Britain votes in ‘knife-edge’ general election as EU, Scotland questions loom
Britons voted today in a general election that could put their country’s membership of the European Union in question and raise the likelihood of independence for Scotland.
Britons voted today in a knife-edge general election that could put their country’s membership of the European Union in question and raise the likelihood of independence for Scotland.
Polls opened at 7am local time, with voters deciding between Prime Minister David Cameron’s centre-right Conservatives and Ed Miliband’s centre-left Labour in the closest vote in decades.
While the leaders of both main parties insist they can win a clear majority in the 650-seat House of Commons, they will almost certainly have to work with smaller parties to form a government.
Who will team up with whom is the big question.
“At the moment, I have no idea who will be prime minister a month from now,” Peter Kellner, president of polling company YouGov, wrote this week. “No pollster or political soothsayer can guarantee what will happen on Thursday.”
The last three polls released on Wednesday showed a dead heat between the two main parties, tied at 34 per cent, 35 per cent and 31.4 per cent.