Guy Faulconbridge and Andrew Osborn

Ed Miliband Locked in Dead Heat as Britain Votes

Britons went to vote on Thursday in the tightest election for decades; one that could cause government gridlock, push the world’s fifth-largest economy closer to leaving the European Union and stoke a second attempt by Scotland to break away. Final opinion polls showed Prime Minister David Cameron’s Conservatives and Ed Miliband’s opposition Labor Party almost…