Yvette Cooper MP, Labour’s Shadow Home Secretary, responding to Theresa May’s speech to Conservative Party Conference 2014said:
“Theresa May is right to recognise the importance of tackling extremism, which is why she must reverse some of the changes she made four years ago which weakened counter terror powers.
"The Government should immediately reintroduce measures such as relocation powers for terror suspects and strengthen the weak TPIM regime.
"Ministers should reintroduce the community-based Prevent programme to fight radicalisation and extremism, while everyone returning from fighting in Syria should be compelled to engage in deradicalisation programmes.
"Far too often there is a gap between Government rhetoric and the reality - for example Theresa May admitted today that the Prime Minister’s announcement that he would take away citizenship from British citizens was neither legal nor workable.
"Theresa May told her party’s conference that she didn’t plan to say much about her record on immigration and policing. This is no doubt because her net migration target is in tatters and her expensive Police and Crime Commissioner flagship reform has badly failed.
"Under David Cameron and Theresa May there has been no action on illegal immigration, no action on exploitation undercutting local wages and no support for frontline policing.”