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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Eleni Courea and Aletha Adu

Polling stations open across UK for general election

Blurred people walking past a in-focus ‘polling station’ sign.
This general election will be the first to take place in July since 1945. Photograph: Frank Augstein/AP

Keir Starmer, Rishi Sunak and Ed Davey have cast their ballots as voters across the UK head to the polls in a general election that is expected to produce the first Labour government in 14 years.

The Labour leader and his wife, Victoria, appeared to have a spring in their step, smiling, as they made the short journey on foot from their home to vote in the Holborn and St Pancras constituency.

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