Voters in Uxbridge in northwest London head to polling stations to cast their ballots as the ruling Conservative party braces for defeat in the local three by-elections taking place across the United Kingdom. The opposition Labour party is eyeing victory in Boris Johnson's constituency of Uxbridge and South Ruislip, after the scandal-tarred former leader resigned as a Member of Parliament last month and triggered the ballot. "The country needs a whole change in everything, in the mindset of the government," Uxbridge resident Terence James Cochran tells AFP. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES