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A list of events relating to politics and government in the United Kingdom during 2024.

Events

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January

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February

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  • 1 February –
  • 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 –
  • 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 –
  • 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 –
  • 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 –
  • 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 –
  • 15 February –
  • 16 February –
    • The Labour Party releases a summary 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 –
  • 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 –

March

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  • 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 –
  • 7 March – Blur drummer Dave Rowntree is selected as the Labour Party candidate for Mid Sussex.[187]
  • 8 March –
  • 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 –
  • 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 –
  • 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 –
  • 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 –
  • 26 March –
  • 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 –
  • 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

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May

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June

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  • 2 June –
  • 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.[438]
    • 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 –
  • 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 –
  • 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 –
  • 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 –
  • 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 –
  • 26 June –
  • 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 –
  • 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

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August

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September

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  • 1 September –
  • 2 September –
  • 3 September –
    • The Medicines (Gonadotrophin-Releasing Hormone Analogues) (Emergency Prohibition) (England, Wales and Scotland) Order 2024 ceases to have effect.[438]
    • A leaked letter penned by Cabinet Secretary Simon Case describes the previous Conservative government's failure to hold a spending review in its final years in office as a contributing factor towards uncertainty over the state of public finances. Case also disputes the Conservative stance that Labour's claim to have inherited an economic "black hole" is bringing the civil service into disrepute.[731]
    • 2024 Conservative Party leadership election: Tom Tugendhat launches his leadership bid, and says he would take the UK out of the European Convention on Human Rights if he could not reform it.[732]
    • In a statement to the Scottish Parliament, Finance Secretary Shona Robison outlines £500m of spending cuts. She argues the cuts are needed because of an additional £800m in financial costs brought about by public sector pay deals, austerity from Westminster, inflation, the COVID-19 pandemic and the Russian invasion of Ukraine.[733]
  • 4 September –
  • 5 September –
    • The UK government sets out its plan to abolish hereditary peers in the House of Lords.[737]
    • The Northern Ireland Executive agrees a draft programme of government, seven months after the return of Stormont.[738]
  • 6 September –
    • BBC News reports that Estonia's Justice Minister, Liisa Pakosta, discussed the possibility of housing foreign prisoners, including those from the UK, in one of its prisons with UK Justice Minister Shabana Mahmood at an AI summit in Vilnius the previous day.[739]
    • Pallavi Devulapalli, health spokesperson for the Green Party of England and Wales, is suspended for calling reports of LGBTQ hate crime "mischievous" and saying she is "yet to meet anyone" who denied a person's right to "dress" and "be addressed as they please".[740]
  • 7 September –
  • 8 September – Stephen Farry resigns as Deputy Leader of the Alliance Party, triggering a deputy leadership election.[744]
  • 9 September –
    • Starmer chairs the inaugural meeting of a group dedicated to tackling knife crime, made up of police officers, figures from technology companies and the families of victims of knife crime. They are also joined by actor Idris Elba, who has campaigned against knife crime.[745]
    • Stormont unveils its Programme for Government, a document titled Our Plan: Doing What Matters Most, which sets out nine "immediate priorities" to be worked on for the duration of the government. A public consultation on the document is also launched.[746]
  • 10 September –
  • 11 September –
    • The Scottish Government loses a non-binding vote calling for the rollout of free school meals to all primary school pupils, with MSPs voting 64–2 for the motion.[749]
    • First Minister of Wales Eluned Morgan carries out her first cabinet reshuffle, which includes appointing Jeremy Miles as Health Minister and Mark Drakeford as Finance Minister.[750]
  • 12 September – 2024 Alliance Party deputy leadership election: Alliance's party executive meeting will set the timescale for election of a new deputy leader.[744]
  • 13 September –
  • 14 September –
  • 15 September – The Sunday Times reports that Starmer may have broken parliamentary rules by failing to declare clothes bought for his wife, Victoria, by Labour donor Lord Waheed Alli.[755]
  • 16 September – Downing Street confirms that the Parliamentary Commissioner on Standards will not investigate whether Starmer broke parliamentary rules by not declaring a gift of clothes for his wife.[756]
  • 18 September –
  • 20 September – Downing Street confirms that Keir Starmer, Angela Rayner and Rachel Reeves will no longer accept donations for clothing following controversy over gifts given to Starmer's wife.[760]
  • 22–25 September – The 2024 Labour Party Conference is scheduled to take place at the ACC Liverpool.[761]
  • 24 September –
    • Starmer gives his keynote conference speech, setting out plans for "national renewal" but telling delegates there are no "easy answers".[762]
    • Starmer pledges to give all veterans, young care leavers and victims of domestic abuse a "guaranteed roof over their head".[763]
    • Senedd members vote to withdraw proposals to require parties to ensure 50% of their candidates are women.[764]
  • 25 September –
    • Unions win a nonbinding vote at the Labour Party Conference calling on the government to reverse its cuts to winter fuel payments.[765]
    • Former Conservative MP and government minister Michael Gove is appointed as editor of The Spectator, and will take up the post in early October.[766]
    • Conservative Senedd member Natasha Asghar is reprimanded by Senedd authorities for calling Wales' 20 mph speed limit a "blanket" policy on social media, while signing off a report advising her party to refrain from using the term.[767]
  • 26 September –
    • Starmer and Foreign Secretary David Lammy hold their first meeting with Donald Trump, attending a two-hour dinner with the Republican presidential candidate in New York.[768]
    • Former Conservative Party chairwoman Baroness Saeeda Warsi resigns from the party in the House of Lords, claiming it has lurched to the "far-right".[769]
  • 27 September –
  • 28 September –
    • Rosie Duffield, MP for Canterbury, resigns from the Labour Party, citing what she describes as it "cruel" policies and Keir Starmer's "staggering hypocrisy" over his acceptance of gifts. In her resignation letter to Starmer she said, "The sleaze, nepotism and apparent avarice are off the scale. I am so ashamed of what you and your inner circle have done to tarnish and humiliate our once proud party".[772]
    • Charles III marks the 25th anniversary of the establishment of the Scottish Parliament at an event in Edinburgh.[773]
    • Rachael Hamilton is appointed deputy leader of the Scottish Conservatives.[774]
    • 2024 Ulster Unionist Party leadership election: Mike Nesbitt is confirmed as the UUP's new leader at the party's annual conference.[775]
    • Sinn Féin president Mary Lou McDonald tells her party's annual conference in the Republic of Ireland that the next Irish government will include a Minister for Reunification if Sinn Féin are part of the administration.[776]
  • 29 September –
    • Cabinet Office minister Pat McFadden confirms that ministers will be required to declare hospitality linked to their government posts following weeks of headlines about Starmer and other senior ministers receiving gifts from major Labour donor Lord Alli.[777]
    • The Conservative Party Conference begins in Birmingham, with the first day dominated by a row over comments made by leadership candidate Kemi Badenoch, who said maternity pay had "gone too far". Badenoch claims her comments have been "misrepresented" and refer to the broader issue of cutting red tape for businesses.[778]
    • Sunak makes his farewell speech as Conservative Party leader, urging the party to unite behind his successor.[779]
  • 30 September – Cabinet Secretary Simon Case, the UK's most senior civil servant, announces he will step down by the end of the year due to health grounds.[780]

October

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  • 1 October – In a televised address from Downing Street, Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer condemns Iran's missile attack on Israel and says that Britain "stand[s] with Israel and ... [recognises] her right to self-defence in the face of this aggression".[781]
  • 2 October –
    • Starmer makes his first visit to Brussels as prime minister, where he is attempting to rebuild UK–EU relations.[782]
    • It is reported that Starmer has repaid £6,000 in gifts and hospitality received since becoming prime minister.[783]
    • The Parliamentary Commission on Standards has launched an investigation into Labour peer Lord Alli over allegations of failing to register interests.[784]
  • 30 October – October 2024 United Kingdom budget
  • 31 October – 2024 Conservative Party leadership election: Voting closes for the election of the Conservative Party's next leader.[639]

November

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December

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