You can’t have security on the cheap - Diane Abbott MP

Diane Abbott MP, Labour’s Shadow Home Secretary, commenting on Amber Rudd’s speech at Tory Party conference, said:

“More laws to combat terrorism and violent crime won’t be enough on their own when the Tories are cutting police numbers and cutting budgets.

 

“The public is rightly worried about the growing threats of terrorism and violent crime, but cutting police numbers by 20,000 is no way to tackle them. 

 

“You can’t have security on the cheap. Rising incidents and new laws both require more resources. Grandstanding speeches at Tory party conference aren’t a substitute for police officers.”

 

Ends

 

Notes to editors

 

• ·         The Tories have slashed funding to the police, hitting the frontline hard and endangering public safety.

 

• ·         20,000 officers have been lost– with more than 17,000 from the frontline. Over 6,000 Police Community Support Officers have also gone since 2010.

 

• ·         The Tories have also weakened our border security, with the loss of over 1,000 staff since 2010.

 

• ·         The counter-extremism strategy has stalled on Amber Rudd’s watch.

 

The Tories have slashed funding to the police, hitting the frontline hard and endangering public safety

 

• ·         In 2010, Theresa May claimed that “it is possible for the police to make significant reductions in their budgets without affecting frontline policing”.

Andrew Marr Show, 31 October 2010

 

• ·         She went on to reduce funding to police forces by £2.3 billion (25 per cent) in real-terms between 2010-11 and 2015-16.

NAO, Financial sustainability of police forces, 4 June 2015, https://www.nao.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Financial-sustainability-of-police-forces.pdf

 

• ·         As a result over 20,000 officers have been lost– with more than 17,000 from the frontline. Over 6,000 Police Community Support Officers have also gone since 2010.

Police Workforce, England and Wales, YE March 2017, 20 July 2017, https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/police-workforce-england-and-wales-31-march-2017

 

They have broken their promise to protect police budgets over this Parliament

 

• ·         In the 2015 Spending Review, the Tories pledged that “there will be no cuts in the police budget at all. There will be real-terms protection for police funding”.

George Osborne, Hansard, 25 November 2015, c. 1373, http://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2015-11-25/debates/15112551000003/SpendingReviewAndAutumnStatement

 

• ·         In reality direct Government funding to the police has fallen by £330m in real-terms since 2015. Under the current plans set out at the 2015 Spending Review, there will be a further £164m real-terms reduction up to 2020.

 

	2016/17	2017-18	2018-19	2019-20
Direct Government funding[i] (£000s)	7,784	7,741	7,698	7,653
GDP Deflator[ii]	102	103.6	105.3	107
Existing spending plan (2017/18 prices)	7,906	7,906	7574	7410
Real-terms reduction (£000s)		0	-332	-164	-496

 

• ·         In the summer, the Home Secretary stated that the Government had “protected overall police funding in real terms since 2015”

Amber Rudd, Hansard, Hansard, 22 June 2017, c. 196, https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2017-06-22/debates/D00D2537-BD22-4E4D-8E65-FE170E02848A/TerrorAttacks

 

• ·         However on the same day, a Home Office spokesperson suggested the protection on offer was in cash-terms:

 

“Police spending was protected in the 2015 Spending Review, and the Met has had a broadly flat cash budget since then including precept – in line with every other force in the country.”

Home Office spokesperson, Independent, 22 June 2017, http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/theresa-may-police-cuts-budget-finsbury-terror-attack-london-bridge-funding-a7799446.html 

 

• ·         This was confirmed by the National Police Chiefs’ Council’s lead on police finance who was clear that the Tories’ “current flat cash settlement for policing means force budgets will fall in real terms.”

West Midlands Chief Constable Dave Thompson, NPCC, 23 June 2017, https://news.npcc.police.uk/releases/national-police-chiefs-council-lead-for-finance-chief-constable-dave-thompson

 

The Tories are turning a blind eye to millions of victims of new crimes

 

• ·         Both the Prime Minister and Home Secretary like to claim that, despite funding cuts, crime has fallen by a third or is at a record low.

 

“we have ensured that the police have the resources to do their job and we see crime at a record low”

Theresa May, Prime Minister’s Questions, Hansard, 29 March 2017, c. 242, https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2017-03-29/debates/CBEE7527-6165-4A80-B2F8-4C659FFB0D49/OralAnswersToQuestions

 

“From 2010 to 2015 there were indeed cuts, but what was so remarkable is that the good work of local policing and the good work of local communities meant that crime came down by a third.”

Amber Rudd, Hansard, 3 July 2017, c. 888, https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2017-07-03/debates/4052352D-EB11-4779-A6D5-25F2E259A824/OralAnswersToQuestions

 

• ·         But this completely ignores the addition of fraud and cybercrime to crime statistics.

 

• ·         The latest Crime Survey for England and Wales has a headline of 11m incidents of crime in the year ending March 2017, when an estimated 5.9 million incidents of crime experienced by adults are added to the 3.4 million fraud and 1.8 million computer misuse offences. In 2010, there were 9.3 million estimated incidents.

ONS, Crime in England and Wales: YE Mar-17, 29 July 2017, https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/crimeandjustice/bulletins/crimeinenglandandwales/yearendingmar2017

 

• ·         And Tory claims ignore the surge in recorded crime that police are dealing with.

 

• ·         The police recorded nearly 5 million offences in the year ending March 2017, an annual rise of 10 per cent driven by increases in violence (up 18 per cent), theft (up 7 per cent) and public order offences (up 39 per cent). All forces except for Cumbria and North Yorkshire showed an annual increase in the volume of crime recorded. There were 4.3m crimes recorded by the police in the year-ending March 2010.

ONS, Crime in England and Wales: YE Mar-17, 29 July 2017, https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/crimeandjustice/bulletins/crimeinenglandandwales/yearendingmar2017

 

• ·         Overstretched police forces are failing to properly record tens of thousands of offences, as the police have to fill-in for cuts to other public services. HMIC has found significant under-reporting of serious crimes, with four forces failing to record up to 57,000 offences.

HMIC, Crime Data Integrity Inspections 2016, 7 February 2017[iii]

 

• ·         HMIC has also warned of an erosion of neighbourhood policing, with some forces rationing their responses as they struggle with cutbacks, as well as highlighting a “national crisis” in detective shortages.

HMIC PEEL: police effectiveness 2016, 2 March 2017, https://www.justiceinspectorates.gov.uk/hmic/publications/peel-police-effectiveness-2016/

 

• ·      The head of the Police Superintendents of England and Wales warned of a “perfect storm in policing” with “fewer resources, reduced public services, new threats and a worrying increase in some types of traditional crime”.

Times, 5 September 2017, https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/police-budget-cuts-creating-perfect-storm-jczzbxndz

 

• ·      In 2016-17, voluntary resignations from the police force reached 2,031, a 70 per cent increase in four years.

Police Workforce, England and Wales, YE March 2017, 20 July 2017, https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/police-workforce-england-and-wales-31-march-2017

 

The police are demoralised after real-terms cuts to wages since 2010 and have been betrayed by ministers over the pay deal offered in September

 

• ·         On average police officers have seen their wages fall by £5,932 in real terms since 2010.

Mirror, 10 September 2017, http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/pay-cap-leave-average-bobby-11142893

 

• ·         Despite this, the PM claimed that some officers had received a 32 per cent pay rise since 2010.

 

“a new police officer in 2010 [has] ... actually seen an increase in their pay of over £9,000 since 2010. A real-terms increase of 32 per cent.”

Theresa May, PMQs, Hansard, 13 September 2017, c. 833, https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2017-09-13/debates/DA2F05E8-C61D-434B-8345-D7A1575B61A4/OralAnswersToQuestions

 

• ·         She also claimed that the Government had followed the recommendations of the Police Remuneration Review Body.

 

“They make a recommendation to the Government, and the Government have taken those recommendations.”

Theresa May, PMQs, Hansard, 13 September 2017, c. 833, https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2017-09-13/debates/DA2F05E8-C61D-434B-8345-D7A1575B61A4/OralAnswersToQuestions

 

• ·         In fact the review body recommended a 2 per cent consolidated pay rise for federate and superintending ranks.

Police Remuneration Review Body report: 2017 England and Wales. 12 September 2017, https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/police-remuneration-review-body-report-2017

 

• ·         But the Government’s response was to offer a 1 per cent pay rise and a 1 per cent one-off non-consolidated payment that is non-pensionable.

Home Office, 12 September 2017, page vii, https://www.gov.uk/government/news/home-office-sets-out-police-pay-award-for-2017-to-2018

 

• ·         The review body also recommended that “The burden of generating savings within policing should not solely or disproportionately be borne by police officer pay”.

Police Remuneration Review Body report: 2017 England and Wales, 12 September 2017, page ix https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/police-remuneration-review-body-report-2017

 

• ·         But the 1 per cent one-off lump sum for police officers has not been funded by the Home Office and instead will cost forces £50m between September 2017 and September 2018. 

 

• ·         There are now warnings from senior figures in policing that this could lead to yet more officer losses.

 

"Police chiefs have budgeted in line with the public sector pay cap until 2020 so this change puts financial pressure on already stretched budgets. Without better real terms funding protection from Government, an award above 1% will inevitably impact on our ability to deliver policing services and maintain staffing levels."

NPCC lead for pay and conditions, Chief Constable Francis Habgood, Telegraph, 13 September 2017, http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/09/12/breaking-government-announces-end-1-per-cent-cap-public-sector/

 

• ·         The latest survey of rank and file police officers found that two-thirds had low-morale with more than 1 in 10 officers struggling to afford essentials and 86 per cent feeling they are not paid fairly.

Police Federation Annual Survey, 30 August 2017, http://www.polfed.org/newsroom/4895.aspx

 

The Tories’ promise on getting net migration down to the “tens of thousands” is emblematic of their failure: repeatedly made and repeatedly broken

 

• ·         They made this promise in their 2010 manifesto, in their ‘Contract between the Conservative Party and you’ in that campaign, again in their 2015 and 2017 manifestos and have repeatedly it many times since elected in 2010.

 

“So we will take steps to take net migration back to the levels of the 1990s – tens of thousands a year, not hundreds of thousands.”

Conservative Party Manifesto 2010

 

“5. Control immigration, reducing it to the levels of the 1990s – meaning tens of thousands a year, instead of the hundreds of thousands a year under Labour.”

David Cameron, “A contract between the Conservative Party and you”, 30 April 2010

 

“We will: keep our ambition of delivering annual net migration in the tens of thousands, not the hundreds of thousands”

Conservative Party Manifesto 2015

 

“We continue to have as a government the aim of bringing net migration down to the tens of thousands. It is the ambition we have set in our manifesto.”

Theresa May, Today Programme, R4, 21 May 2015

 

Chair:             Just to be clear, what you are saying to this Committee is that you will have met your target within the whole Parliament, that is five years, or is it before the five years?

Mrs May:       The aim is to meet it by the end of the five-year term of Parliament.

Theresa May, Home Affairs Select Committee, 16 December 2015

 

“I also remain absolutely firm in my belief that we need to bring net migration down to sustainable levels, the government believes that that is tens of thousands; it will take some time to get there.”

Theresa May, Prime Minister’s Questions, 20 July 2016

 

“Theresa May’s Conservatives will deliver ... controlled, sustainable migration, with net migration down to the tens of thousands.”

Conservative manifesto 2017, p 46, https://s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/manifesto2017/Manifesto2017.pdf

 

• ·         At no point during their time in Government have the Tories come close to reducing net migration down to the tens of thousands.

 

• ·         Net migration actually reached a record high of 336,000 under Theresa May.

ONS, Migration Statistics Quarterly Report, 26 November 2015 , http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/dcp171778_425188.pdf

 

• ·         The latest figures show that net migration stood at 246,000 in YE March 2017.

ONS, Migration Statistics Quarterly Report: August 2017, https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/populationandmigration/internationalmigration/bulletins/migrationstatisticsquarterlyreport/august2017

 

Amber Rudd is at odds with Theresa May over this pledge

 

• ·         Last July, Amber Rudd told the BBC the Government's goal was to see manageable levels of immigration but did not spell out what they were. When pressed on whether the net migration target had been scrapped, she replied: 

 

"I'm going to stick to my comment which is about bringing it down to sustainable levels. That has to be the most important thing for the country."

Amber Rudd, BBC News, July 19th 2016, http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-36836978  

 

• ·         Asked whether her comments represented a U-turn, Boris Johnson said Ms Rudd was “entirely right to be careful about committing to numbers because one doesn't want to be in a position where you are disappointing people again”.

Telegraph, 19 July 2016, http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/07/19/amber-rudd-and-boris-johnson-signal-that-net-migration-target-ha/

 

• ·         The next day the Prime Minister had to slap down two of her most senior ministers, claiming that her Government was still committed to reducing net migration to the tens of thousands, but dropping any specific deadline:

 

“I also remain absolutely firm in my belief that we need to bring net migration down to sustainable levels, the government believes that that is tens of thousands; it will take some time to get there. But of course now we have the added aspect of those controls that we can bring in relation to people moving from the European Union.”

Theresa May, Hansard, PMQs, 20 July 2016, c. 826, https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2016-07-20/debates/92F38A16-5F4E-4596-A65B-51EB15A49EFD/OralAnswersToQuestions        

 

• ·         Having at least publicly accepted Theresa May’s target, the Home Secretary went on to repeatedly refuse to commit to a specific deadline for reducing net migration to the tens of thousands. In September last year she told the BBC it would “take some time”.

 

Andrew Marr:          And you are completely committed to the tens of thousands target of immigration?

Amber Rudd:           I’m completely committed to making sure that we reduce it, and yes, tens of thousands. Although it will take some time.

Amber Rudd, Andrew Marr Show, 11 September 2016, http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/bsp/hi/pdfs/11091604.pdf 

 

• ·         She has explicitly refused to commit to reaching the target in 2022.

 

Nick Robinson:        Last one on immigration if may you said the target that you’ve set will not happen overnight, how do you define overnight it’s been a six year night so far, another 6 years maybe?

Amber Rudd:           Well you’re absolutely right I did level with conference yesterday and said this remains...this remains a target but it will not happen overnight. It will take some time is the phrase.

Amber Rudd, Today, R4, 5 October 2016

 

• ·         In an interview during the 2017 general election campaign, Amber Rudd repeatedly refused to say whether the Conservative manifesto would repeat the commitment.

BBC News, 7 May 2017, http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-39837199

 

Like her predecessor, Amber Rudd ignores the rule of law when it suits her

 

• ·         Amber Rudd has become only the third ever Minister of the Crown to be held in contempt of court. All three have been Conservative Home Secretaries.

 

• ·         In August, the Home Office admitted it had mistakenly sent up to 100 letters to EU nationals living in the UK ordering them to leave the country or face deportation.

Home Office, 23 August 2017, https://homeofficemedia.blog.gov.uk/2017/08/23/clarification-home-office-position-on-letters-sent-in-error-to-eu-nationals/

 

• ·         This has since been raised by the EU’s chief negotiator as a reason why they cannot trust British courts to uphold the rights of EU citizens after Brexit.

 

“Over the summer, around one hundred EU and EEA citizens living lawfully in the UK received deportation letters. The UK government quickly recognised that this was a mistake. But this is not the first time that something like this has happened. It reinforces the need to ensure that citizens' rights are directly enforceable in front of national jurisdictions, under the control of the European Court of justice.”

Michel Barnier, 31 August 2017, http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_SPEECH-17-3043_en.htm

 

• ·         Britain's top statistics regulator strongly criticised the Home Office after a “damaging” leak of official migration figures to media ahead of their publication. Head of the UK Statistics Authority complained that he was concerned about the “seriously misleading” disclosure.

Sir David Norgrove, letter to Amber Rudd, 31 August 2017, https://www.statisticsauthority.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Disclosure-of-Home-Office-migration-statistics.pdf

 

• ·         Despite this, less than a week later Amber Rudd’s department was once again embroiled in a leak scandal  when a draft immigration policy paper which had not been agreed by the Cabinet was passed the press.

Guardian, 5 September 2017, https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/sep/05/leaked-document-reveals-uk-brexit-plan-to-deter-eu-immigrants

 

• ·         And just this week, the Information Commissioner has ruled that the Home Office has broken the law by failing to disclose waiting times for EU citizens obtaining residence documents, having sat on a FoI request for seven months.

Free Movement, 2 October 2017, https://www.freemovement.org.uk/home-office-breach-law-permanent-residence-waiting-times/

 

• ·         At last year’s Tory Conference, Amber Rudd’s attempts to “look tough” on immigration backfired after her proposal that companies list the number of foreign workers was dropped in less than a week following an unprecedented backlash.

 

• ·         Every major business group in Britain raised concerns over the proposals.

 

“It would be a sad day if having a global workforce was seen as a badge of shame.”

Adam Marshall, acting director-general of the BCC, 5 October 2016, https://www.politicshome.com/news/uk/home-affairs/immigration/news/79587/mandatory-lists-foreign-employees-branded-badge-shame

 

“We also do not want to see small business owners turned into immigration officers nor encumbered by new bureaucracy.”

Mike Cherry, the national chairman of the FSB, Guardian, 6 October 2016, https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/oct/05/government-faces-backlash-from-business-leaders-over-foreign-workers 

 

“Firms employ foreign workers because they aren’t able to, in some cases, find the skills they need here. They employ from abroad not because of cost but simply because those people are the people they need to grow their businesses and deliver jobs in their local community,”

Andy Silvester, Institute of Directors, Buzzfeed, October 5th 2016, https://www.buzzfeed.com/patricksmith/these-companies-say-they-wont-tell-the-government-how-many-f?utm_term=.nqQqe6aqX#.plRDqNjDO 

 

“This idea that it is going to be a shameful thing to have people from overseas working in our companies, I think is absolutely the wrong thing: we’re not that kind of country”.

Carolyn Fairbairn, the director-general of the CBI, 5 October 2016

 

• ·         The Tories themselves and Conservative-supporting media lined up to distance themselves from this proposal.

 

“This unsettling policy would drive people, business and compassion out of British society and should not be pursued any further.”

Neil Carmichael MP, 5 October 2016, https://www.buzzfeed.com/marieleconte/tory-mp-attacks-unsettling-home-office-plan-to-make-business?utm_term=.pwEA3xdAq#.sud7EmJ70 

 

“it’s not something that I would propose.”

Ruth Davidson, Daily Politics BBC 2, 5 October 2016

 

“Amber Rudd’s talk of forcing firms to declare what proportion of their workforce is foreign-born sounds alarmingly like an attempt to “name and shame” companies with foreign staff.  Instead of such silly stunts, ministers would be better to ask why firms chose to employ immigrants.”

Telegraph editorial, 5 October 2016, http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/2016/10/04/instead-of-blaming-businesses-over-immigration-amber-rudd-should/ 

 

“whatever the original genesis of the policy, it is a bad idea which does no-one – in Downing Street, in the Home Office, in business or in the dole queue – any good. It should be dropped”

Mark Wallace, Conservative Home, 6 October 2016, http://www.conservativehome.com/thetorydiary/2016/10/forcing-businesses-to-declare-how-many-foreigners-they-employ-is-an-awful-and-clumsy-idea.html 

 

The Tories’ funding cuts have weakened our border security

 

• ·         Since 2010, the Tories have reduced funding for border force operations by £59m.

Robert Goodwill, Hansard, Written Question 60627, 7 February 2017, http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-question/Commons/2017-01-18/60627/

 

• ·         As a result, staff numbers by over 1,499.

Theresa May, Hansard, Written question 23142, 4 February 2016, http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-question/Commons/2016-01-19/23142/

Robert Goodwill, Hansard, Written Question 60627, 7 February 2017, http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-question/Commons/2017-01-18/60627/

 

• ·         Border Force staff have previously said that they were unable to effectively protect the UK's borders due to staff shortages which left morale at the agency at "rock bottom".

ITV News, 4 December 2014 - http://www.itv.com/news/2014-12-04/border-force-workers-tell-itv-news-they-cannot-protect-uks-borders-amid-crippling-staff-shortages/

 

• ·         Last year the Home Office scrapped aerial border surveillance despite warnings from a former security minister.

Telegraph, 31 May 2016, http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/05/31/theresa-may-scrapped-aerial-border-surveillance-despite-warnings/

 

Counter-extremism strategy has stalled on Amber Rudd’s watch

 

• ·         Despite an Extremism Bill featuring in the 2015 Queen’s Speech, Theresa May struggled to deliver a workable definition of “extremism”.

Guardian, 3 May 2016, http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/may/03/david-cameron-terror-strategy-definition-extremism 

 

• ·         So the plans had to be re-announced in the 2016 Queen’s Speech as a Counter-Extremism and Safeguarding Bill.

Queen’s Speech 2016, 18 May 2016, https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/queens-speech-2016

 

• ·         But a Parliamentary Committee has warned that the proposals seemed to have stalled or even gone backwards.

Joint Committee on Human Rights, Counter-Extremism, Second Report of Session 2016–17, HL Paper 39 HC 105, 20 July 2016, http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/jt201617/jtselect/jtrights/105/105.pdf

 

• ·         The Tories’ manifesto pledge to create a Commission for Countering Extremism was one of the main announcements in the Queens Speech in June.

 

“A commission for countering extremism will be established to support the government in stamping out extremist ideology in all its forms”

Queens Speech, 21 June 2017, https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/queens-speech-2017 

 

• ·         But it took nearly three months for Amber Rudd to finally began recruiting for a Lead Commissioner.

Home Office, 17 September 2017, https://www.gov.uk/government/news/home-office-advertises-for-extremism-commissioner

 

• ·         Amber Rudd has also refused to publish in full a delayed report into the funding and support of extremist groups.

Amber Rudd, WMS HCWS39, 12 July 2017, http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-statement/Commons/2017-07-12/HCWS39

 

• ·         And one of the most senior police officers in the country recently revealed that Amber Rudd is planning to cut counter-terrorism funding to the police over the next three years.

 

“In response to this significant threat, the Government is increasing the money it spends on terrorism from 11.7 to 15.1 billion but only about £700 million per annum is spent on policing.  And the allocation of this budget for policing is set to be cut by 7.2 per cent in the next three years. “

Sara Thornton, NPCC blog, 22 September 2017, https://news.npcc.police.uk/releases/police-funding-do-we-have-the-resources-we-need

 

The Home Office has turned a blind eye to concerns about Prevent

 

• ·         Last November, the Home Office confirmed that a secret Whitehall internal review of Prevent, ordered by Theresa May when she was home secretary, has concluded that the programme “should be strengthened, not undermined” and put forward 12 suggestions on how to reinforce it.

Guardian, 11 November 2017, https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/nov/11/prevent-strategy-uk-counter-radicalisation-widened-despite-criticism-concerns

 

• ·         This is despite a growing number of criticisms of the programme. David Anderson QC, former review of terrorism legislation, said the programme had become a “significant source of grievance” among British Muslims, encouraging “mistrust to spread and to fester.

Home Affairs Select Committee, 26 January 2016, http://data.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/committeeevidence.svc/evidencedocument/home-affairs-committee/countering-extremism/written/27920.pdf

 

• ·         Teachers voted overwhelmingly to reject the Prevent strategy over concerns that it causes “suspicion in the classroom and confusion in the staffroom”.

Guardian 28 March 2017, https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/mar/28/teachers-nut-back-motion-calling-prevent-strategy-radicalisation-scrapped

 

• ·         The Muslim Council of Britain complained it had become a “toxic brand”.

Guardian, 20 October 2016, https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/oct/20/prevent-isnt-working-inclusive-muslim-communities-counter-terrorism

 

• ·         While the UN called the programme “inherently flawed”.

BBC News, 16 June 2017, http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-40286861