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Record number of over-60s are referred to anti-terrorism scheme amid overall explosion in ‘extreme right wing’ views

Record numbers of over-60s are being referred to the Government’s troubled anti-terrorism scheme, the Daily Mail can reveal today.

Home Office figures show 127 adults in their 60s or beyond were put on Prevent’s radar in 2023/24 – the most since records began in 2016.

Of them, 43 had sparked alarm for expressing ‘extreme right wing’ views.

h/t XC

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