Boris Johnson issued a message of commiseration and congratulations to England's national football team following its devastating loss to Italy on Sunday.
'That was a heartbreaking result to end #Euro2020 but Gareth Southgate and his England squad played like heroes,' the prime minister wrote in an Instagram story.
'They have done the nation proud and deserve great credit.'
England lost the final on penalties, extending the side's '55 years of hurt' without a major trophy win.
Johnson attended the match with his wife Carrie and was seeing clapping from the stands wearing an England strip over a collared shirt.