Rishi Sunak should call election in May rather than ‘clinging on to power’, says Ed Davey

Ed Davey: Rishi Sunak should call election in May rather than 'clinging on to power'PA

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00:00 You talked earlier about removing the power for a tourist to sign on to an election.

00:07 Is that a good job?

00:08 Yeah, I think people are fed up of waiting for a general election.

00:12 They want change.

00:14 And it really shouldn't be in the power of the Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak, to call that.

00:19 He's clinging on to power, desperate for something to turn up.

00:22 That's not right.

00:23 So we're going to propose a new law next week,

00:26 that the power to call a general election is taken away from the Prime Minister,

00:29 given back to Parliament,

00:31 and that we should have a general election on May 2nd, when it should be.