This July, general elections will be held in the U.K. and it’s predicted that “without an act of God”, the conservative party that has held power for the last 14 years will be outed.
Rishi Sunak, the current leader of the party and Prime Minister of the U.K. had until January of next year to call for elections and surprised everyone with the snap summer election. ABC News Foreign Correspondent James Longman gave a rather discouraging description of the moment.
I have to say, it was all rather depressing. He stood in the rain outside Downing Street. He didn’t look like a man about to announce an election; he actually sounded like he was about to resign. There was one point, someone with a speaker phone down the end of Downing Street played “Things Can Only Get Better,” which was the theme tune to the 1997 Labour winning election campaign. So the whole thing was pretty…
