LONDON: Two in five British people believe that Muslims cannot integrate into society, a new report has found.
The study by Sara Khan, a former government adviser on extremism, also found more than half of Britons believe their country’s national identity is disappearing due to “diversity,” The Guardian reported.
The findings contrast sharply with data from British Muslims, 85 percent of whom favor integration.
The study by Khan, who in 2024 stood down as the UK’s first counterextremism commissioner, warned that extremist views in Britain were being spurred on by hostile states and malign actors within the nation. Some 1,784 far-right events and 225 Islamist events were reported over a 12-month period across the country.
At the launch of the report, titled “Britain Under Strain: The Broken Social Contract, Democratic Distrust and the Mainstreaming of Extremism,” Khan said there was a “vanishingly small” window for a prime minister to tackle division and hate.
