4 May 2011
Last updated at 12:25 ET
The polls are the biggest test of electoral opinion in England since last year’s general elections
David Cameron and Ed Miliband have clashed over police cuts and tuition fees, on the last day of campaigning ahead of Thursday’s elections.
Backbench MPs also used their questions to Mr Cameron to congratulate their own party’s councils and criticise rivals.
Elections will be held in 279 English councils and a UK-wide referendum on the system for electing MPs.
There are also national elections to the Scottish Parliament, and Wales and Northern Ireland Assemblies.
And there is a by-election in Leicester South and several mayoral elections in England.
The last prime minister’s questions before the polls began with Scottish Labour MP Jim McGovern criticising the Scottish National Party – whom his party hope to unseat in the Holyrood elections – and continued with a series of MPs using the weekly session to attack their rivals.
Labour’s Ed Miliband accused Mr Cameron and Lib Dem deputy PM Nick Clegg of breaking a string of promises to voters – including on
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