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After the summer recess, the BBC changed their programming plan by scaling down BBC Politics Live to 4 days a week (Monday to Thursday with the same times as before), with a review programme, BBC Politics UK airing in the timeslot on Fridays. Since the start of 2023, most of the Wednesday edition of BBC Politics Live is simulcasted on BBC News.
Most national opinion polls do not cover Northern Ireland, which has different major political parties from the rest of the United Kingdom. This distinction is made in the tables below in the area column, where "GB" means Great Britain (England, Scotland and Wales), and "UK" means the entire United Kingdom .
6 May – The Coronation of Charles III and Camilla takes place at Westminster Abbey, London. [166] [167] 7 May – Leaked text message conversations obtained by the BBC show members of Plaid Cymru discussed whether the party's leader, Adam Price, was fit for office in November 2022, and debated whether he should be removed from the post. [168]
An artificial intelligence candidate is on the ballot for the United Kingdom’s general election next month.
In 2022, following the collapse of the BNP, a plethora of prominent ex-BNP members rapidly began coalescing around the British Democrats. It is currently the only far-right UK political party with any elected representation. The Aspire Party has 24 out of the 45 seats in the Tower Hamlets council. The Women's Equality Party (WEP) was founded in ...
On 30 May, both the Conservatives and Labour ruled out any rise in value-added tax. [157] The SNPs Màiri McAllan claimed that only the SNP offered Scotland a route back into the European Union, making Pro-Europeanism part of the party's campaign. [158] Reform UK proposed an immigration tax on British firms who employ foreign workers. [159]
11 May – 2021 State Opening of Parliament; 13 May – 2021 Airdrie and Shotts by-election; Lord Benyon is appointed Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Rural Affairs and Biosecurity. 14 May – May 2021 Democratic Unionist Party leadership election; 28 May – Edwin Poots becomes Leader of the Democratic Unionist Party. [28]
The UK government sets out its Disability Action Plan, which includes measures to protect people with assistance dogs from being illegally refused entry to businesses. [93] The UK government launches a six-week consultation on plans for Martyn's Law, which would make provisions to better protect the public against potential acts of terrorism. [94]