"[2][3] Following the announcement at the press conference questions were asked at the House of Lords and the government made it clear that some of the findings of the review would be published.
[6] Sir John Jenkins was asked to draw up a report on the philosophy and values and alleged connections with extremism and violence by the Muslim Brotherhood.
[2] Other key players in the review team were Sir Kim Darroch, the prime minister's national security adviser, Sir John Sawers, the current chief of the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) and Charles Farr, at the time of writing Director General of the Office for Security and Counter Terrorism in the Home Office.
The first part was done by Sir John Jenkins, he examined the development, ideology and structures of the Muslim Brotherhood, historically and through its foundational writings.
"In the 1990s the Muslim Brotherhood and their associates established public facing and apparently national organisations in the UK to promote their views.
MAB became politically active, notably in connection with Palestine and Iraq, and promoted candidates in national and local elections.
"[7] "Mr Farr found that as of mid-2014 the Brotherhood in the UK comprised a range of organisations, loosely associated together but without common command and control or a single leader.
[6] This most recent report was drafted over a period of nine months and specifically denounced the initial selection of Sir John Jenkins: "Notwithstanding his knowledge, experience, and professional integrity, Sir John Jenkins’s concurrent service as UK ambassador to Saudi Arabia made his appointment to lead the Muslim Brotherhood Review misguided.
It created the impression that a foreign state, which was an interested party, had a private window into the conduct of a UK Government inquiry…This has undermined confidence in the impartiality of the FCO’s work on such an important and contentious subject.
"[10] In their own words, the authors of this 2016 report stated their intent was to conduct an inquiry into ‘political Islam’, its characteristics, and how well the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) has understood and engaged with ‘political-Islamist’ groups.
In its opening assessment summary of political Islam, the authors provide the caveat that "the Muslim Brotherhood is a secretive group, with an ambiguous international structure.