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In the UK Labour leads the Conservatives by around 20 points

It would have been impossible to have missed the news last week. Donald Trump was convicted. Not only that, this happened during an election year, when Trump is a presidential candidate. It’s easy to forget with all this drama that the UK is also going to have a general election – on, as the Americans would say, “July 4”.

You can’t really make it up to be honest. Will this be British Independence Day? What will we (I’m British) be freed from? Brexit? Inflation? Are we going to apply to join the United States? All I can say is the timing is bizarre and somewhat comical.

So take a look at this chart and let me know your thoughts in the comments section. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak seems to be in a spot of trouble and has been for some time now. The FT has put together their own poll tracker, which is not too dissimilar to the results shown by YouGov, which I’ve also thrown in as a loose comparable.

To be honest, most of the damage was done by “silly Lizzy” aka Liz Truss. She had Britain’s shortest ever premiership – it was shorter than the lifespan of a supermarket iceberg lettuce. And Rishi has failed to undo the damage ever since. It seems it’s his to lose, and he probably will.

Source: Financial Times

Source: Sky News

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