Boris Johnson has rejected calling a snap election after fuelling speculation he could go to the country early
"Talk about levelling up, the agenda for taking this country forward. That's what I want. That's what I'm actually meant to talk about."Pressed over whether he had two years or two months left as prime minister, he said:"I'm going to deliver on our programme."
Speaking to Sky News earlier, Wales Secretary Simon Hart strongly denied there had been any talk of a snap poll. He said:"I give you a cast iron, solid guarantee that I have had not had a single conversation with a colleague, whether it's in the party or the Government, about an early election.", standing in at prime minister's questions opposite Dominic Raab while Mr Johnson attended a Nato summit in Madrid, challenged the Tories to call an election.
Referring to the recent by-election maulings suffered by the Conservatives, she said the voters of Wakefield and Tiverton and Honiton had held their"own vote of no confidence" and called for the rest of the country to be given the opportunity to express their view.
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