04 June 2017

Theresa May talks tough, but her track record on tackling Islamism is woeful

It was important that the Prime Minister reacted to Saturday night’s terrorist attack not with the usual platitudes but with a determination that “things need to change”.

As she rightly said: “There is – to be frank – far too much tolerance of extremism in our country.”

And she was spot-on in pointing out: “We need to become far more robust in identifying it and stamping it out across the public sector and across society.”

But the question has to be asked: who was Home Secretary for the six years from 2010? Mrs May appears to have had a Damascene conversion on this, because as Home Secretary she acted as the most important blockage in Whitehall against a serious attempt to deal with that precise problem: the hold of Islamism across parts of the public sector and across society. [The Telegraph] Read more