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By Sam Coates, deputy political editor

Michael Gove is poised to unveil a new definition of extremism as jitters grow in government at his plan.

The Politics at Jack and Sam’s podcast discusses the big announcement by Rishi Sunak’s government this week – designed to update and increase the number of organisations that are classed as “extremist” and put new limits on their activities.

The plan, due to be launched on Thursday – subject to cross-government sign-off – will see a change in the definition.

The nine-year-old definition defines extremism as “vocal or active opposition to British values”.

The updated definition is going to, according to a source, be the “promotion or advancement of ideology based on hatred, intolerance or violence or undermining or overturning the rights or freedoms of others, or of undermining democracy itself”.

Government sources confirm this is the intent of the new wording but the exact phrasing has not been published.

Other ministers are cautious about the plan, suggesting it is unclear who the definition will and won’t cover, amid fears other groups – such as trans rights activists, gender critical organisations and even anti-House of Lords campaigners – could be caught by this new wider definition.

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