- Voting starts at 6 am GMT and closes at 10 pm.
- Conservatives have conceded that Labour appears headed for a win as opinion polls showed the centre-left in the lead.
- Voters say their main concerns are the economy and cost of living,
On the final election campaign day, Wednesday, July 3, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak urged voters to “save the UK” from a Labour Party majority by voting Conservative.
Sunak had earlier insisted that “the outcome of this election is not a foregone conclusion.” But on Wednesday, he said in a message to voters: “If the polls are to be believed, the country could wake up tomorrow to a Labour supermajority ready to wield their unchecked power.”
Meanwhile, Labour leader Keir Starmer called on voters to “imagine a Britain moving forward together with a Labour government.”
According to opinion polls, Starmer’s centre-left party is set for a win for the first time in 14 years.
An average of all polls completed during the week leading up to the election puts Labour on 39% — the party’s lowest rating since campaigning began, yet still 18 points ahead of the Conservatives on 21%.
Anti-immigration Reform UK is the third most popular, was a score of 16% on average in opinion polls, followed by the centrist Liberal Democrats on 11% and the Greens on 6%.
Also in the race are the pro-Scottish Independence Scottish National Party (SNP), the Welsh nationalist Plaid Cymru and Northern Ireland’s Democratic Unionist Party (DUP).
A total of 543 Parliament seats are in England and 57 in Scotland, with 32 in Wales and 18 in Northern Ireland.
This article first appeared on DW.
