Counterterror police are investigating a fireplace that broke out within the early hours of Monday morning at a north London residence owned and rented out to tenants by Britain’s prime minister, Keir Starmer.
After successful final 12 months’s common election, Mr. Starmer moved into the prime ministerial residence at 10 Downing Avenue and, in accordance with official data, leased his four bedroom family home in Kentish City.
“On Monday, 12 Could at 01:35 hrs., police have been alerted by the London Fireplace Brigade to stories of a hearth at a residential handle,” London’s Metropolitan Police mentioned in a press release.
“Officers attended the scene. Injury was prompted to the property’s entrance, no one was harm. The hearth is being investigated and cordons stay in place whereas enquiries proceed.”
The police added that “as a precaution and because of the property having earlier connections with a high-profile public determine, officers from the Met’s Counter Terrorism Command are main the investigation into this fireplace. Enquiries are ongoing to determine the potential explanation for the hearth.”
Mr. Starmer’s property is simply 4 miles from Downing Avenue, however it’s custom for the British prime minister to stay within the official residence, in central London. The official residence is near Parliament and has sturdy safety, together with a metal blastproof door.
London’s fireplace brigade mentioned in a press release that firefighters have been referred to as to a “small fireplace exterior a property in Kentish city this morning” and that the hearth was underneath management in lower than half an hour.
When Mr. Starmer was chief of the opposition final 12 months, a bunch referred to as Youth Demand protested exterior his household residence as a part of a marketing campaign to place strain on Britain for an arms embargo on Israel.
On that event, three demonstrators hung a banner that read “Starmer stop the killing,” surrounded by crimson hand prints, and positioned rows of youngsters’s sneakers on the entrance door.
