Party leaders were on Wednesday making their final appeals to Londoners on on why they should back their party as a Cabinet minister said Labour was heading for an “extraordinary landside” victory on a scale probably never seen before in Britain.
The Tories all but conceded defeat some 24 hours before the polls opened from 7am to 10pm on Thursday. For the first time at a general election voters in Britain will need to show photographic ID before receiving a ballot paper at polling stations.