Graeme Demianyk is a news editor at HuffPost UK, and is based in New York. As well as being night new editor, he has written extensively on the Grenfell tower disaster and the UK's housing crisis.
Britain's Chancellor Jeremy Hunt speaks to a Tv reporter during a visit to a builders warehouse in London, Wednesday, March 6, 2024. The Chancellor earlier Wednesday delivered the annual Budget to the House of Commons . The chancellor told a Lords committee it will be a squeeze to deliver the next Whitehall spending review before April 2025 if polling day is in October.The prime minister told ITV West Country that voters across the UK will not have to go to the polls “on that day”.
But in reality, and ever since the establishment of fixed terms in 2011, the five-year gap between polls is not what happens in practice., a prime minister has the power to call an election earlier than the deadline – all voters would have to wait for is the 25 days between a PM making a “request” to theAs it’s in his gift to choose, Sunak is clearly likely to pick a date most favourable to him and his party.
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