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Figures from the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) forecast the economy to grow by 4% in 2021 and 7.3% in 2022, bringing it back to its pre-pandemic size by mid-2022. [ 98 ] 4 March – Amazon launches its first cashierless grocery store in the UK, which uses camera vision and sensors to automate the shopping process.
2021–22 Russo-Ukrainian crisis: Squatters occupy the £50m Belgravia mansion of Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska. [107] 2022 British barristers' industrial action: the Criminal Bar Association (CBA) in England and Wales voted to undertake industrial action protesting against stagnant fees with 94 per cent of criminal barristers in favour. 15 March
The UK government announces a scheme that will freeze wholesale gas and electricity prices for businesses for six months from 1 October. [175] 22 September – The UK government reverses the ban on fracking in the UK. [176] UK interest rates rise from 1.75 to 2.25%, the biggest increase in 27 years, as the Bank of England attempts to curb ...
24 November – November 2021 English Channel disaster; 25 November – 2021 North Yorkshire Police, Fire and Crime Commissioner by-election [55] 27 November – Boris Johnson announces new measures for England in response to the new SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh died 9 April 2021. 9 April – Buckingham Palace announced the death of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh at the age of 99. [5] 6 May – A series of elections are due to take place for local councils and directly elected mayors in England, police and crime commissioners in England and Wales; London Assembly election
1 January – The warmest New Year's Day on record is reported, with temperatures of 16.2 °C (61.2 °F) in St James's Park, central London. [1]16 January – Two teenagers are arrested in Manchester as part of the investigation into a hostage-taking incident at a synagogue in Colleyville, Texas, United States.
Given the gravity of the news — the first death of a British monarch since 1952, when Elizabeth's father, George VI, died — U.K. outlets are already moving to provide every detail of the death ...
Boris Johnson carried out the third significant reshuffle of his majority government (the Second Johnson ministry) from 5 to 8 July 2022, having last done so in September 2021. This was a direct result of the July 2022 United Kingdom government crisis in which more than a third of ministers and parliamentary private secretaries resigned from ...