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People thought to be migrants who undertook the crossing from France in small boats and were picked up in the Channel, arrive to be disembarked from a small transfer boat which ferried them from a larger British border force vessel that didn't come into the port, in Dover, south east England, Friday, June 17, 2022. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham, File)

U.K. touts a clampdown on illegal working as it seeks to look tough on immigration

By Jill Lawless - Associated Press

FILE - People thought to be migrants who undertook the crossing from France in small boats and were picked up in the Channel, arrive to be disembarked from a small transfer boat which ferried them from a larger British border force vessel that didn't come into the port, in Dover, south east England, Friday, June 17, 2022. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham, File)

U.K. touting a clampdown on illegal working as it seeks to look tough on immigration

By Jill Lawless - Associated Press

Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rachel Reeves, looks up as she holds up the traditional red ministerial box containing her budget speech, as she poses for the media outside No 11 Downing Street, before departing to the House of Commons to deliver the budget in London, Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2024. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)

U.K. Treasury chief unveils budget with 40 billion pounds in tax hikes, promising greater investment

By Jill Lawless and Pan Pylas - Associated Press

Britain's Prime Minister Prime Keir Starmer speaking at an event in the West Midlands, England, Monday, Oct. 28, 2024. (AP Photo/Darren Staples)

Keir Starmer warns the U.K. budget this week will reflect ‘harsh’ economic reality

By Jill Lawless - Associated Press

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)

Britain’s Treasury chief tries to turn on the economic optimism after months of gloomy talk

By Jill Lawless - Associated Press

Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer speaks during a visit at the National Crime Agency (NCA) headquarters in London, Friday, Sept. 6, 2024. (Benjamin Cremel/Pool via AP)

British PM Keir Starmer says he has to make tough decisions. Some of his lawmakers are unhappy

By Jill Lawless - Associated Press

FILE - Then-Shadow Home Secretary Diane Abbott addresses anti-Brexit supporters in London, Oct. 19, 2019. Police say they are investigating whether the largest donor to Britain’s Conservative government committed a crime when he reportedly said a Black member of Parliament made him “want to hate all Black women” and that she “should be shot.” West Yorkshire police said Friday that they are investigating the allegedly racist remarks that businessman Frank Hester made in 2019 about Diane Abbott. (AP Photo/Alberto Pezzali, File)

Police investigate allegedly racist remarks by biggest donor to Britain’s Conservative government

By Brian Melley - Associated Press

A demonstrator holds a banner outside The Old Bailey, the Central Criminal Court of England and Wales, in London, Monday, Dec. 4, 2023. Britain is one of the world's oldest democracies, but some worry that essential rights and freedoms are under threat. They point to restrictions on protest imposed by the Conservative government that have seen environmental activists jailed for peaceful but disruptive actions. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)

The right to protest is under threat in Britain, undermining a pillar of democracy

By Jill Lawless - Associated Press

Prince Charles is seated next to the Queen's crown during the State Opening of Parliament, at the Palace of Westminster in London, May 10, 2022. On Tuesday, Nov. 7, 2023, King Charles III will sit on a gilded throne and read out the King’s Speech, a list of planned laws drawn up by the Conservative government and aimed at winning over voters ahead of an election next year. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant, Pool, File)

Law and order and the economy are focus of the British government’s King’s Speech

By Jill Lawless - Associated Press

FILE - A man thought to be a migrant who made the crossing from France disembarks after being picked up in the Channel by a British border force vessel in Dover, south east England, Friday, Aug. 13, 2021. The U.K. government watered down some parts of its controversial immigration legislation on Tuesday in a bid to get the bill through Parliament. The Illegal Migration Bill, once passed, would require officials to detain and deport people who cross the English Channel to Britain in small boats. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham, File)

The U.K. government is in a face-off with the House of Lords over its contentious migration bill

By Jill Lawless - Associated Press

Boris Johnson leaves his house in London, Wednesday, March 22, 2023. Former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who was fined for breaking his own government's pandemic lockdown rules, has been reported to police again over more potential breaches. The Times of London said Tuesday May 23, 2023, that Johnson was reported by civil servants over alleged visits to Chequers, the prime minister's official country retreat, as well as potential breaches in the leader's Downing Street residence. (AP Photo/Alberto Pezzali, File)

U.K. government fights demand to hand over Boris Johnson’s messages to COVID-19 inquiry

By Jill Lawless - Associated Press

Soccer broadcaster Gary Lineker arrives ahead of the English Premier League soccer match between Leicester City and Chelsea, at the King Power Stadium, in Leicester, England, Saturday, March 11, 2023. (Mike Egerton/PA via AP)

More coverage disruptions at BBC as Lineker crisis deepens

By Sylvia Hui - Associated Press

Britain's Prime Minister Rishi Sunak departs 10 Downing Street to go to the House of Commons for the weekly Prime Minister's Questions in London, Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2022. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)

U.K. airport staff plan Christmas walkout, joining strike wave

By Jill Lawless - Associated Press

FILE - Conservative party leadership candidate Jeremy Hunt takes delivers his speech during a Conservative leadership hustings at ExCel Centre in London, Wednesday, July 17, 2019. UK leader Liz Truss has appointed former Cabinet minister Jeremy Hunt as new Treasury chief, replacing sacked Kwasi Kwarteng. Hunt is a government veteran who has served as former foreign secretary and health secretary, and ran unsuccessfully to lead the Conservative Party in 2019. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein, File)

U.K. Treasury chief in position of power as PM Truss struggles

By Sylvia Hui - Associated Press

A police officer walks past 10 Downing Street in London, Monday, May 23, 2022. The general public waits for the release of Sue Gray's report into COVID lockdown breaches across Whitehall, the so called &quot;Partygate&quot;. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein)

UK’s Boris Johnson awaits judgment of ‘partygate’ report

By Sylvia Hui and Jill Lawless - Associated Press

FILE - In this Monday, June 27, 2016 file photo, the then Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron leaves 10 Downing Street in London, to address Parliament on Britain's European Union referendum choice to leave. Former British Prime Minister David Cameron has broken his silence on allegations that he improperly lobbied government officials on behalf of a financial services firm, saying there are “important lessons to be learnt” from the scandal. The comments, released late Sunday April 11, 2021 in an 1,800-word written statement, are Cameron’s first since Greensill Capital collapsed more than a month ago, threatening thousands of jobs at a British steelmaker it had financed. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham, File)

UK lobbying scandal snares ex-PM Cameron; govt starts probe

By DANICA KIRKA - Associated Press

FILE - In this file photo dated Sunday, June 21, 2020, a woman symbolically covers her eyes as she participates in a Black Lives Matter protest calling for an end to racial injustice, at the Parliament Square in central London. A government inquiry, by a panel of experts, has concluded Wednesday March 31, 2021, that there is racism in Britain, but it’s not a systematically racist country that is “rigged” against non-white people, though many ethnic-minority Britons greeted that claim with skepticism. (AP Photo/Alberto Pezzali)

Is the UK racist? Report’s positive picture draws skepticism

By JILL LAWLESS - Associated Press

A view of a beer glass, at the Dispensary pub in Liverpool, England, Monday Oct 12, 2020. The British government has carved England into three tiers of risk in a bid to slow the spread of a resurgent coronavirus. The northern city of Liverpool is in the highest category and will close pubs, gyms and betting shops. (AP Photo/Jon Super)

UK defends new virus restrictions; critics say it’s too late

By DANICA KIRKA - Associated Press

Commuters at Waterloo Station, in London, Thursday, Sept. 24, 2020, after Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced a range of new restrictions to combat the rise in coronavirus cases in England. (Victoria Jones/PA via AP)

UK announces new plan to help workers hit by pandemic

By DANICA KIRKA - Associated Press

Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson visits the construction site of Ealing Fields High School in west London, Monday June 29, 2020. (Toby Melville/Pool via AP)

Boris Johnson says COVID-19 has been a disaster for Britain

By Jill Lawless - Associated Press