President Pavel congratulates Keir Starmer on UK election victory

President Petr Pavel has joined the Czech head of government Petr Fiala in congratulating Labour leader Keir Starmer on becoming the new UK prime minister. On social media site X on Friday evening, the Czech president said that their two countries were like-minded on many issues and that he looked forward to further advancing bilateral cooperation and enhancing security in Europe and beyond, starting next week at the NATO summit in Washington.

The UK parliamentary elections took place on Thursday, with the Labour landslide victory announced on Friday after 14 years of Conservative rule.