On July 8, the West lost a great treasure. Ann Widdecombe, a former member of the British Parliament and outspoken conservative known for her vocal stances against abortion and LGBTQ+ leftism, was found murdered in her rural home after she failed to show for a TV interview. Police didn’t confirm how she died but she suffered greatly—the crime scene revealed “serious injuries” and one government official noted the crime was particularly “brutal” in its commission. Widdecombe was 78 years old, and was most recently serving with the Reform Party as its immigration and justice spokesman.
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Of course, anyone with even a hint of political awareness is going to suspect the murder was politically motivated—Widdecombe was a prominent “right-winger” and leftism’s defining characteristic is its violence—but originally, police said there was no reason to believe it was a “terror-related crime” and “there was nothing to suggest it was politically motivated.”
In fact, the reassurances that this was just a tragic and senseless killing went all the way to the top. Nigel Farage stated he received personal confirmation from Keir Starmer that Widdecombe’s killing was just a burglary gone bad:
Nigel Farage has claimed Sir Keir Starmer told him that Ann Widdecombe’s killing was a ‘burglary that’s gone wrong’.
The Reform leader said he had questioned the Prime Minister and the Chief Constable of Devon and Cornwall Police several times at the weekend following the announcement of the former Tory MP’s death on Friday.
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‘They both told me it’s a burglary that’s gone wrong. I said no it is not, a burglar does not park his car on your drive and walk into the house. A burglar parks in the lay-by down the road and has a getaway driver,’ Mr Farage told TalkTV this morning.
But then on Saturday, July 11, police arrested a suspect, and very quickly, Farage’s suspicions were given new life. The police and media were quick to focus on the fact that the arrestee was a “white man”—because releasing ethnic details are only okay when the suspect is white—and are already playing the “learning difficulties” and “mental health” card. Very shortly into the investigation of this man, counterterrorism police came in and took over, and finally admitted what we all knew: it was a “targeted attack.” From the Telegraph:
Detectives are exploring several leads on the suspect’s motive, including whether she was the sole target or if the suspect had been scoping out other Reform politicians as part of an extreme Left-wing plot.
I’d like to know: How much did Keir Starmer really know when he misled Nigel Farage?
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