Tomos Livingston provides the political hack’s guide to the General Election in today’s Wales on Sunday, answering every question you may wish to ask except, of course who to vote for and why.
In particular he explains what happens to outstanding legislation once Parliament is prorogued including the controversial Affordable Housing Legislative Competence Order, which is likely to fall because the Tories want to make a political point about the right to buy and gypsies. Without all party agreement there is not time to pass everything and so it is lost.
He also points out that on 23 April the latest official figures on economic growth will be publishes. He guesses that if Gordon Brown plumps for 6th May then he will do so in the belief that these figures will offer a significant boost to the Labour General Election campaign.
Finally, he looks a what will happen if Parliament ends up in no overall control, but at that point we are so into the realms of speculation that he has not got enough space to give the subject justice.
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