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The House of Commons of the United Kingdom votes 348–228 to end the Winter Fuel Payment for 10 million pensioners in England and Wales after Prime Minister Keir Starmer warned that the scheme was no longer affordable to be applied universally.
2024-09-10

An investigation is launched into a Commons vote on fracking where several Tory MPs were allegedly bullied, manhandled, and verbally abused. The 40 ruling party MPs who failed to back the government in the vote now face disciplinary action in the form of losing the whip.
2022-10-20

Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak delivers the 2021 Spring budget to the House of Commons, announcing the government's tax and spending plans for the year ahead, as well as further COVID-19 support measures, including extending the furlough until the end of September and increasing the minimum wage beginning in April.
2021-03-3

The United Kingdom's House of Commons approves the EU–UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement with the European Union by 521 votes to 73.
2020-12-30

Voters in the United Kingdom go to the polls to elect members to the House of Commons in the general election.
2019-12-12

British MP Phillip Lee defects from the Conservative Party to the Liberal Democrats, leaving Prime Minister Boris Johnson without a working majority in the House of Commons.
2019-09-3

The Treasury Committee of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom releases the first volume of a planned two-volume report on the LIBOR fixing scandal.
2012-08-18

Eric Joyce, the Labour Member of Parliament for Falkirk, is arrested after an alleged brawl in a House of Commons of the United Kingdom bar.
2012-02-23

The British House of Commons votes 234-22 against prisoners receiving the right to vote.
2011-02-10

The British–Irish Council meets in Guernsey, with those attending including Taoiseach Brian Cowen, Northern Ireland Secretary Owen Paterson, Northern Ireland First Minister Peter Robinson and Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness, the First Ministers of Scotland and Wales, and the Chief Ministers of Guernsey, Jersey and the Isle of Man.
2010-06-25