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Reform UK achieved the third-highest vote share at 14.3 per cent, with over four million votes, which won them five seats, and the Green Party of England and Wales won four seats; both parties achieved their best parliamentary results in history.
However, the UK is not quite a two-party system as other parties have significant support. The Liberal Democrats were the third largest party until the 2015 general election when they were overtaken by the Scottish National Party in terms of seats and UK political party membership, and by the UK Independence Party (UKIP) in terms of votes.
Language Type Spoken in Numbers of speakers in the UK English: Germanic (West Germanic) : Throughout the United Kingdom UK (2021 data): 91.1% (52.6 million) of usual residents, aged three years and over, had English (English or Welsh in Wales) as a main language (down from 92.3%, or 49.8 million, in 2011) [22]
Rishi Sunak served as Prime Minister from 2022 to 2024. These are lists of people who belong to non-European ethnic minorities and have been elected as Members of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, European Parliament, and other British devolved bodies and also Members of the non-elected House of Lords.
The 2020 Home Office Report was itself criticized by some critics as "deeply flawed" [270] and "an exercise in obfuscation". [271] In particular, the Report's conclusion that "group-based CSE offenders are most commonly White" was criticized by some for overlooking the fact that Asian offenders were overrepresented in relation to the general ...
Economist Intelligence Unit (based in the UK) Freedom House (based in the US) Global Insight (based in the US) International Institute for Management Development (based in Switzerland) Political and Economic Risk Consultancy (based in Hong Kong) The PRS Group, Inc. (based in the US) World Bank; World Economic Forum; World Justice Project (based ...
Cumbria (/ ˈ k ʌ m b r i ə / KUM-bree-ə) is a ceremonial county in North West England.It borders the Scottish council areas of Dumfries and Galloway and Scottish Borders to the north, Northumberland and County Durham to the east, North Yorkshire to the south-east, Lancashire to the south, and the Irish Sea to the west.