Two-tier policing claims are part of ‘right-wing extremist narrative’, says leaked Home Office report

Date: 2025-02-04
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TWO-tier policing claims are part of a “right-wing extremist narrative”, according to a leaked Home Office report.

The secret papers also suggest the Government is deprioritising the Islamist threat and instead focusing on other “behaviours of concern”, such as misogyny.

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Emergency responders participating in a major incident training exercise.
More than 1,000 people took part in the largest terror training exercise at the O2 arena in Greenwich, South East London

It comes despite claims that 94 per cent of all terrorist deaths in the UK since 1999 were carried out by radical Islamists.

The leaked strategy documents also propose reversing the Tories’ decision to limit the recording of “non-crime hate incidents”.

The report, known as the Rapid Analytical Sprint, was commissioned by the Home Office to map extremism threats — and leaked to the Policy Exchange think tank.

Experts from that organisation last night warned the report’s proposals risk “making it more likely that dangerous people will be missed”.

They also claimed it would “threaten free speech” and dramatically widen the definition of extremism.

The Policy Exchange said the focus was now on conspiracy theorists, misogynistic incels and those with “a fixation on gore and violence without adherence to an ideology”.

Paul Stott and Andrew Gilligan, from the think tank, said: “This new approach risks swamping already stretched counter-extremism interveners and counter-terror police with tens, if not hundreds, of thousands of new cases, making it more likely dangerous people will be missed.

“Some of the definitions of extremism also threaten free speech and legitimate political debate.”

A Home Office spokesman said: “The findings from the Rapid Analytical Sprint have not been formally agreed by ministers and we are considering a wide range of next steps.”

Accusations of two-tier policing first emerged after the Southport riots last summer.

A report by the Children’s Commissioner out today claims the 147 youngsters arrested in the unrest were not motivated by racism or far-right misinformation.

It comes as emergency crews held the largest terror training exercise ever in the capital.

More than 1,000 people took part at the O2 arena in Greenwich, South East London.

PUBS 'COMBAT EXTREMISM'

By JACK ELSOM, Chief Political Correspondent

GOING to the pub is important for democracy as it stops people becoming radicalised in their bedrooms, a Labour MP has said. 

Dr Jeevan Sandher warned that widespread boozer closures risk breeding more loner extremists. 

He bemoaned the “dramatic rate” establishments have been shuttering – including 400 in the last year alone.

The new MP is on a mission to visit every pub in his Loughborough constituency in his quest to save democracy.

He told The Sun: “Fewer pubs means fewer places for people to socialise. And when people can’t socialise, they become more lonely.

Having mates is a key social need. People who can’t fulfil this basic need, who can’t vent to friends, who feel cut off from the community around them, are more likely to want to overturn the current order.

“It’s part of the reason one in five young people say they prefer dictatorship over democracy. 

So, yes, having a pint down the pub is fun. I do really enjoy it. But we need to preserve our pubs for a more serious reason too. So people have places to hang out with their mates and to help protect our democracy.”

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