Labour Acknowledges Serious Blunder as Alleged Extremist with Disturbing Tweets Allowed into Britain

Table of Contents

• Government Admission of Failure
• Controversial Social Media Posts
• Response from Officials
• Debate on Citizenship and Deportation

The Government acknowledged a significant failure after ministers welcomed an alleged extremist to Britain, only to later uncover his offensive past tweets.

The Home Secretary stated that senior civil servants—and successive Prime Ministers—had never been informed about el-Fattah's social media posts advocating for the killing of Zionists.

The Egyptian activist had spent years in prison in Cairo, and his return to the UK was celebrated by the Prime Minister as a major priority for his government.

However, controversy arose when historic antisemitic posts resurfaced, in which el-Fattah—who was granted a UK passport in 2021 by the Conservative Government due to his British-born mother—also referred to British people as “dogs and monkeys.”

Ms. Cooper stated that officials managing the case were “unaware” of this material.

She initiated an urgent review into the “serious information failures” regarding how the case was managed.

In a letter to the chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee, Dame el-Fattah, she mentioned that due diligence procedures were “completely inadequate.”

This situation resulted in ministers making statements without having the complete facts.

Members of the Conservative Party and others have called on Labour to revoke el-Fattah's British citizenship and deport him.

However, Government sources indicate that any attempt to do so would likely face legal challenges, which could be overturned at great expense to taxpayers.

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