IN FORCING a snap general election, Theresa May has ridden a coach and horses through the Fixed Term Parliament Act of 2011, which was designed to stop giving incumbent governments an unfair advantage through their control of the date of a general election.

Not content with their near-monopoly of Britain’s print media and the bias of the BBC (with the latter recently confirmed by independent academic researchers), the Tories have now gerrymandered the election timetable as well.

On the day that MPs voted in Parliament on May’s pusch, a friend of mine in Richmond received a Tory leaflet through her letter-box.

So the Tories have clearly been planning this campaign for months, and the other parties have virtually no notice of it at all.

This is flagrantly unfair.

Dr Richard House

Stroud