UK election: Millions vote, and so does a snake

The biggest battle is between the Conservatives and Labour

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A PETA activist outside a polling station with a metaphorical message for Labor's Keir Starmer: 'Save my fur', Photo: NEIL HALL/EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock (
A PETA activist outside a polling station with a metaphorical message for Labor's Keir Starmer: 'Save my fur', Photo: NEIL HALL/EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock (
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Millions of people in the United Kingdom are electing a new parliament today, and that means a future prime minister.

Voting took place at around 40.000 polling stations, and party leaders, as usual, were among the first to vote.

The biggest battle is between the Conservatives and Labour.

Many came to the polls with pets, mostly dogs.

But someone led the snake.

Neptune, as the reptile is named, was spotted at a polling station in Dorset.

There are also uninformed ones.

Emma Radukanu, one of the best British tennis players, did not know that today was the election.

“No. I think I'll rest a little in the morning, and then I'll go to training," Radukanu answered when asked by a journalist whether she would vote in the elections.

"To be honest, I didn't even know the elections were tomorrow. Thanks for letting me know," added the British tennis player at a press conference the day before the election.

Britain's Katie Boulter was also asked if she would vote before the singles match at Wimbledon, one of the four seasonal Grand Slam tournaments underway in London.

"I will stick to tennis. "I don't see myself as someone who will be doing anything other than tennis that day," she said.


Hers House je polling station for more than 50 years

with the BBC

Polling stations are usually in schools, municipal premises, but there are also those who have opened the doors of houses and whose threshold is crossed in order to vote.

For more than 50 years, June Thomas' home in Winwick, Northamptonshire, has been one of the UK's strangest polling stations.

Voters cast their ballots in the hallway of her house, under the spiral staircase.

This is not just a curiosity of elections in the UK, something like that has long existed in other countries, for example in Serbia.

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See photos from polling stations:

ROBERT BOWNES
ZACH BRIDGELAND
LORNA WALSH
with the BBC
REUTERS/Clodagh Kilcoyne

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