Here are the reasons why there must be and cannot be a general election. First, the drivers of a general election:
1) Tomorrow, MPs will start the process of identifying, via so-called indicative votes, a route through the Brexit mess that a majority of them can back.
2) This process is likely to continue next Monday, when a range of Brexit or no-Brexit options should be whittled down to one.
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