Sir Keir, who is in Poland for defence and security talks, said "nothing" could have prepared him for the horror of what he had seen.

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has visited the site of Nazi extermination camp of Auschwitz. After the visit Friday he voiced his “sheer horror” at what he saw and vowed that he would fight the growing antisemitism which is causing fears to rise among Jews even in Britain.

Keir Starmer said nothing could have prepared him for the 'sheer horror' of the Nazi death camp and the visit had strengthened his determination to stamp out the 'poison' of anti-Semitism

The Prime Minister visited the former Nazi concentration camp as he travelled to Poland to meet with the country’s political leaders.

The Starmers' joint visit comes after Lady Victoria, who is Jewish, headed to the site without her husband on Thursday. An estimated 1.3 million people were sent to the camp complex, including nearly 1.1 million Jewish people. Of them, 960,000 died in the camp.

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer visited the Auschwitz Nazi death camp in Poland on Friday ahead of the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the site which is seen as a symbol of the horrors of the Holocaust.

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Friday condemned what he called "the poison of antisemitism rising around the world" after a visit to Auschwitz-Birkenau, the former German Nazi concentration camp.