Final pleas, postal vote delays and dogs: British voters go to the polls

YouGov’s predictions, if correct, would give Labour an enormous majority of 212 seats. Composite: Guardian Design/Alamy

Under bright, blustery skies across most of the UK, British voters went to the polls on Thursday to elect their fourth prime minister in five years, with Keir Starmer’s Labour party heavily tipped to win an overwhelming parliamentary majority and bring to an end 14 years of Conservative-led government.

After weeks of campaigning after Rishi Sunak’s surprise gamble to call a July election, he and the other party leaders cast their votes across the country while making their final appeals to the electorate.