a warning list.
Anyone on that list will be refused entry.
The development follows Rishi Sunak‘s speech in Downing Street on Friday, in which he said streets had been “hijacked by small groups who are hostile to our values and have no respect for our democratic traditions“.
Ministers already have powers to block people who are “non-conducive to the public good”.
Those powers are generally used to prevent people who are known to threaten national security from coming to the UK.
Ministers believe they can make greater use of them to include individuals preaching racism, incitement, or using intimidation or violence to undermine the democratic process.
Home Office officials are considering tackling what are described as far-left anti-democratic organisations amid concerns they are making common cause with Islamist groups.
Lord Walney, the government’s independent adviser on political violence, has been working on a review.
In that document, he is “asking the leader of every mainstream political party to take a zero tolerance approach to the menace that is threatening our democracy”, he wrote in The Sun.
There has been an “unholy alliance between far-Left groups and some of the Islamist extremism that has been seen on the [pro-Palestinian] marches”, Lord Walney told The Telegraph.
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