Top Tory Robert Jenrick has demanded that all civil servants involved in drafting new anti-extremism guidance be fired after a Home Office document slandered those concerned with grooming gangs.
The leaked guidance revealed that new government guidance said those making accusations about “two-tier policing” are pushing a “right-wing extremist narrative”.
It also accused “right-wing extremists” of exploiting the grooming gang scandal in order to push an “anti-Muslim sentiment”.
The dossier, which was leaked to the Policy Exchange think tank and published last night, revealed that the Government is now going to push for even more ‘non-crime hate incidents’, such as those used to harass journalist Alison Pearson last year.
NCHIs are used by the police to crack down on offence posts on social media, but which do not break any laws.
Robert Jenrick blasted the Home Office leak (Image: Getty)
Ministers have now backed an increase in their use for Islamophobia and Antisemitism.
The review was ordered by Yvette Cooper in August last year, and suggests any changes would “encompass all five protected characteristics” including race, disability, sexual orientation or gender reassignment.
The review also condemns any criticism of so-called two-tier policing, where people believe the police have acted more harshly towards right-wingers than left-wingers.
This morning the Tories’ shadow Justice Secretary Robert Jenrick said: “The officials that produced this factually incorrect garbage are unfit to serve the public.”
“They should be fired.”
Fellow Conservative MP Peter Bedford fumed: “In my opinion the Home Office has been unfit for decades.”
“Both Labour and Conservative politicians have recognised this. Culturally evasive to scrutiny and criticism.
“It is way overdue being dismantled and replaced.”
Allison Pearson, whose investigation sparked outrage at the police’s use of NCHIs last year, said this morning that the revelations were “unbelievable”.
She posted on X: “Tens of thousands of white working class girls subject to sadistic sexual torture and the Home Office it’s an “alleged” issue pushed by far right cranks.”
“Our country is cancerous.”
In the last week a parliamentary petition demanding a total end to NCHIs has garnered 22,640 signatures in support.
In response, the Government insisted that Yvette Cooper “has been clear that a consistent and common-sense approach must be taken with non-crime hate incidents (NCHIs)”.
“The Government has also been clear that its top priority for policing is delivering on the safer streets mission to rebuild neighbourhood policing, restoring public confidence, and making progress on the ambition to halve knife crime and violence against women and girls.”
