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When Will the UK General Election Take Place?

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July 4, 2024

Resolved on May 22, 2024

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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."

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Rishi Sunak"[M]y working assumption is we'll have a general election in the second half of this year."

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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."

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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."

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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."