5 August 2005
The Prime Minister has outlined new security measures at his monthly media briefing.
Mr Blair told journalists that the measures were either being taken now, immediately, or under urgent examination.
He said the Government was launching a short one-month consultation on new grounds for excluding and deporting people from the United Kingdom. They would include fostering hatred, advocating violence to further a person’s beliefs or justifying or validating such violence.
The Prime Minister said:
"Let no one be in any doubt that the rules of the games are changing.
"The circumstances of our national security have now self evidently changed and we believe we can get the necessary assurances from the countries to which we will return the deportees against their being subject to torture or ill-treatment."
The Prime Minister went on to confirm that there would be new anti-terror legislation in the autumn, including an offence of condoning or glorifying terrorism which would apply anywhere, not just in the UK.
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