The economy was seen by 49 percent of people in the UK as one of the top three issues facing the country in June 2025. The ongoing cost of living crisis afflicting the UK, driven by high inflation, is still one of the main concerns of Britons. Immigration has generally been the second most important issue since the middle of 2024, just ahead of health, which was seen as the third-biggest issue in the most recent month. Labour's popularity continues to sink in 2025 Despite winning the 2024 general election with a strong majority, the new Labour government has had its share of struggles since coming to power. Shortly after taking office, the approval rating for Labour stood at -2 percent, but this fell throughout the second half of 2024, and by January 2025 had sunk to a new low of -47 percent. Although this was still higher than the previous government's last approval rating of -56 percent, it is nevertheless a severe review from the electorate. Among several decisions from the government, arguably the least popular was the government withdrawing winter fuel payments. This state benefit, previously paid to all pensioners, is now only paid to those on low incomes, with millions of pensioners not receiving this payment in winter 2024. Sunak's pledges fail to prevent defeat in 2024 With an election on the horizon, and the Labour Party consistently ahead in the polls, addressing voter concerns directly was one of the best chances the Conservatives had of staying in power in 2023. At the start of that year, Rishi Sunak attempted to do this by setting out his five pledges for the next twelve months; halve inflation, grow the economy, reduce national debt, cut NHS waiting times, and stop small boats. A year later, Sunak had at best only partial success in these aims. Although the inflation rate fell, economic growth was weak and even declined in the last two quarters of 2023, although it did return to growth in early 2024. National debt was only expected to fall in the mid to late 2020s, while the trend of increasing NHS waiting times did not reverse. Small boat crossings were down from 2022, but still higher than in 2021 or 2020. .

As of July 2025, the economy was seen as the most important issue facing the UK according to young voters (aged between 18 and 24). Compared with the overall population, housing and health were seen as more important issues than immigration, which was the joint-second most important issue for the general population.

Indicators from the Opinions and Lifestyle Survey (OPN) of what people report are the most important issues facing the UK. Uses longer data collection periods to allow estimates from various personal characteristics.

United Kingdom Capital Issues: GBP: Issues: Total data was reported at 13,372.000 GBP mn in Oct 2018. This records a decrease from the previous number of 14,116.000 GBP mn for Sep 2018. United Kingdom Capital Issues: GBP: Issues: Total data is updated monthly, averaging 13,088.500 GBP mn from Jan 2003 (Median) to Oct 2018, with 190 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 129,347.000 GBP mn in Dec 2008 and a record low of 4,086.000 GBP mn in Aug 2018. United Kingdom Capital Issues: GBP: Issues: Total data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Bank of England. The data is categorized under Global Database’s United Kingdom – Table UK.KB056: Capital Issuance: GBP.

This statistic shows the opinion of British adults of the most important issues facing the United Kingdom (UK) in January 2015. Immigration and asylum were considered as important as the economy - both on 52 percent - followed by health and welfare benefits.

United Kingdom Number of New Issues: UK data was reported at 9.000 Unit in Oct 2018. This records an increase from the previous number of 2.000 Unit for Sep 2018. United Kingdom Number of New Issues: UK data is updated monthly, averaging 4.000 Unit from Jan 2018 (Median) to Oct 2018, with 10 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 15.000 Unit in Mar 2018 and a record low of 2.000 Unit in Sep 2018. United Kingdom Number of New Issues: UK data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by London Stock Exchange. The data is categorized under Global Database’s United Kingdom – Table UK.Z012: London Stock Exchange: Number of Issues and Cancellations.

This statistic shows the percentage of respondents in Northern England who found selected current issues to be of importance to Great Britain as of April 2015. When asked to choose three from the list provided, the two issues that were chosen by over 50% of respondents were the economy and health.

United Kingdom Number of Further Issues: International data was reported at 6.000 Unit in Nov 2018. This records a decrease from the previous number of 12.000 Unit for Oct 2018. United Kingdom Number of Further Issues: International data is updated monthly, averaging 6.000 Unit from Jan 2018 (Median) to Nov 2018, with 11 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 12.000 Unit in Oct 2018 and a record low of 0.000 Unit in Jan 2018. United Kingdom Number of Further Issues: International data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by London Stock Exchange. The data is categorized under Global Database’s United Kingdom – Table UK.Z012: London Stock Exchange: Number of Issues and Cancellations.

United Kingdom Number of New Issues: International data was reported at 1.000 Unit in Oct 2018. This stayed constant from the previous number of 1.000 Unit for Sep 2018. United Kingdom Number of New Issues: International data is updated monthly, averaging 1.000 Unit from Jan 2018 (Median) to Oct 2018, with 10 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 3.000 Unit in Jun 2018 and a record low of 0.000 Unit in Aug 2018. United Kingdom Number of New Issues: International data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by London Stock Exchange. The data is categorized under Global Database’s United Kingdom – Table UK.Z012: London Stock Exchange: Number of Issues and Cancellations.

United Kingdom Number of Further Issues: Further Issue data was reported at 7.000 Unit in Nov 2018. This records an increase from the previous number of 6.000 Unit for Oct 2018. United Kingdom Number of Further Issues: Further Issue data is updated monthly, averaging 8.000 Unit from Jan 2018 (Median) to Nov 2018, with 11 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 11.000 Unit in Apr 2018 and a record low of 6.000 Unit in Oct 2018. United Kingdom Number of Further Issues: Further Issue data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by London Stock Exchange. The data is categorized under Global Database’s United Kingdom – Table UK.Z012: London Stock Exchange: Number of Issues and Cancellations.

United Kingdom Number of Cancellations: UK data was reported at 4.000 Unit in Nov 2018. This records a decrease from the previous number of 5.000 Unit for Oct 2018. United Kingdom Number of Cancellations: UK data is updated monthly, averaging 5.000 Unit from Jan 2018 (Median) to Nov 2018, with 11 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 7.000 Unit in Jul 2018 and a record low of 1.000 Unit in Apr 2018. United Kingdom Number of Cancellations: UK data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by London Stock Exchange. The data is categorized under Global Database’s United Kingdom – Table UK.Z012: London Stock Exchange: Number of Issues and Cancellations.

This statistic shows the result of a survey asking what the United Kingdom (UK) public thought the two most important issues facing the United Kingdom in May 2017 were. The most common answers were health and social security at 34 percent and Terrorism at 33 percent.

A List of UK Health Workers Who Have Died from COVID-19

Made machine-readable by hand from data from the UK newspaper "The Guardian", in this article: "Doctors, nurses, porters, volunteers: the UK health workers who have died from Covid-19" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/16/doctors-nurses-porters-volunteers-the-uk-health-workers-who-have-died-from-covid-19

The Guardian is continuing to update the list day-by-day, as the COVID-19 pandemic continues. I do not plan to update this dataset, assuming, since the data collection biases are unknown, that nobody else will find it very interesting. I am not a copyright lawyer and do not know if this data is protected copyright, and if so, in which parts of the world.

Caveat: Creating this dataset from a newspaper article required a lot of hand work. I've done my best, but there may be mistakes.

Columns: Name age institution city: I have filled this in myself; I am ignorant of UK geography and there may well be mistakes date_of_death possible_ppe_issue: mostly blank, but I have filled in "yes" where the article mentions a person who had doubts about the adequacy of PPE (personal protective equipment) MED_SPEC: I have attempted to fill in a medical specialty from the values used on the Eurostat web site for Physicians by Medical Specialty" and "Nursing and caring professionals" tables. The idea is to be able to calculate a fraction of affected individuals by specialty.