General Election 2024 updates: Vote will be held this summer as Rishi Sunak fires starting gun

RISHI Sunak has sensationally called an election – and the date Britons will go to the polls is just weeks away.

In a stunning move the PM announced an election date of July 4.

Labour are currently way ahead in the polls, tracking at 44 per cent, while the Tories are on 23.

But Mr Sunak insisted he would “fight for every vote” and prove to voters that only a Conservative government led by him would “deliver a secure future” for the UK.

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