Officials have failed to correct a false claim in a major counter-terrorism report that there have been no far-right attacks in recent years.
The Independent Review of Prevent concluded that the intervention scheme should be “recalibrated” to focus more on Islamists, rather than other ideologies that currently take up a greater portion of its work.
But the report’s core conclusions omitted two far-right terror attacks carried out by men who stated their aim to kill Muslims, which were both formally declared by police and the security services.
In his foreword to the report, reviewer William Shawcross wrote that Prevent should “address all extremist ideologies proportionately according to the threat each represents.
“Since this review was commissioned in 2019, six terrorist attacks have blighted our nation,” he claimed. “All these attacks were Islamist in nature.”
But there have been eight attacks in the period, and counter-terror police have only confirmed five as motivated by jihadism.
Suella Braverman welcomed the report, saying that she would ensure Prevent “focuses on the key threat of Islamist terrorism”.
“This independent review has identified areas where real reform is required,” the home secretary added.
“I wholeheartedly accept all recommendations and am committed to quickly delivering wholesale change.”
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