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Voters are going to the polls in the third general election in the UK in under five years and the fourth in under a decade.

Conservative Party leader Boris Johnson cast his ballot this morning, heading to a central London polling station with his dog Dilyn. Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn was greeted by a small group of supporters and gave a thumbs up to the cameras when he arrived to vote in north London.

While the Liberal Democrats' Jo Swinson and head of the SNP Nicola Sturgeon both voted in Glasgow. Today marks the end of a six-week campaign, with the nation now able to decide who should form the next government for up to five years. A total of 650 parliamentary constituencies are being contested in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, with polling stations open from 7am until 10pm.

 

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