.... Quilliam sources continue to insist that they've incurred the wrath of Charles Farr, the Director of Security and Counter-Terrorism. (Whatever the truth of this, they've certainly been subject to negative briefing from within government.)
The Home Office, meanwhile, sticks to its last by arguing that taxpayers shouldn't fund think-tanks. My view is simple. I agree with Maher that Quilliam should be weaned off the taxpayer. But there's an important difference between withdrawing funding and collapsing it.
Closing Quilliam, in effect, doesn't fit with the Prime Minister's Munich speech. Downing Street should be banging some heads together. [ConservativeHome] Read more
