The UK has voted to leave the EU by 52% to 48%. Leave won the majority of votes in England and Wales, while every council in Scotland saw Remain majorities.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/politics/eu_referendum/results
Politics
Cameron, who supported Britain's continued membership of the EU, announced his resignation on 24 June 2016, stating that he would step down by October. Theresa May won the contest on 11 July 2016, after the withdrawal of Andrea Leadsom left her as the sole candidate.
Theresa May herself resigned on 24 July, with Boris Johnson being appointed Prime Minister by Queen Elizabeth II shortly after.
Royal events
- Royal Garden Parties at Buckingham Palace and the Palace of Holyroodhouse.
- The Queen's Birthday Parades: Trooping the Colour Saturday 1 June & Saturday 8 June.
- Royal Ascot Tuesday 18 June - Saturday 22 June.
Terrorism and Hatred
On 22 March 2017, a terrorist attack took place outside the Palace of Westminster in London, seat of the British Parliament. The attacker, 52-year-old Briton Khalid Masood, drove a car into pedestrians on the pavement along the south side of Westminster Bridge and Bridge Street, injuring more than 50 people, four of them fatally.
Eight people were killed and many more injured when three attackers ploughed a van into pedestrians on London Bridge before launching a knife attack in nearby Borough Market on Saturday, June 3, 2017
The Finsbury Park attack was a vehicle-ramming attack in Finsbury Park, London, England, on 19 June 2017. A van was driven into pedestrians in Finsbury Park, London, by Darren Osborne, causing one death and injuring nine people. This occurred near the Muslim Welfare House, 100 yards from Finsbury Park Mosque
22 people died - including a number of children - after an explosion tore through a pop concert at Manchester Arena. More than 800 other people received physical or psychological injures in the blast at an Ariana Grande concert on May 22 2017. Terrorist Salman Abedi was named as the suicide bomber who carried out the attack.
On 16 June 2016, Cox died after being shot and stabbed multiple times in Birstall, where she had been due to hold a constituency surgery. Thomas Mair, who held far-right views, was found guilty of her murder in November and sentenced to life imprisonment with a whole life order.
Syrian War
A peaceful uprising against the president of Syria almost eight years ago turned into a full-scale civil war. The conflict has left more than 360,000 people dead, devastated cities and drawn in other countries.
UK specific issues
- May made clear when addressing the nation on 13 July 2016, she was going to do more to help “ordinary working-class families” get on in life. She promised those familes that she would “think not of the powerful but you,” adding that the “government I lead will be driven not by the interests of the privileged few, but by yours”. But it was her second goal - to deliver the Brexit that the British people voted for in 2016 - that was to consume almost all her time and energy and, in the end, bring her leadership of the country to its disastrous finale.
- On 14 June 2017, a fire broke out in the 24-storey Grenfell Tower block of flats in North Kensington, West London just before 1:00 am BST; it caused 72 deaths, including those of two victims who later died in hospital. More than 70 others were injured and 223 people escaped. It was the deadliest structural fire in the United Kingdom since the 1988 Piper Alpha disaster and the worst UK residential fire since the Second World War. The fire is currently being investigated by the police, a public inquiry, and coroner's inquests.
- The Windrush scandal is a 2018 British political scandal concerning people who were wrongly detained, denied legal rights, threatened with deportation, and, in at least 83 cases, wrongly deported from the UK by the Home Office. Many of those affected had been born British subjects and had arrived in the UK before 1973, particularly from Caribbean countries as members of the Windrush generation.
- The 2016 junior doctors strikes in England had a ‘significant’ impact on the provision of healthcare, with thousands of appointments cancelled, and significantly fewer admissions and A&E attendances than expected.
- The Charlie Gard case was a best interest’s case in 2017 (4 August 2016 – 28 July 2017), an infant boy from London, born with mitochondrial DNA depletion syndrome (MDDS), a rare genetic disorder that causes progressive brain damage and muscle failure. MDDS has no treatment and usually causes death in infancy. The case became controversial because the medical team and parents disagreed about whether experimental treatment was in the best interests of the child.
- Johnson, now 31, grew up in County Durham and was a youth player at Newcastle United and Middlesbrough. In 2010, he was picked up by Manchester City for a rumoured £7 million, signing a lucrative four-a-half-year contract. The next year he helped City win the FA Cup and the following season was part of the squad that won the club's first Premier League trophy in 2012. He also earned 12 senior caps for the England national team. After struggling for game time in City's star-studded squad, Johnson signed for Sunderland for £10 million in 2012 and continued playing after his arrest and charge. At the start of his trial in February 2016 he was earning £60,000 a week playing for the Black Cats. He was finally sacked by the club after he pleaded guilty to grooming and sexual activity with a child.Trends
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