Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announces General Election on 4 July - Sky News coverage

Rishi Sunak has called a general election for 4 July, saying "now is the moment for Britain to choose its future".
Harking back to his days as chancellor during the pandemic, Mr Sunak said he served the country while "the future hung in the balance".
"I will never leave this country to face the darkest days alone," he said, adding that he has "never been prouder to be British".
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[@SuperKripke]

Sunak's neighbours were throwing a party.

[@Michaelsrevelation]

They were Americans partying. They thought someone said it is the 4th of July

[@soton5teve]

Actually it was that brexit guy, playing labour's things can only get better, by D:ream

[@harryhotspur6202]

Why the bloody hell did no one inside Downing Street, come out and stand next to the PM with a brolly 🤪

[@Liverpool1ne]

They don’t like him either 😂

[@harryboy3305]

Already a drip a soaking won’t make any difference

[@Michaelsrevelation]

He wanted to look tough, but he just turned into a drip

[@grahamparker9470]

That's called forward planning..

[@DesiroDriver]

They were too distracted partying to that uplifting beat ‘things can only get better’ 🕺🏼

[@Jim90117]

Lies, Lies and more Lies. The part about the Conservatives not taking the easy option made me laugh out loud.

[@charliemansfield6409]

Now two countries have an independence day on 4th of july

[@levidos]

??

[@Me-lc6bz]

​@@levidos the us has independence from the uk and the uk has independence from the Tories on the same day

[@Anton-ji4td]

I WILL NOT VOTE TORY EVER AGAIN. 14 YEARS OF FAILURE. MY HEART SINKS WHEN I SEE THE MESS THIS COUNTRY IS IN. THEY CANNOT BLAME ANYONE BUT THEMSELVES.

[@ryanredmond87]

I’ve always voted whoever is best placed to beat tories,this will be first time I actually vote tories

[@BurnsTennis]

@@ryanredmond87 Either a bot replied here, or an idiot. I prefer to believe its the former.

[@Jahfriend]

There all not to be trusted but Torys are the worst countrys gone down the khazi 👍

[@RichardHayes-bi3bs]

4th July. Note it down in your calendars and get out and vote. Make your voices heard.

[@leonblittle226]

Yes, vote REFORM

[@terrypage358]

​@@leonblittle226 not interested in having the tories back in power again so will not be voting Reform (aka tories)

[@MrCaterhamr500]

@@leonblittle226haha yeah right.

[@mjtigerfang]

@@terrypage358 only if it were the tories in power, all we had were a bunch of libby wets wearing blue. Penny Mordaunt ( not a Tory ) may (not a Tory) truss( former Lib Dem) The reason tories won well in 2019 was because red wallers lent them the vote. Labour will go the same way because they don’t represent the red wall anymore and haven’t for years

[@mjtigerfang]

@@leonblittle226 definitely

[@DBCooper01]

Tories are out of here!

[@terrypage358]

Soaked in rain is symbolic of the rats leaving the sinking ship. How apt

[@fox39forever]

I'm sure they thought of that, which is why they did it.

[@tasty_fish]

This country has had enough of old Etonians only looking out for each other. Time to put the needs of ordinary, real hard-working heroes first. It’s game over for the Tories. We want our country back.

[@KevinMole-cj3kl]

Exactly right mate spot on....

[@jonathanprice3362]

Let’s face it…things can only get better…!

[@fox39forever]

very droll!

[@IBIZABIKE]

Says it all could not even get this right,pissed through

[@fox39forever]

His handlers got it 100% right; that is the image that they wanted. There wasn't even a UK Govt coat of arms on the stand that he was reading from. Also, it was over-sized, to make him look even smaller than he does already.

[@annviolet4727]

Getting out before he's charged with complicity in war crimes with Netanyahu!

[@user-qg8cn3cb1u]

Even if he does leave, can be charged with individual criminal responsibility

[@Muirton66]

Screaming Lord Sutch was the only one that ever made sense.

[@YHBW1001]

Let’s get “Things can only get better” to number one on July 4th

[@Rembie]

Sunaks election speech It’s like watching Yes minister Words Words words Blah blah blah Unbelievable

[@muesliman100]

Isn't this like really short-term? Like a very short term to campaign?

[@Coco-uk9tv]

The irony of that sound in the background. Watched this on Channel 4 earlier and thought it was them taking the p i s s. Edit, the tune is from a track played by Labour during their election win in 1997, it's entitled "Things can only get better". 🤣

[@philippemariani9035]

WTF is he doing under the rain ?

[@whocares264]

lying

[@whocares264]

Remember he was second choice to liz truss....

[@fox39forever]

But to the World Economic Forum, he was the first choice; Liz Truss was never s'posed to get in. Now Keir Starmer will continue the programme that Rishi Sunak and a string of prime ministers before him were pursuing.

finally, now that he has stuffed his coffers

[@Anton-ji4td]

He is going to live full time in the usa on the 5th.

[@Ericaanotnac]

Things can only get better 🎉

[@Alien_O1]

About time Sky news had live chat. Hoping it can be permanent like wion news.

[@leonblittle226]

Why ? they don't want to hear what our opinion is when they spend every minute of the day telling us what it should be.....

[@Bestofthebest383]

They have just admitted defeat. They can't do anything about the defeat in Ukraine , cost of living etc and want to hold the Labour responsible for this shameful defeat.

[@MOH_AL_K]

Imagine voting for any of the main parties , when they’ve done nothing to solve the countless issues that have been around for so long. New parties are needed worldwide, bcz the main ones everywhere are bad, They don’t care for their people, their priorities lie elsewhere.

[@fox39forever]

The war in Ukraine is achieving its aim, which is to kill as many European people as possible. This is what WW1 and WW2 were about: send as many of our boys over the top as possible. This why they're threatening to issue a military draft and, this time, even women won't be exempt. Ukraine and Russia are on the same side. Zelensky is an actor (his biography is easy to find) and "Putin" is an actor, wearing a latex mask, just as Biden is.

[@mary047photoblue]

344 Mp,s seats at risk,Ah well they'll know how to apply for Universal Credit and they might even qualify for a bit of PIP

[@fox39forever]

Just flicking through the footage, sound off, is that one at 2.07.12 xy?

[@johnoleary9317]

NO CREST.....ON PODIUM

[@fox39forever]

+ the podium or lecturn or whatever it was was much larger than normal. It looked like it had quickly been made by a carpenter, to be quite large and to make him look even smaller than normal.

[@user-ms4rm3it7h]

1 out of 5 is no good.

[@sol2746]

After the election he'll be lounging on a malibu beach with pina colada in hand laughing his head off thinking about us all.

[@simonworth2535]

Walking in the sand with his Sambas

[@Anton-ji4td]

He is toast!!

[@SamuelBlack84]

No doubt everyone will just vote for Labour We should go left field for once and try something brand new Aren't the English supposed to have guts?

[@mjtigerfang]

Why labour ? Only the young, anyone middle aged who has lost their marbles and short memories Labour have done much of the damage themsleves, voting them back in will just be as bad and if not then worse. People need to stop thinking anything else is better, labour are useless and always have been

[@mjtigerfang]

Not voting for that lot not after their last outing

[@SamuelBlack84]

@@mjtigerfang Vote for me I could be the next Harold Saxon 😄

[@pteale]

Finally we can get our unelected prime minister out of power

[@lovejetfuel4071]

Save the NHS, vote tories out

[@MOH_AL_K]

Vote all the main parties out. They’re all bad. They’ve done nothing to solve countless issues that have been around for so long. New parties are needed worldwide.

[@robertgreen5217]

One cheek out another cheek in sounds like an arse.

[@Rick-xp5sy]

The tories are finished for good, cruel party.

[@fox39forever]

They are cruel, yes, but don't expect Mr. Starmer to be nicey nicey. He's just as much in favour of the New World Order as anyone else and is on the record as saying that he prefers Davos (where the World Economic Forum meets) as a place for making decisions over the Palace of Westminster.

[@Michaelsrevelation]

A right drip

[@kindnessyet2159]

Goodbye

[@TheWhiteLycan]

He did well to get through it.

[@whynot-tk1uz]

I wonder if he speaks english at his own home with his wife and father

[@KarakuraNinja]

Vote Feinstein to unseat Starmer

[@DBCooper01]

Nah.

[@terrypage358]

Who's Feinstein? Sounds German

[@ciaranfooty7720]

comments enabled too. Tories out

[@BIBIWCICC]

I’m voting Lib Dem as I don’t want either Israeli party to run our country further into the ground.

[@tea7795]

Vote workers party of Great Britain they are most anti Israeli

[@MrCaterhamr500]

What’s a foreign country got to do with domestic affairs and the future of the UK?

[@terrypage358]

​@@MrCaterhamr500 well most of them own Britain so alot I would guess.

[@MrCaterhamr500]

@@terrypage358 I think your confusing London with the entire rest of the UK.

[@mjtigerfang]

@@terrypage358 nah they own London which isn’t British anymore but a stooge state to woke nonsense.

[@Nemetona225]

Great! A choice between W E F and W E F 😏

[@fox39forever]

100%

[@Johannes13452J]

Farewell on 4 July

[@acecolin52]

The pillock is absolutely clueless, he thinks he’s saved us all 😂😂😂 Vote Reform people

[@peterteagleteagle9958]

So we going to swap one useless government for another, what's new?

[@monkeyboy8424]

Sunak is wet behind the ears.

[@IsaacStark6]

Game over

[@DaddyDoodleDay]

Goodbye, liars.

[@Anton-ji4td]

These figures are a load of make beleive. I cant even get the local police to help me even though i have video . They just say we are short staffed and are too busy, we have to prioritise our resources.

[@SohailHussain-cc7yp]

Am sorry u to hear this jerky Corbin got more knowledge then kier stamab

[@Anton-ji4td]

Jam tomorrow!

[@SH1T3RR0R]

Zero seats

[@martyndavid2094]

I wonder why now ? I wonder what news about his only rival may get broken soon Oct would have been better surely as interest rates and energy prices being cut will filter there way into the voters pockets

[@anthonyjohn3202]

We wish the Tories well!

[@livingstonecon]

This time people of uk intelligent for their future?😂

[@JamesTower-ju8vr]

The vast majority of the uk electorate now have no party to vote for

[@BurnsTennis]

Only if the vast electorate have no brains. But as they do, the Tories will lose badly.

[@andromedaone3640]

If this man stays in power and his national service thing ill end my life before i am made to go to war ive suffered terrible bad nearvs all my life. This man is evil.

[@VladThevloggerAgain]

Can I be advert promoting the Conservative Party, promoting diversity and as no poverty. Whiling homeless under Brighton Pier after manyyears Woking with NHS patients, then started also taxing Medicaid volunteers as working. Allways room in their pockets for more!

[@Anton-ji4td]

Sunak wants to loose. He wants to go and live in California for the summer and new school year in September usa.

[@easy1355]

I am surprised he mentioned brexit, given the 100's of billions it has cost the country, and loss of 10's of thousands of jobs directly due to brexit, and our passports now effectively 26 times less powerful ripping unrestricted travel, work, live, retire to our closest nations, without restrictions or cost, away from our young.... and not one benefit, other that laughing at brexiters, who got everything wrong.

[@leptir7110]

MANJE POLITIČARA MANJE ONIH KOJI ŽIVE NA RAČUN GRAĐANA A NE STVARAJU NOVE VRIJEDNOSTI

[@Celticsamuraiblue]

A ‘drowning rat’. How apt

[@SuperJammygit]

I’m voting for my 92 year old grandad he soon sort out the f ing migrant problem

[@soton5teve]

🫗take

[@Srindal4657]

Our nation's care for the vulnerable is a bird flying in the right proportion.

[@terrypage358]

I can't vote Tories or Lib Dem. Don't really want to vote Labour, but our public services are in such a mess they're the only option to sort them out I feel. All the others will just continue with privatisation.

[@AjJohnson-dt5dq]

The cheek to talk about the nhs as if it to say its flourishing nah ill take my chance with labour sod off 🤟🏾

[@mjtigerfang]

The party that messed it up to begin with, no thanks to them or the useless tories, sick of both

[@AjJohnson-dt5dq]

@@mjtigerfang im not saying labour is the answer but i dont remember anytime having to wait 2 years for a hospital appointment under their government if i have to choose the best of a bad bunch so be it the Tories have actually finished this country off to the point the outa world just laugh at us now

[@monalisaKeo]

The Man reporting this headline in the Pink Blazer and Brolly..... Does he realise We can See that he is a Whole Man In a Dress?.........

[@alekhyabhairi7021]

Fff

[@user-zd9pj5kb8x]

Why? He must think he’s gonna win then. To be honest, there is no one worth voting for no one

[@Anton-ji4td]

Is Beth Rigby on planet earth? Lets have some honesty Beth...please!

[@user-hc9jw8sg1s]

An honourable man and full respect for all his efforts

[@robertgreen5217]

😂😂😂😂😂😂👎👎👎👎👎

[@robertgreen5217]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂👎👎👎👎👎🚩🚩🚩

[@EmanM45]

Wow

[@craig1538]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣👎👎👎👎👎👎💀

[@21Dazzler]

Labour or Conservative - The result is the same - a poor government. So bored of all these politicians being the same as the past and the next.

[@ryanredmond87]

We are all doomed if starmer gets elected

[@BurnsTennis]

We are all doomed if we read dumb comments like yours. Yet another bot no doubt. This cannot possibly be a human.

[@Jahfriend]

There all no good but Torys are only out for the elite 👍

[@ryanredmond87]

@@BurnsTennis I don't know a single person who likes starmer ,what I do know is dozens of people who quit Labour because of him and others who were removed for being too left wing

[@andrewhubbard4044]

VOTE FOR REFORM UK 🇬🇧 STOP THIS INVASION

[@nathaliegrieves3859]

I am 😊

[@andriesvanderwalt5792]

Big ears the liar just like that Blair, Starmer is the same time for a change give the Reform party achance get rid of these old lying parties. Enough said.

[@andriesvanderwalt5792]

He is the only human that lies more than Putin that is some achievement.

[@TravelWithMarti]

i vote NIGEL for prime minister, and i think many in the uk will also , Sunak or the labour muppet are for sure 2 bad choices

[@charliesloan3485]

Reform UK all the way

[@soton5teve]

Nope

[@mjtigerfang]

Vote Reform , anything and I mean anything is better than lib,labour,con! Voted for each labour and Tory over the years where has it got us!! No more! And others need to wake up and not keep voting them in each time going in circles to a status quo that keeps making things worse!

[@peterktori4834]

Vote FOR. AL BUNDY FOR. PRIME MINISTER. HE WON'T. TAKE NO. C**P

[@peterktori4834]

As for labour. Just as bad. So wee DOUBLE DOOMED. So leave the country. Third 🌎 BRITAIN.

[@Darren-nc2gw]

UK reform 🇬🇧

[@DBCooper01]

🤣🤡

[@user-qg8cn3cb1u]

Vote Rishi Sunak out, should be charged with war crimes in any case