High court judges have ruled that the home secretary’s decision to reject applications from the wife and two adult children of an Egyptian Islamist, a potential extremist, unlawful. Judges said that the home secretary acted unlawfully because ‘ parliament had not expressly provided that British citizenship could be refused to deter others from engaging in extremism in the future’.

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