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Muslims are boycotting the country’s key anti-radicalisation programme, The Times can disclose, after it emerged that less than a tenth of extremism tip-offs were coming directly from the community or faith leaders.

The revelation that there were fewer than 300 community tip-offs in six months to the government’s Prevent programme will raise concern that the police are being denied information that might prevent terrorist attacks.

The vast majority of referrals to the scheme are instead being made by the police or public bodies such as schools and the NHS.

Even though the figures relate to all kinds of extremism, including the far right, they illustrate the disillusionment within Muslim communities about