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Events from the year 2017 in the United Kingdom.

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Events

January

  • 1 January – Kingston upon Hull begins its City of Culture programme with a 10-minute fireworks display over the Marina.[1]
  • 2 January
    • Rail fares increase by an average of 2.3%, higher than inflation and continuing the trend in soaring ticket prices.[2]
    • The government announces proposals to build seventeen new towns and villages across the English countryside.[3]
  • 3 January
  • 4 January
    • The British clothing retailer Next warns of a bleak outlook as its shares fall by 12%. It reports falling sales and warns that 2017 will be "challenging".[6]
    • Sir Tim Barrow is appointed as the UK's new ambassador to the European Union.[7]
  • 5 January
    • UK car sales were at a record high in 2016 according to the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT), which says that 2,690,000 new cars were registered last year, 2% higher than in 2015.[8]
    • The Royal Parks announces that the Changing of the Guard ceremony will be held on fixed days of the week (Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays) instead of alternate days for a three-month trial period owing to tightened security.[9]
  • 6 January – TV chef Jamie Oliver announces that his company is to close six of its 42 Italian restaurants across the UK which will affect 120 staff, whom the company says it would try to place in other parts of the chain.[10]
  • 7 January – The British Red Cross describes the current situation in England's NHS hospitals as a "humanitarian crisis".[11]
  • 8 January
  • 9 January
    • A strike by workers on London Underground causes travel chaos and crowding in London, with much of the Tube network shut down.[14]
    • Northern Ireland's Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness resigns.[15]
    • 9-year-old Katie Rough is found murdered in the Woodthorpe area of York. A local 15-year-old girl is arrested and charged with her murder.
  • 10 January – The Post Office announces it will close its 37 crown office branches, with the loss of 300 jobs and 127 specialist roles.
  • 11 January – The Royal College of Nursing describes conditions in the NHS as the worst they have ever experienced. In a separate move, fifty leading doctors write to the Prime Minister, warning that lives are being put at risk due to mounting pressures on the health service.[16]
  • 12 January
    • Plans for a 1.8-mile road tunnel on the A303 near Stonehenge in Wiltshire are finalised by the UK Government.[17]
    • A government-commissioned review gives backing to a tidal lagoon planned for Swansea Bay in Wales. The £1,300,000,000 project could have a lifetime of 120 years and supply 8% of UK energy.[18]
  • 13 January – Tristram Hunt of the Labour Party resigns as MP for Stoke-on-Trent Central to become the director of the V&A in London.[19]
  • 16 January
  • 17 January – The Prime Minister gives a speech on her plans for Brexit in which she outlines a "hard" Brexit plan from the EU, to include leaving the single market.[22]
  • 18 January – A £14,000,000,000 consumer claim against MasterCard proceeds to a first hearing, with the Competition Appeal Tribunal set to decide if the case can proceed as a collective action.[23]
  • 19 January – The first of many British tourists in The Gambia return home to the UK, after escaping due to political unrest in the West African nation.[24]
  • 21 January – 2017 Women's March: thousands of people march in London, Belfast, Cardiff, Lancaster, Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester, Shipley, Edinburgh and Bristol – as well as millions more in countries around the world – in protest at Donald Trump's inauguration as 45th President of the United States.[25]
  • 24 January – The UK Supreme Court rules against the Government's Brexit appeal case by an 8 to 3 decision, stating that Parliament must vote to trigger Article 50.[26]
  • 30 January – A petition to stop US President Donald Trump's UK state visit gathers more than 1.8 million signatures.[27]

February

  • 1 February
  • 3 February
  • 6 February – The Queen commemorates her Sapphire Jubilee.
  • 7 February – Plans for building more homes in England are revealed by the government, after ministers say that the housing market is "broken".[29]
  • 8 February – Labour MP Clive Lewis resigns from the Shadow Cabinet in protest over his party's decision to whip its MPs into voting to trigger Article 50.[30]
  • 15 February – The European Commission issues a "final warning" to the United Kingdom over the breaching of air pollution limits.[31]
  • 17 February – Brooklyn Beckham, author, photographer and son of David Beckham, falls and breaks his arm after excessive use of Hoverboard
  • 18 February – Lincoln City F.C. become the first non-league team to reach the FA Cup quarter-finals for 103 years with a 1–0 victory over Burnley.[35]
  • 20 February – Protests are held in London and other cities across the UK, as MPs debate whether the new US President Donald Trump should be given a state visit.[36]
  • 21 February – A heterosexual couple, Rebecca Steinfeld and Charles Keidan, lose their Court of Appeal case in which they sought to be granted civil partnership instead of a traditional marriage.[37]
  • 22 February
  • 23 February
    • By-elections are held in Copeland and Stoke-on-Trent Central to fill vacancies arising from the resignation of sitting Labour MPs. Trudy Harrison wins the Copeland seat for the Conservative Party and Gareth Snell retains the Stoke-on-Trent Central seat for the Labour Party. Labour had held the Copeland seat since its creation, and the Tory win is the first gain by a serving government in a by-election for 35 years.[40]
    • Britain is hit by winds of up to 94 mph from Storm Doris, causing travel disruption and a number of casualties.[41]
  • 26 February

March

  • 2 March – New elections to the Northern Ireland Assembly are held. The Democratic Unionist Party loses ten seats, while Sinn Féin only loses one seat.[43]
  • 5 March – Tens of thousands of people including NHS employees, campaigners and union representatives march in London to protest against "yet more austerity" in the health service.[44]
  • 6 March – The British car manufacturer Vauxhall, along with its German sister firm, Opel, is sold by General Motors to Peugeot-Citroën of France as Groupe PSA agrees to a €2,200,000,000 (£1.9bn) deal to buy General Motors' European operations.[45]
  • 7 March – A chain of Budgens stores announces that it will close, after failing to find a buyer, with the loss of 800 jobs. The owner of the 34 stores affected – a third of Budgens outlets – was put in administration a month ago after hitting "difficult" trading conditions.[46]
  • 8 March
  • 9 March
  • 10 March BT bows to demands by the telecoms regulator Ofcom to legally separate Openreach, which runs the UK's broadband infrastructure.[50]
  • 14 March – The British Parliament passes the Brexit bill, paving the way for the UK Government to trigger Article 50; so that the UK can formally withdraw from the European Union.[51]
  • 15 March
    • The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors' head of UK policy says Brexit "has the potential to slowly bring the UK's £500bn infrastructure pipeline to a standstill", putting 200,000 construction jobs at risk if the United Kingdom loses access to the EU's single market.[52]
    • Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Hammond is forced to make a U-turn on his commitment to raising National Insurance contributions for the self-employed after vast opposition from Conservative backbenchers.[53]
  • 16 March
    • The European Union (Notification of Withdrawal) Bill is given Royal Assent by HM The Queen at 10:50, making it an Act of Parliament.
    • Theresa May formally rejects Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon's second Scottish Independence Referendum timetable for Autumn 2018, or at least before Brexit negotiations are concluded.
    • It is announced that the Japanese car manufacturer Toyota is to invest £240,000,000 in its UK operations at Burnaston near Derby.[54]
    • After White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer claims that President Obama used GCHQ to wiretap Donald Trump during his presidential campaign, the US Government issues an apology to the UK Government, assuring that the accusation will not be repeated.
  • 17 March – It is announced that the previous Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne, is to become the editor of the London Evening Standard; prompting extensive criticism.[55]
  • 20 March – The Government announces that it will invoke Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty on 29 March.[56]
  • 22 March – Four people die and at least forty others are injured in what is treated as a terrorist attack in London, when a male car driver, later identified as Khalid Masood, ploughs through pedestrians on Westminster Bridge before stabbing PC Keith Palmer to death at the Palace of Westminster. Police later shoot Masood dead. In response, the Houses of Parliament are placed in lockdown for four hours, as is the London Eye and Whitehall, and the devolved Scottish Parliament suspends a debate on a second Scottish independence referendum.[57][58]
  • 25 March – Thirty-three people are injured, including two seriously, and several buildings damaged, after a suspected gas explosion in Bebington, Merseyside.[59]
  • 28 March – The new twelve-sided £1 coin is released.[60]
  • 29 March – The United Kingdom invokes Article 50 of the Treaty on European Union, beginning the formal EU withdrawal process.[61][62]

April

May

  • 1 May – Mark Selby defeats John Higgins by 18 frames to 15 to win the 2017 World Snooker Championship.[77]
  • 4 May
  • 5 May – Paper £5 notes featuring Elizabeth Fry cease to be legal tender in the UK.[80]
  • 10 May – An eleven-year-old girl dies at Drayton Manor theme park after falling off one of the rides.[81]
  • 12 May – Computers across the United Kingdom are hit by a large-scale ransomware cyber-attack, causing major disruption.[82]
  • 15 May – Ian Brady, jailed for life more than 50 years ago for the Moors murders, dies at the age of 79 at Ashworth Hospital, Merseyside. Brady was Britain's longest-serving prisoner, and had been at Ashworth since 1985 after being transferred from a mainstream prison. His accomplice, Myra Hindley, died in November 2002; she too was never paroled. Unlike Hindley, who made several attempts to win parole, Brady never wanted to be released from custody and even lodged an unsuccessful legal challenge to be allowed to starve himself to death in 1999.[83]
  • 22 May – Manchester Arena is attacked by a suicide bomber following a music concert by American singer Ariana Grande, resulting in multiple casualties.[84] It is the most deadly attack in the UK since the 7 July 2005 London bombings and the first in the North of England since the IRA bombing of Manchester in June 1996.
  • 23 May
  • 24 May
    • The UK's terror threat level is raised from "severe" to "critical", its highest possible level, for the first time in ten years; meaning not only is an attack being highly likely, it is "expected imminently".[88]
    • As police investigate a "network" relating to the Manchester Arena attack, up to 5,000 military personnel are deployed onto the streets of Britain. Seven people are arrested, including the bomber's 23-year-old brother. The suicide bomber is confirmed to have been 22-year-old Salman Abedi, who lived in the city and was the son of Libyan immigrants.[89]
  • 25 May
    • Police investigating the Manchester bombing reveal they have stopped sharing information with the US, following leaks to the media.[90]
    • A nationwide minute's silence is held at 11:00 BST to remember the Manchester attack victims.[91]
    • The Queen visits Royal Manchester Children's Hospital to meet children injured in the attack at Manchester Arena and the staff caring for them. It is confirmed that more than 100 people were wounded by the blast. All of the 22 people who died have by now been identified.[92]
  • 27 May
  • 29 May – A female zookeeper is killed in what is described as a freak accident in the tiger enclosure of Hamerton Zoo Park, near Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire.[94]
  • 30 May – Manchester Victoria railway station is reopened more than a week after the suicide attack at the city's arena.[95]
  • 31 May – Breast surgeon Ian Paterson is jailed for fifteen years after carrying out unnecessary operations. Paterson, 59, carried out surgery on nine women and one man after falsely telling them they had breast cancer.[96]

June

  • 3 June – Seven people are reported killed and 48 injured in an attack by three Islamist extremists at London Bridge.[97] A hit-and-run vehicle on the bridge is followed by knife attacks at Borough Market. All three perpetrators are shot dead by police within eight minutes.[98]
  • 4 June
    • General election campaigning is suspended by most major political parties for a day following the previous evening's attack in London. Prime Minister Theresa May confirms the general election will go ahead as scheduled on 8 June.[99]
    • Twelve people are arrested in Barking, East London, in connection with the terror attack at London Bridge.[100]
    • The One Love Manchester concert is held at Old Trafford Cricket Ground to raise funds for the injured and bereaved in the Manchester Arena bombing, organised by Ariana Grande and also featuring artists and acts including Miley Cyrus, Robbie Williams, Katy Perry, Justin Bieber, Little Mix and The Black Eyed Peas. It is attended by some 50,000 people and watched on TV by more than 22 million viewers (the largest TV audience of the year to date).
  • 6 June – A nationwide minute's silence is held at 11:00 BST to remember the victims of the London attack.[101]
  • 7 June
    • Police searching for a French man, who had been missing since the London Bridge attack on 3 June, confirm his body has been recovered from the River Thames, raising the death toll to eight.[102]
    • The Labour Party announces that Diane Abbott is to take a break from her role as Shadow Home Secretary due to ill health. Shadow minister Lyn Brown will become Acting Shadow Home Secretary in Abbott's absence.[103]
    • Solar, wind and nuclear power each provide more electricity than gas and coal combined for the first time in the UK.[104]
  • 8 June – general election 2017: The Conservatives remain the largest party, but fail to get enough seats for a majority, leading to a hung parliament. In a surprise result, they are reduced from 330 to 318 seats. PM Theresa May rejects calls for her to resign and attempts to form a coalition with the DUP, which would give her 10 additional seats. Labour gain 32 seats, with particular success in London; the SNP suffers heavy losses with 21 fewer seats; the Liberal Democrats gain four seats for a total of 12; UKIP lose their sole seat and Paul Nuttall resigns as party leader.[105]
  • 9 June – Following a three-week trial at Warwick Crown Court, former BBC radio presenters Tony Wadsworth and Julie Mayer are convicted of indecently assaulting underage boys, and each are jailed for five years.[106]
  • 10 June
  • 11 June – The England national under-20 football team win the FIFA U-20 World Cup for the first time beating Venezuela by 1 goal to nil in the final.[109]
  • 14 June
  • 15 June – After both main party leaders visit the site, Theresa May orders a public inquiry into the Grenfell Tower fire.[112] As the death toll continues to rise, firefighters estimate that it will take "months" to identify all the victims. Police open a criminal investigation into the blaze.[113]
  • 16 June
  • 17 June – The Trooping the Colour parade takes place to celebrate The Queen's official birthday.[116]
  • 18 June – The Government announces that there will be no Queen's Speech in 2018, to give MPs more time to deal with Brexit laws.[117]
  • 19 June
    • 2017 Finsbury Park attack: One person is killed and ten others are injured after a van is deliberately rammed into pedestrians near Finsbury Park Mosque. 47-year-old Darren Osborne, who shouted that he wanted to "kill all Muslims", is arrested after members of the public subdue him.[118]
    • Brexit Secretary David Davis heads to Brussels as formal negotiations with the EU get underway.[119]
  • 21 June
    • As the heatwave continues, the UK experiences its hottest June day since 1976, with a temperature of 34.4C (94F) recorded at Heathrow Airport.[120]
    • Parliament is officially opened by the Queen.[121]
    • Muslim cousins were the victims of the 2017 Beckton acid attack. This is seen as part of the rising hatred against Muslims in Great Britain.[122]
  • 22 June – Nicholas Holgate, the chief executive of Kensington and Chelsea council, resigns amid criticism over the borough's response to the Grenfell Tower fire.[123]
  • 23 June – Five tower blocks with 800 homes in Camden, North London, are evacuated due to cladding concerns.[124]
  • 24 June – Police investigate a cyberattack on the Houses of Parliament after an attempt was made to gain unauthorised access to politicians' email accounts.[125]
  • 26 June – The Conservatives agree a £1 billion deal with Northern Ireland's Democratic Unionist Party to support Theresa May's Conservative minority government.[126]
  • 27 June – Nicola Sturgeon announces that she will delay plans for a proposed second Scottish independence referendum.[127]
  • 28 June – It is reported that Hillsborough police chief David Duckenfield will be charged with the manslaughter of 95 people during the 1989 disaster. Five others face charges.[128]
  • 30 June – The leader of Kensington and Chelsea council, Nick Paget-Brown, resigns following criticism over the Grenfell Tower fire enquiry.[129]

July

  • 1 July – Thousands of people march in London in the "Not One Day More" protest against the government's economic policies.[130]
  • 3 July – French energy supplier EDF raises the estimated cost of completing the new Hinkley Point C nuclear plant from £18 billion to £19.6 billion.[131]
  • 9 July – The Lake District becomes an officially recognised UNESCO World Heritage Site.[132][133]
  • 10 July – MP Anne Marie Morris is suspended from the Conservative Party and has the whip withdrawn after using racist language during a public discussion on Brexit.[134][135]
  • 11 July
    • The government announces more than £100 million of investment in the UK's space sector.[136]
    • Organisers of the British Grand Prix invoke a break clause placing the future of the race meaning unless a new contract is signed, 2019 will be the final year the British Grand Prix takes place at Silverstone.[137]
  • 12 July – A gay man, John Walker, wins a landmark ruling at the Supreme Court, giving his husband the same pension rights as a wife would receive.[138]
  • 14 July – Two teenagers are arrested after five separate acid attacks within ninety minutes throughout London.[139]
  • 16 July
  • 18 July
    • A flash flood sweeps through Coverack in Cornwall.[140]
    • Gains in life expectancy in England are reported to have slowed to a halt, after more than 100 years of continuous progress.[141]
  • 19 July – The government announces that a rise in the State Pension age to 68 will be phased in between 2037 and 2039, rather than from 2044 as was originally planned. This will affect 6 million men and women currently aged between 39–47 years old.[142]
  • 20 July
    • The latest Brexit talks end without agreement on EU citizens' rights or the amount the UK should pay.[143]
    • Sir Vince Cable becomes the new leader of the Liberal Democrats after nominations close without any challengers.[144]
    • The Office for National Statistics reports that crime in England and Wales has seen its largest annual rise in a decade, increasing by 10% overall between April 2016 and March 2017, with violent crime up by 18%.[145]
  • 22 July –
    • The Government announces plans to introduce drone registration and safety awareness courses for owners of the small unmanned aircraft.[146]
    • The UK Independence Party loses overall control of Thanet District Council, the only local authority it runs, after one of its councillors defects to the Conservative Party.[147]
  • 26 July
    • The government announces that all new diesel and petrol cars and vans will be banned in the UK from 2040.[148]
    • The Supreme Court rules that employment tribunal fees are unlawful, meaning the government will have to repay up to £32m to claimants.[149]
  • 27 July – A High Court judge approves a plan for terminally-ill baby Charlie Gard to be moved to a hospice and have his life support withdrawn.[150]
  • 28 July – The parents of Charlie Gard confirm that he has died.[151]
  • 30 July – Organisiers cancel the Sunday leg of the Y Not Festival in Derbyshire after heavy rainfall throughout the weekend leads to excessive mud and adverse conditions on the festival site.[152]

August

  • 1 August
    • British Gas announces that it will increase electricity prices by 12.5% from 15 September, in a move affecting 3.1 million customers.[153]
    • McColls, the convenience shop chain, signs a new supply deal with Morrisons in a move that will resurrect the Safeway brand.[154]
  • 2 August
    • The Duke of Edinburgh carries out his final official engagement before retiring from public duties at age 96.[155]
    • A group of 70 Army cadets, many of them children, are rescued from the Mourne Mountains in Northern Ireland after being stranded due to bad weather.[156]
  • 4 August
  • 5 August
    • Major engineering works scheduled to continue until 28 August cause severe disruption at London Waterloo, the UK's busiest railway station, as platforms 1 to 10 are closed in an £800 million project to extend their length.[159]
    • The Foreign Office provides consular support to a British model who was drugged and kidnapped by Polish national Lukasz Herbain in Milan to be sold in an online auction.[160]
  • 10 August – A trade analysis by the Environmental Investigations Agency shows that the UK is the world's largest legal ivory exporter.[161]
  • 16 August
  • 17 August – Seven-year-old Julian Cadman, with dual British-Australian nationality, is one of 15 people killed in terrorist attacks in Barcelona and Cambrils in Spain.[164]
  • 21 August – The chimes of Big Ben fall silent as a four-year renovation of the building begins.[165]
  • 25 August – Three police officers received minor injuries outside Buckingham Palace whilst arresting a 26-year-old man under the Terrorism Act. The man had approached the police in a car and was brandishing a 4 ft sword and shouting "Allahu Akbar".[166]
  • 26 August –
  • 27 August – Over 230 people are treated in hospital for minor ailments following a suspected chemical leak at a beach at Birling Gap, East Sussex.[169][170]

September

  • 1 September –
    • Women are eligible to join the RAF Regiment, making the Royal Air Force the first of the British armed services to accept both genders in all roles.[171]
    • The death is reported at age 50 of Stephanie Slater, the Birmingham estate agent kidnapped and held captive by Michael Sams in 1992.[172]
  • 4 September
  • 9 September – Thousands of Remainers join a rally in central London to protest at the impact of the UK leaving the EU.[175]
  • 11 September – In a Commons vote, MPs back the EU Withdrawal Bill by 326 to 290, as critics warn it represents a "power grab" by ministers.[176]
  • 14 September – A new £10 polymer banknote is released, featuring Jane Austen.[177]
  • 15 September – A blast and fire on a tube train at Parsons Green station is treated as a terrorist attack. A number of people suffer burn injuries, while others are injured during the trample to escape. There are 29 injures in total, but no deaths and no reports of any life-threatening injuries.[178] The UK terror threat is raised to its highest level as police hunt the perpetrator, with hundreds of officers looking through CCTV footage.[179]
  • 16 September – Police arrest an 18-year-old man in Dover on suspicion of a terror offence in connection with the attack on a London Tube train the previous day.[180]
  • 20 September – UK scientists edit the DNA of human embryos for the first time.[181][182]
  • 22 September
    • Transport for London (TfL) announces that ride-hailing app Uber is "not fit and proper" to operate in London and will not have its licence renewed.[183][184]
    • Speaking in Florence, Theresa May proposes a two-year transition period after 2019 to fully implement Brexit, a deal which could include payments to the EU worth 20bn euros (about £18bn).[185]
    • The UK's credit rating is downgraded by Moody's, from Aa1 to Aa2.[186][187]
  • 27 September – Measles is declared eradicated in the UK for the first time.[188]
  • 28 September – An undercover investigation by the Guardian and ITV News finds that the largest supplier of chicken to UK supermarkets may have duped customers into buying out-of-date meat.[189]

October

  • 2 October – Monarch Airlines, the UK's fifth biggest airline, is placed into administration.[190]
  • 3 October – Following a spate of acid attacks, the government announces that sales of acids to under 18s will be banned.[191]
  • 4 October – Theresa May promises a "new generation of council housing" and an energy price cap, in a conference speech interrupted by a prankster.[192]
  • 7 October – A man is arrested after a car ploughs into pedestrians outside the Natural History Museum in South Kensington, London, injuring several people. The incident is caused by dangerous driving and is not terror-related.[193]
  • 12 October – During the latest round of Brexit negotiations between Britain and Europe, the EU's chief negotiator Michel Barnier tells a press conference that talks are in a "very disturbing state of deadlock".[194]
  • 15 October – Round £1 coins cease to be legal tender in the UK.[195]
  • 16 October
    • Revised figures from the ONS indicate that Britain is £490 billion poorer than previously thought, and that the country no longer has a net reserve of foreign assets.[196]
    • Hurricane Ophelia hits the British Isles.[197]
  • 17 October – The Consumer Price Index (CPI), the UK's key inflation rate, increases from 2.9 to 3%, its highest for more than five years, driven by a rise in transport and food prices.[198]
  • 22 October – A man is arrested after a four-hour armed siege in which two men were held hostage at a bowling alley in Nuneaton, Warwickshire.[199]
  • 26 October – Women in Scotland are to be allowed to take abortion pills at home, bringing the country into line with others such as Sweden and France.[200]
  • 28 October – The England national under-17 football team win the FIFA U-17 World Cup for the first time after beating Spain by 5 goals to 2 in the final.[201]
  • 29 October – Theresa May orders the Cabinet Office to investigate claims about the conduct of minister Mark Garnier, after the Mail on Sunday reports that he asked his secretary to buy sex toys for him and called her "sugar tits".[202]

November

  • 1 November
    • Defence Secretary Sir Michael Fallon resigns following allegations of inappropriate past behaviour.[203]
    • The Government loses an opposition vote calling on it to publish impact assessments of Brexit on more than 50 key industries.[204]
  • 2 November
  • 3 November – British police investigate an allegation of sexual assault made against Hollywood actor Kevin Spacey, while he was resident in London during 2008. This follows a string of other allegations against him in the United States.[207]
  • 5 November – A huge new leak of documents known as the Paradise Papers is reported by the BBC's Panorama programme, revealing how the wealthy and powerful, including the Queen's private estate, invest offshore.[208]
  • 7 November
    • Figures from the Office for National Statistics reveal that only in England are people happier following the Brexit vote.[209]
    • Carl Sargeant, 49, the Cabinet Secretary for Communities and Children in the Welsh Government, commits suicide at home, days after facing a party investigation into allegations of sexual impropriety.[210]
    • Nicola Sturgeon, Scotland's First Minister, apologises to gay men convicted of sexual offences that are no longer illegal as new legislation is introduced that will automatically pardon gay and bisexual men convicted under historical laws.[211]
  • 8 November – Priti Patel resigns as International Development Secretary amid controversy over unauthorised meetings she had with Israeli officials.[212]
  • 9 November – Penny Mordaunt replaces Priti Patel as International Development Secretary.[213]
  • 10 November – An escaped Eurasian lynx is shot dead in Ceredigion, Wales. The animal, named Lilleth, had escaped from Borth Wild Animal Kingdom.[214] A second lynx, named Nilly, dies three days later from a "handling error", prompting calls for the zoo to be shut down.[215]
  • 13 November – David Davis announces that Parliament will be given a vote on the final Brexit deal before the United Kingdom leaves the European Union in 2019.[216]
  • 14 November
    • Westminster's public accounts committee warns that failure to complete the introduction of a new customs system by Brexit in 2019 would be "catastrophic", with huge disruption for businesses and transport. The report further states that the number of customs declarations which HM Revenue and Customs would have to process each year could increase almost five-fold – from 55m to 225m – after leaving the EU.[217]
    • Researchers at the University of Edinburgh report that more than 400 Twitter accounts operating from the Russian Internet Research Agency (IRA) attempted to influence UK politics in the run-up to the Brexit referendum.[218]
  • 15 November – A report by the British Medical Journal shows that NHS and social care austerity has been responsible for 120,000 excess deaths since 2010 under the Tories.[219]
  • 16 November
    • The Metropolitan Police announces that 71 victims of the Grenfell Tower fire have been formally identified and that all those who died have been recovered.[220]
    • The Old Vic theatre says it has received 20 personal testimonies of alleged inappropriate behaviour by Kevin Spacey during his 11-year tenure as artistic director.[221]
  • 17 November – Sarah Clarke, current championship director of the All England Lawn Tennis Club, is appointed as the first female Black Rod. She will take up the position in January 2018, and have the title "The Lady Usher of the Black Rod".[222]
  • 18 November
  • 20 November
  • 21 November – The UK loses its seat on the International Court of Justice for the first time since the UN's principal legal body began in 1946.[228]
  • 22 November – The government's Autumn budget is published.[229]
  • 23 November – The European Commission states that UK participation in the European Capital of Culture will no longer be possible.[230]
  • 24 November – An altercation at Oxford Circus tube station creates mass panic during rush hour in central London.[231] Two men, aged 21 and 40, are later interviewed by detectives after voluntarily attending a police station following an appeal.[232]
  • 25 November
    • Former TV presenter John Leslie is charged with sexually assaulting a woman in an Edinburgh nightclub.[233]
    • Five people, including three children, are killed after a stolen car crashes into a tree in Leeds. Two 15-year-old boys are held in custody on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving.[234]
  • 26 November – Sailors of the Royal Navy perform the Changing of the Guard ceremony in London for the first time in its history.[235]
  • 27 November – Prince Harry announces his engagement to American actress Meghan Markle.[236][237]
  • 28 November – The House of Commons Speaker, John Bercow, orders Brexit secretary David Davis to face a Commons committee, after MPs say he ignored a binding vote to hand over full documents on the impact of Brexit on 58 sectors.[238]

December

  • 3 December – Alan Milburn and the entire Social Mobility Commission quit their roles, citing ‘lack of political leadership’, a repeated refusal to properly resource and staff the commission, an obsession with Brexit and an ‘absence’ of policy.[239][240]
  • 4 December
    • In Brussels, Theresa May and Jean-Claude Juncker fail to reach an agreement on key points needed to progress to the next stage of Brexit talks, including the issue of the Northern Ireland border.[241]
    • The retailer Toys "R" Us announces that it is to close 26 of its stores in Britain.[242]
  • 5 December – The Office of National Statistics values the UK at £9.8 trillion.[243]
  • 6 December – While being questioned by the Brexit committee, David Davis admits that the Government have not conducted a single economic impact assessment on the impact of Brexit to the economy.[244][245] Philip Hammond later states that the Cabinet "has not had specific discussion about the final Brexit outcome it wants."[246]
  • 7 December – Coventry is named the UK City of Culture 2021.[247]
  • 8 December – The United Kingdom and European Union reach agreement on the first stage of Brexit.[248]
  • 10–11 December – Heavy snowfall and strong winds bring widespread disruption to the UK.[249]
  • 11 December – Mount Hope in the British Antarctic Territory is found to be the highest mountain in British territory.[250]
  • 12 December – The UK's key inflation rate – the consumer prices index – rises to 3.1%, the highest level in nearly six years.[251]
  • 13 December – After a rebellion by Tory MPs, the government is defeated in a key vote on Brexit, with MPs voting in favour of giving Parliament a say on the final deal struck with the EU.[252]
  • 14 December – The Scottish government's budget proposes splitting the 20% income tax band into three with a new lower band of 19%, a 20% band, and a 21% band for those earning over £24,000.[253]
  • 15 December – 27 EU leaders vote to allow Brexit talks to move on to Phase 2 at an EU Summit.[254]
  • 16 December – The body of a 30-year old British woman, Rebecca Dykes, who worked at the British Embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, is found near a motorway on the outskirts of the city. A 35-year-old male Uber driver is arrested and charged with her rape and murder.[255]
  • 17 December – Six people are killed in a multiple-vehicle crash on Belgrave Middleway in Birmingham.[256]
  • 19 December – Four male suspects are arrested in South Yorkshire and Derbyshire over an alleged plot to carry out Islamist terror attacks in the UK over Christmas.[257]
  • 20 December
    • The EU announces that the UK's Brexit transition period will end no later than 31 December 2020.[258]
    • Damian Green, one of Theresa May's closest allies, resigns from the cabinet after an investigation finds he made "inaccurate and misleading" statements regarding pornography on a computer in his Commons office.[259]
  • 21 December – A 30-year-old woman, Jodie Willsher, is stabbed to death while working at an Aldi store in Skipton, North Yorkshire. A 44-year-old male suspect is arrested and charged with her murder.[260]
  • 29 December – Lord Adonis resigns from his role as the government's infrastructure adviser, in a letter criticising both Brexit and the role of the private sector in rail contracts.[261]
  • 31 December

Publications

Deaths

January

Sir Tony Atkinson
John Berger
Rolf Noskwith
Graham Taylor
Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon
Mike Kellie
John Watkiss
Gorden Kaye
Sir John Hurt

February

Sir Peter Mansfield
Tara Palmer-Tomkinson
Sir Gerald Kaufman

March

John Surtees
Roy Fisher
Martin McGuinness

April

Christopher Morahan
Allan Holdsworth
Ugo Ehiogu

May

Moray Watson
Geoffrey Bayldon
Rhodri Morgan
Sir Roger Moore

June

Peter Sallis
Vin Garbutt
Errol Christie
Brian Cant

July

Joe Robinson
Bryan Avery
Deborah Watling
Gabriel Epstein

August

Commodore Laurie Brokenshire
11th Duke of Beaufort
Sir Bruce Forsyth
Don Shepherd
Brian Aldiss

September

10th Duke of Richmond
Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor
David Shepherd
Sir Teddy Taylor

October

Rodney Bickerstaffe
Roy Dotrice
Phil Miller
Denise P. Barlow

November

Carl Sargeant
Henry Emeleus
John Gordon
Harry Blamires
Milein Cosman

December

Christine Keeler
Max Clifford
Keith Chegwin
Suzanna Leigh
Heinz Wolff

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