Earlier, the pound rose to a near a two-week high as Britons went to the polls on Thursday, with the markets increasingly convinced Prime Minister Theresa May will retain and possibly increase a parliamentary majority following the United Kingdom general election.
All that said, the polls told a consistent and undoubtedly correct story about the course of the campaign.
Labour's shadow chancellor John McDonnell also warned against reading too much into the prediction, saying: "We have to have some scepticism about all polls at the moment". They correctly showed the Lib Dems stalled, Ukip support collapsing, and a big switch from the SNP to the Tories in Scotland.
Of those planning to vote Conservative, 73 per cent think Theresa May has had the best campaign, while a fifth, 21 per cent, think Jeremy Corbyn's has been better.
Mrs May went to the polls on the back of huge personal popularity and awful ratings for Jeremy Corbyn. This differs from opinion polls, which ask people how they're going to vote.
In the past week we have seen Conservative leads ranging from a single point (from the polling company Survation) to 12 points (ComRes). ICM, for example, calculates its figures on an assumption that younger people will be less likely to vote than older people, and less affluent people are less likely to vote than the wealthy.
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Whatever party you voted for.
There is a huge difference in voting intention between young and old. The 18 Northern Irish constituencies are not part of the exit poll. By contrast, people aged 65 and over divide 62% for Conservatives and 19% for Labour.
Kent was awash with blue last time out in 2015 as the Conservatives won all 17 of the seats available in the county, and many are expecting more of the same when the results are announced in the early hours of tomorrow morning. Party was particularly important for those planning to vote Labour, 69% put it top compared to 58% of those planning to vote Conservative. They were the only established poll to indicate a hung Parliament.
Across the region, 37 per cent of people said they are planning to vote Labour on Thursday, compared to 28 per cent who said that was their planned vote at the start of the election campaign. "As we look ahead and wait to see what the final results will be, I know - as I say - the country needs a period of stability and whatever the results are the Conservative Party will ensure we fulfil our duty in ensuring that stability so that we can all, as one country, go forward together", she stated.
International Trade Secretary Liam Fox sidestepped questions about whether Mrs May would be forced to resign if the Tories failed to win a majority.
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