Privy Council
Formal body of advisers to the sovereign of the UK
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| 2025 | King Charles III appointed Ellie Reeves and Sir Anthony Smellie as Privy Counsellors in 2025. |
| March 12 2025 | Current date of context for summarizing the List of current members of the British Privy Council |
| 2024 | King Charles III appointed a significant number of new Privy Counsellors, including politicians from various political parties such as Heidi Alexander, Anneliese Dodds, Stephen Flynn, Vaughan Gething, Louise Haigh, and others from both the Labour and Scottish National Party. |
| July 10 2024 | Sir Keir Starmer becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, leading a new Labour government |
| 2023 | King Charles III appointed multiple politicians as Privy Counsellors, including Victoria Atkins, Steve Baker, Sir Graham Brady, Alex Chalk, Claire Coutinho, Maria Eagle, Richard Holden, Marcus Jones, Kelly Tolhurst, Laura Trott, Craig Whittaker, Craig Williams, and Humza Yousaf. |
| 2022 | King Charles III appointed multiple individuals to the Privy Council, including prominent political figures such as Sir Clive Alderton, Edward Argar, Kemi Badenoch, Simon Case, and others from across the political spectrum. |
| September 10 2022 | An Accession Council was convened following the death of Elizabeth II to proclaim the accession of Charles III and witness the Monarch's statutory oath. |
| April 2022 | Former Prime Minister of Jamaica P. J. Patterson resigns from the Privy Council to advocate for Jamaica becoming a republic. |
| April 4 2020 | Sir Keir Starmer becomes Leader of the Opposition, succeeding Jeremy Corbyn |
| 2017 | Prime Minister Theresa May and David Lidington exercised the rare privilege of sitting on the steps of the Sovereign's Throne during the opening debate of the European Union (Notification of Withdrawal) Bill in the House of Lords. |
| 2017 | Higher Education and Research Act transferred academic degree-awarding powers and university title granting from the Privy Council to the Office for Students for educational institutions in England. |
| July 19 2017 | Sir Keir Starmer becomes a Privy Counsellor, having been Shadow Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union since 2016 |
| October 9 2013 | Denis MacShane resigns from the Privy Council before an Old Bailey hearing where he pleaded guilty to false accounting. |
| July 6 2013 | Lord Prescott stands down from the Privy Council in protest against delays in press regulation. |
| February 4 2013 | Chris Huhne announces voluntary resignation from the Privy Council after pleading guilty to perverting the course of justice. |
| June 8 2011 | Elliot Morley expelled from the Privy Council following his conviction on charges of false accounting in the British parliamentary expenses scandal, marking a rare instance of an individual being removed from the council. |
| 2010 | The Gibson Committee was established to investigate potential complicity of UK security services in detainee torture. |
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