Wednesday seemed to be on the face of it a fairly ordinary late Spring day, a couple of political scandals going back decades going through the motions of being investigated as the news broke of a meeting of the Prime Minister and some of the cabinet taking place in the morning.
Rumours abounded: What was this all about? Members of Parliament relying on BBC journalists for clues?
Something was up.
Switching the Tv on after five in the afternoon regular programming had been replaced by footage of the Prime Minster speaking at the lectern outside 10 Downing Street.
Larry had wisely decided to stay curled up on the window ledge while all this was going on.
The General Election campaign had started and it wasn't long before the Rt. Hon. Keir Starmer, leader of the opposition Labour Party made his reply, setting out his parties policies and why he feels people should take a chance on it.
Some measure of the surprising nature of it is drawing up and printing the party manifestos may well take a week or so of a six week run up until Thursday July 4th, some parties have yet to complete the selection process for all their candidate in each of the 650 parliamentary seats and get leaflets ready to be delivered to would be voters.
The 2024 race to form a Government is on.
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