SURPRISE! SURPRISE!

WITH the whole nation fully expecting to go to the polls in the autumn, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s announcement of a snap election in July took everyone by surprise. The PM’s choice of that date came as a shock to the electorate, the opposition and even his own Parliamentary party. But nobody was more surprised to learn of the early date than the Prime Minister himself. “Like everybody else, I was expecting to call the election in October or November, after giving the economy another chance to pick up a little bit,” Sunak told News Agents podcast co-host Lewis Good-all. “We were twenty points behind in the polls, so I and everyone else assumed that we would spend the summer closing that gap, and then have an autumn financial statement with…

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Viz (Digital) - 1 Issue, August 2024

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