Overview

• The July 2025 interim review finds Prevent missed key interventions in the cases of Ali Harbi Ali and Axel Rudakubana despite multiple referrals.
• The report attributes those failures to poor judgment, communication breakdowns and lack of follow-through in Channel interventions.
• It proposes expanding Prevent’s scope to cover individuals fascinated by extreme violence, sharpening its online radicalisation response and integrating the scheme into a wider safeguarding network.
• Home Secretary Yvette Cooper has pledged to clarify referral thresholds by the end of September, enhance programme transparency by year-end and explore links with broader violence prevention efforts.
• Families of Sir David Amess and the Southport victims are demanding a full public inquiry with powers to summon and cross-examine witnesses.