In response to reports on the Home Office’s anti-extremism strategy, Shadow Home Affairs Minister Diana Johnson MP said:

“As senior police officers warn about the scale of Theresa Mays cuts and whether they can deal with increasing challenges such as terrorism, more reheated words from the Home Office feels too little, too late.

"The Prevent programme, which is supposed to be tackling radicalisation and all forms of extremism in communities, has been downgraded by this government. The police are asking for more help and communities increasingly feel let down.

"Theresa May abolished control orders, weakened counter terror powers, downgraded Prevent work and has failed to properly support the police, or communities, parents and local organisations who are trying to counteract radicalisation.

“We will look at the details of any policy that could help stop young people being drawn towards extremism, but with this government the rhetoric rarely matches the reality.”

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