Conservative leader David Cameron hints at snap election next March
Conservative leader David Cameron said 25 March 2010 is a “likely date” for the coming general election, more than a month earlier than expected, the BBC reported today. Previous speculation had the elections on 6 May, but a recent fall in the Conservatives’ lead over Labour in the poll lead has triggered talks of a snap election.
Cameron told Sky News the Tories were “all systems go”, should the election go ahead in March. Schools Secretary Ed Balls denied that the Labour party is discussing a snap election, The Guardian reported.
Treasury officials are are working on the expectation that there will be a Budget in mid-March, despite Cameron’s suggestion of an early election, The Times reported.
A YouGov poll in The Sunday Times suggested the Tories would take 40 percent, Labour 31 percent and the Liberal Democrats 16 percent. A poll published for The Independent on Sunday by ComRes suggested, however, that the Conservatives lead has grown over the past nine months to 41 percent, whereas the Labour dropped to 24 percent.
Conservative mayor of London Boris Johnson told BBC that although he did not venture to say that elections are a done deal, “It is like a novel where the denouement has become obvious a little bit too early”.
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