The EU was going to get rid of it but it got derailed by COVID and it's gone cold. Also Brexit will probably make it politically difficult because of Ireland: t

The EU was going to get rid of it but it got derailed by COVID and it's gone cold. Also Brexit will probably make it politically difficult because of Ireland: the only way to scrap DST and keep the same time in Ireland and Northern Ireland is if the UK does the same. But the UK, living in fear of tabloids mostly, won't do anything public-facing that looks like following the EU, even though by some counts 75% ish of the population would rather scrap it. There's an annual flurry "will they scrap it" articles that are so repetitive they just straight up recycle them from other years now (this one refers to the wrong PM): https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/why-do-we-have-daylight-savings-time-uk-b2434828.html https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/why-do-we-have-dayl...