A 21-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of arson with intent to endanger life after a fire at Sir Keir Starmer’s family home in Tufnell Park in London.
The London Fire Brigade and the police had attended the property shortly after 1.30 a.m. on Monday. While the door to the four-bedroom home owned by the Prime Minister was damaged, no one was hurt.
Later in the evening it emerged that counterterrorism officers were also investigating a blaze at a second property linked to Starmer as well as a vehicle fire. The vehicle fire occurred just before 3 a.m. last Thursday. It was on the same street as Starmer’s home.
In a statement, the Met police said:
‘On Monday 12 May at 01:35hrs, police were alerted by the London Fire Brigade to reports of a fire at a residential address in north London. Officers attended the scene. Damage was caused to the property’s entrance, nobody was hurt.
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