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Flora Thompson

Cooper orders review of anti-terror programme so ‘serious cases are not missed’

Axel Rudakubana was reported to Prevent three times between 2019 and 2021 but the Home Office established each referral ‘should not have been closed’, Ms Cooper said (Elizabeth Cook/PA) - (PA Wire)

The Home Secretary has ordered a “thorough review” of the Southport killer’s referrals to the Prevent anti-terror programme “to identify what changes are needed to make sure serious cases are not missed”.

Yvette Cooper told MPs on Tuesday she had appointed Lord David Anderson KC as interim Prevent commissioner because “independent oversight” of the programme was needed.

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