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<\/div>London – Tens of thousands of polling stations were set to open at 7:00 am on Thursday as British voters prepare to choose members of parliament in a snap election called by Conservative Prime Minister Boris Johnson to seek a majority and “get Brexit done.”<\/p>\n
“Vote one-nation Conservative party, get Brexit done [and] move our country forward,” Johnson said in a video message to voters on the eve of the “most important election in modern memory.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
He campaigned on promises to withdraw Britain from the European Union on January 31 and cut taxes while funding improvements to health, education, police and rail services.<\/p>\n
The deal he negotiated with Brussels is “oven-ready… to get Brexit done,” if a Conservative majority can push it through a new parliament, Johnson said at a campaign event on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
Johnson, 55, has also pledged to limit immigration and negotiate liberal post-Brexit trade deals with the United States and other non-EU nations.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
“We’re a great country and we can be greater still,” he said in another campaign message on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
The main opposition Labour party’s left-wing leader Jeremy Corbyn offered a radical “manifesto of hope,” promising to renationalize key industries, invest massively in infrastructure and provide free broadband services.<\/p>\n
Corbyn, 70, promised that Labour would negotiate an improved Brexit deal to pit against remaining in the EU in a second Brexit referendum, and would then “carry out” whatever the majority decided.<\/p>\n
He urged voters to save the national health service, which has been subject to cuts and privatization in recent years.<\/p>\n
“We can rewrite the economy for the many, not the few,” Corbyn said in a campaign speech. “It’s time for real change.”<\/p>\n
About two-thirds of eligible voters, or more than 30 million people, are expected to take part in the election.<\/p>\n
Most analysts believe a comfortable parliamentary majority for the Conservatives is the most likely outcome under Britain’s constituency-based, first-past-the-post system.<\/p>\n
A key opinion poll late Tuesday also suggested the Conservatives will win a majority of several dozen seats in parliament.<\/p>\n
Johnson’s predecessor, Theresa May, lost the party’s majority after calling a disastrous snap election in June 2017.<\/p>\n
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The YouGov poll predicted the Conservatives will win about 43 per cent of votes on Thursday, with Labour on 34 per cent and the anti-Brexit Liberal Democrats on 12 per cent.<\/p>\n
That would give Johnson a parliamentary majority of 28 seats, according to the pollster’s seat-by-seat analysis.<\/p>\n
Leading political analysts have warned, however, that a hung parliament remains possible.<\/p>\n
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Much could depend on the results in several dozen key marginals. Tactical voting could also play a part in a small number of seats where the anti-Brexit Liberal Democrats are competing for votes with Labour, or where veteran eurosceptic Nigel Farage’s Brexit Party are vying with the Conservatives.<\/p>\n
If the election does, however, lead to a hung parliament, Labour could win enough seats to form a minority government with support from the smaller Scottish National Party (SNP) and possibly the Liberal Democrats.<\/p>\n
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