Rishi Sunak axes plan for a summer general election
The Prime Minister is now planning on carrying out an autumn election, rather than in July, following widespread Tory defeat at local elections up and down the country.
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The Prime Minister is now planning on carrying out an autumn election, rather than in July, following widespread Tory defeat at local elections up and down the country.
The Prime Minister and his allies are on the defensive after the Conservatives lost hundreds of local council seats and the prestigious West Midlands mayoralty to Labour.
While Labour has gained councillors across England, and won bellwether councils such as Nuneaton and Bedworth and Milton Keynes, it has also lost some of its traditional Muslim support to George Galloway’s Workers Party of Britain (WPB) and pro-Palestine Muslim independent candidates. From the industrial Lancastrian town of Blackburn to inner-city Bradford in West Yorkshire, the ‘Palestine’
After a calamitous set of local elections the Prime Minister and his allies were pinning their hopes on an analysis suggesting that there could be a hung parliament.
MaltaToday survey: VOTING | PL: 52.8%, PN: 42.6%, Other: 4.6%; Turnout: 76.6% • TRUST | Robert Abela: 45.9%, Bernard Grech: 21.7%, None: 32.4% • GOV. PERFORMANCE | 2.9 out of 5