Rishi Sunak, Britain’s first Prime Minister of Indian heritage, on Wednesday announced that the UK’s general election will be held on July 4, saying it is time for the country to choose its future.
In an address from the lectern on the steps of 10 Downing Street on a rainy London evening, Sunak confirmed a summer poll in six weeks’ time and that the Parliament would soon be dissolved after he formally informed King Charles III of the election timeline.
The announcement comes as the governing Conservative Party is forecast for a general election drubbing by most opinion polls, with the Opposition Labour Party holding a firm lead after a series of recent byelections and local election victories.