U.K.’s Rishi Sunak calls snap general election for summer

on Wednesday called a snap general election for July 4, ending weeks of speculation and setting up a possible political sea change for the United Kingdom.

Sunak made the announcement outside 10 Downing Street after holding a meeting of his cabinet where he informed them of his plans to dissolve Parliament and send Britons to the polls.Under British law, a general election needed to be held by January 2025, and Sunak had repeatedly said it will be in the back end of 2024.

Sunak’s Conservative Party has been in power since 2010, the longest reign for a party in the U.K. in modern times. But the party has fallen steadily out of favour since the last election in 2019, with Sunak the third person to serve as prime minister since then.He took office through party selection in October 2022 after the turbulent terms of Boris Johnson, who was brought down by a series of ethics scandals, and Liz Truss, whose brief term saw economic turmoil over unfunded tax cuts and who lasted just 50 days in the job.

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