Newsnight and Policy Exchange
laurencemarshall Wed Dec 12, 2007 at 11:22:18 PM GMT 
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Policy exchange visited over a 100 mosques, and came back stating that 25 or so were promoting an extreme version of Islam.
However, Newsnight has discovered in 5 out of the 6 mosques it visited which Policy Exchange had pointed out that were selling extremist literature, that the receipts given by Policy Exchange for the literature bought are questionable.
Things like wrong addresses, receipts that aren't the same as the ones in the actual shops and receipts printed on expensive-to-print-on inkjets all featured.
The report itself was a bombshell, and helped put Policy Exchange on the map. Now it is called into question.
It should matter to Labour members, because Policy Exchange is the Conservative's favourite think tank, and has had Cameron to speak very recently. It is almost the research arm of the Conservative Party.
This also calls into question Policy Exchange's other reports, and, of course, with it, Tory policies.
