Reuters, London :
With Britain’s May 7 election just eight days away, Prime Minister David Cameron’s Conservatives and the opposition Labour Party were tied at 35 percent each, according to a ComRes poll.
The two main parties have been neck and neck in most opinion polls since the start of the year, with neither establishing a sustained lead exceeding the three-point margin of error.
The poll, carried out for ITV News and the Daily Mail newspaper, put the Liberal Democrats, the junior members of the coalition government, at 7 percent, the anti-European Union UK Independence Party at 11 percent, and the Greens at 6 percent.
Opinion polls have consistently shown that neither of the two main parties is likely to win an overall majority in the 650-seat Parliament.
With the polls neck-and-neck since parliament was dissolved on March 30, many commentators have branded it a dull contest — not so bookmakers, with the uncertainty triggering a betting bonanza.
“We wouldn’t call it a flat campaign at all: it’s the biggest political betting event we’ve ever seen,” said Graeme Sharpe, spokesman for bookmakers William Hill.
With Britain’s May 7 election just eight days away, Prime Minister David Cameron’s Conservatives and the opposition Labour Party were tied at 35 percent each, according to a ComRes poll.
The two main parties have been neck and neck in most opinion polls since the start of the year, with neither establishing a sustained lead exceeding the three-point margin of error.
The poll, carried out for ITV News and the Daily Mail newspaper, put the Liberal Democrats, the junior members of the coalition government, at 7 percent, the anti-European Union UK Independence Party at 11 percent, and the Greens at 6 percent.
Opinion polls have consistently shown that neither of the two main parties is likely to win an overall majority in the 650-seat Parliament.
With the polls neck-and-neck since parliament was dissolved on March 30, many commentators have branded it a dull contest — not so bookmakers, with the uncertainty triggering a betting bonanza.
“We wouldn’t call it a flat campaign at all: it’s the biggest political betting event we’ve ever seen,” said Graeme Sharpe, spokesman for bookmakers William Hill.
