May to seek snap election for 8 June

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3. What she said before about not trying to call for an early election

Just before she assumed the role of prime minister she said would be no early election under her leadership . On 30 June in the speech that launched her bid she explicitly ruled it out.

Then in her first major interview after taking office she told the Andrew Marr Show last September that the UK needed a period of stability after the shock Brexit vote.

She said: “I’m not going to be calling a snap election. I’ve been very clear that I think we need that period of time, that stability, to be able to deal with the issues that the country is facing and have that election in 2020.”

In her Christmas message in 2016 May also strongly hinted that an early election was not the agenda by calling for unity.

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