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| 1999 |
| | | Britain's hereditary peers lose their rights in the House of Lords, apart from a few elected to serve for an interim period | |
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| 2001 |
| | | Tony Blair leads Britain's Labour party in a second successive election victory, with a majority only marginally reduced from 179 to 167 | |
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| 2005 |
| | | Tony Blair wins the Labour party an unprecedented third successive term, but with a majority reduced from 167 to 66 | |
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| 2005 |
| | | The Provisional IRA announces a formal end to armed conflict and orders units to dump all their weapons | |
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| 2006 |
| | | The Scottish National Party lays a charge that peerages are being 'sold' in Britain, provoking a police enquiry and a 'cash for honours' crisis | |
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| 2006 |
| | | The prime minister, Tony Blair, is questioned by police in Britain's 'cash for honours' enquiry | |
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| 2007 |
| | | Gordon Brown succeeds Tony Blair as leader of the Labour Party and prime minister of the United Kingdom | |
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| 2010 May 11 |
| | | Conservative leader David Cameron becomes UK prime minister, forming a coalition government with the Liberal Democrats and appointing Nick Clegg as his deputy prime minister | |
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