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Hung Parliaments: What you need to know

No general election in 36 years has returned a House of Commons without a single party majority. However, recent opinion polls suggest that a hung parliament is a possible result of the forthcoming election. This has been reported quite negatively and has generated predictions that unstable and ineffective government would be the result.

However, as argued in a recent report by the Institute for Government and Constitution Unit, this need not be the case. Indeed, minority or coalition government can even have advantages, though ministers, the opposition, the civil service and the media would all have to adapt their behaviour to make it work.

One key message from our report, and from the Institute's sister report on government transitions, is that preparation and planning by all these groups is key. We offer this brief guide to what the implications of a hung parliament would be.

via instituteforgovernment.org.uk

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