The European debt crisis has exerted a multiple of impacts on the UK. Its economy has further slipped into a double-dip recession in the first half of 2012. In view of this, the local elections in May came out with a falling support to the coalition government, where the Labour Party made a sweeping success. At the same time, the independence of Scotland has been put on the agenda. With regard to the social reforms, heated debates have been aroused around the Health and Social Care Act. At the international arena, a series of disputes between the UK and the EU has thrown the UK's European policy into a dilemma. Due to the meeting between PM Cameron and Dalai Lama, China-UK relationships have been seriously damaged. <<