MPs Overwhelmingly Vote For Snap General Election 2017 On June 8

A general election will take place on June 8, after MPs overwhelmingly voted in favour of giving Theresa May the authority to call a snap poll.
The prime minister shocked Westminster on Tuesday with the surprise announcement that she would seek an early election.
Under the Fixed-term Parliaments Act passed by the coalition government, May had to win the backing two thirds of MPs to bring the date of the 2020 election forward to this year.
The vote in parliament this afternoon was passed by 522 t