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journalism. Hello and welcome to our regular Sunday morning Q&A from the two mats, the podcast by

the New European with me Matt Kelly. And me Matt Dancona. Let's get straight into it, Matt. First

questions from Ben Valentine. Yeah. Here he goes. Sunak has just talked about the general

election being in the second half of the year, which people are taking at face value, as being

autumn. I think he could be doing this to wrong foot labour and instead call it in the spring. What do you

think? That's good question. So his working assumption, that's the language he used, is that it'll be in the second half of the year.

And that does leave him a bit of wriggle room.

I think that, I still think he's likely to go to play it long for the simple reason that his whole strategy is based now on the economic indicators improving and more to the point being felt by voters and obviously the longer he assumes the longer time passes that the more that'll be true i don't know if that's necessarily the case, but that's what he thinks. So the logic

is that he'll go in the autumn. However, I think Ben is right that it's definitely part of the Tory

plan to keep labour on their toes and worried that there's a March the sixth budget, which is

clearly going to involve all sorts of highly,

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