BRITS are heading to the ballot boxes today with Nigel Farage predicted to win big.

Voters will today elect councillors for 23 local authorities in England.

Polling station sign with arrow.Residents across England will take the polls tomorrow to vote in local elections

Polling stations will be open between 7am and 10pm on Thursday with results expected to trickle in from the early hours of Friday morning.

No scheduled elections are taking place inScotland,Walesor Northern Ireland.

Thursday’s local elections are predicted to be gruelling for the Tories who could lose up to 500 councillors across England.

Reform, with a predicted haul of as many as 450 local authority seats.

Farage’s party are also favourites to claim the hotly-contested Runcorn by-election – taking what would be their first seat off Labour in a blow to.