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Prime Minister Rishi Sunak issues a statement outside 10 Downing Street, London, after calling a General Election for July 4, May 22, 2024
RISHI SUNAK gambled on a snap general election, announcing today a poll likely to bring down the curtain on 14 years of miserable Tory rule.
He surprised Westminster by announcing that the country will vote on July 4, with the present parliament dissolving next week.
Mr Sunak fires the starting gun as Labour is 20 per cent ahead in the polls, making Sir Keir Starmer the bookies’ favourite to be in Downing Street come July 5.
Preferable to Starmer he may be, but there is scant sign of a sharp political break in Burnham’s policies so far — while left challenges aren’t making much of a running either, finds ANDREW MURRAY. How can socialism be put back on the map?
By-election poll puts Starmer's future on a knife-edge
Once derided by Farage as a ‘fraud,’ Jenrick has defected to Reform, bringing experience and political ruthlessness to the populist right — and raising the unsettling prospect of a Farage-led movement with a seasoned operative pulling the strings, says ANDREW MURRAY
