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    U.K. Votes: May Has Watched Lead Over Corbyn Shrink In Recent Polls

    When Prime Minister Theresa May called for this election back in April, her Tories were hoping to build on their small majority in the House of Commons.
    by Bill Chappell Jun 08, 2017 2 minutes
    A woman sits outside the Anglesea Arms pub, set up as a polling station during Britain's general election, in London on Thursday.

    Updated at 10:45 a.m. ET

    British voters are heading to polling places Thursday, in a race that Prime Minister Theresa May's Conservative Party is expected to win — but not by the wide margins that were predicted two months ago, when May called for the snap election.

    In polls leading

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