Prime Minister Rishi Sunak ‘confirms 2024 can be an election yr’
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has reportedly confirmed that 2024 can be an election yr at a Christmas reception at Number 10 Downing Street.
The information ends months of hypothesis concerning a attainable election.
Josh Self, editor of Politics.co.uk, shared on X: “At press gallery drinks in No 10 this evening, Rishi Sunak tells lobby journalists to look forward to a general election that “WILL be in 2024”.
“Ruling out a January 2025 election, and suggesting he might have already got a date in thoughts…”
UK law means that the latest date for the next general election is 28 January 2025.
It comes as Rishi Sunak told the Spectator recently: “The choice at the next election is between me and Keir Starmer. A Labour party that wants to borrow £28 billion a year is not going to control welfare or public spending. A Conservative party is going to do those things – and cut your taxes instead”.
Labour had a 40% share of the vote in the latest Opinium poll for the Observer, to 27% for the Conservatives.
In an opinion piece for the Mirror yesterday (December 17), associate editor Kevin Maguire wrote: “Ending the yr extra unpopular than Boris Johnson, battered and ridiculed Rishi Sunak is a zombie PM stumbling to near-inevitable ultimate humiliation in 2024.”
It comes as some 53% of people told pollster Ipsos they felt worse off now than they did when the Conservatives were re-elected in 2019, including 45% of those who backed the party in that election.
The poll will make for worrying reading for the Prime Minister as the UK heads into an election year, with 51% saying they thought they would be even worse off if Rishi Sunak was re-elected.
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