{"id":140778,"date":"2023-12-21T14:00:19","date_gmt":"2023-12-21T07:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/may-general-election-the-economic-case-for-going-early-and-clinging-on\/"},"modified":"2023-12-21T14:19:07","modified_gmt":"2023-12-21T07:19:07","slug":"may-general-election-the-economic-case-for-going-early-and-clinging-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/may-general-election-the-economic-case-for-going-early-and-clinging-on\/","title":{"rendered":"May general election? The economic case for going early (and clinging on)"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nFalling inflation and tax cuts in a February budget would signal a spring poll but weak growth and rising mortgage bills bode cautionGo early or postpone election day in the hope that things will look brighter at some point in the future. It is a dilemma that James Callaghan, John Major, Gordon Brown and Theresa May all faced. To that list, now add the name of Rishi Sunak who ends 2023 with a tricky call to make.The Labour party has been on election footing for months, suspecting that the prime minister might call a snap election in the spring. But it was Jeremy Hunt\u2019s announcement in the autumn statement that he was cutting employee national insurance (NI) contributions that really alerted Westminster to the possibility of a May poll. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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Falling inflation and tax cuts in a February budget would signal a spring poll but...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-property-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p75ss1-ACC","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":56272,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/pound-recovers-after-theresa-mays-weekend-election-poll-recovery\/","url_meta":{"origin":140778,"position":0},"title":"Pound recovers after Theresa May's weekend election poll recovery","date":"May 29, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"\r \r \r Source : telegraph.co.uk\r Read more...Pound recovers after Theresa May's weekend election poll recovery","rel":"","context":"In "Property News"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":73864,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/qv-housing-market-gets-spring-lift-shrugs-off-election\/","url_meta":{"origin":140778,"position":1},"title":"QV – Housing market gets spring lift, shrugs off election","date":"December 7, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"\r Uncertainty over the new Government and its housing policies does not appear to have dented the market in November, the latest data from Quotable Value shows.The latest monthly QV House Price Index shows nationwide residential property...\r \r Source : nzherald.co.nz\/Property\r Read more...QV - Housing market gets spring lift, shrugs\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Property News"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":172266,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/poll-shows-labour-ahead-of-reform-uk-for-first-time-since-burnham-became-pm-as-it-happened\/","url_meta":{"origin":140778,"position":2},"title":"Poll shows Labour ahead of Reform UK for first time since Burnham became PM \u2013 as it happened","date":"July 27, 2026","format":false,"excerpt":"\r New PM says he \u2018wouldn\u2019t get carried away\u2019 by latest polling but says he is pleased if he has \u2018connected with people\u2019I have already posted lines from Andy Burnham\u2019s BBC interview on reforming social care (see 9.03am), making council tax fairer (see 10.03am), and ruling out an early election\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Property News"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":69078,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/election-uncertaintys-chilling-effect-on-houses-for-sale\/","url_meta":{"origin":140778,"position":3},"title":"Election uncertainty's chilling effect on houses for sale","date":"October 16, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"\r The usual spring surge of house listings has failed to materialise and the election is partly to blame, according to the head of Trade Me Property who says Auckland is particularly dire.\"We are seeing unusually low stock for this...\r \r Source : nzherald.co.nz\/Property\r Read more...Election uncertainty's chilling effect on\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Property News"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":107709,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/peterborough-prepares-for-byelection-that-could-see-first-brexit-party-mp\/","url_meta":{"origin":140778,"position":4},"title":"Peterborough prepares for byelection that could see first Brexit party MP","date":"June 2, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"\r A decade ago it was the UK\u2019s fastest growing city, but hit by cuts and buy-to-let, support for Nigel Farage\u2019s party is highOn Thursday, voters in Peterborough will take part in one of the most intriguing parliamentary byelections in recent memory. 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