Britain's General Election called for 4th July 2024

Britain's General Election called for 4th July 2024

The King dissolves Parliament for an early July election following Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's request

🚨 NEW: Ministers expect that Rishi Sunak will tell them in the 4:15pm meeting that he is heading to Buckingham Palace to ask the King to dissolve Parliament for a general election on 4 July

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— Politics UK (@PolitlcsUK) May 22, 2024

King Charles has already granted dissolution of parliament and a general election on 4 July, says PM. Sunak announced without umbrella in pouring rain and with blare of blaster in background. Inauspicious pic.twitter.com/5qcaEZXLyb

— Robert Peston (@Peston) May 22, 2024

Rishi Sunak and his speech notes are both soaking wet outside No 10.

This is the most farcical General Election launch in history.

— Nigel Farage MP (@Nigel_Farage) May 22, 2024

Disastrous launch. Dull speech. PM drenched - not even making a joke about it. Labour’s ‘Things that can only get better’ playing in the background.

— Tim Montgomerie 🇬🇧 (@montie) May 22, 2024

I literally just landed in the UAE and came online to see an announcement was imminent.

God I can't WAIT to vote Sunak and the Tories out. Either by voting for a Farage-led Reform or sitting on my hands and not voting. Either way, the result will still be the same - total devastation for the Tories who've stabbed voters like me in the back.

"Now is the moment for Britain to choose its future"

PM Rishi Sunak confirms he spoke with King Charles "earlier today" to request the dissolution of Parliament for a general election on 4 July

Follow live coverage: https://t.co/DQCtnZ53CB pic.twitter.com/9cPgLJYwma

— BBC Breaking News (@BBCBreaking) May 22, 2024

- Parliament prorogued on Friday 24 May
- Dissolution to take place on Thursday 30 May
- General Election on Thursday 4 July
- The new Parliament will be summoned on Tuesday 9 July
- State Opening on Wednesday 17 July.

— Guido Fawkes (@GuidoFawkes) May 22, 2024

I for one cannot wait to lend my support by voting for the Conservative and Unionist Party. The last 14 years have proven their capability to manage the economy, vaccine rollout etc. and it would simply be chaos with Ed Miliband otherwise. Strong and stable.

Won me like ?15 this has

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Wow! Extraordinary but true - some furious Conservative MPs are tonight working on a plot to CALL OFF the general election by replacing Rishi Sunak as leader before Parliament is dissolved next Thursday.
One rebel Tory MP tells me he believes “several” more letters of no…

— Christopher Hope📝 (@christopherhope) May 22, 2024

The one to watch now: Nigel Farage could blow this entire thing up. Big bazooka launch on the weekend, come back to lead Reform and to stand, propel the party to 15-20%. Only six weeks of his life, and makes him highly relevant to the future of the Conservatives. Why wouldn’t he?

— James Johnson (@jamesjohnson252) May 22, 2024

Sad that some people are still obsessed with Farage.

The latest bumbling Tory policy we're all supposed to be enthused by is bringing back national service for 18 year olds. How exactly do they expect to enforce this policy when they can't even enforce basic border controls, a cornerstone of a functioning state? And on a fairness point, why should young Britons be forced to work for free for a government which charges them full whack for university tuition but then pays out for 4-star hotels for illegal immigrants that have come in on THEIR WATCH!!?? B*stards!

Every village, town and city in the UK has something to be proud of and now with National Service every young person will be able to give back to the communities that raised them. https://t.co/obuc9olptk

— David Cameron (@David_Cameron) May 26, 2024

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Originally Posted by Seatherny

Sad that some people are still obsessed with Farage.

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It is because we should've moved on from him now with a new generation of right wingers coming up, but the fact is that only highlights the absolute dearth of talent or actual conservatives in the Unconservative Party. The Tories only started winning impressive vote shares (and a large majority) in 2017 and 2019 when they started promising and were forced to do what conservative voters wanted. Now that they've yet again done the opposite of what their voters have been promised for 14 years, patience has snapped.

With any luck they plunge below 100 seats and Farage sweeps in after their collapse to realign the party and the right.

The irony of the 2019-24 Tory gov is that they’ve been THE most socially/culturally liberal gov ever—they’ve liberalised divorce & abortion laws & increased levels of immigration to historic record levels—& what do they have to show for it? Social/cultural liberals hate them.

— Pete (@post_liberal) May 23, 2024

Social and cultural liberals despise the Conservative party bc of Brexit, irrespective of the fact that this is a government who liberalised divorce and abortion laws and is the most immigration maximalist government ever. So they did all that for no electoral gain whatsoever.

— Pete (@post_liberal) May 23, 2024

And in so doing they’ve alienated the social and cultural conservatives they picked up bc of Brexit. The worst of both possible worlds from an electoral point of view. They really couldn’t have set fire to their own electoral prospects more catastrophically.

— Pete (@post_liberal) May 23, 2024

No closing of the polls.

On these numbers it is quite a close run thing that Sir Ed Davey would become leader of His Majesty's Official Opposition.

Labour lead at 25 points in latest YouGov poll for The Times

CON 21 (+1)
LAB 46 (-1)
LIB DEM 8 (-1)
REF UK 15 (+3)
GRN 6 (-1)

Fieldwork 29 - 30 May pic.twitter.com/fhyG3WuSSs

— Lara Spirit (@lara_spirit) May 30, 2024

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GO2krtWW...g&name=900x900

A huge poll/model came out just earlier which at this time at the last election more or less predicted the outcome.


It really is remarkable that little Rishi Sunak was so desperate to become Prime Minister and knifed two Prime Ministers in the back, all to do absolutely nothing in office that his voting base wanted and to end up taking the Tories to a record defeat that they may never recover from. From what the polls are telling us, he's going to go down in history to such a low that he'll make Jeremy Corbyn and Sir Anthony Eden look like electoral winner geniuses. But I did say from the moment he was put into office he'd be useless, didn't I?


I wasn't going to vote but with Farage back campaigning I will probably vote for Reform now.

New: First mega-poll of the campaign suggests the Conservative Party is on course for its worst result in history.

LABOUR: 476
TORY: 66
LIB DEM: 59
Green: 2
Reform: 0

More than 10,000 were surveyed by @ElectCalculus and @findoutnow

— James Heale (@JAHeale) May 31, 2024

As I've been saying, if Rishi Sunak doesn't get a grip this election could be an extinction level event for the Conservative Party. https://t.co/8HALGmphPa

— (((Dan Hodges))) (@DPJHodges) May 31, 2024

I think Sunak has a week left. But if we get to next weekend and there's still no sign of any improvement in the Tory's poll position I think there will be some sort of fracture. I'm not entirely sure how it will manifest itself. But things will start to properly fall apart.

— (((Dan Hodges))) (@DPJHodges) May 31, 2024

Nigel Farage announces return to frontline politics

Tories worst nightmare comes true as Farage returns as Reform party leader and will stand as an MP in Clacton

"I am going to stand in this election"

Nigel Farage announces he will stand as a candidate for Reform UK in the Essex town of Clacton and will also replace Richard Tice as party leader

Follow live: https://t.co/F3lmtf5q8h pic.twitter.com/dnrGeoWjQr

— BBC Politics (@BBCPolitics) June 3, 2024

That's that for Rishi. Wipeout territory. He will leave Downing Street a serial loser, having lost to Liz, lost to Keir, knowing his career was based on not being seen as a threat, and that that assessment was correct.

— Sam Ashworth-Hayes (@SAshworthHayes) June 3, 2024

Well, so long then Conservative Party. It's going to go down in history as the most extraordinary self-immolation: from crushing victory to annihilation in 5 years. On every measure you screwed it. Go back to your constituencies and prepare for oblivion

— Capel Lofft (@CapelLofft) June 3, 2024

Farage says “I genuinely believe we can get more votes than the Conservative Party.”

“They are on the brink of total collapse. It couldn’t happen to nicer people”, he adds.

— Tom Harwood (@tomhfh) June 3, 2024

Grim mood among Tory staff in response to the news Farage is standing

— Alex Wickham (@alexwickham) June 3, 2024

Farage's re-entry to British politics increases the possibility of a wipeout style event for the Conservatives. In so doing he would also make it easier to take over what's left of the Tory party. Potentially a big moment for the election and the politics of the next parliament.

— Lewis Goodall (@lewis_goodall) June 3, 2024

THIS IS THE WORST POSSIBLE NIGHTMARE FOR THE CONSERVATIVES.
The party should have dumped Sunak.

— Tim Montgomerie 🇬🇧 (@montie) June 3, 2024

Huge blow to Conservatives as @Nigel_Farage confirms there will be no deals with Tory MPs -even the “good guys” …

— Isabel Oakeshott (@IsabelOakeshott) June 3, 2024

I have mentioned Canada 1993 before but it is looking more and more likely.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1993_C...deral_election

YouGov have adjusted their methodology slightly which meant tonight's poll on the older methodology would've had then neck and neck on 18%.

The problem for the Tories now is saying "A vote for Reform is a vote for Labour" doesn't really wash because everybody knows that Labour are going to form the next government. In any case, if a crossover does happen then Nigel Farage can turn around now and say "A vote for the Conservatives is a vote for Labour"...

We are approaching the inflection point. https://t.co/8WtCL3A668

— Guido Fawkes (@GuidoFawkes) June 5, 2024

Andrew Neil says it's "no longer idle or stupid speculation" that Reform could "mount a takeover" of the Conservative Party post-election.

Reply below with your election questions and @AfNeil will answer a selection 👇 pic.twitter.com/H84KBCNnS9

— Times Radio (@TimesRadio) June 4, 2024

A selection of crowd chants and shouts today at the Farage event:

“Nigel! Nigel! Nigel!”
“I love you Nige”
“Preach”
“Will you be my toy boy?”
“Go on Nigel”
“Become Prime Minister!”

And after he ended, sung:
“For he’s a jolly good fellow” https://t.co/7Jtu01Ouje

— Ben Riley-Smith (@benrileysmith) June 4, 2024

100% voting green - everyone else is a waste of space at this point!!

Might start my own party - the shannoist party what do you think?

Some more polling mirroring the YouGov I posted yesterday... Reform closing the gap with the Conservatives.

Also added some focus group thoughts and the Marr interview with Rob Ford on polling / Lord Howard.

Also @Shannon; it'll be interested to see whether the Greens hold onto Brighton given Caroline Lucas is retiring - the loss of a familiar face alongside having to resist the Labour surge across the country which will be concentrated somewhere like Brighton.

Tied-lowest ever Conservative %.

Equals worst under Liz Truss.

Highest ever Reform UK %.

Westminster VI (5/6-6/6):

Labour 42% (-4)
Conservative 19% (-1)
Reform UK 17% (+3)
Lib Dem 12% (+2)
Green 6% (+1)
SNP 3% (+1)
Other 2% (–)

Changes +/- 31/5-2/6https://t.co/armERKUztI pic.twitter.com/hR7DElKeJp

— Redfield & Wilton Strategies (@RedfieldWilton) June 6, 2024

NEW: @TimesRadio @JLPartnersPolls focus group with Conservative-to-Reform switchers in Gedling, Ashfield and Derby North

💥 Nigel Farage "positive", "vocal", "outspoken", "arrogant", "refreshing"

💥 They like - and want - a "Donald Trump for the UK", someone not a "gentleman"…

— James Johnson (@jamesjohnson252) June 6, 2024

Message I got off an old friend.

When Farage says ''something is happening out there'' he means this. pic.twitter.com/VSOcrlotgj

— Morgoth (@MorgothsReview) June 6, 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkTyroo7xUU

There was the only multi-party debate last night on BBC with Labour/Conservatives/Liberal Democrats/Reform/SNP/Plaid/Greens.

Polling was done in the aftermath among viewers, again giving Reform a boost.

There's one more major debate planned between Rishi Sunak and Sir Keir Starmer.

🚨NEW @Moreincommon_ poll of debate watchers: Who won?

Farage on top, Rayner 2nd, none of the above 3rd

Farage - 25%
Rayner - 19%
None of the above - 14%
Denyer - 11%
Flynn - 10%
Mordaunt - 7%
Cooper - 5%
ap Iowerth - 2%

Don’t know - 8%

N=1,031 Viewers pic.twitter.com/I9BoSDrWy6

— Luke Tryl (@LukeTryl) June 7, 2024

“The winner of the debate, according to viewers, was Nigel Farage with 25%, followed by Angela Rayner on 19%”

Luke Tryl, Executive Director of More in Common UK, reveals the results of polling debate watchers.
#Newsnight pic.twitter.com/NDV2rMZoeD

— BBC Newsnight (@BBCNewsnight) June 7, 2024

Reform now only one point behind the Tories with YouGov.

Sky News / YouGov exclusive poll

** Tories joint lowest VI share in Parliament
** Reform just ONE point behind
** Lab down 3; LD up 4

LAB 38% (-3),
CON 18% (-1),
RefUK 17% (+1),
LDEM 15% (+4),
GRN 8% (+1)

Fieldwork Mon/Tue (around Lib Dem manfiesto coverage)

— Sam Coates Sky (@SamCoatesSky) June 11, 2024

NEW: Nigel Farage is now more popular than Rishi Sunak with Conservative 2019 voters.

The latest (post-D Day) @RestIsPolitics @JLPartnersPolls finds Sunak with a net rating of +8 and Farage on +15 with this group.

Tables: https://t.co/clqqzVlble
Podcast: https://t.co/ySDjg9yijU pic.twitter.com/5cz91echwl

— James Johnson (@jamesjohnson252) June 11, 2024

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