Rishi Sunak rules out holding general election on 2 May

Sunak (left) during a visit to the Rolls-Royce manufacturing facility in Bristol on Thursday. Photograph: Leon Neal/PA

Rishi Sunak has ruled out holding a general election on 2 May, when voters are to go to the polls in local elections.

Asked by ITV News West Country whether he was preparing to call a snap election to coincide with the local elections, the prime minister said: “There won’t be a general election on that day.”