Smith slammed for extremist 'failing'
Updated on 11 November 2008
A Hizbollah radical was allowed to enter the UK after ministers announced a crackdown on extremists.
Ibrahim Mousawi spoke at a conference at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London last week.
Mr Mousawi, a former editor of Hizbollah's television channel, is a "well-known extremist", Conservative MPs said.
The armed wing of the Middle Eastern Islamic group is on a Home Office list of proscribed terror organisations.
Last month Home Secretary Jacqui Smith said extremists would have to prove their innocence under new rules and promised to publish a list of banned individuals.
She said: "I will stop those who want to spread extremism, hatred and violent messages in our communities from coming to our country."
Shadow security minister Baroness Neville-Jones said: "Allowing him in the country again shows that there is nothing behind the Government's so-called tough new measures 'to exclude those who want to spread extremism.
"Labour is failing to deliver on all its tough talk about keeping undesirable people out of this country."
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