UK reviewing power to ban terror-inciters

LONDON: Britain is reviewing its power to exclude foreigners who incite terrorism, said Prime Minister Tony Blair’s spokesman on Thursday. Briefing reporters on Blair’s weekly cabinet meeting, he said Home Secretary Charles Clarke had started “an immediate review of his powers to exclude people from this country who are likely to incite terrorism”. He said Clarke already had the authority to ban foreigners from Britain, as the senior minister in charge of public security and immigration, “if their presence is not conducive to the public good”. He said that Clarke was also considering whether to slap conditions on asylum-seekers and those given the right to stay permanently in Britain, expressly prohibiting them from inciting terrorism. afp

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