Now Brexit gets in way of Counter Extremism Bill

Jan 20, 2017 by

by Jonathan Elliott, Lapido Media:

Government is to delay legislation of its troubled counter-extremism policy for two more years, according to Lapido sources.

With preparations for Britain’s departure from the EU already preoccupying all the best brains, the word in Westminster is that there is no appetite for forcing through yet more complicated and controversial legislation.

Sources have told Lapido Media that further debate on the Counter Extremism Bill is not now expected for at least two years.

The delay will entail a third Queen’s Speech announcement. So why is it still on the shelf at all?

When the legislation was unveiled in 2015, the Charlie Hebdo Paris attacks in January 2015 were fresh in everyone’s mind. Six months later, in June, David Cameron set out his vision for the British way of avoiding a similar attack in the UK.

He said: ‘We must take on the radical narrative that is poisoning young minds . . . We must be stronger at standing up for our values.’

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The vision may have been sound, but the implications for legislators were enormous.

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