Chris Philp has urged leftists to “choose their language carefully” following the death of right-wing political activist Charlie Kirk.

Speaking to GB News, the Shadow Home Secretary warned that using inflammatory language could “destroy the basis of our civilisation and our society”.

In a press conference earlier today, Utah Governor Spencer Cox confirmed suspect 22-year-old Tyler Robinson is now in custody after being handed into authorities in Washington.

Speaking to the world’s media, Mr Cox declared “we got him” before sharing more details of the suspect’s movements before and after Mr Kirk’s death.

Paying tribute to the family of Charlie Kirk, Mr Philp told GB News: “Firstly, of course, my thoughts are with Erika, Charlie’s wife, and their two young children who have suffered this appalling tragedy. He was assassinated, let’s just call it what it is.

“It was an assassination, it was done in cold blood, and obviously we’re pleased that the alleged assassin has been caught.”

Condemning the act committed against the Donald Trump ally, the Shadow Home Secretary stated: “From the context including the engravings on the shell casings, it does appear to be a politically motivated assassination.

“Because the murderer, the assassin, didn’t agree with Charlie’s political views. That is obviously sick and it’s absolutely appalling that political violence of that kind has happened anywhere in the world.”

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Declaring that political violence is “never acceptable” anywhere in the world, Mr Philp said: “In America, the land of freedom, it’s particularly appalling and horrifying that this man, this perpetrator has allegedly conducted this assassination for political reasons.

“Political violence is never, ever acceptable in civilised democracies like the UK and the US. We should settle our differences through debate and through elections, not through violence, which evidently is what happened here.”

Asked by host Martin Daubney if there is an increasing problem with the “radicalised far-left”, Mr Philp stressed that those using inflammatory language “does open the door to some of their supporters to use actual violence”.

He told GB News: “I think we see people on the left who are wrapped so much in their own sense of moral superiority, they think it’s okay to use very inflammatory language. Keir Starmer did it in January when he smeared people, actually including me, as jumping on a far-right bandwagon, in his words, for calling out the rape gang scandal.

“So I think when people on the left use this very, very inflammatory language, it does open the door to some of their supporters to use actual violence.

“We’re seeing actual acts of violence taking place, and that’s why people in political life, in public life, need to just choose their language carefully and avoid inflaming tensions of those kinds.”

Warning of political violence causing “destruction to society”, Mr Philp concluded: “It does tend to be people on the left who reach most quickly for that kind of language, probably because they’re suffused with this sense of moral superiority, and they think it’s somehow justified, but it’s not justified, ever.

“I’d say that to everybody in politics on the left and the right, just to make sure you make your point passionately, make it forcefully, but never use language which might incite or in any way excuse violence because that it just it will just destroy the basis of our civilisation and our society.”