Carlile on practical solutions to radicalisation

Is it really impossible to protect young people from being radicalised?

Talha Asmal, a West Yorkshire teenager who reportedly carried out a suicide bombing at an oil refinery attack south of Baiji, Iraq, is believed to have become Britain's youngest suicide bomber.

“We need to look with much greater detail at the drivers of radicalisation," said Lord Carlile, formerly the government's reviewer of anti-terrorism legislation.

“We need a public-private partnership using the very best brains to enable us to put a counter-narrative on internet.

“We must allow the authorities - within a proper framework - to have access to communications data that might lead them to prevent someone like this young man from going abroad to be a terrorist.”

He was discussing the issue with Shahid Malik, former Labour MP for Dewsbury and a friend of Talha's family.

"Rather than just looking at the government we need to look at other entities: mosques, schools and social media," said Mr Malik.