Prime Minister of the UK - Theresa May has called a snap election to be held on June 8, 2017.
The new parliament should be elected on 2020.
The shock announcement comes nearly one month after the UK triggered Article 50 to leave the European Union.
As Theressa May said she has “recently and reluctantly” come to the decision that an election is “in the national interest, because it is the best way to " avoid political instability."