2024 in United Kingdom politics and government explained

See also: 2024 in politics, 2024 in the United Kingdom and 2020s in political history.

See main article: 2020s in United Kingdom political history. A list of events relating to politics and government in the United Kingdom during 2024.

Events

January

• 1 January –
  • In his New Year address, Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby urges politicians to treat their opponents as human beings rather than enemies.^[1]
  • Secretary of State for Defence Grant Shapps says that British forces are ready to act against Houthi rebels targeting cargo ships in the Red Sea.^[2]
  • Writing on X, Doug Barrowman, husband of Michelle, Baroness Mone, said it "suits the agenda" of ministers to "scapegoat" him and his wife as a means of distracting from government "incompetence" at failing to procure personal protective equipment during the COVID-19 pandemic.^[3]
• 2 January – The Home Office says it has fulfilled a pledge to clear a "legacy" backlog of 92,000 asylum applications lodged before July 2022. But after it subsequently emerges that over 4,000 cases are still waiting for a decision, the Office for Statistics Regulation (OSR) announces an examination of the figures the next day.^[4]
• 3 January –
  • Sir Ed Davey, leader of the Liberal Democrats, launches the party's election campaign by targeting constituencies with Conservative MPs.^[5]
  • Former Chancellor of the Exchequer Nadhim Zahawi makes a guest appearance in the ITV drama Mr Bates vs The Post Office as himself, questioning Post Office chief executive Paula Vennells in a 2015 House of Commons committee inquiry into the Horizon computer system.^[6]
  • Richard Tice, leader of Reform UK, rules out a pact with the Conservative Party at the next general election.^[7]
• 4 January – Prime Minister Rishi Sunak says his "working assumption" is that the general election will take place in the second half of this year.^[8]
• 5 January – Chris Skidmore, MP for Kingswood, announces his intention to stand down from Parliament "as soon as possible" in protest at the UK government's decision to issue more oil and gas licences. His decision triggers another by-election.^[9]
• 6 January –
  • Government papers seen by the BBC indicate Sunak had significant doubts about sending migrants to Rwanda when he was chancellor, and wanted to scale back the plans.^[10]
  • Jeremy Miles rules out reversing Wales's 20 mph speed limit if he becomes first minister.^[11]
• 7 January –
  • Sunak describes the Post Office scandal as "an appalling miscarriage of justice" and says the government is looking at ways to clear the names of those convicted because of faulty IT software.^[12]
  • Helen Harrison, the partner of former Conservative MP Peter Bone, is chosen by the Conservatives to contest the 2024 Wellingborough by-election.^[13]
  • The Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority is to investigate claims that Pensions Minister Paul Maynard breached Parliamentary rules by using public funds to pay for Conservative Party work and campaigns.^[14]
  • Sir Keir Starmer admits he worries about the toll of a general election year on his two teenage children as he and his wife try to keep them out of the public eye.^[15]
• 8 January –
  • Green Party co-leader Carla Denyer confirms the party intends to stand a candidate in every constituency in England and Wales at the forthcoming general election, the first time it has fielded a full list of candidates at an election.^[16]
  • SNP MP Joanna Cherry demands an apology from colleague Mhairi Black, who suggested some members of the party are "too comfortable" at Westminster.^[17]
  • Former Minister Sir Alok Sharma announces he would vote against the Offshore Petroleum Licensing Bill, describing plans to guarantee annual oil and gas licensing rounds as "a total distraction" that reinforce the idea the UK is "not serious" about tackling climate change.^[18]
  • British Post Office scandal: Labour Party leader Keir Starmer, who was Director of Public Prosecutions during the scandal, faces questions over why he failed to intervene in the prosecution of innocent sub-postmasters at the time.^[19]
• 9 January
  • Economists say that funding the student loans system in England is expected to cost the government an extra £10 billion a year.^[20]
  • British Post Office scandal:
    • Secretary of State for Justice Alex Chalk tells Parliament the UK government is giving "serious consideration" to introducing legislation to quash the convictions of the 700 or so sub post masters who were prosecuted as a result of the Horizon IT scandal.^[21]
    • Former Post Office chief executive Paula Vennells announces that she would hand back her CBE after more than a million people signed a petition calling for her to do so.^[22]
    • Liberal Democrat leader Ed Davey, who was Post Office minister during the scandal, comes under pressure to return his knighthood.^[23]
  • Downing Street confirms that Akshata Murty, the wife of the Prime Minister, has donated her shares in a childcare company to charity. The shares were at the centre of a conflict-of-interest controversy.^[24]
• 10 January –
  • British Post Office scandal:
    • Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announces that emergency legislation would be brought through Parliament to "swiftly exonerate and compensate victims" of the Post Office scandal in England and Wales.^[25]
    • First Minister of Scotland Humza Yousaf confirms those in Scotland convicted because of the scandal would also be cleared, and that he would work with the UK government to bring this about.^[26]
• 11 January –
  • The Liberal Democrats ask Ofcom to investigate GB News over alleged bias in its coverage of the Post Office scandal, including what the party's deputy leader, Daisy Cooper, describes as "a fictitious monologue" Nigel Farage delivered about Sir Ed Davey, which she says contained "a number of factual inaccuracies".^[27]
  • First Minister of Scotland Humza Yousaf confirms that the Scottish Government would "in essence replicate" the law in England and Wales banning unlicensed ownership of American XL bully dogs.^[28]
  • Sunak authorises joint UK–US air strikes against Houthi rebels following attacks against cargo shipping targets in the Red Sea.^[29]
• 12 January –
  • The Liberal Democrats, Scottish National Party and Plaid Cymru call for a recall of parliament to enable a vote on RAF involvement in the air strikes against Houthi rebels in Yemen, since Parliament had already risen for the weekend when Sunak authorised the UK's participation.^[30]
  • Sunak authorises talks between the Labour Party and the civil service ahead of a general election later in the year to ensure a smooth transition if Labour becomes the party of government.^[31]
  • British Post Office scandal:
    • Court documents reveal that Fujitsu, the company at the centre of the Post Office scandal, won a £184m contract by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in 2021, despite concerns the system it was offering was "unfit for purpose".^[32]
    • Court documents show that former Prime Minister Sir Tony Blair was warned the Horizon IT system could be "possibly unreliable" before it was rolled out, and raised concerns about it, but gave it the green light after receiving reassurance from others, including his Secretary of State for Trade and Industry Peter Mandelson.^[33]
• 13 January – Yvonne Tracey, a former deputy postmistress from New Malden, south London, announces her intention to stand in the Parliamentary constituency of Kingston and Surbiton, Sir Ed Davey's seat, at the next general election.^[34]
• 14 January – Foreign Secretary David Cameron tells the BBC that military action was taken against Houthi rebels because the strikes were needed after months of attacks against cargo ships, and that the UK is "prepared to back our words with actions".^[35]
• 15 January –
  • Sunak tells Parliament that air strikes against Houthi targets were means as a "limited, single action" but that the UK "will not hesitate to protect our security, our people and our interests where required".^[36]
  • James Stockan announces he is stepping down from the post of leader of Orkney Islands Council, as well as relinquishing his council seat, after six years in the role.^[37]
• 16 January –
  • Analysis shows that Labour would need a record swing of 12.7% in votes at the next general election to win a majority in the House of Commons.^[38]
  • Lee Anderson and Brendan Clarke-Smith resign their positions as Deputy Chairmen of the Conservative Party, after saying they would back rebel amendments on the Rwanda bill.^[39] Jane Stevenson also resigns as a Parliamentary Private Secretary so she can vote for the amendment.^[40]
  • The fifteen-year time limit on voting eligibility for British citizens living abroad is abolished under the Elections Act 2022, enabling a further two million people to register to vote in UK elections.^[41]
• 17 January –
  • The UK government is seeking legal expenses from the Scottish Government over its challenge against the veto of the Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill.^[42]
  • The current session of the 7th Northern Ireland Assembly is suspended following the failure of Democratic Unionist Party to support nominations to elect Mike Nesbitt (UUP) or Patsy McGlone (SDLP) to the role of Speaker of the Northern Ireland Assembly.^[43]
  • The Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill passes its third reading in the House of Commons with MPs voting 320–276 in favour of the bill.^[44]
• 18 January – The UK Statistics Authority rebuked the prime minister for misleading the public over the backlog of asylum applications, which he claimed in a social media post had been cleared, while several thousand still remained. The UKSA said the claim could have affected public trust in the government.^[45]
• 19 January –
  • The European Court of Human Rights announces that Ireland launched legal action against the United Kingdom on 17 January over the Northern Ireland Troubles (Legacy and Reconciliation) Act 2023.^{[46] [47]}
  • The UK government gives its backing to the Pet Abduction Bill, a private member's bill that makes it illegal to steal cats and dogs in England and Northern Ireland.^[48]
• 20 January – A speech to the Fabian Society conference by Shadow Foreign Secretary David Lammy is interrupted by pro-Palestinian protestors.^[49]
• 21 January – Scotland's First Minister, Humza Yousaf, tells the BBC's Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg he is willing to work with Sir Keir Starmer if he becomes prime minister after the next general election.^[50]
• 22 January –
  • The House of Lords votes 214–171 in favour of an amendment to the Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill that calls for the delay of ratification of the bill until Rwanda improves its asylum procedures.^[51]
  • The UK government rejects calls from Welsh MPs to add the Six Nations Championship to the list of guaranteed free-to-air sporting events on British television.^[52]
• 23 January –
  • Following more air strikes against Houthi targets, Sunak tells Parliament the UK would not hesitate to launch further strikes if the rebel group continue to attack shipping targets in the Red Sea, but does not seek confrontation with them.^[53]
  • Chris Heaton-Harris, the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, announces the deadline to call the next Northern Ireland Assembly election would be extended until 8 February to allow the DUP to hold further talks about restarting the Northern Ireland Executive.^[54]
• 24 January –
  • In a BBC interview, Conservative MP Simon Clarke calls for Rishi Sunak to be ousted as prime minister, then later says he is acting alone in his comments.^[55]
  • Retired British Army officer Colonel Tim Collins is selected to run as the UUP candidate for North Down at the next general election.^[56]
  • Andy Street, the Mayor of the West Midlands, announces that he and his Manchester counterpart, Andy Burnham, are to meet Mark Harper, the Secretary of State for Transport, to discuss proposals for a privately funded alternative to the abandoned Manchester leg of HS2.^[57]
• 25 January – The UK has walked away from trade deal negotiations with Canada after failing to agree on how much access UK producers should have to the Canadian cheese market.^[58]
• 26 January –
  • The Crown Prosecution Service has frozen assets belonging to former Conservative peer Michelle Mone and her husband Doug Barrowman, a spokesman for the couple says.^[59]
  • Wales's Education Minister, Jeremy Miles, criticises the way Wales' largest trade union, Unite, declared its preferred candidate for the Welsh Labour leadership election. The union held a hustings with the two candidates before announcing its support for Vaughan Gething.^[60]
  • Michael Keegan, husband of Education Secretary Gillian Keegan and former chief executive of Fujitsu UK during the Post Office scandal, resigns from a part-time role with the Cabinet Office.^[61]
  • The Shared Parental Leave and Pay (Bereavement) Bill, which guarantees parents immediate leave upon starting a job if their partner dies in childbirth, passes its first stage in the House of Commons.^[62]
  • The UK government announces a fresh investigation into the sale of the Daily Telegraph after UAE-based RedBird IMI made an eleventh-hour change to the details of its bid to purchase the newspaper.^[63]
• 27 January – Kemi Badenoch, the business secretary, asks Henry Staunton to step down as chair of Post Office Limited after 13 months in the role, as the government moves to strengthen governance at the Post Office in the wake of the long-running Horizon IT scandal.^[64]
• 28 January – Former MP and cabinet minister Nadine Dorries says she would repay £16,876 in severance pay she received by mistake, as she was too old to qualify for the payment.^[65]
• 29 January –
  • Labour MP Kate Osamor is suspended from the party after saying the Gaza conflict should be remembered as genocide in a post about Holocaust Memorial Day.^[66]
  • George Freeman, the Conservative MP for Mid Norfolk, says that he resigned from his role in the Sunak ministry in November 2023 because he could not afford to pay his mortgage on the £118,300 ministerial salary after his mortgage increased from £800 to £2,000 per month.^[67]
  • Colum Eastwood, the leader of the Social Democratic and Labour Party, says he "cannot in good conscience" attend this year's St Patrick's Day celebration at White House because of the US response to the Israel–Hamas war.^[68]
  • Following the first debate of the Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill in the House of Lords, Peers vote 206–84 to move the bill on to the next stage of its passage through the House.^[69]
  • The Democratic Unionist Party endorses a deal aimed at restoring the Northern Ireland Executive.^[70]
• 30 January –
  • During a visit to the Middle East, Foreign Secretary David Cameron says that the UK is ready to bring forward the moment when it is ready to recognise a Palestinian state.^[71]
  • Members of the Senedd vote 39–14 to back the Senedd Reform Bill which expands the legislature to 96 members at the 2026 Senedd election and change the way members are elected.^[72]
  • The Media Bill, which proposes changes to radio in the United Kingdom such as reducing regulations for commercial radio and improving access through smart devices, passes its third reading in the House of Commons.^[73]
• 31 January –
  • 2024 Northern Ireland Executive Formation: Details of a deal between the UK government and Democratic Unionist Party aimed at restoring the Northern Ireland Executive are published. It includes reducing checks and paperwork on goods moving between Great Britain and Northern Ireland.^[74]
  • Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves confirms that Labour would not reintroduce the cap on bankers' bonuses if they form a government after the next general election.^[75]

February

• 1 February –
  • A Statutory Instrument paving the way for the Northern Ireland Executive to be re-established is passed by the House of Commons.^[76]
  • Conservative MP Mike Freer announces he is standing down from Parliament at the next election following death threats and an arson attack on his constituency office. Downing Street describes the situation as "an attack on democracy".^[77]
  • Addressing a meeting of business leaders, Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves says that Labour would not increase corporation tax if elected, but may cut it to boost "competitiveness".^[78]
  • Penny Mordaunt, the Leader of the House of Commons, has argued plans to expand the Senedd from 60 to 96 MSs would be the equivalent of expanding the House of Commons from 650 to 2,000 MPs.^[79]
  • MP Christina Rees is readmitted to the Labour Party but announces her retirement at the next general election.^[80]
• 2 February – Senior Labour MP Darren Jones confirms that the party has ditched its commitment to spend £28bn a year on green investment schemes if it wins the next general election.^[81]
• 3 February –
  • 2024 Northern Ireland Executive Formation:
    • The Northern Ireland Assembly meets to elect a new Speaker.^[76] Edwin Poots, a former leader of the DUP, is chosen to be the Assembly's 7th Speaker.^[82]
    • The Northern Ireland Executive is restored after the DUP ends its two year boycott; Sinn Féin's Michelle O'Neill is nominated as First Minister, becoming the first nationalist politician to hold the post, while the DUP's Emma Little-Pengelly is appointed deputy.^[83]
    • SDLP MLA Matthew O'Toole is nominated as Leader of the Opposition.^[84]
    • Justin McNulty is suspended from the SDLP for leaving the Assembly sitting early to manage Laois GAA at a Gaelic football match in Wexford.^[85]
  • Sir Bob Neill, MP for Bromley and Chislehurst, announces he is stand down at the next election to spend more time with his wife, who has suffered a stroke.^[86]
• 4 February –
  • Dafydd Wigley, a former leader of Plaid Cymru, warns that reforms to Wales's political system pose "a very great danger" since it would destroy the relationship between voters and the people they elect.^[87]
  • Prime Minister Rishi Sunak arrives in Northern Ireland to visit ministers following the restoration of the Executive.^[88]
• 5 February –
  • Sunak visits Stormont along with Taoiseach Leo Varadkar to mark the restoration of the Northern Ireland Executive.^[89]
  • Sunak is criticised by opposition parties after appearing to agree to a £1,000 bet on the Rwanda asylum plan, that the first flight to Rwanda would take off before the election.^[90] He subsequently says the challenge, put forward by TalkTV presenter Piers Morgan, took him by surprise, but that it was not a mistake to accept it.^[91]
  • Sunak says the government has "not made enough progress" on cutting NHS waiting lists in England, but that industrial action "has had an impact".^[92]
  • The UK government sets out its Disability Action Plan, which includes measures to protect people with assistance dogs from being illegally refused entry to businesses.^[93]
  • The UK government launches a six-week consultation on plans for Martyn's Law, which would make provisions to better protect the public against potential acts of terrorism.^[94]
• 6 February –
  • Former Chancellor of the Exchequer Kwasi Kwarteng announced he is stepping down from Parliament at the next election.^[95]
  • The UK government gives Birmingham City Council to go-ahead to increase its Council Tax by 10% from April.^[96]
  • Welsh Government minister Hannah Blythyn announces that the Welsh Government is taking over South Wales Fire and Rescue Service after it was found to have a culture of harassment and misogynism.^[97]
  • Elena Whitham resigns from the post of Minister for Drugs and Alcohol Policy for health reasons.^[98]
  • Former Prime Minister Liz Truss launches a campaign to "galvanise" the UK's "secret Conservatives" and fight back against the "left wing extremists" she claims have taken over the UK's institutions.^[99]
• 7 February –
  • Sunak faced a call from a Labour MP to apologise after he ridiculed Starmer over his U-turn on "defining a woman" at Prime Minister's Questions.^[100]
  • Met Office data obtained by BBC Verify raises questions over UK government claims that poor weather conditions had no impact on a fall in English Channel migrant crossings during 2023. The number of crossings were fewer than during the previous year, which the government had said was nothing to do with the weather, but the figures suggest there were fewer days during 2023 when compared to 2022 when migrants could successfully cross the Channel.^[101]
• 8 February –
  • Labour scraps its plans for a £28bn annual green investment, with Sir Keir Starmer saying the policy is unaffordable because of the Conservatives' economic record. In response, Sunak says Starmer "U-turns on major things, he can't say what he would do differently". Momentum says the announcement "represents yet another capitulation to right-wing interests".^[102]
  • Michael Matheson resigns as Scotland's Health Secretary ahead of the publication of a report into £11,000 of data roaming charges accrued by his Parliamentary iPad. He is replaced by Neil Gray.^[103]
  • Northern Ireland Health Minister Robin Swann confirms he is the Ulster Unionist Party candidate for the Westminster constituency of South Antrim at the next general election.^[104]
• 9 February –
  • 2024 Special Honours:
    • The 2024 Special Honours are announced.^[105] They include Plaid Cymru nominee Carmen Smith, a former public affairs adviser for the party, who at 27, becomes the youngest member of the House of Lords.^[106]
    • Donald Cameron, a Conservative list MSP for the Highlands and Islands, announces he is standing down from the Scottish Parliament to take up a seat in the House of Lords and a junior ministerial post in the Scottish Office.^[107]
  • Details of Sunak's earnings for 2023 are published, showing he paid £508,308 in tax on earnings of around £2.2m.^[108]
  • The Mayor's and City of London Court rules that the Green Party discriminated against former deputy leader Dr Shahrar Ali after dismissing him during a row over his gender critical beliefs.^[109]
  • The Conservatives unexpectedly gain Crewe Central from Labour in a Cheshire East Council by-election.^[110]
• 11 February – Azhar Ali, Labour's candidate in the Rochdale by-election, apologises after a recording of him reportedly saying that Israel had "allowed" the deadly attack by Hamas gunmen on 7 October was obtained by The Mail on Sunday.^[111] Labour condemns his remarks but continues to offer its support to his candidacy.^[112]
• 12 February –
  • Labour withdraws its support for Rochdale candidate Azhar Ali.^[113]
  • Tracey Crouch, MP for Chatham and Aylesford, announces she is standing down from Parliament at the next general election.^[114]
  • Prime Minister Rishi Sunak appears on an hour long GB News People's Forum, where a selected audience of undecided voters are invited to ask him questions. The programme is presented by Stephen Dixon.^[115]
• 13 February – Labour withdraws its support for Graham Jones, the former MP for Hyndburn, who was going to contest the seat at the next general election, after it emerges he attended a meeting at which Azhar Ali made comments about Israel.^[116]
• 14 February –
  • Former Labour Party leader Neil Kinnock endorses Vaughan Gething to lead Welsh Labour as the next First Minister of Wales.^[117]
  • Conservative MP Tobias Ellwood tells BBC Radio 4's PM programme that politicians cannot be viewed as "fair game" after a large-scale pro-Palestinian protest outside his family home.^[118]
• 15 February –
  • By-elections take place in Wellingborough and Kingswood.^[119] Labour's Gen Kitchen takes Wellingborough, the Conservative Peter Bone's former seat, which he had held with a majority of more than 18,000. The swing of 28.5% is the second largest swing from Conservative to Labour at a by-election since the Second World War.^[120] Labour's Damien Egan overturns an 11,220 Conservative majority in Kingswood to win Chris Skidmore's former seat.^[120]
  • Atiqul Hoque, the Conservative Mayor of Salisbury, is expelled from the Conservative Party over antisemitic remarks made on social media and WhatsApp.^[121]
• 16 February –
  • The Labour Party releases a summery of the tax paid by Sir Keir Starmer during 2023, showing he paid just under £100,000 in tax.^[122]
  • The ballot to elect the next leader of Welsh Labour opens.^[123]
  • Craig Browne resigns as deputy leader of Cheshire East Council, saying he can no longer afford to do the role on the £30,000 annual salary.^[124]
• 17 February – Delegates at the Scottish Labour Party conference pass a resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza.^[125]
• 18 February –
  • Henry Staunton, the former chairman of the Post Office, tells The Sunday Times that Business Secretary Kemi Badenoch told him "Someone's got to take the rap" when he was dismissed from the post. In response Badenoch describes his comments as a "disgraceful misrepresentation" of their conversation.^[126]
  • Labour Party leader Sir Keir Starmer calls for a "ceasefire that lasts" in Gaza.^[127]
• 19 February –
  • GOV.UK updates the Royal Cypher Crown, replacing Queen Elizabeth IIs St Edward's Crown with the Tudor Crown used by King Charles III.^[128]
  • Business Secretary Kemi Badenoch tells the House of Commons that claims by Henry Staunton, the former chair of the Post Office, that he was told to delay compensation payments for sub-postmasters are "completely false".^[129]
  • The UK government announces plans for new measures on holiday homes in England to stop local people being priced out of being able to live in their community.^[130]
  • Ofcom launches an impartiality investigation into GB News's Q&A session with prime minister Rishi Sunak.^[131]
  • The UK government announces that a scheme allowing Ukrainian nationals to join relatives in the UK has closed to new applicants.^[132]
  • Birmingham City Council announces plans to raise council tax by 21% over the next two years as part of £300m in budget cuts.^[133]
• 20 February –
  • BBC News reports that the Cameron government were aware that the Post Office had ended a 2016 investigation that could have helped several sub-postmasters wrongly convicted as a result of the Horizon IT scandal.^[134]
  • Labour calls for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza, the first time it has called for a ceasefire since the Israel–Hamas conflict began.^[135]
  • In a statement on the Israel–Hamas conflict, the Prince of Wales calls for an "end to the fighting as soon as possible".^[136]
  • David Neal is dismissed from the post of Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration after he was quoted in articles criticising the immigration system in both The Times and the Daily Mail.^[137]
  • An independent panel upholds the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards' decision that Scott Benton, MP for Blackpool South, should face a 35-day suspension from Parliament. The suspension will now be voted on by MPs and could trigger another by-election.^[138]
  • Heather Woodbridge, aged 29, is appointed as leader of Orkney Islands Council, becoming Scotland's youngest council leader and the first woman to lead Orkney Islands Council.^[139]
• 21 February –
  • An Opposition day House of Commons debate calling for a ceasefire in Gaza descends into chaos after Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle breaks with Parliamentary convention to allow a vote on a Labour amendment calling for an "immediate humanitarian ceasefire" over the scheduled SNP motion calling for an "immediate ceasefire". The decision leads to protests from both Conservative and SNP MPs, who walk out of the House, leaving Labour's motion to be nodded through when the other two parties do not take part in the vote. Amid calls for his resignation, Hoyle says that he allowed the House to vote on the Labour motion so MPs could express their view on "the widest range of propositions", and to protect MPs' safety.^[140]
  • King Charles III is seen back at work and meeting Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, the first time he has been seen back at work since his cancer diagnosis.^[141]
  • Senior civil servant Sarah Munby writes to the Business Secretary to reject allegations by former Post Office chairman Henry Staunton that he was told to delay compensation payments to victims of the Horizon scandal.^[142]
• 22 February –
  • More than 60 MPs have signed a House of Commons motion calling for the resignation of Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle.^[143]
  • The Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority launches an investigation into claims that Pensions Minister Paul Maynard used public funds to finance his campaign.^[144]
  • The UK government announces that legislation will be introduced to clear hundreds of sub-postmasters in England and Wales who were wrongly convicted as a result of the Horizon IT scandal.^[145]
  • Argyll and Bute Council votes to raise its council tax by 10%, and rejects the Scottish Government's council tax freeze by doing so.^[146]
  • Former Prime Minister Liz Truss addresses the Conservative Political Action Conference in the United States, where she claims Western civilisation is at risk if Conservatives do not develop a louder voice, and attributes the downfall of her administration to "antagonism" from the establishment.^[147] She subsequently appears on a podcast with former Trump strategist Steve Bannon, where she remains silent as Bannon describes the far-right political activist Tommy Robinson as a "hero".^[148]
• 23 February –
  • A UK government commissioned report prepared by Lord Walney recommends giving police extra powers to tackle protests outside Parliament in order to protect politicians against "intimidation" that could influence the way they vote.^[149]
  • Sammy Wilson announces his resignation as DUP Chief Whip at Westminster.^[150]
  • The UK agrees a deal with the European Border and Coast Guard Agency (Frontex) to work more closely to prevent migrants crossing the English Channel in small boats.^[151]
  • Bob Stewart, MP for Beckenham, has his conviction for a racially aggravated public order offence quashed following an appeal.^[152]
• 24 February – Lee Anderson is suspended from the Conservative Party after "refusing to apologise" for claiming "Islamists" had "got control" of London Mayor Sadiq Khan during an edition of his GB News show the previous day.^[153]
• 25 February –
  • Sunak warns of the dangers of polarisation and hatred in politics following a week of political friction at Westminster.^[154]
  • Preet Gill, Labour MP for Birmingham Edgbaston, tells BBC Politics Midlands that receiving death threats appears to have become the "norm" and that her job worries her "in a way I've never been worried before".^[155]
  • The SNP announces plans to apply for another parliamentary debate on Gaza in the coming week.^[156]
  • The Scottish Government confirms that Economy Secretary Màiri McAllan, who is pregnant, will take maternity leave during the summer, becoming the second Scottish Government minister to do so.^[157]
• 26 February –
  • House of Commons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle rejects the SNP's request for an emergency debate on Gaza.^[158]
  • Lee Anderson says that his words were clumsy, but refuses to apologise for his comments about Sadiq Khan.^[159]
• 27 February –
  • A statement from 10 Downing Street says that the prime minister believed Lee Anderson's comments were wrong because they conflated "all Muslims with Islamist extremism".^[160]
  • Conservative MP and former minister Paul Scully apologises for suggesting there are "no-go" areas in parts of the London Borough of Tower Hamlets.^[161]
  • MSPs vote 68–55 in favour of the 2024 Scottish budget, which includes a council tax freeze and 45% and 48% income tax rates for higher earners.^[162]
  • Fergus Ewing loses his appeal against a week-long suspension from the SNP group at Holyrood in September 2023 after he criticised the party leadership.^[163]
  • MPs vote to suspend Scott Benton from Parliament for 35 days, triggering a recall petition.^[164]
• 28 February –
  • The UK government announces a £31m financial package to improve MPs security.^[165]
  • Pro-Palestinian groups say they will continue to march after Home Secretary James Cleverly questioned whether holding regular marches "adds value" to calls for a ceasefire in Gaza during an interview with The Times.^[166]
  • The High Court in Belfast rules that conditional immunity from prosecutions for Troubles-era crimes, contained in the Northern Ireland Troubles (Legacy and Reconciliation) Act 2023, is in breach of the European Convention on Human Rights.^[167]
  • Addressing a meeting of police leaders, Sunak warns of a "growing consensus that mob rule is replacing democratic rule" and says that "a pattern of increasingly violent and intimidatory [sic] behaviour" cannot be allowed to stop elected representatives doing their job.^[168]
• 29 February –
  • 2024 Rochdale by-election: In an unusually chaotic by-election, George Galloway wins for the Workers Party of Britain, marking his return to parliament. Independent candidate David Tully comes second, with the Conservative candidate Paul Ellison coming third. Both the Labour and Green Party candidates were disowned by their respective parties.^[169]
  • Michael Gove is placed under investigation by the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards, in relation to his register of financial interests.^[170]
  • MP Julian Knight is told by Essex Police he will face no criminal charges following an investigation into allegations of serious sexual assault that were made against him.^[171]
  • Figures published by the Home Office show a reduction in the backlog of asylum applications, driven by an increase in decisions, with 74,172 initial decisions on asylum applications made during 2023, an almost fourfold increase on the 2022 figure.^[172]

March

• 1 March –
  • 2024 Rochdale by-election:
    • Sir Keir Starmer apologises to the voters of Rochdale for disowning the Labour Party's candidate, but says it was "the right decision".^[173]
    • In a statement outside 10 Downing Street, Sunak warns that Islamists and far-right extremists, which he describes as "two sides of the same extremist coin", are trying to "deliberately" undermine the UK's "multi-faith democracy", and says the UK must face them down.^[174]
  • Figures from the National Audit Office show the UK government will pay Rwanda a total of £350m for the agreement to take asylum seekers, with £150,000 also being paid to Rwanda for each person sent there.^[175]
  • Conservative peer Lord Bamford, chairman of JCB, retires from the House of Lords.^[176]
• 2–3 March – The London Labour conference is held at the Leonardo Royal Hotel in Tower Bridge.^[177]
• 4 March –
  • Sunak says the UK economy is "getting on the right track" ahead of what is expected to be the last budget before the next election.^[178]
  • George Galloway is sworn in as an MP at Westminster.^[179]
  • Paul Scully, MP for Sutton and Cheam, announces he is standing down from Parliament at the next general election.^[180]
  • Lee Waters announces he is stepping down as Wales's Transport Minister when the new First Minister of Wales is elected.^[181]
• 5 March – A bid by the Welsh Conservatives and Welsh Liberal Democrats to change planned reforms to the way Senedd members are elected from the 2026 election is rejected by the parliament.^[182]
• 6 March –
  • Chancellor Jeremy Hunt delivers the 2024 United Kingdom budget.^[183]
  • Information published by the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology reveals that £15,000 in damages was paid to academic Kate Sand after Science Minister Michelle Donelan described her as a Hamas supporter in 2023; Donelan retracted the allegations on 5 March.^[184]
  • University Challenge contestant Melika Gorgianeh accepts substantial damages from Conservative peer Jacqueline Foster after Foster accused her of being antisemitic following her appearance on the quiz show in November 2023.^[185]
  • Senedd member Rhys ab Owen is to be banned from the Senedd for six weeks after an investigation by the Senedd Commission found he inappropriately touched two women during a night out in June 2021.^[186]
• 7 March – Blur drummer Dave Rowntree is selected as the Labour Party candidate for Mid Sussex.^[187]
• 8 March –
  • Former prime minister Theresa May announces she is stepping down from Parliament at the next general election.^[188]
  • Brenda Dacres is elected Mayor of Lewisham becoming the first black woman directly elected mayor in England.^[189]
  • Robin Simcox, the UK government's Commissioner for Countering Extremism, warns that London has become a "no-go zone for Jews" at weekends because of pro-Palestinian protests.^[190]
• 9 March –
  • In an article posted on LinkedIn, senior UK government ministers Anne-Marie Trevelyan and Tom Tugendhat urge Sunak to increase defence spending to above 2.5% of GDP, arguing that the UK needs to "lead the way" on defence spending and invest at a "much greater pace".^[191]
  • A Daily Telegraph report alleging a conflict-of-interest involving First Minister of Scotland Humza Yousaf after the Scottish Government donated £250,000 to the UN agency UNRWA, which supports Palestinian refugees, is rejected by Yousaf as an "outrageous smear" and a "far right conspiracy".^[192]
• 10 March – BBC News reports that former Prime Minister Boris Johnson flew to Venezuela during February for an unofficial private meeting with President Nicolás Maduro.^[193]
• 11 March –
  • Ashfield MP Lee Anderson defects from the Conservatives to Reform UK, becoming the party's first sitting Member of Parliament.^[194]
  • Addressing the Institute for Government, former prime minister Sir John Major criticises his recent Conservative successors for the attitude towards the civil service, and describes the quick succession of prime ministers in recent years as "not conducive to good government".^[195]
  • As the UK government prepares to redraw the definition of extremism, former Home Secretaries Priti Patel, Sajid Javid and Amber Rudd warn against attempting to politicise extremism at the next election.^[196]
  • After the Welsh Government publishes plans to require parties in the Senedd to draw up lists of candidates composing of 50% of women, presiding officer Elin Jones says that the Senedd does not have the power to enforce gender quotas.^[197]
  • Conservative Party donor Frank Hester apologises after The Guardian reported comments he is alleged to have made in 2019 about Labour MP Diane Abbott, when he is said to have suggested she made him "want to hate all black women" and that she "should be shot".^[198]
  • David Neal, the former Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration, has described the Home Office is dysfunctional and in urgent need of reform, citing problems with immigration as an example.^[199]
• 12 March –
  • A spokesman for the prime minister describes the remarks allegedly made by Frank Hester about Diane Abbott as "racist and wrong".^[200]
  • A recall petition opens in the Blackpool South constituency following Scott Benton's 35 day suspension from Parliament.^[201]
• 13 March –
  • Sunak tells Prime Minister's Questions he will not return £10m donated to the Conservative Party by Frank Hester, because he has apologised and "his remorse should be accepted".^[202]
  • The UK government announces a scheme to offer failed asylum seekers £3,000 if they agree to move to Rwanda voluntarily.^[203]
  • The UK government announces a ban on foreign state ownership of British newspapers and news magazines following controversy over a potential purchase of The Telegraph by a consortium backed by the United Arab Emirates.^[204]
  • Middlesbrough MP Andy McDonald regains the Labour whip.^[205]
• 14 March –
  • Russia is reported to have jammed the GPS signal of an RAF plane carrying Defence Secretary Grant Shapps back to the UK from Poland the previous day for around 30 minutes as the plane flew near the border of the Russian territory of Kaliningrad.^[206]
  • Speaking in the House of Commons, Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities Michael Gove outlines the UK government's new definition of extremism, and names five groups that would be assessed against the new criteria. They are the British National Socialist Movement, Patriotic Alternative, the Muslim Association of Britain, CAGE and Muslim Engagement and Development. The new definition is criticised by civil liberties and community groups, while most of the groups named by Gove threaten legal action if they are added to the list.^[207]
  • Speaking to ITV News West Country, Sunak rules out 2 May as the date of the next general election.^[208]
  • The news website Tortoise Media reports that the Conservatives have received a further £5m in donations from Frank Hester that are yet to be declared.^[209]
  • Sir Brandon Lewis, a former Conservative Party Chairman, announces he is standing down from Parliament at the next general election.^[210]
  • The Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority confirms that MPs annual salaries will increase by 5% to £91,346 from April.^[211]
  • Government papers show that former prime minister Liz Truss accepted a £20,000 trip to the United States in February paid for by the Green Dragon Coalition, an obscure group that takes its name from the Green Dragon Tavern in Boston, Massachusetts, and is believed to support US Presidential candidate Donald Trump. The trip was to attend a three-day conference at a hotel on Sea Island, Georgia.^[212]
  • The Scottish Parliament Corporate Body finds Michael Matheson in breach of the Ministerial Code over his £1,000 iPad bill.^[213]
  • Former Conservative MP Guto Bebb is appointed interim chair of S4C.^[214]
• 15 March –
  • Armed Forces Minister James Heappey, MP for Wells, announces he will not stand at the next general election.^[215]
  • A report by the Public Accounts Committee finds that only 10% of money promised to reduce inequality under the Levelling Up scheme actually been spent.^[216]
  • The Animal Welfare (Import of Dogs, Cats and Ferrets) Bill, introduced as a private member's bill, passes its first reading in the House of Commons after securing the backing of the UK government. The bill aims to ban the import of puppies, kittens and ferrets under the age of six months into the UK.^[217]
  • Apple agrees to pay a £385m settlement on a lawsuit led by Norfolk County Council, which was started over allegations Apple CEO Tim Cook defrauded shareholders in a pension company administered by the Council by covering up lower demand for iPhones in China.^[218]
• 16 March –
  • Vaughan Gething is elected to lead Welsh Labour, and will become First Minister of Wales. He will be Wales's first black leader, and the first black person to lead a country in Europe.^[219] With Gething's win it means that three of the four governments in the UK will have non-white leaders.^[220]
  • A group calling itself the South Devon Primary, which aims to unseat Conservative MPs in South Devon at the next election, chooses Liberal Democrat Caroline Voaden as a candidate for one of its constituencies.^[221]
  • Traditional Unionist Voice leader Jim Allister announces a formal "partnership" with Reform UK at the next general election.^[222]
• 17 March –
  • Transport Secretary Mark Harper tells the BBC that the Conservative Party welcomes members "whatever their race".^[223]
  • Pete Wishart, the SNP's longest-serving MP at Westminster, distances himself from the party's election message of making Scotland "Tory-free", describing it as unhelpful.^[224]
• 18 March –
  • Amendments to the Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill tabled in the House of Lords are overturned again in the House of Commons. The changes included allowing courts to question Rwanda's safety as a country.^[225]
  • Former US President Barack Obama arrives at 10 Downing Street for talks with Sunak.^[226]
  • Ofcom finds that five episodes of GB News shows presented by Jacob Rees Mogg, Esther McVey and Phillip Davies broke their rules, and warns the channel about its use of Conservative MPs to host news content.^[227]
  • Business Secretary Kemi Badenoch dismisses rumours of a plot to unseat Sunak as Conservative leader as the party continues to fair badly in the polls.^[228]
• 19 March –
  • While speaking to a House of Lords Committee, Chancellor Jeremy Hunt hints that the next general election may take place in October.^[229]
  • Labour's Clive Lewis, MP for Norwich South, apologises for swearing in Parliament after he was overheard to use the word "shit" while voting on the government's Rwanda legislation the previous evening.^[230]
  • The Football Governance Bill, which aims to establish an independent football regulator for England, is introduced into Parliament.^[231]
  • Mark Drakeford attends his final First Minister's Questions as First Minister of Wales.^[232]
• 20 March –
  • The Tobacco and Vapes Bill, which would make it illegal for anyone born after 2009 to purchase cigarettes by raising the minimum age by a year starting in 2027, begins its process through Parliament.^[233]
  • The Senedd approves Vaughan Gething as the next First Minister of Wales.^[234]
• 21 March –
  • Carmen Smith is sworn in as the youngest member of the House of Lords.^[235]
  • The Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body confirms that members of Scottish Parliament staff will no longer be allowed to wear rainbow lanyards, or any other badge or jewellery associated with social issues, while at Holyrood.^[236]
  • The Wildlife Management and Muirburn (Scotland) Bill passes its final vote in the Scottish Parliament. Among measures it introduces is a licensing scheme for land where grouse shooting takes place, and regulations for traps.^[237]
  • Vaughan Gething announces his cabinet. Appointments include Jeremy Miles, who becomes Economy and Environment Minister and Lynne Neagle, who becomes Education Minister.^[238]
  • Dan Barker, selected in December 2023 as the Conservative candidate for the 2024 Greater Manchester mayoral election, defects to Reform UK, accusing the Conservatives of giving up on the north of England.^[239]
  • BBC News reports that officials have raised concerns about the role of Secretary of State for the Environment Steve Barclay in a proposed waste incinerator in his constituency, which he opposes, and he will consequently no longer have a role in the decision-making process.^[240]
• 22 March –
  • West Yorkshire Police launches an investigation into the alleged comments made about Diane Abbott by Conservative Party donor Frank Hester.^[241]
  • A private member's bill introduced to Parliament by Conservative MP Gareth Johnson that aimed to prevent the expansion of London's Ultra Low Emission Zone runs out of Parliamentary time.^[242]
  • Penny Mordaunt dismisses rumours of a potential leadership challenge against Rishi Sunak as "nonsense".^[243]
  • MPs in the House of Commons give their backing to a private member's bill that will ban the import of hunting trophies into the UK if it becomes law.^[244]
• 24 March – Chancellor Jeremy Hunt says the Conservatives will keep the triple lock mechanism for deciding the rise in the state pension if they win the next election.^[245]
• 25 March –
  • Former Conservative MP Scott Benton resigns his Parliamentary seat, triggering a by-election in the Blackpool South constituency.^[246]
  • The UK formally accuses China of being behind a "malicious" cyberattack against MPs and the Electoral Commission.^[247]
• 26 March –
  • Education Minister Robert Halfon and Armed Forces Minister James Heappey announce their resignations from the Sunak ministry, having decided to stand down from Parliament at the next election.^[248]
  • BBC News reports that HM Treasury sent members of staff to work at Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, which is accused of being "dominated" by the Chinese Communist Party.^[249]
  • The first meeting of the East–West Council, established as part of the restoration of government in Northern Ireland, is held in London.^[250]
• 27 March – A report clears Conservative MP Bernard Jenkin of breaching COVID-19 laws over his attendance at a "wine and nibbles" event on the Parliamentary estate in December 2020, which the report describes as socially-distanced with "business and social elements".^[251]
• 28 March –
  • Keir Starmer and Angela Rayner launch Labour's campaign for the 2024 United Kingdom local elections at an event in Dudley.^[252]
  • Honours are conferred on businessman and senior Conservative Party treasurer Mohamed Mansour, Farming Minister Mark Spencer and Shipley MP Philip Davies, all of who receive knighthoods, while former ministers Tracey Crouch and Harriett Baldwin are awarded damehoods. The announcement comes as part of an honours list published at the start of the Parliamentary recess.^[253]
  • The Assisted Dying for Terminally Ill Adults (Scotland) Bill, a bill to legalise assisted dying in Scotland and drafted by Liberal Democrat MSP Liam McArthur, is introduced into the Scottish Parliament.^[254]
• 29 March – Sir Jeffrey Donaldson resigns as leader of the Democratic Unionist Party after being charged with rape and other historical sexual offences.^[255] Gavin Robinson is appointed interim leader until a new leader can be elected.^[256]
• 30 March – First Minister of Northern Ireland Michelle O'Neill says she is determined the Stormont Assembly and Executive will continue to function following the resignation of Jeffrey Donaldson as DUP leader.^[257]
• 31 March –
  • The UK government says it will work alongside the Northern Ireland Executive to maintain stability at Stormont.^[258]
  • A Survation poll of 15,000 people suggests the Conservatives could win fewer than 100 seats at the next election, forecasting Labour with 468 seats, the Conservatives with 98 seats, the Scottish National Party with 41 seats and the Liberal Democrats with 22 seats.^[259]

April

• 1 April –
  • The Hate Crime and Public Order (Scotland) Act 2021, which creates a new crime of "stirring up hatred" relating to age, disability, religion, sexual orientation, transgender identity or being intersex, comes into force in Scotland.^[260]
  • Twenty Labour Party councillors serving on Pendle Borough Council, Nelson Town Council and Brierfield Town Council resign from the party in protest at Sir Keir Starmer's leadership, which they say no longer reflects their views.^[261] This included the leader of Pendle Borough Council Asjad Mahmood.^[262]
• 2 April – Education Secretary Gillian Keegan says that proposed homelessness legislation will not be used against "excessive smells".^[263] The Criminal Justice Bill, which is currently making its way through Parliament, will replace the 1824 Vagrancy Act.^[264]
• 3 April –
  • Labour commits to the Conservatives' childcare expansion plans if it wins the next general election.^[265]
  • MP Johnny Mercer announces his intention to challenge a court order to reveal names of those who had told him about alleged war crimes by British special forces in Afghanistan.^[266]
• 4 April – Conservative MP William Wragg tells The Times he shared the phone numbers of fellow MPs with someone he met on a dating app after sending the person intimate pictures of himself.^[267]
• 5 April –
  • Veterans' Minister Johnny Mercer is given until 8 May to present his argument as to why he should not reveal the identity of those who told him about alleged war crimes committed in Afghanistan by British Special Forces.^[268]
  • The Conservative Party launches an investigation into former Foreign Office minister Alan Duncan after an appearance on LBC during which he claimed the Conservative Friends of Israel was "doing the bidding" of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.^[269]
  • Conservative MP Luke Evans identifies himself to police as "a victim of cyber-flashing and malicious communication".^[270]
• 8 April –
  • Ofcom launches an investigation into the 29 March edition of David Lammy's show on LBC to determine whether it broke the rules regarding politicians acting as newsreaders.^[271]
  • William Wragg steps down as vice chair of the Conservative Party's 1922 Committee following revelations about the Westminster WhatsApp scam.^[272]
  • Richard Tice, leader of Reform UK, defends his party's vetting procedure after 12 general election candidates were deselected for offensive social media posts.^[273]
• 9 April –
  • William Wragg voluntarily resigns the Conservative whip and will sit in Parliament as an independent MP. He also gives up his role on the Public Administration Committee.^[274]
  • The brother-in-law of First Minister of Scotland Humza Yousaf appeared at Dundee Sheriff Court charged with abduction and extortion following an incident where a man fell from a block of flats and later died.^[275]
  • Three people are arrested after staging a protest outside the London home of Keir Starmer.^[276]
• 10 April –
  • Figures published by the Foreign Office indicate that £4.3bn of its budget for 2023 – roughly a quarter of the overall foreign aid budget for the year – was spent on refugees and asylum seekers in the UK.^[277]
  • Scottish Labour suspends Wilma Brown, its parliamentary candidate for Cowdenbeath and Kirkcaldy, following reports she liked racist and Islamophobic posts on social media.^[278]
• 11 April –
  • The Department for Science, Innovation and Technology says that the legal fees for Michelle Donelan came to over £19,000.^[279]
  • Sally Bunce, the Green Party candidate for Mayor of the Tees Valley in the May election, drops out of the contest saying she does not want to split the vote against the Conservative candidate.^[280]
  • Reform UK apologise to the family of their dropped candidate for York Central Tommy Cawkwell for "inactivity" not knowing that he had died.^[281]
  • Joe Haines and Lord Donoughue, who were two of Harold Wilson's advisers during his time as Prime Minister, tell The Times that Wilson had an affair with his deputy press secretary, Janet Hewlett-Davies, during the 1970s.^[282]
  • Mid and East Antrim Borough Council is refused permission to rename its town hall complex after the late Queen Elizabeth II.^[283]
• 12 April –
  • Greater Manchester Police launch an investigation into Labour's deputy leader, Angela Rayner, over the sale of her council house amid allegations she broke electoral law by giving false information about her place of residence.^[284] Rayner pledges to step down if she is found guilty of any crime.^{[285] [286]}
  • Keir Starmer says that if elected to government, Labour will raise defence spending to 2.5% of GDP.^[287] He also makes an "unshakable" commitment to nuclear weapons.^[288]
  • Graham Stuart, MP for Beverley and Holderness, resigns from his ministerial post of Energy Minister with the UK government to spend more time focusing on local issues.^[289] He is replaced by Justin Tomlinson.^[290]
  • Bambos Charalambous, MP for Enfield Southgate, is readmitted to the Labour Party following a ten month long internal investigation.^[291]
• 13 April –
  • Tim Loughton, MP for East Worthing and Shoreham since 1997, announces he will stand down from parliament at the next election.^[292] He becomes the 100th MP to announce they will not seek re-election at the next election.^[293]
  • An OpenDemocracy investigation reveals high level Labour politicians met with financial services firms following a £150,000 donation to the party from one of the companies.^[294]
  • Simon Geraghty, the former leader of Worcester City Council, announces he will stand down at the May election after 24 years.^[295]
  • Leader of Norfolk County Council Kay Mason Billig claims that Natural England is blocking the proposed Norwich Northern Distributor Road scheme by protecting a bat colony.^[296]
  • Mayor of London Sadiq Khan launches what he describes as a "new climate action plan" for London, which includes a Net Zero Schools target and recommitting to making London Net Zero by 2030.^[297]
• 14 April – Some Conservative MPs and businesspeople are proposing to boycott Downing Street's Eid celebration, scheduled for the following day, because of the UK government's support for Israel.^[298]
• 15 April –
  • Peers living outside London become eligible to claim £100 for accommodation expenses when they attend sittings at the House of Lords.^[299]
  • Sunak is absent from the Downing Street Eid celebration.^[300]
  • Former Prime Minister Liz Truss endorses Donald Trump to win the 2024 United States presidential election.^[301]
• 16 April –
  • The Tobacco and Vapes Bill passes by 383 votes to 67, banning anyone born after 2009 from legally buying cigarettes in the UK.^[302]
  • The House of Lords reinstates proposed changes to the UK government's Rwanda legislation.^[303]
  • An amendment to the Criminal Justice Bill will make the creation of sexually explicit deepfake images a specific criminal offence in England and Wales if the images are created without the permission of the person.^[304]
• 17 April –
  • David Cameron visits Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem.^[305]
  • MPs overturn amendments to the UK government's Rwanda legislation made by the House of Lords only for them to be reinstated when the legislation is sent back to the Upper House for consideration.^[306]
  • The Equality and Human Rights Commission warns that plans to enforce gender equality in the Senedd may be unlawful because it may breach the Equality Act if candidates can self-identify as female when that is not their legal sex.^[307]
  • Leader of Devon County Council John Hart announces his resignation after 15 years in office.^[308]
  • Nigel Farage and Suella Braverman attend the National Conservatism Conference in Brussels.^[309]
• 18 April –
  • Peter Murrell, the former chief executive of the Scottish National Party (SNP) and husband of Nicola Sturgeon, is re-arrested by Police Scotland and charged in connection with the embezzlement of funds from the SNP.^[310] Murrell also resigns his membership of the SNP.^[311]
  • Mark Menzies MP resigns the Conservative whip.^[312] This as due to an ongoing internal investigation into his conduct.^[313]
  • Jonathan Nunn, leader of West Northamptonshire Council, is accused of misconduct by five women.^[314]
• 19 April –
  • In a speech on welfare, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak sets out plans to tackle what he describes as the UK's "sick note culture" by stripping GPs in England of their authority to sign people off work.^[315]
  • Labour sets out plans to build more housing, with priority given to brownfield sites and poor quality greenbelt land dubbed "greybelt" land.^[316]
  • It is announced that Scottish Green Party members will have a vote on the Bute House Agreement following the SNP ditching climate targets.^[317]
  • Labour writes to Lancashire Police regarding allegations made against Mark Menzies. A review of information relating to the allegations is subsequently commenced.^[318]
  • The Scottish Greens announce their intention to hold a vote on whether to stay in government with the Scottish National Party following the SNP's decision to scrap key climate targets.^[319]
  • Biteback Publishing apologises over a false quote linked to an antisemitic conspiracy theory in Liz Truss's memoir, Ten Years to Save the West, and says it will be removed from future copies of the book.^[320]
  • The Advisory Committee on Business Appointments rules that Boris Johnson broke government rules by being "evasive" about a meeting with Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.^[321]
• 20 April – BBC News reports that the SNP will form a minority government if the Scottish Greens vote to end their power-sharing agreement.^[322]
• 21 April –
  • Mark Menzies quits the Conservative Party and says he will stand down from Parliament at the next election.^[323]
  • Robin Swann, who is the perspective Ulster Unionist candidate for South Antrim, announces he will step down from his post as Northern Ireland's Health Minister once the general election campaign begins.^[324]
• 22 April –
  • Parliament passes the Safety of Rwanda Bill, with plans to deport the first asylum seekers to Kigali in July.^[325]
  • Two men, including a parliamentary researcher, are charged with spying for China after providing information that could be "useful to an enemy".^[326]
  • Conservative councillor Richard Solesbury-Timms, who represents Middleton Cheney on West Northamptonshire Council, leaves the party to sit as an independent citing the party's dealing with allegations against the council leader.^[327]
• 23 April –
  • Patrick Harvie says he will resign as co-leader of the Scottish Greens if the party votes to end its coalition agreement with the SNP.^[328]
  • Alliance Party MLA Patrick Brown resigns his South Down seat in the Northern Ireland Assembly, citing personal reasons for doing so.^[329]
• 24 April –
  • Rishi Sunak vows to increase UK defence spending to 2.5% of GDP by 2030.^[330]
  • Labour unveils its plans for improvements to train services, which include automatic refunds for delays, a "best price" guarantee and improved internet coverage.^[331]
  • Jeffrey Donaldson appears at Newry Magistrates' Court to face charges of historic child abuse.^[332]
  • Johnny Timpson, the UK's inaugural disability ambassador, resigns over the UK government's policy of clawing back benefit overpayment.^[333]
• 25 April –
  • Bute House Agreement:
    • Scotland's SNP–Green power sharing agreement is formally dissolved, meaning Humza Yousaf now leads a minority government.^[334]
    • The Scottish Conservatives table a vote of no confidence in Yousaf, which is scheduled for the following week.^[335]
  • Labour pledge to renationalise most rail services within five years if they win the next general election.^[336]
  • At the High Court, leader of the Reclaim Party Laurence Fox is ordered to pay £180,000 in libel damages to former Stonewall trustee Simon Blake and drag artist Crystal.^[337]
  • Home Secretary James Cleverly says he opposes attempts to reduce the time limit for abortion.^[338]
• 26 April –
  • Humza Yousaf says he will not resign as first minister of Scotland despite facing a motion of no confidence in his government.^[339]
  • Sadiq Khan apologises to the Chief Rabbi over comments he made during a discussion about Islamophobia.^[340]
• 27 April –
  • Dan Poulter, MP for Central Suffolk and North Ipswich defects from Conservative to the Labour Party, citing the NHS crisis as his reason for doing so.^[341]
  • TUV leader Jim Allister, whose party agreed a formal partnership with Reform UK for the upcoming general election, distances himself from remarks in which Reform's deputy leader, Ben Habib, suggested some migrants travelling to the UK in small boats should be left to drown.^[342]
• 28 April –
  • BBC News reports that Yousaf had ruled out an electoral pact between the SNP and Alba Party after Alex Salmond suggested the party would support him in a vote of no confidence in the Scottish Parliament.^[343]
  • Sunak refuses to rule out a general election in July following speculation of a summer election.^[344]
• 29 April –
  • 2024 Scottish government crisis: First Minister, Humza Yousaf, announces he will resign as both leader of the SNP and first minister of Scotland when his successor is chosen.^[345]
  • The UK government launches a 12 week consultation process on changes to Personal Independence Payment benefits.^[346]
  • MPs debates assisted dying after a petition started by Dame Esther Rantzen was signed by 200,000 people, triggering a parliamentary debate.^[347]
  • SDLP Councillor Lilian Seenoi-Barr is set to become Northern Ireland's first black mayor after being selected as the next first citizen of Derry City and Strabane District Council.^[348]
• 30 April –
  • Officials at Holyrood confirm that Labour's motion of no confidence in the Scottish Government will be voted on by MSPs the next day.^[349]
  • Former England cricketer Monty Panesar is announced as the Workers Party of Britain candidate for Ealing Southall.^[350]

May

• 1 May –
  • The FDA trade union announces plans to mount a legal challenge against the UK government's Safety of Rwanda Act amid concerns it breaches international law.^[351]
  • MSPs vote 70–58 to defeat a motion of no confidence in the Scottish Government.^[352]
• 2 May –
  • Local elections take place for councils and mayors in England and police and crime commissioners in England and Wales. The 2024 Blackpool South by-election is also held on the same day.
  • John Swinney is set to become the next SNP leader and first minister after Kate Forbes confirms she will not seek the party's leadership.^[353]
• 3 May –
  • With 90% of council election results announced, the Conservatives have lost over 400 council seats, while Labour regains control of Hartlepool, Redditch, Rushmoor and Thurrock Councils.^[354]
  • Ben Houchen wins the Tees Valley mayoral election, retaining the seat for the Conservatives, while Labour win mayoral elections in the East Midlands, North East and York and North Yorkshire.^[354]
  • Chris Webb wins the 2024 Blackpool South by-election, with a 26% swing to Labour.^[354]
  • 2024 Peterborough City Council election: At 18, Daisy Creedon-Blakemore becomes the UK's youngest councillor after winning a seat for Labour in Peterborough City Council's Fletton and Woodston ward.^[355]
• 4 May
  • 2024 London mayoral election: Labour's Sadiq Khan secures a third term as Mayor of London with 44% of the vote, beating the Conservative Susan Hall on 33%.^[356]
  • 2024 West Midlands mayoral election: Labour's Richard Parker narrowly defeats the Conservative incumbent Andy Street to become Mayor of the West Midlands.^[357]
  • 2024 Greater Manchester mayoral election: Labour's Andy Burnham secures a third term as Mayor of Greater Manchester with almost two-thirds of the votes cast.^[358]
  • The SDLP announces that it will change the way it makes "civil leadership" appointments following the resignation from the party of two Derry City and Strabane District Council councillors over the appointment of Lilian Seenoi-Barr as the authority's next mayor.^[359]
• 5 May – With all votes counted, the results from the local elections in England are: Labour 1,158 (+186), Liberal Democrat 522 (+104), Conservative 515 (−474), Independents and others 228 (+93), Green 181 (+74), Residents' Association 48 (+11), Workers Party of Britain 4 (+4), Reform UK 2 (+2).^[360]
• 6 May –
  • Argentina's president, Javier Milei, tells the BBC he accepts the Falkland Islands are currently "in the hands of the UK", but says his country will get them back through diplomatic channels.^[361]
  • John Swinney is confirmed as Leader of the Scottish National Party after being unopposed in the leadership election, and begins his second tenure in the post.^[362]
• 7 May –
  • John Swinney wins the backing of the Scottish Parliament to become Scotland's seventh First Minister, and will be sworn into office the next day.^[363]
  • The Green Party's Siân Berry, who was re-elected in the 2024 London Assembly election, is criticised for resigning three days later to hand her seat to Zoë Garbett, who lost in the same election with 5.8% of the vote.^[364] Berry steps down from the post in order to run as Green candidate in Brighton Pavilion, where current MP Caroline Lucas is standing down at the next election.^[365]
• 8 May –
  • John Swinney is sworn in as Scotland's seventh first minister at a ceremony at the Court of Session in Edinburgh.^[366]
  • Swinney appoints Kate Forbes as Scotland's Deputy First Minister.^[367]
  • The Conservative Member of Parliament for Dover Natalie Elphicke defects to the Labour Party.^[368]
  • The Labour whip is restored to Kate Osamor.^[369]
  • Former England cricketer Monty Panesar quits the Workers Party of Britain a week after being unveiled as one of its general election candidates.^[370]
  • MSs vote 43–16 to approve the Senedd Reform Bill that will see the number of members increase from 60 to 96 at the next election.^[371]
• 9 May –
  • Former cabinet minister Nadhim Zahawi says he will stand down from Parliament at the next election.^[372]
  • Natalie Elphicke apologises for past comments in support of her ex-husband, Charlie, which she made when he was convicted of sexual assault.^[373]
  • Swinney confirms to the BBC that the SNP's strategy of using the next general election as a mandate for a second referendum on Scottish independence remains.^[374]
  • The government announces that a ban on sex offenders in England and Wales changing their name to avoid detection will be brought in.^[375]
• 10 May – The Scottish Government reaffirms its wish to see the Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill enacted.^[376]
• 11 May – The Independent Press Standards Organisation rejects a complaint by former MP Scott Benton that an article published by The Times in April 2023 was in breach of IPSO's editors code.^[377]
• 12 May –
  • Foreign Secretary David Cameron tells the BBC's Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg that a ban on the sale of UK weapons to Israel would only strengthen Hamas.^[378]
  • Former Chancellor Nadhim Zahawi tells BBC News he has paid nearly £5m to authorities to settle his tax affairs.^[379]
• 13 May –
  • The House of Commons approves plans to exclude MPs from the parliamentary estate if they have been arrested on suspicion of a serious offence.^[380]
  • Health secretary Victoria Atkins says that more maternity care scandals are likely following a birth trauma report on maternity care services.^[381]
  • Labour MP Rosie Duffield calls for the party to suspend Natalie Elphicke while investigating lobbying claims.^[382]
  • Labour MP Chris Bryant reveals he has skin cancer.^[383]
  • A judge at the Northern Ireland High Court rules that the UK government's Illegal Migration Act should not apply in Northern Ireland because of human rights laws and the Windsor Framework.^[384]
  • The UK government scraps a planned amendment to the Criminal Justice Bill that would give police the power to move homeless people on because of "smells" following opposition from Conservative MPs.^[385]
• 14 May –
  • MSPs unanimously approve the Housing Cladding Remediation Bill with 116 votes in favour of the legislation that seeks to address problems with cladding on buildings and avoid a similar incident to the Grenfell Tower fire in Scotland.^[386]
  • Defence Secretary Grant Shapps claims six new warships will help fight the "conflicts of the future".^[387]
• 15 May –
  • Rishi Sunak is challenged in PMQs over the early release of dangerous criminals.^[388]
  • David Lammy and John Healey visit Ukraine and confirm Labour support.^[389]
  • Sir Robert Buckland denies that he concealed lobbying efforts of Natalie Elphicke.^[390]
  • Baroness Smith of Basildon claims that hereditary peers will be phased out by any new Labour government.^[391]
  • Former British Liberal Democrat MEP Graham Watson announces he will be a candidate in the 2024 European Parliament election in Italy.^[392]
  • The UK government agrees to make death by dangerous cycling a criminal offence punishable by up to 14 years in prison after a campaign by Sir Iain Duncan Smith, who proposed the measures as an amendment to the Criminal Justice Bill, and after MPs vote in favour of the amendment.^[393]
  • The Rwanda Asylum Plan is expanded to include all failed asylum seekers rather than the original plan of those arriving in the UK after 1 January 2022.^[394]
• 16 May –
  • The UK government announces plans to allow the use of debit cards in pub slot machines, which it argues will allow pubs, casinos and gambling venues to compete in an increasingly cashless society.^[395]
  • The Green Party of England and Wales says it will take action against candidates who make or support antisemitic remarks following complaints.^[396]
  • The Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority finds that Paul Maynard, MP for Blackpool North and Cleveleys, broke expenses rules by using public resources to produce "overtly political" material for the Conservative Party.^[397]
• 17 May –
  • Plaid Cymru ends its co-operation deal with Labour in Wales following concerns about a donation of £200,000 to First Minister Vaughan Gething's leadership campaign by a company owned by a businessman twice convicted of environmental offences.^[398]
  • South Wales Police and the Senedd Commission for Standards launch investigations into claims Conservative MS Laura Anne Jones made false expenses claims.^[399]
• 18 May – Chris Heaton-Harris, the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, confirms he will be standing down from Parliament at the next general election.^[400]
• 20 May –
  • Ofcom says it is considering imposing a statutory sanction against GB News after concluding its programme People's Forum: The Prime Minister, a Q&A session with prime minister Rishi Sunak that aired in February, broke impartiality rules.^[401]
  • The Stormont Assembly endorses a Legislative Consent Motion to extend the Pet Abduction Bill, introduced at Westminster, to Northern Ireland, making the abduction of cats and dogs a criminal offence.^[402]
• 21 May –
  • The High Court rules that UK government plans to extend police powers over protests are unlawful.^[403]
  • Stormont votes in favour of adopting Westminster's Tobacco and Vapes Bill that will gradually phase in a smoking ban from 2027.^[404]
• 22 May –
  • Rishi Sunak announces that a general election will be held on 4 July.^[405]
  • Craig Mackinlay, MP for Thanet South, returns to the House of Commons following a long absence after contracting sepsis, an illness that required him to undergo a quadruple amputation, and receives a rare standing ovation from colleagues.^[406]
• 23 May –
  • Sunak confirms that no asylum seekers will be sent to Rwanda before the general election under UK government deportation plans.^[407]
  • Nigel Farage, founder of Reform UK, confirms he will not stand as a candidate in the upcoming general election.^[408]
  • Police Scotland announces that it has submitted a "standard prosecution report" concerning its investigation into SNP finances to the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service.^[409]
  • First Minister of Scotland John Swinney announces he will not accept a parliamentary committee ruling to exclude Michael Matheson from Holyrood for 27 days over his £11,000 iPad charges bill, claiming the decision is "prejudiced" due to the involvement of a Conservative MSP who previously made comments about Matheson.^[410]
• 24 May –
  • Sir John Redwood, MP for Wokingham, announces he will not contest the next election.^[411]
  • Former Education Secretary Michael Gove announces he will not stand for parliament again at the next election.^[412]
  • Junior health minister Andrea Leadsom announces she will not contest the next election.^[413]
  • Craig Mackinlay decides he will not contest the new parliamentary seat of Thanet East after what he describes as "36 hours of intense soul searching" following the announcement of the election and his feeling that the work schedule would be too much to deal with while he continues to recover from sepsis.^[414]
  • Greg Clark, MP for Tunbridge Wells, announces he will not contest the next general election.^[415]
  • Jeremy Corbyn is ejected from the Labour Party after announcing he will stand as an independent candidate in the Islington North constituency, which he has represented since 1983.^[416]
  • Parliament is prorogued ahead of the general election.^[417]
  • The Tobacco and Vapes Bill is not among legislation to be rushed through Parliament before its prorogation.^[418] The Renters (Reform) Bill, which would have brought in an end to no-fault evictions, is also shelved.^[419] But the Post Office (Horizon System) Offences Bill, which quashes the convictions of sub-postmasters convicted in the Horizon scandal in England, Wales and Northern Ireland is passed,^[420] as is the Pet Abduction Bill, making the abduction of cats and dogs a criminal offence from August.^[421] The Victims and Prisoners Bill is also passed into law.^[422]
  • The Media Act 2024 receives Royal assent following its approval by Parliament the previous day.^[423]
  • Jonathan Buckley is selected as the Democratic Unionist Party candidate for Lagan Valley following the departure of Sir Jeffrey Donaldson.^[424]
• 27 May –
  • Outgoing MP Lucy Allan endorses Reform UK and is suspended from the Conservative Party.^[425]
  • Barbara Keeley, MP for Worsley and Eccles South, announces her retirement from Parliament.^[426]
  • John Spellar, MP for Warley, announces his retirement from Parliament.^[427]
  • Kevin Brennan, MP for Cardiff West, announces he is standing down from Parliament at the election.^[428]
• 28 May –
  • The Times publishes a letter signed by 121 prominent business figures endorsing the Labour Party.^[429]
  • Diane Abbott has the Labour Party whip restored following its suspension in April 2023.^[430]
  • Greater Manchester Police confirm that, following their investigation, Labour deputy leader Angela Rayner will not face any further police action over her living arrangements before her time as an MP.^[431]
  • Former Plaid Cymru MP Jonathan Edwards, who represents Carmarthen East and Dinefwr, announces he will not contest his seat at the election; Edwards was asked to leave Plaid in 2022 after accepting a police caution for assaulting his wife.^[432]
  • Stormont passes the 2024 Northern Ireland budget, its first in three years, despite opposition from the Ulster Unionist Party, and the Assembly's official opposition, the Social Democratic and Labour Party.^[433]
• 29 May –
  • MSPs vote 64–0 to exclude Scotland's former Health Secretary, Michael Matheson, from the Scottish Parliament for 27 sitting days, and to suspend his salary for 54 days, after he breached expenses rules by accululating an £11,000 bill on his parliamentary iPad. The governing SNP abstains from voting, and calls for a review of the complaints procedure, suggesting it could be open to bias.^[434]
  • The Welsh Conservatives table a motion of no confidence in First Minister Vaughan Gething following several weeks of controversy over donations to his leadership campaign. The motion is scheduled to face a Senedd vote on 5 June.^[435]
  • Pat Cullen stands down as chief executive of the Royal College of Nursing in order to seek the nomination as Sinn Féin candidate for Fermanagh and South Tyrone in the general election.^[436]
  • Gavin Robinson is ratified as leader of the Democratic Unionist Party, and announces the party will not stand a candidate in Fermanagh and South Tyrone at the general election.^[437]
  • The Medicines (Gonadotrophin-Releasing Hormone Analogues) (Emergency Prohibition) (England, Wales and Scotland) Order 2024 introduces an emergency ban on the prescription and supply of puberty blockers to minors.^[438]
  • Rishi Sunak visited Cornwall having arrived via night train.^[439] He visited the rail maintenance depot in Penzance before going to neighbouring Devon.^[440]
  • Nicola Sturgeon announced that she will be active in the SNP campaign in Scotland.^[441]
  • Ed Davey campaigned in Wales with Jane Dodds.^[442] He said that his party was confident in winning both of the parliamentary constituencies in Powys.^[443]
• 30 May –
  • Parliament is dissolved in preparation for the general election.
  • Mark Logan, the former Conservative MP for Bolton North East, tells BBC News he is backing Labour at the general election, describing the party as offering "centrist politics".^[444]
  • The Plaid Crymru campaign is launched in Bangor.^[445]
  • The Green campaign is launched in Bristol.^[446]
• 31 May
  • Keir Starmer says Diane Abbott is free to stand as the Labour candidate in Hackney North.^[447]
  • Conservative MP Aaron Bell announces he will stand down at the election.^[448]
  • Former Conservative MP Julian Knight announces he will stand as an independent in Solihull West and Shirley.^[449]
  • Labour confirms that Torsten Bell, chief executive of the Resolution Foundation, will be its candidate for Swansea West at the general election.^[450]

June

• 2 June –
  • Diane Abbott confirms she will run as Labour's candidate for Hackney North and Stoke Newington at the general election.^[451]
  • Media, including BBC News, report that Derbyshire Police are reviewing claims of election fraud relating to "concerns around marketing material" posted on social media by Robert Largan, MP and Conservative candidate for High Peak.^[452]
• 3 June –
  • Nigel Farage announces that, contrary to his statement earlier in the campaign, he will stand for Parliament in Clacton, and that he has resumed leadership of Reform UK.^[453]
  • The Medicines (Gonadotrophin-Releasing Hormone Analogues) (Emergency Prohibition) (England, Wales and Scotland) Order 2024 is scheduled to come into force.
  • The first 2024 leaders debate takes place in Scotland, with the leaders of Scotland's four main political parties taking part in a debate on STV.^[454]
  • The UK government tells the High Court it has delayed the start date for flights sending asylum seekers to Rwanda to 24 July.^[455]
  • The Welsh Government shelves plans to legislate for shorter school summer holidays in Wales until after the next Senedd election.^[456]
• 4 June –
  • ITV airs Sunak v Starmer: The ITV Debate, a head-to-head election debate between Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer presented by Julie Etchingham.^[457] During the debate Sunak claims that Labour has a £38bn spending shortfall which would require it to raise taxes by £2,000 for the average household by the end of the next parliament. A letter from James Bowler, the Permanent Secretary to the Treasury, subsequently emerges in which he says the Conservative claims "should not be presented as having been produced by the civil service".^[458]
  • Faiza Shaheen is deselected as Labour candidate for Chingford and Woodford Green and subsequently resigns from the party.^[459]
  • Two people are arrested after a milkshake is thrown at Reform UK leader Nigel Farage as he launches his campaign in Clacton.^[460]
• 5 June –
  • Alba Party leader Alex Salmond confirms he will not stand in the general election, but instead plans to stand in the 2026 Scottish Parliament election in Banff and Buchan.^[461]
  • First Minister of Wales Vaughan Gething loses a nonbinding vote of no confidence in the Senedd with members voting 29–27 in favour of a motion put forward by the Welsh Conservatives. It follows an investigation into the activities of a leading donor to his election campaign.^[462] Gething says he will not resign following the vote.^[463]
  • Richard Holden is selected as the Conservative candidate for Basildon and Billericay.^[464]
  • David Duguid is prevented from standing as the Conservative candidate in Aberdeenshire North and Moray East.^[465] Instead, Douglas Ross, who had previously intended to stand down at the election, announces he will contest the constituency at a press conference the next day.^[466]
• 6 June –
  • The Office for Statistics Regulation criticises Sunak for his comments about Labour tax rises, saying most people would have been unaware the figures related to a four year period.^[467]
  • The FDA trade union which represents senior civil servants launches its High Court case against the UK government over the Rwanda asylum plan, arguing that they could be asked to break the law by ministers if they were asked to ignore a ruling from the European Court of Human Rights to halt a flight to Rwanda.^[468]
  • Labour abandons legal action against five Corbyn-era employees who were accused of "conspiring" against Keir Starmer's leadership.^[469]
  • It is revealed that the Conservatives accepted a further donation from Frank Hester after he was accused of making racist comments about Diane Abbott.^[470]
• 7 June –
  • The legal deadline for candidates in the general election passes.^[471]
  • Rishi Sunak apologises for leaving the D-day memorial early to return to the UK to give an ITV interview about the election. He says: "On reflection, it was a mistake not to stay in France longer – and I apologise."^[472]
  • Keith Vaz, who stood down from Parliament after he was found to have "expressed willingness" to buy cocaine for male prostitutes, will stand in his old Leicester East constituency for the One Leicester Party.^[473]
  • Mishal Husain moderates the first of the BBC's election debates featuring representatives from seven of the UK's political parties.^[474] Appearing on the programme are Penny Mordaunt (Conservative), Angela Rayner (Labour), Daisy Cooper (Liberal Democrats), Stephen Flynn (SNP), Rhun ap Iorwerth (Plaid Cymru), Carla Denyer (Green) and Nigel Farage (Reform UK).^[475]
  • The Unite trade union says it will not endorse Labour's election manifesto because it does not go far enough on protecting the rights of workers.^[476]
  • The Green Party says it has blocked a "small number" of candidates from standing as Green candidates at the election after investigations into their online activities.^[477]
  • Plaid Cymru withdraws its support for Sharifah Rahman, who was scheduled to represent the party as a candidate in Cardiff South and Penarth, following social media posts about the "situation in the Middle East" that "do not reflect the views and values of Plaid Cymru".^[478]
  • The Senedd Reform Bill Committee has warned that plans for gender quotas at the next Senedd election could face legal challenges, and urges the Welsh Government to take urgent action to protect the election.^[479]
• 8 June –
  • Stewart Sutherland, the Reform UK candidate for Blaenau Gwent and Rhymney, withdraws his candidacy after allegations he reported racist content.^[480]
  • Social media platform X takes action against an organisation that has been smearing British politicians with deepfake videos by removing a number of accounts.^[481]
• 9 June – The Sunday Mail reports allegations that Scottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross used Westminster expenses to travel in his role as a football linesman.^[482]
• 10 June –
  • The list of candidates standing in the 2024 general election is published, with more than 4,500 candidates setting a new record for the number of people standing at an election.^[483]
  • Douglas Ross announces his resignation as leader of the Scottish Conservatives, triggering a leadership election. Ross says he will also resign from Holyrood if he is re-elected to Westminster.^[484]
  • Ian Gribbin, the Reform UK candidate for Bexhill and Battle, apologises after claiming the UK would be "far better" if it had "taken Hitler up on his offer of neutrality" instead of fighting World War II.^[485]
  • Reform UK leader Nigel Farage gives his personal backing to two Democratic Unionist Party candidates despite his party's alliance with Traditional Unionist Voice.^[486]
• 11 June –
  • A 28-year-old man is arrested on suspicion of public order offences after objects are thrown at Nigel Farage during a campaign tour in Barnsley.^[487]
  • Rishi Sunak unveils the Conservative Party's general election manifesto, which includes a further cut in National Insurance, a halving of immigration, and several new housing policies.^[488]
  • BBC Scotland airs an election debate featuring the leaders of Scotland's five main political parties: John Swinney (SNP), Douglas Ross (Scottish Conservatives), Anas Sarwar (Scottish Labour), Alex Cole-Hamilton (Scottish Liberal Democrats) and Lorna Slater (Scottish Greens).^[489]
  • Sophie Raworth pulls out of presenting the BBC's The Prime Ministerial Debate, scheduled to air on 26 June, after fracturing her ankle; Mishal Husain will present instead.^[490]
  • Robin Harper, a former leader of the Scottish Greens, joins Scottish Labour, citing his former party's failure on the environment for his decision.^[491]
  • Vaughan Gething tells the Senedd he regrets the "impact" of his decision to accept a £200,000 donation from a man whose company was convicted of illegally dumping waste.^[492]
• 12 June –
  • The Green Party launches its manifesto, with key points including increasing taxes for the better off, and higher spending on healthcare, housing and climate change.^[493]
  • Sky News presenter Beth Rigby presents an election debate from Grimsby Town Hall, where Sunak and Starmer face questions from an audience.^[494]
  • Craig Williams, who served as Sunak's Parliamentary Private Secretary, is being investigated by the Gambling Commission after placing a bet on the date of the general election.^[495] Williams subsequently describes the bet as a "huge error of judgement".^[496]
  • Dr Anne McCloskey, an independent general election candidate for Foyle, is sentenced to 14 days in prison for non-payment of a COVID-19 related fine by Derry Magistrates.^[497]
  • Police say they are aware of YouTuber and internet prankster Niko Omilana, who has registered himself as a general election candidate in 11 different constituencies.^[498]
• 13 June –
  • Keir Starmer unveils the Labour Party's general election manifesto. He says that wealth creation is the "number one priority" and that Labour will focus on economic growth.^[499]
  • The Green Party is forced to temporarily remove its manifesto from its website after facing criticism for using an image of an ill man to illustrate its policy on HIV.^[500]
  • Plaid Cymru launches its 2024 election manifesto, which includes plans for Welsh independence, 500 extra GPs and funding from rail improvements.^[501]
  • A YouGov poll for The Times puts Reform UK ahead of the Conservatives for the first time, with Reform on 19% and the Conservatives on 18%; the poll prompts Reform leader Nigel Farage to claim his party is "now the opposition to Labour".^[502]
  • ITV holds a debate featuring senior figures from the UK's seven main political parties and moderated by Julie Etchingham.^[503]
• 14 June –
  • Data published by the Electoral Commission indicates that Labour raised £351,990 more in donations than the Conservatives during the first week of the general election campaign.^[504]
  • BBC Wales sees a series of text messages from the mobile phone of Welsh Conservative Senedd member Laura Anne Jones in which she appears to ask an employee to maximise her expenses claims.^[505] Jones is subsequently asked to step back from Wales's Shadow Cabinet as a result of the revelation.^[506]
  • A coalition of commercial media and content businesses write to Labour to urge them not to introduce advertising on the BBC, fearing it could have a negative impact on consumers, licence fee payers and creative industries.^[507]
  • The Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority clears Douglas Ross of misusing his travel expenses following an investigation.^[508]
  • Labour's Rosie Duffield, who is campaigning to be re-elected as MP for Canterbury, says she has withdrawn from hustings events because she does not feel safe; Duffield has previously faced death threats for her stance on sex and gender.^[509]
  • Among those from the world of politics to be recognised in the 2024 Birthday Honours is former Prime Minister Gordon Brown, who is made a Companion of Honour, and former MP Wayne David, who receives a knighthood.^[510]
• 16 June –
  • Grant StClair-Armstrong, the Reform UK candidate for North West Essex, resigns from the party after historic blog posts emerge in which he urged people to vote for the British National Party.^[511]
  • ITV Wales holds an election debate between senior figures from the three main political parties in Wales; David TC Davies (Conservative), Jo Stevens (Labour) and Liz Saville Roberts (Plaid Cymru).^[512]
• 17 June –
  • Nigel Farage launches Reform UK's election manifesto, which he describes as a contract, and which chiefly proposes a freeze on non-essential immigration.^[513]
  • Lord Cashman is suspended from the Parliamentary Labour Party for describing Rosie Duffield as "frit or lazy" in a social media post for withdrawing from hustings meetings over concerns for her safety.^[514]
  • BBC Sounds launches an Election 2024 livestream, bringing together all the election news and programming, such as Newscast, Today, Question Time and Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg. The livestream is scheduled to run until 8 July.^[515]
• 18 June –
  • LBC's Nick Ferrari presents the first of two editions of Britain's Next PM, a phone-in giving listeners the opportunity to speak to Keir Starmer and Rishi Sunak, with Starmer appearing on the first edition and Sunak the following day.^[516]
  • The deadline for people wishing to register to vote in time for the 2024 general election expires at 23:59.^[517]
  • Sunak announces that former prime minister Johnson will endorse Conservative candidates by writing to constituents urging them not to vote for Reform, claiming to do so will "make a difference".^[518]
  • The state visit of Japan's Emperor Naruhito is to be modified to omit the usual visit to 10 Downing Street because it coincides with the election.^[519]
  • Scottish Labour launches its general election manifesto.^[520]
  • Businessman John Caudwell, the founder of Phones4U, who gave the Conservatives a £500,000 donation before the 2019 general election, tells the BBC he will be voting Labour for the first time in his life at the 2024 election.^[521]
  • During an election debate on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour, representatives from Labour, the Liberal Democrats, Greens and Scottish National Party express their support for making misogyny a hate crime.^[522]
• 19 June –
  • A police officer working as part of the prime minister's close protection team is suspended and later arrested as part of an ongoing investigation into bets on the date of the general election.^[523]
  • The Scottish National Party launches its election manifesto, with plans to "end Westminster cuts" and increase investment in the NHS.^[524] The party would also view winning a majority of Scotland's seats at Westminster as a mandate to begin independence negotiations.^[525]
  • Labour suspends Andy Brown, its candidate for Aberdeenshire North and Moray East after he was found to have shared pro-Russian posts online.^[526]
  • The Scottish Family Party launches its election manifesto, chiefly promoting family values.^[527]
  • After details of past social media posts made by two Reform UK candidates, Lee Bunker and Angela Begbie-Carter, are reported in the media, the party releases a statement in which it says candidates are free to express views that "are not shared by all their party colleagues" as they are not "political zombies".^[528]
  • Secret government files seen by BBC News show work has been underway with consultants since January to limit "severe implications" to essential IT services by lining up alternative providers after Atos, the UK subsidiary of which has contracts for NHS records and disability benefit claims, is more than £3bn in debt and undergoing restructuring.^[529]
  • Sinn Féin launches its 2024 election manifesto, which includes plans for the transfer of fiscal powers from Westminster to Stormont and the creation of an all-Ireland national health service.^[530]
  • Businessman Zia Yusuf donates an undisclosed amount of money, but reported to be several thousand pounds, to Reform UK, claiming the UK has "lost control of our borders".^[531]
  • The Workers Party of Britain launches its election manifesto, with promises to improve "poverty pay" and provide more social housing.^[532]
  • BBC News reports that Laura Saunders, the Conservative candidate for Bristol North West, has become the second Conservative candidate to face an investigation by the Gambling Commission over betting on the date of the general election. It is subsequently reported that her husband, Tony Lee, the Conservative Party's campaigns director, is also being investigated by the Commission.^{[533] [534]}
• 20 June –
  • BBC One airs a Question Time election special featuring the leaders of the UK's four main political parties.^[474]
  • Sunak says he is "incredibly angry" to learn of allegations that members of his party have betted on the date of the election, and that he will "boot out" anyone found to have broken the law.^[535]
  • Scottish Parliament authorities have launched an investigation into the potential misuse of expenses to buy postage stamps by members of the SNP in order to send letters to voters.^[536]
  • The Alliance Party launches its general election manifesto, with plans including reform of the devolved government at Stormont, and ringfencing funding for integrated eductation.^[537]
• 21 June –
  • Nigel Farage tells the BBC that he believes the Ukraine war to have been precipitated by the West's eastward expansion of NATO and the European Union, but that the war itself is Vladimir Putin's fault.^[538]
  • BBC Wales airs a televised election debate featuring Vaughan Gething (Labour), Jane Dodds (Liberal Democrat), Rhun ap Iorwerth (Plaid Cymru) and David TC Davies (Conservative).^[539]
• 22 June –
  • BBC News publishes a list of eight Reform UK candidates who have made a wide range of offensive online posts about women between 2011 and 2023.^[540]
  • Following criticism from other party leaders over his comments about Putin, Nigel Farage pens an op-ed in The Telegraph in which he says he has never been an "apologist or supporter" of Putin, but that "if you poke the Russian bear with a stick, don't be surprised if he responds".^[541]
• 23 June –
  • 2024 United Kingdom general election date betting controversy
    • The Sunday Times reports that Nick Mason, the Conservative Party's chief data officer, has become the fourth person to face investigation by the Gambling Commission for alleged betting on the date of the election. Mason denies any wrongdoing.^[542]
    • BBC News reports that the Gambling Commission's investigation involves more people than those already named.^[543]
  • The constituency office of Labour Walthamstow candidate Stella Creasy is damaged overnight by vandals.^[544]
  • UTV airs a general election debate featuring candidates from Northern Ireland's five main political parties: The Democratic Unionist Party's leader Gavin Robinson, Sinn Féin's John Finucane, Social Democratic and Labour Party leader Colum Eastwood, Alliance Party leader Naomi Long and Ulster Unionist Party deputy leader Robbie Butler.^[545]
• 24 June –
  • Sunak says that he is "not aware of any other" Conservative candidates being investigated by the Gambling Commission.^[546]
  • The Institute for Fiscal Studies says that it will be a "considerable surprise" if UK taxes do not rise in the next five years and says the two main parties are "ducking" the issue in their manifestos.^[547]
  • The Scottish Conservatives launch their election manifesto, which includes plans to improve teachers' pay, cut the backlog of NHS waiting lists, and to beat the SNP.^[548]
  • The Democratic Unionist Party launches its 2024 election manifesto, with policies including greater access to healthcare, opposition to assisted suicide and the removal of trade barriers within the UK.^[549]
  • Claire Darke, former Mayor of Wolverhampton and a longtime Labour councillor, resigns from the Labour Party, citing disillusionment with its direction under Keir Starmer. She specifically criticizes the party's stance on austerity and its "morally wrong" position on Gaza, which she sees as neglecting the suffering of the Palestinian people.^[550]
• 25 June –
  • Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako of Japan begin their state visit to the United Kingdom.^[551]
  • 2024 United Kingdom general election date betting controversy:
    • The Conservative Party withdraws its support for Craig Williams and Laura Saunders as election candidates.^[552]
    • Cabinet minister Alister Jack, who previously claimed to have won £2,100 by betting on the date of the election, then claimed he was joking, issues a statement in which he says he did not place a bet on the election.^[553]
    • Russell George, the Senedd member for Montgomeryshire, becomes the fifth Conservative politician to be investigated by the Gambling Commission for election betting.^[554]
    • The Metropolitan Police confirms that the Gambling Commission are investigating a further five police officers for placing bets on the date of the election.^[555]
    • Labour suspends Kevin Craig, their candidate for Central Suffolk and North Ipswich, after the Gambling Commission launches an unrelated investigation into him for placing a bet against himself losing in his constituency.^[556]
  • LBC's Nick Ferrari moderates an immigration policy debate between Home Secretary James Cleverly and Shadow Home Secretary Yvette Cooper.^[557]
• 26 June –
  • 2024 United Kingdom general election betting scandal
    • Alex Cole-Hamilton, leader of the Scottish Liberal Democrats, admits to placing bets on Scottish Liberal Democrat election candidates, but says he did not place bets on the date of the election itself.^[558]
    • The Sun reports that Sir Philip Davies, the Conservative candidate for Shipley, allegedly placed an £8,000 bet on whether he would lose his seat at the election, which has a majority of 6,242.^[559]
  • Police arrest a woman in her 20s in connection with the Westminster "honeytrap" scandal in which a number of MPs were sent unsolicited text messages, some of them explicit.^[560]
  • Mishal Husain moderates The Prime Ministerial Debate, the BBC's head-to-head debate between Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer.^[474]
  • Welsh Labour suspends Rhianon Passmore, the Senedd member for Islwyn, pending investigation following an allegation she was seen driving a car with two different number plates.^[561]
  • The Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) launches its election manifesto, which includes a "Marshall Plan" to address the backlog in Northern Ireland's health service, reforms to Stormont, and a repeal of the Troubles Legacy Act.^[562]
• 27 June –
  • The Metropolitan Police says that at least seven police officers are now being investigated for placing bets on the date of the general election.^[563]
  • Reform UK condemns campaigners in Clacton who were filmed by an undercover reporter for Channel 4 News making racist, homophobic and Islamophobic comments, including one who used a racial slur to describe Prime Minister Rishi Sunak. The party says those involved will no longer be involved in the election campaign.^[564]
  • Prominent Conservative donor Sir John Hall endorses Reform UK.^[565]
  • The final televised debate of the 2024 general election takes place on BBC One Northern Ireland and features representatives from Northern Ireland's five main parties.^[566]
  • Labour lifts its suspension of Rhianon Passmore after police say they had found no offence was committed regarding the number plates on her car.^[567]
• 28 June –
  • Sunak speaks of his hurt and anger at his daughters having to hear a racial slur used about him by Reform UK activists.^[568]
  • Essex Police say they are urgently trying to establish whether any criminal offences have been committed as a result of comments made by the Reform campaigners.^[569]
  • Mark Hoath, the Reform UK candidate for Sutton Coldfield, is referred to the police after claiming that a rival candidate, the Liberal Democrats' John Sweeney, "loved" the IRA.^[570]
  • Edinburgh City Council establishes an emergency polling booth at City Chambers after a number of people across Scotland reported not receiving their postal votes. The emergency polling booth, which allows those who did not receive a postal vote to cast their vote in person, will operate until 30 June. Fife Council also announces an emergency polling booth at Fife House, Glenrothes that will be open on 29 June.^[571]
  • The Green Party of Northern Ireland launches its manifesto, which includes plans to take Lough Neagh into public ownership, reforms to Stormont, a tax on the richest one percent of people and protecting public services from cuts.^[572]
• 29 June –
  • A spokesman for Reform UK confirms the party has dropped three candidates for making offensive comments. They are Edward Oakenfull (Derbyshire Dales), Robert Lomas (Barnsley North), and Leslie Lilley (Southend East and Rochford), but the candidates will still appear on the ballot paper as Reform candidates because it is too late for them to be removed.^[573]
  • East Lothian Council becomes the third local authority to establish an emergency facility for people who have not received their postal votes.^[574]
  • The Northern Ireland Conservatives launch their election manifesto with the help of Chris Heaton-Harris, the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland. Policies include upholding the Good Friday Agreement and continuing to invest in Northern Ireland. The Conservatives are fielding five candidates in Northern Ireland.^[575]
• 30 June –
  • The Sunday Times endorses the Labour Party for the first time since the 2001 general election.^[576]
  • Liam Booth-Isherwood, the Reform UK candidate for Erewash, disowns the party, citing a "significant moral issue" following recent reports of "widespread racism and sexism", and gives his backing to the Conservatives.^[577]

July

• 2 July –
  • Georgie David, the Reform UK candidate for West Ham and Beckton becomes the party's second candidate to suspend their campaign and defect to the Conservatives, and claims the "vast majority" of her fellow Reform candidates are "racist, misogynistic and bigoted".^[578]
  • The Welsh Government says it plans to bring in a ban on Welsh politicians telling lies before the 2026 Senedd election.^[579]
• 3 July –
  • The Sun endorses the Labour Party ahead of the general election.^[580]
  • Essex Police announce that no offences were committed by the Reform UK campaigners recorded making racist comments by Channel 4 News.^[581]
  • An investigation concludes that former Conservative government minister Owen Paterson acted as a lobbyist for a healthcare company without being registered to do so.^[582]
  • Mick Antoniw, the Counsel General for Wales, apologises after being formally reprimanded by the Senedd for tweeting "Tories so happy to see people and particularly children killed and injured on our roads".^[583]
  • A hearing at Newry Magistrates Court rules there is sufficient evidence for former DUP leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson to stand trial on charges of historical sexual abuse.^[584]
• 4 July –
  • The 2024 United Kingdom general election takes place.
  • 2024 Dissolution Honours: Nominations for peerages include Theresa May (former Prime Minister), Chris Grayling (former Justice Secretary), Sir Graham Brady (chair of the 1922 Committee), Craig Mackinlay (Conservative MP), Harriet Harman (former deputy leader of the Labour Party), Margaret Beckett (former Foreign Secretary), Margaret Hodge (former Labour MP), and Dr Hilary Cass (chair of the Cass Review).^[585]
• 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.^{[586] [587]}
    • The Conservatives are reduced to just 121 seats, the lowest number of MPs in their 190-year history. Among the high-profile losses are former Prime Minister Liz Truss, former cabinet minister Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg, Commons leader Penny Mordaunt, and Defence Secretary Grant Shapps.^[588]
    • The Liberal Democrats, led by Sir Ed Davey, achieve their best ever result with 71 seats.^[589]
    • The Green Party achieve their best ever result, quadrupling their number of seats to four.^[590]
    • Reform UK gain their first seats in Parliament, which includes party leader Nigel Farage taking the constituency of Clacton.^[591]
    • The SNP suffers heavy losses, going from 48 seats to just nine.^[592]
    • Sinn Féin wins seven seats, making it the largest party across Northern Ireland.^[593]
  • Starmer ministry: Starmer appoints his first cabinet. This includes Angela Rayner as Deputy Prime Minister and Rachel Reeves as Chancellor of the Exchequer, making her the first woman to hold the office.^[594]
• 6 July –
  • Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire becomes the final constituency to declare its election results, and sees the number of Liberal Democrat MPs rise to 72 after they defeat the SNP to win the seat.^[595]
  • At his first press conference since taking office, Starmer announces that he wants to cut instances of re-offending to reduce the prison population.^[596]
  • James Timpson is appointed as Minister of State for Prisons, Parole and Probation.^[597]
  • Starmer announces the Rwanda asylum plan is "dead and buried".^[598]
• 7 July –
  • Starmer makes his first visit to Scotland as prime minister, for a meeting with First Minister John Swinney.^[599]
  • Jacqui Smith is appointed as Minister of State for Skills, Apprenticeships and Higher Education, while Douglas Alexander becomes Business Minister.^[600]
  • The Starmer administration announces that the final two migrants due to be deported to Rwanda will be released on bail in the next few days; a further 218 are confirmed to have been released on bail by the Sunak administration before the election.^[601]
  • Home Secretary Yvette Cooper outlines plans to establish a UK Border Security Command whose task it will be to reduce small boat crossings in the English Channel.^[602]
• 8 July –
  • Chancellor Rachel Reeves announces plans to bring back compulsory housebuilding targets as part of plans to reboot the UK economy.^[603]
  • Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson writes to all teachers in the education sector saying she wants to "reset the relationship" with the sector as part of plans to recruit an extra 6,500 teachers.^[604]
  • Sunak reshuffles his shadow cabinet, with Andrew Mitchell replacing David Cameron as Shadow Foreign Secretary after the latter resigns. Richard Fuller replaces Richard Holden as Conservative Party Chairman after Holden resigns from the role.^[605]
• 9 July –
  • Starmer meets England's 12 regional mayors to discuss "a major programme of devolution" of powers from Westminster to local government.^[606]
  • The first meeting of the new 2024 Parliament of the United Kingdom takes place.^[607]
  • The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Levelling Up reverts to its pre-Johnson era name of the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government.^[608]
  • New Health Secretary Wes Streeting begins talks with junior doctors in England aimed at ending their pay dispute.^[609]
  • Starmer makes the unusual move of appointing five newly elected MPs to government posts: Georgia Gould is appointed as a parliamentary secretary in the Cabinet Office, Miatta Fahnbulleh is appointed as a junior minister in the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Alistair Carns is appointed as Minister of State for Veterans' Affairs, Sarah Sackman is appointed as Solicitor General, and Kirsty McNeill is appointed as a junior minister in the Scotland Office.^[610]
  • In an open letter to SNP members following the party's defeat in Scotland, former deputy leader Jim Sillars has described John Swinney's leadership as "a busted flush" and Nicola Sturgeon as "Stalin's wee sister".^[611]
• 10 July –
  • Starmer travels to Washington, D.C., his first foreign trip as UK Prime Minister, to attend the 75th NATO summit.^[612]
  • The following retirements from the House of Lords are announced by Lord McFall of Alcluith by virtue of non-attendance: John Prescott, Conrad Black and Jeffrey Archer.^[613]
• 11 July –
  • The SNP confirms it will have to make the majority of its Westminster staff redundant after Parliament reduces its "Short Money" – the annual amount paid to opposition parties – by £1m.^[614]
  • Peter Martin becomes the DUP MLA for North Down after the previous incumbent, Alex Easton was elected to Westminster.^[615]
  • A week after his election to Parliament, GB News announces that Nigel Farage is returning to his show on the channel, presenting on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays from 16 July.^[616]
• 12 July – Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood confirms that thousands of prisoners in England and Wales will be released early from their sentences at the beginning of September, warning of the "total collapse" of the prison system and a "total breakdown of law and order" without steps being taken to ease prison overcrowding.^[617]
• 14 July –
  • Leading UK political figures, including Sir Keir Starmer and Nigel Farage, condemn the previous day's attempted assassination of Donald Trump in the United States.^[618]
  • Foreign Secretary David Lammy makes his first visit to Israel and the Palestinian territory to hold talks with leaders.^[619]
  • Lord Walney, the UK government's adviser on political violence, writes to the Home Secretary urging an inquiry into potential intimidation of candidates at the general election by groups in different constituencies.^[620]
  • Buckingham Palace announces that King Charles III and Queen Camilla will visit Australia and Samoa in October.^[621]
• 15 July –
  • Records show the Conservative Party accepted a £50,000 from Westminster Development Services Limited, a company established in 2015 by a consortium led by the Hinduja Group shortly after its chairman, Prakash Hinduja, was sent to prison for exploiting domestic staff.^[622]
  • Records show that Labour received £9.5m in donations during the general election campaign, more than the other parties combined.^[623]
  • Mark Innes is given a three-year restraining order for sending aggressive and threatening messages to Sir Lindsay Hoyle, the Speaker of the House of Commons.^[624]
• 16 July –
  • Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner dismisses remarks from J. D. Vance, Donald Trump's running mate in the 2024 United States Presidential election, that Britain under Labour could become the first "truly Islamist" country with nuclear weapons.^[625]
  • Vaughan Gething resigns as First Minister of Wales after cabinet members Mick Antoniw, Lesley Griffiths, Julie James and Jeremy Miles resign from the Welsh Government and call on him to quit.^[626]
• 17 July – 2024 State Opening of Parliament: Labour sets out its legislative programme for its first parliamentary session in the King's Speech. Proposals include bills to renationalise the railways, to strengthen the rights of workers, tackle illegal immigration, reform the House of Lords, and undertake a programme to speed up the delivery of "high quality infrastructure" and housing.^[627]
• 18 July – Starmer pledges £84m in funding for education, employment and humanitarian projects in Africa and the Middle East designed to stop illegal migration "at source".^[628]
• 19 July –
  • Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky visits Downing Street and addresses the cabinet, becoming the first foreign leader to address a British cabinet since 1997, and urges Keir Starmer to "show your leadership" by helping to remove restrictions on on the use of weapons supplied to Ukraine.^[629]
  • Sunak makes junior appointments to his shadow frontbench team, including some newly elected MPs, meaning 51 of the 121 Conservative MPs in parliament now have shadow ministerial posts.^[630]
  • Foreign Secretary David Lammy confirms the UK will resume funding UNRWA, the UN's agency for Palestinian refugees.^[631]
  • Shadow Secretary of State for Health and Social Care Victoria Atkins is criticised by House of Commons Deputy Speaker Christopher Chope for her behaviour during a parliamentary debate after she loudly interrupted Steve Reed, the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs as he addressed the House.^[632]
• 20 July –
  • Figures produced by the Institute for Fiscal Studies suggest the UK government would need to spend an extra £3bn to implement a 5.5% pay rise for teaching and NHS staff.^[633]
  • July 2024 Welsh Labour leadership election

• • • Welsh Labour officials agree a timeline for the election, with a new leader to be in place on 14 September.^[634]
    • Nominations open for candidates entering the leadership contest.^[634]
• 21 July –
  • Writing in the Sun on Sunday, Home Secretary Yvette Cooper announces that car washes and beauty salons will be targeted by immigration officials over the summer in a bid to crack down on businesses illegally hiring workers from overseas.^[635]
  • Former Chancellor Jeremy Hunt, who was Health Secretary for a number of years before the COVID-19 pandemic, apologises "unreservedly" to the families of people who died from the illness after a report prepared by the COVID-19 Inquiry found significant flaws in the government's strategy for dealing with the pandemic.^[636]
• 22 July –
  • Home Secretary Yvette Cooper confirms the UK government will resume processing asylum applications, including those from people who arrived in the UK illegally. She also tells the House of Commons the previous government's Rwanda asylum plan cost £700m, with only four people being removed to the country voluntarily. The shadow home secretary, James Cleverly, says Cooper's words are "hyperbole" and "made up numbers", adding  that Labour had scrapped scheme on "ideological grounds" and that its purpose was as a deterrent.^[637]
  • Launch of Skills England, a government body whose objective will be to reduce the need for overseas employees by improving skills training for people in England.^[638]
  • 2024 Conservative Party leadership election

The Conservative Party's 1922 Committee sets out a timeline for the election of the next leader, with the successful candidate scheduled to be announced in early November.^[639]

• • July 2024 Welsh Labour leadership election

Eluned Morgan becomes the first candidate to enter the leadership race.^[640]

• • Plaid Cymru expels Senedd member Rhys ab Owen after he was found to have inappropriately touched and sworn at two women while drunk at a party.^[641]
  • Former Chancellor Nadhim Zahawi, who stood down from Parliament at the general election, is reported to be seeking financial backers in order to bid for the Daily Telegraph and The Spectator.^[642]
• 23 July –
  • Seven Labour MPs, including former shadow chancellor John McDonnell and former shadow minister Rebecca Long-Bailey, have the Labour whip suspended for six months after voting against the government and in favour of an SNP amendment to scrap the two-child benefit cap. McDonnel said, "I'm following Keir Starmer's example as he said put country before party".^[643]
  • The Home Office confirms that contract for the Bibby Stockholm, the vessel used to house asylum seekers, will not be renewed after January 2025.^[644]
  • Documents released by The National Archives reveal that former prime minister Harold Wilson agreed to sell his private papers late in life in order to provide funds for his care. A deal agreed with Canada's McMaster University in 1990 attracted concern from the Cabinet Office because documents relating to his time in office remained private under the thirty year rule, which would not apply if they went to Canada. They were eventually sold to Oxford's Bodleian Library.^[645]
  • 2024 Conservative Party leadership election

James Cleverly, who served as Home Secretary and Foreign Secretary in the Sunak government, announces his intention to run for the post of Conservative Party leader.^[646]

• 24 July –
  • Starmer attends his first PMQs as Prime Minister.^[647]
  • 2024 Conservative Party leadership election

Nominations open for the first round of the leadership election.^[648]

• • July 2024 Welsh Labour leadership election

• • • Eluned Morgan is elected unopposed as the new leader of Welsh Labour after nominations close at midday.^[649]
    • The Senedd will be recalled on 6 August to choose a new First Minister of Wales following the resignation of Vaughan Gething and the subsequent Welsh Labour leadership election.^[650]
• 25 July – Conservative Party leadership election: Tom Tugendhat and Robert Jenrick enter the race to become the next Conservative leader.^{[651] [652]}
• 26 July –
  • Labour peer Lord Falconer introduces the Assisted Dying Bill into the House of Lords. The bill would allow anyone with a terminal illness and less than six months left to live to get medical assistance to end their life.^[653]
  • Following a critical report on the Care Quality Commission, Health Secretary Wes Streeting describes the body as not fit for purpose.^[654]
  • Conservative Party leadership election

Former Work and Pensions Secretary Mel Stride becomes the fourth candidate to announce his intention to run for the Conservative Party leadership election.^[655]

• 27 July – Conservative Party leadership election: Priti Patel becomes the fifth candidate to put their name forward for the election, standing as a unity candidate.^[656]
• 28 July – Labour accuses the previous Conservative government of "covering up" "catastrophic" problems in the public sector and creating a multi-billion pound gap in public finances. The Conservatives say Labour are "lying" and "peddling nonsense" as all the detail of public finances has been put into the public domain by the Office for Budget Responsibility since 2010. Former chancellor, Jeremy Hunt, says "the books have been wide open and what they show is a healthy, growing economy – not the fiction Labour is now peddling which is widely rejected by independent commentators" and that "trying to scam the British people so soon after being elected is a high-risk strategy doomed to fail".^[657]
• 29 July –
  • The UK government and the British Medical Association (BMA) reach agreement on an improved pay deal for junior doctors in England worth 22% on average over two years, which the BMA will put to its members.^[658]
  • 2024 United Kingdom Spending Review

• • • Chancellor Rachel Reeves conducts a spending review in which she axes winter fuel payments for pensioners not receiving pension credit (roughly around 10 million people), while also announcing the cancellation of several infrastructure projects. Reeves argues she has had to make "necessary and urgent decisions" because of an "unfunded" and "undisclosed" overspending of £21.9bn by the previous government. Shadow Chancellor Jeremy Hunt dismisses her claims as "spurious".^{[659] [660]}
    • The new Labour government scraps the controversial proposed Stonehenge road tunnel.^[661]
    • Reeves confirms 30 October as the date of the Autumn budget.^[662]
    • In response to Reeves' claims about public services, Hunt writes to Cabinet Secretary Simon Case, who heads the civil service, to dispute Labour's claims and request an "immediate answer" to "conflicting claims" that risk "bringing the civil service into disrepute".^[663]
  • 2024 Conservative Party leadership election

• • • Kemi Badenoch becomes the sixth person to enter the leadership race.^[664]
    • Nominations close for candidates to be included in the first round of the leadership contest.^[639]
  • The UK government drops its appeal against a court ruling against the Troubles Legacy Act that found part of the legislation to be unlawful.^[665]
• 30 July – Housing Secretary Angela Rayner reintroduces mandatory local housing targets in an overhaul of planning rules; the new Labour government has pledged to build 1.5 million new homes by 2029.^[666]
• 31 July –
  • Energy Secretary Ed Miliband announces an increase in the budget for the annual renewable energy auction, which will rise to £1.5bn, up by £500m from 2023.^[667]
  • Tulip Siddiq, Economic Secretary to the Treasury and Labour MP for Hampstead and Highgate, becomes the first MP of the new Parliament to be placed under investigation by the Standards Commissioner, over a failure to register rental income on a London property.^[668]

August

• 2 August – The BBC reports that Labour has shelved £1.3bn of funding promised by the Conservatives for tech and artificial intelligence (AI) projects, including an exascale supercomputer at Edinburgh University.^[669]
• 6 August –
  • The UK government begins the process of drawing up legislation to abolish the Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Act 2023, which required striking workers such as teachers, firefighters and railway staff to provide a minimum level of service.^[670]
  • The Senedd is recalled to choose a new First Minister of Wales, with Eluned Morgan nominated to become the first woman to hold the post.^{[650] [671]}
• 7 August –
  • Ofcom have received more than 8,200 complaints about two interviews during the 5 August edition of Good Morning Britain – the first involving presenter Ed Balls who spoke to his wife, Home Secretary Yvette Cooper, and the second involving an interview Balls and Kate Garraway did with Labour MP Zarah Sultana.^[672]
  • Mark Drakeford, Wales's former First Minister, returns to government after he is appointed Health Secretary by Eluned Morgan.^[673]
• 8 August –
  • The Northern Ireland Assembly is recalled to discuss the 2024 United Kingdom riots.^{[674] [675]}
  • Nominations open for the 2024 Scottish Conservatives leadership election.^[676]
  • Ricky Jones, a Labour councillor in Dartford, is suspended by his party and arrested over comments made at an anti-racism rally the previous day in which he suggested far-right protestors who took part in the 2024 UK riots should have their throats cut.^[677]
  • Lauren Edwards, the Labour MP for Rochester and Strood, apologises after, what she describes as "a small number of", offensive tweets posted by her in 2009 resurface.^[678]
• 9 August –
  • Dartford councillor Ricky Jones is charged with encouraging violent disorder.^[679]
  • Conservative Senedd member Laura Anne Jones apologises for her use of an ethnic slur about Chinese people during a WhatsApp discussion about TikTok.^[680]
• 12 August – 2024 United Kingdom riots: Downing Street confirms that Starmer has cancelled his planned summer holiday in order to continue to address the violence.^[681]
• 14 August –
  • The Scottish Government confirms it will follow the UK government by scrapping universal winter fuel payments for pensioners, with the benefit to be means tested.^[682]
  • Jess Phillips apologises for a tweet she made regarding the summer riots.^[683]
• 15 August – Chancellor Rachel Reeves faces questions about the appointment of a Labour Party donor to a senior role at HM Treasury.^[684]
• 16 August –
  • David Lammy visits Israel with his French counterpart Stéphane Séjourné, and they release a joint statement calling for a ceasefire.^[685]
  • 2024 Scottish Conservatives leadership election

• • • Four of the six candidates running for the position of Scottish Conservative leader call for the race to be paused after claims about Douglas Ross's behaviour as leader.^{[686] [687]} The claims concern a report that in July 2023 Ross had asked for the leader of Moray council, Kathleen Robertson, to stand down as the prospective parliamentary candidate for Moray West, Nairn and Strathspey.^[688]
    • Meghan Gallacher resigns as the party's deputy leader, citing a "potential risk to the reputation of our party and the leadership contest" after reports that Ross had previously suggested Russell Findlay should succeed him.^[689]
  • The government faces questions about the appointment of Emily Middleton to a senior civil service role, as she has been previously linked to previous donations to the Labour Party.^[690]
  • A group of MPs call on the government of Azerbaijan to free an academic from the London School of Economics and Political Science who was detained after writing articles critical of the country’s environmental policies.^[691]
  • British American academic Alan M. Taylor is appointed to the Bank of England’s interest rate-setting committee.^[692]
  • The UK government confirms that victims of the contaminated blood scandal will begin receiving compensation before the end of the year, with some being entitled to more than £2.5m.^[693]
• 17 August –
  • It is reported that the Register of Member's Interests shows Reform UK leader Nigel Farage as Britain's highest earning MP, with a monthly salary of £96,000 on top of what he is paid as an MP. The majority of his earnings come from his presenting role on GB News.^[694] Farage subsequently says the amount is not a monthly sum, but represents presenting and consultancy work done since April.^[695]
  • SNP MSP John Mason is stripped of the party whip after a Twitter post in which he said that Israel's actions in Gaza did not amount to "genocide", something a party spokesperson describes as "completely unacceptable".^[696]
• 18 August –
  • The Home Office announces that new plans by the UK government will see extreme misogyny treated as a form of extremism.^[697]
  • Mark Smith, an official with the Foreign Office and based at the British Embassy in Dublin, resigns in protest at arms sales to Israel, and suggests the UK government "may be complicit in war crimes".^[698]
• 19 August –
  • The UK government activates Operation Early Dawn, its measures to ease prison overcrowding, as more people are given custodial sentences over their roles in the riots. The measures, in place in the north of England and the Midlands, will see defendants waiting to appear in court held at police stations until a prison space is available for them.^[699] Jo Stevens, the Secretary of State for Wales, subsequently says that the measures will be in force for "a very short period", typically "a matter of days, or at the most months".^[700]
  • The Scottish Government announces it will hold no further talks with Israeli ambassadors until there is "real progress" in resolving the Gaza conflict.^[701]
  • Christina McKelvie, the Scottish Government's Minister for Drugs and Alcohol Policy, announces she will step back from the role while receiving treatment for secondary breast cancer. Her duties will be assumed by fellow ministers Neil Gray and Jenni Minto.^[702]
  • First Minister of Wales Eluned Morgan holds her first meeting with Prime Minister Keir Starmer since taking office.^[703]
  • Doug Beattie resigns as leader of the Ulster Unionist Party, triggering a leadership election.^[704]
• 20 August – 2024 Ulster Unionist Party leadership election: Nominations open to elect the next leader of the Ulster Unionist Party.^[705]
• 21 August – 2024 Ulster Unionist Party leadership election: Doug Beattie rules himself out of running for re-election as UUP leader.^[706]

September

• 3 September – The Medicines (Gonadotrophin-Releasing Hormone Analogues) (Emergency Prohibition) (England, Wales and Scotland) Order 2024 ceases to have effect.
• 14 September – 2024 Ulster Unionist Party leadership election: An extraordinary meeting will confirm Doug Beattie's successor as leader of the Ulster Unionist Party.^[705]
• 22–25 September – The 2024 Labour Party Conference is scheduled to take place at the ACC Liverpool.^[707]
• 27 September – The result of the 2024 Scottish Conservatives leadership election is announced.^[676]

October

• 31 October – 2024 Conservative Party leadership election: Voting closes for the election of the Conservative Party's next leader.^[639]

November

• 2 November – 2024 Conservative Party leadership election: The new Conservative Party leader is announced.^[708]

December

Publications

• 16 April – Ten Years to Save the West by Liz Truss^[709]
• 10 October – Unleashed by Boris Johnson^[710]

Deaths

• 3 January – Derek Draper, 56, lobbyist and political adviser.^{[711] [712]}
• 15 January – James Masih Shera, 77, Pakistani-born British politician and educationist.^[713]
• 17 January – Sir Tony Lloyd, 73, British politician, MP (1983–2012, since 2017) and mayor of Greater Manchester (2015–2017), leukemia.^[714]
• 19 January – Sir Graham Bright, 81, British politician, MP (1979–1997) and Cambridgeshire police and crime commissioner (2012–2016).^[715]
• 20 January – John Tomlinson, Baron Tomlinson, 84, British politician, MP (1974–1979) and MEP (1984–1999).^[716]
• 6 February – Shreela Flather, Baroness Flather, 89, British-Indian politician, Life peer (since 1990).^[717]
• 23 February – Ronnie Campbell, 80, British politician, MP (1987–2019).^[718]
• 25 February – Patrick Cormack, Baron Cormack, 84, British politician, MP (1970–2010) and member of the House of Lords (since 2010).^[719] (death announced on this date)
• 26 February – Jacob Rothschild, 4th Baron Rothschild, 87, British investment banker and peer, member of the House of Lords (1991–1999).^[720]
• 29 February – Ruth Henig, Baroness Henig, 80, historian and politician, member of the House of Lords (since 2004), Deputy Speaker of the House of Lords (since 2018).^[721]
• 8 March – Tommy McAvoy, Baron McAvoy, 80, British politician, MP (1987–2010) and member of the House of Lords (since 2010).^[722] (death announced on this date)
• 6 April – Doug Hoyle, Baron Hoyle, 98, British politician, MP (1974–1979, 1981–1983) and member of the House of Lords (1997–2023).^[723]
• 10 April – Richard Rosser, Baron Rosser, 79, British trade unionist and politician, member of the House of Lords (since 2004).^[724]
• 14 April – Trixie Gardner, Baroness Gardner of Parkes, 96, British politician, member of the House of Lords since 1981^[725]
• 20 April – Doreen Massey, Baroness Massey of Darwen, 85, British politician, member of the House of Lords (since 1999).^[726]
• 23 April –
  • Frank Field, Baron Field of Birkenhead, 81, British politician, MP (1979–2019) and member of the House of Lords (since 2020).^[727]
  • David Marquand, 89, British politician and academic administrator, MP (1966–1977) and principal of Mansfield College, Oxford (1996–2002).^[728]
• 29 April – Andrew Stunell, Baron Stunell, 81, British politician, MP (1997–2015) and member of the House of Lords (since 2015).^[729]
• 10 May – Colin Breed, 76, British politician, MP (1997–2010).^[730] (death announced on this date)
• 12 May – Michael Brudenell-Bruce, 8th Marquess of Ailesbury, 98, British hereditary peer, army officer and stockbroker, member of the House of Lords (1974–1999).^[731]
• 24 May – Stuart Borrowman, 71, Scottish politician.^[732]
• 5 June – Charles Allsopp, 6th Baron Hindlip, 83, British peer and businessman, member of the House of Lords (1993–1999).^[733]
• 26 June – Richard Taylor, 89, British politician, MP (2001–2010).^[734]
• 29 July –
  • Robert Fellowes, Baron Fellowes, 82, British courtier, private secretary to the sovereign (1990–1999) and member of the House of Lords (1999–2022).^[735]
  • Peter Reddaway, 84, British-American political scientist.^[736]
• 4 August – Anthony Hamilton-Smith, 3rd Baron Colwyn, 82, British dentist and peer, member of the House of Lords (1967–2022).^[737]

Notes and References

1. News: Emily . Atkinson . Justin Welby: Political leaders should treat opponents as human beings . 1 January 2024 . 1 January 2024 . BBC News.
2. News: Paul . Gribben . Frank . Gardner . Red Sea: UK defence secretary says British forces will repel Houthi attacks . 1 January 2024 . 1 January 2024 . BBC News.
3. News: Michelle Mone husband: We're a scapegoat for PPE failures . 1 January 2024 . 1 January 2024 . BBC News.
4. News: Statistics watchdog to examine government asylum backlog claims . 3 January 2024 . 3 January 2024 . BBC News.
5. News: Alex . Forsyth . Chas . Geiger . Lib Dem leader Ed Davey launches 'Tory Removal Service' . 3 January 2024 . 3 January 2024 . BBC News.
6. News: Chas . Geiger . Tory MP Nadhim Zahawi plays himself in Post Office scandal TV drama . 3 January 2024 . 3 January 2024 . BBC News.
7. News: Becky . Morton . Alex . Forsyth . Reform leader Richard Tice turns fire on Labour as he calls for election . 3 January 2024 . 3 January 2024 . BBC News.
8. News: Sunak pencils in election for second half of 2024 as Starmer makes pitch . 4 January 2024 . 4 January 2024 . BBC News.
9. News: Chris Skidmore: Tory MP to quit over new oil and gas licences . 5 January 2024 . 5 January 2024 . BBC News.
10. News: Laura . Kuenssberg . Rishi Sunak had significant doubt over Rwanda plan, papers suggest . 6 January 2024 . 6 January 2024 . BBC News.
11. News: Cemlyn . Davies . Jeremy Miles rules out 20mph U-turn if he becomes first minister . 5 January 2024 . 6 January 2024 . BBC News.
12. News: Dearbail . Jordan . Post Office scandal: Rishi Sunak considers measures to clear all victims . 7 January 2024 . 7 January 2024 . BBC News.
13. News: Conservatives pick Peter Bone's partner as candidate for his old seat . 7 January 2024 . 7 January 2024 . BBC News.
14. News: Damian . Grammaticas . Watchdog to assess claims against pensions minister Paul Maynard . 7 January 2024 . 7 January 2024 . BBC News.
15. News: 7 January 2024 . Sir Keir Starmer has worries over election impact on his children . 7 January 2024 . BBC News . en-GB.
16. News: Paul . Seddon . Helen . Catt . Greens to stand throughout England and Wales at next general election . 8 January 2024 . 8 January 2024 . BBC News.
17. News: Craig . Williams . SNP's Cherry demands apology from fellow MP Black . 8 January 2024 . 8 January 2024 . BBC News.
18. News: Becky . Morton . Oil and gas legislation is total distraction, senior Tory says . 8 January 2024 . 8 January 2024 . BBC News.
19. News: Riley-Smith . Ben . 8 January 2024 . Starmer faces questions over why he failed to intervene in Post Office scandal . The Telegraph.
20. News: 9 January 2024 . Student loan costs to balloon by £10bn a year – IFS report . 9 January 2024 . BBC News . en-GB.
21. News: Becky . Morton . Law to quash Post Office convictions being considered, minister says . 9 January 2024 . 9 January 2024 . BBC News.
22. News: Oliver . Slow . Natasha . Preskey . Paula Vennells: Ex-Post Office boss handing back CBE over IT scandal . 9 January 2024 . 9 January 2024 . BBC News.
23. News: Gutteridge . Nick . Penna . Dominic . 9 January 2024 . Pressure on Ed Davey over knighthood after Post Office boss hands back CBE . The Telegraph.
24. News: Paul . Seddon . Akshata Murty: Rishi Sunak's wife gives up shares in childcare firm . 9 January 2024 . 9 January 2024 . BBC News.
25. News: Sean . Seddon . George . Wright . Post Office scandal: Hundreds of victims to have convictions overturned . 10 January 2024 . 10 January 2024 . BBC News.
26. News: Post Office scandal victims in Scotland to be cleared . 10 January 2024 . 10 January 2024 . BBC News.
27. News: Sam . Francis . Lib Dems urge Ofcom to investigate GB News Post Office scandal coverage . 11 January 2024 . 11 January 2024 . BBC News.
28. News: Scotland to replicate ban on XL bully dogs – Yousaf . 11 January 2024 . 11 January 2024 . BBC News.
29. Web site: Rageh . Omaar . Dan . Rivers . UK-US joint strikes against Houthi rebels 'likely tonight', ITV News understands . ITV . ITV News . 11 January 2024 . 11 January 2024.
30. News: Sam . Francis . Iain . Watson . Rishi Sunak faces call for MP vote on Houthi air strike . 12 January 2024 . 12 January 2024 . BBC News.
31. News: Kate . Whannel . Sunak authorises Labour and civil service talks ahead of election . 11 January 2024 . 12 January 2024 . BBC News.
32. News: Phil . Kemp . Fujitsu won Foreign Office contract despite concerns . 12 January 2024 . 12 January 2024 . BBC News.
33. News: Helen . Catt . Tony Blair was warned Horizon IT system could be flawed, documents show . 12 January 2024 . 12 January 2024 . BBC News.
34. News: New Malden ex-postmistress aims to stand against Sir Ed Davey . 13 January 2024 . 13 January 2024 . BBC News.
35. News: James . Gregory . Adam . Durbin . UK will back words with actions against Houthis in Yemen – Cameron . 14 January 2024 . 14 January 2024 . BBC News.
36. News: Becky . Morton . Rishi Sunak: Strikes on Houthis intended as 'limited, single action' . 15 January 2024 . 15 January 2024 . BBC News.
37. News: Orkney Islands Council leader James Stockan to step down . 15 January 2024 . 15 January 2024 . BBC News.
38. News: 16 January 2024 . General election: Labour would need record swing to win . 16 January 2024 . BBC News . en-GB.
39. News: Lee Anderson resigns as deputy Tory chair over Rwanda vote . 16 January 2024 . 16 January 2024 . BBC News . en-GB.
40. Web site: Wolverhampton MP quits PPS role after defying Government over Rwanda Bill . Paul . Jenkins . 16 January 2024 . Express and Star . 16 January 2024.
41. News: Brits living abroad for more than 15 years get general election vote. BBC News . 16 January 2024. 16 January 2024.
42. News: UK government to seek gender case legal expenses from Scots ministers . 17 January 2024 . 17 January 2024 . BBC News.
43. Web site: 17 January 2024 . Bid to elect Northern Ireland Assembly speaker fails after Stormont recall . ITV Ulster.
44. Web site: Bethany . Dawson . Rishi Sunak wins Rwanda bill vote after facing down rebels . 17 January 2024 . 17 January 2024 . Politico.
45. News: Nick . Eardley . Paul . Seddon . Rishi Sunak rebuked by stats watchdog over asylum backlog claim . 18 January 2024 . 18 January 2024 . BBC News.
46. Web site: Ireland formally lodges inter-state case against UK . 19 January 2024 . Irish Legal News . 21 January 2024.
47. Web site: Ireland lodges case against UK with European Court over Troubles legislation . Lauren . Boland . 19 January 2024 . TheJournal.ie . 21 January 2024.
48. News: Helen . Catt . Chas . Geiger . Cat and dog theft set to be made criminal offence . 19 January 2024 . 19 January 2024 . BBC News.
49. News: Sam . Hancock . Jacqueline . Howard . Pro-Palestinian supporters disrupt speech by David Lammy . 20 January 2024 . 20 January 2024 . BBC News.
50. News: Yousaf offers talks with 'next prime minister' Starmer . 21 January 2024 . 21 January 2024 . BBC News.
51. News: Sam . Francis . Harry . Farley . Rwanda asylum scheme: Peers vote against approving Rwanda treaty . 22 January 2024 . 23 January 2024 . BBC News.
52. News: David . Deans . Shelley . Phelps . Six Nations: Call to add championship to free-to-air list rejected . 22 January 2024 . 23 January 2024 . BBC News.
53. News: James . Gregory . Frank . Gardner . UK not seeking confrontation with Houthis – Sunak . 23 January 2024 . 23 January 2024 . BBC News.
54. News: Jayne . McCormack . NI Assembly: Chris Heaton-Harris to extend election deadline again . 23 January 2024 . 23 January 2024 . BBC News.
55. News: Becky . Morton . I'm acting alone, says Simon Clarke after calling for PM to go . 24 January 2024 . 24 January 2024 . BBC News.
56. News: UUP: Iraq veteran Col Tim Collins to run in North Down . 24 January 2024 . 24 January 2024 . BBC News.
57. News: Katy . Austin . Sam . Gruet . HS2: Mayors to meet minister about alternatives . 24 January 2024 . 24 January 2024 . BBC News.
58. Web site: Janyce . McGregor . John Paul . Tasker . U.K. walks away from trade talks with Canada . CBC . CBC News . 25 January 2024 . 25 January 2024.
59. News: Theo . Leggett . Sam . Gruet . Ex-Tory peer Michelle Mone's assets frozen by CPS . 26 January 2024 . 26 January 2024 . BBC News.
60. News: Cemlyn . Davies . Welsh Labour leadership: Jeremy Miles criticises Unite rule . 26 January 2024 . 26 January 2024 . BBC News.
61. News: Former Fujitsu UK CEO quits government role . 26 January 2024 . 27 January 2024 . BBC News.
62. News: Shelley . Phelps . Sam . Francis . Parental leave bill for bereaved passes first stage in Commons . 26 January 2024 . 27 January 2024 . BBC News.
63. News: Government announces second probe of Telegraph sale . 26 January 2024 . 27 January 2024 . BBC News.
64. Web site: Kleinman . Mark . Post Office chairman Henry Staunton ousted amid row with government . Sky News . 27 January 2024 . 28 January 2024.
65. News: Nadine Dorries pledges to repay mistaken £17K exit payout . 28 January 2024 . 28 January 2024 . BBC News.
66. News: Andre . Rhoden-Paul . Kate Osamor: Labour suspends MP over Gaza remarks in Holocaust message . 29 January 2024 . 29 January 2024 . BBC News.
67. News: Mariam . Issimdar . George Freeman quit as minister as he 'couldn't afford' mortgage . 29 January 2024 . 29 January 2024 . BBC News.
68. News: St Patrick's Day: SDLP leader to boycott White House celebrations . 29 January 2024 . 29 January 2024 . BBC News.
69. News: Sam . Francis . Rwanda Bill criticised by peers at first stage in House of Lords . 29 January 2024 . 29 January 2024 . BBC News.
70. News: DUP: Coming days crucial for Stormont return, says Sinn Féin . 30 January 2024 . 30 January 2024 . BBC News.
71. News: James . Landale . UK considering recognising Palestine state, Lord Cameron says . 30 January 2024 . 30 January 2024 . BBC News.
72. News: Plans for more Senedd politicians move step closer . 30 January 2024 . 30 January 2024 . BBC News.
73. Web site: Roy . Martin . New Media Bill gets passed by House of Commons and moves closer to reality . 31 January 2024 . 31 January 2024 . Radio Today.
74. News: John . Campbell . DUP deal aimed at restoring power sharing in Northern Ireland is published . 31 January 2024 . 31 January 2024 . BBC News.
75. News: Simon . Jack . Bankers' bonuses: No cap under Labour, says Reeves . 31 January 2024 . 31 January 2024 . BBC News.
76. News: Jayne . McCormack . Finn . Purdy . Stormont: Assembly to sit on Saturday as DUP boycott ends . 1 February 2024 . 1 February 2024 . BBC News.
77. News: Chas . Geiger . Hate faced by MP Mike Freer is attack on democracy, says Downing Street . 1 February 2024 . 1 February 2024 . BBC News.
78. News: Sam . Francis . Labour promise not to raise corporation tax if elected . 1 February 2024 . 1 February 2024 . BBC News.
79. News: Shelley . Phelps . Penny Mordaunt 'shocked' by Senedd expansion plan . 1 February 2024 . 1 February 2024 . BBC News.
80. News: Stacey . Kiran . 1 February 2024 . Christina Rees readmitted to Labour after apology over bullying claims . 1 February 2024 . The Guardian . en-GB . 0261-3077.
81. Web site: Senior MP confirms Labour has dropped £28bn target for green investment . 2 February 2024 . 2 February 2024 . The Guardian .
82. News: Jayne . McCormack . Edwin Poots: Who is the Speaker of the Northern Ireland Assembly? . 3 February 2024 . 3 February 2024 . BBC News.
83. News: Brendan . Hughes . Michelle O'Neill appointed Northern Ireland's first nationalist first minister . 3 February 2024 . 3 February 2024 . BBC News.
84. News: Enda . McClafferty . Justin McNulty: SDLP suspend MLA who left Stormont for GAA game . 3 February 2024 . 4 February 2024 . BBC News.
85. Web site: Kurtis . Reid . SDLP suspend Justin McNulty after he leaves Stormont 'without permission' to manage GAA team . 3 February 2024 . 4 February 2024 . Belfast Telegraph.
86. News: Alex . Smith . Sir Bob Neill: Former Tory minister to stand down at next general election . 3 February 2024 . 3 February 2024 . BBC News.
87. News: Rhodri . Lewis . New Wales political system poses great danger – Wigley . 3 February 2024 . 4 February 2024 . BBC News.
88. News: Rishi Sunak hails 'special opportunity' as he starts Northern Ireland visit . 4 February 2024 . 4 February 2024 . BBC News.
89. News: Jayne . McCormack . Stormont: Rishi Sunak and Leo Varadkar visit as power-sharing work begins . 5 February 2024 . 5 February 2024 . BBC News.
90. News: Becky . Morton . Opposition parties attack Rishi Sunak over £1,000 Rwanda bet . 5 February 2024 . 5 February 2024 . BBC News.
91. News: Sam . Francis . Rishi Sunak says he was taken by surprise on £1,000 Rwanda bet . 6 February 2024 . 6 February 2024 . BBC News.
92. News: Sean . Seddon . Rishi Sunak admits he has failed to cut NHS waiting lists . 5 February 2024 . 5 February 2024 . BBC News.
93. News: Munaza . Rafiq . Guide dogs: Government plans to stop businesses refusing access . 5 February 2024 . BBC News. 5 February 2024.
94. Web site: Tom . Tugendhat . Six-week Martyn's Law consultation launched . GOV.UK . 5 February 2024 . 6 February 2024.
95. News: Nathalie . Edell . Kwasi Kwarteng to stand down as Spelthorne MP . 6 February 2024 . 6 February 2024 . BBC News.
96. News: Simon . Gilbert . Birmingham council tax: 10% rise approved amid financial crisis . 6 February 2024 . BBC News. 6 February 2024.
97. News: Adrian . Browne . South Wales fire service taken over after sexual harassment probe . 6 February 2024 . 6 February 2024 . BBC News.
98. News: Drugs minister Elena Whitham quits due to post-traumatic stress . 6 February 2024 . 6 February 2024 . BBC News.
99. News: Brian . Wheeler . Liz Truss targets 'secret Tories' with new campaign . 6 February 2024 . 6 February 2024 . BBC News.
100. News: Sam . Francis . Henry . Zeffman . Rishi Sunak faces calls to apologise over trans jibe to Starmer at PMQs. BBC News . 7 February 2024. 7 February 2024.
101. News: Rob . England . Megan . Riddell . Weather data casts doubt on government's claim over fall in migrant crossings . 7 February 2024 . 7 February 2024 . BBC News.
102. News: Paul . Seddon . Keir Starmer defends Labour U-turn on £28bn green spending . 8 February 2024 . 8 February 2024 . BBC News.
103. News: Angus . Cochrane . Neil Gray replaces Michael Matheson as Scottish health secretary . 8 February 2024 . 8 February 2024 . BBC News.
104. News: Marie-Louise . Connolly . Rebekah . Logan . Robin Swann: 'I can be MP candidate and health minister' . 8 February 2024 . 8 February 2024 . BBC News.
105. News: Walker . Peter . 9 February 2024 . Major Tory donor among 13 new peers named in honours list . 10 February 2024 . The Guardian . en-GB . 0261-3077.
106. News: Conservative donors and 27-year-old among new life peers . 10 February 2024 . 10 February 2024 . BBC News.
107. News: Tory MSP Donald Cameron to take up House of Lords seat . 9 February 2024 . 9 February 2024 . BBC News.
108. News: Paul . Seddon . Rishi Sunak earned £2.2m last year, tax records show . 9 February 2024 . 9 February 2024 . BBC News.
109. News: Sam . Francis . Helen . Catt . Shahrar Ali wins 'gender critical' court battle against Green Party . 9 February 2024 . 9 February 2024 . BBC News.
110. Web site: 9 February 2024 . Conservatives ecstatic after winning seat in Labour stronghold . 12 February 2024 . Northwich Guardian . en.
111. News: Labour candidate Azhar Ali apologises for Israel comments . 11 February 2024 . 11 February 2024 . BBC News.
112. News: Kate . Whannel . Azhar Ali: Labour defends standing by Rochdale by-election candidate . 12 February 2024 . 12 February 2024 . BBC News.
113. News: Labour withdraws support for Rochdale candidate . 12 February 2024 . 12 February 2024 . BBC News.
114. News: Bob . Dale . Tracey Crouch, MP for Chatham and Aylesford, to stand down at next election . 12 February 2024 . 12 February 2024 . BBC News.
115. Web site: Rish! uses his big break on GB News to remind us he can't connect with people . John . Crace . 12 February 2024 . 14 February 2024 . The Guardian.
116. News: Labour suspends second parliamentary candidate after recording emerges . 13 February 2024 . 13 February 2024 . BBC News.
117. News: Adrian . Browne . Welsh Labour: Lord Kinnock backs Gething to be next FM . 14 February 2024 . 14 February 2024 . BBC News.
118. News: Lou . Newton . Tobias Ellwood says MPs are not 'fair game' after protest at home . 14 February 2024 . 14 February 2024 . BBC News.
119. News: Sam . Francis . Government announces by-elections in two Tory-held constituencies . 11 January 2024 . 11 January 2024 . BBC News.
120. News: Becky . Morton . Wellingborough and Kingswood by-elections: More to do despite wins, says Keir Starmer . 16 February 2024 . 16 February 2024 . BBC News.
121. News: Harriet . Robinson . Tory councillor Atiqul Hoque expelled for alleged antisemitic comments . 15 February 2024 . 15 February 2024 . BBC News.
122. News: Jennifer . McKiernan . Sir Keir Starmer paid nearly £100,000 in taxes in 2023 . 16 February 2024 . 16 February 2024 . BBC News.
123. News: Welsh Labour ballot opens to choose next first minister . 16 February 2024 . 16 February 2024 . BBC News.
124. News: Belinda . Ryan . Cheshire East: Deputy leader says he can't live on £30k pay . 16 February 2024 . 16 February 2024 . BBC News.
125. News: Paul . Hastie . Scottish Labour backs motion for 'immediate ceasefire' in Gaza . 17 February 2024 . 17 February 2024 . BBC News.
126. News: Nick . Edser . Post Office scandal: Kemi Badenoch hits back at Henry Staunton . 18 February 2024 . 18 February 2024 . BBC News.
127. News: Sam . Francis . Sir Keir Starmer calls for Gaza 'ceasefire that lasts' . 18 February 2024 . 18 February 2024 . BBC News.
128. Web site: John . Hand. Ian. Aikman . King Charles' crown appears in change of logo on government's gov.uk website. 19 February 2024 . 21 February 2024 . BBC News.
129. News: Michael . Race . Kemi Badenoch says ex-Post Office chair claims 'made up' . 19 February 2024 . 19 February 2024 . BBC News.
130. News: Becky . Morton . New controls on holiday lets to be introduced . 19 February 2024 . 19 February 2024 . BBC News.
131. News: Ofcom to investigate GB News show featuring Rishi Sunak . 19 February 2024 . 19 February 2024 . BBC News.
132. News: Becky . Morton . Ukraine family visa scheme closes to new applicants . 19 February 2024 . 20 February 2024 . BBC News.
133. News: Caroline . Gall . Simon . Gilbert . 'Bankrupt' Birmingham reveals 21% council tax rise . 19 February 2024 . 20 February 2024 . BBC News.
134. News: Andy . Verity . Cameron government knew Post Office ditched Horizon IT investigation . 20 February 2024 . 20 February 2024 . BBC News.
135. News: Sam . Francis . Henry . Zeffman . Labour calls for immediate humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza for first time . 20 February 2024 . 20 February 2024 . BBC News.
136. News: Sean . Coughlan . Prince William: 'Too many killed' in Israel-Gaza war . 20 February 2024 . 20 February 2024 . BBC News.
137. News: Callum . May . Immigration watchdog sacked after critical news stories . 20 February 2024 . 20 February 2024 . BBC News.
138. News: Paul . Burnell . Scott Benton: Lobbying scandal MP loses suspension appeal . 20 February 2024 . 20 February 2024 . BBC News.
139. News: Orkney appoints Scotland's youngest council leader . 20 February 2024 . 20 February 2024 . BBC News.
140. News: Becky . Morton . Commons descends into chaos over Gaza ceasefire vote . 21 February 2024 . 21 February 2024 . BBC News.
141. News: Sean . Coughlan . King seen at work for first time since cancer diagnosis . 21 February 2024 . 21 February 2024 . BBC News.
142. News: Simon . Jack . Sarah Munby: Top civil servant hits out in Post Office compensation row . 21 February 2024 . 21 February 2024 . BBC News.
143. Web site: More than 60 MPs call for Speaker to quit over Gaza vote . 22 February 2024 . East Anglian Daily Times . 22 February 2024.
144. News: Mike . Stevens . Paul Maynard: Pensions minister investigated over funding claims . 22 February 2024 . 22 February 2024 . BBC News.
145. News: Nick . Edser . Post Office scandal victims set to be cleared by new law . 22 February 2024 . 22 February 2024 . BBC News.
146. News: Megan . Bonar . Argyll and Bute votes to raise council tax by 10% . 22 February 2024 . BBC News. 22 February 2024.
147. News: Francesca . Gillett . Conservatives need a bigger bazooka, Truss tells US right-wing event . 22 February 2024 . 23 February 2024 . BBC News.
148. Web site: Labour calls for Liz Truss and Lee Anderson to lose Conservative whip . Kevin . Rawlinson . 24 February 2024 . 25 February 2024 . The Guardian.
149. News: Peter . Saull . Paul . Seddon . Political violence adviser urges new police powers to protect MPs . 23 February 2024 . 23 February 2024 . BBC News.
150. News: Enda . McClafferty . Sammy Wilson: MP quits as DUP chief whip at Westminster . 23 February 2024 . 23 February 2024 . BBC News.
151. News: UK signs new deal with EU to tackle small boat crossings . 23 February 2024 . 23 February 2024 . BBC News.
152. News: Bob Stewart: MP's racially aggravated offence conviction quashed . 23 February 2024 . 23 February 2024 . BBC News.
153. News: Lee Anderson: MP suspended from Tory party over criticism of London mayor . 24 February 2024 . 24 February 2024 . BBC News.
154. News: Michael Sheils . McNamee . Rishi Sunak warns of hatred in politics after Lee Anderson row . 25 February 2024 . 25 February 2024 . BBC News.
155. News: Caroline . Gall . Alice . Cullinane . Death threats seem a norm, MP says . 25 February 2024 . 25 February 2024 . BBC News.
156. News: Paul . Seddon . SNP to push for fresh Gaza debate after Commons vote chaos . 25 February 2024 . 25 February 2024 . BBC News.
157. News: Economy secretary to take maternity leave in summer . 25 February 2024 . 25 February 2024 . BBC News.
158. News: Becky . Morton . Lindsay Hoyle rejects SNP request for emergency Gaza debate . 26 February 2024 . 26 February 2024 . BBC News.
159. News: Lee Anderson refuses to apologise for Islamist claim about Sadiq Khan . BBC News . 26 February 2024 . 26 February 2024.
160. News: Becky . Morton . Lee Anderson wrong to conflate Muslims with extremism, No 10 says . 27 February 2024 . 27 February 2024 . BBC News.
161. News: Tim . Stokes . James W . Kelly . Paul Scully: Former minister and MP sorry for 'no-go' areas comment . 27 February 2024 . 27 February 2024 . BBC News.
162. News: Scottish government budget passes final vote . 27 February 2024 . 27 February 2024 . BBC News.
163. News: Fergus Ewing loses appeal against SNP suspension . 27 February 2024 . 27 February 2024 . BBC News.
164. News: Paul . Burnell . Scott Benton: Lobbying scandal MP recall petition date announced . 28 February 2024 . 28 February 2024 . BBC News.
165. News: Becky . Morton . £31m package announced to counter threat to MPs' security . 28 February 2024 . 28 February 2024 . BBC News.
166. News: We'll continue to march, say pro-Palestinian groups tell James Cleverly . 28 February 2024 . 28 February 2024 . BBC News.
167. News: Julian . O'Neill . NI Troubles: Legacy Act immunity clause 'breaches' human rights . 28 February 2024 . 28 February 2024 . BBC News.
168. News: Doug . Faulkner . UK descending into mob rule, PM warns police . 28 February 2024 . 28 February 2024 . BBC News.
169. Web site: Rochdale by-election result live: Workers Party candidate George Galloway wins . 1 March 2024 . BBC News . 29 February 2024 . en-gb.
170. News: Michael Gove investigated by Commons standards watchdog . 29 February 2024 . 29 February 2024 . BBC News.
171. News: MP Julian Knight will face no criminal charges . 29 February 2024 . 29 February 2024 . BBC News.
172. News: George . Bowden . Robert . Cuffe . UK asylum backlog falls with record approvals . 29 February 2024 . 29 February 2024 . BBC News.
173. News: Rochdale by-election: Keir Starmer apologises to voters after George Galloway win . 1 March 2024 . 1 March 2024 . BBC News.
174. News: Leila . Nathoo . Kate . Whannel . We must face down extremists undermining democracy, says Rishi Sunak . 1 March 2024 . 1 March 2024 . BBC News.
175. News: Becky . Morton . UK to pay at least £370m to Rwanda for asylum deal, watchdog says . 1 March 2024 . 1 March 2024 . BBC News.
176. News: Lord Bamford retires from the House of Lords . 8 April 2024 . BBC News. 8 April 2024.
177. Web site: London Labour Conference 2024 . 9 April 2024 . London Labour . en-GB.
178. News: Lora . Jones . Budget 2024: UK economy is on the right track, claims Sunak . 4 March 2024 . 5 March 2024 . BBC News.
179. News: Jennifer . McKiernan . George Galloway vows his party will take Angela Rayner's seat . 4 March 2024 . 4 March 2024 . BBC News.
180. News: James W . Kelly . Paul Scully: Former London minister to stand down at general election . 4 March 2024 . 5 March 2024 . BBC News.
181. News: Gareth . Lewis . Welsh Politics: Lee Waters to stand down as transport minister . 4 March 2024 . 5 March 2024 . BBC News.
182. News: Daniel . Davies . David . Deans . Senedd: Labour, Plaid back keeping new voting system . 5 March 2024 . 5 March 2024 . BBC News.
183. News: Treasury says 2024 Budget to be held on 6 March. BBC News . 27 December 2023.
184. News: Chas . Geiger . Michelle Donelan's false Hamas claim about academic cost taxpayer £15,000 . 6 March 2024 . 6 March 2024 . BBC News.
185. News: Ana Nicolaci . da Costa . University Challenge student gets payout from Tory peer over antisemitism claim . 6 March 2024 . 6 March 2024 . BBC News.
186. News: David . Deans . Plaid Cymru: Rhys ab Owen touched women on night out, report finds . 6 March 2024 . 6 March 2024 . BBC News.
187. News: Jacob . Panons . Blur drummer confirmed as Labour candidate for Mid Sussex . 7 March 2024 . BBC News. 8 March 2024.
188. News: Graeme . Baker . Paul . Seddon . BBC News . Theresa May: Conservative ex-PM to stand down at next election . 8 March 2024 . 8 March 2024.
189. News: 8 March 2024 . Lewisham elects Brenda Dacres as first black woman mayor . 9 March 2024 . BBC News . en-GB.
190. News: Kate . Whannel . Adviser warns London a 'no-go zone for Jews every weekend' . 8 March 2024 . 8 March 2024 . BBC News.
191. News: Peter . Saull . James . Gregory . Ministers urge government to increase defence spending to 2.5% of GDP . 9 March 2024 . 9 March 2024 . BBC News.
192. News: Yousaf condemns 'outrageous smear' over Scottish government's Gaza funding . 9 March 2024 . BBC News. 9 March 2024.
193. News: Ione . Wells . Damian . Grammaticas . Boris Johnson flew to Venezuela for unofficial talks . 10 March 2024 . 10 March 2024 . BBC News.
194. News: 11 March 2024 . Ex-Tory MP Lee Anderson defects to Reform . 11 March 2024 . BBC News . en-GB.
195. News: Jennifer . McKiernan . Ex-PM Sir John Major criticises successors in No 10 for civil service treatment . 11 March 2024 . 11 March 2024 . BBC News.
196. News: Sam . Francis . Ex-home secretaries warn against politicising extremism . 11 March 2024 . 11 March 2024 . BBC News.
197. News: David . Deans . Politician gender quotas not in Senedd powers – presiding officer . 11 March 2024 . 11 March 2024 . BBC News.
198. News: Paul . Seddon . Frank Hester: Tory donor accused of racist Diane Abbott remarks . 11 March 2024 . 11 March 2024 . BBC News.
199. News: Dominic . Casciani . Home Office is dysfunctional, says ex-borders watchdog David Neal . 11 March 2024 . 11 March 2024 . BBC News.
200. News: Chris . Mason . Kate . Whannel . Tory donor's alleged comments about Diane Abbott were racist, says Downing Street . 12 March 2024 . 12 March 2024 . BBC News.
201. News: Paul . Burnell . Scott Benton: Lobbying scandal MP recall petition opens . 12 March 2024 . 12 March 2024 . BBC News.
202. News: Brian . Wheeler . I won't return race row donor's money, says Rishi Sunak . 13 March 2024 . 13 March 2024 . BBC News.
203. News: Kate . Whannel . UK to pay failed asylum seekers to move to Rwanda under new scheme . 12 March 2024 . 13 March 2024 . BBC News.
204. News: Brian . Wheeler . UK to ban foreign state ownership of newspapers . 13 March 2024 . 13 March 2024 . BBC News.
205. Web site: 13 March 2024 . MP regains Labour whip after suspension for using pro-Palestinian phrase . 13 March 2024 . BBC News . en-GB.
206. Web site: 'Wildly irresponsible' Russia 'jams signals' on RAF plane carrying defence secretary . Sky News . 14 March 2024 . 16 March 2024.
207. News: Paul . Seddon . Michael Gove names groups as he unveils extremism definition . 14 March 2024 . 14 March 2024 . BBC News.
208. News: Kate . Whannel . Rishi Sunak rules out general election on 2 May . 14 March 2024 . 14 March 2024 . BBC News.
209. News: Sam . Francis . Frank Hester: PM under pressure over 'new £5m' from donor accused of racism . 14 March 2024 . 14 March 2024 . BBC News.
210. News: Neve . Gordon-Farleigh . Great Yarmouth MP Sir Brandon Lewis to stand down at next election . 14 March 2024 . 14 March 2024 . BBC News.
211. News: Chas . Geiger . MPs' pay will increase by 5.5% from April . 14 March 2024 . 14 March 2024 . BBC News.
212. News: Owen . Sennitt . Norfolk MP Liz Truss accepted £20k trip from US lobby group . 14 March 2024 . 14 March 2024 . BBC News.
213. News: Michael Matheson breached code of conduct over iPad bill . 14 March 2024 . 14 March 2024 . BBC News.
214. News: Nathan . Bevan . Guto Bebb: Former Tory MP to become chair of S4C . 14 March 2024 . 14 March 2024 . BBC News.
215. News: Dan . Ayers . Hannah . Miller . Armed forces minister James Heappey will not stand at next election . 15 March 2024 . 15 March 2024 . BBC News.
216. News: Hannah . Miller . Chas . Geiger . Only 10% of flagship levelling up funds spent, say MPs . 15 March 2024 . 15 March 2024 . BBC News.
217. News: Helen . Catt . Adam . Smith . Chas . Geiger . Puppy and kitten smuggling crackdown moves step closer in Commons . 15 March 2024 . 15 March 2024 . BBC News.
218. News: Norfolk County Council beats Apple in £385m iPhone row . 15 March 2024 . 15 March 2024 . BBC News.
219. Web site: Vaughan Gething set to become Wales' first minister after winning leadership contest . 16 March 2024 . BBC News . 16 March 2024 . en-gb.
220. Web site: Wales elects Vaughan Gething, first Black national leader in Europe . CBS News . 16 March 2024 . 17 March 2024.
221. News: Adam . Smith . Local group chooses candidate to take on Totnes Tory MP . 16 March 2024 . 16 March 2024 . BBC News.
222. News: Brendan . Hughes . TUV conference: Jim Allister announces partnership with Reform UK . 16 March 2024 . 16 March 2024 . BBC News.
223. News: Sam . Francis . Cabinet minister Mark Harper denies Tories have a problem with race . 17 March 2024 . 17 March 2024 . BBC News.
224. News: Longest-serving SNP MP brands election message 'unhelpful' . 17 March 2024 . 17 March 2024 . BBC News.
225. News: Jennifer . McKiernan . Rwanda bill amendments overturned in Commons vote . 18 March 2024 . 18 March 2024 . BBC News.
226. News: Ex-president Obama visits Sunak in Downing Street . 18 March 2024 . BBC News.
227. News: Ian . Youngs . GB News: Ofcom says channel broke rules and warns over MPs presenting news . 18 March 2024 . 18 March 2024 . BBC News.
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229. News: Jeremy Hunt hints at October general election . 19 March 2024 . 19 March 2024 . BBC News.
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255. News: Enda . McClafferty . Julian . O'Neill . Jeffrey Donaldson: DUP leader resigns after rape charge . 29 March 2024 . 29 March 2024 . BBC News.
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268. News: Kate . Whannel . Jacqueline . Howard . Johnny Mercer given deadline to challenge order to hand over names to Afghan inquiry . 5 April 2024 . 5 April 2024 . BBC News.
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280. Web site: 11 April 2024 . Green quits Tees Valley mayor race 'to prevent vote split' . 11 April 2024 . BBC News . en-GB.
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308. Web site: 17 April 2024 . Devon County Council leader to step down after 15 years . 18 April 2024 . BBC News . en-GB.
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336. News: 24 April 2024 . Labour pledges to renationalise most rail services within five years . 25 April 2024 . BBC News . en-GB.
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348. Web site: Nadine . White . 'I'm proud to be a Derry girl' – former refugee Lilian Seenoi-Barr to become Northern Ireland's first black mayor . 30 April 2024 . The Irish Independent . 5 May 2024.
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352. Web site: Scottish government survives confidence vote . Al Jazeera . 1 May 2024 . 1 May 2024.
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355. News: Shariqua . Ahmed . Danny . Fullbrook . Peterborough Labour councillor, 18, overwhelmed to gain seat . 3 May 2024 . BBC News. 5 May 2024.
356. News: Sadiq Khan wins third term as London mayor . 4 May 2024 . BBC News. 4 May 2024.
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358. News: Paul . Burnell . Lynette . Horsburgh . Andy Burnham wins third term as mayor of Greater Manchester . 4 May 2024 . BBC News. 4 May 2024.
359. News: Elaine . McGee . SDLP to change selection process after Lilian Seenoi-Barr fallout . 4 May 2024 . BBC News. 4 May 2024.
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362. News: Angus . Cochrane . John Swinney wins SNP leadership unopposed . 6 May 2024 . BBC News. 6 May 2024.
363. News: Angus . Cochrane . John Swinney wins nomination to be Scotland's first minister . 7 May 2024 . BBC News. 7 May 2024.
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365. News: Noah . Vickers . Siân Berry: Green London Assembly member quits days after election . 8 May 2024 . BBC News. 8 May 2024.
366. News: Cook . James . McCool . Mary . John Swinney sworn in as Scotland's first minister . BBC News . 8 May 2024 . 8 May 2024.
367. Web site: Jenness . Mitchell . Scottish First Minister John Swinney unveils cabinet as Kate Forbes becomes deputy . Sky News . 8 May 2024 . 8 May 2024.
368. News: 8 May 2024 . Natalie Elphicke: Former Tory MP defects to Labour . 8 May 2024 . BBC News . en-GB.
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370. News: Jennifer . McKiernan . England cricketer Monty Panesar quits George Galloway's party . 8 May 2024 . 8 May 2024 . BBC News.
371. News: Adrian . Browne . Senedd expansion plans get go-ahead in Cardiff Bay vote . 8 May 2024 . BBC News. 12 May 2024.
372. News: 9 May 2024 . Nadhim Zahawi to stand down as Conservative MP at election . 9 May 2024 . BBC News . en-GB.
373. News: Becky . Morton . Natalie Elphicke apologises for comments about ex-husband's victims . 9 May 2024 . 9 May 2024 . BBC News.
374. News: Swinney says no change in SNP independence referendum strategy . 9 May 2024 . BBC News. 9 May 2024.
375. News: 9 May 2024 . Ban on sex offenders changing their name will become law . 10 May 2024 . BBC News . en-GB.
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378. News: Sam . Francis . UK ban on selling arms to Israel would strengthen Hamas, says Cameron . 12 May 2024 . 12 May 2024 . BBC News.
379. News: Nick . Edser . Nadhim Zahawi confirms nearly £5m paid for tax error . 12 May 2024 . 12 May 2024 . BBC News.
380. Web site: Commons approves plans to exclude from parliament MPs arrested on suspicion of serious offence . 13 May 2024 . Sky News . en.
381. Web site: Rogers . Alexandra . 13 May 2024 . Health secretary unable to guarantee no further maternity care scandals following birth trauma report – Victoria Atkins says maternity care services are "turning a corner" after a report by MPs reveals a "shockingly poor quality of care" for mothers across England. . Sky News.
382. News: 13 May 2024 . Labour MP calls for Natalie Elphicke to be suspended over lobbying claims . 13 May 2024 . BBC News . en-GB.
383. Web site: Sir Chris Bryant: Senior Labour MP reveals skin cancer found in his lung . 13 May 2024 . Sky News . en.
384. News: 13 May 2024 . Illegal Migration Act: Parts should not apply in NI, judge rules . 13 May 2024 . BBC News . en-GB.
385. News: Paul . Seddon . Powers to move rough sleepers over 'smells' dropped after Tory opposition . 13 May 2024 . 13 May 2024 . BBC News.
386. News: Scottish ministers given new powers to tackle cladding . 14 May 2024 . BBC News. 14 May 2024.
387. Web site: 14 May 2024 . Grant Shapps: New ships will help marines fight future wars . 15 May 2024 . BBC News . en-GB.
388. News: 15 May 2024 . PMQs: Rishi Sunak challenged over early release of dangerous criminals . 15 May 2024 . BBC News . en-GB.
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390. News: 15 May 2024 . Ex-minister denies concealing Natalie Elphicke lobbying . 15 May 2024 . BBC News . en-GB.
391. News: 14 May 2024 . Hard to justify hereditary peers, says Labour . 15 May 2024 . BBC News . en-GB.
392. News: O'Carroll . Lisa . 15 May 2024 . Former British MEP running for election to European parliament in Italy . 15 May 2024 . The Guardian . en-GB . 0261-3077.
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394. News: Kathryn . Armstrong . Hannah . Miller . Rwanda plan expanded to include failed asylum seekers . 15 May 2024 . BBC News. 15 May 2024.
395. News: Paul . Seddon . Slot machines to go cashless as debit cards allowed . 16 May 2024 . 16 May 2024 . BBC News.
396. News: Hannah . Miller . Greens promise action over antisemitism allegations . 16 May 2024 . BBC News. 16 May 2024.
397. News: Jonny . Humphries . Pensions minister Paul Maynard broke rules on expenses, watchdog finds . 16 May 2024 . BBC News. 16 May 2024.
398. News: Iolo . Cheung . Catriona . Aitken . Vaughan Gething: Plaid Cymru ends Labour Senedd co-operation deal . 17 May 2024 . BBC News. 17 May 2024.
399. News: Elliw . Gwawr . Teleri . Glyn Jones . Police probe into Conservative Senedd member's expenses claims . 17 May 2024 . BBC News. 17 May 2024.
400. News: Chris Heaton-Harris not standing for re-election . 18 May 2024 . 19 May 2024 . BBC News.
401. News: Steven . McIntosh . GB News could face Ofcom punishment after breach . 20 May 2024 . BBC News. 20 May 2024.
402. News: Brendan . Hughes . Cat and dog abduction bill backed by Northern Ireland Assembly . 20 May 2024 . BBC News. 20 May 2024.
403. News: Paul . Seddon . Move to extend police protest powers ruled unlawful . 21 May 2024 . 21 May 2024 . BBC News.
404. News: Brendan . Hughes . Smoking ban: Northern Ireland on course to join UK-wide law . 21 May 2024 . BBC News. 21 May 2024.
405. News: Rishi Sunak announces 4 July general election . BBC News . 22 May 2024.
406. Web site: MP Craig Mackinlay returns to Commons after having hands and feet amputated . Peter . Walker . 22 May 2024 . 22 May 2024 . The Guardian.
407. News: Paul . Seddon . Dominic . Casciani . No Rwanda flights before election, says Rishi Sunak . 23 May 2024 . 23 May 2024 . BBC News.
408. News: Chas . Geiger . Nigel Farage rules out standing for Reform UK in general election . 23 May 2024 . 23 May 2024 . BBC News.
409. News: Police submit SNP finances report to prosecutors . 23 May 2024 . BBC News. 23 May 2024.
410. News: Angus . Cochrane . Swinney will not support Matheson ban over £11,000 iPad bill . 23 May 2024 . BBC News. 23 May 2024.
411. News: Curtis . Lancaster . Conservative MP John Redwood to stand down . 24 May 2024 . BBC News. 24 May 2024.
412. News: Laura . Kuenssberg . Michael Gove to stand down . 24 May 2024 . BBC News. 24 May 2024.
413. News: Peter . Walker . Andrea Leadsom to stand down before general election . 24 May 2024 . BBC News. 25 May 2024.
414. News: Sam . Francis . MP Mackinlay decides not seek re-election after sepsis recovery . 24 May 2024 . BBC News. 24 May 2024.
415. News: Bob . Dale . General election: Greg Clark to stand down as Tunbridge Wells MP . 24 May 2024 . BBC News. 24 May 2024.
416. News: Iain . Watson . Jeremy Corbyn confirms he will stand against Labour in Islington . 24 May 2024 . BBC News. 24 May 2024.
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419. News: Harry . Farley . General election 2024: Renters (Reform) Bill now unlikely to pass . 24 May 2024 . BBC News. 24 May 2024.
420. News: Whannel . Kate . 25 May 2024 . Which laws were passed in final days of Parliament? . BBC News.
421. News: Helen . Catt . Cat and dog theft will be a criminal offence from August . 24 May 2024 . BBC News. 24 May 2024.
422. News: Matthew . Richards . Jade Ward: Law passed to restrict killer parents' rights . 24 May 2024 . BBC News. 24 May 2024.
423. Web site: Roy . Martin . Media Bill passed through the House of Lords – what's next? . 23 May 2024 . 24 May 2024 . Radio Today.
424. News: Jonathan Buckley to stand in Lagan Valley for DUP . 24 May 2024 . BBC News. 24 May 2024.
425. News: Andrew . Dawkins . MP Lucy Allan suspended after endorsing Reform UK candidate . 27 May 2024 . 27 May 2024 . BBC News. en-GB.
426. Web site: Oldfield . Paige . 27 May 2024 . Worsley and Eccles South MP Barbara Keeley steps down ahead of general election . 27 May 2024 . Manchester Evening News . en.
427. News: 27 May 2024 . 27 May 2024 . Andrew . Dawkins . Labour's Warley MP John Spellar stands down before election . BBC News. en-GB.
428. News: Adam . Hale . Paul . Pigott . Kevin Brennan: Labour Cardiff West MP says he is standing down . 27 May 2024 . BBC News. 27 May 2024.
429. News: Faisal . Islam . General election: 121 business chiefs sign letter backing Labour . 27 May 2024 . BBC News. 27 May 2024.
430. News: Iain . Watson . Diane Abbott readmitted as Labour MP after race row probe . 28 May 2024 . 28 May 2024 . BBC News.
431. News: Paul . Seddon . Angela Rayner: No police action after council house probe . 28 May 2024 . 28 May 2024 . BBC News.
432. News: David . Deans . Jonathan Edwards: Former Plaid MP to stand down at general election . 28 May 2024 . BBC News. 28 May 2024.
433. News: Jayne . McCormack . Stormont Budget: Parties back spending plan despite opposition . 28 May 2024 . BBC News. 28 May 2024.
434. News: Angus . Cochrane . Michael Matheson given record Holyrood ban over iPad scandal . 29 May 2024 . BBC News. 29 May 2024.
435. News: Gareth . Lewis . Adrian . Browne . Vaughan Gething to face no confidence vote next week . 28 May 2024 . BBC News. 29 May 2024.
436. News: Brendan . Hughes . Nursing chief Pat Cullen to stand for Sinn Féin in UK election . 29 May 2024 . BBC News. 29 May 2024.
437. News: Jayne . McCormack . DUP stand aside in Fermanagh and South Tyrone . 29 May 2024 . BBC News. 29 May 2024.
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439. Web site: Reines . Jeff . 29 May 2024 . Rishi Sunak arrives in Cornwall on night train . 30 May 2024 . Cornwall Live . en.
440. Web site: McDaid . Lucy . 29 May 2024 . Rishi Sunak says votes for Lib Dems in West Country will put Keir Starmer in power . ITV News.
441. News: Boothman . McCurdy . John . Rebecca . 29 May 2024 . Nicola Sturgeon says she will campaign for SNP candidates . . 29 May 2024 . en . 0140-0460.
442. Web site: 29 May 2024 . Lib Dem leader Sir Ed Davey skids onto the campaign trail in Wales in latest stunt . ITV News.
443. Web site: 29 May 2024 . Ed Davey says Welsh Liberal Democrats can win both Powys seats at election . 29 May 2024 . County Times . en.
444. News: Chris . Mason . Becky . Morton . Mark Logan: Former Tory MP backs Labour at general election . 30 May 2024 . BBC News. 30 May 2024.
445. Web site: 30 May 2024 . Plaid Cymru the only party putting Wales first – Rhun ap Iorwerth . 30 May 2024 . BBC News . en-GB.
446. News: Greens launch campaign target of 'at least four' MPs . 30 May 2024 . BBC News . en-GB.
447. Web site: 31 May 2024 . Diane Abbott free to stand for Labour, says Starmer . 31 May 2024 . BBC News . en-GB.
448. Web site: 31 May 2024 . Conservative Aaron Bell says he will not contest general election . 31 May 2024 . BBC News . en-GB.
449. Web site: 31 May 2024 . Ex-Tory MP Julian Knight to stand as independent . 31 May 2024 . BBC News . en-GB.
450. News: Catrin Haf . Jones . Swansea West: Labour members criticise 'parachuting' candidate . 31 May 2024 . BBC News. 31 May 2024.
451. Web site: Alexandra . Rogers . Diane Abbott confirms she will run as Labour candidate in general election . Sky News . 2 June 2024 . 2 June 2024.
452. Web site: Ione . Wells . Will . Jefford . Election fraud claims being reviewed by Derbyshire police . BBC News . 2 June 2024 . 2 June 2024.
453. Web site: Nigel Farage to stand for Reform UK in general election U-turn . Ben . Quinn . Pippa . Crerar . Eleni . Courea . 3 June 2024 . 27 June 2024 . The Guardian.
454. News: Party leaders clash over North Sea industry in election debate . 3 June 2024 . BBC News. 4 June 2024.
455. News: First Rwanda migrant flight delayed until at least 24 July . 3 June 2024 . BBC News. 4 June 2024.
456. News: School holidays Wales: Shelved plan described as a 'waste of time' . 3 June 2024 . BBC News. 4 June 2024.
457. News: Steven . McIntosh . General election debate: ITV to host Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer head-to-head . 29 May 2024 . BBC News. 29 May 2024.
458. News: Henry . Zeffman . Becky . Morton . Official says Tory tax claim wasn't produced by civil service . 5 June 2024 . BBC News. 5 June 2024.
459. News: Faiza Shaheen resigns from Labour Party . 4 June 2024 . BBC News. 4 June 2024.
460. News: Lewis . Adams . Peter . Walker . Nigel Farage has milkshake thrown on him at Clacton election launch . 4 June 2024 . BBC News. 4 June 2024.
461. News: Alex . Scott . Alex Salmond will not stand in general election . 5 June 2024 . BBC News. 5 June 2024.
462. News: Welsh First Minister Vaughan Gething loses no confidence vote . 5 June 2024 . BBC News. 5 June 2024.
463. News: Adrian . Browne . David . Deans . Vaughan Gething won't quit after losing vote of no confidence . 5 June 2024 . BBC News. 8 June 2024.
464. Web site: 5 June 2024 . Richard Holden: Growing backlash after Tory chair lands safe seat . 5 June 2024 . BBC News . en-GB.
465. Web site: 5 June 2024 . Former minister David Duguid not selected to stand in election . 5 June 2024 . BBC News . en-GB.
466. News: Glenn . Campbell . Angus . Cochrane . Scottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross to stand in election . 6 June 2024 . BBC News. 6 June 2024.
467. News: Lora . Jones . Rishi Sunak's £2,000 Labour tax claim criticised by stats watchdog . 6 June 2024 . BBC News. 6 June 2024.
468. News: Dominic . Casciani . Whitehall union challenges Rwanda law . 6 June 2024 . BBC News. 6 June 2024.
469. News: Iain . Watson . Labour abandons legal action against Jeremy Corbyn-era staff . 6 June 2024 . BBC News. 6 June 2024.
470. News: Henry . Zeffman . Tories accepted donation from Frank Hester after Diane Abbott row . 6 June 2024 . BBC News. 6 June 2024.
471. Web site: 6 June 2024 . Parties scramble for candidates as election deadline looms . 6 June 2024 . BBC News . en-GB.
472. Web site: 7 June 2024 . Sunak apologises for leaving D-Day events early, calling it a 'mistake' . 7 June 2024 . BBC News . en-GB.
473. News: Asha . Patel . Keith Vaz to stand as MP for Leicester East . 7 June 2024 . BBC News. 7 June 2024.
474. News: Harrison . Jones . General election TV debates: BBC shows start on Friday . 2 June 2024 . BBC News. 2 June 2024.
475. News: Ruth . Comerford . Line-up confirmed for first BBC election debate . 5 June 2024 . BBC News. 5 June 2024.
476. News: Sam . Francis . Iain . Watson . Unite union refuses to endorse Labour's election manifesto . 7 June 2024 . BBC News. 7 June 2024.
477. News: Paul . Seddon . Greens drop some candidates after social media probe . 7 June 2024 . BBC News. 8 June 2024.
478. News: Rhodri . Lewis . Jack . Grey . Plaid Cymru withdraws candidate support over social media posts . 7 June 2024 . BBC News. 7 June 2024.
479. News: Teleri . Glyn Jones . Senedd: Warning that gender quotas could face legal challenge . 7 June 2024 . BBC News. 7 June 2024.
480. News: Reform UK's Blaenau Gwent and Rhymney general election candidate withdraws . 8 June 2024 . BBC News. 8 June 2024.
481. News: Marianna . Spring . X removes accounts of network smearing politicians with deepfakes . 8 June 2024 . BBC News. 8 June 2024.
482. News: Ross travel expenses allegations 'significant' – Swinney . 9 June 2024 . BBC News. 9 June 2024.
483. News: Sam . Francis . Neil . Moss . Record number of candidates standing at general election . 10 June 2024 . BBC News. 10 June 2024.
484. News: Mary . McCool . David Wallace . Lockhart . Douglas Ross to resign as leader of Scottish Conservatives . 10 June 2024 . BBC News. 10 June 2024.
485. News: Laura . Kuenssberg . Joseph . Cassidy . Helen . Catt . Reform UK candidate apologises over Hitler neutrality comments . 10 June 2024 . BBC News. 10 June 2024.
486. News: Gareth . Gordon . Nigel Farage endorses DUP candidates despite TUV-Reform alliance . 10 June 2024 . BBC News. 10 June 2024.
487. Web site: 11 June 2024 . Objects thrown at Nigel Farage on open-top bus . 11 June 2024 . BBC News . en-GB.
488. Web site: 11 June 2024 . Rishi Sunak launches manifesto with National Insurance cuts and new Help to Buy . 11 June 2024 . BBC News . en-GB.
489. News: Who are the leaders of Scotland's political parties? . 11 June 2024 . BBC News. 11 June 2024.
490. News: Bonnie . McLaren . Sophie Raworth steps down from BBC election debate . 11 June 2024 . BBC News. 11 June 2024.
491. News: Former Scottish Greens leader Robin Harper joins Labour . 11 June 2024 . BBC News. 11 June 2024.
492. News: David . Deans . Vaughan Gething: FM says he regrets impact of waste donation . 11 June 2024 . BBC News. 11 June 2024.
493. News: Jennifer . McKiernan . General election 2024: Greens vow £70bn tax hike on wealthiest . 12 June 2024 . BBC News. 12 June 2024.
494. News: Sunak and Starmer face rough ride from TV audience in Grimsby . 12 June 2024 . BBC News. 12 June 2024.
495. News: Brian . Wheeler . Craig Williams: Sunak aide admits placing bet on general election . 12 June 2024 . BBC News. 12 June 2024.
496. News: Joe . Pike . Craig Williams tells BBC election bet was 'huge error of judgement' . 13 June 2024 . BBC News. 13 June 2024.
497. News: Dr Anne McCloskey jailed over Covid fine . 12 June 2024 . BBC News. 12 June 2024.
498. News: Susie . Rack . Josh . Nevett . YouTuber Niko Omilana named as candidate in 11 constituencies . 12 June 2024 . BBC News. 12 June 2024.
499. Web site: 13 June 2024 . Keir Starmer launches Labour manifesto with wealth creation 'number one priority' . 13 June 2024 . BBC News . en-GB.
500. News: Helen . Catt . HIV image in online version of Green manifesto removed by party . 13 June 2024 . BBC News. 13 June 2024.
501. News: Plaid Cymru manifesto: 11 key policies analysed . 13 June 2024 . BBC News. 13 June 2024.
502. Web site: Kate . Devlin . David . Maddox . Nigel Farage's Reform party overtakes Tories for first time in new YouGov poll . 13 June 2024 . The Independent . 14 June 2024.
503. Web site: Hannah . Ward-Glenton . NHS, immigration and no trust in politicians: Key takeaways after parties go head-to-head . ITV . ITV News . 14 June 2024 . 14 June 2024.
504. News: Jennifer . McKiernan . Labour raises £350k more than Tories in first campaign week . 14 June 2024 . BBC News. 14 June 2024.
505. News: Teleri . Glyn Jones . Laura Anne Jones: Text messages emerge in Tory expenses row . 13 June 2024 . BBC News. 14 June 2024.
506. News: Paul . Pigott . David . Deans . Laura Anne Jones: Tory MS stripped of job over expenses row . 14 June 2024 . BBC News. 14 June 2024.
507. Web site: Roy . Martin . Labour warned against allowing the BBC to introduce advertising . 14 June 2024 . 14 June 2024 . Radio Today.
508. News: Georgia . Roberts . Douglas Ross cleared of travel expenses misuse by watchdog . 14 June 2024 . BBC News. 14 June 2024.
509. News: Jennifer . McKiernan . Helen . Catt . Labour candidate Rosie Duffield cancels hustings following abuse . 14 June 2024 . BBC News. 14 June 2024.
510. News: John . Hand . Ben . Fell . King's birthday honours 2024: Alan Bates, Tracey Emin and Mark Cavendish recognised . 14 June 2024 . BBC News. 15 June 2024.
511. News: Harry . Farley . Reform Party's Grant StClair-Armstrong resigns over blog comments . 16 June 2024 . BBC News. 16 June 2024.
512. News: David . Deans . Most on sickness benefit can work – Tory minister . 16 June 2024 . BBC News. 16 June 2024.
513. News: Jennifer . McKiernan . Farage wants 'freeze' on immigration as Reform unveils proposals . 17 June 2024 . BBC News. 17 June 2024.
514. News: Becky . Morton . Labour peer Lord Cashman suspended for Rosie Duffield post . 17 June 2024 . BBC News. 17 June 2024.
515. Web site: BBC creates pop-up election station on BBC Sounds . 18 June 2024 . 19 June 2024 . Radio Today.
516. Web site: LBC to host election phone-ins with Rishi Sunak and Sir Keir Starmer . 17 June 2024 . 17 June 2024 . Radio Today.
517. News: Francesca . Gillett . Final day to register to vote in general election . 18 June 2024 . BBC News. 18 June 2024.
518. News: Brian . Wheeler . Boris Johnson campaign help will make a difference, says Sunak . 18 June 2024 . BBC News. 18 June 2024.
519. News: Sean . Coughlan . Japanese state visit will skip Downing Street . 18 June 2024 . BBC News. 18 June 2024.
520. News: Scottish Labour launches 'manifesto for change' . 18 June 2024 . BBC News. 18 June 2024.
521. News: Chris . Mason . Isabella . Allen . Tory donor John Caudwell tells the BBC he is voting Labour . 18 June 2024 . BBC News. 18 June 2024.
522. News: Jennifer . McKiernan . Support for plan to make misogyny a hate crime . 18 June 2024 . BBC News. 18 June 2024.
523. News: Chris . Mason . PM's police officer charged with election date bet . 19 June 2024 . BBC News. 19 June 2024.
524. Web site: SNP issue warning to voters swaying to Labour and promise end to 'Westminster cuts' . ITV . ITV News . 19 June 2024 . 19 June 2024.
525. News: Megan . Bonar . Majority would trigger independence talks – SNP manifesto . 19 June 2024 . BBC News. 20 June 2024.
526. News: Harry . Farley . General election 2024: Labour suspends candidate over 'pro-Russian' post . 19 June 2024 . BBC News. 19 June 2024.
527. Web site: Scottish Family Party: manifesto promotes marriage . 19 June 2024 . BBC News . 19 June 2024.
528. News: Harry . Farley . Reform says candidates not 'political zombies' as comments emerge . 18 June 2024 . BBC News. 19 June 2024.
529. News: Jennifer . McKiernan . Secret files reveal fears over future of NHS IT giant Atos . 19 June 2024 . BBC News. 19 June 2024.
530. News: Sinn Féin election manifesto: Key policies analysed . 19 June 2024 . BBC News. 19 June 2024.
531. News: Chris . Mason . Sam . Francis . Muslim millionaire gives major donation to Reform UK . 19 June 2024 . BBC News. 19 June 2024.
532. News: Workers Party makes pay and housing pledges in election manifesto . 19 June 2024 . BBC News. 19 June 2024.
533. Web site: Second Tory candidate investigated over alleged bet on election date . Tim . Sigsworth . 19 June 2024 . 19 June 2024 . The Telegraph.
534. News: Sam . Francis . Tory candidate says she is cooperating with Gambling Commission . 20 June 2024 . BBC News. 20 June 2024.
535. News: Sam . Francis . Rishi Sunak 'incredibly angry' over alleged election betting . 20 June 2024 . BBC News. 20 June 2024.
536. News: SNP investigated over 'misuse' of election postage stamps . 20 June 2024 . BBC News. David Wallace . Lockhart . 20 June 2024.
537. News: Gareth . Gordon . Alliance Party manifesto: Key policies analysed . 20 June 2024 . BBC News. 20 June 2024.
538. News: Becky . Morton . West provoked Ukraine war, Nigel Farage says . 21 June 2024 . BBC News. 21 June 2024.
539. News: Mark . Palmer . Adrian . Browne . Tories and Labour pressed on two-child benefit cap in TV debate . 21 June 2024 . BBC News. 21 June 2024.
540. News: Laura . Kuenssberg . Reform UK candidates' offensive remarks uncovered by BBC . 22 June 2024 . BBC News. 22 June 2024.
541. News: Brian . Wheeler . Farage defends Ukraine war remarks after Sunak and Starmer criticism . 22 June 2024 . BBC News. 22 June 2024.
542. News: Helen . Catt . Adam . Durbin . Fourth Tory official reportedly investigated for election bets . 22 June 2024 . BBC News. 23 June 2024.
543. News: Chris . Mason . More people investigated over general election bet allegations . 23 June 2024 . BBC News. 23 June 2024.
544. News: Catherine . Evans . Stella Creasy: Labour candidate's Walthamstow office vandalised . 23 June 2024 . BBC News. 23 June 2024.
545. News: Brendan . Hughes . General Election 2024: NI parties clash in UTV debate . 23 June 2024 . BBC News. 23 June 2024.
546. News: Kate . Whannel . Conservatives are carrying out own betting inquiry – Rishi Sunak . 24 June 2024 . BBC News. 24 June 2024.
547. News: Dharshini . David . Dearbail . Jordan . Tax rises hard to avoid over next five years, says IFS . 24 June 2024 . BBC News. 24 June 2024.
548. News: Scottish Conservative manifesto: Key policies analysed . 24 June 2024 . BBC News. 24 June 2024.
549. News: DUP manifesto: Key policies analysed . 24 June 2024 . BBC News. 24 June 2024.
550. Web site: Ex-mayor quits Labour party in damning letter to Starmer . 2024-08-11 . www.bbc.com . en-GB.
551. News: Sean . Coughlan . Japanese emperor and empress start UK state visit . 25 June 2024 . BBC News. 25 June 2024.
552. News: Henry . Zeffman . Tories pull support for candidates over bet scandal . 25 June 2024 . BBC News. 25 June 2024.
553. News: Joe . Pike . Cabinet minister claimed he won £2,000 on election bets . 25 June 2024 . BBC News. 25 June 2024.
554. Web site: Election betting: Fifth Tory investigated in growing scandal . Pippa . Crerar . Vikram . Dodd . Kiran . Stacey . 25 June 2024 . 25 June 2024 . The Guardian.
555. Web site: Five more officers alleged to have placed election bets, Met says . Vikram . Dodd . 25 June 2024 . 25 June 2024 . The Guardian.
556. Web site: Labour candidate suspended after betting against himself . Sky News . 25 June 2024 . 25 June 2024.
557. Web site: Nick Ferrari to front immigration policy debate on LBC . 24 June 2024 . 25 June 2024 . Radio Today.
558. Web site: Alex Cole-Hamilton says he placed bets on Scottish Lib Dems election candidates . Quinn . Andrew . 24 June 2024 . Daily Record . Scottish Daily Record and Sunday Mail Ltd. 24 June 2024 . The Scottish Lib Dem leader has said he placed bets on his own party's candidates, according to reports..
559. News: Sigsworth . Tim . 26 June 2024 . Senior Tory 'bet £8,000 he would lose his seat at election' . 27 June 2024 . The Telegraph . en-GB . 0307-1235.
560. News: Labour Party member suspended after Honeytrap arrest . 26 June 2024 . BBC News. 26 June 2024.
561. News: Catrin . Haf Jones . Mark . Palmer . Islwyn: MS investigated over 'different car number plates' . 26 June 2024 . BBC News. 26 June 2024.
562. News: SDLP manifesto: Key policies analysed . 26 June 2024 . BBC News. 27 June 2024.
563. Web site: 'At least' seven Met officers under investigation over general election bets . Pippa . Crerar . Vikram . Dodd . Rob . Davies . 27 June 2024 . 28 June 2024 . The Guardian.
564. Web site: Sam . Francis . Jennifer . McKiernan . Reform UK condemns campaigners' racist and homophobic remarks . 27 June 2024 . BBC News . 27 June 2024.
565. News: Daniel . Holland . Jason Arunn . Murugesu . Former Newcastle United owner Sir John Hall backs Reform . 27 June 2024 . BBC News. 27 June 2024.
566. News: Jayne . McCormack . NI political parties face off in BBC TV debate . 27 June 2024 . BBC News. 27 June 2024.
567. News: David . Deans . Police say no offence by Labour MS over number plates . 27 June 2024 . BBC News. 27 June 2024.
568. Web site: Rishi Sunak speaks of hurt and anger at daughters hearing racial slur from Reform activists . Sky News . 28 June 2024 . 28 June 2024.
569. Web site: Salma . Ouaguira . Joe . Middleton . Jane . Dalton . General election latest: Nigel Farage faces BBC Question Time laughter as he is told he uses 'slew of racists' . 28 June 2024 . 28 June 2024 . The Independent.
570. Web site: Nick . Horner . Reform UK Sutton Coldfield candidate Mark Hoath referred to police over 'false' IRA claim against rival . Birmingham Live . 28 June 2024 . 28 June 2024.
571. News: Paul . O'Hare . Councils open emergency voting booths after postal ballot delays . 28 June 2024 . BBC News. 28 June 2024.
572. News: Gareth . Gordon . Green party leader Mal O'Hara warns against tactical voting . 28 June 2024 . BBC News. 28 June 2024.
573. News: Becky . Morton . Reform UK drops three candidates over offensive comments . 29 June 2024 . BBC News. 29 June 2024.
574. News: East Lothian Council latest to set up emergency postal vote centre . 29 June 2024 . BBC News. 29 June 2024.
575. News: Linzi . Lima . Chris Heaton Harris launches NI Conservatives manifesto . 29 June 2024 . BBC News. 29 June 2024.
576. News: Christy . Cooney . Sunday Times newspaper endorses Labour Party . 30 June 2024 . BBC News. 1 July 2024.
577. Web site: Will . Conroy . 'Disillusioned' Reform UK candidates disowns party following racism row and endorses Tories instead . LBC . 30 June 2024 . 30 June 2024.
578. News: Henry . Zeffman . Second Reform nominee defects to Tories over 'racist' candidates . 2 July 2024 . BBC News. 2 July 2024.
579. News: David . Deans . Welsh government promises Senedd politicians lying ban . 2 July 2024 . BBC News. 2 July 2024.
580. News: Becky . Morton . The Sun backs Labour Party saying it's 'time for change' . 3 July 2024 . BBC News. 3 July 2024.
581. News: Kate . Whannel . No criminal offences committed by Reform UK activists – police . 3 July 2024 . BBC News. 3 July 2024.
582. News: Joe . Pike . Owen Paterson acted 'acted as lobbyist' without being registered . 3 July 2024 . BBC News. 3 July 2024.
583. News: Alun . Jones . Minister Mick Antoniw sorry for 'offensive' tweet about Tories . 3 July 2024 . BBC News. 3 July 2024.
584. News: Julian . O'Neill . Jeffrey Donaldson sent for trial on sex offence charges . 3 July 2024 . BBC News. 4 July 2024.
585. News: Theresa May and 'bionic' MP Craig Mackinley awarded peerages . 4 July 2024 . BBC News. 4 July 2024.
586. News: 'The work of change begins immediately,' says Keir Starmer in first speech as prime minister . 5 July 2024 . BBC News. 5 July 2024.
587. Web site: Keir Starmer promises a 'government of service' in first speech as PM – live . 5 July 2024 . The Guardian. 5 July 2024.
588. News: Truss and Rees-Mogg among big-name Tory losses . 5 July 2024 . BBC News. 5 July 2024.
589. News: Davey hails 'record-breaking' night for Lib Dems . 5 July 2024 . BBC News. 5 July 2024.
590. News: Greens celebrate as party wins record four seats . 5 July 2024 . BBC News. 5 July 2024.
591. News: Farage elected MP for first time as Reform wins four seats . 5 July 2024 . BBC News. 5 July 2024.
592. News: SNP loses 'damaging' 38 seats so far as final result delayed . 5 July 2024 . BBC News. 5 July 2024.
593. News: Davy . Wilson . Chris . Andrews . Sinn Féin becomes NI's largest Westminster party . 4 July 2024 . BBC News. 8 July 2024.
594. News: Rachel Reeves is first female chancellor and Angela Rayner made deputy PM . 5 July 2024 . BBC News. 5 July 2024.
595. News: Megan . Bonar . Liberal Democrats win Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire, the final election result . 6 July 2024 . BBC News. 8 July 2024.
596. News: Paul . Seddon . Sam . Francis . We have too many prisoners, says new PM Keir Starmer . 6 July 2024 . BBC News. 8 July 2024.
597. News: Sima . Kotecha . Lucy . Clarke-Billings . James Timpson: Why Starmer hired key boss as prisons minister . 6 July 2024 . BBC News. 8 July 2024.
598. News: Sam . Francis . Sir Keir Starmer confirms Rwanda plan 'dead' on day one as PM . 6 July 2024 . BBC News. 8 July 2024.
599. News: Barbara . Tasch . Starmer heading to Scotland, as Jenrick says Tories failed to deliver . 7 July 2024 . BBC News. 7 July 2024.
600. News: Sam . Francis . Keir Starmer appoints Jacqui Smith and Douglas Alexander as junior ministers . 6 July 2024 . BBC News. 8 July 2024.
601. News: Ruth . Comerford . Last two migrants bound for Rwanda to be bailed, home secretary says . 6 July 2024 . BBC News. 8 July 2024.
602. News: Kate . Whannel . Home Secretary Yvette Cooper sets out plan to tackle small boat crossings . 7 July 2024 . BBC News. 8 July 2024.
603. News: Faisal . Islam . Daniel . Thomas . Chancellor Rachel Reeves to bring back housebuilding targets . 8 July 2024 . BBC News. 8 July 2024.
604. News: Nathan . Standley . Bridget Phillipson begins push to recruit 6,500 new teachers . 7 July 2024 . BBC News. 8 July 2024.
605. Web site: Jennifer . Scott . Lord Cameron and Richard Holden resign as Tories reshuffle top team . Sky News . 8 July 2024 . 8 July 2024.
606. News: Becky . Morton . Keir Starmer promises regular mayoral meetings . 9 July 2024 . BBC News. 9 July 2024.
607. News: Becky . Morton . Starmer proud of 'most diverse' Parliament ever . 9 July 2024 . BBC News. 9 July 2024.
608. News: Henry . Zeffman . Kate . Whannel . 'Levelling up' phrase to be erased, says minister . 9 July 2024 . BBC News. 9 July 2024.
609. News: Michelle . Roberts . Junior doctors: Streeting begins talks to avert more strikes . 9 July 2024 . BBC News. 9 July 2024.
610. News: Henry . Zeffman . Becky . Morton . Keir Starmer gives government jobs to brand new MPs . 9 July 2024 . BBC News. 9 July 2024.
611. News: Lynsey . Bews . What does 'excoriating attack' on SNP mean for John Swinney? . 9 July 2024 . BBC News. 9 July 2024.
612. News: Nato summit live: Ukraine on the agenda as leaders gather in Washington . 10 July 2024 . The Guardian . 10 July 2024.
613. Web site: 10 July 2024 . Former deputy PM and Hull MP John Prescott removed from Lords . 11 July 2024 . BBC News . en-GB.
614. News: Joe . Pike . SNP faces £1m Westminster funding cut . 11 July 2024 . BBC News. 11 July 2024.
615. Web site: Robbie . Meredith . Peter Martin: DUP MLA denies Alex Easton seat deal . 11 July 2024 . BBC News . 11 July 2024.
616. Web site: Nigel Farage Returning To GB News After Being Elected To Parliament . Max . Goldbart . 12 July 2024 . 13 July 2024.
617. News: Jennifer . McKiernan . Harry . Farley . Thousands of prisoners to be released early to ease overcrowding . 11 July 2024 . BBC News. 12 July 2024.
618. Web site: 'No place in our societies': UK political figures condemn Trump shooting . Jessica . Elgot . 14 July 2024 . 14 July 2024 . The Guardian.
619. News: Christy . Cooney . David Lammy calls for immediate ceasefire during Israel visit . 15 July 2024 . BBC News. 15 July 2024.
620. News: Laura . Kuenssberg . Election abuse of candidates may have been coordinated – adviser . 14 July 2024 . BBC News. 14 July 2024.
621. News: Vicky . Wong . Daniela . Relph . King Charles and Queen Camilla to visit Australia and Samoa . 14 July 2024 . BBC News. 14 July 2024.
622. News: Phil . Kemp . Conservatives take donation from firm linked to convicted tycoon . 15 July 2024 . BBC News. 15 July 2024.
623. News: Daniel . Wainwright . Labour got more donations than other parties combined . 15 July 2024 . BBC News. 15 July 2024.
624. News: Gemma . Sherlock . Chorley man given restraining order for threatening Sir Lindsay Hoyle . 15 July 2024 . BBC News. 15 July 2024.
625. News: Sam . Francis . Henry . Zeffman . Rayner dismisses US VP candidate's 'Islamist UK' claim . 16 July 2024 . BBC News . 16 July 2024.
626. News: Catriona . Aitken . Wales' first minister Vaughan Gething resigns as ministers quit . 16 July 2024 . BBC News. 16 July 2024.
627. News: Kate . Whannel . King's Speech: Keir Starmer pledges growth but warns of 'no quick fix' . 17 July 2024 . BBC News. 17 July 2024.
628. News: Becky . Morton . Keir Starmer pledges £84m to stop illegal migration 'at source' . 18 July 2024 . BBC News. 18 July 2024.
629. News: Kate . Whannel . Zelensky urges PM to help lift Ukraine weapon restrictions . 19 July 2024 . BBC News. 19 July 2024.
630. News: Conservatives add to front bench team from reduced post-election ranks . 19 July 2024 . BBC News. 19 July 2024.
631. News: UK to resume funding UN Gaza aid agency, David Lammy says . 19 July 2024 . BBC News. 19 July 2024.
632. News: Emma . Petrie . Victoria Atkins: MP criticised for behaving 'abominably' . 20 July 2024 . BBC News. 20 July 2024.
633. Web site: Pay rises for teachers and NHS staff could cost extra £3bn, says Institute of Fiscal Studies . ITV . ITV News . 20 July 2024 . 21 July 2024.
634. News: David . Deans . Cemelyn . Davies . Vaughan Gething: New Wales first minister to be elected in September . 20 July 2024 . BBC News. 20 July 2024.
635. News: Thomas . Mackintosh . Car washes and beauty sector to be targeted over immigration . 21 July 2024 . BBC News. 21 July 2024.
636. News: Aleks . Phillips . Covid: Jeremy Hunt apologises for pandemic 'groupthink' . 21 July 2024 . BBC News. 21 July 2024.
637. News: Becky . Morton . Yvette Cooper: Tories spent £700m on Rwanda scheme . 22 July 2024 . BBC News. 22 July 2024.
638. News: Paul . Seddon . Better skills training will cut migration, vows Keir Starmer . 22 July 2024 . BBC News.
639. News: Sam . Francis . Conservatives launch plans to elect new leader . 22 July 2024 . BBC News . 22 July 2024.
640. News: Mark . Palmer . David . Deans . Eluned Morgan likely to become Wales' first female leader . 22 July 2024 . BBC News. 22 July 2024.
641. News: David . Deans . Rhys ab Owen: Plaid Cymru expels Senedd politician over behaviour . 22 July 2024 . BBC News. 22 July 2024.
642. News: Oliver . Smith . Former chancellor Nadim Zahawi mulling bid for the Telegraph . 22 July 2024 . BBC News. 22 July 2024.
643. News: Sam . Francis . Nick . Eardley . Labour suspends seven rebel MPs over two-child benefit cap . 23 July 2024 . BBC News. 23 July 2024.
644. News: Charlotte . Andrews . Bibby Stockholm: Migrant barge to be closed . 23 July 2024 . BBC News. 23 July 2024.
645. News: Sanchia . Berg . National Archives: Former Prime Minister Harold Wilson sold papers to help fund his care . 22 July 2024 . BBC News. 23 July 2024.
646. News: Ian . Aikman . James Cleverly running for Conservative leadership . 23 July 2024 . BBC News. 23 July 2024.
647. Web site: Paul . Seddon . Keir Starmer vows Ukraine support in low-key first PMQs . 24 July 2024 . BBC News . BBC . 24 July 2024.
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652. Web site: Sam . Francis . Robert Jenrick becomes third Conservative leadership candidate . 25 July 2024 . BBC . BBC News . 25 July 2024.
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657. Web site: Sam . Francis . Labour accuse Tories of 'cover up' over public services . 28 July 2024 . BBC News . BBC . 28 July 2024.
658. Web site: Junior doctors offered 22% pay rise in deal to end strike action . 29 July 2024 . BBC News . 29 July 2024.
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665. Web site: Enda . McClafferty . Troubles Legacy Act: Government drops part of appeal . 29 July 2024 . BBC News . BBC . 29 July 2024.
666. Web site: 2024-07-30 . Angela Rayner sets new housing targets in planning overhaul . 2024-07-30 . BBC News . en-GB.
667. Web site: Esme . Stallard . Government hikes budget for renewable energy projects . 30 July 2024 . BBC News . BBC . 31 July 2024.
668. Web site: 2024-07-31 . Minister investigated over London property income . 2024-07-31 . BBC News . en-GB.
669. Web site: Government shelves £1.3bn UK tech and AI plans . 2 August 2024 . BBC News . BBC . 2 August 2024.
670. Web site: Paul . Seddon . Ministers start to roll back Conservative strike restrictions . 6 August 2024 . BBC News . BBC . 6 August 2024.
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672. Web site: Ian . Youngs . Good Morning Britain episode leads to 8,200 complaints to Ofcom . 7 August 2024 . BBC News . BBC . 7 August 2024.
673. Web site: Adrian . Browne . Mark Drakeford back in Welsh government as health secretary . 6 August 2024 . BBC News . BBC . 7 August 2024.
674. Web site: NI Assembly to be recalled after anti-immigration protest . Vincent . Kearney . 5 August 2024 . 5 August 2024 . RTÉ News . RTÉ.
675. Web site: Stormont ministers condemn 'violence, disorder and racism' . 8 August 2024 . BBC News . BBC . 8 August 2024.
676. Web site: Scottish Tories will elect new leader by end of September . 1 August 2024 . BBC News . BBC . 3 August 2024.
677. Web site: Michael . Keohan . Jacob . Panons . Kent councillor Ricky Jones arrested over counter-protest remarks . 8 August 2024 . BBC News . BBC . 8 August 2024.
678. Web site: Amy . Walker . Robert . Boddy . Labour MP for Rochester & Strood apologises as tweets resurface . 8 August 2024 . BBC News . BBC . 10 August 2024.
679. Web site: Zac . Sherratt . Dartford councillor charged over counter-protest remark . 9 August 2024 . BBC . BBC News . 9 August 2024.
680. Web site: Adrian . Browne . Tory politician Laura Anne Jones used racist slur in WhatsApp chat . 9 August 2024 . BBC News . BBC . 10 August 2024.
681. Web site: Starmer joins police in cancelling holiday to tackle riots . Dominic . Penna . 12 August 2024 . 12 August 2024 . The Telegraph.
682. Web site: Scotland scraps universal winter fuel payments for pensioners . 14 August 2024 . BBC News . BBC . 14 August 2024.
683. Web site: 2024-08-14 . Jess Phillips admits 'mistake' over unrest tweet . 2024-08-16 . BBC News . en-GB.
684. Web site: 2024-08-15 . Rachel Reeves faces questions on Labour donor's Treasury role . 2024-08-16 . BBC News . en-GB.
685. Web site: 2024-08-16 . Time for Gaza ceasefire deal is now, says David Lammy . 2024-08-16 . BBC News . en-GB.
686. Web site: Meighan . Craig . 2024-08-16 . Calls to pause Tory leadership race amid 'disturbing claims' over Ross conduct . 2024-08-16 . STV News . en-GB.
687. Web site: Steerpike . 2024-08-16 . Scottish Tory leadership candidates call for race to halt . 2024-08-16 . The Spectator . en-GB.
688. Web site: 2024-08-16 . Scottish Tory leadership race in chaos as candidates demand answers over Ross conduct . 2024-08-16 . The Herald . en.
689. Web site: 2024-08-16 . Scottish Tory leadership candidates question fairness of vote . 2024-08-16 . BBC News . en-GB.
690. Web site: 2024-08-16 . Labour in second civil service job row over party donations . 2024-08-16 . BBC News . en-GB.
691. News: Abdul . Geneva . 2024-08-15 . British MPs appeal to Azerbaijan government to free detained academic . 2024-08-16 . The Guardian . en-GB . 0261-3077.
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694. Web site: Damian . Grammaticas . Nigel Farage earning more than £1m a year while MP . 17 August 2024 . BBC News . BBC . 17 August 2024.
695. Web site: Helen . Catt . Nigel Farage denies being paid nearly £100,000 a month by GB News . 17 August 2024 . BBC News . BBC . 18 August 2024.
696. Web site: John Mason stripped of SNP party whip over 'unacceptable' Gaza posts . 17 August 2024 . BBC News . BBC . 17 August 2024.
697. Web site: Helen . Catt . Charlotte . Rose . Misogyny to be treated as extremism by UK government . 18 August 2024 . BBC News . BBC . 18 August 2024.
698. Web site: Tom . Bateman . Foreign Office official resigns in protest over Israel arms sales . 18 August 2024 . BBC News . BBC . 18 August 2024.
699. Web site: Henry . Zeffman . Ian . Aikman . England riots: Emergency move to ease prison overcrowding activated . 19 August 2024 . BBC News . BBC . 20 August 2024.
700. Web site: Becky . Morton . Ministers aiming to limit emergency police detention . 20 August 2024 . BBC News . BBC . 20 August 2024.
701. Web site: Scottish government suspends meetings with Israel . 19 August 2024 . BBC News . BBC . 19 August 2024.
702. Web site: Christina McKelvie steps back from government during cancer treatment . 19 August 2024 . BBC News . BBC . 19 August 2024.
703. Web site: Gareth . Lewis . Gareth Lewis: Keir Starmer, Eluned Morgan meet as problems loom . 19 August 2024 . BBC News . BBC . 19 August 2024.
704. Web site: Jayne . McCormack . Doug Beattie quits as Ulster Unionist leader . 19 August 2024 . BBC News . BBC . 19 August 2024.
705. Web site: Jayne . McCormack . Doug Beattie: UUP open nominations for new party leader . 20 August 2024 . BBC News . BBC . 20 August 2024.
706. Web site: UUP: Doug Beattie says he won't run again for party leader . 21 August 2024 . BBC News . BBC . 21 August 2024.
707. Web site: Annual Conference . 9 April 2024 . The Labour Party . en-GB.
708. Web site: Alexandra . Rogers . New Conservative leader to be announced on 2 November, party says . Sky News . 22 July 2024 . 22 July 2024.
709. Web site: Liz Truss reveals Queen Elizabeth II's final words to her before monarch's death . 15 April 2024 . 17 April 2024 . Jersey Evening Post.
710. Web site: Londoner's Diary: Boris Johnson announces release date for his memoir 'Unleashed' . Ethan . Croft . 20 June 2024 . Evening Standard . 30 June 2024.
711. News: Derek Draper: Kate Garraway says husband has died, aged 56 . BBC News . 5 January 2024.
712. Web site: Kate's heartbreaking 12-hour flight after Derek's heart attack . Seamus . Duff . Steven . Smith . 7 January 2024 . Wales Online . 7 January 2024.
713. Web site: In Memoriam: James Masih Shera MBE (6th March1946 – 15th January 2024) . 15 January 2024 . British Asian Christian Association . 17 January 2024.
714. Web site: Sir Tony Lloyd: Veteran Labour MP for Rochdale dies aged 73 . Sky News . 17 January 2024 . 17 January 2024.
715. Web site: Sir Graham Bright, Tory MP who anchored John Major's campaign to succeed Mrs Thatcher as PM – obituary . 21 January 2024 . 21 January 2024 . The Telegraph.
716. Web site: 25 January 2024 . John Tomlinson: Labour peer dies aged 84 after brief illness . 31 January 2024 . BBC News . en-GB.
717. Web site: British-Indian politician Shreela Flather dies after brief illness . 7 February 2024 . India Today . 7 February 2024 . en.
718. Web site: Tributes paid to 'working class legend' Ronnie Campbell after death aged 80 . Daniel . Hall . 23 February 2024 . Chronicle Live . 23 February 2024.
719. Web site: Long-serving Conservative MP Lord Cormack dies aged 84 . 25 February 2024 . The Independent . 25 February 2024.
720. Web site: Lord Jacob Rothschild: Financier dies aged 87. 26 February 2024. The Independent. 27 February 2024.
721. Web site: 1 March 2024 . Lords Deputy Speaker and ex Lancashire councillor dies aged 80 . 1 March 2024 . Lancashire Telegraph . en.
722. News: Tommy McAvoy: Keir Starmer leads tributes to former Rutherglen MP . 8 March 2024 . 9 March 2024 . BBC News.
723. Web site: Tributes to Doug Hoyle, former MP and father of Commons speaker Sir Lindsay, who has died aged 98 . ITV . ITV News . 7 April 2024 . 7 April 2024.
724. Web site: Lord Richard Rosser R.I.P. . The Pitching In Isthmian Football League . 10 April 2024 . 11 April 2024.
725. News: Lady Gardner of Parkes, Conservative peer who championed women's rights in the EU and UN – obituary . 22 April 2024 . The Telegraph . 22 April 2024.
726. Web site: Deaths of Members . Hansard . 22 April 2024 . parliament.uk.
727. Web site: Tributes paid to Frank Field, former Labour minister, who has died aged 81 . Emily . Dugan . 24 April 2024 . 24 April 2024 . The Guardian.
728. Web site: Frank Field and David Marquand: Tributes flow in to 'social justice crusader' and 'giant of social democracy' . Tom . Belger . 24 April 2024 . LabourList . 24 April 2024.
729. Web site: 'A dedicated public servant' – Former Hazel Grove MP Andrew Stunell passes away . Declan . Carey . 30 April 2024 . Manchester Evening News . 1 May 2024.
730. Web site: Tribute to former MP Colin Breed . seclibdems.uk . 15 May 2024.
731. Web site: Prince Harry's model ex suffers heartbreak as her relative falls to his death . Bradley . Jolly . 14 May 2024 . The Mirror . 15 May 2024.
732. Web site: Tribute to Councillor Stuart Borrowman . West Lothian News . 26 May 2024 . 26 May 2024.
733. Web site: Lord Hindlip obituary: Christie's chairman who sold Van Gogh's Sunflowers for £24 million . 7 June 2024 . The Times . 7 June 2024.
734. News: James . Pearson . Former Wyre Forest MP Dr Richard Taylor dies . 28 June 2024 . BBC News. 28 June 2024.
735. Web site: Moving tributes as William and Harry's uncle dies . 31 July 2024 . honey.nine.com.au . 1 August 2024.
736. News: Умер Питер Реддуэй, "голос" советских диссидентов на Западе . Радио Свобода . 31 July 2024 . 1 August 2024 . www.svoboda.org . RU.
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