The Shadow Home Secretary has expressed his anger over the activist Alaa Abd El-Fattah being allowed to come to the UK given his views on Jews and terrorism.
Philp fumed that if he was the Home Secretary he would immediately revoke his dual Egyptian and British citizenship.
Anger has spread across social media of El-Fattah’s arrival to the UK on Boxing Day and the Prime Minister said he was delighted.
Sir Keir Starmer has “delightfully” welcomed the return of the Egyptian activist, Alaa Abd El-Fattah who served years in prison.
El-Fattah has previously tweeted for Zionists to be murdered, white people to be killed and that women should be raped, despite this the red carpet treatment by Downing Street.
Starmer ‘delightfully’ welcomes El-Fattah to the UK who called on women to be ‘raped’
Speaking to GB News Philp said, “Well, quite frankly, he shouldn’t have been here in the first place.
“I don’t know the circumstances surrounding him getting citizenship on December 20, 2021. I don’t know whether that crossed ministers’ desks or not.
“But as far as I’m concerned and I’m now the shadow Home Secretary if I were Home Secretary, I would be walking round the corner into the Home Office right now, stripping him of his British citizenship and deporting him.
“That’s exactly what I’d be doing if I were Home Secretary. He’s a scumbag. ”
He added, “To be honest, if Keir Starmer and Shabana Mahmood were serious, they would make sure that anyone in this country who is not a British citizen or who is a dual national whose British citizenship can be removed and who expresses extremist, racist, antisemitic or violent views, is deported.
“We’ve had enough of talking. People like Keir Starmer condemn antisemitism and extremism with words, but words are not good enough anymore. We need action.
“That action should start with deporting people who express extremist, racist or antisemitic views, who support violence or terrorism where those individuals are not British citizens or are dual nationals.
“If we start deporting those people starting with this man, but applying it to anyone who expresses those views it will send a clear message that extremism, antisemitism, racism, support for violence and support for terrorism are not acceptable and will not be tolerated in the UK.
“We won’t just talk about it we’ll take action. Because frankly, I’ve had enough of this antisemitism, racism, antiwhite racism and support for violence. I’ve had enough of it.”
In a statement released on Monday, Fattah said, “I am shaken that, just as I am being reunited with my family for the first time in 12 years, several historic tweets of mine have been republished and used to question and attack my integrity and values.”
A Downing Street spokesperson said, “We welcome the return of a British citizen unfairly detained abroad.
“However, we have condemned the nature of these historic tweets and find them abhorrent.”
The Reform UK leader Nigel Farage said, “It should go without saying that anyone who possesses racist and anti-British views such as those of Mr El-Fattah should not be allowed into the UK.
Reform’s head of policy, Zia Yusuf, posted on X, “Last year, 107 MPs and Peers wrote to David Lammy (the then-Foreign Secretary) urging him to secure the return of Alaa el-Fattah… a man who had publicly espoused his hatred of British people, white people and Jews.
“They included: six Tories, five Greens, 35 Labour, 34 Lib Dems… and ZERO Reform of course.
“The Alaa el-Fattah saga sums up the uniparty: prioritising those who hate Britain.
“Voting for the Tories again will only result in more of the same. Britain needs Reform.”
