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2021 Senedd election: Labour keep hold of the Senedd and match the party's best ever result, with 30 out of 60 seats. 2021 Scottish Parliament election: The SNP wins 64 seats out of 129. With the SNP and Scottish Greens both gaining seats, pro-independence parties have an increased majority in the Parliament.
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.
A ceramic teapot on a metal trivet, a milk jug, and a full teacup on a saucer An English tea caddy, a box used to store loose tea leaves. Since the 17th century, the United Kingdom has been one of the world's largest tea consumers, with an average annual per capita supply of 1.9 kilograms (4.2 lb). [1]
The UK records 0 deaths from Covid-19 over a 24 hour period for the first time since March 2020; 2 June – Prime Minister Boris Johnson says there is still "nothing in the data" to suggest England's 21 June date for lifting restrictions should be delayed. [223] The UK government announces its plan to help pupils in England catch up on missed ...
The censuses in 2021 and 2022 follows on from Beyond 2011, a project by the UK Statistics Authority to assess the value, cost, and alternatives to a census in 2021. The project recommended a census in 2021, and amongst other organisations, suggested it be run online. [5] Initial results for England and Wales were released on 28 June 2022.
The following year, in the snap election on 8 June 2017, Labour polled 55% of the popular vote in London, winning 49 of 73 London seats in the British House of Commons. In the 2018 borough elections across the capital, Labour saw their best result in over 45 years, winning 47% of the vote. Both the Liberal Democrats and the Green party also ...
Figures produced by the Trussell Trust, the UK's largest food bank charity, show that 31,000 food parcels were provided to children in Northern Ireland between April 2020 and March 2021. [ 155 ] On the eve of the further easing of COVID restrictions, First Minister Arlene Foster says the process will move faster if possible, but this will ...
On 25 March 2021, Simon McCoy left the BBC after 17 years at the network. He presented his final BBC News at One on the same day. Since McCoy's departure, the programme has dispensed with a main presenter, with a team of established BBC journalists presenting the programme on rotation.