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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Politics
Sam Hall

Prevent ‘very ineffective’ in dealing with political extremism – Dominic Grieve

Former attorney general Dominic Grieve said anti-radicalisation scheme Prevent is “very ineffective” in dealing with political extremism and young people “fixated on violence” without a specific ideology.

It comes after a three-year review found that counter-terrorism measures including the law used to ban Palestine Action and Prevent are being used too widely.

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