She says an early election would provide "certainty and stability" in the negotiations, which will now start after the vote.
"We welcome the general election".
"That's what I have always believed in, it's what I still believe and I still do it - as Prime Minister, as a constituency MP, I still go out and knock on doors in my constituency".
Britain's second female prime minister, who took over last summer following her predecessor David Cameron's failure to convince voters to back the European Union, also appears to have won strong popular support for her handling of the political natural disaster unleashed by Brexit. May had earlier asked parliament to back her decision saying the result would help unify parliament behind her Brexit plan and prevent instability. It became all the more relevant as the nature of the Brexit planned by the government emerged, revealing that Britain would in all likelihood extract itself from the European single market in order to take control of its borders.
Britain's Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn speaks at a meeting about social care in Birmingham central England Tuesday April 18, 2017.
Meanwhile the BBC's head of newsgathering Jonathan Munro told The Telegraph that he did "not want to get in a position where any party leader stops us doing a programme that we think is in the public interest".
"Instead of the country's wealth being hidden in tax havens, we will put it in the hands of the people of Britain, as they are the ones who earned it".
"I am seeing all our partners in these months telling us that the European Union is needed, and this is the message I also get from here in China that the European Union is an indispensable partner in the world today", she said.
"With the Brexit negotiations expected to finish in March 2019, it would take away the pressure of a general election coming up in 2020". May's tougher stance on immigration. Efforts by the opposition, the House of Lords, and even some within her own Cabinet to persuade her that worldwide students shouldn't be included in net migration figures have proved unsuccessful, with Home Secretary Amber Rudd suggesting previous year that a further tightening of policy when it came to global students was on the cards.
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Under these circumstances it may seem surprising that Ms.
After Labour moderates mounted a failed coup against Corbyn a year ago, criticism from within his own party escalated in February when the Conservatives took a district in northwest England always held previously by Labour.
They campaigned for Britain to stay in the EU past year and have fought for the country to remain in the European single market since the Brexit victory. And Labour in this election will be part of a movement of the British people to make that change.
While promising to run a "positive and optimistic campaign", she said the choice at the election was between her "strong and stable leadership" or a "coalition of chaos" led by Mr Corbyn. The revival of the Liberal Democrats' fortunes will also add to the uncertainty.
Ms. May would undoubtedly have had Scotland in mind when she opted for the general election.
In Scotland, the Scottish National Party is the dominant force and is advocating an independence referendum to hold on to strong ties with Europe.
But as she spoke, Mr Corbyn explicitly ruled out any post-election coalition with the SNP, insisting that he would not do a deal with Nicola Sturgeon's party to forge a so-called "progressive alliance", as hers was not a progressive party.
She came to power when the previous Prime Minister David Cameron stepped down after the Brexit vote a year ago. So vote for a strong and stable leadership in this country; vote for the strong and stable leadership this country needs.
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