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Rishi Sunak announces UK general election for Thursday 4 July
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This is the best summary I could come up with:
Rishi Sunak has vowed to "fight for every vote" as he called an early UK general election for Thursday 4 July.In a surprise announcement, the PM said he would go to the polls this summer as he bids to win a fifth term in office for the Conservatives.It overturned expectations of an autumn election, which might have given his party a better chance of closing the gap with Labour.Sir Keir Starmer said it was "time for change" away from "Tory chaos".
There was confusion in at least some parts of the Conservative Party about why Mr Sunak decided to call the general election sooner than was widely expected, the BBC's political correspondent Henry Zeffman reported.
In a TV statement shortly afterwards, Sir Keir argued Tory "chaos" had damaged the economy, and a vote for his party represented a chance to bring political stability.Adding it was "time for change", he criticised the Conservatives' management of public services, the NHS and record on tackling crime.
SNP leader John Swinney, who took over as Scotland's first minister earlier this month, said the election was a chance to "remove the Tory government and put Scotland first".Lib Dem leader Sir Ed Davey said it would be a chance to "kick Rishi Sunak's appalling Conservative government out of office", whilst Greens co-leader Carla Denyer said her party was aiming to elect "at least four" new MPs.And Reform UK leader Richard Tice said the Tories had "broken Britain" but Labour would "bankrupt Britain," and only his party would offer "common sense policies that can now save Britain".
Mr Sunak's statement is the start of weeks of general election campaigning for the 650 seats in Parliament.It will be fought on the first set of new constituency boundaries since 2010, redrawn to reflect population changes since then, and will be the first where voters have to show ID.The Royal Family has postponed engagements "which may appear to divert attention or distract from the election campaign", Buckingham Palace said, adding that the King and Queen sent their "sincere apologies" to those affected.
At the last election in 2019, Boris Johnson won an 80-seat majority after calling a snap poll as he fought to get his Brexit withdrawal deal through Parliament.It was followed by an extraordinarily volatile period in British politics, as the country was hit by the Covid pandemic and Mr Johnson was forced to resign, amid a cabinet revolt over a series of scandals.His successor Liz Truss lasted 49 days in the job before she quit, after a market backlash to her tax and spending plans announced at a hastily-arranged "mini Budget" in September 2022.This is the first general election since 2015 that has not required a vote in Parliament to approve the date, since legislation fixing the time between polls was reversed two years ago.
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