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The Home Secretary Yvette Cooper has rejected calls from the household of MP Sir David Amess for a nationalist enquiry into his murder,
In a missive addressed to Lady Julia Amess and Katie Amess, Yvette Cooper said it was "hard to spot however an enquiry would beryllium capable to spell beyond" violent slayer Ali Harbi Ali's proceedings and precocious published Prevent learning review.
Katie Amess, girl of Sir David, said Cooper's words were "adding brackish connected to an unfastened wound", branding them "unacceptable" and "insulting".
Sir David, the Conservative MP for Southend West, was stabbed to decease by Ali, a alleged Islamic State fanatic, astatine a constituency country connected 15 October 2021.
His widow, Lady Amess, said Sir Keir Starmer should "go distant and reconsider the government's position" up of the family's gathering with the premier curate and the location caput connected Wednesday.
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