Downing Street insisted the timing of the latest charging announcement was a matter for the Crown Prosecution Service.
Downing Street has denied withholding information about the Southport attacks from the public, as the two Tory leadership contenders questioned whether there had been a cover-up after the announcement of a terror charge against the suspect.
He is already charged with the murders of Alice da Silva Aguiar, nine, Bebe King, six, and Elsie Dot Stancombe, seven, who were stabbed during a Taylor Swift-themed dance class in Hart Street, Southport, on July 29. But Conservative leadership candidate Robert Jenrick said he was concerned facts may have been withheld from the public.
His Tory rival Kemi Badenoch said there were “serious questions to be asked of the police, the CPS and also of Keir Starmer’s response to the whole situation”.
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