One thing is certain; the political landscape in the United Kingdom has changed. Political allegiance used to be defined according to class; people from working class backgrounds voted for the Labour Party, those with old Conservative values, mainly the posh and middle class voted for the Conservative Party, the Tories. And there was a small group in the middle that voted for the Liberal Democrats. If you analysed the policies of the three parties closely; there was not much of a difference. They all had basically the same liberal democratic values with a bit more socialism thrown into Labour and a tad more free-market principles for the Conservatives. Brits swung their allegiance according to the leader that came forward – that is why a Tony Blair could grab Torie votes and a David Cameron, a posh Etonian from Oxford University could persuade working class families to vote for him. That has all changed dramatically with Brexit. Now you find families from the upper class siding with working class families in their desire to divorce Britain from the European Union and a middle ground, not defined by class, who want to remain in the EU, and it is threatening to split the country in two. With Brexit reaching fever pitch in the UK with the new Prime Minister Boris Johnson bulldozing his way to the finish line of the 31st of October, and an election appearing to be the only way in which the current impasse can be solved; every politician and his uncle or aunt pretends to speak for "The British People". But it has become extremely difficult to predict what they want. The Wall Street Journal says an opinion poll by a "poll of polls", Britain Elects give Johnson a clear lead. This would be a good time to caution against opinion polls as they are so often wrong. Take a look at the various polls by YouGov on Brexit and it gives you a good idea of how opinion is see-sawing from day to day. As a veteran political reporter who has covered many elections in many different countries including the UK; I think an election result in the UK is extremely hard to predict as a new social order has been created by Brexit and nobody really knows what "the people" want. – Linda van Tilburg

UK Conservatives hope to flip Labour Districts that backed Brexit

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