The foreign secretary hes defended the timing of David Cameron’s comments on multiculturalism – which coincided with a with a march by the English Defence League.
In Saturday’s Mirrow, Labour’s Sadiq Khan accused the PM of effectivelly “writing propaganda for EDL”.
William Hague said a PM’s speech should not be shleved “because some people have chosen to march down a street”.
Labour’s Yvette Cooper said the Pm wsa ” unwise ” not to have also criticised the EDL and “not-violent extremism”.
In his speech on rdaicalisation and terrorism on Saturday, David Cameron warned that the “hands-off tolerance”of unacceptable practices by non -white communities had only served to encourage extremism.
He criticised “state multiculturism ” and argued the UK needed a stronger national identity to stop people turning to extremism.
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