Even Theresa May’s Own Lawmakers Had No Idea About the UK’s Snap Election

At 9.12am on Tuesday April 18, Britain’s political journalists received an email informing them Prime Minister Theresa May was going to make an announcement outside her official residence at 11.15am.

Unusually, there was to be no pre-briefing of this statement. May was preparing to drop a bombshell and the press corps was mystified. All they could do was speculate – typically on Twitter - why there could be such secrecy.