Does anybody really want a December election? Not if you ask any one of the 13 Scottish Conservative MPs, who have more reason to fear a deep winter campaign than most. North of the border the weather will be colder, and the political conditions far less hospitable to the Tories, too: there is a reason that the SNP are so keen to go to the country before the UK leaves the EU.
“I really would have doubts about a December election,” Stephen Kerr, the MP for Stirling, told BBC Radio 4’s World Tonight last night. “We have tried the patience of people so much this year as a political group at Westminster, to put a general election into the Christmas month I think would be a push too far.”
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