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The Conservatives win elections, ending 13 years of Labour rule, and David Cameron becomes Britain's new prime minister, the youngest since 1812
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Rupert Murdoch's media empire is rocked by a scandal about phone hacking by a tabloid
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Britain approves construction of the first new nuclear power plant in a generation (the Hinkley Point C plant in Somerset)
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The USA and Britain withdraw from Afghanistan after the USA has lost more than 2,000 soldiers and Britain more than 400
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Net migration to Britain rises to 333,000 in 2015, the second-highest since records began in 1975
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The majority of British people (mostly in England) vote in a referendum to leave the European Union, stock markets plunge worldwide losing more than 2 trillion dollars in value and the British pound falls to its lowest level in 30 years, Cameron resigns and Theresa May of the same party replaces him ("Brexit")
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About 80 people died in a fire at a residential tower in London, the Grenfell Tower
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The USA, Britain and France bomb Syria in retaliation for Syria's use of chemical weapons