Britons vote in election expected to deliver Labour landslide

Voting ends at 10pm when an exit poll will give the first indication of the outcome

Nine-month-old Jack Russell, Stellar, leaves the polling station at Surbiton Hill Methodist Church in Surbiton, south west London, during voting for the 2024 General Election. Picture: PA

Britons were voting on Thursday in a parliamentary election that is expected to bring Keir Starmer's Labour Party to power, sweeping away Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's Conservatives after 14 often turbulent years.

Opinion polls put Starmer's centre-left party on course for a landslide victory but also suggest many voters simply want change after a period of infighting and turmoil under the Conservatives that led to five prime ministers in eight years.