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Events from the year 2025 in the United Kingdom.

Incumbents

• Monarch – Charles III
• Prime Minister – Keir Starmer (Labour)

Events

January

• 1 January
  • 2025 United Kingdom floods: More than 100 flood warnings are issued after heavy rain affects parts of the UK. A major incident is declared in Greater Manchester after some homes are left without running water and people are rescued from cars in floodwater.
  • The cap on bus fares in England rises by 50% from £2 to £3 per journey.
  • The standard rate of VAT is added to private school fees.
  • The Energy Price Cap rises by an average of £21 per year, increasing the average annual gas and electricity bill to £1,738.
  • Home Office figures show 36,816 people crossed the English Channel in small boats throughout 2024, an increase from 2023, but fewer than 2022.
• 2 January
  • A man who was among four people injured when they were hit by a car in central London on Christmas Day dies in hospital.
  • The UK government announces that people smugglers will face social media blackouts, travel bans and telephone restrictions.
  • The biggest dinosaur fossil trackway ever found in the UK is reported at a quarry in Oxfordshire, consisting of 200 huge footprints made 166 million years ago in the mid-Jurassic period.
• 3 January
  • Temperatures are reported to have plunged to as low as –8 °C (17.6 °F) overnight, with amber cold weather alerts in place for the whole of England. Yellow weather warnings for snow and ice are in place for most of England, Wales, and Scotland between Saturday 4 January and Monday 6 January.
  • NHS chiefs in England warn of a major rise in flu cases.
  • The Foreign and Commonwealth Office confirms that a British woman, named as Greta Marie Otteson, has been found dead in a villa in Vietnam along with her fiancé, South African Els Arno Quinton.
  • At the age of 17, Luke Littler becomes the youngest World Darts Champion after defeating Michael van Gerwen 7–3 in the final.
• 4 January – The Foreign and Commonwealth Office reports the death of a Briton, 31-year-old Edward Pettifer, in the recent New Orleans truck attack.
• 5 January – Heavy snow causes travel disruption across the UK, as weather warnings remain in place. Temperatures are reported to have fallen to as low as –11°C overnight in Loch Glascarnoch, Scotland.

Predicted and scheduled events

• 1 April
  • The cost of a TV licence is scheduled to increase by £5 to £174.50.
  • Reconstruction works to restore the fire damaged historic former hotel the Royal Clarence in Exeter are due to commence.
• 19 April – 5 May — 2025 World Snooker Championship
• 1 May – 2025 United Kingdom local elections
• 1 June – The sale of disposable vapes will be banned in England, Scotland, and Wales.
• 22 June – 350th anniversary of the Royal Observatory Greenwich
• 4 July – 9 August — Oasis' reunion tour Oasis Live '25 is set to take place across the UK and Ireland with 12 shows in the UK announced (14 in total), starting on 4 July in Cardiff and ending on 9 August in the UK in Edinburgh (The tour will finish in Dublin, Ireland on 17 August).
• 22 August – 27 September — 2025 Women's Rugby World Cup
• 1 October – A ban on junk food advertising on British television before 9.00pm is scheduled to come into force.
• The United Kingdom is set to retire its part of the global circuit-switched public switched telephone network this year.

Deaths

See also

• Politics of the United Kingdom
• 2020s in United Kingdom political history

References

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