Commission for Countering Extremism

The Commission for Countering Extremism (CCE) is a British government agency created under Prime Minister Theresa May in response to the 2017 Manchester Arena bombing.

The idea was mentioned in the 2017 election platform of the Conservative Party, released four days before the Manchester bombing attack.

The appointment was criticised by former Conservative Party chairwoman Sayeeda Warsi, Harun Khan, the secretary general of the Muslim Council of Britain, and Labour MP Naz Shah.

[9] In its 2022-23 end of year report, it noted that it had commissioned research on "how blasphemy is viewed and presented by UK Islamists" and "how various fringe ideologies promote anti-government messaging online".

The paper also reported that since Simcox's 2021 appointment, the commission had "published no new research or scrutiny of government policy," but that it was mostly working on the implementation of the findings of a review of the government’s Prevent counterterrorism programme, a measure asked of Simcox by home secretary Suella Braverman.