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5 July. Results of the 2024 United Kingdom general election : Sir Keir Starmer becomes the new Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, following a landslide victory for Labour in the general election. [ 567][ 568] The Conservatives are reduced to just 121 seats, the lowest number of MPs in their 190-year history.
t. e. GB News is a British free-to-air, opinion-orientated [ a] television and radio news channel. The channel is available on Freeview, Freesat, Sky, YouView, Virgin Media and via the internet on Samsung TV Plus, Rakuten TV and YouTube. An audio simulcast of the station is also available on DAB+ radio . Announced in September 2020 and launched ...
10–24 October – Great Britain competes at the Olympics in Tokyo and wins 4 gold, 12 silver and 2 bronze medals. 15 October – 1964 United Kingdom general election. The Labour Party defeats the Conservatives and Harold Wilson becomes Prime Minister, having gained a majority of five seats.
Great Britain (commonly shortened to Britain) is an island in the North Atlantic Ocean off the north-west coast of continental Europe, consisting of the countries England, Scotland and Wales. With an area of 209,331 km 2 (80,823 sq mi), it is the largest of the British Isles , the largest European island and the ninth-largest island in the world .
March. 4 March – Purley rail crash: two trains collide at Purley, Surrey killing six people. [ 8] 6 March – Glasgow Bellgrove rail accident: two trains collide in Scotland, killing two people. 7 March – Iran breaks off diplomatic relations with the UK over Salman Rushdie 's controversial book The Satanic Verses.
The energy price cap for domestic gas and electricity in Great Britain rises by 54%, from £1,278 to £1,971. Bank of England governor Andrew Bailey warns that the country is facing the biggest single shock from energy prices since the 1970s. It is the largest increase, by far, in the price cap since it was introduced.
[24] Amid recent heavy rain, more than 100 flood warnings by the Environment Agency remain in place across the country, with hundreds of homes damaged and many left without power. [25] Rishi Sunak confirms that the UK will send 14 Challenger 2 tanks to Ukraine to boost its war effort. [26] 16 January
This general election was the first in which photographic identification was required to vote in person in Great Britain, [e] the first fought using the new constituency boundaries implemented following the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, and the first called under the Dissolution and Calling of Parliament Act 2022. [12]