Home Secretary says extremism is 'increasing'

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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."   Report by Kennedyl. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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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.

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