As Britons headed to the polls Thursday for the much-anticipated and highly consequential general election, U.K. Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn sounded a note of optimism in response to early reports of big crowds and long lines at polling stations across the country.
“It’s happening. We can do this,” said Corbyn after the British newspaper Metro reported that early turnout resulted in the “longest queues ever” at several voting stations.
Aidan Conway, a resident of Balham, London, told Metro that he has “never seen a queue like this at my polling station.”
“Many of the voters out this morning have said the lines are ‘full of young people,'” Metro noted.
That could be good news for Labour. According to YouGov, more than 60 percent of voters between the ages of 18 and 29 voted for the Labour Party in the 2017 general election.
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