Yvette Cooper said she is "really worried about" increasing levels of extremism amongst young people in the country.
Asked about the issue in the Home Affairs Committee, the home secretary said: "I see it in the kinds of cases that I'm briefed on, just increasing numbers of teenagers - where there are serious concerns."
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Asked about the issue in the Home Affairs Committee, the home secretary said: "I see it in the kinds of cases that I'm briefed on, just increasing numbers of teenagers - where there are serious concerns."
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00:00So this is one of the issues that I am really worried about and we are seeing
00:08increasing extremism among young people. We are seeing increasing numbers in the
00:16I think the CT caseload traveling in the space of three years involving
00:22teenagers. I see it in the kinds of cases that I'm briefed on as well just
00:29increasing numbers of teenagers even as young as 13 where there are serious
00:35concerns maybe about Islamist extremism, maybe about far-right extremism, maybe
00:42about sort of violent fixated individuals where there is a mixed and unclear
00:48ideology but growing numbers of young people.