The United Kingdom decides at the polls whether to turn its back on the Conservatives and start a new cycle with the Labour Party

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London.-Polls predict a landslide victory for left-wing candidate Keir Starmer, who is expected to face a rough landing if he takes power.

There are exams that are put off until the last minute. When a majority of British voters backed Boris Johnson in 2019, the mirage of an unfinished Brexit put on hold the urgent need to analyse the previous years of Conservative executives, who had been occupying Downing Street for almost a decade.

Thursday is the time to take stock. Nearly 50 million Britons are called to vote, and all polls suggest that the result will lead to the end of a cycle.

For more than a year now, Labour has consistently held an average lead of 20 percentage points over the Conservative Party in all polls.

Rishi Sunak decided to bring forward the elections six weeks ago, when the general consensus in the United Kingdom was that they would be held in the autumn. No one understood the reasons behind this announcement.

Inflation figures were beginning to improve, and the first months of the year showed an economy that, albeit timidly, was beginning to grow. The Prime Minister was aware that it was almost impossible to turn the polls around, and probably, some experts suggested, he used the element of surprise as a last resort, hoping to be able to take the initiative in the political debate from the first minute.

The British will deliver their verdict throughout the day on David Cameron’s years of austerity; Theresa May and Boris Johnson’s disastrous handling of Brexit; the Partygate scandal during the pandemic or the economic crisis caused during Liz Truss’s brief mandate.

Sunak has become the scapegoat for a general discontent with the party, although he will also atone for his own mistakes. Among them, an electoral campaign with erratic strategy and confusing discourse.El Pais.