An American Bully XXL is pictured at a veterinary clinic in Utrecht, Netherlands June 20, 2023.
He said a man was killed on Thursday in central England in an attack involving a suspected XL bully dog.
According to campaign group Bully Watch, which advocates for a ban on selling and breeding large XL bully dogs, the breed was responsible for more than half of all fatal dog attacks in Britain last year.
XL bully dogs were originally bred from American pit bull terriers and American Staffordshire terriers and first appeared in the UK "around 2014 or 2015", with the numbers growing rapidly in recent years, the campaign group said.
Sunak has asked the police and experts to define XL bully dogs, a first step he said before he hopes they can be banned by the end of the year.
Persons:
XXL, de Wouw, Rishi Sunak, Sunak, Andrew MacAskill, Michael Holden, Andrew Heavens
Organizations:
REUTERS, British, XL, Police, Staffordshire, RSPCA, Thomson
Locations:
Utrecht, Netherlands, English, Birmingham, England, Britain