The killer of the Conservative MP Sir David Amess was described as a “great person” by counter-terrorism officials amid a series of failures exposed in an official review of the Prevent programme.
A report has warned that the government’s flagship counterextremism scheme needs to “up its game” after its failure to prevent Amess’s murder and the Southport attack.
Lord Anderson, the independent Prevent commissioner, concluded in his report that the “jury is still out” on whether changes introduced after the two attacks will improve the way the scheme works.
