Prevent scheme failing to tackle ‘non-violent Islamist extremism’, review says

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Government has accepted all 34 recommendations made in 188-page report on anti-terrorism scheme

The UK government’s Prevent programme, which aims to stop people turning to terrorism, is not doing enough to tackle “non-violent Islamist extremism”, a review has found.

The assessment, ordered by Priti Patel as home secretary in 2019 and led by the former Charity Commission chairman William Shawcross, found Prevent “has a double standard when dealing with the extreme right wing and Islamism”.

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