Millions of people in Britain fell silent on Friday as the nation remembered those who gave their lives in the First and Second World Wars and in other conflicts.
On one of the mildest Armistice Days on record, people from all walks of life marked the two minutes’ silence in all corners of England, Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland.
The Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak, wrote on Twitter: “Today and forever, we will remember them.”
Sunak—who will represent the government at Sunday’s remembrance ceremony at the Cenotaph in Whitehall—did not join Labour Party leader Sir Keir Starmer, who laid a wreath outside London’s Euston station….
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