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Prevent is claimed by the Henry Jackson Society to have been hijacked by political correctness, skewing it away from the threat posed by Islamists and putting too much focus on the far-Right.

The strategy aimed at stopping people becoming terrorists is facing calls for it to be overhauled.

Ian Acheson, a senior adviser at the Counter Extremism Project, said the narrative that the far-right is the fastest growing threat is a comfort blanket obscuring a patently more potent threat.

‘Fundamental mismatch’ between scale of Islamist threat and attention paid to it by counter-terrorism programme

Ali Harbi Ali was earlier referred to the UK government programme Prevent for monitoring the "radicalisation" of youth, but he was never a formal subject of... 20.10.2021, Sputnik International

Ali Harbi Ali, 25, who has been arrested over fatal stabbing of the Tory MP, was seen using his phone in the minutes after the killing

Prevent is said to be spending growing amounts of time and money combating other types of extremists, such as the far-Right, even though they make up a smaller proportion of the threat.

Prevent programme is ‘broken’ and requires a major overhaul, report will say in wake of Sir David Amess’s death

Conservative MPs Sir John Hayes and James Cleverly that criticised Kings College London for apologising for including a picture of Prince Philip in an email bulletin following his death.

Writer Dr Rakib Ehsan told Sky News the Labour Party and the broader political left have presented a “fundamentally warped interpretation” of British society. Dr Ehsan said Britain was one of the most “successful examples of a multi-racial democracy” despite assertions to the contrary by the “doom and gloom grievance mongers” on the left. “It’s the leading country when it comes to Western Europe, when it comes to anti-discrimination protections,” he said. “More broadly, I thi...