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News DeskMarch 17, 2012 13:59
Ed Miliband: London police investigating reported break-in at Parliament offices
Police received reports of forced entry shortly before 7 pm local time but it was unclear if anything important was taken.
Police received reports of forced entry shortly before 7 pm local time but it was unclear if anything important was taken.
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Labour Party Leader Ed Miliband gives the keynote address to delegates at the Scottish Labour Party Conference on March 2 in Dundee, Scotland. (Jeff J Mitchell/AFP/Getty Images)
Police in London have responded to a reported break-in at the offices of opposition leader Ed Miliband at Parliament, according to The Associated Press.
The Guardian reported that Scotland Yard was informed before 7 pm local time on Friday of forced entry in the Norman Shaw buildings, which the newspaper says were the police force’s headquarters until 1967.
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A member of Miliband’s staff reportedly found that a door had been forced open but The Guardian said it was unclear whether anything had been taken.
The newspaper quoted a Labour Party spokesman as declining to comment pending the outcome of a police investigation.
However, according to The Daily Mail, party officials are seeking to know whether any important documents have ben taken and “forensic teams” were searching the rooms for clues.
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The suspected break-in did not involve the “large office” used by Miliband himself, according to both The Guardian and The Mail, which said Miliband had been at a party conference in the Midlands at the time.
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/europe/united-kingdom/120317/ed-miliband-london-police-investigating-reported-
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