Theresa May calls snap general election: The value of unity

Despite saying that she wouldn’t call an early general election, Prime Minister Theresa May has announced that the UK will hit the polling booths again this summer; 8 June, to be precise.

She said the change of heart came about because “the only way to guarantee certainty and security for years ahead is to hold this election”.

PM: "I want to explain the reasons for that decision, what will happen next and the choice facing the British people when you come to vote" pic.twitter.com/Z0H9F9by9a

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She will not have to overturn the Fixed-term Parliaments Act to call an early election. The Act reads: “The Act . . . makes provision to enable the holding of early parliamentary general elections . . . [if] a vote by at least two-thirds of all MPs [are] in favour of an early election.”