14 July 2005
Tony Blair has said he will look urgently at the strengthening of controls to exclude people from entering the UK ‘who may incite hatred or act contrary to the public good.’
He was speaking in the wake of the London bombings during his weekly PMQ session.
Ministers would begin consultations on planned counter-terrorism legislation within the next couple of weeks, he told MPs, with priority given to measures to combat the incitement and instigation of terrorism.
Mr Blair urged a ‘calm and measured’ response across the country, stressing that Muslims were overwhelmingly law-abiding and the terrorists acted on a ‘perverted and poisonous misrepresentation” of Islam.
He also congratulated once again the ‘magnificent’ emergency services for their work since 7 July.
Earlier in the day he met with muslim MPs in Downing Street.
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