Theresa May accuses the EU of deliberately trying to undermine the General Election with cynically-timed threats over Brexit deal

THERESA MAY has accused the EU of deliberately trying to undermine the General Election with cynically-timed threats over our Brexit deal.

She returned to Downing Street after an audience with the Queen that formally marked the dissolution of Parliament ahead of June’s snap poll.

In a blistering attack on EU politicians on the steps of Downing Street she said: “There are some in Brussels who do not want these talks to succeed… Who do not want Britain to prosper.”

Kicking off our formal campaign period with a bang, she said that Britain’s “negotiating position has been misrepresented in the continental press” – after reports emerged in German newspapers over the weekend which made Brexit meetings look like a disaster.

She went on to slam them for issuing “threats against Britain” that came from both European politicians AND officials.

She slapped down the Brussels chiefs: “All of these acts have been deliberately timed to affect the result of the general election that will take place on 8 June.

“By contrast I made clear that in leaving the European Union, Britain means no harm.

“We continue to believe no deal better than a good deal.”

Parliament was officially dissolved at one minute past midnight – 25 working days before the vote.

Previously a Prime Minister had to ask the ruling monarch for their permission to dissolve Parliament.

But the 2011 Fixed-term Parliaments Act made that automatic.

Mrs May was driven the short distance from Number 10 to the Palace for the short audience with the Queen.

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