The UK government has published a new policy framework aimed at strengthening social cohesion and countering extremism, warning that rising geopolitical tensions, online radicalisation and social divisions pose increasing risks to national resilience.
The document, titled Protecting What Matters: Towards a more confident, cohesive, and resilient United Kingdom, sets out a cross-government programme to improve community cohesion, tackle extremism and address the impact of disinformation and foreign interference.
The strategy argues that social cohesion is now a national security issue, with hostile states and extremist groups increasingly seeking to exploit divisions within British society.
In a foreword to the report, the Prime Minister said strong and united communities were essential for national resilience. “Social cohesion is not just a good in and of itself. It is also a vital front in the resilience of our national security,” he wrote. “To put it simply: if we are to be strong on the global stage, we must have strong and united communities at home.”
The government said the strategy responds to a range of pressures that have strained cohesion in recent years, including economic hardship, technological change, demographic shifts and rising extremism. The report also warned that foreign actors are increasingly attempting to amplify divisions through disinformation campaigns and influence operations.
The plan outlines measures across several areas, including investment in communities, reforms to migration and integration policy, stronger responses to hate crime, and expanded powers to tackle extremist organisations. Among the proposals is a major expansion of the Pride in Place programme, with long-term funding for communities to regenerate local areas and strengthen civic engagement.
The government will also introduce a new Social Cohesion Taskforce to coordinate policy across departments and publish annual updates on progress. Migration and integration are another major focus of the strategy. Ministers say future policy will place greater emphasis on integration, English language proficiency and participation in work and civic life.
The document also sets out plans for an “Earned Settlement” system, under which migrants will typically need to spend ten years in the UK before qualifying for permanent settlement, with the possibility of shorter periods for those making significant contributions.
Alongside integration reforms, the government said it would continue efforts to reduce irregular migration and phase out the use of asylum hotels. The report places significant emphasis on tackling extremism, warning that both Islamist and extreme right-wing ideologies remain serious threats.
Technology companies will also face additional scrutiny under the Online Safety Act, including requirements to mitigate algorithmic promotion of harmful content and provide greater transparency over how platforms operate. The strategy also outlines measures to address religious hatred, including new initiatives to tackle antisemitism and anti-Muslim hostility.
These include expanded security funding for places of worship, a new definition of anti-Muslim hostility and additional support for reporting and investigating hate crimes. Ministers said the strategy is intended as the starting point of a longer-term effort to strengthen community resilience and protect democratic institutions.
“Building confident, cohesive and resilient communities is a whole-of-society effort,” the document states, adding that central government will work with devolved administrations, local authorities and civil society groups to deliver the programme.
Basically, they don’t want to face reality, so they will double down on punishing people who don’t deserve it. They’ll keep it vague, but just vague enough so they can twist it so they can still prosecute people. We all know the Online Safety Act is about control, unless you disagree, which means you support the likes of Jimmy Savile, according to the tech minister. Or if you disagree with the Met Police and Kahn removing consumer rights with cryptographic phone components, you support phone snatching gangs.
They will carry on with whom they will prosecute.
Gobbledygook.all of it . The vast majority of people in this country, regardless of colour or religion just want to bring up their families happy, healthy and safe. Successive governments for the last thirty oddyears have instead come up with diversity, inclusion, immigration and woke, none of which have worked. In fact they have been counter productive. We have spent billions on achieving absolutely nothing.
This is probably relevant to the new blasphemy law, oh sorry I mean anti “islamophobia” definition combined with the removal of jury trials for certain crimes was all put into place to appeal to Labours muslim voter base. It’s to silence people who rightfully call out their repulsive crimes, be it the grooming gangs, the treatment of women or the preaching of hate speech in mosques which inevitably leads to terror attacks.
I genuinely feel sorry for groups like Jews who are constantly targeted and yet all Labours efforts seem to be appeasing the followers of the great paedophile mohammed
I feel sorry for the native white British population. I can see the responses to this post. What do you mean “native”….personally those kinds of posts are just left wing morons acting dumb as they well know what “native” means. This illegitimate government that got into power on the lower vote share ever is literally the worst I have ever seen in my entire life. They have enacted policies like trying to undo Brexit that they explicitly said they would not so essentially they lied during the election. They have undone legislation to make it easier to prosecute troops for alleged misdeeds in theatres of way dating back 30 or 40 years. They have enacted net zero policies that will impoverish the UK as we are finding out right now.
Moreover, the morons (yes morons) who voted Labour need a good hard look in the mirror. They may have university degrees but they are educated extremely dumb people. You ask them why they voted Labour or Greens and they can’t even articulate it or even state one single policy from their manifestos. Indeed, I would say the bigger morons that intend voting Greens are absolutely destroying this country as well. The Tories are to blame as well for not being conservative in their 14 years in power. They are still full to to the brim of left wing Tories and they have not changed. Our only hope now really is reform and if not this country has a very dark future. Reform are not perfect as I would prefer a much more robust approach to legal and illegal migration but they are the best we have. I would add this that people like Sir Keir Starmer, Angela Raynor, Ed Milliband and co really do have dark triad traits. Labour have become an extreme left party….I think the Labour party of the 1950s would all be turning in their graves. It’s a monumental task to rectify the mess the Labour and Tories have left this country in. It will require some very robust and probably not very popular measures for those of a left mentality to turn this country around. Moreover, it will take at least 20 years to reverse the damage these Labour and Tory morons have caused.
Multiculturalism has been a total failure. Nobody wanted it, nobody ever got a vote on it and now here we are. Now we’re left with a society thats more fractured than ever before. The governments only answer is to criminalise anyone that points out the reality of the situation. There are way more people being arrested for social media posts here than in Russia. Countering extremism my arse.
Oh dear! I feel that the policy of crafting a set of laws specific to Muslims will have exactly the opposite effect to that desired. Enshrining ‘Islamophobia’ in law is the equivalent of an act of internal devolution. It will create the ‘islands of strangers’ that Starmer himself has already recognized. You can’t treat Muslims like a sort of rare exotic orchid, to be protected at all costs. What next, a bat tunnel over Birmingham? The govt needs to drop this obsession.
Any new policies need to be applied equally and fairly. There is a danger, if the public doubts this, that the state itself becomes the focus of mainstream resentment. I think Labour have done particularly bad job in this respect.
So they want to prosecute those that don’t like a group of the newly expanding population, cos, you know, the last 25 years of their interactions with the public have been all about murder and those that aren’t engaged in that stuff have a tendency of going for the vulnerable of society.
This is tripe. The “extremism” they blather about is people expressing opinions. UK governments do not govern, they repress. They prosecute because they are unable to handle dissent, the control matrix construction is almost complete ( thanks Blair )
The 40 percent of MPs who are lawyers, well they do nothing to represent a population that is already, and increasingly radicalised from every angle.
They fail to grasp that reality, or choose to ignore it by waging lawfare. Justice backlog? Stuff Magna Carta, lawyer Lammy says your birthright to trial by your peers is toast. Just like that.
Really? They are scared, scared of what will come I reckon, so we will have a war to distract.
Pity our Oxbridge “educated” lawyer elite did not study Voltaire eh?
Its easy. Stop importing it. 75% of MI5’s case load is Islam related. Extremism is part of the ideology. Its baked in.
As for the remaining extremism in the UK, displacing and replacing the native population from the settlements they built up over, often, thousands of years, is a legitimate and healthy basis for extremism to exist. I would suggest that the UK Government cease doing whatever its doing that invokes that extremism in the first place. The nations of Britain are NOT the property of the UK Government to do with as they please. No one voted for unlimited immigration, diversity, multiculturalism, inclusion, hate speech laws or any of the other cloy euphemisms used to justify laws that abuse our nation.
If the UK Government goes back to being a functional democracy then domestically sourced extremism has no reason to exist. It’ll quickly evaporate.