‘A little birdie told me’: Osborne hints at 14 Nov as UK general election date

‘A little birdie told me’: Osborne hints at 14 Nov as UK general election date

But the Prime Minister chose as his big New Year message to tell us that he was definitely going to have an election this year go on then do you know what’s the date November the 14th save the date do you know that I’m pretty certain that is the date that Downing Street have

Currently selected doesn’t mean of course they won’t be pushed off it this inside of Intel well a little birdie has told me that the various work programs required to get ready for a general election have that date singled up all across Downing Street listening to this people would be thinking thinking who is

The little birdie Wonder know who it was who’s his Source you think you’ve dropped them minute these are all my friends as you know no anyway November 14th by the way logic leads you there because you’re not going to have it in the first half of the year I mean the

This pretense that uh you know richy sunak could have a May election was something we discussed last it was it’s a nons he’s more than 20 points behind in the opinion po he’s not going to have a spring election so then you’re left with the Autumn and you’re probably

Thinking I know will have the Party Conference as a kind of launch pad will fit in an Autumn statement like a mini budget either before that or immediately after it and that kind of leads you into mid November so November the 14th kind of writes itself but they did make a

Total mess of um the beginning of the year the idea that Rishi sunak um first intervention should be about the election date but the reason why he had to do that was because they had briefed straight after the New Year the budget date an early budget date March the 6th

No but early in March which said immediately ah March the 6th tax cuts beginning of the election campaign they’re going for a May election so they set up all the speculation there was going to be a May election it allowed labor to jump in and say so it’s a May

Election and then as a consequence sunak then has to clarify actually no it’s the second half of the year why does he want to box himself in if in fact the polls had shifted and he could go early he should go early he’s now ruled that out

And he’s ruled that out because he had to close down labor speculation about may I mean it was a mess

Former chancellor George Osbourne hinted at the possible date of at UK general election, saying he was ‘pretty certain’ Rishi Sunak was aiming to conduct polls on Nov 14. Speaking to former shadow chancellor and Strictly Come Dancing contestant Ed Balls, Osbourne said: ‘I mean, this pretence that Rishi Sunak could have a May election was something we discussed last year. It’s a non-starter.’

He added: ‘So then you’re left with the autumn. And you’re probably thinking: ‘I know, we’ll have the party conference as a kind of launch pad. We’ll fit in an autumn statement, like a mini-budget, either before that or immediately after it.’ And that kind of leads you into mid-November. So 14 November kind of writes itself’

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