AFP, London :
Angry voters rounded on British Prime Minister Theresa May in a live television grilling on Friday, just six days before the general election and at the end of a tough week for her campaign.
The Conservative leader was accused of “broken promises” for calling an early election for June 8 after she had repeatedly said she would not, and for a U-turn on a key manifesto pledge on elderly social care.
“I could have stayed on doing that job for another couple of years and not called an election. I had the balls to call an election,” May told the BBC audience in York, northern England.
The prime minister called the election three years early, warning that opposition parties threatened to derail her plans to take Britain out of the European Union following last year’s referendum vote.
But she has been accused of seeking to take advantage of her party’s 20-point poll lead over the opposition Labour party-which has now dwindled to the low single figures. May repeated her mantra that “the only poll that matters is the one that takes place on polling day”.
She added: “My party is the only party that is going to respect the will of the British people, get on with the job and deliver a successful Brexit.”
Angry voters rounded on British Prime Minister Theresa May in a live television grilling on Friday, just six days before the general election and at the end of a tough week for her campaign.
The Conservative leader was accused of “broken promises” for calling an early election for June 8 after she had repeatedly said she would not, and for a U-turn on a key manifesto pledge on elderly social care.
“I could have stayed on doing that job for another couple of years and not called an election. I had the balls to call an election,” May told the BBC audience in York, northern England.
The prime minister called the election three years early, warning that opposition parties threatened to derail her plans to take Britain out of the European Union following last year’s referendum vote.
But she has been accused of seeking to take advantage of her party’s 20-point poll lead over the opposition Labour party-which has now dwindled to the low single figures. May repeated her mantra that “the only poll that matters is the one that takes place on polling day”.
She added: “My party is the only party that is going to respect the will of the British people, get on with the job and deliver a successful Brexit.”
