Rishi Sunak has ruled out a general election on May 2 as the Prime Minister insists he is ‘fully focused’

RISHI Sunak last night ruled out holding a general election on May 2.

The Prime Minister made the announcement during a visit to Gloucester Rugby in the South West.

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Speak with ITV West, Mr Sunak said: “We will have that in seven weeks local electionsalso in Gloucester, where I spoke to them today.

“We have Police And crime commissioner elections, we have mayoral elections.

“I am fully concentrating on those because they are important and there will be no general election that day.

“But when there is a general election, it is really about the choice in that election.”

A general election is due to take place in Britain at the end of January 2025.

Voters go to the polls for the local elections on May 2.

The Prime Minister made the intervention amid speculation Westminster he could call elections within days to coincide with local elections, in an attempt to take advantage at the ballot box of national insurance cuts that are the budget.

Mr Sunak said in January that the “real assumption” was that an election in the second half of the year would be helpful.

Work was particularly interested in the prospect of a general election in May.

Shadow Cabinet Minister Jonathan Ashworth stake Sky News presenter Kay Burley £10 that the election would then take place.

Asked earlier on Thursday about the date of the election, he told reporters: “I said at the beginning of this year that my working assumption was that we would have elections in the second half of this year.

“And nothing has changed since I said that.”