Party leaders make last-minute appeals to electorate as Labour heavily tipped to win overwhelming majority
Under bright, blustery skies across most of the UK, British voters went to the polls on Thursday to elect their fourth prime minister in five years, with Keir Starmer’s Labour party heavily tipped to win an overwhelming parliamentary majority and bring to an end 14 years of Conservative-led government.to call a July election, he and the other party leaders cast their votes across the country while making their final appeals to the electorate.
The Game of Thrones actor Charles Dance was photographed queueing to vote at a polling station in Kentish Town in Starmer’s constituency of Holborn and St Pancras. Others posted photographs of, the business secretary, criticising Uttlesford district council in her North West Essex seat for leaving voters “potentially disenfranchised” after thousands of postal voters failed to receive their ballots.
Another voter, who gave her name only as Sarah, said she lived in Copenhagen but voted in Orpington, and applied for her vote on 25 May but only received it on 3 July, leaving her unable to vote.
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