Both the Conservatives and Reform UK have called for his British citizenship to be revoked due to Mr Abd El-Fattah’s previous social media posts

Shabana Mahmood is facing growing calls to revoke the citizenship of British-Egyptian dual national Alaa Abdel Fattah after the emergence of social media posts.

Alaa Abd El-Fattah, who recently arrived in the UK after years of imprisonment in Egypt, does maintain that other posts have been ‘completely twisted out of their meaning’