May's real reason for calling election? To show EU that Brexit really means Brexit | Patrick Wintour

Of the many reasons Theresa May supplied for calling a general election, the Conservative leader provided one particularly important one.A Brexit mandate, delivering a large Conservative Commons majority, would sweep away the last hope that that the UK’s referendum decision last June could be reversed.On this basis, a resounding majority for May would remove any motive for the EU negotiators to make the UK’s Brexit terms as unpalatable as possible in the belief that it would help UK