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Britain's 'Lesser of Two Evil' Election May Go Down to Wire

Jamie Dettmer

   LONDON - Britons vote next Thursday in the country's third general
   election in under four years, with pollsters and politicians warning it
   isn't going to be easy to forecast the outcome.

   As the clock ticks toward the most consequential vote in a generation,
   the battle for Downing Street appears to be coming down once again to
   the two main storied parties Labor and the Conservatives, say analysts,
   who note that voters have never held the leaders of either group in
   such high disdain as they do now.

   The fracturing of the two dominant parties, the revival of the
   country's perennial third party, the Liberal Democrats, as well as the
   formation of a new anti-European Union party and the scrambling of
   traditional party allegiances, was adding too many variables for
   accurate prediction, the analysts cautioned, made more complicated by
   the country's first past-the-post-voting system. This is where the
   candidate with the majority of the votes becomes the winner.

   One opinion poll after another and television debate after television
   debate have brought home how distrusting the British public has become
   of both the ruling Conservatives' Boris Johnson and Labor's Jeremy
   Corbyn.

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