What is the timeline for an early general election?

Stripped of his parliamentary majority and facing pressure over Brexit, the PM knows an election is inevitable, writes Lizzy Buchan

Boris Johnson leaves 10 Downing Street (PA)

With Brexit talks on the brink of collapse and relations between political parties sinking to new lows, the talk in Westminster keeps returning to an early election.

Boris Johnson wants one but the opposition does not – or at least not yet – in a Brexit-skewed reversal of the normal order of things.

Stripped of his parliamentary majority and facing pressure on all sides over his Brexit plans, the prime minister has tried several times to secure a snap poll.