British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer expressed regret over the reception of British-Egyptian activist Alaa Abdelfattah in the United Kingdom, after old posts of his emerged containing calls for violence, which Starmer described as 'horrific'. Starmer revealed in an interview with the BBC's 'Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg' that Abdelfattah's posts included extremist statements such as calls for killing, rejection of the police, and describing Britons as monkeys. He confirmed that he was not aware of these comments upon Abdelfattah's arrival in the UK. This has sparked a wide controversy and demands to revoke Abdelfattah's British citizenship. Starmer added: 'I should have been informed of that, and I wasn't, and that is a failure in the citizenship review system'.
