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Chief of the Defence Staff Admiral Sir Tony Radakin, centre, arrives at Downing Street, where Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer is chairing a meeting of the Government's emergency Cobra committee following ongoing unrest across parts of the country, in London, Monday Aug. 5, 2024. (Aaron Chown/PA via AP)

U.K. prime minister convenes emergency panel to end days of far-right violence across Britain

By Danica Kirka - Associated Press

A car burns during an anti-immigration protest in Middlesbrough, England, Sunday Aug. 4, 2024. (Owen Humphreys/PA via AP)

U.K. leader Starmer condemns attack on asylum-seeker hotel as far-right violence spreads

By Pan Pylas - Associated Press

Protesters confront police during the "Enough is Enough" protest in Whitehall, London, Wednesday July 31, 2024, following the fatal stabbing of three children at a Taylor Swift-themed summer holiday dance and yoga class on Monday in Southport. (Jordan Pettitt/PA via AP)

U.K. police brace for more far-right protests as government warns of tough response

By Brian Melley and Jill Lawless - Associated Press

A police car burns as officers are deployed on the streets of Hartlepool, England, following a violent protest in the wake of the killing of three girls who were fatally stabbed in northwest England, Wednesday, July 31, 2024. Police faced violent demonstrators in the town of Hartlepool in northeast England, as far-right groups seek to stir anger over an attack they have sought to link — without evidence — to immigrants. (Owen Humphreys/PA via AP)

U.K. prime minister, police hold crisis meeting over unrest as stabbing attack suspect due in court

By Jill Lawless and Brian Melley - Associated Press

Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer, left, receives Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy outside 10 Downing Street in London, Friday, July 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)

Zelenskyy urges Britain to help it strike deeper inside Russia as he addresses U.K. Cabinet

By Danica Kirka and Jill Lawless - Associated Press

King Charles III and Queen Camilla arrive for the State Opening of Parliament in the House of Lords, at the Palace of Westminster in London, Wednesday, July 17, 2024. ( Jonathan Brady/POOL via AP)

U.K.’s new Labour government says it will turn the page on cost-of-living crisis and boost economy

By Jill Lawless - Associated Press

King Charles III meets Idris Elba, left, and young people attend an event for The King's Trust to discuss youth opportunity, at St James's Palace in central London, Friday July 12, 2024. The King and Mr Elba, an alumnus of The King's Trust (formerly known as The Prince's Trust), are meeting about the charity's ongoing work to support young people, and creating positive opportunities and initiatives which might help address youth violence in the UK, as well as the collaboration in Sierra Leone between the Prince's Trust International and the Elba Hope Foundation. (Yui Mok/pool photo via AP)

King Charles III hosts Idris Elba to hear from young people about the troubles they face

By Danica Kirka - Associated Press

Britain's Labour Party Prime Minister Kier Starmer makes speech 10 Downing Street in London, Friday, July 5, 2024. Labour leader Stammer won the general election on July 4, and was appointed Prime Minster by King Charles III at Buckingham Palace, after the party won a landslide victory. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)

Defeat for milquetoast U.K. Conservatives holds lessons for U.S. conservatives

By Editorial Board - The Washington Times

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer delivers a speech following his first cabinet meeting as Prime Minister, in London, Saturday July 6, 2024. (Claudia Greco/Pool via AP)

U.K. prime minister goes to Scotland, Northern Ireland, Wales to reset ties with Britain’s 4 nations

By Brian Melley - Associated Press

British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer, right, and Scottish Labour Leader Anas Sarwar during an event in Edinburgh to welcome new Labour MPs in Scotland, following Labour's victory in the 2024 General Election, Sunday July 7, 2024. (Andrew Milligan/PA via AP)

New British prime minister seeks to improve on ‘botched’ trade deal with European Union

By Brian Melley - Associated Press

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer delivers a speech, following his first cabinet meeting as Prime Minister, in London, Saturday, July 6, 2024. Britain’s new Prime Minister Keir Starmer has appointed a Cabinet of Labour Party lawmakers and a few outside experts as he tries to tackle priorities including boosting a sluggish economy, building more homes and fixing the creaking state-funded health service.(Claudia Greco, Pool Photo via AP)

New U.K. Prime Minister Starmer says controversial Rwanda deportation plan is ‘dead and buried’

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Britain's King Charles III, right, shakes hands with Keir Starmer where he invited the Labour Party leader to become prime minister and to form a new government, following the landslide general election victory for the Labour Party, in London, Friday, July 5, 2024. (Yui Mok, Pool Photo via AP)

Starmer vows ‘government of service’ for national renewal as he takes power after Labor landslide

By Brian Melley and Jill Lawless - Associated Press

FILE - Britain's new Prime Minister Tony Blair, smiles from the back of his official car as it leaves Buckingham Palace, central London, en route for Downing Street, on May 2, 1997. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant, File)

The U.K. election winner only becomes prime minister when King Charles III says so

By Danica Kirka - Associated Press

Britain's King Charles III, right, shakes hands with Keir Starmer where he invited the Labour Party leader to become prime minister and to form a new government, following the landslide general election victory for the Labour Party, in London, Friday, July 5, 2024. (Yui Mok, Pool Photo via AP)

Starmer vows ‘government of service’ for national renewal as he takes power after Labor landslide

By Brian Melley and Jill Lawless - Associated Press

FILE - Leader of the British Labour Party Keir Starmer gestures as he arrives to make his keynote speech at the annual party conference in Brighton, England, on Sept. 29, 2021. The Labour Party hopes that is just what Britain wants and needs after 14 turbulent years of Conservative rule. Starmer, the center-left party's 61-year-old leader, is the current favorite to win the country's July 4 election. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant, File)

Who is Keir Starmer, the Labour leader favored to win Britain’s July 4 election?

By Jill Lawless - Associated Press

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer and his wife Victoria take a walk by the River Mersey in Liverpool, England, during the Labour Party Conference, Monday, Oct. 9, 2023. Tomorrow he will deliver his keynote speech to delegates. (Stefan Rousseau/PA via AP)

Labour Party leader Keir Starmer makes his pitch to U.K. voters with speech vowing national renewal

By Jill Lawless - Associated Press

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer arriving with his shadow cabinet in central London for their first meeting, Tuesday Sept. 5, 2023. (Jordan Pettitt/PA via AP)

U.K. Labour leader Keir Starmer says he’ll seek closer ties with the EU if he wins the next election

By Jill Lawless - Associated Press

In this Monday, Sept. 23, 2019, file photo, Britain's Shadow Brexit Secretary Keir Starmer speaks onstage during the Labour Party Conference at the Brighton Centre in Brighton, England. Britain’s main opposition Labour Party has elected lawyer and lawmaker Keir Starmer as its new leader, after a contest thrown into turmoil by the coronavirus outbreak, it was announced on Saturday, April 4, 2020. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, file)

British opposition leader says U.K. moved ‘too slowly’ to curb spread of coronavirus outbreak

By Lauren Toms - The Washington Times

Labour leadership candidate Keir Starmer gestures, during the Labour leadership hustings at the SEC centre, in Glasgow, Scotland, Saturday, Feb. 15, 2020. The race to succeed Jeremy Corbyn as the next leader of Britain's main opposition Labour Party has narrowed to three after Emily Thornberry was narrowly eliminated from the leadership contest. (Jane Barlow/PA via AP)

Keir Starmer picked to lead UK Labour amid virus crisis

By Jill Lawless - Associated Press

Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May leaves 10 Downing Street, in London, Friday, Jan. 18, 2019. Talks to end Britain's Brexit stalemate appeared deadlocked Friday, with neither Prime Minister Theresa May nor the main opposition leader shifting from their entrenched positions. (Stefan Rousseau/PA via AP)

May plans next move in Brexit fight as chances rise of delay

By JILL LAWLESS - Associated Press