British lawmakers set to approve PM May’s June 8 election plan

He said: “We are in the midst of Brexit negotiations so this election will provide a flawless opportunity for the 52% to vote for Ukip – the only party wholeheartedly committed to a clean, quick and efficient Brexit“.

Before holding the early election, May must win the support of two-thirds of the parliament in a vote on Wednesday, which looked certain after Labour and the Liberal Democrats said they would vote in favour. “That’s what I believe in doing and that’s what I’m going to be doing around this campaign”.

May, who has described herself as “not a showy politician”, also said she would not take part in television debates before the election, preferring to talk directly to voters.

She said that since Britons voted to leave the European Union in June, the country had come together, but politicians had not.

But they have welcomed the election too, which will be a test of Brexit.

“That would be in nobody’s interest”, May said.

Now that lawmakers have approved the election, Parliament will be dissolved at midnight on May 2, 25 working days before election day.

Despite Corbyn’s bravado, his party is demoralized and divided under his left-wing leadership and is expected to fare badly. Since then she has ruled out calling an early election to get her own mandate.

The Liberal Democrats, in contrast, will straightforwardly seek to exploit their record as the most pro-EU party among the United Kingdom parties to rebuild their electoral position by mining support from among the 48% who voted Remain in the referendum.

May said Tuesday that the divisions in Parliament explained her change of heart on an early election. That sort of victory, which would be unprecedented in postwar British politics, would deliver May a majority of more than 100 in the House of Commons, compared with just 17 now.

An overwhelming majority of Hackney residents voted to Remain in the European Union in last year’s referendum, with the third highest Remain vote in the country after Lambeth and Gibraltar, at 78.5 per cent.

Corbyn responded by mocking May over the government’s failure to eliminate the deficit – “It’s always five years in the future” – and criticising her over school budgets and the NHS, which he said had been “put into an all-year-round crisis by this government”. She wants us to believe that she is a woman of her word. “It’s about. getting the right deal from Europe”, May said.

The UK is our largest export market and Deputy Timmy Dooley says a delay in Brexit negotiations could have a negative impact here.

Callum McCaig, MP for Aberdeen South, said: “A Tory-led hard Brexit is already projected to cost 80,000 jobs and only last month the Oil and Gas Institute reported it will be costing the supply chain an extra £200 million a year, so ignoring those negotiations is the last thing we need”.

The main issue at hand was that of televised pre-election debates: Corbyn is keen for them, and yet the PM is refusing to participate.

But the Tories are not alone in looking to gain from Labour’s misfortunes, after Lib Dem leader Tim Farron claimed his party stands a “very strong chance” in seats like Hull West, York and Harrogate.