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
