When will the general election be?

The general election is likely to be sometime in 2024 and Keir Starmer is the favourite to win.

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2024 is set to be a big one for elections, with voters casting ballots in countries accounting for about 4.2 billion or 50% of the global population. Britons will almost certainly be among them. The question is when, says Rachel Cunliffe in The New Statesman

In December, Rishi Sunak told reporters that the election would be held in 2024. The most likely dates are May, October or late November. The decision to implement the tax cuts announced in November’s Autumn Statement in January rather than April and the fact that this year’s Budget would be held on the earlier date of 6 March, along with recent hints of further tax cuts, notably to inheritance tax, suggest that May is the preferred date.

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Emily Hohler
Politics editor

Emily has worked as a journalist for more than thirty years and was formerly Assistant Editor of MoneyWeek, which she helped launch in 2000. Prior to this, she was Deputy Features Editor of The Times and a Commissioning Editor for The Independent on Sunday and The Daily Telegraph. She has written for most of the national newspapers including The Times, the Daily and Sunday Telegraph, The Evening Standard and The Daily Mail, She interviewed celebrities weekly for The Sunday Telegraph and wrote a regular column for The Evening Standard. As Political Editor of MoneyWeek, Emily has covered subjects from Brexit to the Gaza war.

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