The home secretary said the government will continue to focus its anti-terror efforts on Islamist and far-right extremism

Yvette Cooper to reject call to widen definition of extremism - The Home Secretary is said not to agree with the findings of the ‘rapid analytical sprint on extremism’ she commissioned following the summer riots.

The government is set to reject internal advice to widen the definition of extremism to include potentially violent environmentalists, the far left, conspiracy theorists and men prejudiced against women.