As voters heading to polling stations across the UK, Prime Time's Fran McNulty has been speaking to candidates and voters from Edinburgh to London about the key election issues
Polling stations are open across the United Kingdom as voters prepare to cast their ballots in a general election for the first time since December 2019.
Labour will romp home, the Liberal Democrats could win more seats than the Conservative Party and Nigel Farage seems pretty confident his Reform UK party will take several seats in the House of Commons.Reform UK’s leader Nigel Farage is beaming when we catch up outside an amusement arcade in his stronghold of Clacton, a jaded seaside town in Essex in England’s south east.
"There is a real appetite for change and just as you are having a big debate in Ireland, our population's risen by ten million since the year 2000. People can't get GP appointments. Kids can't get houses. Rents take up over half the income now of many working people," Mr Farage said. Much of those votes are expected to come from voters who would traditionally vote along conservative lines.
Another patron says he’s voted for the Conservative Party his entire life, but he’ll be backing Reform UK on Friday because their leader"says things the public wants to hear."Mark Logan, its outgoing MP in the Bolton North East constituency, defected to Labour and a popular local Tory councillor Adele Warren, who is standing for parliament in his place, considers herself to be the"underdog" in her bid for election.
"But I'm a common person and I'm not . And I think that's why it's important that you have the right people in the right places at the right times, doing the right job." "Reform is a real threat, and the polling suggests they could get the same vote share as the Conservatives. They won't get the same seat share because our electoral system is very different from the Irish one, but they could get the same vote share. In which case the Conservatives suffer from that something they've never faced," Professor Whitely said.
Like Nigel Farage and Reform UK, Duncan Alexander also expects the Labour Party to benefit from voters defecting from the Conservative Party. "My sense in this election is that economics is making a comeback. And that's partly why the Labour Party is in such a strong position as we head to the polls," he said.
This 2024 general election has been characterised as a digital election. Big data is driving the campaigns according to Cllr Muslin.
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