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'. Delivering her speech from Number 10 on Sunday, Mrs May claimed there was 'far too much tolerance of extremism in our country' as she pledged to increase prison sentences, crack down on online radicalisation and crush the 'evil ideology of Islamist extremism'.
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