Prevent counter-extremism programme budget to be slashed in London

Funding, which stood at 6.1m at the time of the general election, will fall to about 2m from April 2025

Budgets for the Home Office's Prevent counter-extremism programme in London are set to be cut by half in two years, contradicting Rishi Sunak's personal call for a crackdown on radicalisation outside Downing Street less than two weeks ago.

The proposed changes will cut the number of boroughs that receive funding from 22 to seven by April 2025, even though the prime minister promised to redouble our support for the Prevent programme to stop young minds being poisoned by extremism".