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Britain votes: Poll puts Tories in lead as local elections underway

Ballot: Scotland’s first minister Nicola Sturgeon arrives to vote in local elections at a polling station in Glasgow today (Reuters)

By: Rithika Siddhartha

VOTERS across Britain are making their way to polling booths to choose thousands of new local councillors and eight mayors today (4). Nearly 5,000 local authority seats are being contested across England, Scotland and Wales, along with eight metropolitan mayoralties. Polling stations opened at 7 am and will close at 10pm, with results due tomorrow (5). They could be an indicator of the General Election next month, but experts have cautioned that council elections are normally fought on local issues, and are often used to punish the sitting government. Prime minister Theresa May’s Conservative Party holds a 19-point lead over…

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