When is the UK general election? Your Questions Answered | BBC News
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Published 2024-05-24
Mr Sunak's announcement ended months of speculation about when the UK would go to the polls.
On day two of the election campaign, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak visited Northern Ireland while Labour leader Keir Starmer launched his party's Scottish campaign.
But why a general election now? And how can you vote? The BBC answers your questions.
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All Comments (21)
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All these MPs stepping down, abandoning ship is disgusting. They shouldn't be allowed back when things are finally on the mend and looking brighter and they no doubt re-emerge. Good for Corbyn standing as an independent 👏🏼🌠
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Vote for a terrible, untrustworthy fickle party...or vote for a terrible, untrustworthy, fickle party. The lowest calibre of politicians I have ever seen.
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Everybody knows the Tories are going to lose, the only question is how Badly the Tories are going to Lose.
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Little rishi sunak has earned his rightful place in the dustbin of history. He will forever be remembered as a fart in the wind
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Tories out, Labour out. Demand back our human rights.
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4th July Independence Day!
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What's worse: an uninformed vote, or no vote at all (apathy)? If high voter turnout promotes legitimacy, but the voters are uninformed, then how legitimate is the government?
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Swing or not, polls or not, Labour are going to win by historical standards. The Conservatives are history now. 👍🥳🥳🥳🇬🇧🙏♥️🌈
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I can't help but think whatever choice We make will land us with the worst ever consolation prize. Welcome to Britain and lowest common denominator politics.
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VOTE REFORM UK!
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It's impossible to vote if not registered to vote. There's about 8 million people not registered to vote. Tuesday 18 June 2024 is the final day that people can be registered to vote in the general election on Thursday 4 July 2024. There's about 2.5 million people who are registered to vote who don't have valid Photo ID or Voter Authority Certificate or Anonymous Electors Document.
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Wouldn't surprise me if there was a Conservative challenge for the leadership and that the 4 July is cancelled. We will see...Fishi already said he doesn't want to be wartime leader.
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I've got an amazing magic trick. I'll make Rishi Sunak disappear in 6 weeks!
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Just give us a competent alternative.
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Reform.
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The Conservatives are not who were elected, the leadership has changed, their politics morphed into an unrecognisable mess that no one asked for. Immigration a free for all without any control, a leader without any mandate or ability to connect with the nation. Neither the Conservatives, Labour, or LibDems represent the will of the majority of the people, but merely contort a debate away from what are the real concerns.. Sunak has a plan, a plan to recite the worries held, then do the exact opposite that neither reflects the views of the public or addresses the issue. A man more socialist than any leader of the Labour Party in over 60 years. A cigarette paper could not separate all three parties political views; political views not reflected or wanted by the electorate.
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I want to read the manifesto of exactly what labour are saying they are going to do and their vision before I vote for them because I don’t know.
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swap one WEF puppet party for another WEF puppet party
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Tories: "Vote us, Service ensures citizenship"
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Why, is there only choice of 2 parties to vote for? Doesn't sound very democratic...
