As Boris Johnson has asked the Queen to suspend parliament just weeks before the Brexit deadline, bookies have slashed the odds that the UK will have a general election this year.
As of 2 September, Coral makes it 1-3 that there will be a general election in 2019, making it the clear favourite for the next year that the UK will go to the polls.
Coral spokesperson Harry Aitkenhead said: "We've made it odds on for a while now that a General Election takes place in 2019 and the latest chaos has only served to make it even more likely according to the odds. It is now just 1-3 for a trip to the polls before 2020 arrives."
Odds are currently 9-4 that the next general election will be in 2020, 25-1 that it will be in 2021, or 12-1 that it will be in 2022 or later.
Boris Johnson, who currently has a working majority of just one, has ruled out calling a general election before the UK leaves the EU on 31 October.
Under the Fixed-Term Parliaments Act, the next UK general election is currently scheduled to be held on 5 May 2022 - five years after the snap election of 2017.
If MPs opposed to a no-deal Brexit table a motion of no confidence in Johnson's government, this could trigger an early general election.
Odds are currently 8-11 that the UK will leave the EU without a deal before 1 November 2019.
