Boris Johnson Says It Would Be apos;ridiculous apos; To Call A General Election

today said calling a snap election would be 'totally ridiculous' - but refused to say if his current term of office would last two more months or two more years.
The Prime Minister has failed to dampen speculation in recent days that he could go to the country if Sir is forced to quit as Labour leader over Beergate.
Sir Keir is expected to find out this month if he is to be fined by Durham Police over curry and beers he shared with staff on the election train during the Covid pandemic. He has pledged to resign if found to have broken the rules. 
Reports have suggested the PM could try to capitalise on disarray if that happens by calling an election, despite behind behind in the polls after months of scandals.
Asked in an interview with LBC radio today whether the idea of an early election is ridiculous, Mr Johnson replied: 'Totally, totally.' 
But he declined to answer whether he has two years or two months left as Prime Minister, saying: 'I'm going to deliver on our programme.' 
The Prime Minister has failed to dampen speculation in recent days that he could go to the country if Sir Keir Starmer is forced to quit as Labour leader over Beergate.
Sir Keir is expected to find out this month if he is to be fined by Durham Police over curry and beers he shared with staff on the election train during the Covid pandemic.

He has pledged to resign if found to have broken the rules.
The Tories have also been thumped in a series of recent by-elections in seats they held in North Shropshire, Chesham and Amersham, Tiverton and Honiton, and Wakefield.

They could also face another in Tamworth, amid the fallout from deputy chief whip Chris Pincher's resignation.
The next general election is not expected until 2024 - and could be held as late as January 2025. But after MPs repealed the Fixed-term Parliaments Act, the Prime Minister has the power to call one at any time.
Mr Johnson added: 'What my job is, is to talk about the Government's agenda, to talk about policy, to talk about the UK, video bokep to talk about how we're fixing the cost-of-living problems, the cost-of-living crisis, talk about everything we're doing to strengthen the UK economy, our plan for a stronger economy, which is what I believe in.
'Talk about levelling up, the agenda for taking this country forward.

That's what I want. That's what I'm actually meant to talk about.'
The Prime Minister's allies have said they believed there might be a backlash from voters if Mr Johnson called another election, after a string of votes and referenda close together in recent years.
The Tories have also been thumped in a series of recent by-elections in seats they held in North Shropshire, Chesham and Amersham, Tiverton and Honiton, and Wakefield.
They could also face another in Tamworth, amid the fallout from deputy chief whip Chris Pincher's resignation from his party post last night over a groping allegation.
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He said he had 'embarrassed himself and other people', after drinking too much at the ' elite Carlton Club in .
But Mr Johnson has been told to strip the Tamworth MP of the Tory whip as it emerged he was handed the key role enforcing party discipline in February despite allegations about his own lack of self control.
He apologised publicly and resigned as a whip before in 2017 after being accused by a Tory candidate of making an unwanted pass at him.
Politco today identified Mr Pincher as the Tory MP said to have required a 'minder' to accompany him to events to keep him out of trouble, something denied by the Conservatives.
No10 has said that as Pincher has resigned his whip role no further action is required.

But critics pointed out that Neil Parish had resigned as Tiverton and Honiton MP for watching porn in the Commons - something less than an alleged sexual assault.
That resulted in the by-election last week where the Lib Dems overturned a Tory majority of more than 24,000 to take the seat.

Mr Pincher's majority in Staffordshire is 20,000, but the seat was held by Labour for 13 years before he was elected in 2010.