Liverpool will go to the polls again after the Prime Minister called a snap General Election.
Theresa May made the announcement outside Downing Street on Tuesday morning with June 8 set as the provisional date for the voting process.
The city’s Parliamentary elections will come just four weeks after the Liverpool City Region has voted in its new Metro Mayor, with eight candidates standing for the role.
Mrs May’s decision to call the election flies in the face of repeated denials from Number 10 that any elections would not be called until 2020 at the earliest.
She said: “I have just chaired a meeting of the Cabinet, where we agreed that the Government should call a general election, to be held on June 8.
“I want to explain the reasons for that decision, what will happen next and the choice facing the British people when you come to vote in this election.
“Britain is leaving the European Union and there can be no turning back.
“And as we look to the future, the Government has the right plan for negotiating our new relationship with Europe.
“We want a deep and special partnership between a strong and successful European Union and a United Kingdom that is free to chart its own way in the world.
“That means we will regain control of our own money, our own laws and our own borders and we will be free to strike trade deals with old friends and new partners all around the world.
“This is the right approach, and it is in the national interest. But the other political parties oppose it.”
The Conservative government swept to power in the 2015 election under David Cameron’s leadership before he stood down in the wake of the EU referendum.
Labour held onto its six constituencies in the Merseyside and also claimed Wirral West from the Conservatives’ Esther McVey, who had won the seat in 2010.