UK Government Ignored Recommendations on Tackling Extremism: Former Counter-Terrorism Chief

Then head of counter-terrorism policing Assistant Commissioner Mark Rowley outside New Scotland Yard, central London, in an undated file photo. Kirsty O’Connor/PA

The co-author of a review into the UK’s counter-terrorism strategies says he has heard nothing back on its recommendations from ministers eight months after its report was delivered.

Former head of Britain’s anti-terror policing Sir Mark Rowley conducted the review along with the Commission for Countering Extremism (CCE).