British people vote today in parliamentary elections. The centre-left Labor Party is expected to score a landslide victory in the vote, which will end 14 years of Conservative rule and hand its leader Keir Starmer the keys to the Prime Minister's office in Downing Street. 10 tomorrow morning, reported Reuters, quoted by BTA.
Britain's Conservative Party yesterday all but conceded an early election defeat to Keir Starmer's Labour, after warning a day before polls opened in Britain that the opposition party was on course for a record victory.
According to the latest forecasts of "YuGov" Labor is on course to win a majority of 212 seats, the largest of any party in recent UK history.
Both Starmer and Conservative Prime Minister Rishi Sunak kicked off the final day of campaigning yesterday before the polls open today by warning voters of dire economic consequences if the other party wins.
But faced with predictions of their worst result in the party's history, the Conservatives turned their attention to damage control, saying they would need to retain enough seats to be an effective opposition to a possible Labor government.
I fully accept that the polls at the moment mean that it looks like we are going to see the biggest Labor majority - the biggest majority this country has ever seen, Britain's Labor Secretary told the BBC last night and Mel Stride Pension Insurance.
According to him, Labor is clearly headed for an "extraordinary election victory,", the Associated Press added.
"That is why it is now important what kind of opposition we have, what opportunity for careful control of the government there will be in the parliament,", Stride added.
Asked about the minister's comments, Sunak told ITV: "We fight hard for every vote.
In the past few weeks, Rishi Sunak has traveled thousands of kilometers, but he has not been able to escape expectations that his time as Prime Minister of Great Britain is running out and is in its final hours, commented the Associated Press.
British voters will go to the polls today in a general election to assess Sunak's 20 months in office, as well as the four Conservative prime ministers before him. They are expected to do something they haven't done since 2005 - elect a Labor government.
During the hectic final two days of the election campaign, in which Sunak visited a food distribution warehouse, a supermarket, a farm and other locations, he insisted that "the outcome of this election is not a foregone conclusion". Sunak said yesterday that whatever the results, he has a "clear conscience".
But even a forceful last-minute speech at a Conservative rally on Tuesday night by former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who led the party to an impressive 2019 election victory, failed to lift spirits within party ranks.
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Labour has warned against taking the election result for granted, imploring supporters not to be reassured by opinion polls which even before the start of the campaign gave the party a solid double-digit lead.
Labour leader Keir Starmer spent the six-week campaign calling on voters to take a chance and vote for his centre-left party and for change.
Most people, including observers and politicians, expect that they will.