SIR Keir Starmer yesterday became the first British Prime Minister to celebrate Armistice Day in France since Winston Churchill.

He was with the president Emmanuel Macron during a service in memory of the nation’s dead.

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This marks 80 years since the departure of the warlord Churchill greeted alongside French President Charles de Gaulle during a solemn commemoration.

Sir Keir paid tribute to Paris to mark the end of the First World War and the victims of the fighting.

Alongside Mr. Macron, they laid a wreath of flowers before relighting the flame of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at the Arc de Triomphe.

The French Army The choir sang God Save the King and the French national anthem La Marseillaise at the 106th anniversary of the event.

Mr Keir said: “I am honored to be in Paris to join President Macron in paying tribute to the dead. »

Meanwhile, Britain stopped at 11am for two minutes of silence.

Everywhere — from train stations, including Waterloo, to offices, schools and fire stations, like the one in Sheffield, — people paused to mark the time and date of the start of the First World War armistice.

Sophie, the Duchess of Edinburghled a ceremony at the National Memorial Arboretum in Alrewas, Staffs.

Events took place across the UK, including Bristol, Cambridge, Nottingham, Liverpool and Dover.

And to Glasgow At the central station, a bagpiper led a procession of veterans into the lobby.

In WalesCarmarthenshire County Council said it would light up the county hall last night.

During the Prime Minister’s visit to Paris, he and Mr Macron discussed the implementation Ukraine in the “strongest possible position as winter approaches”.

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