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British Conservative MP Natalie Elphicke defects to the opposition Labour Party, citing the Sunak government's failure to stop the English Channel migrant crisis.
2024-05-8

In association football, UEFA announces that the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland will host UEFA Euro 2028, while Italy and Turkey will host UEFA Euro 2032.
2023-10-10

London police say they will take no further action in an investigation into allegations that associates of King Charles III's charity offered to help a Saudi Arabian billionaire secure a knighthood and British citizenship in return for donations of up to £1.5 million.
2023-08-21

The United Kingdom reports a record 106,122 new cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, the first time that the country has reported more than 100,000 new cases in a single day.
2021-12-22

Senegal reports their first case of a more contagious variant of SARS-CoV-2 that originated in the United Kingdom.
2021-01-28

The government announces a ban on travel into Sweden from the United Kingdom and Denmark for one month due to the new variant of SARS-CoV-2.
2020-12-21

In the United Kingdom, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle announce they are suing "The Mail on Sunday", as well as its parent company DMG Media, claiming the publisher's newspapers have been publishing "false and deliberately derogatory stories" about their lives.
2019-10-1

Talks between the foreign ministers of Britain and Ecuador end with no breakthrough over WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who remains in the country's London embassy.
2013-06-17

Abu Qatada, accused of being one of the United Kingdom's most dangerous preachers of Islamic extremism, is released from prison following a ruling from the European Court of Human Rights last week.
2012-02-13

The leaders of the United Kingdom's three main political parties take part in the first of three televised debates ahead of the 2010 General Election.
2010-04-15