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12 December 2019Unlike the previous 2017 elections, the British are going to vote in large numbers in what has been called a determined vote for the country's fate. The national media, including Guardian and Daily Mail, record rows of hundreds of voters in front of numerous seats in London as well as in the constituency of Esher and Walton, in Surrey. In the London neighborhood of Wandsworth, people said they had waited up to 45 minutes to vote, when in the previous five elections they had taken less than five minutes in the morning peak hour.

Experts say that the crowd that is registering in some of the 50,000 polling stations scattered around the country suggests that the turnout in a consultation marked by Brexit and the future of the public health system could be the highest since the peaks reached in the 1950s and in the early 1960s, with the challenge between Clement Atlee and Winston Churchill for the prime minister's chair.

Those of today are the first general elections that take place in December from 1923 and the weather factor of this season, with rain and sleet, was a cause for concern for abstention.

Exit polls are expected immediately after the polls close, at 11pm Italian time. The first results will start coming out between 3 and 5 am in Italy. For 7 o'clock you should know who the new prime minister is.