UK PM Sunak calls snap general election

The leader of the Tory party has set a polling date of July 4

Sunak announced the election outside his Downing Street residence on Wednesday. The prime minister said that his decision to call a vote was primarily motivated by economic factors, stating that “things are not easy” for many Britons.

“For so many of us it is easy to forget the scale of what we have been through,” he said, citing the Covid-19 pandemic and the Ukraine conflict as reasons for Britain’s stubbornly high inflation rate and rising cost of living.

Sunak had previously said that his “working assumption” was that an election would be held in the second half of the year. British pundits had reported that the vote would likely be held in autumn, after an expected boost from tax cuts in the forthcoming budget.

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