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A man has been arrested in connection with a fire at Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer’s family home in north London.
The Metropolitan Police said a 21-year-old was arrested in the early hours of Tuesday on suspicion of arson with intent to endanger life.
In a statement, the Met said the arrest related to the fire at the four-bedroom house in Kentish Town in the early hours of Monday, as well as a car that caught fire in recent days on the same street and a blaze at an office building that has a connection to Starmer in the N7 postcode.
The fire at the Starmer family home, which the prime minister rented out to tenants after moving to 10 Downing Street in July last year, caused damage to the property’s entrance.
In the statement, the Metropolitan Police said: “As a precaution and due to the property having previous connections with a high-profile public figure, officers from the Met’s Counter Terrorism Command are leading the investigation into this fire. Enquiries are ongoing to establish what caused it.”
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