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The government has grown fed up with having a wafer-thin majority, which is meaning that they are dependent on the...less compliant members of the party to pass things. And so we get to have an election.

Under the Fixed Term Parliaments Act the government can't just call an election.

So, May needs to either:
1) No Confidence herself. And then wait 14 days. Easy to do, even if it looks a bit silly.
2) Get Labour to go along with the snap election. Which they'd be stupid to do, but will probably do so anyway, considering recent behaviour.
2) Repeal the Fixed Term Parliaments Act. Would probably take a while, particularly if the Lords decide to bounce it around.

I wonder which one she'll go for. By what's been said so far, it looks like (2), but it's hard to tell.

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calimac

I don't disagree with anything you say in this comment. I suspect it's mostly right (although most seats the LDs gain - and it won't be as many as they hope - will probably be Tory seats; their winning at the expense of Labour will be a net movement rather than in specific seats.) I just don't think that fear of widespread accusations of cowardice is a Labour motive for supporting the election motion, nor that such widespread accusations would happen if they'd opposed it.

However, the fact that, under FTP, they no longer just have the option of expressing their opinion, but actually have to vote on it, may make a difference.