Counter-terrorist police chief says ‘new evidence’ led to his team taking over investigation into Ann Widdecombe’s death – UK politics live

Home secretary Shabana Mahmood says police are ‘pursuing multiple lines of enquiry to establish the motivation for this attack’Ann Widdecombe death: counter-terrorism police take over investigationThe government has announced that it is in effect proscribing the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). It is doing so using new powers under the National Security (State Threats) Act 2026.Ministers have been under pressure for years to proscribe the IRGC, which backs terrorist activity outside Iran. But the last Conservative government, and Labour when it took power, argued that it would be difficult to use laws intended to target terrorist organisations against a state-run