Cabinet minister rules out summer snap general election after party’s dismal local poll results [Video]

A Cabinet minister ruled out a snap general election this summer after the Tories suffered dismal results in the local and mayoral elections.

Work and Pensions Secretary Mel Stride strongly signalled that the general election would now be in the autumn.

He highlighted inflation down from 11.1 per cent to 3.2 per cent, real wages increasing and and taxes “beginning to fall”.

He stressed that the Rwanda Bill had gone through and the “deterrent effect” of that was already being seen with people leaving the UK and to Ireland.

Waiting lists were down by 200,000 since September last year, although still over seven million.

“So we are seeing progress,” he told GB News.

“There is more time between now and the next general election.

“I think it was Harold Wilson who said a week is a long time in politics.

“We have several months now before the next general election.”

But millions of households across Britain are still in …