Austria election live: polling on a knife-edge, with far-right Freedom party just ahead of incumbent leader

‘Moment of truth’ for Austria as far right senses election triumph

Deborah Cole

Austrians are going to the polls today.

Riding a far-right surge in many parts of Europe, the pro-Kremlin, anti-migration Freedom party (FPÖ) and its leader, Herbert Kickl, are capitalising on fears around migration, asylum and crime heightened by the August cancellation of three Taylor Swift concerts in Vienna over an alleged Islamist terror plot.

Mounting inflation, tepid economic growth and lingering…