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2024 in British radio. 2024 in United Kingdom politics and government. United Kingdom in the Eurovision Song Contest 2024. Events from the year 2024 in the United Kingdom. This year is noted for a landslide general election victory for the Labour Party under Keir Starmer.
2024 election. MPs. The 2024 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday, 4 July 2024 to elect 650 members of Parliament to the House of Commons, the lower house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. The opposition Labour Party, led by Keir Starmer, defeated the governing Conservative Party, led by Rishi Sunak, in a landslide victory.
Reform UK placed third in the share of the vote in the 2024 election and had MPs elected to the Commons for the first time. [2] The Green Party of England and Wales also won a record number of seats alongside a number of independent MPs. [3] The Scottish National Party (SNP) lost around three quarters of its seats. [4]
Falls on 1 January in 2024. 17/18/19 March: Saint Patrick's Day: Statutory or proclaimed: Northern Ireland only. 17 March by statute if this is not a Sunday. 18 March by statute if this is a Monday. 19 March by proclamation if this is a Monday. Falls on 18 March in 2024. Variable: Good Friday: Common law [28] [29] [30] Falls on 29 March in 2024 ...
List of prime ministers of the United Kingdom. Top left: Robert Walpole is considered the first prime minister of Great Britain. Top right: Winston Churchill was prime minister during much of World War II. Bottom left: Margaret Thatcher was the first female prime minister. Bottom right: Keir Starmer is the incumbent prime minister.
This is a timeline of British history, comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in the United Kingdom and its predecessor states. To read about the background to these events, see History of England, History of Wales, History of Scotland, History of Ireland, Formation of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and History of the United Kingdom
2024 United Kingdom riots. From 30 July to 5 August 2024, [a] far-right, anti-immigration protests and riots occurred in England and Northern Ireland, [b] within the United Kingdom. This followed a mass stabbing in Southport on 29 July in which three children were killed. The riots were fuelled by false claims circulated by far-right groups ...
This is a list of United Kingdom general elections (elections for the House of Commons) since the first in 1802.The members of the 1801–1802 Parliament had been elected to the former Parliament of Great Britain and Parliament of Ireland, before being co-opted to serve in the first Parliament of the United Kingdom, so that Parliament is not included in the table below.