Former Security Minister urges Government to 'improve' Home Office Prevent programme 'not scrap it'
WATCH: Home Office prevent programme should be 'tightened' not scrapped
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Home Office's Prevent programme should be "improved" not scrapped, says former Security minister Tom Tugendhat as Axel Rudakubana was jailed for 52 years for attacking and killing children in Southport last year.
The Government has launched a review of the Prevent programme after it emerged Rudakubana was referred to Prevent three times between 2019 and 2021, yet went on to commit his bloody murders in July last year.
Tugendhat - who was Security minister between 2022 and 2024 - was asked on Chopper's Political Podcast whether he felt that Prevent should be axed.
He replied: "No, I wouldn't. I would improve it."
Home Office's Prevent programme should be "improved" not scrapped, says former Security minister Tom Tugendhat as Axel Rudakubana was jailed for 52 years for attacking and killing children in Southport last year
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Tugendhat urged ministers to implement the recommendations in a review of Prevent by Sir William Shawcross.
He told today's Chopper's Political Podcast: "I would look at the Shawcross report - there's a huge amount in there that we were able to get done. And there's bits that we weren't able to get done because they take time to introduce.
"And part of it is about making sure you're 'triaging' properly. So you're getting stuff in line in the appropriate way and you're responding appropriately."
Tugendhat - who was Security minister between 2022 and 2024 - was asked on Chopper's Political Podcast whether he felt that Prevent should be axed
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He added: "We need to get better at identifying triggers, as it were, on people.
"And when people have radicalised themselves or been radicalised to find out where we're going.
"That's why the Prevent aspect is so important."
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