Home Secretary Yvette Cooper is set to reject new advice from Home Office officials to widen the official scope of extremism ...

Widening the definition of terrorism could overwhelm the police and MI5, the lawyer carrying out a review of the definition has warned. Jonathan Hall KC, the independent reviewer of terrorism ...

There are no plans to expand the definition of extremism, Home Office minister Dan Jarvis has said, following reports it ...

The definition of terrorism needs to change in the face of a new threat from attackers radicalised by extreme violence, the Prime Minister said. Speaking at Downing Street on Tuesday, Sir Keir Starmer ...

But as a researcher of counter-terrorism laws, I argue there is little point to widening what is already a broad definition of terrorism. The Terrorism Act 2000 defines an act of terrorism as ...

At his sentencing hearing on Thursday, when Rudakubana was jailed for life with a 52-year minimum term, prosecutor Deanna Heer KC offered an explanation for the killer not facing a terrorism charge ...

Various arguments have been made in favour of amending the terrorism definition. First, it might be an appropriate label because only “terrorism” captures the social revulsion at Rudakubana ...

The former head of counter-terrorism policing in the UK has branded the government’s proposal to extend the definition of terrorism to encompass atrocities carried out by lone attackers like the ...

The government has been grappling with the definitions of terrorism and extremism following the conviction of 18-year-old Axel Rudakubana for the murders of three young girls in Southport last July.

Credit: Illustration by Stephen Kelly / Getty Images The government has been grappling with the definitions of terrorism and extremism following the conviction of 18-year-old Axel Rudakubana for ...