Director of Public Prosecutions

Sir Keir, who was director of public prosecutions at the time, told The Times he was "deeply sorry" to hear of Norfolk's death.

Sir Keir accused Badenoch of "staying silent" on the issue in government while he "oversaw the first grooming gang prosecution" as Director of Public Prosecutions.

Justice Christopher Beale told the jury that most if not all them would probably have been aware of the previous charges in relation to Patterson's husband, but said that the Director of Public Prosecutions had dropped them.

Sir Keir, at the time Director of Public Prosecutions, was one of its founding members.

In comments expected to be delivered at the summit, the prime minister will refer to working across borders when he was director of public prosecutions to "foil numerous plots", including preventing planes from being "blown up over the Atlantic".