Britain will go to the polls on Thursday with Sir Keir Starmer predicted to win power in a historic Labour landslide, leaving Rishi Sunak’s Conservative party facing one of the worst defeats in its history.
A series of opinion polls suggested Starmer was on course to win a House of Commons majority of more than 200 — beating Sir Tony Blair’s 179 majority in 1997 — and giving Labour its first general election victory since 2005.
Polling stations open at 7am and close at 10pm — although anyone still queueing will be able to vote — by which point the scale of Sunak’s expected defeat will become clear. Polls suggest the Tories could win fewer seats than the 156 they won in 1906, their worst result.