Money Saving Expert Martin Lewis has made an election prediction after spotting hidden detail in Chancellor Rishi Sunak's speech on Wednesday. Mr Lewis was reacting to the Chancellor’s speech which lasted just over 25 minutes.
Martin Lewis predicts the General Election will be held in 2024. Writing on Twitter, he said: "So with a 1p cut in income tax basic rate in 2024, looks like we know when the next general election is then." The now viral Tweet has over 23,000 likes and 740 comments. Some of the comments included @ninety_six96 who wrote: “Good to see the fixed term parliament act is barely worth the paper it's written on.
“More of a moveable feast now than it was before, GEs should be every 5 years and set in stone. Not used pureky [sic] when convenient to do so.” As reported by BirminghamLive another commenter on Lewis’s popular Twitter thread was Daniel Falconer who wrote: "Rumours of an early election in 2023. Make the promise before then. Lure people in, win in 2023. Push the promise back again."
