UK general elections have to be held no more than five years apart, so the next one must take place by 28 January 2025 at the latest. Speculation has been rife for months about when the prime minister will choose to go to the polls, with some pundits believing he would call one in May to coincide with the local elections. Rishi Sunak kicked off 2024's political season with a hint at when the next general election will be - saying earlier this month that it's his "working assumption" it will happen in the second half of the year. Join us again tomorrow from 6am for the very latest political news. More substantively, Emily Thornberry also failed to say that Labour would spend more on defence.The shadow attorney general said she stands by calling Trump a "sexual predator" and "racist". ![]() Labour MP Tahir Ali issued an apology to the PM after saying he has "blood on his hands" as he has not called for a ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war.Lord David Cameron spent the day in Israel and the West Bank as the government pushes for humanitarian pauses in the Israel-Hamas war.Lee Anderson, who quit as Tory deputy chairman to vote against Rishi Sunak's Rwanda bill and then ended up abstaining because Labour MPs were laughing at him, has now said he should have voted in favour of the bill.The man himself gave an interview in his own defence after backlash from his colleagues, saying that "no one like the guy shouting iceberg".Rishi Sunak faced PMQs, with Sir Keir Starmer mocking Tory disunity after Sir Simon Clarke called on him to resign.Broader concerns have been expressed about the UK's readiness for an armed conflict, with Lord Alan West, former first sea lord and chief of the naval staff, telling Politics Hub with Sophy Ridge that Britons have been "lulled into a false sense of security" and that Putin will think the UK is "not serious" about defence.But No 10 poured cold water on that suggestion, saying the government has "no intention” of conscripting Britons, despite warnings over the small size of the army. ![]()
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