The UK’s security minister has rejected comments made by the government’s independent counter-extremism adviser in which he said Britain was a “permissive environment” for antisemitism. Tom Tugendhat said threats to any community were taken “extremely seriously”. It comes after Robin Simcox, the Home Office’s commissioner for countering extremism, said there had been “normalisation” of anti-Israel extremism and antisemitism and the creation of a “permissive environment”. In an op-ed for the Times newspaper, Simcox, who will give a speech at 1pm on Thursday, blamed this on a “failed policy mix of mass migration and multiculturalism”. Asked about the comments, Tugendhat told...