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There is definitely a growing chitter chatter about June. Holyrood will be interesting. Logic would suggest an election on the same day, but while this isn’t illegal, it’s very much frowned upon. This happened once and it was a disaster, leading to a full inquiry which advised against it ever happening again. The basic thrust of the issue is that the voting systems are different for various forms of government in Scotland and the one time we tried it we had A LOT of spoiled ballots. I still remember the baffling lecture at the polling station about which way to vote on which coloured sheet!

Just to point out that was 2007 and was due to the fact Scottish Council elections used "1.2.3" voting system. However its believed if they were held on the same days it could muddy the waters. Either way No way election if that happened would take place in July as that Scottish school holidays

You can argue back and forth (just not on this forum) about when the moment of minimum political danger is for Sunak to go to the country - all I know is the senior people I speak to at the main broadcasters are expecting autumn/early winter and aren’t currently racing to put plans together (one doesn’t have a plan at all at the moment).

Its rather curious then why a number of high profile political people have been doing the rounds saying there good chance fo summer elections.