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>No, unless you need to pass through customs
Needing a visa and needing to pass through customs have nothing to do with one another—the customs thing is a question of itinerary, the visa thing is a question of the passport you hold.

People landing in the UK and flying right out of it on a single ticket can usually transfer airside, with their baggage checked through to their final destination (no collecting bags for potential customs inspectors and then re-checking them—customs clearance will happen at the final destination). If the connection out of LHR is on a separate ticket, with a different airline, bags get collected, potentially inspected, and then re-checked onto the connecting flight. Passengers doing this also typically have to go through passport control to get into the part of the airport where they can recheck their bags and get a boarding pass for their next flight, assuming they don’t already have it. This immigration checkpoint (not customs) would be where a transit visa would be required, and then only if the passenger needs a visa to enter the UK in the first place.

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