When is the 2017 General Election, what do the latest polls say and are the Conservatives likely to win?
THE Conservative Party's lead in the polls is slipping with one shock forecast predicting a hung parliament.
Here is everything you need to know before the UK goes to the polls today.
Why is there a snap General Election? When is it?
The polls opened today at 7am with Prime Minister Theresa May hoping to secure her own, sizeable Commons majority, her own mandate and the right to implement the policies in her manifesto.
May called a snap election on April 18, saying it is the only way to unify Westminster ahead of the upcoming Brexit negotiations.
She said her “reluctant decision” is necessary for a strong and unified stance.
Speaking at a press conference, she said: “The country is coming together, but Westminster is not.”
She won the backing of parliament to call a snap General Election with an overwhelming majority of 522-13.
What happened in the local elections?
The Conservatives made huge gains at the expense of Labour and Ukip in May's local elections.
Mrs May’s Tory Party gained 558 council seats by winning voters back from Ukip, which lost all but one of the 115 seats the party contested.
This impressive result means Mrs May will be hoping for a similar victory in the General Election.
Analysis of the results found Mrs May would be in touching distance of a 100-seat Commons majority if the local election results were repeated in the general election on June 8.
When converted to the equivalent of a nationwide vote, the party took a 38 per cent share, making it the party's best English local election performance since 2008.
What are the latest polls saying?
Following the June 3 London Bridge attacks and two days before the General Election, the Conservative lead over Labour had plummeted to just one point.
A new Survation poll suggested the election race was neck and neck.
The voters' survey for Good Morning Britain put Labour on 40.4 per cent and the Tories on 41.5 per cent with polling day now just hours away.
The last opinion polls of the General Election forecast a wide array of different election results.
One firm – ICM – gave a 12 point lead, on 46 per cent versus Labour’s 34 per cent.
And respected pollsters ComRes put Theresa May’s party 10 points ahead of Labour on 44 per cent.
When “don’t know” voters were included on the basis of who they preferred as PM, the Tory lead rose 12 points to 46 per cent.
ComRes analysis showed half of 2015 Ukip voters had now turned to the Tories – a total of 2m votes.
