Cooper said: "The Prime Minister said yesterday that she was calling a General Election because Parliament was blocking Brexit".
She is seeking to increase her slim majority of 17 in the 650-seat Commons before the battles begin with the European Union over Britain's exit bill and future trade and immigration ties.
May has repeatedly said since becoming PM in July that she would not hold an early election. A YouGov poll published in this week's Sunday Times saw its support reach 44%, giving the party a comfortable 21-point lead over Labour's 23% standing.
"Over the last seven years the Tories have broken every promise on living standards, the deficit, debt, the National Health Service and schools funding".
On the back of Britain's Brexit referendum and the election of Donald Trump as United States president, it will be a decision which will be of huge interest internationally.
The Prime Minister easily cleared the hurdle needed under the Fixed Term Parliament Act to bring the poll forward from the scheduled date of 2020.
"A general election will provide the country with five years of strong and stable leadership to see us through the negotiations and ensure we are able to go on to make a success as a result, and that is crucial".
The prime minister shocked Westminster on Tuesday with the surprise announcement that she would seek an early election.
She says she's facing too much "game-playing" from the opposition.
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Of the 13 MPs who voted against, nine were from Labour, one was from Northern Ireland's Social Democratic and Labour Party and three were independents.
"A stronger economy, an economy with the deficit almost two-thirds down, with 30 million people with a tax cut, four million people taken out of income tax altogether, record levels of employment and £1,250 more a year for pensioners".
The Liberal Democrats are targeting Remain-voting Labour seats in the North of England where voters feel "betrayed by Jeremy Corbyn's support for a divisive hard Brexit", Mr Farron said.
A victory would give May a powerful mandate extending until 2022, long enough to cover the Brexit negotiations plus a possible transition period into new trading arrangements with the European Union - a prospect that has strengthened the pound.
Williams, who is chairman of Christian Aid, said cutting the budget, as the Conservatives are expecting to pledge in their manifesto, would signal a turn away from the world's poorest in favour of "Little Britain".
Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon described the election call as "a huge political miscalculation by the Prime Minister" which would allow the SNP to reinforce its democratic mandate to stage a second referendum on independence.
"If you want to keep Britain in the Single Market".
The move is expected to lead to a dissolution of the British parliament on May 3, after which a 25-day election campaign would ensue ahead of the election.
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