happy new year! how are you doing? the prime minister taking questions at a youth centre and taking this crucial question from a reporter. it s a new year is it also going to be a general election year? yes! so, look, my working assumption is we ll have a general election in the second half of this year. in the meantime, i ve got lots that i want to get on with. words that grab attention, say something but commit to nothing. 150 miles away, on a visit to bristol at exactly the same time, we tell keir starmer what rishi sunak has just said. the prime minister is now hinting, without setting a date, that it might be later in the year. squatting in downing street for months on end, dithering and delaying, when the country wants change. what is he hiding? the conservatives have a mandate, don t they, to serve in government throughout this year? you can clamourfor an early