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United Kingdom country profile - BBC News
Jul 9, 2024 · The new Labour government carries out a radical programme of reforms, major industries and public utilities are nationalised, a welfare state is established as well as publicly funded healthcare ...
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Dec 6, 2024 · Government unveils new powers to approve onshore wind farms The change is part of the government's new action plan for meeting its 2030 clean power target. 5 days ago
United Kingdom profile - Overview - BBC News
Oct 25, 2022 · The United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union in a referendum in June 2016. The UK left the EU on 31 January 2020 and completed its withdrawal in full at the end of that year.
Ireland country profile - BBC News
Apr 9, 2024 · 1921 - Anglo-Irish Treaty establishes the Irish Free State, an independent dominion of the British crown with full internal self-government rights, partitioned from Northern Ireland which remains ...
Covid: England's third national lockdown legally comes into force
Jan 6, 2021 · The UK government's chief medical adviser, Prof Chris Whitty, urged people to take the "stay at home" rules seriously and warned that the country is facing a "really serious emergency".
United Kingdom profile - Timeline - BBC News
Aug 10, 2018 · 1981 - Government begins programme of privatisation of state-run industries, followed by deregulation of financial markets. 1982 - Argentina invades the Falklands Islands in the South Atlantic ...
Three PMs in two months, is political chaos the UK's new normal?
Jill Rutter, from the think tank the Institute for Government, believes the Brexit vote in 2016 has been the number one destabilising factor in British politics over the last six years.
No 10 indicates Netanyahu faces arrest if he enters UK
Nov 22, 2024 · Following the arrest warrants being issued on Thursday, Downing Street said the UK government respected the ICC's independence and remained focused on pushing for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza.