{"id":30262,"date":"2019-01-23T12:25:50","date_gmt":"2019-01-23T12:25:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=30262"},"modified":"2019-01-23T12:25:50","modified_gmt":"2019-01-23T12:25:50","slug":"far-right-groups-could-exploit-brexit-atmosphere-police-chief-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=30262","title":{"rendered":"Far-right groups could exploit Brexit atmosphere, police chief says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\">London (CNN)<\/cite>The divisive atmosphere surrounding <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/specials\/brexit\" target=\"_blank\">Brexit<\/a> could be exploited by right-wing groups, the UK&#8217;s most senior counter-terrorism police chief has warned.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Neil Basu, the head of the Metropolitan Police&#8217;s counter-terrorism operations, said his biggest concern about Brexit was its &#8220;potential to divide communities and set communities against each other.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Amid this &#8220;febrile&#8221; atmosphere there was the possibility of a &#8220;far-right drift into extreme right-wing terrorism,&#8221; added Basu, speaking at the launch of a campaign on raising awareness of suspicious activity, the BBC reported.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>London (CNN)The divisive atmosphere surrounding Brexit could be exploited by right-wing groups, the UK&#8217;s most senior counter-terrorism police chief has warned.Neil Basu, the head of the Metropolitan Police&#8217;s counter-terrorism operations, said his biggest concern about Brexit was its &#8220;potential to divide communities and set communities against each other.&#8221;Amid this &#8220;febrile&#8221; atmosphere there was the possibility&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":30263,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30262\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/30263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}