article: The Conservative and Labour parties will get a nearly identical number of votes in the general election, a new poll predicts. The two major parties will only be separated by 0.1 per cent, according to the Daily Telegraph survey, leaving either UKIP or the Liberal Democrats as potential kingmakers in a future coalition. The poll puts David Cameron and the Tories at 31.8 per cent of the vote, with Labour at just one tenth of a percentage point behind, with 31.7 per cent. Scroll down for video . Just ahead: David Cameron, pictured at a community hospital in his Whitney constituency earlier today, is predicted to get 31.8 per cent of the vote in next month's general election . Right behind you, David! Ed Miliband and Labour is just one tenth of a percentage point behind the Tories . The survey, conducted by the ICM Wisdom Index for the Daily Telegraph, asked 2,000 Britons to predict the share of the votes each party would get in the general election next month. The Liberal Democrats are now expected to get 13.5 per cent, slightly ahead of UKIP with 12.7 per cent, and 'others', including the Green Party and independent candidates to get 10.3 per cent. The poll also found that more people trust the Conservatives to deal with the 'cost of living', with 32 per cent supporting David Cameron and George Osborne with just 27 per cent trusting Ed Miliband and Ed Balls. Martin Boon, director of ICM Unlimited, said: 'Neck and neck is the only way to describe this race to May 7, with the two main parties perceived to be separated only by a wafer thin fraction of a point,' Martin Boon, director of ICM Unlimited, told The Telegraph. Good day for Nick: The Liberal Democrats . The latest YouGov poll published for the Sun . on Saturday, put Labour ahead on 35 percent, with the . Conservatives on 33 percent. Other polls during the week put the . Conservatives marginally ahead. Earlier today, the Tories pledged an extra £8billion to the NHS as part of their election campaign. Chancellor George Osborne said next week's . Conservative manifesto would include a promise to meet a £30billion-per-year funding gap, identified by NHS England . chief executive Simon Stevens, by the end of the decade. 'We in the Conservative party are in no doubt about our . approach: the NHS is something precious, we value it for the . security it provides to everyone in our country, and we will . always give it the resources it needs,' Osborne wrote in the . Guardian. The NHS costs about £120 billion pounds a year but its budget . has been frozen in real terms for the past five years, an . exemption from harsh spending cuts suffered by most other public . services since the Conservative-led coalition came to power in . 2010 vowing to bring down Britain's huge deficit. The Conservatives also announced that pensioners aged over . 75 will be given the right to same-day access to a physician and . that everyone will have access to a doctor at the weekends and . in the evenings by 2020. Labour says the Tories plan deep cuts to the NHS and called the latest pledge 'fantasy . funding'.
highlights: Conservative and Labour parties to get  near identical number of votes .
  Poll puts Tories at 31.8 per cent of the vote and Labour at 31.7 per cent .
  Lib Dems are expected to get 13.5 per cent and UKIP  12.7 per cent .
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