I am everything I am today, because of my past.

No form of theocracy, whether it's manifested in a violent or non-violent form, is ever good for civilisation, and we have to challenge it in civil society as well as we would challenge Christian-based theocracy, or any other form of bigotry.

Preying on the grievances of disaffected young men is the bedrock of Islamism.

I had the assassins of the former president of Egypt, the leader of the Muslim Brotherhood was with me in prison, the leaders of my own former group Hizb ut-Tahrir were with me in prison and so by the time I was released at the age of 28, I wasn't the man who went in at 24.

In prison I had the opportunity to debate and discuss people that had subscribed to all forms of Islamism.

Once you subscribe to an ideological dogma as a solution to certain grievances, it then frames your mindset.

I believe that preventing radicalisation is far more efficient than de-radicalisation, meaning stopping someone joining is a lot easier than trying to pull someone out once they've joined.