Keir Starmer has today written to the cabinet secretary to begin the access talks process. The discussions are a necessary step so that an opposition party can step immediately into government if they win an election.
An Institute for Government study of the practice showed that in elections since 1992, access talks began anywhere from 16 months before the election to a matter of weeks. In 2017, they were authorised on the day Theresa May called the election, leaving Labour just 51 days to speak to officials.
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