Labour Leader Keir Starmer celebrates winning the 2024 general election with a speech at Tate Modern in London on Friday. Ricky Vigil/Getty Images Europe hide caption
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Labour leader Keir Starmer gives a speech during a visit to Hitchin, in Hertfordshire, England, while on the election campaign trail on Monday. Stefan Rousseau/PA Images via Reuters hide caption
Britain's Prime Minister Rishi Sunak meets with U.S. President Joe Biden at 10 Downing Street in London, Monday, July 10, 2023. Susan Walsh/AP hide caption
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British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak speaks during a press conference in London on Monday regarding a treaty between Britain and Rwanda to transfer asylum-seekers to the African country. Toby Melville/Pool/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Britain's former prime minister David Cameron leaves Downing Street in London on Monday. James Manning/AP hide caption
People believed to be migrants walk in Dungeness, a headland on the coast of England, on Aug. 16. Toby Melville/Reuters hide caption
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak visits Writtle University College, an agricultural college in Writtle, United Kingdom, a day after making his announcement about changes to Britain's climate policies. ALASTAIR GRANT/POOL/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Britain's Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, center, and newly elected Conservative MP Steve Tuckwell, center right, speak at the Rumbling Tum cafe in Uxbridge, after Tuckwell won the Uxbridge and South Ruislip by-election, west London, Friday July 21, 2023. Carl Court/AP hide caption
A resident walks on Sunday in a flooded street after the Kakhovka Dam burst and unleashed floodwaters, in Kherson, Ukraine. Narciso Contreras/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images hide caption
Britain's Prime Minister Rishi Sunak appeared as a guest at a Washington Nationals baseball game on Wednesday. Kevin LaMarque/Pool/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
In his 1st White House visit, Rishi Sunak talks Ukraine, AI — and how to say his name
In this image made from video provided by the Ukrainian Defense Ministry on Sunday, a Ukrainian soldier poses for the camera with his finger to his lips. The video shows troops gesturing for silence suggesting that no formal announcement of a possible counteroffensive against Russia will be made. Text appears in the video saying: "Plans love silence. There will be no announcement of the start." Ukrainian Defense Ministry via AP hide caption
The headquarters of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) in London on Apr 28, 2023, the day BBC chairperson Richard Sharp resigned. Daniel Leal/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak (left) and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen shake hands after a news conference at Windsor Guildhall, Windsor, England, Monday. The U.K. and the European Union ended years of wrangling, sealing a deal to resolve a dispute over Northern Ireland. Dan Kitwood/AP hide caption
Why Brexit's back in the news: Britain and the EU struck a Northern Ireland trade deal
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy (left) and British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak meet Ukrainian troops being trained to operate Challenger 2 tanks at a military facility in Lulworth, Dorset, England, on Wednesday. Andrew Matthews/Pool via AP hide caption
Why Zelenskyy visited the U.K. nearly 1 year into Russia's war on Ukraine
FILE - Conservative Party chairman Nadhim Zahawi leaves the Conservative Party head office in Westminster, central London, Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2023. Alastair Grant/AP hide caption
British nurses picket outside St. Thomas' Hospital in London on Thursday. The nurses' union is asking for a 19% pay raise. Nurses, as well as postal workers, rail workers and some airport immigration officers, are staging walkouts over the holiday season. They are asking for pay increases as the U.K. faces nearly 11% inflation. Frank Langfitt/NPR hide caption
Britain is seeing a wave of strikes as nurses, postal workers and others walk out
Rishi Sunak waves outside the door to No. 10 Downing Street on Tuesday after delivering his first speech as prime minister. Daniel Leal/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Rishi Sunak lights a candle for Diwali in Downing Street in 2020. Leon Neal/Getty Images hide caption
Rishi Sunak meets supporters at a Conservative Party leadership election in Birmingham, England, in August. He lost that election to Liz Truss. Rui Vieira/AP hide caption