Depending on England and Scotland’s performance at Euro 2024 (June 14–July 14), tens of thousands of voters may be in Germany around polling day on July 4.
Can Rishi Sunak profit from football’s feel-good factor? Or will early exits for the home nations speed his departure from Number 10?
A misconception has occasionally circulated that England’s 1966 World Cup triumph kept Harold Wilson in Downing Street.
However, Labour won the election four months before the Wembley final, in March 1966.However, the Prime Minister called the 1970 election while England was defending its World Cup in Mexico.