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Events from the year 2024 in the United Kingdom.

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Events[edit]

January[edit]

  • 1 January
  • 2 January
    • Storm Henk:
      • The Met Office issues a severe weather warning as Storm Henk hits parts of the UK, bringing winds of up to 80 mph (128 km/h), along with the risk of flooding.[7]
      • A man in his 50s dies on the A433 near Kemble, Gloucestershire after a tree falls on his car during high winds.[8][9]
      • At the London Eye, strong winds blow open a pod hatch while a family of 11 is 400ft in the air.[10]
      • Footage emerges of a mother and her three-year-old daughter being rescued from a submerged car in Birmingham.[11]
      • An 87-year-old woman dies on the B4526 near Crays Pond, Oxfordshire after the car she is driving hits a fallen tree.[12]
    • Research published by the RAC indicates that the target set by the UK government for installing rapid or ultra-rapid chargers near motorways was missed during 2023.[13]
    • Provisional data released by the Met Office indicates 2023 was the second warmest year on record in the UK behind 2022, with Wales and Northern Ireland experiencing their warmest year on record during 2023.[14]
    • 16-year-old Luke Littler beats Rob Cross to reach the World Darts Championship final, making him the youngest person to reach the final; overtaking Kirk Shepherd who was 21 years and 88 days old when he reached the 2008 final.[15]
  • 3 January
  • 4 January
  • 5 January
    • The Metropolitan Police says it is not investigating allegations against Prince Andrew after unsealed court papers in the United States contained groping allegations against him.[22]
    • Critics brand comments by Sir Howard Davies, chair of NatWest, as "astounding" and "out of touch with reality" after he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme it was "not that difficult" for someone to buy a house.[23]
    • Chris Skidmore, MP for Kingswood, announces his intention to stand down from Parliament "as soon as possible" in protest at the UK government's decision to issue more oil and gas licences. His decision will trigger another by-election.[24]
    • Lawyers representing potential victims of the British Post Office scandal say they have been contacted by a further 50 people following the broadcast of the ITV drama Mr Bates vs The Post Office.[25]
  • 6 January
  • 7 January
    • Sir Keir Starmer admits he worries about the toll of a general election year on his two teenage children as he and his wife try to keep them out of the public eye.[28]
    • Sunak describes the Post Office scandal as "an appalling miscarriage of justice" and says the government is looking at ways to clear the names of those convicted because of faulty IT software.[29]
  • 8 January
    • Mondelez International announces plans to celebrate the bicentenary 200th Anniversary of Cadbury.[30]
    • Chinese authorities claim to have detained an individual who they say has been working for the British Secret Intelligence Service MI6.[31]
    • Ofgem grants permission for energy companies to resume the forced installation of prepayment meters a year after the practice was suspended and after drawing up new rules that prohibits them being installed under certain conditions, such as households where the occupant is over 75, where there are children under two, and for those with certain health conditions.[32]
    • At an event held in Parliament Square, the actor Idris Elba calls on the UK government to introduce an immediate ban on the sale of zombie knives and machetes to reduce the number of young people losing their lives because of the weapons.[33]
    • London and the south-east see a mix of snow, sleet, and rain as the country braces for a week-long cold spell.[34]
    • British Post Office scandal:
  • 9 January
    • Economists say that funding the student loans system in England is expected to cost the government an extra £10 billion a year.[37]
    • British Post Office scandal:
      • Secretary of State for Justice Alex Chalk tells Parliament the UK government is giving "serious consideration" to introducing legislation to quash the convictions of the 700 or so sub post masters who were prosecuted as a result of the Horizon IT scandal.[38]
      • Former Post Office chief executive Paula Vennells announces that she will hand back her CBE after more than a million people signed a petition calling for her to do so.[39]
      • Liberal Democrat leader Ed Davey, who was Post Office minister during the scandal, comes under pressure to return his knighthood.[40]
  • 10 January
    • British Post Office scandal:
      • Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announces that emergency legislation will be brought through Parliament to "swiftly exonerate and compensate victims" of the Post Office scandal in England and Wales.[41]
      • First Minister of Scotland Humza Yousaf confirms those in Scotland convicted because of the scandal will also be cleared, and that he will work with the UK government to bring this about.[42]
    • Baroness Heather Hallett, chair of the UK COVID-19 Inquiry, confirms the inquiry will postpone the start of hearing evidence about the development of a vaccine as more time is needed to prepare for a separate investigation into the impact of COVID-19 on the NHS. Consequently, the vaccine evidence, which was due to begin being heard in Summer 2024 may not begin until after the next general election.[43]
    • HS2 Ltd releases a revised forecast for building the London to Birmingham leg of the High Speed 2 rail link, which is now estimated to total £65bn.[44]
  • 11 January
  • 12 January
  • 13 January
  • 14 January
  • 15 January
    • Another week of strike action is announced by the ASLEF train drivers union, to run from Tuesday 30 January until Monday 5 February.[66]
    • The Home Office announces that it will proscribe the radical Islamist group Hizb ut-Tahrir as a terrorist organisation, accused of praising the Hamas attacks.[67][68]
    • A review into investigations conducted by Greater Manchester Police between 2004 and 2019 finds that girls were "left at the mercy" of paedophile grooming gangs for several years because of failings by senior police and council bosses.[69]
    • Alison Phillips confirms she will stand down as editor of the Daily Mirror at the end of January, having been in the role since 2018.[70]
  • 16 January
    • Analysis shows that Labour would need a record swing of 12.7% in votes at the next general election to win a majority in the House of Commons.[71]
    • Schools are closed and commuters face disruption following snowfall across parts of the UK.[72]
    • Lee Anderson and Brendan Clarke-Smith resign their positions as Deputy Chairmen of the Conservative Party, after saying they would back rebel amendments on the Rwanda bill.[73] Jane Stevenson also resigns as a Parliamentary Private Secretary so she can vote for the amendment.[74]
    • British brothers Stewart and Louis Ahearne are sentenced to three and a half years in prison by a court in Switzerland for their part in a 2019 robbery of Ming dynasty art from a museum in Geneva.[75]
    • The Met Office issues a warning for what is expected to be the coldest January night since 2010.[76] Temperatures fall to −14°C in parts of Scotland, while the following night (17 January) is the coldest of the winter for many places.[77]
    • Giving evidence to the inquiry into the Post Office scandal, Paul Patterson, the chief executive of Fujitsu Europe, says the company has a "moral obligation" to contribute to compensation for sub-postmasters wrongly prosecuted as a result of its faulty IT software, and apologises for the impact the scandal had on those affected by it.[78]
  • 17 January
  • 18 January
    • The UK Statistics Authority has rebuked the prime minister for misleading the public over the backlog of asylum applications, which he claimed in a social media post had been cleared, while several thousand still remained. The UKSA says the claim could have affected public trust in the government.[84]
    • A newborn girl is found in a shopping bag in Newham, London. It is thought that she was less than an hour old when she was found.[85]
    • The legal deadline to form a Northern Ireland Executive. On the same day, over 150,000 public sector workers stage a general strike across Northern Ireland.[86][87]
  • 19 January
  • 20 January
  • 21 January
    • Weather alerts, including two amber warnings, are issued for the entire UK as Storm Isha brings winds of up to 99mph.[97][98]
    • A technical fault prevents some Tesco grocery orders from being fulfilled.[99]
    • A spokesman for Sarah, Duchess of York confirms she has been diagnosed with malignant melanoma following the removal of a cancerous mole during treatment for breast cancer, and is undergoing further investigation. She is the third member of the royal family to undergo a medical procedure in under a week.[100]
  • 22 January
    • Two deaths are reported in the aftermath of Storm Isha, while tens of thousands of homes remain without power, and transport services face ongoing disruption. A new storm – Storm Jocelyn – is expected to hit parts of the UK tomorrow.[101]
    • After the Royal Mail proposes that its deliveries should be made from Monday to Friday only, Downing Street states that the government would not support such a move, with the Prime Minister expressing a view that Saturday deliveries provide "flexibility and convenience".[102]
    • Consultancy firm Cornwall Insight forecasts that energy bills will fall by 16% in April, saving the average household around £300 a year.[103]
    • The UK and US launch fresh air strikes against Houthi targets in Yemen.[104]
    • The UK's Charity Commission launches an investigation into antisemitic speeches given by members of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard to students at a UK-based Islamic charity, which included chants of "death to Israel".[105]
  • 23 January
    • Data from the Office for National Statistics indicates government borrowing in December was at £7.8bn, a fall from £16.2bn in December 2022, and the lowest since 2019.[106]
    • Sunak tells Parliament the UK will not hesitate to launch further air strikes against Houthi rebels if they continue to attack shipping targets in the Red Sea, but does not seek confrontation with the group.[107]
    • Most of the UK is under a Met Office yellow weather warning for high winds as Storm Jocelyn arrives.[108]
    • 2023 Nottingham attacks: Valdo Calocane admits three counts of manslaughter and three of attempted murder.[109]
  • 24 January
  • 25 January
    • The UK government announces fresh plans to ban the sale of zombie knives, with legislation taking effect from the autumn.[114]
    • Lloyds Banking Group announces plans to cut around 1,600 positions from its branch staff in a reorganisation that it says is because more customers are banking online.[115]
  • 26 January
  • 27 January
    • The UK government suspends funding for the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, after the organisation sacked several officials reported to have been involved in the 7 October attacks on Israel.[119]
    • Kemi Badenoch, the business secretary, asks Henry Staunton to step down as chair of Post Office Limited after 13 months in the role, as the government moves to strengthen governance at the Post Office in the wake of the long-running Horizon IT scandal.[120]
    • John Lewis & Partners announce further cuts to the number of its staff over the coming five years, with The Guardian reporting up to 11,000 jobs could go.[121]
    • The British Association of Dermatologists warns against the use of skincare products by children as young as eight, saying that to do so could leave them with irreversible skin damage.[122]
  • 28 January
  • 29 January
    • The King and the Princess of Wales are both discharged from hospital.[125]
    • Laurence Fox loses a High Court libel case with social media users he called paedophiles.[126]
    • Reporting on cases in family courts in England and Wales is extended to a further 16 venues following a trial at three locations.[127]
    • A University College London study of five cases of Alzheimer's disease suggests they could have been caused by a treatment in which the patients were injected with growth hormones from dead people, a treatment that was withdrawn in the mid-1980s.[128]
  • 30 January
    • The ONS publishes its latest forecast of UK population, suggesting that the number of people in the UK could rise from 67 to 73.7 million by 2036, driven by strong immigration.[129][130]
    • Lucy Letby has her initial request for permission to appeal against seven murder convictions and six attempted murder convictions refused by the Court of Appeal.[131]
    • HSBC is fined £57.4m by the Bank of England for "serious failings" over its measures to protect customer deposits.[132]
  • 31 January

February[edit]

  • 1 February
  • 2 February
    • Senior Labour MP Darren Jones confirms that the party has ditched its commitment to spend £28bn a year on green investment schemes if it wins the next general election.[143]
    • The killers of 16-year-old transgender girl Brianna Ghey are named as Scarlett Jenkinson and Eddie Ratcliffe, both aged 15 at the time. They are sentenced at Manchester Crown Court to minimum terms of 22 and 20 years, respectively.[144]
    • Water UK, the umbrella trade organisation for the UK's water companies, says that the average annual water bill is expected to increase by 6% in England and Wales from April, an average rise of £27 to £473.[145]
  • 3 February
  • 4 February – CCTV footage of alkali attack suspect Abdul Shakoor Ezedi in a Tesco store is shown by the police, as a reward of £20,000 is offered for information leading to his capture.[151]
  • 5 February
    • Buckingham Palace announces that King Charles III has been diagnosed with cancer and will postpone public duties while undergoing treatment.[152]
    • The Met Office issues a yellow weather warning for snow for large parts of north Wales, and northern and central England, for 8 February as unseasonably mild temperatures are replaced by colder weather.[153]
    • A 16-year-old boy is found guilty of plotting to launch a terrorist attack at the Isle of Wight Festival following a trial at Kingston Crown Court.[154]
    • The UK government launches a six-week consultation on plans for Martyn's Law, which would make provisions to better protect the public against potential acts of terrorism.[155]
  • 6 February – Around eight million people on means tested benefits begin to receive the final scheduled cost-of-living payment from the UK government, as Sunak tells the BBC the financial pressures on households are beginning to ease.[156]
  • 7 February
    • Dentists will be offered a £20,000 bonus to work in the areas of England with the poorest access to NHS care.[157]
    • Data published by Halifax Bank indicates that UK house prices increased by 2.5% in January 2024 when compared to the same month in 2023.[158]
    • The Met Office issues two amber snow warnings for the following day covering north Wales and northwest Shropshire and the Peak District and south Pennines.[159]
  • 8 February
  • 9 February
    • Weather warnings remain in place as snow and rain continue to fall across the UK.[162]
    • Police tell reporters they believe that Abdul Shakoor Ezedi may have drowned in the River Thames, based on CCTV of the suspect at Chelsea Bridge.[163]
    • The Duke of Sussex settles his remaining phone hacking claims against Mirror Group Newspapers, with the newspaper agreeing to pay his legal costs along with around £300,000 in compensation.[164]
  • 10 February
  • 11 February – British journalist Clare Rewcastle Brown accuses Malaysia of seeking "political revenge" for her reporting after a court jailed her in absentia for criminal defamation of a Malaysian royal.[169]
  • 12 February
    • Three apologises after three days of outages that left around 12,000 people without mobile signals and data.[170]
    • Child killer Colin Pitchfork will be reconsidered for parole after successfully challenging a Parole Board decision to refuse him parole on the grounds he poses too much of a risk if released from prison.[171]
  • 13 February
    • A catastrophic loss of seabird numbers is reported by the RSPB and the British Trust for Ornithology, due to the spread of H5N1 bird flu.[172]
    • Antisemitism in the United Kingdom:
      • Police begin an investigation into reports of antisemitism during a performance by comedian Paul Currie at the Soho Theatre in London, which left Jewish audience members feeling "unsafe" and "threatened".[173]
      • Labour leader Keir Starmer insists he took "decisive action" over comments made by Rochdale by-election candidate Azhar Ali about Israel and Jewish people.[174]
    • Cosmetics retailer The Body Shop enters administration, putting more than 2,200 jobs at risk.[175]
    • Data from the Office for National Statistics indicates that the average annual increase in employee earnings (excluding bonuses) was 6.2%, using data from the final three months of 2023.[176]
  • 14 February
    • Office for National Statistics data shows that UK inflation remained at 4% in January 2024, despite a slight fall in food prices and a rise in energy prices.[177]
    • Train drivers' union ASLEF announces that drivers at five train operators – Chiltern, c2c, East Midlands, Northern and TransPennine – have voted for a further six months of industrial action.[178]
    • Food delivery drivers with companies including Uber Eats, Just Eat and Deliveroo stage a five-hour strike between 5pm and 10pm over pay and conditions.[179]
  • 15 February
  • 16 February
    • UK parliamentary by-elections:
    • Data from the Office for National Statistics shows a 3.4% increase in retail sales during January 2024, largely fuelled by food shopping and the January sales.[183]
    • Amina Noor, who took a three-year-old British girl to Kenya for female genital mutilation in 2005, is sentenced to seven years in prison following a trial at the Old Bailey. She becomes the first person to be convicted in the UK for assisting a non-UK person to carry out the practice.[184]

Predicted and scheduled events[edit]

Deaths[edit]

Main articles: Deaths in 2024 and 2024 deaths in the United Kingdom
Further information: Category:2024 deaths

See also[edit]

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