a general election doesn't clear up anything unless you rely on submarining EU policy under all other election issues. you'd just take the whole discussion backwards to demands to have a referendum on EU membership.
this is not the view of a number of legal and constitutional experts, though others disagree. the original act to join the EEC cannot be repealed by the government alone, so would need a new act to do so. so the government might be able technically to invoke Article 50 but not allowed to...
key difference is that Brown didnt even have an internal party election, at least May has been selected from among the Conservative MPs. until Hague or Howard thats how any Conservative leader was selected.
i think we're rather tired of electioneering, and i believe the calls for a GE are...