Jill Lawless reporter the Associated Press posed photo at AP Europe in London, Friday, Jan. 22, 2016. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)

JILL LAWLESS

London correspondent

Lawless is an Associated Press reporter covering U.K. politics and more. She is based in London.
Incoming Secretary of State for Work and Pensions Liz Kendall arrives at Downing Street in London, Friday, July 5, 2024. (AP Photo/Thomas Krych, file)
The UK is cutting welfare spending to urge people to work. Critics say it will hurt the vulnerable
 
A general view of the headquarters of the Secret Intelligence Service, MI6, in London, Tuesday, March 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)
MI6 has never had a woman as spy chief. That could be about to change
 
Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer, center, speaks with members of staff after delivering a speech on plans to reform the civil service, during a visit to Reckitt Benckiser Health Care UK Ltd in Kingston upon Hull, England, Thursday, March 13, 2025. (Oli Scarff/Pool Photo via AP)
Keir Starmer plans to reshape Britain’s ‘flabby’ state. But don’t compare him to Elon Musk
 
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer departs 10 Downing Street to attend Prime Minister's Questions at the Houses of Parliament in London, England, Wednesday, March 12, 2025. (Stefan Rousseau/PA via AP)
Britain says retaliation is possible over new U.S. tariffs on steel and aluminum imports
 
Smoke billows from the MV Solong cargo ship in the North Sea, off the Yorkshire coast in England, Tuesday, March 11, 2025. (Dan Kitwood/Pool Photo via AP)
The arrested captain of a cargo vessel involved in North Sea collision is Russian, ship’s owner says
 
The 16th-century painting "Madonna and Child" by Italian painter Antonio Solari that was stolen more than 50 years ago and it is now at the center of a custody battle between a widow in England and a small Italian museum. (Art Recovery International via AP)
A painting stolen from an Italian museum is found in England, but its new owner wants to keep it
 
Smoke billows from the MV Solong cargo ship in the North Sea, off the Yorkshire coast, Tuesday, March 11, 2025, in England. (Dan Kitwood/Pool Photo via AP)
UK police arrest captain of cargo ship on suspicion of manslaughter over North Sea collision
 
In this image taken from video provided by Denys Mezentsev, rescue crews work on site after a cargo ship was hit by a tanker carrying jet fuel for the U.S. military off eastern England, Monday, March 10, 2025, setting both vessels ablaze and sending fuel pouring into the North Sea. (Denys Mezentsev via AP)
A cargo ship hits a tanker and they catch fire off England, with one crew member missing
 
This undated combo of pictures released by the Metropolitan Police shows from left, Katrin Ivanova, Vanya Gaberova and Tihomir Ivanchev. (Metropolitan Police via AP)
3 Bulgarians convicted of spying for Russia across Europe from base in UK
 
Just Stop Oil campaigners pose outside the Court of Appeal at the Royal Courts of Justice, central London, where sixteen climate activists are challenging their sentences, on Friday March 7, 2025. (Lucy North/PA via AP)
UK court throws out appeals by 10 of 16 imprisoned environmental activists
 
A Ukrainian serviceman prepares to fire a M777 howitzer towards Russian positions at the frontline near Donetsk, Ukraine, Monday, March 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Roman Chop)
Trump’s halt on military aid will hurt Ukraine’s defenses. But it may not be fatal
 
President Donald Trump addresses a joint session of Congress at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, March 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
Trump says Zelenskyy wants peace and is ready to accept a minerals deal after White House blowup
 
Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer, right, and France's President Emmanuel Macron at the European leaders' summit to discuss Ukraine, at Lancaster House, London, Sunday March 2, 2025. (Justin Tallis/Pool via AP)
Starmer and Macron step up to shape European security as Trump roils relations
 
President Donald Trump meets with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, left, at the White House, Thursday, Feb. 27, 2025, in Washington. (Carl Court/Pool via AP)
A good rapport but mixed signals on Ukraine: Takeaways from Keir Starmer’s trip to Washington
 
President Donald Trump meets with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, left, at the White House, Thursday, Feb. 27, 2025, in Washington. (Carl Court/Pool via AP)
With flattery and frank talk, Starmer urges Trump not to abandon Ukraine in press to end Russian war
 
Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer delivers a statement on Defence spending at Downing Street in London, Tuesday, Feb, 25, 2025. (Leon Neal/Pool photo via AP)
Keir Starmer heads to Washington with UK defense spending pledge to help sway Trump over Ukraine
 
Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer delivers a statement on Defence spending at Downing Street in London, Tuesday, Feb, 25, 2025. (Leon Neal/Pool photo via AP)
UK to raise defense spending to 2.5% of GDP by 2027, Starmer says before Trump meeting
 
Inductees Dave Stewart, left, and Annie Lennox of Eurythmics pose in the press room during the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony on, Nov. 5, 2022, at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP)
British musicians release a silent album to protest plans to let AI use their work
 
FILE -British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, left, and French President Emmanuel Macron shake hands ahead of a bilateral meeting at Chequers, near Aylesbury, England, Thursday Jan. 9, 2025. (Toby Melville/Pool Photo via AP, File)
The leaders of France and Britain head to Washington to urge Trump not to abandon Ukraine
 
Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer speaks to soldiers at the RAF base in Akrotiri, Cyprus, on Dec. 10, 2024.(AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, Pool File)
European troops, US support are part of an emerging plan for Ukraine. But it faces many hurdles
 
In this undated handout photo provided by Sotheby's, Mark Hoppus of Blink-182 poses by his painting Crude Oil (Vettriano) by Banksy (2005), which is being sold by Sotheby's on March 4 with some of the proceeds going to victims of the Los Angeles wildfires. (Max Montgomery/Sotheby's via AP)
A treasured Banksy owned by a member of Blink-182 is up for auction. It could fetch $6 million
 
Mikey Madison poses with the leading actress award for 'Anora' at the 78th British Academy Film Awards, BAFTA's, in London, Sunday, Feb. 16, 2025. (Photo by Joel C Ryan/Invision/AP)
‘Conclave’ wins best picture at BAFTAs as ‘The Brutalist’ takes directing and acting prizes
 
In this photo provided by MOLA, Museum of London Archaeology taken in summer 2024, a view of part of the wall of the Roman London Basilica which has been recently unearthed by a redevelopment of a City of London building in London. (MOLA via AP)
Archaeologists unearth the remains of a Roman basilica on the site of a new London skyscraper
 
An early medieval silver penny of Guthrum of East Anglia, the first silver coin minted by a Viking ruler in Britain, is displayed at the British Museum's annual treasure launch in London, Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)
With metal detectors and patience, amateur treasure hunters unearth pieces of British history
 
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)
UK touts a clampdown on illegal working as it seeks to look tough on immigration
 
President Donald Trump arrives to meet British Prime Minister Theresa May before their meeting at Chequers, in Buckinghamshire, England, July 13, 2018. (Jack Taylor/Pool Photo via AP, File)
Britain navigates rough transatlantic waters as Trump roils the ‘special relationship’
 
This undated image made available by Vesuvius Challenge shows an X-ray scan of part of papyrus scroll PHerc.172, showing the word 'disgust', one of hundreds of papyrus scrolls found amid the remains of a lavish villa at the Roman town of Herculaneum, which along with neighboring Pompeii was destroyed when Mt. Vesuvius erupted in A.D. 79. (Vesuvius Challenge via AP)
AI and scientists unite to decipher old scrolls charred by the Vesuvius volcano
 
Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer speaks during a press conference at NATO headquarters in Brussels, Monday, Feb. 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Omar Havana, Pool)
Britain’s Starmer seeks strong ties with both the EU and Donald Trump. That could be tricky
 
Brexit supporters gather during a rally in London, Friday, Jan. 31, 2020. Britain officially leaves the European Union on Friday after a debilitating political period that has bitterly divided the nation since the 2016 Brexit referendum. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein, File)
5 years after Britain left the EU, the full impact of Brexit is still emerging
 
Climate activisits wear scold's bridles to highlight the silencing of those fighting for climate justice, outside The Royal Courts of Justice in London, Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)
UK environmental activists appeal against prison sentences they say are unduly harsh
 
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