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By Mikey Smith Rishi Sunak has wasted tens of millions of pounds of taxpayers’ money by chickening out of a May election. The PM still refuses to say when he will go to the polls – but has ruled out holding a general election on May 2, the same day as local elections, as Labour did for every election when they were last in power. Doing so would save the country around £33.2m, according to the Mirror’s analysis of previous election costs. Meanwhile it was revealed by-elections to replace the Tory MPs who quit since 2019 had cost the nation more than £4 million. It comes as the beleaguered PM fa…

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