Tag: Baroness Casey

Security Minister Tom Tugendhat Tells MPs ‘Soft Bigotry’ May Create Tolerance for Islamist Extremism

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…


Met Police Chief Pledges to Root out ‘Corrupting Behaviours’ and Sack Hundreds

The Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, Sir Mark Rowley, has promised to root out “corrupting behaviours” which he said had gone “unchallenged,” following an independent review by Baroness Louise Casey, a former Victims’ Commissioner. In her interim report, which was published on Monday, Casey said: “We heard many examples of unacceptable behaviour going unchecked for…