Punishment vote against Brexit

June 8: Britain votes in a snap general election called by Theresa May in a bid to increase her slender parliamentary majority and thereby strengthen her position ahead of Brexit negotiations with Brussels.

May's Conservatives instead lose their majority and she has to face down pressure to resign after her party is forced to seek the support of the Northern Ireland's ultra-conservative Democratic Unionist Party's 10 MPs to be able to govern.

Fire tragedy shocks UK

June 14: A massive fire rips through a 24-storey apartment block in west London, trapping residents inside as 200 firefighters battle the blaze.
Seventy-nine people are killed or missing and presumed dead in the fire, whose spread was blamed on the type of cladding used on the outside of the building.

In a highly unusual message, Queen Elizabeth II comments on the country's "sombre national mood".

Far-right extremist attacks Muslim worshippers

June 19: A van drives through a crowd of Muslim worshippers near Finsbury Park Mosque in north London, leaving person dead and injuring 10 more.
The attack leads to warnings about the risks of far-right extremism, just a few days after the first anniversary of the assassination of Labour MP Jo Cox by a Nazi sympathiser in her constituency in northern England on June 16, 2016.

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