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Campaigners urge caution after Patel suggests Prevent reforms are ‘definitely’ on the cards in wake of Amess murder
Pall bearers carry the coffin of Sir David Amess, from Westminster Cathedral, in central London, following his requiem mass

CAMPAIGNERS have urged caution after Home Secretary Priti Patel suggested reforms to Prevent were “definitely” on the cards in the wake of Sir David Amess’s murder. 

The Home Secretary said that when the ongoing review into the government’s counter-terrorism strategy is concluded, “there will definitely be things that need to change.”

It comes after Ali Harbi Ali was handed a whole life sentence last week for murdering Sir David, the Tory MP for Southend West, at his constituency office in September 2021. 

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