Enda Brady: UK correspondent on a suspect being arrested in connection with arson attacks on properties belonging to Keir Starmer

A 21-year-old man has been arrested over a series of arson attacks after a fire at a house owned by Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer.

Police arrested the suspect in the early hours of Tuesday. He remains in custody.

UK correspondent Enda Brady says reports reveal there were three similar fire-related incidents over a four days last week.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
In the Brady UK correspondent with us.

Speaker 2 (00:02):
Now, hey Inda, hey head, They're great to speak to
you again.

Speaker 1 (00:05):
What do we know about this blog? Who's been arrested?
Read the fire bombing.

Speaker 2 (00:09):
So he's twenty one years old and in the past
half hour he has been arrested. Counter terror police involved
in this because the properties that were attacked are linked
to the Prime Minister. Now clearly everyone knows kir Starmer
lives at number ten Downing Street, London. That was not
the address that was initially attacked. It was an arsonal
attempt to basically the porch the front door of what

(00:31):
was the Starmer family residence in North London place called
Kentish Town. It's about a four million dollar property. The
Starmers lived there clearly before they moved into Downing Street,
and he won the election last July. So we now
learned that there were three fire incidents in four days
last week, one at that property which the Starmers have
let out. There is another property apartment in the same

(00:55):
area of North London the Kerr Starmer owns. There was
a suspicious fire there too, nobody hurt and not a
huge amount of damage, and a vehicle park in the street,
which is linked to the Starmar family, was also the
subject of an arson attempt, so counter terror police were
called in and a twenty one year old man right
now is in police custody in London.

Speaker 1 (01:15):
Right And I suppose we're all going to be watching
to see what the motivation here was. What is going
on with this clamp down on immigration, because it feels
to me in it if this was coming from the Tories,
it would feel like they breden batter, but it feels
weird coming from a labor prime minister.

Speaker 2 (01:29):
It does feel very strange because a lot of people
would say that labor in the certainly under Blair years,
drove immigration into the UK and they felt that this
was benefiting the economy. Clearly now it is not. It
is a big talking point on the doorsteps and I
think a lot of labor politicians are feeling the heat
because of really poor council results in those elections across

(01:50):
England last week. And who's benefiting from all of this.
Nigel Farage and Reform UK. Now he has been anti
immigration from day one. He come up with the slogan
take back control of our borders, which it's no coincidence
in Starmar's speech yesterday, he used that exact phrase. So
they're tightening everything up. If you come to the UK

(02:12):
it will be ten years before you can apply for citizenship.
Currently it's five. They're going to make a ten and
they're clamping down on everything. Student visas in particular, there
is a feeling that that system has been absolutely abused
by people coming to the UK coming, not even attending courses,
disappearing others who do stay. Then bringing family members in

(02:34):
immigration is going to be a big talking point for
a long time in the UK. Starmer has set his
stall out and he said, I promise you I will
bring it down. If he doesn't, he won't be back
in Downing Street in four years time.

Speaker 1 (02:46):
Interesting, Hell, listen, have you been in Warsaw?

Speaker 2 (02:48):
Have you? I'm still here, Yeah, I'm here. We're filming
my TV show this week because there is a huge
presidential election first round voting this weekend across Poland and
it's absolutely fascinating what's going on. So the Prime Minister
is Donald Tusk, and you'll be seeing a lot more
of him around Europe, you know, stepping up. He's with
Starmer and Macron and trying to sort out peace in Ukraine.

(03:11):
There's so much going on Poland. The economy is booming,
three point two percent growth predicted this year. They're spending
a lot of money on defense. They're spending nearly five
percent of GDP on defense because they're very worried about
Russia and this presidential election this weekend. The government are
warning of unprecedented attempts by Russia at election interference. So

(03:33):
it's all going on in Poland.

Speaker 1 (03:34):
Interesting stuff. Hey, Inda, thanks very much, really appreciate it.
Into Brady, UK corresponder.

Speaker 2 (03:39):
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