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Local election results live: Suella Braverman says Rishi Sunak needs to own this and change course - BBC News Local election results live: Final local election races to be decided as Tories pick over bleak results - BBC News
(32 minutes later)
There was a lot of chatter on Laura Kuenssberg's show earlier about the general election - despite the fact that we're still awaiting the last results from the local elections.
If you missed Sunday with Laura In January, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said he expected to go to the polls "in the second half" of 2024, but there has been speculation that an election could take place earlier.
Kuenssberg, here’s a quick roundup of what the guests said this morning: The latest a Parliament can be dissolved for a general election is on the fifth anniversary of the day it first met.
Former home secretary Suella That means 17 December 2024. However, 25 working days are then allowed to prepare for the election.
Braverman has said the “terrible” local elections results make a Labour government So, the very latest the next election could be is 28 January 2025.
at the next general election likely, which fills her with “horror” Read more about the next election here
Braverman
says she regrets backing Rishi Sunak but the party should not change leader now, and that the PM needs to “own” the results and fix it
Mark Harper,
the transport secretary, predicts the local election results point to a hung
parliament at the general election
Harper adds that the Tories have a plan to
reach disillusioned voters, citing Ben Houchen's mayoral win in Tees Valley as an
example of the party successfully gaining back support
Pat
McFadden, Labour’s national campaign co-ordinator, says his party’s defence of Israel, following the 7 October attack, may have cost it some support
We also heard from Rwandan government spokesperson Yolande
Makolo who says her government cannot guarantee how many asylum
seekers it can take, but it "expects to
relocate thousands"
You can watch the entire programme on BBC iPlayer here.
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