While Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn has welcomed Theresa May's call for an early election on 8 June, 2017 some of his Labour colleagues are not impressed.
Rob Flello, a Christian and Labour MP for Stoke on Trent told Premier: "What it shows is that we've got a Prime Minister who says one thing and does another, time and time again and this is just the latest example.
"She's got article 50 through, which I voted for. There are a whole series of things that she is getting her way on, this is just an extremely expensive vanity project for her.
May's announcement today of a snap general election comes after she repeatedly denied that she would call one. Explaining her change of heart for an early election, May said: "I have concluded the only way to guarantee certainty and security for years ahead is to hold this election."
The Prime Minister needs a two-thirds majority under the Fixed Term Parliament Act 2011 in order to trigger an election before 2020, when the next one is scheduled. She will need Labour's support to do so.
Jonathan Reynolds, a Christian and MP for Stalybridge and Hyde told Premier that he thought the Prime Minister's announcement was "a shamelessly partisan statement".
He said: "It was in no sense about the national interest. It's about Theresa May's and the Conservative party's interests but she is a politician and that's her right to do so.
"But she wasn't honest in what she portrayed the political situation in the country to be. There's not game playing going on except in so much as she said there's not going to be an election and now there is one."
There will be a vote in the House of Commons on Wednesday to approve the election plan to bring forward the next scheduled election date.