1 January 2025Booker Prize AftermathSamantha Harvey
Orbital continues global attention after its Booker Prize win.
Historical records for Great Britain in 2025, rendered directly from the World History Database and ordered by month, day and event.
Orbital continues global attention after its Booker Prize win.
Burnham completes the return of Greater Manchester's bus network to local public control.
Starmer launches reforms intended to restore the eighteen-week planned-treatment standard.
The NHS agrees expanded use of independent capacity while keeping treatment free to patients.
The Government reaches a pay and reform agreement ending the Royal Fleet Auxiliary dispute.
Starmer and Volodymyr Zelenskyy sign a long-term partnership covering security and economic cooperation.
Releases Better Man, a soundtrack linked to the biographical film about his life and career.
Campaigns on post-Brexit politics through Reform UK after returning to Westminster.
Starmer attends international discussions on artificial intelligence investment, safety and governance.
ONS estimates that the economy grew by 0.1 percent in the fourth quarter of 2024.
Starmer announces that more than two million additional NHS appointments were delivered early.
The Government confirms the first 750 schools selected for free breakfast clubs.
Starmer announces a timetable for defence spending to reach two and one-half percent of GDP.
Starmer hosts European and allied leaders to coordinate support and peace planning for Ukraine.
Starmer announces plans to return NHS England functions to the Health Department.
ONS estimates that real GDP increased by 1.1 percent across 2024.
ONS reports no real GDP-per-head growth across 2024.
Burnham argues for a state organised around places rather than isolated Whitehall departments.
The Government estimates that ending resident-doctor strikes protected half a million NHS appointments.
The Government reports that the elective waiting list has fallen by 193,000.
Scores two direct free kicks as Arsenal defeat Real Madrid 3-0 in the Champions League quarter-final first leg.
ONS estimates that monthly GDP grew by 0.5 percent in February 2025.
Starmer recalls Parliament to protect continued steel production at Scunthorpe.
Free breakfast clubs begin operating in hundreds of primary schools across England.
Harriet Cross becomes Governor of Montserrat
Helps Liverpool secure the Premier League title before leaving the club.
Liverpool win the Premier League title under Arne Slot.
Starmer welcomes NHS App expansion credited with preventing 1.5 million missed appointments.
Pulp release Spike Island as the first single from their first new studio album in decades.
Villa defeats Manchester City 3-1 to win the FA Youth Cup for a fifth time.
Starmer announces completion of negotiations for a bilateral trade agreement with India.
Starmer announces an economic agreement reducing selected trade barriers with the United States.
Leads commemorations marking eighty years since Victory in Europe Day.
Starmer presents reforms intended to reduce migration and strengthen domestic skills requirements.
ONS estimates that GDP grew by 0.7 percent during the first quarter of 2025.
ONS estimates that real GDP per head grew by 0.5 percent in the first quarter.
Scores the only goal as Crystal Palace win the FA Cup for the first time.
Agrees to work toward reduced agri food barriers with the European Union.
Starmer hosts European Union leaders at the first UK-EU summit since withdrawal.
Agrees longer term reciprocal fishing access arrangements with the European Union.
Agrees a security and defence partnership with the European Union.
Holds the first UK EU summit since withdrawal from the European Union.
Starmer agrees to negotiate reduced sanitary barriers affecting agricultural and food trade.
Starmer agrees reciprocal access to waters through June 2038 under the renewed partnership.
Starmer agrees a framework for closer security and defence cooperation with the European Union.
The Government accepts a four percent teacher pay award for the 2025/26 academic year.
Starmer accepts a defence review focused on readiness, technology and European security.
The Government announces free school meals for children in all Universal Credit households.
Releases More with Pulp, the band's first new studio album since We Love Life.
ONS initially estimates that monthly GDP contracted by 0.3 percent in April 2025.
Pulp's More reaches number one on the UK albums chart, their first chart-topping album in twenty-seven years.
Starmer publishes an NHS plan centred on community care, digital services and prevention.
ONS estimates that monthly GDP fell by 0.1 percent in May 2025.
ONS estimates that GDP grew by 0.5 percent in the three months to May.
Scores twice as Chelsea win the Club World Cup.
Resident doctors begin five days of industrial action after renewed disagreement over pay.
England win the Women's European Championship.
ONS estimates that construction output grew by 1.2 percent in the second quarter.
ONS estimates that GDP increased by 0.3 percent during the second quarter of 2025.
ONS estimates that services output grew by 0.4 percent in the second quarter.
Starmer announces reforms linking post-sixteen education more closely with national skills needs.
The Government publishes reforms covering technical education, higher education and workforce skills.
Resident doctors begin another five-day strike across NHS organisations in England.
Wins the Formula One drivers' championship.
ONS reports that real GDP grew by 0.1 percent in the third quarter of 2025.
Rachel Reeves presents the 2025 Budget to the House of Commons as Chancellor of the Exchequer.
The 2025 Budget under Rachel Reeves sets out the Government's taxation, expenditure and borrowing plans.
During Keir Starmer's government, the Government publishes an NHS plan centred on community care, digital services and prevention.
The Labour Party Government is in office as this NHS milestone occurs: The Government publishes an NHS plan centred on community care, digital services and prevention.
This NHS development occurs while Keir Starmer serves as Prime Minister: The Government publishes an NHS plan centred on community care, digital services and prevention.
Shares the Nobel Prize in Physics for discovering macroscopic quantum tunnelling and energy quantisation in an electric circuit.
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