Britain's Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn speaks at a meeting about social care in Birmingham central England Tuesday April 18, 2017.
Prime Minister Theresa May said on Wednesday an early election would strengthen her at the "most crucial point" in Britain's divorce talks with the European Union, as she prepared to ask parliament to approve a vote in just seven weeks' time.
The House of Commons backed the prime minister by a margin of 522 votes to 13, above the two-thirds majority needed, as Labour and the Lib Dems supported the move.
Theresa May had called an early vote for June the 8th, three years ahead of the year 2020 for the next general election.
She said that waiting until 2020 would mean the "most sensitive" part of the two-year Brexit negotiations would come during the run-up to an election.
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Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn set the tone for his campaign by criticising May for her "broken promises" on healthcare and education, and jabbed at her for not agreeing to take part in television debates before the election.
"What do we know that the leader of the Labour Party, the leader of the Liberal Democrats and the leader of the Scottish nationalists have in common?" she asked parliament. Its lawmakers abstained during Wednesday's vote.
"A Prime Minister who can not be trusted", said Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn.
Despite Corbyn's bravado, his party is demoralized and divided under his left-wing leadership and is expected to fare badly. In 2010 and 2015 the number of young and first time voters going to the polls was up on previous elections.
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May's Conservatives now hold 330 of the 650 seats in the House of Commons. Mr. Corbyn said that May couldn't expect voters to trust her after such a sudden row back. After the snap election was announced, she brought forward the decision and will now stand down this year instead.
Speaking about his decision not to fight the next election, Mr Johnson said it was "best for the party".
But Labour MP Gisela Stuart, one of the architects of Brexit as co-chair of Vote Leave, said she would be standing down after 20 years as MP for Birmingham Edgbaston.
This shift to a large majority will allow May to negotiate a hard Brexit deal that will pass even if some in her party vote against the final agreement. The leaders of the 27 remaining European Union countries will meet on April 29 to agree the bloc's negotiating position, which will then be translated into a legal text by the European Union commission in May.
A European Commission spokesman said the "real political" negotiations on Brexit will start after the election.
May ruled out participating in televised debates with other leaders.
But turnout would really have to fall massively to substantially impact on the legitimacy of May's new administration, and anyway any such deficit would doubtless be compensated for by her being able to claim the fabled "personal mandate" that all hitherto unelected prime ministers are said (with no good constitutional reason, mind you) to crave.
But ITV confirmed on Wednesday that it intends to hold a debate ahead of polling day, regardless.
Liberal Democrat leader Farron said that broadcasters should hold debates anyway, with an empty chair in May's place.
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