Labour's plan for change in Britain: Labour aims to rebuild Britain to serve working people, addressing Conservative chaos with a focus on national renewal, security, and economic stability.  Their plan includes a partnership with businesses for economic growth and rejects the idea that growth benefits only a few. The plan outlines their national missions:  * Creating wealth in every community  * Harnessing clean British power for  lower bills  * Revitalizing town centers  * Ensuring dignity and respect at work  * Equipping children with future skills Labour emphasised that their plan is fully costed and built on fiscal responsibility. https://labour.org.uk/change/my-plan-for-change/ The Labour party faces a growing tide of public discontent, fuelled by a series of policy decisions perceived as detrimental to vulnerable populations and traditional sectors.  Proposed changes to disability benefits and winter fuel allowances have sparked outrage, wi...

March 2025 1 March   Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky meet for talks at 10 Downing Street following Zelensky's visit to Washington the previous day. 2 March https://www.gov.uk/government/news/chairs-statement-leaders-meeting-on-ukraine-london-2-march-2025 3 March   SNP MSP and deputy presiding officer Annabelle Ewing announces she will not seek re-election to Holyrood in 2026. 4 March The Home Office launches an advertising campaign in Iraq aimed at discouraging people from crossing the English Channel in small boats. Former Scottish Labour leader Richard Leonard announces he will not seek re-election to the Scottish Parliament at the next election. The Senedd votes 29–28 to approve the Welsh Government's £26bn budget for 2025–26 after Labour secured the support of Liberal Democrat Jane Dodds to achieve a majority. https://nation.cymru/news/welsh-governments-26bn-budget-passes/ 5 March   In his ...

  1 March COVID-19 in the UK: WhatsApp messages leaked to the Daily Telegraph are reported as suggesting former Health Secretary Matt Hancock chose to ignore advise from experts in April 2020 that there should be "testing of all going into care homes". A spokesman for Hancock said "These stolen messages have been doctored to create a false story that Matt rejected clinical advice on care home testing”. 2 March COVID-19 in the UK: The Daily Telegraph publishes more of Matt Hancock's WhatsApp exchanges, this time with former Education Secretary Gavin Williamson in December 2020, when a debate into whether schools should reopen following the Christmas holiday was taking place. The leaked messages suggest Hancock favoured school closures, while Williamson was more hesitant. Hancock, who worked alongside journalist Isabel Oakeshott to co-author a book, describes the release of the messages as a "massive betrayal and breach of trust". In response, Oakeshott says...

5 February In a move seen as marking her return to political life, former Prime Minister Liz Truss writes an article for The Sunday Telegraph in which she says her economic agenda was never given a "realistic chance". 7 February Prime Minister Sunak performs a cabinet reshuffle. Greg Hands is named as the new Conservative Party chairman; Grant Shapps becomes the Secretary of State for Energy, Security and Net Zero in a newly formed department; Kemi Badenoch is appointed as the first Secretary of State at the newly created Department for Business and Trade, with continued responsibility as equalities minister. 8 February Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky addresses a joint session of Parliament during his first visit to the UK since Russia invaded his country. He later visits Buckingham Palace for a meeting with the King. Former Labour MP Jared O'Mara, who submitted fake expense claims to fund his cocaine habit, is convicted of fraud.He is sentenced the following...

  1 January –  The Baroness Stedman-Scott  steps down from the post of  Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Work and Pensions . 5 January – The UK government confirms it will not go ahead with a plan to privatise  Channel 4 . 9 January – A new scheme to support businesses with the cost of energy bills is outlined in the  House of Commons  to replace  existing support  due to end in March. The scheme will replace capped energy bills with a wholesale discount on gas and electricity, and only apply when energy bills are high. Industries such as glass, ceramics and steel, which use a greater amount of energy, will get a larger discount than others. 10 January – The UK government published the  Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Bill 2023 , designed to require public sector organisations to provide a minimum service when their unions vote to strike. 11 January –  Andrew Bridgen , the MP for  North West Leicestershire , is suspe...