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14 August – NHS England announces plans to cut the number of cancer waiting list targets, which it describes as outdated. [195] 15 August – The UK government confirms that train fares will rise below the rate of inflation in 2024, and the increase will again be delayed until March as in 2023. [196]
The UK government publishes the Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Bill 2023, designed to require public sector organisations to provide a minimum service when their unions vote to strike. [12] [13] Prince Harry's controversial memoir Spare is released, becoming "the fastest selling non-fiction book of all time" on the date of its release. [14 ...
January 2023 events in the United Kingdom (1 C, 13 P) February 2023 events in the United Kingdom (1 C, 17 P) March 2023 events in the United Kingdom (1 C, 14 P)
Humza Yousaf succeeded Nicola Sturgeon as Leader of the Scottish National Party (SNP), in March 2023.. 1 March – COVID-19 in the UK: WhatsApp messages leaked to the Daily Telegraph are reported as suggesting former Health Secretary Matt Hancock chose to ignore advise from experts in April 2020 that there should be "testing of all going into care homes". [50]
1 February – Austria, Germany, and Slovenia confirm they will not extradite their nationals if they are accused of crimes in the UK. [33]4 February – In London, Prime Minister Boris Johnson, naturalist Sir David Attenborough, and Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte launch the 26th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP26), a major UN climate summit to be held in Glasgow in ...
The UK government and each of the three devolved governments (in Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales) introduced public health and economic measures, including new laws, to mitigate its impact. A national lockdown was introduced on 23 March 2020 and lifted in May, replaced with specific regional restrictions. Further nationwide restrictions ...
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Net migration to the UK reached a record high of 764,000 in 2022, [4] with immigration at 1.26 million and emigration at 493,000. [5] Of the 1,218,000 migrants in 2023, only 10% were EU nationals. Around 250,000 people came from India, 141,000 from Nigeria, 90,000 from China and 83,000 from Pakistan. [4] More EU nationals left the UK than ...