Bookies are taking bets on there being at least two general elections in 2019

<em>Bookmakers are offering odds on TWO General Elections this year (Picture: REUTERS/Eddie Keogh/File Photo)</em>
Bookmakers are offering odds on TWO General Elections this year (Picture: REUTERS/Eddie Keogh/File Photo)

Britons have grown use to political turbulence and it looks like 2019 is going to be no different, with bookies offering odds on not one but two general elections this year.

Among its political odds for 2019, Ladbrokes offered odds of 33/1 that there will be two or more elections this year.

It is also revealed that the chances one general election are 6/4, while odds that Theresa May will be replaced as Prime Minister were put at 1/2.

The odds of the UK leaving the EU with no deal before April 1 are at 3/1, with odds of 5/4 for a new referendum.

Jeremy Corbyn’s future is in as much doubt as Mrs May’s, with odds at 2/1 for him to be replaced as Labour leader, though Ladbrokes is also offering 4/1 that he will become Prime Minister this year.

And when it comes to politics across the pond, the bookmakers put the odds of Donald Trump to be replaced as US President at 3/1.

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Odds of a UK General Election AND a Brexit referendum were put at 6/1, while it offered 4/1 on the Conservatives, Labour and Liberal Democrats all replacing their leaders this year.

Odds of David Cameron joining the UK Cabinet were put at 25/1 while Nigel Farage becoming an MP was given odds of 25/1.

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