page_title: 2010 in the United Kingdom
section_title: January
hierarchical_section_title: 2010 in the United Kingdom / Events / January
caption_attribution_description: English: Satellite image of snow-covered Great Britain on 7 January 2010, taken by MODIS on NASA's Terra satellite. Français&#160;: Image satellite prise le 7 janvier 2010 de la Grande-Bretagne sous la neige, par le satellite Terra de la NASA. Echelle&#160;: 1 pixel = 250 m.
context_page_description: Events from the year 2010 in the United Kingdom.
context_section_description: 3 January – the Prime Minister Gordon Brown announced that full body scanners would be introduced at UK airports following the failed attack on Northwest Airlines Flight 253 on 25 December 2009.
  5 January – the country was once again deluged by heavy snowfall as it endured its worst cold spell since the winter of 1981–82.
  10 January – the Sunday Mirror defence correspondent Rupert Hamer was killed in an explosion in Afghanistan, the Ministry of Defence confirmed.
  12 January – Alastair Campbell, former government advisor, was interviewed by the Chilcot Inquiry, and said he was prepared to defend "every word" of the September 2002 dossier on Iraq's supposed weapons of mass destruction which led to the invasion of Iraq.
  18 January – following the collapse of strike talks late last year, British Airways cabin crew decided to vote again on possible strike action.
  20 January – unemployment fell for the first time in nearly two years, with the national total for November 2009 dipping by 7,000 to 2,460,000. However, some regions of Britain were still enduring a rise in unemployment, and experts said that the slight reduction in unemployment was largely due to an increase in people taking part-time work and work in occupations largely unrelated to their skills and experience.
  26 January – the Office for National Statistics announced that the UK was no longer in recession, with gross domestic product having grown by 0.1%, a weaker rise than many economists had expected.
  29 January – former Prime Minister Tony Blair appeared at the Iraq Inquiry and was questioned in public for the first time about his decision to take the United Kingdom to war against Iraq.
caption: Satellite photo of Great Britain and Ireland during the cold spell.
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