Tag: UK General Election 2017

• Thursday, April 20th 2017 - 02:21 UTC

  British snap election campaign takes off; May wants to increase her current majority of 17

  

  Campaigning is under way after the House of Commons backed Theresa May's call for a general election on 8 June. MPs voted by 522 votes to 13 - with Labour and Lib Dem helping secure the two-thirds majority needed to bring forward the election from 2020.

• Wednesday, April 19th 2017 - 04:59 UTC

  The snap election and consequences seen from the European Union

  

  Prime Minister Theresa May announcement of a June snap election could strengthen her hand in the Brexit negotiations but the rest of the European Union was firm about its position in the two-year talks, insisting that their stance would be unchanged whatever the result.

• Tuesday, April 18th 2017 - 12:41 UTC

  Theresa May plans a snap general election: “The country is coming together but Westminster is not”

  

  United Kingdom Prime Minister Theresa May has announced plans to call a snap general election on 8 June. She said Britain needed certainty, stability and strong leadership following the EU referendum, and supporting her decision, said: “The country is coming together but Westminster is not.”