Prevent chief leaves job after damning review and failing to stop Southport killer Axel Rudakubana

A quick "Prevent learning review" conducted into the Southport attack revealed that counterterrorism police missed several opportunities to stop Rudakubana due to spelling mistakes.

It also found that Prevent "prematurely" dismissed the threat he posed on each of the three occasions he was flagged to the program.

A "Prevent learning review" conducted into the Southport attack revealed that counterterrorism police missed several opportunities to stop Rudakubana due to spelling mistakes

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In addition, The Times revealed that the report into the failings also contained errors.

Stewart was blamed by ministers for a controversial internal Home Office review of extremism that found that claims of two-tier policing were a radical right-wing narrative.

Stewart was blamed by ministers for a controversial internal Home Office review of extremism that found that claims of two-tier policing were a radical right-wing narrative.

The report also claimed right-wing extremists “frequently exploit” the grooming gangs scandal to promote anti-Muslim sentiment.

Other controversial recommendations included a proposal to increase the recording of non-crime hate incidents, and widening the definition of extremism.

It stated the definition should no longer be based on specific ideologies such as Islamism or the far right but “on behaviours and activity of concern”

Following the release of the report in January, Dan Jarvis, the security minister, issued a statement announcing that he and Cooper had rejected its recommendations.

The report was commissioned by the Home Secretary in August after the riots sparked by the Southport murders.

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