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English is the most widely spoken and official language of the United Kingdom. [13] A number of regional and migrant languages are also spoken. Regional English variant languages are Scots and Ulster Scots; indigenous Celtic languages are Irish, Scottish Gaelic and Welsh. There are many non-native languages spoken by immigrants, mainly in inner ...
The group was then charged with establishing official lyrics for each song; for "God Save the Queen", the English words were those inherited from the United Kingdom and the French words were taken from those that had been adopted in 1952 for the coronation of Elizabeth II. [87]
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the) the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland: UN member GB: GBR: 826: ISO 3166-2:GB.gb.uk [ah] United States Minor Outlying Islands (the) [13] [ai] United States Pacific Island Wildlife Refuges, [14] Navassa Island, and Wake Island [c] [d] United States: UM: UMI: 581: ISO ...
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.
David Lindon Lammy (born 19 July 1972) is an English [neutrality is disputed] politician and lawyer who has served as Foreign Secretary of the United Kingdom since July 2024. [2] A member of the Labour Party, he has been Member of Parliament (MP) for Tottenham since 2000.
The United Kingdom does not have an official language. In Wales and Northern Ireland, English is co-official alongside Welsh [113] and Irish [114] respectively. Neither Scotland nor England have an official language. In the United States, there is no official language at the federal level.
India, officially the Republic of India (ISO: Bhārat Gaṇarājya), [21] is a country in South Asia.It is the seventh-largest country by area; the most populous country from June 2023 [22] [23] and from the time of its independence in 1947, the world's most populous democracy.