The government might even be able to nod through some juicy tax cuts before general-election day on September 27th.
But there are reports that some firms have ordered their bond traders to start work at 1am on Friday, given the unclear outcome of the UK general election the previous day.
As question time drew to a close, Commons Speaker John Bercow urged MPs to press local authorities in their constituencies to count votes on the day of the forthcoming General Election - rather than the following day, as proposed by some returning officers.
Unlike the general election, the nomination day is not a public holiday.
It can be longer - Conservative former PM John Major called the 1997 general election eight weeks before polling day.
The union Unison said 625 public sector jobs had been axed every day since the general election in May 2010.
Thursday was the scheduled date for many local council elections and most pundits had predicted the general election would be held the same day.
But this swing is almost identical to that registered by the Tories in the shire county elections held on the same day as their general-election disaster.
The only other occasion when I tricked her into saying something unexpected was when she gave news interviews on the day she announced the 1987 general election.
But in general, it allows voters to cast ballots in person before Election Day using either voting machines or so-called absentee ballots -- without having to provide an excuse.
The arrest comes one day after Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard called a general election for 14 September, with plans for parliament to be dissolved on 12 August.
Here to look ahead to that day and beyond is the man who wrote the General Election Manifesto, one of the most experienced members and yet most young of the current Cabinet, the current Shadow Cabinet, a key moderniser in the party, the Shadow Social Security Secretary David Willetts, good morning to you David.
BBC: News | BREAKFAST WITH FROST | David Willetts MP- Shadow Social Security Secretary
The Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition government wants to set in stone the date of the next general election - which has previously been up to the prime minister of the day to decide.
In total, 153 cardinals gathered Wednesday at the Vatican for a third day of meetings, known as general congregations, before they set the timetable for the election.
The day after Chancellor Norman Lamont delivered a tax-cutting Budget, John Major announced the 1992 general election would be on 9 April.
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