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1968 in the United Kingdom
Résumé
Events from the year 1968 in the United Kingdom.
Monarch – Elizabeth II
Prime Minister – Harold Wilson (Labour)
Parliament – 1966
January – The Ford Escort car is introduced to replace the Anglia.
1 January – Cecil Day-Lewis is announced as the new Poet Laureate, in succession to John Masefield.
5 January – Gardeners' World debuts on BBC1 television, featuring Percy Thrower.
8 January – Prime Minister, Harold Wilson, endorses the 'I'm Backing Britain' campaign, encouraging workers to work extra time without pay or take other actions to help competitiveness, which is spreading across the United Kingdom.
16 January – Prime Minister Wilson announces that the Civil Defence Corps is being stood down.
4 February – 96 Indians and Pakistanis arrive in the United Kingdom from Kenya. Some 1,500 Asians have now arrived in the UK from Kenya, where they have been forced out by increasingly draconian immigration laws.
6–18 February – Great Britain and Northern Ireland compete at the Winter Olympics in Grenoble, France, but do not win any medals.
14 February
Northampton, the county town of Northamptonshire, is designated as a new town, with the Labour Government hoping to double its size and population by 1980.
Constitutional law case of Padfield v Minister of Agriculture is decided in the House of Lords, determining that a minister's discretion to refuse an investigation is subject to judicial review where a refusal would frustrate the policy of an Act.
15 February – The Royal Navy makes the first test firing of a Polaris nuclear ballistic missile, from the submarine HMS Resolution.
24 February – Announcement of the first discovery (last year) of a pulsar by astronomer Jocelyn Bell Burnell working with Antony Hewish at the University of Cambridge.
26 February – Shelton Hospital fire: a fire at Shelton Mental Hospital, Shrewsbury, kills 21 patients.
1 March
Commonwealth Immigrants Act 1968 further reduces right of entry for citizens from the British Commonwealth to the UK.
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