Conservatives' big lead, Labour exodus and Farage favours Europe

What's been happening in the early days of the British election campaign?

Theresa May launches the Conservative Party campaign. Pic: Getty

As British prime minister Theresa May shocked the media by announcing an early general election, how have the early skirmishes gone?

POLL POSITIONS

The first opinion poll of the campaign appears out to bear out widespread expectations that the only doubt about the outcome will be the margin of the Conservative victory.

A YouGov poll for the The Times newspaper in London gave May’s party 48 per cent of the vote, with Labour ...