A 25-year-old man has been charged with murder and the preparation of terrorist acts after the fatal stabbing of MP Sir David Amess.
Ali Harbi Ali was arrested following the attack at a constituency surgery in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, on Friday.
Sir David, a Conservative MP since 1983, suffered multiple stab wounds and died at the scene.
Mr Ali is a British man of Somali heritage whose father is a former adviser to Somalia’s prime minister.
Nick Price, from the Crown Prosecution Service, said: “We will submit to the court that this murder has a terrorist connection, namely that it had both religious and ideological motivations.”
Mr Ali, from north London, remains in custody and is due to appear at Westminster Magistrates’ Court later.
Metropolitan Police Assistant Commissioner Matt Jukes sent his “deepest condolences” to the family, friends and colleagues of the MP.
“Sir David’s dedication to his family, his constituents and his community, and his positive impact on the lives of so many has been abundantly clear since his death,” he said.
Since the killing, a large team of detectives in the Metropolitan Police’s Counter Terrorism Command had been “working around the clock” to search several addresses in north London, analyse digital devices and review CCTV, Mr Jukes said.
There have been no other arrests and police are not seeking anyone else, he added.
The Metropolitan Police has been working with Parliament’s security team and the Home Office to review the protection of MPs.
Police forces across the country have also been working with individual MPs about their security in their constituencies.
