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Does the Government know what it’s getting into? It’s said to have NGO boss Fiyaz Mughal down as a front-runner for a new position as a new independent adviser on anti-Muslim hatred. That’s the scoop from Christopher Hope, our political editor, who revealed this afternoon that an announcement could be made on Monday. Sources close to Michael Gove said that Mughal was “one of a number of names we’re looking at”. Gove, the communities minister, is understood to be reviewing the Government’s extremism legislation. The new role is being formed as part of a major crackdown on extremism, which comes…

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