Why now and not the autumn for a general election (Report, 23 May)? It’s obvious, surely. In a desperate world, there will be record numbers of people arriving on small boats this summer, and few if any flights to Rwanda taking off, making no difference to the numbers coming across the Channel. Presumably, civil servants have made their predictions. Rishi Sunak wants to make high claims for his Rwanda policy and lord it over Labour, before it is proved definitively to be both inhumane and ineffective.
Dr Stefan Hawlin
Oxford
• The date of the general election seems designed to disenfranchise young people as much as possible, since most university students who vote do so at their term-time address. Universities are in recess on 4 July and many students will be at their parents’ or between university accommodation. Please make sure anyone you know in this situation registers at an appropriate address, preferably with a postal vote.
Michelle Kimber
Plymouth
• I wonder, with his links to the US, whether Rishi Sunak has made a subconscious choice of election date: his own independence day?
Erica Burch
Hastings, East Sussex
• Rishi Sunak is clearly aware of Harold Wilson’s 1966 view that England only win football competitions under Labour. His vacating No 10 before the end of Euro 2024 can only help the team.
Keith Flett
Tottenham, London
• I imagine the Tories have called an election just before the start of the summer holidays with the full knowledge that they will be able to spend unlimited time with their families and few friends after it.
Jonathan Cockburn
Hewelsfield, Gloucestershire
• In his speech, Rishi Sunak praised the kindness of the British public during the pandemic. The kindest thing they could do would be to vote to put him out of our misery.
Austen Lynch
Garstang, Lancashire
• Given that Rishi Sunak appears incapable of using a contactless card or an umbrella, is it time to introduce basic life skills classes for MPs?
Toby Morse
Bristol
• Does this mean that the prime minister is a Tory wet?
Peter Irvine
Warwick
• This week’s Inside No 9 episode on BBC Two was bonkers, surreal and bordering on farce, only upstaged by the latest episode of Inside No 10.
Toby Wood
Peterborough
• Restoring the whip to Diane Abbott so she can be selected to fight the seat she has held for 37 years will be worth more to Labour than a five-minute party political broadcast.
Les Bright
Exeter
• I hope I can survive another six weeks of Tories like Danny Kruger telling me voting for them is voting for change and voting for Labour is voting for more of the same.
Martin Berman
Rutherglen, South Lanarkshire
• It’s 6.30pm on Wednesday. Can I be the first to go on record as already fed up with the election campaign?
Isabella Stone
Sheffield
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