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United Kingdom general elections (elections for the House of Commons) have occurred in the United Kingdom 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.
In December 2019, various US officials said a trade deal was likely before a proposed round of new tariffs took effect on 15 December 2019. [201] US tariffs had a negative effect on China's economy, which slowed to growth of 6%. [201] In December 2019, new deal was announced regarding US-China trade dispute. [202]
The Liberal Democrats have made a gain of 8 seats since the opening of Parliament, including some former Change UK members. The government lost its majority on 3 September 2019, when the Conservative MP Phillip Lee defected to the Liberal Democrats. Later the same day, the Conservatives expelled 21 of their MPs for voting against the government ...
Asked why the cost of government borrowing is rising now, he told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme: “Well this is very different from the Truss debacle, in that it’s not a response to anything ...
The government has launched a new trial of an OpenAI-powered chatbot to help people find relevant information on the Gov.UK website. Gov.UK Chat is to be tested by up to 15,000 business users, and ...
In December 2020, the government duly published a draft Fixed-term Parliaments Act 2011 (Repeal) Bill, later retitled the Dissolution and Calling of Parliament Act 2022. [60] [61] This entered into force on 24 March 2022. Thus, the prime minister can again request the monarch to dissolve Parliament and call an early election with 25 working ...
The Labour Party formed a majority government under the leadership of Keir Starmer, winning over 400 seats. Other parties including the Liberal Democrats , Reform UK and the Green Party saw an increase in their seat share in the House of Commons at expense of the Conservatives and the Scottish National Party .
The IFS highlighted a raft of changes in including free childcare, university, personal care, and prescriptions, as well as nationalisations, labour market regulations, increases in the minimum wage, and enforcing "effective ownership of 10% of large companies from current owners to a combination of employees and government".