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Liz Truss leaves Downing Street for the last time as UK Prime Minister, addressing the media before going to Buckingham Palace to inform King Charles III of her resignation. Truss is the UK's shortest serving premier in history, having only been in office for 49 days. SOUNDBITE
UK Prime Minister Liz Truss greets Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen at 10 Downing Street for a bilateral meeting. IMAGES
UK Prime Minister Liz Truss calls for the British people to support King Charles III as he takes on the 'awesome responsibility' of monarchy following the death of his mother, Queen Elizabeth II. The Prime Minister ends her speech on 10 Downing Street with the words: 'God save the King'. SOUNDBITE
Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer meets newly-appointed Welsh First Minister Eluned Morgan. Morgan, who was voted in on August 6 and is the first woman to lead Wales, replaced her short-lived predecessor Vaughan Gething who survived less than five months in office and resigned following rows over political donations and sacked ministers. Both Starmer and Morgan are members of Britain's centre-left Labour Party. IMAGES
UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer lays flowers at the police cordon in Southport near the scene where three children were killed in a mass stabbing, with five other children and two adults seriously injured. Some people heckled the prime minister as he laid the wreath, with one saying "Is that it?" but other onlookers said "Shame!" to those who were heckling. IMAGES
New UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer says an upcoming NATO summit in Washington is an opportunity for him "to make clear our unshakeable support" for the alliance and to "reiterate" Britain's backing of Ukraine. Speaking after his Labour Party secured a landslide election win, ending 14 years of Conservative rule, Starmer says "the first duty of my government is security and defence." SOUNDBITE