Kemi Badenoch co-wrote report saying Prevent scheme could ‘alienate communities’

Kemi Badenoch was one of eight London assembly members who wrote the 2015 report titled Preventing Extremism in London. Photograph: House of Commons

Kemi Badenoch, who criticised a Labour manifesto that warned the UK’s Prevent programme could alienate communities, co-authored a report which expressed concern that the same anti-radicalisation scheme was alienating communities.

The Conservative party leader backed an inquiry in 2015 that concluded “the public must not be the forgotten partner in the fight against extremism” and noted that Prevent was “subject to accusations of police heavy-handedness”.