CHIEF EXECUTIVES

Tackling terror

PM talks tough on extremism after terrorist incidents, but local figures slam lack of focus on ensuring integrated, cohesive communities.

Theresa May's counter-extremism proposals fail to acknowledge the value of community engagement, a cohesion specialist and former city council chief executive has warned after three acts of terror in as many months.

Following the attacks in the London Bridge area at the weekend, the prime minister ramped up her rhetoric, declaring ‘enough is enough'.

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