BREAKING NEWS: Britain to go to the polls on June 8 as Theresa May calls snap General Election on steps on Downing Street

Theresa May has announced a snap general election will be held on from the steps of No 10 after meeting her Cabinet this morning

Theresa May has announced a snap general election for June 8 to give Britain the 'strong and stable leadership' needed to deliver Brexit.
Mrs May said weakness in Westminster would weaken her hand in the Brexit negotiations - knowing an election against Jeremy Corbyn could hand her a huge Commons majority. In her shock announcement, she blasted opposition parties for trying to frustrate Brexit and said she was not prepared to let them 'endanger the security of millions of working people'.

Speaking on the steps of No 10, Mrs May said Britain needed strong leadership and insisted an early poll was the 'right approach' and in the 'national interest'.

She said: 'We need a general election and we need it now.'