A steady stream of voters have been arriving at a Wimbledon polling station this morning to cast their vote in the General Election.

At the polling station in St Mark's Church, Compton Road, about four people per minute were entering between 8:15 and 8:30.

A volunteer officer, who will be manning the station until 10pm tonight, said they'd had a "steady stream" of voters since it opened at 7am.

In Wimbledon Piazza, a straw poll found four people out of 10 said they were not going to vote today, despite predictions of a 70 per cent turnout nationally.

One man shrugged and said: "I haven't voted in years".

Another man said: "I'm not voting because I don't know the participants."

But asked if he thought politics made a difference to his life, he said: "Yes, definitely."

Of those voting, one had voted by postal vote, two were on their way to vote and three had already voted this morning.