05.09.2019 - 14:03 [ theGuardian.com ]

Senior Labour MPs urge Corbyn to resist PM‘s snap election call

Thornberry said she would prefer a later date than 15 October. “I personally think that we need to have a general election when we’re going to win it. I’ll wait a couple of weeks. If we can give them a little bit of extra rope … just let them be in power for a few more weeks then people can really see how bad they are,” she told Sky News.