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New law to proscribe hostile state-linked groups

A new terror-style proscription law will be created to ban foreign government agencies in an attempt to crack down on the activities of hostile countries in Britain Yvette Cooper, the home secretary, told MPs that she was accepting recommendations from a report by Jonathan Hall KC, the independent adviser on terrorism legislation, which said that that Britain's terrorism legislation was ill-equipped to tackle the conduct of state agencies such as the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and called for a new power to act as an 'equivalent to proscription'. Speaking in the House of Commons, Cooper said she was accepting this recommendation so the government could deal with state bodies such as the IRGC, which has been accused of plotting assassinations and terror attacks around