![]() In one email, a senior figure told a colleague: ‘My impression… is that officials’ advice is likely to be in favour of adopting British Summer Time all year.’īritish charity the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA) says that one of the consequences of changing the clocks is that ‘more people are killed and injured on the road because of darker evenings in the autumn and winter than would be if we abolished the clock change and adopted British Summertime all year’. The first changes were due to take effect this month, but plans have now been stalled, as EU member states couldn’t agree on whether to remain in winter or summer time.ĭue to Brexit, the UK no longer needs to follow this agreement – although it has been speculated that Britain might stick permanently on summertime.Īccording to the Daily Mail, aides from the Department for Business contacted civil servants in Northern Ireland to discuss the UK’s response. ![]() Permanent winter countries would therefore move the clocks back an hour for the last time in October 2021, and those opting for permanent summer would move their clocks forward for the last time in March 2021.
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