When Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said this week that he was not likely to call a general election in Britain before the second half of the year, he was trying to douse fevered speculation that he might go to the voters as early as May. But in doing so, he set up another tantalizing prospect: that Britain and the United States could hold elections within days or weeks of each other this fall.
Some argue that a victory by the Republican front-runner, Donald J. Trump, over President Biden or even the prospect of one would be so alarming that it would scare voters in Britain into sticking with Mr. Sunak's Conservative Party, as a bid for predictability and continuity in an uncertain world. Others argue that the Labour Party leader, Keir Starmer, could win over voters by reminding them of the ideological kinship between the Conservatives and Mr. Trump, who remains deeply unpopular in Britain.
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