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         Cameron, Miliband Locked in Too-Close-to-Call British Election

   by VOA News

   British voters head to the polls Thursday for a parliamentary election
   that opinion polls show is too close to predict.

   Results of a national survey Wednesday showed Prime Minister David
   Cameron's Conservative party with support from 33 percent of British
   voters. Ed Milliband's main opposition Labor party was just one point
   behind.

   The polling suggests that the election results could force either of
   Britain's two main political parties to form a new coalition government
   with any of several parties collecting a smaller share of seats in the
   650-member House of Commons.

   Analysts are calling the election Britain's most unpredictable and
   consequential in a generation.

   Cameron has promised if re-elected to hold a referendum on whether
   Britain should stay in the 28-nation European Union. The question of
   Scottish independence from Britain remains as a key issue. Scottish
   nationalists lost a plebiscite last year, but could emerge with the
   third biggest bloc of seats in Thursday's voting and form a coalition
   with the Labor party.

   Cameron, Britain's leader since 2010, and Miliband have both cast the
   election as a referendum on the country's economy, the world's fifth
   largest.

   ''People really want to think carefully before casting their vote,"
   Cameron said at a campaign stop at a farm, "but I believe when the
   crunch comes, when they ask themselves the question: Do I trust Ed
   Miliband with the economy or do I want to stick with a plan and a team
   that's turning the country round?  I think we can do very well on
   Thursday and cross that line."

   Miliband has attempted to characterize Cameron's Tories as the party of
   the wealthy.

   "This is the clearest choice that has been put before the British
   people for a generation," Miliband said, "between a Tory government
   that works only for the privileged few or a Labor government that will
   put working families first."

   More than 45 million people are eligible to vote at 50,000 polling
   stations set up throughout Britain.
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