Prime Minister Boris Johnson has laid flowers at the scene of the fatal stabbing of MP Sir David Amess - which police believe could be linked to Islamist extremism.
Mr Johnson, accompanied by Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer, Commons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle and Home Secretary Priti Patel, laid a wreath at the front of Belfairs Methodist Church in Leigh-on-Sea, where Sir David was killed on Friday (October 15).
It came after Scotland Yard said the country’s most senior counter-terror officer, Deputy Assistant Commissioner Dean Haydon, has formally declared the incident as terrorism and said early investigations have revealed 'a potential motivation linked to Islamist extremism'. READ MORE:Fatal stabbing of Conservative MP Sir David Amess
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