‘Catch-all extremism policy is waste of time’, says former Cabinet MP
A former Cabinet Minister has called for the Government to ‘reset’ its extremism policy, after concerns were raised by the Archbishop of Canterbury.
Liam Byrne MP, a former Home Office Minister and Chief Secretary of the Treasury under Gordon Brown’s Government, said the heart of the Government’s counter-extremism policy has to change.
In recent months, groups including The Christian Institute have raised serious fears over the Government’s definition of extremism, arguing that it is so widely drawn it could criminalise Christians....