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Sayeeda Warsi: UK policy on radicalisation 'has been flawed for years'

Written By Unknown on Monday, May 29, 2017 | 12:57 PM

Speaking at Hay festival, Conservative peer says government is too focused on ideology as the sole cause of radicalisation

The British government’s decision making when it comes to catching homegrown radicalshas been flawed for years according to Sayeeda Warsi, who has said Britain “cannot afford to have sloppy, lazy, ideological-driven decision making” on national security.

Speaking at Hay literary festival on Monday, Lady Warsi – the Conservative peer and first Muslim in the British cabinet – said government policy was currently too focused on ideology as the sole cause of radicalisation, and not on other factors, including upbringing and drug and gang culture.

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