LONDON: A record number of people were reported last year to the UK’s anti-radicalization Prevent program, the interior ministry said Thursday, with “extreme right-wing” concerns accounting for the most referrals related to an ideology.
The Prevent program is part of the country’s counter-terrorism strategy and aims to identify and stop people in the early stages on the path toward becoming radicalized as extremists.
In the year ending September 2025, people made 10,293 referrals, the highest number for a single year since reporting began in 2015, the Home Office said, calling it a “significant increase.”
The UK in April raised its terror threat level to “severe” — the second-highest, meaning an attack is “highly likely” — with security officials citing the “broader Islamist and extreme right-wing terrorist threat.”
The largest number of referrals due to concerns about a specific ideology related to “extreme right wing” views, accounting for 20 percent of all referrals.
