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2024 election. MPs. The 2024 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday, 4 July 2024 to elect 650 members of Parliament to the House of Commons, the lower house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. The opposition Labour Party, led by Keir Starmer, defeated the governing Conservative Party, led by Rishi Sunak, in a landslide victory.
Eight men have been arrested in connection with the fatal shooting of a man in east London last month. Joshua McLean, 31, was shot dead at about 20:30 BST on 6 August in Weavers Fields, Bethnal Green.
Turnout in UK general elections fell from 77% in 1992, and 71% in 1997, to a historic low of 59% in 2001. It has, however, increased, to 61% in 2005, 65% in 2010, 66% in 2015 and 69% in 2017. [156] Turnout has fallen since, to 67% in 2019 and to 59% in 2024. In other elections, turnout trends have been more varied.
bbc.co.uk (UK) bbc.com (global) BBC News is an operational business division [ 2 ] of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs in the UK and around the world. The department is the world's largest broadcast news organisation and generates about 120 hours of radio and ...
September 17, 2024 at 12:02 AM. ROME (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said that his government's first budget next month wouldn't take steps that undermine his goal to generate ...
Analysis has found that Reform UK's tax plans disproportionately benefit high earners. [137] Reform UK wants to raise the higher rate threshold of tax from £50,271 to £70,000, which would result in a tax cut of close to £6,000 for the top 10% of earners and far outweigh any benefit to the lowest earners. [137]
A review of the front page stories from the daily and weekly newspapers in Wales.
The pound (sign: £) is the main unit of sterling, [ 4 ] and the word pound is also used to refer to the British currency generally, [ 5 ] often qualified in international contexts as the British pound or the pound sterling. [ 4 ] Sterling is the world's oldest currency in continuous use since its inception. [ 6 ]