24 January 2011

It was selfish – and wrong – of Lady Warsi to give that speech [-]

.... Worse still, Lady Warsi was embroiling herself in a vital, contested area of Government policy on which her leader is about to take a grip.

Over Christmas, David Cameron reflected on the confusion within government about how to deal with the phenomenon which Lady Warsi says does not exist, Islamic extremism, widely known as Islamism. He has always had a straightforward approach: the extremists are, as he puts it, poisoning young minds. Government has to stop them.

This involves innumerable aspects – border control, terrorism laws, education policy, policing. Some of it is about law, some about who gets public money, some about attitudes. But what became clear to the Prime Minister in his brief Chequers-assisted repose, was that the Government's response is a mess, and must change. [21 Jan. telegraph.co.uk] Read more