Security minister Tom Tugendhat has said the “bigotry of low expectations” may be to blame for under-reporting of concerns about Islamist extremism to the UK government’s Prevent programme.
Tugendhat told Parliament’s Home Affairs Select Committee on Wednesday that a kind of “soft bigotry” is enabling tolerance for Islamist extremism “in a way that there quite rightly shouldn’t be for extreme right-wing extremism.”
Last month an independent review of the Prevent strategy found it is “not doing enough to counter non-violent Islamist extremism” and “has a double standard when dealing with the extreme right-wing and Islamism.”
The review was ordered by former Home Secretary Priti Patel in 2019 and her successor, Suella Braverman, said the government would be accepting all 34 recommendations in the report….