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The UK government announces plans to give Ofcom more powers over the BBC's online content, including BBC News. [29] The UK government rejects calls from Welsh MPs to add the Six Nations Championship to the list of guaranteed free-to-air sporting events on British television. [30] 24: The 2024 Brit Award nominees are announced.
The 2024 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday, 4 July 2024, to elect 650 members of Parliament to the House of Commons, the lower house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. The opposition Labour Party, led by Keir Starmer, defeated the governing Conservative Party, led by Rishi Sunak, in a landslide victory .
BBC News reported there were four anti-immigration protesters, with one arrest made. [228] In Paisley, Renfrewshire, 300 anti-racists, including representatives of trade unions and human rights organisations, protested against a planned far-right demonstration outside a hotel housing asylum seekers, but no anti-immigration protestors appeared ...
Gurinder Josan. Labour. Previous incumbent for the predecessor seat of Warley, John Spellar, did not stand. Solihull West and Shirley. Conservative. Neil Shastri-Hurst. Conservative. Defeated incumbent, Julian Knight, who had been elected as a Conservative MP in 2019, but stood as an Independent in 2024.
21 March 2024 Reform UK: Ginny Ball Rutland and Stamford: Alleged racist and xenophobic social media posts from 2023. [167] 22 March 2024 Reform UK: Benjamin Dade South Swindon: Xenophobic comments made on a far-right news website in 2022. [168] [169] 4 April 2024 Reform UK: Mick Greenhough Orpington: Islamophobic social media posts from 2023 ...
Daily Mirror. Labour Party. [ 3] Daily Star. Count Binface Party. Endorsed "the most sane politician in the UK", Count Binface, who is only standing in Prime Minister Rishi Sunak 's constituency of Richmond and Northallerton . [ 4] Financial Times. Labour Party.
Reform UK placed third in the share of the vote in the 2024 election and had MPs elected to the Commons for the first time. [3] The Green Party of England and Wales also won a record number of seats alongside a number of independent MPs. [4] The Scottish National Party (SNP) lost around three quarters of its seats. [5]
bbc.com (global) BBC News is an operational business division [ 2] of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs in the UK and around the world. The department is the world's largest broadcast news organisation and generates about 120 hours of radio and television output ...