CONTROVERSY
Status:Resolved
When Will the UK General Election Take Place?
MAY 2024JANUARY 2025
Claims
Jonathan Ashworth"[T]his election I think is coming in May. I think it's definitely coming in May."Mar 05, 2024
Rishi Sunak"[M]y working assumption is we'll have a general election in the second half of this year."Jan 04, 2024
Steve McCabeThe government's defense increase was pulled "out of thin air" and are pretending they "can do it by making civil servants redundant."Jun 04, 2024
Robert HaywardThe general election will "probably [be] on 14 November or around that date."Jan 05, 2024
Peter Mandelson"I'm concluding that Rishi Sunak wants his two years in Number 10. That means the Autumn."May 21, 2024
Daniel FinkelsteinWhen I suggested May, I thought "that the economy might be better in May, and get worse, but I don't think that's now going to happen. I still think October/November."May 21, 2024
Polly Mackenzie"I think it's between, for me, October and January, but, if I was betting, I'd just imagine them dragging it out until the last possible moment."Oct 31, 2023
David DavisThe election is "going to go distant, sometime in November, maybe even December."Apr 26, 2024
Jon Sopel"There's not going to be a summer election... particularly now the plot against Rishi has stopped."May 07, 2024
Peter Mandelson"On the basis that Turkeys don't vote for an early Christmas, I suppose projecting next May is sort of unrealistic, but I'm going to stick with it."Oct 31, 2023
Daniel Finkelstein"I think they should call it in May, but I suspect they will call it in October. I don't think they'll want to go all the way to January."Oct 31, 2023