Going to the polls: What a later election means for UK finances

It's an election year, and Rishi Sunak has said it's his working assumption the UK general election will be in the second half of the year. It's a bit of an oddly contrived expression, seeing as he is the one pulling the trigger, but all eyes are now settling on November as the likely date for ballot boxes to be rolled out across the country. There has been some speculation that a May election might have been on the cards, but with the Tories trailing so far behind in the polls, this always seemed like an outside chance. One of the key implications of a later election is there is e...