{"id":53767,"date":"2024-06-27T15:07:23","date_gmt":"2024-06-27T05:07:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abnews.com.au\/?p=53767"},"modified":"2024-06-27T15:07:23","modified_gmt":"2024-06-27T05:07:23","slug":"uk-election-campaign-enters-final-straight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/?p=53767","title":{"rendered":"UK election campaign enters final straight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Britain goes to the polls next week in a general election that looks set to end 14 years of Conservative rule marked by economic turbulence, Brexit, political scandal and upheaval.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister Rishi Sunak&#8217;s right-wing Tories are expected to be dumped out of power, with discontent appearing widespread about their record in government and the state of the country.<\/p>\n<p>Sunak has been unable to narrow a gaping 20-point polling deficit to Keir Starmer&#8217;s centre-left Labour party, during a largely lacklustre election campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Some predictions put the Conservatives on course for the worst results in their 200-year history and forecast a record majority for Labour, last in office under Gordon Brown in 2010.<\/p>\n<p>One survey even suggested that Sunak could become the first sitting UK prime minister to lose his own seat.<\/p>\n<p>Voting begins at 7:00 am (0600 GMT) next Thursday and runs until 10:00 pm, with official results trickling in late into the night and early morning.<\/p>\n<p>Increasingly, the electorate is tipped to send a message to the Conservatives that their time is up, with some Tories already indicating that they can only mitigate the size of Labour&#8217;s win.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Britain goes to the polls next week in a general election that looks set to end 14 years of Conservative rule marked by economic turbulence, Brexit, political scandal and upheaval. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak&#8217;s right-wing Tories are expected to be dumped out of power, with discontent appearing widespread about their record in government and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":53771,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1836],"class_list":["post-53767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english","tag-uk-election-campaign-enters-final-straight"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53767\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}