Adrian Wooldridge, Columnist

Sunak’s Call for a July 4 Election Puts the Tories Out of Their Misery

The past 14 years of Conservative rule have tried almost everybody’s patience.

May 22, 2024 at 4:26 PM UTC

Adrian Wooldridge is the global business columnist for Bloomberg Opinion. A former writer at the Economist, he is author of “The Aristocracy of Talent: How Meritocracy Made the Modern World.”

Britain's Prime Minister Rishi Sunak leaves 10 Downing Street to take part in the weekly session of Prime Minister's Questions in the House of Commons.
Photographer: HENRY NICHOLLS/AFP

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A British general election on July 4th almost certainly means the end of 14 years of Tory rule.

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has finally put the Conservative administration out of its misery. The government has been bleeding out in public for months. Today, Sunak decided to put an end to it by calling the vote.