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In a speech tomorrow, the Prime Mister will announce a ream of new measures to fight extremism, including banning extremists from the Internet and from working with children, and closing some mosques. The government will also revive the so-call “snooper’s charter.”

The measures will include blacklisting groups that “foment hate,” which public sector organisations will then be forced to boycott, and the use of “extremism disruption orders” on those deemed to be trying to radicalise young people online, and banning them from going online or communicating on social media.

Some mosques will also be closed where extremist meetings have taken place, the Prime Minister will claim, and powers available to the media regulator, Ofcom, will be strengthened to bring harsher sanctions against channels that broadcast content the government deems extremist.

The announcement has been made alongside a £5m fund to be handed to moderate Muslim groups and media outlets over the next six month, in a move to counter the “poison” peddled other groups.

The Draft Communications Data Bill, or “snooper’s charter”, which gives sweeping powers to the intelligence services to spy on the activities of suspected terrorists online, is also to be revived, with Ministers set to vote on the matter early next year. The legislation was blocked by the Liberal Democrats in the last Parliament.