FILE - Keir Starmer, Leader of Britain's opposition Labour Party gestures during a question and answer session at a business conference in London, Thursday, Feb. 1, 2024. 400 senior business leaders will be in attendance for speeches, panels and roundtables at the Labour Business Conference. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, File)
U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer has resigned, paving the way for Britain to have its seventh prime minister in just over a decade. This is a photo gallery curated by AP photo editors.
FILE – Britain’s Labour Party Prime Minister Keir Starmer and his wife Victoria pose for the media on the doorstep of 10 Downing Street after he was appointed as Prime Minister by King Charles at the Buckingham Palace, in London, July 5, 2024. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung, File)FILE – Britain’s Prime Minister Keir Starmer during his ‘plan for change’ speech in Buckinghamshire, England, Thursday, Dec. 5, 2024. (AP Photo/Darren Staples, Pool, File)FILE – Britain’s Prime Minister Keir Starmer talks to journalists as he travels onboard a plane to Washington DC to attend a Nato summit July 9, 2024. (Stefan Rousseau/Pool Photo via AP, File)FILE – Britain’s Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Britain’s Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves gesture after her speech at the Labour Party Conference in Liverpool, England, Monday, Sept. 23, 2024. (AP Photo/Jon Super, File)FILE – 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, File)FILE – Ukrain’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, left, with, from second left, Britain’s Prime Minister Keir Starmer, France’s President Emmanuel Macron, and Germany’s Chancellor Friedrich Merz pose on the doorstep of 10 Downing Street, London, Dec. 8, 2025, following a meeting of the leaders inside. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung, File)FILE – President Donald Trump and Britain’s Prime Minister Keir Starmer gesture next to first lady Melania Trump and Victoria Starmer after watching a display by the British Parachute Regiment’s “Red Devils” display team at Chequers near Aylesbury, England, Thursday, Sept. 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)FILE – Britain’s Prime Minister Keir Starmer meets European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen in Brussels, Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2024. (AP Photo/Omar Havana, File)FILE – President Donald Trump, right, shakes hands with Britain’s Prime Minister Keir Starmer during a meeting at the Trump Turnberry golf course in Turnberry, Scotland Monday, July 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)FILE – Britain’s Prime Minister Keir Starmer is lead by Director General Yousif Alobaidli and tour guide Mahra, right, as he visits the Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Monday, Dec. 9, 2024 during his three day visit of United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and Cyprus. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, Pool, File)FILE – Britain’s Prime Minister Keir Starmer boards a plane at the airport in Doha, Qatar, Friday, April 10, 2026 after his three day visit to the Gulf region. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant, Pool, File)FILE – British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, right, talks with Britain’s ambassador to the United States Peter Mandelson during a welcome reception at the ambassador’s residence on Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2025 in Washington. (Carl Court/Pool Photo via AP, File)Britain’s Prime Minister Keir Starmer hugs his wife Victoria outside 10 Downing Street after speaking to the media in London, Monday, June 22, 2026.(AP Photo/Kin Cheung)Britain’s Prime Minister Keir Starmer and wife Victoria walk back inside 10 Downing Street after speaking to the media in London, Monday, June 22, 2026.(AP Photo/Kin Cheung)
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