Rishi Sunak has announced that the next UK general election will take place on 4 July.
If Rishi Sunak has a strong suit, it isn’t timing. At 5pm GMT this afternoon, the prime minister called a press conference outside Downing Street to confirm that the next UK general election will be held on 4 July, with the announcement coinciding precisely with an intense rainstorm. “Now is the moment for Britain to choose its future,” the Conservative leader told the nation while looking like a joyless version of Gene Kelly in Singin’ In the Rain.
Calling for a general election this summer is a risky move on Sunak’s part – especially given his party’s recent crushing defeat in local elections – but the PM is hopeful that the latest drop in inflation might bolster his popularity. “Only a Conservative government led by me will not put our hard-earned economic stability at risk,” he told the press. For his part, Starmer isn’t letting Labour’s encouraging numbers go to his head.
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