British Prime Minister Theresa May recently called for snap elections in an effort to avoid “possible criminal prosecutions,” says Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon.
She made the comments Monday by departing from her published script while at the Scottish TUC conference in Aviemore, a town in the Scottish Highlands.
May recently called for a snap election to be held in June in order to bolster her position before going into two years of negotiations with the European Union about Britain’s departure from the bloc.
Sturgeon asserted that May’s surprise move was aimed at strengthening her party, silencing the dissent and avoiding prosecution on breaches of election spending limits by up to 20 Tory MPs, which is under investigation by the Crown Prosecution Service (CSP).
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