Up until now, Mr. Sunak had stated that his “working assumption” was that an election would take place in the second part of this year, although he had not ruled out a May date.
A May election has been demanded by opposition parties, with Sir Keir Starmer of Labour accusing the prime minister of “delaying” and “hiding from the public” the obvious.
The private requests made by a few Tory MPs for Mr. Sunak to call an early election in order to stop the political and economic situation from getting worse have also been covered by News.
