Downing Street advisers push for early election: The Telegraph

Call an early election, advisers urge Burnham

The prime minister would be ‘naive not to be contemplating all scenarios’ about an election, one source said

Downing Street advisers push for early election

Senior figures believe a spring vote would give party best chance of a majority

No10 advisers push for early general election as they feel confident of Labour majority

Downing Street advisers and some Labour MPs are privately pushing for an early general election next spring, despite the Prime Minister’s repeated insistence that he has no plans to go to the polls ahead of schedule.Senior figures close to Andy Burnham are understood to believe that an election in spring could offer Labour its strongest opportunity to secure another parliamentary majority, although the idea remains contested within government.On…