Two major political events dominated politics in the United Kingdom in 2014. First, elections to the European Parliament were won by the United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP); this was the first time a national election had been won by a party other than Labour or the Conservatives since 1910. Second, a referendum was held in Scotland on the question of whether it should become an independent country. While voters rejected independence, the result raised many questions about Scotland’s future relationship with the United Kingdom, the answers to which were far from being resolved by the end of the year. Beyond these major events, coalition tensions were present as in previous years but this time over education, housing and communications data policies. In UK-EU relations, the government was largely isolated in its attempts to prevent Jean-Claude Juncker becoming President of the European Commission, and the government made changes to EU migrants’ access to social welfare benefits in an attempt to make the United Kingdom a less attractive destination for those from other EU countries.