But she also has an opportunity if she can win a bigger majority to put the really hardline Tory "Brexiteers" back in their box.
Under that law, general elections are supposed to be held on a regular five-year schedule, with the next vote due in 2020. She said the political divisions "risk our ability to make a success of Brexit". It now stands at just 17, but recent polls suggest the Conservatives could secure a landslide victory in June, with a parliamentary majority as high as 68.
Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, the leader of the pro-independence Scottish National Party which has 54 of 59 Scottish seats in the Commons, said May was making a "huge political miscalculation".
However, her decision to quit the EU's barrier-free single market, confirmed when she launched the two-year Brexit countdown last month, saw that give way to a determination to close ranks across the bloc and drive a hard bargain with London to discourage imitators.
The other 27 European Union leaders are set to hold a summit on April 29 where they will agree on a strategy for negotiating Britain's expected departure in 2019.
European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker spoke over the phone with United Kingdom prime minister Theresa May on Tuesday, on Brexit negotiations logistics.
The British pound has fallen amid mounting speculation that Prime Minister Theresa May is planning to call an early general election.
May's office says she will speak at 11:15 a.m. (1015GMT) Tuesday, after the weekly meeting of her Cabinet.
Prime Minister Theresa May has said she is planning to call a general election for Thursday, June 8.
May formally notified the European Union on March 29 of Britain's intention to leave, beginning a two-year negotiating period to settle divorce terms and agree a new trading relationship.
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"When it came to triggering Article 50 it became clear the extent to which the opposition parties in Westminster were intent on what I describe as frustrating the Brexit process".
However the Liberal Democrats are hopeful of recovering some of the ground they lost in their 2015 election wipeout.
PARKER: Well, it all comes down to Brexit, I think.
After debating the motion put forward by May in Parliament, 522 of the 650 sitting MPs threw their support behind the early election, well and truly passing the threshold of two-thirds needed to approve the plan.
That is highly likely to happen on Wednesday. He said Labour would fight the election promising a fairer society and economy, and "a Brexit that works for all".
The Labour leader pointed to what he said was the Conservative record of broken manifesto pledges since coming to power in 2015.
Scotland voted decisively in favour of staying in the European Union on June 23, with 62% for Remain, but the United Kingdom narrowly voted to leave as a whole.
She said: "Politics and democracy are about of course people having different opinions, different views".
May's Conservative Party holds a slim majority in parliament's lower House of Commons and May is banking on gaining a greater share of the seats to make Brexit a smoother transition for her government.
The Scottish National Party now holds 54 of Scotland's 59 seats in the British Parliament, making it the third-largest party there.
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