Controversy
Status:Resolved
When Will the UK General Election Take Place?
Resolution:
July 4, 2024
Resolved on May 22, 2024
MAY 2024JANUARY 2025
Claims
Robert HaywardThe election will be in "October and it’s to do with inflation figures.”
Emily ThornberryA May election is "the worst kept secret in Parliament."
Jonathan Ashworth"[T]his election I think is coming in May. I think it's definitely coming in May."
Michael Gove"I think November the 14th or 21st."
Rishi Sunak"[M]y working assumption is we'll have a general election in the second half of this year."
Steve McCabeThe government's defense increase was pulled "out of thin air" and are pretending they "can do it by making civil servants redundant."
Robert HaywardThe general election will "probably [be] on 14 November or around that date."
Peter Mandelson"I'm concluding that Rishi Sunak wants his two years in Number 10. That means the Autumn."
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."
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."
John Curtice"[T]here is beginning to be a consensus it might be November 14."
Natasha Clark"I think it will be... the 17th [of October]."
David DavisThe election is "going to go distant, sometime in November, maybe even December."
Jon Sopel"There's not going to be a summer election... particularly now the plot against Rishi has stopped."
George Osborne"November the 14th kind of writes itself."
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."
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."
John Curtice"I have long been of the view that the election will be on November 14."