On 18 April 2017 Theresa May announced, outside Downing Street, that she would be calling a general election for 8 June. The ability to call an early election was supposed to have been ended by the Fixed-term Parliaments Act 2011, but it appears to have failed at its first test. Synoptic assessment requires you to work across different parts of the specification and to show your accumulated knowledge and understanding of a topic or subject area. To help with your learning and to demonstrate your synoptic skills, this centre spread shows how the calling of the general election can be used to make links across a variety of topics.
The fact that May had to seek parliamentary approval for calling a general election shows that a limit has been imposed on the prime minister, meaning some degree of power has been lost to Parliament.
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