Labour tipped to oust Tories at UK election

Britain looks likely to see a change of government this week, swinging leftwards back to the center ground and the Labour party after 14 years of right-wing Conservative rule.

Voters will elect a new parliament from 7 a.m. today, with predictions of a landslide Labour win that would make Keir Starmer prime minister, 100 years after Ramsay MacDonald became the party's first.

"There is more chance of lightning striking twice in the same place than Rishi Sunak remaining as prime minister," Britain's pre-eminent political polling expert John Curtice told the BBC on July 2.

Starmer and Conservative leader Sunak have been crisscrossing the country in the final days of a largely lackluster campaign to try to win over wavering voters.

Many people appear to have long made up their minds, however, with focus on little else other than whether Labour's consistent 20-point lead in the polls for the last two years will translate into a record majority.

Prime Minister Sunak on July 2 insisted that he is "fighting for every vote till the last moment of the campaign," drawing hope from England's last-gasp win in the European football championships.

"It's not over until it's over," Sunak wrote on social media on June 30 night after England's footballers scored a stoppage-time equalizer against Slovakia and then an extra time winner.

Starmer, a staunch Arsenal fan who still plays five-a-side football at 61, is also calling on his team to play until the final whistle, with fears that talk of a Labour "supermajority" could hit turn-out.

Sunak and the Tories, another name for the Conservatives, have been going all out to play upon people's fears, warning of tax rises and weaker national security if they are voted out, in what...