Police in England said a 26-year-old man was arrested Friday on suspicion of murder in the death of former British Member of Parliament Ann Widdecombe, a familiar and polarizing presence on UK reality TV (Strictly Come Dancing,

British counter-terrorism police are now leading the investigation into the suspected murder of former UK lawmaker Ann Widdecombe “following new information and evidence,” UK Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood said on Monday.

Anne Widcombe, 78, a former UK Conservative Party MP and a key figure in the Brexit (British exit from the European Union) campaign, was found dead at her home on the 11th. This marks the first murder of a politician in the UK in a decade,

British police say a 26-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of the murder of Ann Widdecombe, a 78-year-old former government minister. Matt Longman, from Devon and Cornwall Police, says the suspect remains in custody and that the incident “is not being treated as terrorism” or politically motivated.

British police said they had launched ⁠a ⁠murder investigation into the death of ⁠Ann Widdecombe, a 78-year-old former government minister whose death was announced earlier on ​Friday. Widdecombe was a Conservative member of parliament between 1987 and 2010,

A 26-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of the murder of former UK government minister Ann Widdecombe after she was found dead in her home, according to police.

A 28-year-old man was arrested Saturday evening in South Yorkshire, England, “on suspicion of the murder of” former UK lawmaker Ann Widdecombe, according to British police.