Halfway through our interview, Sara Khan starts to cry. The activist, who was appointed as the government’s counter-extremism tsar in January, had hitherto seemed unflappable. Yet suddenly, she is blinking back tears and pulling tissues from her handbag, while the PR man gestures at me to stop recording.
What has made her well up is describing the harm that extremists cause. “Young people drawn to extremism, ruining their lives,” she chokes up. “We’ve reached a crossroads where if we don’t realise the threat, our country will become more divided, and we’ll lose a generation of young people. [The Times (£)] Read more
