Early British election won't affect Brexit talks, says Germany

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British lawmakers later Wednesday are largely expected to vote in favor of Prime Minister Theresa May's plan for a general election on June 8.

"Let us tomorrow vote for an election".

Against a backdrop of raucous cheers and jeers, May called Corbyn "not fit to lead" and said his left-wing economic policies "would bankrupt this country". She has also played up the strength of the British economy, which has so far defied predictions of a slowdown - a key campaign theme that her Conservative Party will use to try to undermine Labour in the election.

Opinion polls show her Conservatives as many as 21 points ahead of the main opposition party - Jeremy Corbyn's Labour.

Osborne says he's stepping down to focus on his new role as editor of the London Evening Standard.

"Had the election been in 2020, we would have been coming up to the most crucial part of the negotiations at the end of the negotiations in what would be starting to be the run-up to a general election", she said.

Under British electoral law, May needs the backing of two-thirds of lawmakers.

Initially, EU officials had said that the talks could start in late May once a detailed negotiating mandate had been agreed among the EU's 27 other members.

The former interior minister, who became prime minister without an election when her predecessor David Cameron quit after last year's referendum vote for Brexit, said she needed to strengthen her hand in negotiations which will reshape Britain and test the cohesion of the EU.

So, holding the election now is both in the best interests of Britain, and the political interests of the governing party, the Conservatives.

On immigration, she said: "What people want is for us to have control of our borders".

One broadcaster, ITV, said it planned to hold a debate with or without the prime minister. The Prime Minister intends that the election will take place on 8 June 2017. Those most in need, elderly, disabled, those who have learning difficulties and need support and often unable to get the care that we, as a civilised society, must and will deliver for all of them.

In Taiwan, Parliaments are fixed and it is not possible to call an election because it takes political sense to do so.

Brok said that could help "so that we can conduct the negotiations professionally in the next 1 ½ years to reach a sensible result that reduces the damage". TV debates don't have a long history in British politics, but were a feature of the last two elections, in 2010 and 2015.

But analysts have said the chances are weak - chiefly because the Liberal Democrats would probably not want to ally with a struggling Labour Party, which is also deeply divided over its current leader.

"So we have this period in which the future of the United Kingdom in Europe, in the world, is in play and she wants to remove scrutiny and accountability and that lies beneath, I think, this snap decision just as much as the polls do".

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.