New Delhi, July 10 -- LONDON - Ann Widdecombe survived four decades in frontline British politics. She survived the Tory collapse of 1997, survived the ridicule that met her starring role on Strictly Come Dancing, survived the Brexit campaigns and the internecine wars within every right-wing movement she ever joined. She did not survive Thursday morning at her home in Haytor, a village on the edge of Dartmoor in Devon.

they do not believe this was terrorism, and they have found nothing to suggest political motivation.

Widdecombe served in the House of Commons from 1987 to 2010, representing the seat of Maidstone and the Weald in Kent. She rose to junior ministerial status under John Major's government, serving in the Home Office and Dep...