Jeremy Hunt hints at October election in spending review remarks

Hunt also said he hoped to hold another fiscal event before the election. Photograph: Tejas Sandhu/Sopa Images/Rex/Shutterstock

The chancellor, Jeremy Hunt, has suggested a general election could be held in October.

Speaking in the House of Lords, Hunt said the Treasury would need time to push through a review of Whitehall budgets before next spring, making an October date the last time when an election would be possible.