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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Archie Mitchell

Cooper blocks call for misogyny crimes to be treated as extremism

Yvette Cooper has rejected calls for misogynists, conspiracy theorists, the far left and potentially violent environmental activists to be treated as extremists.

The home secretary has said she disagrees with the findings of a rapid review ordered into extremism in the wake of the Southport attacks, choosing instead to continue focusing the government’s anti-terror efforts on Islamist and far-right extremism.

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