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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Rajeev Syal and Vikram Dodd

Review of UK Prevent strategy to call for more focus on Islamist terrorism

Home Office in London.
The number of referrals to Prevent relating to far-right extremism exceeded those for Islamist radicalisation for the first time in 2021. Photograph: Facundo Arrizabalaga/EPA

A long-awaited report on the government’s counter-extremism programme is expected to call for its focus to shift more towards Islamist terrorism instead of rightwing terrorism.

Wednesday’s publication of William Shawcross’s review into Prevent follows months of delays caused by ministerial tussles over redactions and the language in the report, sources said.

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