Suella’s ‘ blind spot’ warning

POLITICAL correctness has created a security blind spot which allows Islamist extremists to operate without being spotted, Home Secretary Suella Braverman has warned.

She told a counter-extremism conference that the entire PC concept should end, insisting: ‘We have a blind spot in the system. It has allowed certain Islamist groups to operate under our radar.’

In an excerpt from her speech, obtained by The Times, she stressed: ‘There can be no place for political correctness in our national security. In fact, I’d like to banish it altogether.’

Her warning comes weeks after she demanded major reform of the Government’s anti-terror Prevent programme following a report which found it was ‘failing to understand’ Islamist extremism and was focusing too much on Rightwing terrorism.