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Turkish referendum: Erdogan
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A potential shake-up of the UK
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A weekly political newsletter for pragmatic progressives
Issue #2, 22 nd April 2017
Theresa May announces
a snap general election
The shock announcement from the
Prime Minister this week, means on
June 8 th the public will go back to the
polls to vote for a new government
By Matthew Clifton
The last few years have seen a general
election, an EU referendum, Labour
and UKIP have both had two leader-
ship elections, the latter having 3 dif-
ferent leaders; Diane James (who has
now quit the party), Paul Nuttall
(current leader) and Nigel Farage
(leader until after 2015 general elec-
tion and interim leader in-between
James and Nuttall). The Green party
have the first joint leadership in a ma-
jor UK political party. But on 18 th April,
Welcome to the second issue of the weekly news-
letter from Naturally Unnatural. Last week was a
fairly quiet political week, in terms of UK domestic
policy. However, this week started with a bang on
Tuesday, the day parliament resumed after Easter.
There was an announcement by Downing Street
that Theresa May was to address the public on the
steps at 11.15am., there was no information and
journalists hadn’t been briefed before hand and
when the time arrived it confirmed swirling ru-
mours that Theresa May would seek a snap gen-
eral election. The next day it was duly voted
through by MPs. This issue and others until June
8th will heavily focus on the election. Bringing you
as much information for an informed voted.
All articles are original and researched and belong to
Naturally Unnatural Ltd.
Theresa May has called for a general
election.
The day after on 19 th April, Theresa May
presented the vote to parliament to offi-
cially call an early general election, un-
der the Fixed-term Parliaments Act 2011
the vote required a two-thirds majority.
Parliament duly delivered with 522 Ayes
and 13 Noes.
May’s announcement
think it was necessary to hold a general
election, and that the 52-48 EU referen-
dum split was enough of a mandate to
carry out her version of Brexit. Meaning
speculation was rife as to why so soon
after Article 50 Theresa May carried out a
U-turn on this stance? With allegations of
electoral fraud hanging over them and
Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour performing
badly in the opinion polls, this is perhaps
seen an opportunity to wash over those
and increase her majority in parliament.
The surprise of the announcement came
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after months of May stating that she didn’t
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