Hello and welcome to News Hour from the BBC World Service with Rebecca

Kespi in London and me James Menendez in Wolverhampton in the English Midlands on this the eve of the UK's general

election. An election which every poll suggests will see the current Conservative government

crushed by the opposition Labour Party

and a new Prime Minister in the shape of Kere-Stama.

In fact, one cabinet minister even admitted today that he was expecting Labour to win a landslide victory.

Not something you often hear hours before voting begins.

Well, we were in the constituency of Wolverhampton West,

a marginal seat that has largely followed the big seismic shifts in British politics, and

many think this will be one of those moments.

For the time being though, the customers of the bustling little cafe were in in just enjoying a bit of lunch

perhaps before heading off to the city's market or the shopping center opposite us

here. Now this area was for years and with slightly different borders the

constituency of Enoch Powell, a conservative

MP who in 1968 launched a furious and widely condemned attack on levels of immigration

in what became known as the Rivers of Blood

speech but the seat switched to labor under Tony Blair that was in 1997 and it is

currently conservative but with a wafer thin majority. Immigration is once again at the

forefront of many voters minds. Something reflected in the past six weeks of

campaigning by the different party leaders. Here's a flavor.

I don't think politicians should take themselves too seriously. I think that's part of the problem

in politics actually. People are really disillusioned.

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