LONDON — U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Monday condemned a suspected arson attack on a mosque in an English coastal town, which police were investigating as a hate crime. No one was injured.

The fire on Saturday night came two days after two men were killed when a knife-wielding assailant attacked their synagogue in Manchester on the holiest day of the Jewish year, in what authorities have called a terrorist assault. One of the victims was accidentally shot by an armed officer as he and other congregants barricaded the synagogue to block the attacker from entering.

Starmer’s spokesperson said that the prime minister was “appalled by the arson attack in Peacehaven."

“As the home secretary said, attacks against Britain’s Muslims are attacks against all Britons and this country itself

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