Yvette Cooper to reject call to broaden extremism definition

Home Office to maintain focus on Islamist and far-right threats despite report's call for behaviour-based approach

Yvette Cooper will reject internal Home Office advice to potentially widen the definition of extremism to include violent misogyny and conspiracy theorists, the Guardian understands.

A report commissioned in the wake of violent riots after the Southport murders last year suggests authorities should adopt a behaviour-based and ideologically agnostic approach" to combating extremism rather than ideologies of concern".