Conservatives’ Theresa May this morning cast her ballot in the General Election she hopes will return her to No 10 with a bigger majority.
The Prime Minister arrived at the polling station in her constituency in Maidenhead shortly after 9am to vote, with her husband Philip by her side.
While Labour’s Jeremy Corbyn gave a thumbs up to reporters as he arrived to cast his ballot in Islington, north London.
It comes as the final opinions polls have given the Conservatives a last-minute boost –with most suggesting May will be returned to No 10 with a bigger majority.
The surveys – all carried out before polling stations opened at 7am this morning – vary but point towards a final hardening of support for the Conservatives.
The findings come after the two leaders yesterday crisscrossed in a final effort to drum up support for today’s vote.
May last night urged voters to “reignite the British spirit” and back her to steer Britain through Brexit.
A YouGov poll for The Times put the Tory (Conservatives) lead on seven points, with the Conservatives on 42 percent and Labour on 35 percent – down three points from their last survey.
In a post on its website explaining the findings, YouGov said it expects the Tories, to be “returned with an increased majority” on Friday.
It added: “The Conservatives still look set to secure a solid lead in votes and an overall majority. The question is how large.”
It also predicts that the Tories will snatch a “good handful” of seats from the SNP in Scotland – ending their decades of electoral decline north of the border.
Meanwhile, an ICM poll for the Guardian gave the Tories a bigger, 12-point lead – which if true would translate into a very healthy majority of 96 seats.
It has the Conservatives on 46 percent, up one point compared to their poll on Monday, while Labour is unchanged on 34 percent.
A ComRes poll for The Independent gave the Tories a 10-point lead over Labour, with Theresa May’s party on 44 percent and Labour on 34 percent.
But the polls have varied wildly throughout the election campaign, and one survey has Labour and the Tories neck and neck.
Survation’s final pre-election survey put the Tories on 41.3 percent with Labour marginally behind on 40.4 percent.
May shocked the the nation when she called the snap election in a surprise speech on the steps of no 10 in April.
She has described the election as the most important in her lifetime and stressed that only she can be trusted to stand up to Brussels and deliver Brexit.
But the campaign has been overshadowed by the terror attacks in Manchester and London.
Corbyn has claimed that he has changed the face of British politics by putting forward a tax and spend manifesto, which experts said is the most left-wing in the party’s history.
May and her husband, Philip, after casting her vote, on Thursday morning 