Opinion polls indicate that British people are yearning for a change in government after 14 years of Conservative party rule, but what are the key issues at stake in the UK general election on 4 July?
The campaign has been largely lacklustre with the opposition Labour party that is widely predicted to win determined not to take any risks.
Labour figures have made no secret of their concerns surrounding voter apathy, with dozens of seats closely contested and up for grabs. If he succeeds at his eighth attempt to get a seat in parliament as the MP for Clacton-on-Sea in east England, Farage - a Donald Trump ally - will have even more visibility.
It remains to be seen how many big names will save their seats and what direction the party, which was centrist under David Cameron and then drifted to the right, can take.Weakened Scottish nationalists? The left-wing party is still the target of a probe into its finances in which Sturgeon's husband was implicated and does not have a viable strategy to deliver independence, a fight that was revived by Brexit but blocked by London.
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