[AaronTV]

Indeed, although I can assure you all. It is NEVER going to be in November. Our PM has power but not that much. That’s one week after the US election, which means effectively no government in the UK or US in Oct and Nov during a time of great geopolitical tension. If Sunak even considers attempting that he’ll end up in the tower!

Difficult to emphasise just how factually incorrect this is. If the Prime Minister wants to go for November, he is perfectly entitled to do so.

As others have mentioned, we absolutely still have a working Government during election campaigns. As we saw in 2017 with the multiple terror attacks during the campaign, Cabinet Ministers undoubtedly would have been required to make important decisions and it was legitimate for them to do so.

Even after an election, we technically still have a working Government until a new administration is formed. During the coalition talks in 2010, for example, Alistair Darling still had to make a number of decisions as Chancellor, despite Labour having lost the election and Darling likely to be gone in days (if not hours).

As far as I understand it, the only period in which we don’t technically have a working Government that could make decisions if needed is literally the few hours between a new Prime Minister being appointed by the Monarch post-election and that Prime Minister appointing their Cabinet.