Britain’s independent reviewer of anti-terror legislation has rejected the need for new laws to counter extremists.
Max Hill QC, in a lecture last night, warned against any move to “criminalise” thought and said the law should be used against those planning violence.
“You will recall the proposals for banning orders, extremism disruption orders and closure orders.
“If any or all of them make a re-appearance, that will be evidence, for me, of the creation of criminal sanctions, formal consequences which fall on the wrong side of the divide which I have tried to articulate,” he said.
