Lord Evans of Rainow
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State of Extremism Report
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Lord Hanson of Flint (Lab)
The Government do not accept the principle of two-tier policing: policing should be done according to the circumstances that a police officer faces. This is not about two-tier policing. We have embedded across government the 2024 definition of extremism and engagement principles to ensure a consistent understanding of extremism, and we are updating the 2024 engagement principles to ensure that public bodies understand that issue in a proper and effective way.
Lord Evans of Rainow (Con)
My Lords, I will give the Minister a case study that he has previously referred to. In university campuses, student union committees get elected on a platform of antisemitism, Holocaust denial and insisting on the sacking of a Jewish professor of economics. Does the Minister agree that, while antisemitism has no place in universities, it is alive and kicking in universities? What can be done to hold universities to account?
Lord Hanson of Flint (Lab)
Through the Department for Education and Home Office activity, we have given significant support to universities to help root out antisemitism in particular and extremism in general. The noble Lord raises a really important issue, and as some of this is not within my direct gift, I will drop him a note, but the point he makes is absolutely valid.