Tories: Govt weak on countering radicals

Shadow security minister Baroness Pauline Neville-Jones has dismissed proposals to introduce 300 new police and staff to help anti-terror efforts.

She described today's news as "a minor measure that will have limited impact" and said the government's overall counter-radicalisation measures had been "weak".

Baroness Neville-Jones said efforts to prosecute those inciting violence, ban radical organisations and tighten the UK's borders all needed to be stepped up.

"We need long-term, concerted action across all of these areas and more direct involvement of moderate voices in British Muslim communities in the task of preventing radicalisation," she urged.