(BBC) There are no plans to expand the definition of extremism, Home Office minister Dan Jarvis has said, following reports it could be broadened to cover potentially violent environmentalists and misogynists.
He said Islamist extremism followed by far-right extremism were the biggest threats but added that the Southport attack did show a need for “action on those drawn towards mixed ideologies and violence-obsessed young people.”
It comes after parts of a Home Office-ordered report were leaked to the right-leaning Policy Exchange think tank, which criticised proposals to look at behaviour over ideology.
Jarvis said the report was “not current or new policy.”
