Priti Patel defends inclusion of Extinction Rebellion on UK terror list
Home secretary accepts XR is not terror group but says assessment has to be based on ‘security risks’
The home secretary, Priti Patel, has defended anti-terror police for putting the Extinction Rebellion environmental protest group on a list of extremist ideologies, saying it was important to look at “a range of security risks”.
While accepting that XR was not a terrorist organisation, Patel told LBC radio that such assessment had to be “based in terms of risk to the public, security risks, security threats”.