Labour attacks 'complacency' over delayed Prevent review

Review announced in January 2019 to look at counter-terrorism scheme is still without a chair

The government has been accused of incompetence and complacency" in its handling of an independent review of Prevent, the programme that aims to stop people from becoming terrorists, amid further delays to its completion.

The review was first announced in January 2019 and it has been beset by delays. Its first chair, Lord Carlile, was forced to step down in December 2019 and it took four months for the Home Office to launch a recruitment campaign for his replacement.