Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn threw down the gauntlet to the Prime Minister to agree to televised debates, which he said were "what democracy needs and what the British people deserve".
With the Prime Minister needing the support of 434 MPs - two thirds of all seats in the House of Commons - some 522 voted for the early election, with just 13 against.
"That's what I believe in doing, that's what I'm going to be doing around this campaign".
Mr Corbyn said the Prime Minister's surprise decision to call an election on June 8, nearly three years earlier than the next scheduled ballot, would give the people the chance to vote for a government that will put the "majority first".
"If you look at the timetable 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", May told the BBC.
"That would be in nobody's interest", May said. Its lawmakers abstained during Wednesday's vote.
"People in the Henley constituency voted decisively to remain in the European Union and certainly did not vote for the extreme form of Brexit that Theresa May has imposed on us after being backed by Labour".
Despite Corbyn's bravado, his party is demoralized and divided under his left-wing leadership and is expected to fare badly.
Mrs May's extraordinary move came after national polls suggested the Conservatives had a 21-point advantage over Labour - the biggest lead for any party in government since 1983.
Liberal Democrat leader Tim Farron said that, for May, calling the election is "the political equivalent of taking candy from a baby".
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Economist Dean Turner and strategist Geoffrey Yu from UBS say the election will have a limited economic impact and believe sterling will stage a modest recovery over the next 12 months.
The Scottish National Party now holds 54 of Scotland's 59 seats in the British Parliament, making it the third-largest party there.
The strongly pro-EU Liberal Democrats have seen thousands of new members join since the referendum.
On Tuesday, May made a unexpected announcement that she would seek a "snap" election less than halfway through her government's five-year term, with the goal of gaining a stronger mandate for Britain's withdrawal from the European Union.
The European Union dismissed an effort by the U.K.to keep the bloc's banking and drugs regulators in London after Brexit, declaring Britain will have "no say" in the agencies' new locations. "It's about ... getting the right deal from Europe".
But they have welcomed the election too, which will be a test of Brexit.
However, yesterday she said she had a "change of heart" in order to bring unity within the political corridors of Britain.
It's clear that the debates must go ahead anyway - that's why I asked the other major party leaders if they're up for "empty chairing" Theresa May and exposing her cowardice. TV debates don't have a long history in British politics, but were a feature of the last two elections, in 2010 and 2015. "You have a moral duty to hold these debates", he said.
The Prime Minister said Labour's economic policies would mean it is "ordinary working people who pay the price".
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