'24 general election campaign diary

week

main events

main controversies

opinion poll ratings ( inc MRP polls)

  1. 22 - 29th May

Sunak calls election by ‘surprise’ on 22nd May. Is drowned out by ‘Things Can Only Better’ as he makes announcement

23/5 - Sunak asks ppl in Wales what they think of their chances in the Euros…they didn’t qualify!!!!

24/5 - Sunak speaks to biscuit workers at a factory…turns out they were Tory counsellors in orange jackets

Lab 46%, Con 21%, Reform 12%, LibDems 9%, Greens 7%

  1. 30 - 5th June

3/6 - Sunak photobombed by LDs on a small boat

4/6 - Farage announces return to Politics, becomes Reform UK leader n stands in Clacton

Tory Party chair parachutes himself into Basildon n Billericay from his now dissolved seat in Northumberland

Lab 44%, Con 23%, Reform 12%, LDs 9%, Greens 6%

  1. 6th June - 12th June


12th June - Tory betting scandal breaks


  1. 13th June - 19th June




  1. 20th - 26th June





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