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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Jessica Elgot and Rajeev Syal

Yvette Cooper to reject call to broaden extremism definition

Police officers in helmets and holding shields stand in a line, with a car on fire in the distance
Police in Hartlepool after violent disorder in July last year. Photograph: Owen Humphreys/PA

Yvette Cooper will reject internal Home Office advice to potentially widen the definition of extremism to include violent misogyny and conspiracy theorists, the Guardian understands.

A report commissioned in the wake of violent riots after the Southport murders last year suggests authorities should adopt a “behaviour-based and ideologically agnostic approach” to combating extremism rather than “ideologies of concern”.

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