A top Tory conservative suggested Tuesday that the U.K. Labor government lied about a suspected killer’s Islamist ties.
Conservative MP Robert Jenrick, a Tory leadership hopeful, said the government’s handling of an investigation into a July mass knife attack is raising doubts about whether “we are being told the truth about crime in our country.”
“Of course, the legal process needs to be respected, but I’m seriously concerned that the facts may have been withheld from the public here,” Jenrick said in a video posted to his social media. “The government and authorities told us for months that they were not treating this as a terrorist incident. But today, the attacker has been charged with terrorist offenses and it has been revealed that he has been allegedly reading terrorist manuals.”
On July 29, a man armed with a knife attacked children and others at a Taylor…
