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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Rajeev Syal Home affairs editor

‘Two-tier’: UK treats far-right attacks less harshly than Islamist violence, says thinktank

Keir Starmer stands in front of CCTV screens at Lambeth police HQ in London.
Keir Starmer is shown CCTV screens at Lambeth police HQ in London. The prime minister described an attack on a hotel housing asylum seekers as ‘far-right thuggery’. Photograph: Toby Melville/PA

The UK has a “two-tier approach” to extremism that fails to treat far-right attacks as seriously as Islamist ones, a leading thinktank has said.

The Royal United Services Institute (Rusi) says rightwing violence “is often classified as mere thuggery” by politicians, prosecutors and the security services. Equivalent acts by Islamists would “swiftly be labelled as terrorism”, it says in an article in the Guardian.

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