Keir Starmer, leader of the Labour Party, is seen at BBC Broadcasting House for an interview on Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg on Oct. 23, 2022, in London. Hollie Adams/Getty Images 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 King Charles III (center), next to Queen Camilla, waves as they arrive at St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, on March 31. Hollie Adams/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
Members of the public join a walking vigil through the streets of Falmouth, England, for British aid worker James Henderson, organized by Palestine Solidarity Cornwall, April 3. Three British men working for World Central Kitchen were killed along with four colleagues when their clearly marked vehicles were targeted by Israeli military strikes. Hugh Hastings/Getty Images hide caption
A large sign calling for a cease-fire in Gaza hangs from a building in Dublin on Feb. 12. Paulo Nunes dos Santos for NPR hide caption
Protesters stand outside the Supreme Court in London on Wednesday. Kirsty Wigglesworth/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
Former U.K Prime Minister Boris Johnson, Queen Elizabeth II, King Charles III, current U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, and former U.K. Prime Minister Liz Truss. Dan Kitwood/Getty Images; John Stillwell/WPA Pool via Getty Images; Yui Mok/WPA Pool via Getty Images; Henry Nicholls/WPA Pool via Getty Images; Leon Neal/Getty Images 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
A pilot gestures from the grounded EC-LZO Boeing 767 flight, initially meant to deport Rwandan asylum-seekers, at Boscombe Down Air Base in Boscombe Down, England, on June 14. The flight taking asylum-seekers from the U.K. to Rwanda was grounded at the last minute, after the intervention of the European Court of Human Rights. Dan Kitwood/Getty Images hide caption
The Royal Mint Court office complex, bought by the Chinese government for 255 million pounds ($311 million) in May 2018, in London, on Friday. China's controversial plan to build a new embassy on the site near the Tower of London was rejected in a Tower Hamlets council meeting on Thursday. Hollie Adams/Bloomberg/Getty Images hide caption
Queen Elizabeth II poses in her coronation attire in the throne room of Buckingham Palace in London, after her coronation on June 2, 1953. AP hide caption
Queen Elizabeth II, the monarch who brought stability to a changing nation
June 2: Britain's Queen Elizabeth II, Prince Charles and Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, along with Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis appear on the balcony of Buckingham Palace as part of the Trooping the Color parade during the queen's Platinum Jubilee celebrations. Hannah McKay/Reuters hide caption
A screen in London's Piccadilly Circus displays a countdown to Queen Elizabeth II's Platinum Jubilee. Alberto Pezzali/AP hide caption
Queen Elizabeth's Platinum Jubilee comes at a challenging time for Britain's monarchy
A panel of the mosaic discovered by a team of archaeologists in England. The researchers say it shows the body of Hector returning to his father, King Priam (right), in exchange for his weight in gold. University of Leicester Archaeological Services hide caption
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson speaks during a news conference at the U.N. Climate Change Conference COP26 in Glasgow, Scotland, on Tuesday. Oli Scarff/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
The U.K. considers its 1st new coal mine in decades even as it calls to phase out coal
Children from Hong Kong sing at the Sutton Friendship Festival last month as the London borough welcomed new arrivals from the former British colony. Frank Langfitt/NPR hide caption
The U.K. is welcoming tens of thousands from Hong Kong on a new path to citizenship
President Biden and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson met in Cornwall, Britain, ahead of the G-7 summit in June. Toby Melville/AP hide caption
People receive the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine at the Al-Abbas Islamic Center, converted into a vaccination clinic in Birmingham, England, in January. Sheikh Nuru Mohammed, the imam at the mosque, recognized many of his congregants were hesitant to get the "jab," as it's called, due to false rumors and distrust of government. So he began to fight disinformation during his sermons. Darren Staples/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
How A U.K. Imam Countered Vaccine Hesitancy And Helped Thousands Get The 'Jab'
A pro-EU demonstrator sets up banners outside a London conference center, where trade talks were being held on Dec. 4. Kirsty Wigglesworth/AP hide caption
The United Kingdom and European Union flags are at the VIP entrance before the arrival of European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson at EU headquarters in Brussels on Dec. 9. Olivier Hoslet/Pool/AP hide caption
Supporters of Scottish independence gather at the site of the Battle of Bannockburn in August in Bannockburn, Scotland. The site is where the army of the king of Scots, Robert the Bruce, defeated the army of England's King Edward II in 1314 in the First War of Scottish Independence. Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images hide caption
Support For Scottish Independence Is Growing, Partly Due To U.K.'s COVID-19 Response
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson leaves 10 Downing Street for the weekly cabinet meeting in London on Tuesday. NurPhoto/NurPhoto via Getty Images hide caption