On Wednesday night a new YouGov poll, conducted for The Times after she called the election, had Ms May's Conservatives with 48 per cent support.
"The UK elections do not change our EU27 plans", Preben Aamann, a spokesperson for European Council President Donald Tusk, said in a statement on Tuesday. We have set that process in motion, there is no turning back.
"I think it is right now to ask the British people, to put their trust in me and the Conservative Party to deliver on their vote previous year a Brexit plan that will make a success for this country and deliver a stronger, fairer global Britain in the future".
Rejecting the PM's claim that an election is needed to prevent disunity at Westminster undermining a Brexit deal, Mr Corbyn said: "There is no obstacle to the Government negotiating, but, instead of getting on with the job, she is painting herself as the prisoner of the Liberal Democrats".
The early election is the latest twist a turbulent year in British politics, which was plunged into turmoil when the country unexpectedly voted to leave the European Union last year.
That being the case, May's about-face on a general election was most likely shaped by a desire to increase her majority in Parliament at a time when the main opposition party, Labour, is languishing in the opinion polls under the leadership of Corbyn.
Candidates will fight elections in 650 seats across the country, and either Theresa May or Jeremy Corbyn is expected to be Prime Minister after the election.
But Ford said that votes for the Liberal Democrats could draw support away from Labour and ultimately boost May's Conservatives.
Plaid Cymru leader Leanne Wood - whose profile received a major boost from her involvement in two of the 2015 broadcasts - said: "Theresa May should be empty chaired if she doesn't show up to any planned TV debates".
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He said: "The reason she's now going for a General Election is yes, she's putting party before country but I also think she realises people are waking up to the fact that the economy now is beginning to dive". Whilst those voting for the government motion significantly outnumbered those opposed, under the provisions of the Fixed-term Parliaments Act the votes had to beat a two-thirds figure.
Jeremy Corbyn said Labour "welcome the opportunity of a general election" and urged his MPs to vote in favour.
May blamed "political game playing" from the opposition parties for her U-turn on wanting a General Election to be held.
"The Prime Minister and I, back in 1992, debated publicly, forcibly and amicably when we were both candidates together".
Within hours of the vote, the prime minister was in Bolton, outside Manchester, to deliver her first stump speech of the campaign.
Liberal Democrat leader Tim Farron said that, for May, calling the election is "the political equivalent of taking candy from a baby".
But for Scotland's First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon, the move was a "huge political miscalculation" that could help the Scottish National Party's efforts to hold an independence vote.
Brexit will dominate the campaign, with May - who took office after David Cameron resigned following the European Union vote - seeking public backing for her plan to pull Britain out of Europe's single market. The main opposition Labour Party has 229 seats, but numerous party's MPs are estranged from their leader Jeremy Corbyn.
She has been accused by the SNP of "running scared" for refusing to take part in televised election debates, with at least one of the live events now confirmed to go ahead.
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