As polling stations opened across the country at 7am this morning, the polls were predicting a ‘landslide’ victory for the Labour party, with leader Sir Keir Starmer expected to become the new Prime Minister and form a government.
A Nursery World snap Twitter/X poll (see below) last month also suggested Labour is the most popular among the sector with 56 per cent of the 52 people that took part voting for the party.
On the day of the election, single parent charity Gingerbread is encouraging parents to take photos of them and their children outside polling stations, sharing them on social media under #KidsAtPollingStations
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