"And the negotiations with the European Union will reach their most hard stage in the run-up to the next scheduled election".
Political observers say May wants to settle once and for all the question of Brexit by going to the country.
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Theresa May has called on the Commons to vote on Wednesday. May's Conservative Party holds 330 seats in parliament, while the official opposition Labour Party has 229 members of parliament.
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'The election should hand Theresa May a much bigger mandate to stand up to the harder line, anti-European Union backbenchers who now hold a disproportionate sway over her part's stance on Brexit.
May says there should be unity in Westminster over Brexit, but there is not.
Richard Fagence, secretary of the East Berkshire Liberal Democrats, said: "Theresa May says the country is coming together but Westminster is not".
It seems nearly impossibly unlikely that Jeremy Corbyn can seriously challenge the Conservatives, if anything the greatest doubt is whether he will leave quietly the day after the general election on the 9 June. "There should be no general election until 2020", she said.
It is also a risky roll of the political dice. And election campaigns seldom proceed according to plan, especially in a political environment as novel and unpredictable as that of post-Brexit Britain.
Although among British people, May has a high rating as prime minister, she only has a small majority in the House of Commons.
Latest opinion polls are suggesting that the Conservative are on 42 per cent with Labour on 27 per cent. Professor John Curtice of politics at Strathclyde University said that May has "quite a substantial majority".
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"This General Election gives people the chance to vote for a Labour Party that will put the interests of the majority first".
May took power last July without a public vote, after David Cameron resigned and her remaining rival in the Conservative leadership contest, Andrea Leadsom, pulled out of the race.
There is speculation that Mrs May could call a snap general election, although Downing Street has always denied she will call a vote before the next scheduled poll in 2020. A rift in Parliament will damage the government's ability to make a success of Brexit, she said.
Corbyn, a veteran socialist with support on the left of the party, won the Labour leadership in September 2015 after the party's defeat in that year's election.
The PM said her decision was based around Westminster's response to Article 50 being triggered, the mechanism for the United Kingdom to split from the EU.
"In recent weeks Labour have threatened to vote against the final agreement we reach with the European Union".
British voters chose to leave the European Union in a referendum last year, signaling the end of the country's 44-year-long membership in the bloc.
May officially began the Brexit process on March 29 by triggering Article 50, the legal mechanism needed to begin the divorce process and officially start talks with the EU.
"As the fantastic MP Jo Cox, who was so tragically taken from us a year ago, put it: 'We are far more united and have far more in common than that which divides us'".
May in contrast has scored consistently well in terms of personal popularity and polls have shown approval of her handling of the run-up to Brexit negotiations.
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