LONDON — The general election campaign in Britain has reached its final phase and voters must decide whether the country should continue on the course set by Prime Minister Theresa May and her Conservative Party, or change it.

When Mrs. May called for the snap election in April, she was hoping to strengthen her party’s parliamentary support before negotiations with the European Union over the country’s exit from the bloc, known as “Brexit.” But since then, her main challenger, the Labour party leader Jeremy Corbyn, has managed to draw closer in the polls.

The New York Times asked British voters what they hoped the election would accomplish and what they expected from the parties and their leaders. Though the responses we received predate the terror attack in London last Saturday, security had been a concern of voters all along, in addition to deep worries over leaving the European Union and anxiety over economic inequality.

Here are selected responses, edited for length and clarity.

‘A Political Rage Inside Me’

For me it’s all about Brexit. I voted “Remain” and feel that the Conservative and Labour parties are blindly leading us to a hard Brexit and the subsequent economic hardship that that will bring. I used to be a Conservative voter but that ended when Theresa May committed the country to a hard Brexit. I am now a member of the Liberal Democrats and have delivered 3,000 election leaflets in my local area. Brexit has stirred up a political rage inside me that didn’t exist before!

— Stephen Marfleet, 45, a teacher who lives in Solihull, in the West Midlands.