UNITED NATIONS (AP) — New British Prime Minister Keir Starmer took the international stage at the U.N. General Assembly on Thursday for the first time with a message: His nation is returning to “responsible global leadership.”
The Labour Party leader, who won a landslide election victory in July, told the annual gathering of world leaders that with him as prime minister, “the U.K. will lead again tackling climate change at home and internationally, and restoring our commitment to international development.”
Working with other nations, Starmer said, Britain will also tackle conflicts from Gaza and the West Bank to Ukraine and Sudan where immediate cease-fires are urgently needed.
He said nations must also work together “to make the world less dangerous.”
“We have to face some hard truths,” the prime minister said. “The institutions of peace are struggling, underfunded, under pressure and outpoliticized.”
He said the…