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The offer sees police and prison officers in England and Wales offered 7%, with teachers in England offered 6.5%, and junior doctors in England offered 6%. [ 510 ] A report published by the Intelligence and Security Committee of Parliament says the UK failed to develop an effective strategy for dealing with threats to its national security by ...
On 26 November 2023, between 50,000-60,000 people joined in a march in London to protest against a rise in hate crimes against Jews since the attack by Hamas terrorists on Israel on 7 October. [ 49 ] [ 50 ] On 14 January 2024, approximately 25,000 people attended a rally in support of Israel in Trafalgar Square , calling for the release of the ...
2021 – Pope Francis begins a historical visit to Iraq [21] amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. [22] 2021 – Twenty people are killed and 30 injured in a suicide car bombing in Mogadishu, Somalia. [23] 2023 – The 2023 Estonian parliamentary election is held, with two centre-right liberal parties gaining an absolute majority for the first time. [24]
Events. 1 January – establishment of the National Council for Civil Liberties by Ronald Kidd and Sylvia Crowther-Smith. [1] 21 January – ten thousand people attend a British Union of Fascists rally in Birmingham, organised by Oswald Mosley. [2] 27 March – the Betting and Lotteries Act 1934 is passed.
The heavy metal band Iron Maiden is formed by Steve Harris in London. The Wizard of Oz is shown on British television for the first time, on BBC One. 29 December – Two new laws, the Sex Discrimination Act 1975 and the Equal Pay Act 1970, come into force aiming to end unequal pay of men and women in the workplace.
2015 (Sunday) 2014 (Saturday) October 25 is the 298th day of the year (299th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 67 days remain until the end of the year.
6 December – the 1923 United Kingdom general election, is won by the Conservative Partyled by Stanley Baldwinbut without enough seats to form a majority.[5] This is the last UK general election in which a third party wins over 100 seats (158 for the Liberals). Among the new members of parliament is 26-year-old Anthony Eden, the Conservative ...
Events from the year 1987 in the United Kingdom . The major political event of this year is the re-election of Margaret Thatcher in June's general election, making her the longest continuously-serving Prime Minister of the United Kingdom since Lord Liverpool in the early 19th century. The year is also marked by six disasters: the 1987 United ...