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 Jess Phillips has said she “could have phrased” a tweet shared after gangs of men in balaclavas turned out in Birmingham “better”.The Home Office minister wrote that “rumours have been spread that a far right group were coming and it was done entirely to get Muslim people out on the street to drive this content. It is misinformation being spread to create trouble” after masked men threatened a Sky reporter in Birmingham earlier in August.Phillips’ post came after groups of men gathered outside a mosque in the Bordesley Green area following rumours that the far right were planning on targeting it.Ms Phillips later said: “We felt it wasn’t real what was being told... that people were coming to harm them was undoubtedly to cause upset and fear and that’s exactly what it did.”

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Extreme misogyny will be treated as a form of extremism under new government plans, the Home Office has said. Yvette Cooper, the home secretary, has ordered a review of the UK's counter-extremism strategy to determine how best to tackle threats posed by harmful ideologies. The analysis will look at hatred...

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The Home Office minister said the National Police Chiefs’ Council ‘had concerns about the growing rise in misogynistic attitudes among young men’.

Misogyny to be treated as ‘any other extremist ideology’, says Jess Phillips

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