Can you spur off a flex outlet? What is the correct way to do this?

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I ran some cables to wire in a toothbrush charger and a mirror with a light.
My thought process was to bring the lighting circuit down to the mirror and power the mirror with a flex outlet then continue the circuit on to the toothbrush charger.
Flex outlets seem to be two connections only, the supply coming in, then the flex going out.

Can a second T&E be added to the out side to feed the toothbrush charger as per images or is this a bodge job?

What's the correct way to do this? Junction box in the loft providing individual feeds down to the two appliances?
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You could put all three wires to the IN connections, or all three wires to the OUT connections - it wouldn't make a scrap of difference.
 
This is what I initially thought, but as flex outlets only seen to come with an in and out, I started questioning it and wondered if I was going down a "cowboy" or bodge route.
 
Put both T&Es into the „In“ terminals and the flex into the „Out“. Better not to mix solid and stranded under one screw.
 

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