The Prime Minister issued the unusually brash statement while answering fiery questions, including one from a clearly angered member of the BBC Question Time Leaders Debate audience, who called into question her reasons for calling the election in the first place.

An unidentified man asked the PM: “Let’s face it, you called this election for your own political gain.”

May replied: “No I didn’t, Sir.”

Before adding: “I had the balls to call an election.”