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.