OPINION - The Standard View: Why call an election now? Because things can get worse for Rishi Sunak
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Once the Fixed-Term Parliaments Act was quietly repealed, Boris Johnson reclaimed for himself and his successors the power (via the monarch) to dissolve Parliament and call a general election. For better or worse, Rishi Sunak has exercised that power.