FOREIGN SECRETARY Yvette Cooper has launched a review into “serious information failures” relating to a British-Egyptian activist’s 15-year-old tweets.

Alaa Abd el-Fattah has been targeted by Tory and Reform UK MPs who want to cancel his citizenship over comments calling for violence against zionists and the police in 2010.

He has since apologised unreservedly and said he understood “how shocking and hurtful” the social media posts were.

The democracy campaigner and British-Egyptian dual national was recently released after years of detention in Egypt, having being granted British citizenship in December 2021.

Ms Cooper wrote to MPs on Monday evening saying the case had been “an unacceptable failure” and that due diligence procedures had been “completely inadequate for this situation,” following demands from the Tories and Reform UK.

In a letter to the foreign affairs select committee, Ms Cooper said she asked the Foreign Office’s top civil servant “to review the serious information failures in this case” and the systems in place for high-profile consular cases.

Downing Street has defended its campaign for the release of Abd el-Fattah and its decision to welcome him to Britain.