LONDON — Britons on Thursday voted in a general election widely expected to emphatically return the opposition Labour party to power and end nearly a decade-and-a-half of Conservative rule.
The West European country's first national ballot since Boris Johnson won a landslide for the Tories in 2019 follows Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's surprise call to hold it six months earlier than required.His gamble looks set to backfire spectacularly, with polls throughout the six-week campaign — and for the last two years — pointing to a heavy defeat for his right-wing party.
Polls suggest voters would punish the Tories after 14 years of often chaotic rule and could oust a string of government ministers, with talk that even Sunak himself might not be safe.That would make him the first sitting prime minister not to retain his seat in a general election.'I appreciate people have frustrations with our party,' he conceded on Wednesday. 'But tomorrow's vote... is a vote about the future.
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