going to be a new prime minister in there today and we've got full coverage continuing for you right through till 10:00 with eamonn holmes and isabel webster, of course. but in the meantime let's cross to our political editor, christopher hope, who's going to chris, what a night, what a night. but perhaps not quite to the expectations that some of the polls were saying. but still a huge majority for labour. >> a huge majority for labour. we're looking at maybe 170 seats. we'll get the final. final figures will be tallied shortly. a big result for the reform uk party. four mps, of course, that bridgehead nigel farage talked about about creating the tories. down, down to a fraction or half of where they were before 150 or so mps. extraordinary blow to them, an apology from the prime minister for calling an election six months before he had to call one. yeah. a real an amazing an extraordinary night, i think one

which i think i don't, don't think the labour party would have assumed would be anywhere nearin have assumed would be anywhere near in reach under those days of jeremy corbyn. i spoke earlier to lord kinnock, neil kinnock, the former leader of the party back in the 80s. he tried to turn the party into new labour then, of course, and he said he never saw this coming. just six years later, 2024, to get a landslide majority for labour party. we are here in the, in the tate modern art, art installation on the south bank of the thames. we've been, we heard an hour ago from from , sir heard an hour ago from from, sir keir starmer, his first big speech, a victory speech as, as prime minister. he said that change begins now. so the new theme of this government is change begins now . and we heard change begins now. and we heard also he awaits being lifted. he said, a burden removed from the shoulder of this great nation. a sunlight of hope, he said, and the opportunity of this country to move forward. big words, big grandiose words . but a huge grandiose words. but a huge challenges remain for this

government. very tight fiscal framework to get any change at all. what he's going to do is get this country growing and quickly to deliver on this mandate. >> thank you , chris, very much >> thank you, chris, very much indeed. well, what an evening and morning. it's been. labour has won the general election. >> sir keir starmer has the keys for number 10 downing street. and there have been some pretty big names who've fallen along the way, actually from both sides of the political spectrum. >> that's it from us. we go off to get some well—earned sleep how. >> now. >> yeah, breakfast with eamonn and isabel will continue our general election coverage. >> but before we go, here's a round up of the last eight extraordinary hours . extraordinary hours. >> get ready, because the most exciting night in general election history starts now . election history starts now. >> so the exit poll is crucial, of course, but what makes up all of course, but what makes up all of those figures? how do we crunch all of that? well, let's find out. from our deputy political editor, tom harwood.

>> we can see 410, an astonishingly high number of labour seats, yet not their highest ever. a lot of people were projecting the conservatives would go below 100 seats. i suppose it's a big psychological factor that this is in three figures. >> that number of reform mps and that number of lib dem mps in the exit poll suggest to me that 131 might be still a little high, whether they voted against us or stayed home, they have not. >> they've chosen not to vote for us tonight, but we are seeing the biggest landslide, the biggest majority for a labour party since tony blair's in 1997. >> even guys, the exit poll is absolutely shocking. >> there must be some sort of self—reflection from rishi sunak right now. >> that's nobody else's issue. the prime minister makes that decision. >> look at the names of those who might fall. if this exit poll is correct. it's very early stages. big beasts, though. jeremy hunt goes grant shapps goes penny, mordaunt goes , iain goes penny, mordaunt goes, iain duncan smith goes, jacob rees—mogg to lose his seat. all those are forecasts. >> you've had some reaction in

the exit poll, of course, suggesting labour heading for a landslide victory with a majority of 170 seats. >> we understand that bridget phillipson, who's the woman who wants to be the next education secretary has been re—elected in houghton and sunderland south because actually reform comes second in that seat. >> what do you think about that? >> what do you think about that? >> yeah, i think that's incredible . incredible. >> what's been the most important thing for you all kids to grow up like i did and in a great country. >> but now i worry about them. does anyone feel optimistic in this room ? this room? >> yes, yes. tell me why. >> yes, yes. tell me why. >> because in four weeks, what's been achieved? what can be achieved in five years? >> reform coming second. conservative third, lib dems fourth. >> what should we extrapolate from that? >> it seems clear that, i think tories exit poll are a bit overestimated during this campaign when the tories announced that they were going to bring back national service, he came out and said that's an absolutely ridiculous idea.

>> it's bananas. >> it's bananas. >> ballots are flying in now and it's going to be an historic night here. >> what do you make of what you've seen? so far in terms of the exit poll? reform coming second as well. >> it's really good that reform are getting so many good votes, and that they come second because that's what a lot of people were predicting. so do you trust keir starmer? >> not in the slightest. no no breaking news. >> now the former justice secretary, sir robert buckland, has lost his seat in swindon south. >> i think that result we've just seen in swindon is really, really important. it's a classic marginal seat. tory—labour battle. >> one of the things that keir starmer and all his new mps will find out is government is very difficult. >> i therefore, do hereby declare that nigel paul farage is duly elected as the member of parliament for the clacton constituency . constituency. >> we will now be targeting labour votes. we're coming for laboun >> soi laboun >> so i am now the member of parliament, elected for the great constituency of boston and

skegness. so it's the proudest moment of my life . moment of my life. >> i'm sorry that my party didn't listen to you. the conservative party has let you down. >> the labour party has won this general election , and i have general election, and i have called sir keir starmer to congratulate him on his victory. >> change begins now . >> change begins now. and it feels good. >> i have to be honest . >> i have to be honest. >> i have to be honest. >> very good morning to you. just turned, you know, it's not even. it's 6:07. this is gb news on this special election day. and you have got a new government. yeah. >> you're tuned in to britain's

election . election. channel. >> well, the people have decided . >> well, the people have decided. and britain's election channel is here for you in the form of gb news. >> it's a landslide for labour and sir keir starmer as they win the general election . the general election. >> change begins now . >> change begins now. and it feels good. i have to be honest . feels good. i have to be honest. >> conservatives now face their worst defeat at a general election in a generation. >> labour party has won this general election and i have called sir keir starmer to congratulate him on his victory. >> it was a big night for reform uk with large swings across the

country as nigel farage richard tice both entering parliament. >> we will now be targeting labour votes. we're coming for laboun labour votes. we're coming for labour, be in no doubt about that. >> the liberal democrats are improving on their 2019 results. ed davey picking up 47 seats and it takes their total to 54. >> so the tories are out , labour >> so the tories are out, labour are in and it's been an astonishing night of results. the labour party have won 387 seats and will govern the country for the next five years. >> please do stay with us this morning as the final results roll in and the national picture takes shape. and gb news deputy political editor , tom harwood political editor, tom harwood and pollster , at savanta chris and pollster, at savanta chris hopkins are here. >> yes, we are , and what an

>> yes, we are, and what an evening it has been. my goodness me, we can see this map. let's actually go back to where we were in 2019. we can get a real sense of the change here in 2019. boris johnson turned britain blue. you can see the sheer scale of the conservative victory in that election. well, my goodness me, watch what happens. my goodness me, watch what happens . now my goodness me, watch what happens. now we turn to my goodness me, watch what happens . now we turn to 2024 my goodness me, watch what happens. now we turn to 2024 and a sea of red has replaced that sea of blue. hundreds of labour seats and perhaps we'll be able to see this a bit more proportionately if we make all of these seats the same size . we of these seats the same size. we can do that by tapping here and look at that look how much red is there across the united kingdom . now, chris, this is kingdom. now, chris, this is pretty extraordinary . but many pretty extraordinary. but many pollsters were projecting just this. >> yeah, absolutely. i mean, we have to be really clear that the polling industry predicted a massive labour landslide, and thatis massive labour landslide, and that is ultimately what we're getting. that said, i think there are still more colours on this map than perhaps we would

have originally thought. i think we've seen minor parties reform uk, the greens do really well on the first part of the post. it hasn't been as much of a barrier as it historically has been, and i think that that's really giving going to give, you know, not just this map but parliament, a really different feel going forward. now one of the reasons why we're seeing, for example, these four reform seats probably some more still to come, three green seats, probably some more still to come . probably some more still to come. >> and indeed many independents, at least four different independents winning seats so far is perhaps the vote share. and this tells a very interesting story . we can see interesting story. we can see 34.6% so far. this still could change as more results come in, but 34.6% for the labour party getting them an enormous majority. that is the lowest share of a for vote a winning party in a general election. in living memory. >> yeah, look, labour have had to do a job here and they've absolutely gone and done it. but

part of them might be a little bit disappointed with this. and i think they would have probably expected more seats, or at least hoped for more seats. i mean, ultimately, the reason that we're in this position, tom, is because of reform uk and because of a conservative collapse. it isn't a huge endorsement of the labour party. that said, because of our electoral system, they're going to come away with a really sizeable majority. but i think it does pose quite a few questions for keir starmer going forward, how he responds to this, how he responds to some of the division in his vote that were splitting in his vote in some of the key seats, you highlighted some of the independents there that have done well in particular, particularly high density muslim constituencies and high density density hindu constituencies. but also just how his how the rest of his party, how his large majority and how he's going to respond with having 400 mps to keep in line . now it's yeah, keep in line. now it's yeah, there's a lot of questions, i think, for the labour party. >> you mentioned the number of mps. this is the extraordinary moment. look at these numbers here, particularly the 15% of the vote that's gone to reform

uk and the 34.6 that's gone to the labour party. let's turn that into seats now our seat prediction comes up and wow, look at the difference there. reform go from third place to fifth place. >> yeah, absolutely . i mean, >> yeah, absolutely. i mean, ultimately they have been, i guess, the most hampered by first past the post that said, you know, i think before nigel farage come back into the fold, i think it would have been really hard to see where reform were going to get an mp from at all. and obviously the exit poll at the start of the night was predicting them to have more than this. six i think ultimately nigel farage being the politician that he is and reform uk being the party that they are, they're going to make a hell of a noise in parliament going forward. and i think, you know, nigel said in the package just then that he's going to start coming after labour votes. this may well be just the start for reform uk, but the impact that they make in parliament could be really significant. >> now i'm just going to leave you with two thoughts. firstly, let's have a look at how the house of commons has changed this huge number of tory mps has now shrunk to a very small number. the small number of

labour mps has grown to a very big number. and one final thought. we're still waiting on a few seats, particularly this one here. this is this, big seat in norfolk belonging to liz truss. it's said to be a three way marginal. could reform take south west norfolk? could an independent take it? might. liz truss lose her seat still to come this morning . come this morning. >> thank you. thank you very much indeed . and tom just put in much indeed. and tom just put in some big names to those, losing seats. penny morton for the conservatives. gone. teresa coffey gone. jason jacob rees—mogg. grant shapps. gillian keegan, the former education secretary. johnny mercer all gone for labour. jonathan ashworth and but big wins for reform nigel farage, richard tice lee anderson, all big names there. rupert lowe all in. >> well, let's cross to westminster and speak to ellie costello, who can bring us up to date on what's going to be happening. a lot of mps. ellie's not in westminster this morning,

but making their way back there very quickly, and we will be expecting, i assume, a statement from the prime minister perhaps in the next hour or two. >> yes. good morning to you, eamonn. and isabel. and what a night it has been. now a new dawn in british politics. labour have won the 2024 general election by a landslide. and here in westminster you might be able to make out we're actually standing in a tent. and that is because it is absolutely pouring with rain. pathetic fantasy, you might say, for rishi sunak and the tory party, it has been a washout, hasn't it? it has been a wipe—out and the extent to that loss will become clear throughout the day. but rishi sunak, speaking about an hour and a half ago, accepting responsibility for that tory defeat he is now heading back to london and, as you say, isabel, we are expecting to hear from him in london in the next hour

or so. he'll be speaking more about the results of last night, but it's clear that the electorate are turning their backs on the tories after 14 years of conservative rule. it has been a dramatic night, hasn't it, of wins and heavy losses to a record number of cabinet ministers, as you say, have lost their seats. sirjacob have lost their seats. sir jacob rees—mogg grant shapps gillian keegan , penny mordaunt falling keegan, penny mordaunt falling on her sword. she's known for her sword wielding skills. well she is now fallen on her sword. she's lost her seat in portsmouth and johnny mercer losing his seat. the veterans minister labour set for 400 plus seats. the tories set for one of the worst election defeats in history. and here in the beating heart of westminster, you might be able to make out the broadcasters around me. they're

here from all around the world. it is just broadcasters at the moment. but those mps, some of them newly elected mps, will now be making their way from their seats down to london. many of them making a victory lap, if you like, throughout the media tents here in westminster. speaking about the results of last night. but it all comes down to this. it all comes down to that building behind me, the house of commons and who will make up those, those benches in the house of commons? we now know that those government benches are going to be full of labour mps. there's going to be much fewer tory mps in opposition. there's going to be many new faces in there as well. for reform mps so far, there could be more to come throughout the morning and there are going to be strong voices of dissent in there, aren't there? the likes of nigel farage, richard tice lee anderson and on the left we now have jeremy corbyn as an independent mp. so the

house of commons is going to look very different and the country is going to look very different now as well. >> ally pally very much indeed . >> ally pally very much indeed. 6:17, you tuned in to gb news breakfast at britain's election channel. we cross now to clacton on sea in essex and we've got mark white there for us. this morning. and, a bit of an historic win for nigel farage at last. >> yes, at last. good morning to you both. and welcome to the seafront, clacton, which is, of course , now the constituency of course, now the constituency of nigel farage. he managed to overturn an almost 25,000 majority, a stonking majority, that giles watling achieved in the 2019 election and not just overturning that majority but adding another almost 8500 majority of his own to that. so an absolutely incredible

achievement for a party that is new, just four years old, has very little in the way of funding in comparison to the big parties and of course, very few, in terms of the sort of activists, the workers on the ground that the big parties have as well. but what they did have of course, in clacton was the a—lister , nigel farage, a—lister, nigel farage, renowned, of course, in this country and around the world. so he was a massive asset for reform. and reform were telling me for quite a few days that they were very confident that nigel farage would be able to overturn that majority because of what they were hearing from the doors. they were knocking on, getting very positive responses here. and of course, the party as a whole has done very well, certainly in terms of the share of the vote, more than

15% and growing, in terms of the number of mps who returned, well, it was estimated, according to the exit polls at the beginning of the night, that it would be, 13, which would have been an incredible number that has now really been revised downwards, some putting the number at 4 or 5. but we'll wait to see in the coming hours what the true number is. but i think that will only really strengthen nigel farage's belief that the voting system needs to be reformed, that the first past the post system just isn't working, for small parties like reform, for instance, you've got the liberal democrats on about 11% as a share of the vote who are about to return well over 50 mps in comparison to the 4 or 5 that reform will return. joining

nigel farage in the commons, though, will be the former reform leader, richard tice, well known to us, of course, on gb news, he, successfully won the boston and skegness seat, then you've got lee anderson as well. also well known to us on gb news. having been returned quite comfortably in ashfield and also rupert lowe in great yarmouth, the fourth reform mp so far, who will be joining nigel farage, as they enter the commons and begin in earnest that campaign for voter reform . that campaign for voter reform. >> well, listen, mark, thank you very much indeed. we've got lord maurice glasman in the studio from representing labour today. and we just just want to say, maurice, what a day. what a morning, what a what a bit of history . history. >> very beautiful. and, it's wonderful that my party has got the power of resurrection for seats in 2019. yeah. only one.

the conservatives have decimated labourin the conservatives have decimated labour in their heartlands. now the conservatives have no heartlands. >> what would you say to those people that say it's a loveless landslide? just when you talk about the majority, the vote share, we're looking at sir keir starmer getting into downing street on a smaller share of the vote than jeremy corbyn got in 2017. >> well, 5% less, more than 5% less. and on a turnout that is 1,415% less than. >> does that affect his mandate ? >> does that affect his mandate? >> does that affect his mandate? >> look, the thing with the mandate, doesn't it? i would say that what labour's got here is a permission to act right and to be a government and to be a labour government, which which would be a blessing to the country if they had the courage to do that. so this is not a mandate. if you look at the manifesto , it's not like we're manifesto, it's not like we're going to create the nhs, we're going to create the nhs, we're going to create the nhs, we're going to nationalise coal, iron and steel . that 1945 was and steel. that 1945 was a mandate in some ways 97 was a mandate, but they were very explicit that they were going to

embrace globalisation, technology , mod the whole thing technology, mod the whole thing with modernisation, if you remember, but this, this is much more about competence, about permission to govern, i would say. and yeah, it's the voter turnout expresses the disaffection. if you look at the energy around brexit that's been dissipated politically. yeah. and what's remarkable, though , and what's remarkable, though, is that labour is the recipient of the, the vote and, and is a completely legitimate government. i'm very interested in these next few years. i don't think this is going to be a new labour government. i think it's actually going to be a labour government and do labour things. i think it's going to be house building and industrial strategy, which we haven't seen since. forgive me for saying you don't sound too happy. well, it's very early in the morning. i stay up late. you don't seem very happy either. >> yeah, right. but it is. >> yeah, right. but it is. >> who's happy in the morning? are you happy? maybe. you look happyin are you happy? maybe. you look happy in the morning. i'm not happy. >> it could be worse in the

morning. could be worse. >> she could be graham brady, sitting here today. graham, you know , you you put a lot of this know, you you put a lot of this together, and i mean, there's defeats and there's defeats. i mean, this is this is pretty bad. what would you like to say before i begin? >> that's what i want to correct you on. it's not the biggest defeat for a generation. it's the biggest defeat for the conservatives since 1820. i mean, you've got to. yeah, it's a few generations. it's a covenantal defeat, let's say, rather than a contractual one. >> i mean , obviously it's >> i mean, obviously it's a really bad result for the conservative party. there's no getting away from that. i think there are a number of factors, though, that you can look at. we talked about the very low turnout we looked at labour's low vote share. i think it's also true that incumbent governments all over the world are being beaten up by the electorate when they were in office through the covid period , office through the covid period, and i think a lot of the problems that face the country now were built up then, whether it's nhs waiting lists , whether it's nhs waiting lists, whether it's nhs waiting lists, whether it's the problems with the pubuc it's the problems with the public finances, whether it's mental health problems for young people in particular, there are a lot of problems that come from

that period. and that's not just here. it's all over the world. >> that's absolutely the case. but there will also be and we're waiting to hear how liz truss is doing, i think is a sort of three way sort of marginal going on in her suffolk constituency. but we've had our own unique problems. and i say we, i say the conservatives particularly vast number of prime ministers in a short space of time. you of all people know all about that in your role specifically, is this have you been punished? do you think, for the last specifically, you know, because of the things that have been happening within the party, not the bigger picture? >> i think having five prime ministers in a relatively short penod ministers in a relatively short period of time is not a good look, and it's not something anybody would seek to do. they're obviously very specific circumstances applied in each of those, situations. but i do think it's unfortunate. i think rishi sunak and jeremy hunt actually provided a period of stability and started to move things in the right direction. we're starting to get the return for it. so to the charge them with, 14 years of tory chaos, i think was was unfair. they were

moving things in the right direction , but they were the direction, but they were the people in charge when you dipped. >> i mean, boris never had polling like this. >> well, i think the dip happened when liz truss had her difficulties during that short period. she was in government in downing street. >> i want to bring in norman baker because if you look at the way that things are shaping up this morning and the latest figures we've got for reform candidates, seven for the snp, 67 so far for the lib dems, 108. i think we're on for the conservatives and 398 for laboun conservatives and 398 for labour. we're no longer really are we a two party country? there's five big players now. really. >> well, we're all trying to beat the first past the post system, work as best we can. that's the reality of it. and as far as the lib dems are concerned, what we did was ruthlessly target seats where we thought we could win. we were a second last time we looked at those and we had to frankly, near enough abandon seats where we were very well far behind. we've got the resources to do 650 seats. so that's what we did. and it's turned out rather

well. but it's not the defence of the first past the post system, because we've heard labour's share of the votes, 34% and they're going to get a massive majority. and i would give some caution, if i may, to keir starmer, which is don't run on labour mps don't run away with the idea that you've got a massive mandate here. you haven't, you've got a massive landslide in terms of seats, but you haven't in terms of votes. one third of people voted for you, two thirds didn't. and it's important that he remembers that when he goes forward. but look, we were in a very good position. i'm delighted. my seat of lewes as it was, has been returned with the lib dem with a 12,000 majority, where jeremy hunt saw off the lib dems. >> jeremy hunt did very well. constituency he did. he did lots of fears that he was going to be the first sitting chancellor to lose his. >> absolutely. and actually i quite like jeremy. so i'm not over disappointed about that. >> he gave a very gracious speech.i >> he gave a very gracious speech. i thought he did. he did of those and actually giving advice to keir starmer about trying to be careful and sensible and cautious. >> he was a good speech. but we also in terms of our targeting, we've got, we've removed, as it were, gillian keegan at

chichester, first time we've had chichester, first time we've had chichester and the lib dem hands since 1923, alex chalk at cheltenham. there's a whole range of ministers that we've actually removed through the lib dem targeting and, you know, that's part of the story of tonight. now, you know, reform are complaining. they got, hardly any seats for the number of votes you've got. well, i welcome any converts to proportional representation. >> are you going to work with reform? there is a going to work with reform that for pr you're going to instead of calling an election. >> whatever. many weeks ago it was six weeks ago. should rishi sunak have held a referendum on changing the vote share? because once somebody's in power and they've got a whopping, you know, number of seats like sir keir starmer has, there's no way he's going to change the system. but it could have stood to gain reform got 15% and four seats. >> you got 11% and 70 seats. you're going to give reform some of the seats because actually, proportionally rather ironically, the number of lib dem seats we get is almost exactly going to be the proportion of votes we get . proportion of votes we get. >> yeah, yeah. >> yeah, yeah. >> now, baroness arlene foster joins us as well from a northern irish point of view, your former first minister, of course, in northern ireland, what role does

northern ireland, what role does northern ireland, what role does northern ireland and bearing in mind sinn fein, the amount of seats they have, which is what, seven, seven, seven? >> and i think they'll go back with seven as well. >> go back to seven. yeah. but they don't take those seats. >> no they don't. right. so they don't. so what is your opinion on that of those seats wasted. well i mean i live in a sinn fein constituency so i don't have an mp that goes to westminster. so not represented in westminster. and it's a total shame. it's a disgrace. i mean, even the snp take their seats, they go down and they argue for their constituents in westminster. and you know, who would say that they ever give any way to those who want to stay within the union. they're there to argue for the break—up of the union. but sinn fein , of the union. but sinn fein, stay away, stay away. and for those of us who don't have representation in westminster, it's a real shame. and disgrace. now i have a new mp tonight, a lady called pat cullen who was the head of the rcn here in the uk, and she has said she doesn't need to go to westminster. she can do everything from outside of westminster and bring the people to her. i have never heard such arrogance in all my

life, i have to say, and i've heard some arrogant things over the past couple of weeks, but thatis the past couple of weeks, but that is incredible arrogance for those northern ireland representatives who do take up the seats and are there and represent their constituents, and what difference will all that we're talking about here? >> what what role do they play in the in the. >> well, they play a very important role because if you look at the uk as a whole, there are things that are reserved to westminster and you need to have a northern ireland voice there on those issues, particularly in defence. given that we are involved in this terrible war in ukraine, it's important to have a northern ireland perspective in the uk parliament, because we're a part of the united kingdom and the sdlp to be fair, they are going to go back with their two seats. they will represent their constituents, they're a nationalist party, but they'll still go and they'll still represent their constituents there in westminster. >> let's hear from our man in northern ireland, dougie beattie this morning to hear what what he has to say and counting. still a lot of counting to go on in northern ireland. dougie james. >> no, we're finished here in

belfast. that is that is most of the seats pretty much finished up now. and it was it was a bad night for the dup. they lost three seats. one of those of course was in north antrim. it'll be the first time in about 54 years that the name ian paisley will not be on those westminster benches. and of course, the man that took his seatis course, the man that took his seat is jim allister, who is extremely closely linked and augned extremely closely linked and aligned to the reform party. benabib, of course, was here launching the campaign for them so that will be another seat for nigel farage, because jim allister will sit on those benches. the alliance party lost a seat in north down. it was gained by the independent unionist alex easton, formerly of the dup. and then we had lagan valley, sir jeffrey donaldson jul seat that , donaldson jul seat that, amazingly is two thirds unionist and the alliance party took the

seat because the three unionist parties split the vote and, well, the answer came very quickly. and then you also have robin swann, who was the former health minister here of the ulster unionist party, has took the seat in south antrim off paul girvan of the dup. and that seat has always swapped backwards and forwards between the uup and the dup. and it's probably the first time in quite a few years that the uup has had a few years that the uup has had a candidate that is so well known in northern ireland, so sinn fein now goes into the top position with seven. the dup returns with five, the sdlp with two, the uup with one and the alliance party with one. so it's been quite a night here in northern ireland. >> thank you dougie, dougie, we've got the northern ireland secretary of state, chris heaton—harris . heaton—harris. >> ernie, sorry. >> ernie, sorry. >> the former northern ireland

secretary. >> he's still the northern ireland secretary of state. and so what what have you got to say about that? >> well, what i've got to say is that it shows that if you have too many unionist parties, then you cause divisions and that seat in lagan valley, which has gone to the alliance party. yes should be a unionist seat. because if you look at the percentage of the ulster unionist, the dup and the tuv, it worked out stretches from the alliance party. but you've now got four different shades of unionism coming back to westminster. you've got an independent and north down alex easton, you've got a traditional unionist voice who will sit with the reform group because they had an alliance before the election, and that's jim allister and he's taken that seat from ian paisley. there's been a paisley in that seat since 1970. okay. and then you have the dup and one ulster unionist in south antrim . so unionist in south antrim. so it's a big change for northern ireland because we don't normally have that much change in northern ireland. and it's it should be a huge wake up call for unionism. i hope it is,

>> can we talk to sir graham brady about what happens in terms of rishi sunak, what sort of set piece expectations? i'm thinking of cameron sort of. 815 of the morning after an election coming out and saying he was resigning as prime minister. will they will they be staying on for as leader until somebody else can be found? >> i remember vividly, because i was live on the bbc saying how important it was that david cameron should remain prime minister when he when he resigned, not doing that today for rishi sunak. no, but i think it's very important he remains leader until we have a new leader until we have a new leader in place. but i don't know what time he'll make that statement. i thought it was interesting. he obviously also has already said it in a sense that it's count, which maybe takes some of the pressure off. >> and on a personal note, when you saw him making that speech, what did you pick up on? i mean, you know him very well. you know, the struggles that have gone on behind the scenes a lot of the commentary has been in under any other circumstances, he'd have been an excellent prime minister, you know. has he had a tough ride? well, i mean,

he started in the most difficult circumstances and it was something that had to be brought back and put under control. >> and i think he did a very good job of that. so i think it has been tough on rishi to blame him for things that went wrong before he was prime minister, on a personal level, i just have huge admiration for his energy and he threw everything at it, didn't he? it's quite impressive. and with relentless negative expectations from opinion polls, just to keep going like that was was really very impressive. >> i can see you shaking your head there, lord glassman, about him throwing everything at it. i mean, when i think about talking to our correspondents have been out on the battle buses and we've had rishi sunak up at 2 am. handing out mcdonald's to a.m. handing out mcdonald's to the journalists at 5 am. at a warehouse at 6 am. and the labour campaign not getting underway until 9 am. you know, he was really putting in the hours, whether you like the man or not, give him some credit for that. >> i'm just saying this is like a corporate manager on an away day up early, giving out the burgers. he's just not a

politician at all. who does he represent? sort of. >> i think there's some fairness in that. but of course people do constantly say, wouldn't it be nice to have more business people in government? yeah. and then they get that and they don't. they >> well, well, this is not quite a business person. this is more on the data driven corporate back office. it's not front office. so he was incredibly slick. >> everybody was bigging him up right until the very minute he became prime minister for how slick he was as a politician, dishy rishi and all of his campaigns and look at the photoshoots and the mcdonald's, the ideas speak for themselves. >> what is this? this is the historic defeat of conservatism. you're talking about what could he have? >> i can't believe he said what he has. >> what an energetic campaign and yeah, energy. >> well , a bit and yeah, energy. >> well, a bit of and yeah, energy. >> well , a bit of lethargy, >> well, a bit of lethargy, maybe lord salisbury, the old lord salisbury, conservative. he campaigned on this as well. all change is invariably for the worse. i'm going to do as little as possible. we go to. he won a landslide. >> okay . >> okay. >> okay. >> that's only what's energy. we got to the prime minister's

constituency now. >> richmond and north yorkshire. nana akua is there and nana you have, what's called the people's panel lined up, >> yes . >> yes. >> yes. >> well, i'm actually outside. i'm in rishi sunak's constituency. we're keeping it a bit quiet because a lot of people are sleeping. it's actually the little drummer boy tea room and, let's see what's going on. let's see who's in here. are it's lovely . all here. are it's lovely. all right, gary, is it gary, the owner? hi. all right. and let's start with you, dan . dan. joe. start with you, dan. dan. joe. like john doe? yes but obviously, you know who you are. i know that's your gag is kidney. so, dan, talk to me. who did you for ? vote and then who did you for? vote and then who did you for? vote and then who did you for? vote and then who did you vote for before this? yeah, >> labour. previously. really? yes. yeah yeah, young in my 20s. liberal. more anti—establishment at the time. through the corbyn years, and, you know, as soon as

someone's been attacked, you want to vote for them. yeah. >> so you. so you voted reform this time? reform this time. yeah. yes. >> again. maybe not anti—establishment , but my anti—establishment, but my values are changed. certainly since i've matured, yeah, i've got more in common, conservatives have been so progressive these years. it's just it's going to get more extreme with labour in as much as i'm a liberal at heart, these are liberal at heart. you know, it's , yeah, it's concerning. it's, yeah, it's concerning. but, you know, needs to even out. >> right. okay. well, there's a liberal at heart here is jill. she is a harp player. jill. hello there. good morning. good >> used to vote labour. this this time i voted independent. okay? i voted for count binface , okay? i voted for count binface, andifs okay? i voted for count binface, and it's really kind of, a bit anti—establishment, like dan was saying. really? i couldn't see anything really appealed to me in any of the parties. don't like keir starmer don't like what he's done to the labour party . so i was what he's done to the labour

party. so i was very what he's done to the labour party . so i was very polite. party. so i was very polite. >> you didn't say that earlier. oh, you said you couldn't stand him. you're never going to get that. oh, yeah. never. >> yeah. yeah. i couldn't vote for keir starmer. and i'm a bit worried, really about where we're going, because i don't think it's healthy to have such a massive majority on a low turnout. and and a low share of the vote. so, yeah, it's all a bit of a mess, i think. >> yeah. well we'll see. i mean, you know, keir starmer, he will be our new prime minister. will. hello hello, will. good morning. now, who did you vote for? >> i voted reform before them. >> i voted reform before them. >> who did you vote for? >> who did you vote for? >> conservative before. >> conservative before. >> why did you change, >> why did you change, >> because i feel a bit let down by the conservative party. not helping people, especially rishi. not helping people in his constituency , i.e. running small constituency, i.e. running small businesses , it's not very often businesses, it's not very often we see them around here. >> oh, no, it's not true. you've got a little selfie with him. come on, let's see. where is it? >> you want to see me now? >> you want to see me now? >> come on, let's see the selfie of you and rishi sunak. there's

a selfie there. >> you go. >> you go. >> there's rishi. look at it. but when? >> when he does come to richmond, it's quite a nice thing to see him about, but it's very rare that it's very rare. >> it's very rare. that's about right. >> well, let's go over to you, ian. ian. right. so talk to me. who did you vote for before, and then who did you vote for? this time? >> i voted conservatives before, and i voted for reform this time. >> yeah. reform. and why did you change your vote, >> basically trying to get . i >> basically trying to get. i couldn't vote for labour because you can't get a yes no answer out of keir starmer, and i think it's enough of the tories, and nigel farage basically says what he's going to do and does what he's going to do and does what he's going to do, and i believe in them. >> yeah. so how do you feel the election has gone now? because obviously labour, are going to be running the show. yeah >> well, obviously it's time for a change. we'll have to wait and see, the main thing is that he does everything he can to support small businesses.

because i'm a small business owner. i've got a shop just down the road here, and basically, we need as much support as we can because the trade is down a lot, i think more pressure needs to be put on the bank of england to reduce the interest rates, to give people more confidence in spending, so that's what think. >> but he helped you during the pandemic, so, you know. yeah. >> no, he did, i think the support he did with the furlough scheme helped us out a lot, obviously recently there's been more bad than good things happening with the tories. >> well, yeah. interesting so anyway. hello, monty. hello. monty, you're gonna be at school, students go to school and he's a bit early for him. how do you feel getting up this early? tired. like us all. like us all. interesting stuff. well, thank you guys. of course . thank you guys. of course. that's my people's plan that they want to change. they're okay with keir starmer. although most of them , in particular the most of them, in particular the men, they all voted reform, which i think is quite interesting. but listen, i will

be back with you very shortly. i'm just going to get myself an oat milk hot chocolate. >> okay. let's introduce you to our new panel. now we have a former conservative mp, george eustice , and the gb news senior eustice, and the gb news senior political commentator, nigel nelson. good morning to you both. >> now, george, you decided not to stand. >> and that turned out to be a wise decision your seat went to. >> it's gone to labour and camborne and redruth. my seat. it's always been a weathervane seatit it's always been a weathervane seat it went labour in the 97 landslide. we just won it in 2010 and you know it does tend to change hands when you get a big change in the tide. and my word, we certainly seen that tonight. >> johnny mercer, your constituency neighbour down in that part of the world. also one of the big scalps of the night. and when you look through the list, grant shapps defence secretary penny morden, who was obviously a hopeful to be leader , obviously a hopeful to be leader, mark harper, we've just heard in the last few moments transport secretary, he's out, you know, how does that make you feel about the direction of travel?

this morning? >> well, look, it's a devastating result for the conservative party. there's no doubt about that. you know, worse than we had even in 97. and that was a bad result. and i think really, the two takeouts for me is, first of all, there was an overwhelming mood for change in the country, and that happens periodically. we would have been trying to win five elections in a row had we tried to win this one. and the second thing is that the conservative coalition that you always need to be able to get in power and hold power fell apart. and so we've got reform taking huge chunks out of the conservative party on one flank. and the more liberal minded conservatives and some of those home counties switching to the liberal democrats. >> well, nigel, where does this leave the conservative party? and not only the growth of reform , but losing people who reform, but losing people who would have been integral to the future, touted as future leaders, people like penny mordaunt, for instance. now i know penny mordaunt . what does know penny mordaunt. what does this mean? >> well, i think what it means is that the civil war, the tory party have been engaged in for

the last few years between the right and the left, that's got to be resolved now and they've got to rejuvenate themselves and what it really depends on is quite who is actually who is coming back on the mp front. we can see we've lost a cabinet ministers there, but we've got , ministers there, but we've got, we've got people like suella braverman on the, on the, the right wing, priti patel interestingly, is shifting more to the, the centre and it will depend on those one nation tories, those centrists . how tories, those centrists. how many of those come back. and for the tory party to finally decide what it wants to be? for the last few years, it's had no idea what what it actually is. >> yeah. and what about the role of nigel farage in all of this? he'll be in westminster for the first time and, you know, potentially either he could be attracting some of those people who might want to join him, or he could even defect to the conservatives. and, you know, it could be a takeover. >> yeah, i think that's unlikely. look, it's an extremely good result for reform. there's no getting away from that. i mean, their biggest

impact in this election has been to sink dozens of conservative mps who might otherwise have held on, but it is quite an achievement to get four mps and it would be churlish not to acknowledge that, nigel farage is a colourful character. he connects with a section of the population, but he will be there with just four mps and there's no getting away from, is there, that much difference between him and somebody like suella braverman? >> you know, is there some? well, actually, when i saw parties, actually those people actually come together. >> you know, earlier this week, suella braverman wrote an article where she was sort of defending reform, and i almost felt she was limbering up for a defection to reform that she had sort of written off any idea of being leader of the conservatives and might actually defect. that's certainly what it what it looked like. but the big problem anyone on the right has, whether they're conservative or there, are those for reform candidates, is labour have now a towering majority and that means keir starmer can do whatever he likes. he's got a huge majority, and that gives him massive freedom to do whatever he wants to do. now and people can argue

about it in the house of commons, but they won't be able to crucially block any labour legislation. >> okay, just breaking off. we've got chris heaton—harris, who, i assume, chris, you're still the secretary of state for northern ireland until keir starmer decides otherwise . starmer decides otherwise. >> yeah, until the next one gets appointed. that's correct. >> yeah , what does this mean, >> yeah, what does this mean, chris? i didn't your own. your own seat. has your own seat been declared yet , declared yet, >> i don't think it has yet. no, they are remarkably slow in wonderful west northamptonshire. so i'm yet to hear any results from daventry or south northants. >> how are you feeling about that? obviously a nervous time . that? obviously a nervous time. you must have seen so many of your cabinet colleagues losing their positions overnight and feeling nervous that the same could happen to you . could happen to you. >> well, i've already left, i announced . i was stepping down

announced. i was stepping down before, rishi called the election , so, i'm probably in election, so, i'm probably in a in a better position than many because i expected to go and. but we've lost very a number of excellent ministers and excellent ministers and excellent mps up and down the country , and obviously now my country, and obviously now my party needs to work out, why that happened. i mean, i can tell you now that a disunited parliamentary party does not win any votes, and if you don't deliver on your promises, you're not going to get very far. but we need to get those fundamentals sorted out amongst those that are returned. >> so you had this amazing experience of, you know, having that powerful position in northern ireland and steering northern ireland and steering northern ireland. what do you feel or what do you hope or what needs to be maintained or carried out in northern ireland under labour? >> thank you very much. so i actually think labour will continue. along. i mean, labour definitely want stormont to, to

sit in stormont is now sitting, labour definitely want the windsor framework to work and it is working and it will continue to work. that allows stormont to sit, but there are plenty of other day to day issues, that wouldn't even percolate above the surface in kind of the westminster bubble that we're in, that will give whoever takes over as secretary of state for northern ireland plenty in the in—tray, but they'll also have plenty of fantastic officials and great knowledge and great advice coming their way. so i'm quite comfortable, actually, that the change in regime will not mean too much of a difference, in northern ireland, and i've been watching the northern ireland results as well. and they are truly fascinating, as they're still coming through, some the latest result we've got for you is that liz truss has lost her seat. >> that's just been declared. so another big name bites the dust. >> yeah. and she was defending an enormous majority of 24,180 in southwest norfolk. so this

really not a good look for her. but perhaps not surprising given the landslide. >> well, i mean , there are >> well, i mean, there are always different factors in every single seat, and obviously there was a huge vote for reform in this election . and whilst in this election. and whilst they didn't achieve a winning too many seats, i think they've got the same number as the people who, the independents who are pro pro gaza, pro—palestine , are pro pro gaza, pro—palestine, you know, they have absolutely reform has absolutely affected this election. and the people that voted for them have sent a message to my party. in no uncertain terms, you know, you you they were fed up with us. obviously, we were disunited and they were fed up with that , and they were fed up with that, and they were fed up with that, and they wanted delivery on a whole host of issues, quicker. now they've put their trust. well, people have voted reform have now got a labour, have now got a

labour government, i hope and i truly believe keir starmer will do his best for this country. i say congratulations to him and his team , but they now have his team, but they now have a big job ahead of them . and i big job ahead of them. and i really, really hope for us all that they do it brilliantly. >> you have ahead of you. we wish you luck. is there a message that you would like to leave the conservative party as you leave your position ? you leave your position? >> yeah. just just always remember your roots, which are in your constituency. and, and the people that elect you, because if you don't pay enough attention to them , you'll always attention to them, you'll always get a bad result and always stick together. we've seen over the last 24 months what can happen when a party does not stick together in parliament? >> heaton—harris. stick together in parliament? >> heaton—harris . thank you very >> heaton—harris. thank you very much indeed. good luck in the future with say goodbye to you. thank you very much indeed . and thank you very much indeed. and nigel, basically, chris

heaton—harris is saying there that a party that is not united doesn't seem to be electable. >> yes, absolutely . and that's >> yes, absolutely. and that's sort of one of the golden rules of politics. and you would have thought that the tories would have learned that over the last few years, as they began to rip themselves apart. >> george eustice, what do you make of former prime minister liz truss losing her seat there? huge conservative majority? >> yes , but look, over 200 >> yes, but look, over 200 conservative mps have been wiped out tonight and liz truss obviously isn't a special case. so it's always sad to lose. you know, another colleague in a seat. but you know in her case do you feel sad. yes. yeah. of course because she's a conservative colleague and i did work with her in defra. and we famously fell out over certain things such as trade deals and so on. but we also agreed on some things. so yes, it's sad, but she's not a special case. and of course, you know, careful what you wish for because becoming prime minister, you know, actually, you know, destroyed her personal credibility. and that's obviously been a factor, you know, now in this election in her own seat. >> so what now? >> so what now? >> liz truss, i have no idea

where she'll go, but i would imagine america will make a fortune on the lecture circuit, which is what they all do through, through being prime minister, through having those radical ideas that didn't come off. yes. i mean, she's quite popular in america for having radical ideas like that, even though they're a complete disaster, her kind of free market philosophy seems to play very well over there , very well over there, >> looking at the tally for laboun >> looking at the tally for labour, they're on 408 seats. they've gained 209. so far. and yet a couple of scalps for them as well. really big surprise to lose jonathan ashworth, a regular on this programme, and thangam debbonaire, the shadow culture secretary >> yes. thangam debbonaire was expected. i mean the greens were doing really well down there. they had their co—leader fighting her so that wasn't wasn't surprising. jonathan ashworth just came completely out of the blue. i mean, absolutely astonished that someone like that would disappear. >> but will he disappear? >> but will he disappear? >> i mean, can labour afford looking at long term, jonathan ashworth is an impressive

performer. he really is. would he be lost to politics, do you think? >> yes he would. i mean, i've just texted him saying, i hope you stand in the next by—election. yeah, that that he's somebody who would probably have got promotion. when keir starmer does his cabinet, he shouldn't have been demoted in the first place. he's a really good operator, except he was a good operator, except he was a good communicator. >> he was put into that job of spreading the labour message, which he did very well on most days. yeah, yeah, but it's an important job. >> it's an important thing to go and do. so i would have expected him to get a get a promotion that would obviously have to go on hold. but yes, i'd like to see him back in the commons, >> and you think he would have those ambitions? >> well, i would, i would imagine it came as a shock to him as well today. >> so what happened there? what happenedin >> so what happened there? what happened in leicester? >> well, it seems to have happened. there is there was an independent who was supporting gaza, and it was that which did it with the voters. >> okay >> okay . >> okay . okay, >> okay . okay, right >> okay . okay, right . >> okay . okay, right . so >> okay . okay, right . so that >> okay. okay, right. so that leaves us now where, where are we all standing. >> well it's, it's a devastating

difficult night for the conservatives, not unexpected because the polls have consistently shown us 20 points behind, but nevertheless a very , behind, but nevertheless a very, very bad night. a good night for reform, although their their main impact has been to sink dozens of conservative mps rather than get new mps elected. but they will be celebrating those for they have got across the line. but you know, the standout winner tonight is the labour party. they've done it on a relatively low vote share. but this is a commanding majority. and keir starmer now has got freedom to pretty much do what he likes. >> well let's crunch those numbers then. tom harwood standing by with a bit of analysis for us and what all of this means numbers wise, tom. >> absolutely. wow. it is the portillo moment to end all portillo moment to end all portillo . prime minister liz portillo. prime minister liz truss losing her seat by just 600 votes. it's yet to fill in in our map of the united kingdom here, but we can see this gap in the east of england. her south—west norfolk seat, about to turn red, a fairly symbolic of this election results. the

labour party winning with just over 11,000 votes, one of the lowest numbers of raw votes to take any of these seats in the country. but why don't we have a look at the number of seats won? we can see the labour party has zoomed past the majority line actually gone far beyond the edge of our screen. here to show you the scale of the majority. if we look at the seats change here, we can see the old house of commons in 2019. all of these blue conservative seats and these very few labour seats, they transmorph up here we can see the new house of commons with so very many labour seats, much, much smaller contingents of conservative seats and chris hopkins of savanta . what do we hopkins of savanta. what do we make of this new house of commons? >> yeah, look, labour are going to absolutely dominate. and i think, you know , a guest just, think, you know, a guest just, just, just now said that, you know, they can get almost anything they like through parliament. that's not to say that labour aren't going to have some real challenges. and i think they could come

internally. we know that parties that have large majorities tend to face more, more rebellions. we know that the labour party is historically relatively factional and can be kind of divided between left and right. and then equally, we know that labour have lost votes tonight to the green party, to independents on gaza, and those issues aren't going away any time soon. so, you know, this is a great result for the labour party. they you know, the some of the divisions that we've seen this evening can't be overshadowed by, by the result. that said, it might not be plain sailing for keir starmer going forward. and indeed the number of mps that he's got could create some headaches. >> and yet this huge number of mps, a large majority, a bigger majority than boris johnson won, was won on a far smaller percentage of the vote than bofis percentage of the vote than boris johnson won. boris johnson won, 4,445% of the vote. keir starmer here, less than 35% of the vote. >> yeah look i it's hard to say at this point whether this is a genius strategy or something's gone a bit wrong for labour tonight. ultimately their vote

share in the seats that they are historically strong in, that they indeed won at the last election has gone down. but the seats that they didn't win at the last election, their vote share has gone up. you know, enough for them to be given this large majority, especially when the reform uk number is so high, meaning that the vote on the right is split and the threshold upon which labour needs to win constituencies is a lot lower. you know, they've had a really they've got a really efficient vote. that was the accusation levelled against jeremy corbyn's labourin levelled against jeremy corbyn's labour in 2017 and 2019. so in some respects, labour have gamed the system. they've you know, they've done exactly what they need to do. but it does pose these questions that, you know, is this sustainable ? how is this sustainable? how sustainable would this be in four years time at the next election, five years time, whenever it might be, and labour are going to have those issues to answer, and particularly with this green vote share going up, particularly because they're standing in far more constituencies at this election than they did at the last one. and nigel farage has said he's going to start going after labour voters, too. and we saw in 2015 ukip managed to do that

as well. >> isn't this extraordinary, though? doesn't these these two numbers perhaps tell the story of this election? the labour changing the vote on what jeremy corbyn won last time round, which was labour's lowest seat share since 1935, keir starmer has put just 1.7% on what jeremy corbyn won last time. the real story , perhaps, is not that story, perhaps, is not that labour has won this election . labour has won this election. but look at that conservative vote share down 20, over 20. it's not that labour's won, it's that the tories have lost. >> yeah, absolutely. and we've just spoken about liz truss's seat. right. you know when boris johnson was prime minister, labour had an average poll lead of about 9 to 12 points with through trussonomics . and after through trussonomics. and after the mini—budget catastrophe, that lead went to 33 points. now, there were a lot of undecided conservative voters in there that were perhaps ballooning that labour lead in the opinion polls. but rishi sunak was given a hospital pass by these two former prime ministers, but he ended up booting in his own goal because he's lost all of these votes to

here reform uk, mainly by making, you know , immigration making, you know, immigration the centrepiece of your campaign and failing to deliver on it. so all three former prime ministers are equally , equally culpable are equally, equally culpable really, for that 20 point, 20 point loss. but labour have capitalised on it. just maybe not in the way that we'd expect them to. >> goodness me. well, we will leave for now with just this image , this sea of red, making image, this sea of red, making all of these seats the same size. look how many red seats now make up the united kingdom. >> well, what a turn up for the books. there it is. friday the 5th of july. britain. not official yet, but has a new government , as to what the government, as to what the weather will be, it's always new. it's always different. here's alex burkill. >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors of weather on gb news >> morning. here's your latest gb news. weather forecast coming to you from the met office. plenty of showers to come as we go through this weekend, but

first we have some fairly wet weather across southern areas today. heavy, persistent rain affecting some southern parts. some of that is going to clear away for a time, but more pulses of wet weather pushing in from the southwest. further north, scotland, northern ireland, northern england seeing quite a few showers, perhaps not as many as yesterday. and then in between these two zones, something a little bit drier and sunnier across central northern england and wales. sunnier across central northern england and wales . and here england and wales. and here we're likely to get the highest temperatures just about getting into the low 20s, but for many feeling a bit cool for the time of year. as we head towards this evening, we are going to see more wet weather feeding in across parts of central southern england and wales. staying dry across northern parts of england and wales to end the day. but still plenty of showers for northern ireland and scotland. some of them could be a little bit on the heavy side and do watch out for some blustery winds. most likely out towards the north sea and particularly the north sea and particularly the far north—east of the uk. more wet weather then feeding its way north eastwards across much of england and wales overnight. so a pretty wet night

to come for many, but that should quite quickly start to clear away towards the north sea as we head through towards dawn on saturday, as we see quite a bit of unsettled weather around temperatures not dropping a huge amount, but it is going to be a little bit fresh, especially for the time of year. like i said, that rain does clear away towards the north sea quite quickly, but there could be some strong winds associated with that around those north sea coastal parts. but once that wet weather clears through, there are going to be plenty of showers falling in behind, and some of them could be heavy, possibly thundery. some sunny spells in between, but also blustery winds adding to the relatively cool feel for july as we look towards sunday and again , we look towards sunday and again, we're going to see plenty of showers around. some of them could be heavy at times and these could affect both wimbledon and also the british grand prix at silverstone. again, the odd rumble of thunder possible and temperatures still on the low side for the time of yeah >> by that warm feeling inside from boxt boilers sponsors of weather on gb news .

weather on gb news. >> good morning. it's just gone 7:00. this is gb news. >> britain's election . >> britain's election. channel. not official yet , but you have not official yet, but you have a new government. labour has won the general election for 2024. >> we are live across the united kingdom. this is gb news. britain's election channel. i'm isabel webster, i'm eamonn holmes and this is the people deciding well it's a landslide night for labour and sir keir starmer as they win the general election. >> change begins now . and it >> change begins now. and it feels good. i have to be honest .

feels good. i have to be honest. >> the conservatives have faced their worst election defeat in a generation. former prime minister liz truss has lost her seat as she's the latest to go. >> labour party has won this general election , and i have general election, and i have called sir keir starmer to congratulate him on his victory. >> a big night for reform uk with large swings across the country as nigel farage richard tice both enter parliament. >> we will now be targeting labour votes. we're coming for labouh labour votes. we're coming for labour, be in no doubt about that. >> the liberal democrats improve on their 2019 result. ed davey picking up 47 seats and their total is now 69, 69, 69. we believe .

believe. >> now good morning. the election meteor has struck also, says mandelson this morning the tories are out . labour are in. tories are out. labour are in. it's been an astonishing night. let me tell you. results in for the labour party are 387 seats so far and they will govern the country for the next five years. >> well let's cross to downing street. our political editor, christopher hope, is there on this historic morning. christopher >> morning, edmund. yeah, i'm standing in. i can't believe it's. i was last here in the pounng it's. i was last here in the pouring rain when the then prime minister, rishi sunak, called to call the election. and i'm back here and it's still pouring with rain. but never mind. yeah, it might be raining here, but it's certainly sunny in the labour. the labour party this morning. you heard earlier from sir keir starmer over at the tate bankside. he called his his party's victory a sunlight of hope and the opportunity for forgetting, for this, for this country to get its future back. the values of a changed labour party, country first and party second. and certainly that is the feeling from the labour

party they have swept to power with a majority looking like 170. it looks like it was the election the tory party lost the reform uk party took a lot of their support away. it's a low turnout election, many seats decided by around half the electorate voting in each seat. and it looks like it's a defeat really firmly at the door of a tory party. labour have done enough to win a massive majority, but on a very, very small prospectus. quite a narrow change manifesto, but not saying that much. they're banking on getting the economy growing and then helping out. maybe some working families with tax cuts. but until then there's a lot to do. but you know, earlier was, was with, with, sir keir starmer, he looked delighted with his wife, lady victoria starmer. i give quite an emotional hug. i think in the tate bank. so they can't quite believe how big this majority is. i know those mrp polls had forecast a large majority for the labour party, but really to see it in the light of day is extraordinary. i earlier i did talk to lord kinnock, neil

kinnock of course, he was the labour leader in the 80s and he was saying it was a vindication of this change agenda. you've heard from sir keir starmer, they appealed for patience. what will happen, i think, with this party is a scale of the victory will mean there'll be pressure from the left to start making change quickly. and he's got to carry the country with him. that's sir keir starmer's challenge. we'll be hearing from him later. but right now in downing street, we're waiting for rishi sunak to appear. he'll make some remarks, probably in a lectern in front of number 10. we then go to the king and formally quit as prime minister and then it will be sir keir starmer's turn to enter downing street as prime minister. and it'll be around lunchtime today. >> certain poetry isn't there, or a book end to this, that the way that this election was announced by the prime minister on downing street looks like it's going to be the end of his tenure as well as prime minister. it's absolutely chucking it down. >> yeah, it really is. and i'm

here with the world's press, up and down and everyone's got their umbrellas out. it's pretty grim, it's kind of. yeah. given that i think given you think back to the 1997 victory of tony blair, when number 10 was bathed in sunlight. it's not like that. like that now at all. it's, feeling pretty. pretty grim here. i think it's a difficult, economy , a difficult, fiscal economy, a difficult, fiscal situation that sir keir starmer, inherits from the labour government. he he knows that there's a huge challenge, i think, of his government. it hasn't all been plain sailing, i should say. isabel for the labour party overnight. they have lost two labour front benches. jonathan ashworth lost a seat in leicester to an independent candidate. and thangam debbonaire in bristol lost her seat to the greens, so it hasn't been entirely plain sailing. but broadly, if you the parties share the vote hasn't really changed since the last election. what's happened is the tories, share has collapsed because of reform uk and they've lost well over well over half a

dozen cabinet ministers. so jacob rees—mogg , senior figures jacob rees—mogg, senior figures in the party are now leaving parliament. >> can we talk about the other winners, the lib dems done have done well so far and reform which you mentioned, they're huge. >> absolutely right. eamonn. the lib dems have done done very, very well. they've almost, i think increased by a factor of 6 or 7 in number of seats. they have, going towards i think six, 69 or 70 at the final count. yeah. no question . delight there yeah. no question. delight there from ed davey and his party and reform uk. now they were they were nothing. four years ago nigel farage became leader just nigel farage became leaderjust a month ago. they've now got four seats, including his own in clacton. richard tice of course, the chairman known to viewers of gb news, along with lee anderson, he's now the mp for ashfield for reform uk and rupert lowe, he's the mp in greater great yarmouth . and i greater great yarmouth. and i think what will be fascinating over the next five years, not least to see how this labour government, imprints its will on the uk and how it runs this country. but watching how the right reforms and whether in

fact reform uk can be the new voice of the right, as nigel farage has told us he wants to be, i should say that donald trump, his old friend, has has welcomed nigel farage's electoral electoral success in a different universe. of course, farage wouldn't be here. he'd be in america trying to help nigel farage, trying to help donald trump beat joe biden, but instead he's here. and now he's instead he's here. and now he's in parliament at the eighth time of asking. >> okay, christopher, thank you very much indeed. keep yourself dry, just latest results. labour on 410 seats. that's up 210. conservatives 114. that's down 247. then come the lib dems on 70 seats. the snp on seven and sinn fein, who won't take any of these seats, on seven. okay, let's cross to westminster . let's cross to westminster. ellie costello singing in the rain for us this morning. >> yes. very good morning to you, eamonn. and isabel. and

what a night it has been. and you can't deny this full circle moment, can you ? rishi sunak moment, can you? rishi sunak calling that election six weeks ago, in the pouring rain without ago, in the pouring rain without a brolly. we'll never forget that moment, will we? and now , that moment, will we? and now, six weeks later, he admits defeat . labour have won the 2024 defeat. labour have won the 2024 general election and again it is pounng general election and again it is pouring with rain here in westminster. we are expecting to hear rishi sunak return to london and hear him speak on the street on the steps of downing street . will he resign? we are street. will he resign? we are yet to see that, but he has accepted that it is his responsibility for the tory defeat that we have seen so far. we've also heard from sir keir starmer, who will be the next prime minister of the united kingdom, saying that change is coming and change is also coming to that building behind me. the house of commons and the composition of those benches in the house of commons will become

clearer as the morning goes on, but we are going to see many new faces. we're going to see many more labour mps now forming the government benches. way fewer tory mps now in opposition. four new faces the reform uk party so far and many independents , far and many independents, including jeremy corbyn. two. we lost so many familiar faces overnight, didn't we? who once formed the front benches of the government benches? sir jacob rees—mogg grant shapps penny mordaunt to just name a few. so the house of commons behind me is going to look very different in just a short amount of time and just down the road to my right here is downing street. when i was heading in this morning, already, crowds were forming with their phones out. they were taking pictures of this historic moment. they will be hoping to capture a glimpse of sir keir starmer when he makes that victory speech on the

steps of downing street a little bit later on this morning, and what a hectic schedule he is going to have today. tony blair famously had a nap at around this time, about 7:00 in the morning after his 1997 victory. could sir keir starmer be doing the same right now? who knows. but we will expect him to meet the king in around an hour's time when he heads to buckingham palace for that formal appointment with the king. then he will make his way to downing street, where there will be that victory speech i'm sure we're going to hear again about the change for this country and a changed labour party that we heard from overnight. he will then be setting out the priorities for the government the most pressing issues before taking phone calls from world leaders and appointing a cabinet. that is all to come later on. it culminates in him actually choosing a flat. will he choose the flat above number 10, or will he choose the bigger

flat over number 11 with his wife victoria and their two children? that is yet to be determined, but a very busy day for sir keir starmer, who says we are walking into a new dawn, into the sunlight of a new era. >> thank you ellie. and as ellie was just reporting there on a number of cabinet losses, the latest has just come in actually outgoing conservative work and pensions secretary mel stride bucking the trend. he's one devon central, beating labour and holding on to his seat by a margin of 61 votes. and we're also hearing the tory minister, steve baker, lost his seat in whickham to the labour candidate, emma reynolds. so thatis candidate, emma reynolds. so that is the latest that's coming in this morning in the last few minutes. okay. >> we go to scotland now glasgow tony maguire, good morning . tony maguire, good morning. >> good morning. good morning. what a blockbuster night. it's been here in glasgow in scotland as a whole actually just looking at the story that's made for the silver screen. all the narratives that played out over

the last 12 hours, we saw labour in 2019. they returned one mp well, this year they're on track to return around 40. and on the other side, the snp, who came into this election and when rishi sunak called it with 45 mps, well, they haven't even made a double digits. they're looking to return about eight. there are still around four seats left to declare . some big seats left to declare. some big names have lost their seats. in that case, joanna cherry. she won't be returning to parliament when mps are recalled . and when mps are recalled. and indeed, douglas has only just stepped down from leader of the scottish conservative party to remain as an mp for aberdeenshire north and moray east. well, he lost that seat in a rare snp gain . so all of these a rare snp gain. so all of these stories combining with alba losing both their mps, it's quite been quite a night for changes. but of course that big

story is labour, who will be taking this down, and anas sarwar, leader of scottish labouh sarwar, leader of scottish labour. he'll be hoping that all this goes into making sure scotland is at the core of this next labour government . next labour government. >> okay, thank you very much, sir keir starmer saying he wants to be a leader of all of the nations, not just of england, certainly seems to have got his wish when it comes to wales and scotland. let's introduce some of our panel who are sitting with us this morning. diana davis has stepped into the studio. good to see you. thanks for joining us. former mp of forjoining us. former mp of course, big liz truss fan. she's just made history again, this time for being the first former mp to lose her seat in. sorry prime minister. correct. yeah. prime minister. correct. yeah. prime minister. correct. yeah. prime minister to lose her seat in 90 years, >> an astonishing loss. >> an astonishing loss. >> i think her majority was either 23 or 26,000. >> there was a strong independent who was quite well known locally. who who stood against her. between that and the reform vote, i suppose it's no surprise, really, that she may have been under threat, but still a surprise that it

actually turned and she wasn't successful in keeping her seat because she was determined to do so. 50. >> so. >> and what do you think her sort of feeling will be this morning? and where will she go next and do you think many in the party will miss her? >> hard to say. i mean, i think the initial feeling will be, oh my gosh, you know, she's been an mp since i think 2010. that's a long stint and a huge life change is coming for her. so i think the initial reaction will be the personal. but knowing liz as i do, she won't dwell on that for long, what i hope we don't end up in is a situation of blame finger pointing further division. i was right all along. kind of rhetoric because i think at this point, it looks completely unedifying for a party that's just taken a massive loss. i hope we can just take a moment of reflection and figure out how we're going to come together. >> how long is a moment of reflection? because we're expecting at some point this morning, you know, under the clouds and rain on downing street, some sort of resignation from rishi sunak as pm, it's bound to be, what, 20 minutes before someone throws their hat

in the ring for the leadership contest? how long is your pause of reflection, do you think? >> well, hearing some of the victory speeches last night from individual mps , it feels like if individual mps, it feels like if you already have name and shame, i don't need to do i. i don't need to. your viewers are smart enough to figure that out for themselves. >> one of the names that won't be there, penny mordaunt of course, big, big name there. arlene. to have gone. >> yeah. and i think she would have certainly put her name forward for leadership , it's forward for leadership, it's interesting tom tugendhat did retain his seat. i think he'll figure in the mix, as, of course, will kemi badenoch and suella braverman. so those three, i think you'll definitely see their names coming forward and jeremy hunt, perhaps, and jeremy hunt, of course. yes. >> yeah. you're quite pressed. not only is jeremy hunt survived against the odds here, but everybody seems to be saying, by and large , decent guy, good and large, decent guy, good politician. >> well, i think he was in many ways when i was a minister. he was actually quite engaging with me across the department of health when i was in the department for, in the home office. so in that sense, i

worked quite well with him, look, i mean, the situation with the conservative party, thinking about that for a moment is, is are they going to go to the nigel farage end of the spectrum, or are they going to come back to the centre where the elections traditionally are won? and i think they've got to make up their minds which one they want to do. >> lord johnson, boris johnson's brother, joe. yes, gave a speech overnight saying that we need to learn the lessons overnight and move back to the centre where elections were won, like in 2010. but he's been pretty much a lone voice, and i suspect if i was to put money on it, which obviously nobody is encouraged to do, given everything that's been going on in recent weeks, i would say they're probably more likely to go towards the right. >> well, it depends on the makeup of the mps and who's actually there. >> but what we've seen so far of who's in there, i mean, the only sort of big one nation is that i can think of that's still there. jeremy hunt, tom tugendhat. >> yeah, i mean, i it's not for me to comment on the conservative party, particularly. >> i'd much rather tell you that the dems won from eight seats to 70. but, as far as the tories

are concerned, i mean, the issue is somewhat seem to me that the tory mps are generally more moderate than the tory membership. >> labour peer lord glasman, is here as well, and you're the man we should all be turning our eyes to congratulating you on this today. >> what do you think this government will be like under keir starmer? >> well, i think you're going to see a labour government. i never considered tony blair to be a labour leader. i think it was as that thatcherism , globalisation that thatcherism, globalisation was great, technology was great. new labour it was it was kind of revolting. and i think keir is different. i think keir is really different, and this is a proper labour government . we proper labour government. we understand that globalisation is over , we, he's asserted to over, we, he's asserted to explore the possibilities of brexit, that we're not returning to the eu and hankering after that. this means we can have an industrial strategy. this means we can build houses. this means we can build houses. this means we can build houses. this means we can really support ukraine in this war. that's the direction i think it's going to go in, and that's an admirable direction.

>> the thing that gets me, though, is the man is deadly dull . he's not, he's not. you dull. he's not, he's not. you don't look at him and say, you know, you've got eamonn eamonn, eamonn. >> clement attlee was the most bonng >> clement attlee was the most boring man you could ever have met in your life. >> clement attlee, he was the labour mp after the war. >> i know before you were born and he nationalised steel, nationalised railways, national and he was a dullard , a total and he was a dullard, a total dullard. look howard wilson wasn't really a delight in that way. labour prime ministers aren't like , conservative, like aren't like, conservative, like margaret thatcher's very presidential. that's what i mean. blair was very presidential. keir starmer is going to be a labour prime minister. we're going to see a cabinet. you're going to see arguments in the cabinet, arguments in the cabinet, arguments over direction , a much arguments over direction, a much more traditional form of labour politics. >> very interesting that you say here because norman and arlene , here because norman and arlene, people often say britain is going the way of america. we're becoming our elections are becoming our elections are becoming more presidential. but if that was the case, i don't think starmer would have would have won. >> well, i mean , starmer won for >> well, i mean, starmer won for all sorts of reasons, including

the dislike of the conservative party. but i mean, look, i mean, the media plays its own role when they present it as do you want, you know, these debates rishi sunak versus keir starmer, the whole thing is made presidential. and the papers reported in that way, and the days of clement attlee, which were about policy, aren't there in the same. it's all a bit trivial, which is why you about politics, what we're going to see is a lot more politics. >> there's going to be, you know, to alert you. the tensions within labour are going to be those who hanker like you for returning to the eu and those who are adamantly opposed to that, those who say, oh, well, what we need to do is more knowledge economy. and those who say, no, we need vocational training, it's going to be a really political, he said. >> it's the end of performative politics. and that was really a dig, wasn't it, that these people that are all about soundbites, but not necessarily about robert buckland said as well, right at the beginning the evening. >> but i mean, the problem with that analysis is that we have i and we have new technology going forward. i mean, that's going to be the biggest challenge for me of government. >> why, why with i the key with

al is to integrate that with ai is to integrate that with production. that's the whole point with al. yeah, but you can't. and so i think what you'll see if, if my conversations mean anything within the party, is a real move to establishing a proper ai centre, maybe in newcastle , and centre, maybe in newcastle, and then that would be integrated into weapons production because of the war in ukraine. now demands. and we've got trump coming. we're assuming trump's going to win. so the uk is going to have to move it. so after brexit, the paradox is the uk will lead europe. and to do that we've got to have that kind of industrial strategy. so this is but it has to be a modern industrial showing. >> this goes back to george brown. >> we haven't had one since george brown in 64. yeah. it's time for that to the world has changed. but what you're seeing is traditional labour government. >> morris is saying the world has changed and maybe politics has changed and maybe politics has changed. but when you were first minister in northern ireland, you i thought you were very commanding. i thought you

had a very good presence. but i didn't see you as personality politics or presidential in that way. would i be right or wrong? >> well, i hope not, because it's a party system. i mean, you lead a party and you become. and of course, northern ireland is different from the other devolved administrations because we have a mandatory coalition. so you're actually in a coalition with people who are diametrically opposed to what what you believe. well we understand that in the labour party. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> and we'll understand it more in the next few years. >> well, maybe we'll see more of that. >> mars in the labour party. >> mars in the labour party. >> it's always been that way. when i first went in canvassing in 1987 and i knocked on the door and this woman answered the door and this woman answered the door and this woman answered the door and i said, are you voting for me? she said, you've done a fantastic job locally. i was in the council at the time and i said, oh, you're voting for me? she said, no, i'm voting for mrs. thatcher. and i said, but she's not on the ballot paper. and she said, i'm still voting for her. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> can we talk about the other big discussion, which a lot of people, particularly for your party, norman? i mean, i know you're not standing or involved

with the lib dems anymore, but we're looking at the vote share versus the number of seats you've got for big part of the story today. and we're looking at the lib dems on something like 12% share, but 68 or 70 seats at the last count. >> reform reform. >> reform reform. >> yeah. reform getting 14% of the share and only four seats. there'll be a lot of people who voted for a form who will feel very fed up. the lib dems have done much. >> no, no, no, don't pick on the lib dems because the lib dems, the lib dem percentage is roughly equal to the number of seats we're going to get. if we get 12% of the vote, we're going to get roughly 12% of the seats, pick on the labour party, actually, because they've got 34% of the vote and a massive, massive majority. >> and we and we will completely defend first past the post. absolutely. >> because you've just got a majority. >> not for that reason. >> not for that reason. >> because what we what we see is that if you go to a system of party lists, you get the kind of horrible european politics, gridlock which is now leading france into le pen, germany to the afd, a connection to please stand before your people get elected. >> you can have that as well. scottish parliament has got a system that works quite well.

>> i don't think the way scotland's been governed really. >> i was looking at the ed davey thing. i was very critical of the way he ran the campaign. these bungee jumps and on rafts. every time he was doing some stunt every day and it was becoming a i didn't. i personally didn't like it. i think he's a very intelligent man. whatever but it seems to have paired off well, it's nice to know at least one person was having fun every day on the election campaign this year, wasn't it? >> and he certainly was. i think there's something to be said for getting in the media and reminding people of your presence through whatever, whatever means, and these sort of stunts, much as they're a little bit silly, certainly do that. it meant the lib dems, in one way or another, were in the media. i don't know, a single person that wasn't saying, oh yeah, and yet, look at the votes and look at the number of seats won. woi'i. >> won. >> beautiful revenge drama between the coalition partners, between the coalition partners, between conservatives and lib dems. you know, in 2015, you know, the lib dems got completely stuffed by the coalition partners and now they've returned. the big story is just the disintegration of

your parties. now, i've got to say it again , it's not say it again, it's not generational. you did it again. the worst defeat in a generation. it's the it's the worst defeat in 200 years. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> one of the bulwarks of our system, the tory party is decimated in its heartlands . it decimated in its heartlands. it has no heartlands left. this is the consequence . and the the consequence. and the consequence of that is going to be much bigger than anything keir starmer has. >> yeah. the best lib dem result in over 100 years actually. >> yeah. that's, that's the point is that the lib dems have moved into the disintegrated. so it's not just, you know, the populist parties. i like to say, you know, reform the lib dems. they move into the empty spaces left by the collapse of. >> i also think it's important that we look at what's happening in wales, scotland and northern ireland. so wales total wipe—out for the conservative party, which is interesting because the whole conservative campaign have been look at the labour record in wales and yet they didn't work and it didn't work. and in scotland i think the snp are down to eight seats. i mean that is quite incredible. that is

quite incredible. >> labour is the party of the union completely. >> well, i hope that's right, maurice. that's the point. i was coming to. >> i very much hope that's the case. >> the truth of it, we are now back in scotland. we are really dominant in wales, so we look forward to them as the largest party. now it's time for northern ireland to be integrated into the british political. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> what do you think of the fact the representation and the conservative representation in northern ireland? >> well, the conservative party at least put themselves forward in northern ireland, not in very many seats. they put themselves forward in a handful of seats, but at least they're there and there's a conservative presence there. and they're trying to bnng there. and they're trying to bring up what really irks me. and i know it used to very much irk my colleague in the lords, kate hoey. she was a great advocate for getting labour organised within northern ireland, i think. and if you believe in the union, then you should be standing in all parts of the union. well, hold that thought. >> i want to talk a little bit about nigel farage. a historic night for reform for him. he's tried eight times. he now has a

democratic mandate. let's have a listen to what he had to say when he won. >> therefore, do hereby declare that nigel paul farage is duly elected as the member of parliament for the clacton constituency and what is interesting is there's no enthusiasm for labour. >> there's no enthusiasm for starmer whatsoever in fact, about half of the vote is simply an anti—conservative vote. this labour government will be in trouble very, very quickly and we will now be targeting labour votes. we're coming for labour. be in no doubt about that . be in no doubt about that. >> go to clacton on sea in essex, where nigel farage was making that speech a little bit earlier on in the night, and speak to mark white, who's been there for us all throughout everything. and gosh, he is coming for labour. >> yeah, that's his warning. anyway, he intends to come after labouh anyway, he intends to come after labour. they believe that they did make some inroads into the labour vote, as well as , of

labour vote, as well as, of course, the conservative vote. and as far as the conservative vote is concerned, then at least 120 of the seats that the conservatives lost , then the conservatives lost, then the reform gain was greater than the margin that the conservatives lost. by now . that's not to say lost. by now. that's not to say that, all of these seats would have been won by the conservatives had it not been for reform. of course it's not. but they will without a doubt have made some significant impact there on the conservative vote. there's no doubt about that. and i think from nigel farage's point of view, although they will be very pleased that they will be very pleased that they have got at least four mps returned to parliament. it was being predicted actually last night that it would be as many as 13, but that's been revised down now, i think from , nigel down now, i think from, nigel farage's point of view , they

farage's point of view, they will be disappointed that they got a share of the vote of about 15, which is greater than the 12% share of the vote that the liberal democrats got. but they have returned far fewer mps than the 70 odd that the liberal democrats are on course now to return. so that, they say, just emphasises how the first past the post voting system is completely unfair, to parties like reform. and they will be campaigning, as a key, mission of the new reform mps and all of the others within the party in the others within the party in the years ahead for some kind of electoral reform. and interestingly, of course , interestingly, of course, labouh interestingly, of course, labour, many within labour were actually very sympathetic towards voter reform for quite some time. but now, with such a

stonking majority , i wonderjust stonking majority, i wonderjust how vocal, those previous enthusiasts for voting reform will be. >> well, penny, thanks very much indeed. mark. leave it there, that's a win for nigel farage. it's a loss for penny mordaunt, former leader of the house of commons, she has lost her seat tonight. >> the conservative party has taken a battering because it failed to honour the trust that people had placed in it. failed to honour the trust that people had placed in it . you can people had placed in it. you can speak all you like of security and freedom, but you can't have ehheh and freedom, but you can't have either. if you are afraid. afraid about the cost of living or accessing health care , or or accessing health care, or whether the responsibility you shoulder will be recognised and rewarded, that fear steals the future, and it only makes the

present matter. and that is why we lost . we lost. >> was penny mordaunt in portsmouth north and ray addison is there for us. this morning she looked down, fallen there, didn't she ? didn't she? >> she certainly did. >> she certainly did. >> well, you mentioned there that she was obviously the leader of the house before the general election, and we saw her on many an occasion wielding that ceremonial sword. but it was labour that cut her down to size overnight here in portsmouth, with her constituency of portsmouth north, and it was local teacher amanda martin for labour. that was her challenger back in 2019 and she finally triumphed, this time , but by a very narrow time, but by a very narrow margin , around 780 votes and margin, around 780 votes and reform coming in third. they got around 8500 votes. so making a potentially significant difference there to penny's vote

count. now it was a swing , they count. now it was a swing, they said. they said before this vote that it would need a swing of around 17% to labour for penny to be unseated. so that is certainly what we saw. but the turnout was down around 64% back in 2019, just 59% here this time. and talking to people here on the streets of portsmouth, here in the early hours of the morning, a lot of apathy, a lot of people just not following the general election. a lot of people actually hadn't ever heard of penny mordaunt, despite, her very strong campaigning. and of course, those times that she deputised for the prime minister in those general election debates that we all saw as well. now, in that speech, you heard a clip of it there, penny mordaunt, saying, admitting that the tories, in her words, had taken a battering, but stressing that democracy is never wrong. and she accused the conservatives there of failing to honour the

trust that people had placed in it and leaving the public afraid over issues such as the cost of living and the national health service as well. now penny morden urged those remaining tories who kept their seats to carry on fighting , but she also carry on fighting, but she also issued a warning to her party. two she said that the conservatives renewal will not be achieved by to talking an ever smaller slice of itself. so for now, of course, it is goodbye to penny mordaunt and it does seem, just a few weeks ago that we were talking about her as a serious potential replacement for the prime minister, former prime minister rishi sunak. however, of course , rishi sunak. however, of course, that seems a very long time ago now, and her team certainly looking absolutely devastated , looking absolutely devastated, >> overnight, some reaction as to what sort of loss penny

mordaunt will be down. what do you think i think of all of the sort of big name results this evening. >> i think penny's lost to me was probably the most devastating. i think her character, what she stands for, the manner in which she holds herself with dignity. she represents the very best of the conservative party, and she represents patriotism and optimism and obviously was a brexiteer. and it just struck me that, you know , democracy is that, you know, democracy is democracy. people should vote as they see fit. but if you wanted a true patriot vote in reform meant that penny mordaunt lost her. >> she also had a profile. i mean, particularly the king's coronation standing with that man. absolutely. and whatever i wouldn't have the arm strength for that. >> i don't know about you guys. >> i don't know about you guys. >> yeah. no, no. >> can i understand that again? >> can i understand that again? >> but again as well. >> but again as well. >> she made a name for herself for just for her sartorial choices. >> i would just say that every interaction i ever had with penny, right from being a candidate years ago for the very first time, right up to the last time i saw her in the house, was just wonderful. a delightful person, so supportive and really

committed. so i think for me, as i say of the big names, the biggest loss of the night for me and as that her done with politics, do you think? well, she said she's going to continue to serve her community. i hope it's not her done with politics. i do hope that she will, go back, gather her thoughts and seek to come back because she's a great talent. she's a great voice of conservatism, and i think we need her. >> right. okay. we're now going to our news. west midlands reporter jack carson this morning, big shock there, as to a labour loss, you're going to tell us about. >> well of course labour across birmingham have done quite well today, we know of course, in eight of the nine constituencies they've of course held their vote share . interestingly, of vote share. interestingly, of course, we know how much of an issue of course, palestine was to a lot of the people within the communities around birmingham this year. how much of a issue it was that was coming up on the doorstep? anger

from a lot of people of course, towards, labour on the doorstep. for keir starmer's stance over that, israel hamas conflict. but what we've seen really , actually what we've seen really, actually is also quite extraordinary . is also quite extraordinary. boos, chants of free palestine from those pro—palestine, members of those candidates chanting, booing , labour chanting, booing, labour candidates winning. i mean, jess phillips had to, you know, have her speech interrupted and people removed from the hall because of the reaction. she was getting. she said to those boos that i understand a strong woman standing up to you is met with such reticence, she told about in her acceptance speech about dunng in her acceptance speech about during her campaign that just yesterday, a woman that was working for her delivering leaflets was screamed at by an older man and then had her tires slashed. so this has not been a campaign just phillips said. which has been well, she said it was the worst campaign, essentially, that she's ever tried to fight. now labour doing

well, of course, to retain the seats that they've got. but of course, as i was saying, that's pro—palestine independent candidates, those workers party, of great britain candidates really diminishing the majorities of these labour candidates in what really are strong labour seats, particularly in liam byrne's seat of course, he was elected to the newly created seat with a new boundary changes of birmingham hodge hill and solly solly hull. he got a majority of just over 1500, with the workers party candidate getting 9000 votes, him on 10,655. we spoke to liam byrne after that declaration . declaration. >> patient to get on with things. you know , the tory things. you know, the tory government for the last 14 years has battered birmingham to bits. the bitter legacy of austerity has drained the hope out of so many people in our city. now we have a labour government . have a labour government. >> of course, that was liam

byrne speaking after they're now conservatives of course, had gained birmingham northfield in the 2019 general election on that brexit issue. gary sambrook, the mp there with only a 1600 vote majority, he did lose his seat to the labour candidate, lawrence turner. now, of course, we know and have been studying that impact across the country overnight, haven't we? the impact of reform splitting the conservative vote. gary sambrook spoke to us after that declaration. >> we did say to people, if you vote reform, you're going to get a labour mp. >> and that's exactly what's happened tonight. labour's vote fell by over 4500 votes in my constituency, the lowest ever recorded labour vote in birmingham northfield. but nearly 8000 people voted reform. and that's what opened the doorway to labour. getting back in. >> thank you very much, jack, for that update. fascinating picture. so it's not been plain sailing everywhere for labour overnight. thanks very much . overnight. thanks very much. somewhere where labour has been incredibly successful though is

incredibly successful though is in wales. let's speak to our national reporter, theo chikomba . national reporter, theo chikomba. not a single blue seat left as far as i'm aware . far as i'm aware. >> that's right. it's been a historic night here in wales. we're in monmouthshire , where we're in monmouthshire, where catherine fookes was announced as the winner just after 5:30. >> this morning, and she won the seat here in this area, a seat which had been, david davies seat for over around 20 years. now it's a it's a night. we've been seeing the results right across the uk. but here in wales people have voted for labour. it's the first time we are seeing a woman take this position in parliament, and only three times in around 100 years that labour has been voted in here. now catherine won this morning with just over 3000 votes and that is now taking her

forward as the labour mp for this area. now, throughout the night we were asking the question, will there be a tory wipe—out? and that was confirmed just after 545 this morning as david davies lost his seat and a number of other former welsh secretaries also lost their seats. so not looking good for the tory party here in wales. but it's certainly a night to celebrate for the labour party . celebrate for the labour party. >> theo, thank you very much indeed , arlene fosterjust indeed, arlene foster just looking at that welsh situation and you can understand from a devolved point of view , what devolved point of view, what what do you make of how the conservatives have been wiped out there? >> yeah, it's quite an incredible story. and, you know, the conservatives were targeting labour and saying if you want to see what labour will be like in westminster, just take a look at what's going on in wales and the devolved administration has actually boomeranged back on them actually. >> so what does that make of

their campaign? yeah i mean yeah. >> no, absolutely. but i'm just saying boomeranged back on them actually, because they were actually, because they were actually pointing to labour as a disaster in wales and actually labour have, you know, completely swept the board . completely swept the board. >> well, suella braverman she managed to hold on to her seat overnight, and she used her speech to apologise for not listening to the public. >> i'm sorry that my party didn't listen to you. the conservative party has let you down. you, the great british people, voted for us over 14 years and we did not keep our promises . promises. >> oh, interesting fighting talk always from suella braverman dehenna davison. what do you make of that? i mean, she'd written over the weekend and in the press recently sort of overtures to reform. there was lots of commentary that she may well either move to reform or defect or whatever it might be.

what do you make of what she said there and where she might go in the future? leadership or defection? >> i think her legal background was coming out there because the wording she used was very careful. there was an apology, but it wasn't. i'm sorry that we didn't listen to you. i'm sorry. the conservative party sort of detaching herself from any responsibility. and let's bear in mind she talks about immigration. she was home secretary. she could have got a grip. she could have stood up against cabinet. she could have, you know, resigned in a much more spectacular fashion. she didn't she didn't get a grip over him. >> do you think she could have done? of course. and she wasn't a particularly successful home secretary. i was not on his issue, but she wasn't a very successful thing. she could have done. she didn't do. but it was interesting. she said she wasn't listening to the public or the conservative party, not listen to the public. my question is, which bit of the public does she mean? does she mean the people on the farage end of the spectrum, or does she mean the people in the middle like jeremy hunt, >> and that is the question. >> and that is the question. >> and i think this is the soul searching the party has to do. and i think at some point we

have to make a decision on where we're going to pitch ourselves. we can be a coalition, we can be a broad church, and we always will be. but at some point, our messaging has to be consistent and focus like an arrow. and it's going to have to come down on one side. >> nigel farage focus the mind on that. so anybody who wants to be further right could could join reform, you know, frankly. and there's potentially the argument that lord johnson was making boris johnson's brother, who obviously not in the commons anymore, but he was saying elections are won in the centre ground. we have to learn from this. that's what happened in 2010. he wants the to party move back that way. and now reform is offering an option for those who aren't there. do you think that it could pan out that way? >> we'll see. i mean, a week's a long time in politics, so let's see what happens over the next 12 months. right. but i, i do agree with joe johnson, which is something i don't think i've ever said before in that i do think for the most part, elections are won in the centre ground. bear in mind we didn't just lose votes to reform here. we lost votes to the lib dems. we lost votes to the lib dems. we lost votes to the greens, we lost votes to labour. >> but can i? which maybe a

breaking line that reform has come second in 98 seats so far, which is, you know, large number. >> yeah. but we came second. a lot more is my point. and we lost votes all over. and so if we just pan directly to one side, i feel we are setting ourselves up for a catastrophic failure because we will not be reform. we can't out reform reform. >> the british public, in my view, is, is marginally centre left. others might argue it's marginally centre right. either way it's in the centre, and if you go and chase in the extremes, you lose. that's what happened to jeremy corbyn in the labour party. and that's what's happened with the conservative party chasing, chasing reform in 2019. >> i mean, you won an enormous victory. it wasn't from the centre ground, though, was it? >> i don't think there was a reform candidate against the conservatives. >> that's the point. >> that's the point. >> if i may. i think 2019, there were two core messages brexit and levelling up and levelling up is absolutely central. there was also levelling up in the opportunity. >> the opponent, which also focused minds, is a much more leftist socialist idea of using the state in order to reach opportunity. >> but this is my point. opportunity. >> but this is my point . you're >> but this is my point. you're saying we veered off to the right in 2019. >> you were left, you were left and right. levelling up was a very ambitious project. you

absolutely failed to do it, by the way. >> no, the issue in the 2019, in this election now is the reforms . this election now is the reforms. intervention has given starmer a whole lot of seats. you wouldn't have otherwise had. and equally, the reforms refusal to challenge conservative mps or conservative candidates in 2019 gave boris johnson an artificially high majority. >> okay, >> okay, well, >> okay, well, we're >> okay, well, we're going >> okay, well, we're going to cross to nana akua , who is with cross to nana akua, who is with her people's panel up in richmond. of course, that is the constituency of rishi sunak. and she can give us a little flavour of reaction there because although he won nana up in north yorkshire, he might well be resigning as prime minister a little bit later on. he might stay on as leader until somebody else can take over, but one sense is that he will not be mp there for very much longer. >> well, i mean , that's the way >> well, i mean, that's the way it goes. but i mean, we'll see. but i've been here so long, isabel, that they've offered me a job. these kitten heels, darling. right. so listen , this darling. right. so listen, this is my people's panel. we have been talking about electioneering. how do you feel,

penny? more no, no, no . grant penny? more no, no, no. grant shapps are devastated. gillian keegan. well, you know, jacob rees—mogg. >> no. >> no. >> pleased to see him go. you're pleased to see him go? why? >> oh my goodness. haunted victorian pencil or whatever they call him. no, gladstone . they call him. no, gladstone. >> you can't call him that. that's not fair. >> is there anyone that you wish would have kept their seat? is there anyone that you think is worthy in the conservative party no no, no no no no. so reform have done really well. they've come second in 98 seats so far. are you pleased with that result seeing as three of you, ian will and also you dan, you all voted reform. are you pleased to see that they came second in 98 seats? yeah. >> i mean, it's a good way to kick off. looking forward to the following election. it's a strong start. i don't think they expected to win by any means, so they certainly set themselves up for the future. hopefully they

keep to their manifesto and their strengths and they listen to the people. that's the key. >> well, that is a key thing. and what i. listen to the people. do you think that that's the main reason why the conservatives aren't here? >> it's a shame for reform that so all those votes only translates to four seats i think is a bit of shame. >> but the liberal democrats now, they've done well over 70 seats. yeah >> very well, i'm a bit devastated that our representative didn't get their seat , it was representative didn't get their seat, it was swings and roundabouts between, lib dem and reform, but i went for, and i thought, i thought daniel had it in the bag. >> well, from a labour government, anything specifically , justly . specifically, justly. >> tighten up the borders, tighten up the borders.

>> i'd like to see labour do a bit more than they promised, to be honest. yeah. they've got a great job. >> briefly. >> briefly. >> more support, basically for small businesses. >> shall i do an update on to deal with import ? deal with import? >> well, listen, thank you very much guys . you've been a much guys. you've been a fabulous people's panel. stay with us. we will be back in a little while and give you more updates here in rishi sunak's constituency of richmond, north yorkshire. >> nana thank you. beth mead arlene foster how long do you think it will remain rishi sunak's constituency? >> well, i think it was very interesting that when he made his acceptance speech, he he nailed that because a lot of people thought he would leave and go to america and what have you.so and go to america and what have you. so he said, i will be back in my constituency. i will be here for weeks, months and years. those are the words he used. so that must mean that he is going to stay. and it's something that people have been talking about for quite some time. >> and do you think it's credible that he should stay as leader of the opposition? >> no, i don't think he'll stay as leader of the opposition. i think he'll probably stay until the transition takes place. and

i know that that's what the tory members would want him to do, he may decide he wants to go immediately, but he'll he'll he'll not stay as the leader of the opposition. >> well, certainly he'll have to move out of number 10 and jeremy hunt as well, even though he held on to his seat interestingly, in godalming and ash. and it's being reported that a white van has been spotted outside downing street, euros self—drive apparently read into that. what you will van and truck is parked outside there and world's media all ruthless. >> it's no time at all, no time at all. >> and the world's media get their umbrellas. and again, you know, we saw what a lot of people described as a disastrous launch of this election campaign from rishi sunak soaked by the rain. but we might say, see him saying goodbye in exactly the same circumstances this morning. he's got a deadline. he's got to be at buckingham palace for 11:00, his wife and children ianed 11:00, his wife and children invited to that as well. they'll persevere through, through all weathers, will they? yes. >> get the vans out, >> get the vans out, >> has an umbrella or something? this time, because that was. look, he's he's had quite an accident prone campaign, as we no doubt about that. that's

exacerbated what was always going to be a difficult situation for us. but i think when a moment comes for a prime minister to concede defeat and when they lose and their family are beside them, we saw we saw it with theresa may, we saw it with david cameron, we saw it with david cameron, we saw it with gordon brown. you know, it's always impossible . i think it's always impossible. i think whatever your political views, not to feel a degree of sort of sympathy and empathy for a prime minister who's nigel, what do you see as this future, future being, well, as arlene said, he was pretty clear that he was going to stay, and i don't think he would have included that in the speech if he didn't intend to stay as mp. the difficulty sometimes is, a few months in their thoughts can change. so david cameron had planned to stay as a backbench mp at least until the next election . but a until the next election. but a few months in, he just felt that actually this wasn't going to work. >> and why does it not work, nigel? why why? >> because they feel that anything they say on the backbenches becomes seen as a criticism in some way, and that they're sort of undermining their success, works for theresa may. >> she stayed quite a long time.

>> she stayed quite a long time. >> i think it depends on gordon brown. >> ted, ted heath famously stayed for many elections after he'd been defeated, as it was only only because he wouldn't make sure that margaret thatcher had gone. >> well, that's right. >> well, that's right. >> i think he wanted to make sure he outlasted her. >> but. so theresa may has, but i think she was more a more passionate parliamentarian. you know, tony blair went to really as soon as he could once he stopped being prime minister. it depends on the individual. but rishi sunak certainly at the moment signalled that he intends to stay. >> theresa may did it with real dignity, though, didn't she? i mean, she was able to stay back as a backbencher and come across as a backbencher and come across as a backbencher and come across as a statesman, that's why. what? and the house stopped immediately. she started speaking because she knew there'd be some wisdom there. it depends on the character. david cameron. i never expected to hang around. tony blair was never going to going to hang around. >> what do you have expected rishi to hang around? >> i don't think i, i don't think i expect rishi sunak to hang around. he's got to say, if you stand for election, he can very well say , well, look, i'm very well say, well, look, i'm off. thanks very much. i'm off 100. yeah. so i think he stays around for a short time, but not

for that long. >> i think he deserves credit, frankly, for saying that and for staying for five years. if he does stay for five years because, you know, everybody says as an mp they want to represent their constituency in london constituency. well, you know, you were elected for your constituency and you should serve your constituency. and you know , disappearing off as soon know, disappearing off as soon as you lose an election. it's not it's not really a lot of people. >> hint that he's not really a politician. no. he's more a business person . what do you think? >> well, i think there's some truth in that. and actually, i don't think keir starmer is a politician either, particularly, i think he's more a bureaucrat. but i mean, you know, i think to credit credit rishi sunak, i mean he fought as best he could. it was gaffe prone, his campaign. but he was out there trying to do stuff all the way through. so as mel stride, the rest of the tories seemed to have given up, frankly, from the front bench. so you deserve some credit for that. and arlene, we were talking about what's next for rishi sunak. >> what do you think is for next jeremy hunt? i mean, he's got through by an absolute squeak. you were suggesting he might put his hat in the ring, possibly to run for leadership. we know he's

always wanted that post. and i suppose there's a big debate, which is un yet clear which way the party is going to go. but what sort of leader they're going to want? >> well, they'll have to decide how long the leadership election is going to be, you'll remember the truss sunak election took place over the summer. it was quite a long period of time. i'm not sure, george, you would think that's a good thing for the party to have. as long a leadership election again. but remember, the tory mps decide on on two people, so they have to do the first bit and then it goes out to the membership. and the membership is a completely different animal from the mps. >> and they think differently. >> and they think differently. >> they think differently as well. and i think george would concede that that's the case. >> i think there's another big difference. yeah. when we did that last leadership campaign over the summer, you know, it was when we were in government were also choosing a prime minister and there was immense media interest. let's be blunt, no one's going to be particularly interested. and so the party does have the luxury if they want to take a bit longer. and the real big question is whether they could persuade rishi sunak to stay that, that that long. yeah, i know that defeated party leaders immediately after an election.

to be honest. they do want to draw a line under it and get out of that role and let somebody else. >> but it's a quiet time in the parliamentary calendar, isn't it? well, don't think so. >> but i mean , the calendar is >> but i mean, the calendar is going to change immediately that, starmer has been talking about, hitting the ground running for the first 100 days now, in a couple of weeks time , now, in a couple of weeks time, we go, the parliament goes into recess. yes. and it's not meant to come back until the middle of september. i don't believe that for a moment. i think that the mps are not going to be able to get their holidays this year. >> oh, interesting. >> oh, interesting. >> that'll make him popular. >> that'll make him popular. >> yeah. after a long election campaign, i have to say. >> what was your story , arlene, >> what was your story, arlene, when you were first minister? i mean, were you able to hang around afterwards? did you hang around? did you want to? >> no, i didn't, i left on june the 14th. i didn't , i stayed, the 14th. i didn't, i stayed, and i made it clear that i was going completely after that. and i left in october. then as mla , i left in october. then as mla, because it is very difficult and this is the point to go back to being a backbench, mla , mp,

being a backbench, mla, mp, because i had only ever been a frontbench, i'd only ever been a minister. so when i was elected, i went straight into ministerial office. so it would have been very difficult for me. particularly in my circumstances, the manner in which i left it would have been incredibly difficult for me to have said . have said. >> yeah, yeah, no, i understand that. yeah. so what other issues have we got to look forward to now ? this big, massive labour now? this big, massive labour majority and how will it be used? >> they need to be very careful not to assume that the massive majority, in terms of seats, represents a massive endorsement from the public, because you've got 34% of the vote, 1 in 3 people have voted for labour. would they have to take that into mind? >> would they? >> would they? >> they'd be wise to. they'd be wise to. >> but they can totally ignore that. >> they can a couple of years they can. >> but big, big majorities, as francis pym finally said, as mrs. thatcher, big majorities aren't very good for the government itself , aren't very good for the government itself, and aren't very good for the government itself , and they're government itself, and they're in danger of doing two things. one, being very arrogant at the front, through the primaries in

the cabinet and secondly, the backbenchers feel they can have lots of rebellions because the labour party is going to win the votes. now, they may not do that. maybe starmer's an approach which will not do that, but i fear that there are two pitfalls you need to try and avoid. >> okay, all right. well let's just give a little wrap up of where we are just before we head to the weather at labour at the moment, 409 seats, the conservatives on 120, the lib dems on 71, snp on eight, reform on four. this is for labour. a landslide . mendelssohn calling landslide. mendelssohn calling it an election meteor. this is , it an election meteor. this is, though, the lowest share that labour have won with lower than corbyn in 2017. worst night for the tories since the 1800s liz truss, first former prime minister to lose her seat in 90 years and a record number of cabinet ministers voted out. i can run through some of those, defence secretary grant shapps out, penny mordaunt a leadership contender. she's out . gillian contender. she's out. gillian keegan, education secretary out. mark harper , transport secretary mark harper, transport secretary out. jacob rees—mogg , another

out. jacob rees—mogg, another big name johnny mercer, interestingly, the chancellor, jeremy hunt, managed to hold on to his seat . jeremy hunt, managed to hold on to his seat. might he go for leadership? and there's also a couple of losses. a couple of scalps for labour, jonathan ashworth and thangam debbonaire. jess phillips just managing to hold on to her seat. that's the story of the night so far and the story of the morning is we are right now. >> here's the weather back after this. >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar, sponsors of weather on gb. >> news . >> news. >> news. >> morning. here's your latest gb news. weather forecast coming to you from the met office. plenty of showers to come as we go through this weekend, but first we have some fairly wet weather across southern areas today. heavy persistent rain affecting some southern parts. some of that is going to clear away for a time, but more pulses of wet weather pushing in from the southwest. further north scotland, northern ireland, northern england seeing quite a

few showers, perhaps not as many as yesterday and then in between these two zones, something a little bit drier and sunnier across central northern england and wales. and here we're likely to get the highest temperatures, just about getting into the low 20s, but for many feeling a bit cool for the time of year. as we head towards this evening, we are going to see more wet weather feeding in across parts of central southern england and wales. staying dry across northern parts of england and wales to end the day, but still plenty of showers for northern ireland and scotland. some of them could be a little bit on them could be a little bit on the heavy side. and do watch out for some blustery winds, most likely out towards the north sea and particularly the far north—east of the uk. more wet weather then feeding its way north eastwards across much of england and wales overnight. so a pretty wet night to come for many, but that should quite quickly start to clear away towards the north sea as we head through towards dawn on saturday, as we see quite a bit of unsettled weather around temperatures not dropping a huge amount, but it is going to be a little bit fresh, especially for the time of year. like i said,

that rain does clear away towards the north sea quite quickly, but there could be some strong winds associated with that around those north sea coastal parts. but once that wet weather clears through , there weather clears through, there are going to be plenty of showers following in behind and some of them could be heavy, possibly thundery. some sunny spells in between, but also blustery winds adding to the relatively cool feel

across the united kingdom. this is gb news vote 2024. the people decide . people decide. >> and a very good morning to you on this friday morning, you the country has a new government. labour has won the general election. >> we're live across the united kingdom . this is gb news kingdom. this is gb news britain's election channel. i'm isabel webster, i'm eamonn holmes and this is vote 2024. >> the people decide. >> the people decide. >> well it's a landslide for labour and sir keir starmer as they win the general election. >> change begins now . and it >> change begins now. and it feels good. i have to be honest . feels good. i have to be honest. >> derivatives have faced their worst defeat in a general election and in a generation,

this 15 cabinet members and hundreds of tory mps lose their seats, including a former prime minister, liz truss. >> labour party has won this general election and i have called sir keir starmer to congratulate him on his victory tonight for reform uk. >> with large swings across the country as nigel farage and richard tice, both enter parliament, we will now be targeting labour votes. >> we're coming for labour, be in no doubt about that . the in no doubt about that. the liberal democrats have improved on their 2019 results. ed davey party, now standing at 71 seats. well, the conservatives are right . labour in well, the conservatives are right. labour in in an astonishing night of results, the labour party has won 410 seats and will govern the country for the next five years. >> well, let's crunch the

numbers this morning. the final results are rolling in and the national picture is taking shape. our man tom harwood our deputy political editor, has been looking at it for us all through the night. and he's joined by the pollster at savanta, chris hopkins. good morning to you both. bring us up to date. >> good morning. well, we have almost all of the seats now in. we've still got to wait for one in essex, a few more rural seats in essex, a few more rural seats in scotland. but my goodness me, the picture is becoming clearer and clearer. why don't we jump back to 2019, when the united kingdom was a sea of blue. this was boris johnson's historic majority. well look where it has gone. bami a sea of red. particularly some of these rural seats. this norfolk seat here, that's liz truss. she's lost it to labour. similarly this swathe of orange down here in the south thatis of orange down here in the south that is liberal democrats taking conservative seats. you can now walk from lewes in east sussex, right the way to north devon.

and never leave a liberal democrat seat . chris, this is an democrat seat. chris, this is an extraordinary result. but looking at it, many polls had this sort of picture in the days running up. yeah. >> look, i think the pollsters are going to have to have a bit of a think about what might have gone slightly wrong here, but ultimately i think it's a good night for the industry, you know, we were predicting a labour majority for a long time, a pretty stonking labour majority for quite a long time. and that's absolutely transpired. but that tends to have we believe that that's kind of come now from almost a vindication of the morgan mcsweeney labour strategy of being incredibly efficient with their vote. you know, their vote share is incredibly low for the sort of, for the sort of majority that they've ended up with. you know, this is this is a projection with about seven seats to go of just a touch under 35. i mean, that would be historically low for the size of majority that they've got since the war. >> there has never been a winning party at a general election that has got less than this. this is the lowest share

of the vote for any to party ever win a general election in modern britain. >> yeah , absolutely. and look, >> yeah, absolutely. and look, you know, the labour party can only play what's in front of them ultimately. and they've done incredibly well to, to win votes in seats where they had to win in order to get a majority like this and haven't stacked up votes in the seats where they're already strong, similar to what they did under corbyn. and that was one of the major accusations levelled against him for why labour weren't electorally successful. but look, you know, this is a massive labour majority, but it feels like a giant house of cards that just waiting for a small change of change in direction of wind to blow it all down. and you know how the conservative party and reform uk interact and where that vote share goes is going to be really interesting. but similarly, you know what the liberal democrats have done taking seats off the conservative party and what the green party and other independents and independents have done, taking votes off the labour party just means this this labour's new electoral coalition doesn't feel anywhere near as solid as perhaps the

blair one did. >> for example, this to me is the most interesting number here, of all of them, 1.8% the labour vote compared to the lowest ever, result? well, the lowest ever, result? well, the lowest result for 100 years since 1935, in 2019, keir starmer has only put on 1.8% on top of what jeremy corbyn managed to do in many ways. comparing this number with this number here, 1.8% rise for labour with a 20% collapse for the conservatives. this is not labour winning the election, it's the conservatives losing it. but what does this do to the change of seats in the house of commons? we can see in 2019 here that's the house of commons what it made up there, a huge conservative majority and a small number of labour seats. well look at the transformation to 2020 for the house of commons. almost made up. now almost all these seats in and what a sizeable labour chunk of seats and a very , very small seats and a very, very small conservative chunk of seats. labouris

conservative chunk of seats. labour is winning a vast majority of the house of commons here on less than 35% of the pubuc here on less than 35% of the public vote. >> yeah, it feels really strange , >> yeah, it feels really strange, tom, to be frank, like we've almost got even under first past the post, a kind of multi—party system now, not necessarily in terms of representation in the house of commons, but in how they all interact and how they take votes off one another. but ultimately, that has resulted in this massive labour majority. now, that's obviously going to give keir starmer a great cushion for getting legislation through. but it could also give him a few parliamentary headaches. you know, he's going to have to unite a party that historically has been renowned for some factionalism. and often large majorities do breed rebellions for the conservatives. they've got a much smaller number of mps now, but they're also going to have this next. they have lost votes, frankly, to labour, to the labour party to and reform uk. it's really hard to have a single unifying set of principles, almost let alone policy, to bring all of those back. now they could just focus on one and try to start building towards the next election. i

imagine that is what they'll do, but which one they go after is going to be a real headache for the conservatives going forward. >> i'm just going to leave everyone on this map. this is showing every single, constituency in the uk as if they were the same size. and you can just see how much red is now making up the political map of the united kingdom . the united kingdom. >> tom, thanks very much indeed. >> tom, thanks very much indeed. >> we're going to cross to downing street now, our political editor, christopher hope, is there . what a morning hope, is there. what a morning to be there , christopher. to be there, christopher. history changing . history changing. >> anyway. all right . >> anyway. all right. >> anyway. all right. >> yeah, yeah i was last here eamonn and isabel good morning to you from downing street when it was drowning street it was pounng it was drowning street it was pouring with rain and it's literally the same weather. i mean what's happened in the past six weeks, perhaps nothing's happened. perhaps it's all been a bad dream. no, we had not for the tory party. it's a real dream. a real working up to an absolute hangover, as tom now is setting out after last night's polls, it's the biggest win here

for the labour party since 1997. but when that number 10 was bathed in sunlight, in this in rain today, the tory party is nursing its wounds. i mean , nursing its wounds. i mean, extraordinary result, i think, down largely to the tories failure, i think to hang on to the wins they, they, they took in 2019. reform uk has eaten into their support in the north of england. elsewhere you see the lib dems have done their damage, the tory party as well. huge problems are thinking that's why they've done so badly , that's why they've done so badly, we are here in downing street. we'll be hearing from the pm, rishi sunak, who is still prime minister until he quits to the king. he'll be giving a statement mid—morning. we're expecting jeremy hunt and his his family to move out, move out from their home in 11 downing street, around half past nine or so. and then around lunchtime we'll have a speech from sir keir starmer, in front of the step of downing street. and in the afternoon he'll be announcing his cabinet, power moves very quickly in this country. and by the evening, we'll have a new prime minister

in place and junior ministers appointed over the weekend. but he has made very clear in his speech how he sees the sunshine of hope in this country. he says, and the weight of the country, of the, of the, of the, of the tory rule is lifted. and he sees as a time of hope. we heard also from lord kinnock, neil kinnock. he made clear that people on the left may be, and others should give this new government space to make, to deliver on its manifesto. i think that might be quite hard. the scale of the majority might might mean there's lots of keenness to get on with changing the country, as labour wants. after 14 years of tory rule. >> okay, christopher hope, thanks very much indeed. the breaking news. we understand rishi sunak has just made it to conservative hq and will shortly be making his way to buckingham palace. let's cross to ellie costello now, just down the road from downing street at westminster. for us and quite a lot of constitutional hoops to jump lot of constitutional hoops to jump through, if you like. this morning, fill us in. >> it certainly is going to be a

very busy day. good morning to you eamonn and isabel. where is it? absolutely pouring it down here outside the houses of parliament in westminster. pathetic fallacy. you might say, for the tory party and for rishi sunak, who, as you say, has just come off that plane from richmond in north yorkshire, his count there early this morning, he did manage to cling on to his seat. he's now at tory hq, which is literally just over to my right. he's going to be speaking to the party faithful there. i'm sure he's going to be thanking them for the past six weeks of campaigning and all the hard work they have put in. this morning, he spoke, didn't he? accepting responsibility for the tory losses, and we will later see him go to buckingham palace to tender his resignation with the king, and then later on make a statement outside downing street . so it has been a a statement outside downing street. so it has been a dismal night for them, which is reflective in this weather this morning. it has been a spectacular victory for the labour party . sir keir starmer

labour party. sir keir starmer will be prime minister of the united kingdom by lunchtime. he says it is time for change and what is also going to change is the composition of those benches in the house of commons behind me. we're going to see those labour that those government benches full of labour mps, many of them new faces, a much smaller tory party as the opposition, many more lib dems and four reform mps. so far. there will be dissenting voices from the likes of nigel farage, from the likes of nigel farage, from lee anderson, from jeremy corbyn, who is now an independent mp. so it is going to look very different inside that building behind me. we also lost many familiar faces overnight, didn't we? the likes of grant shapps, sir jacob rees—mogg, penny mordaunt, johnny mercer all losing their seats. so a lot has changed overnight . it is going to be seats. so a lot has changed overnight. it is going to be a very busy day today. we've got sir keir starmer meeting the

king later to on be formally appointed as prime minister. he will then set out his priorities with his cabinet. he will check out the nuclear bunker this afternoon. you wouldn't think that would be one of the first things he does, but indeed, he will receive a tour of the nuclear bunker which is underneath the government buildings here in westminster, and he will be receiving phone calls from world leaders as the day goes on. so it is a day in history today, a transfer of power and a new government will be formed. >> ellie, thanks very much indeed. downing street have just released the latest timings. they say that rishi sunak will be making a statement at 10:30. he'll then be travelling to buckingham palace for an audience with the king, where he will formally tender his resignation. and then it's sir keir starmer's turn to see the king at the palace. he'll be appointed as the next prime minister and will be driven to downing street to address the nafion downing street to address the nation at around 12:20. all of that will be broadcast right here on gb news

>> we're live so hope you can join us and listen to us. watch us throughout the day. the leader of reform uk, also seen often on this channel, mr nigel farage, has become an mp and he's done it after eight attempts. here's a look back at his declaration. >> therefore do hereby declare that nigel paul farage is duly elected as the member of parliament for the clacton constituency and what is interesting is there's no enthusiasm for labour, there's no enthusiasm for starmer whatsoever. >> in fact, about half of the vote is simply an anti—conservative vote. this labour government will be in trouble very , very quickly and trouble very, very quickly and we will now be targeting labour votes . we're coming for labour. votes. we're coming for labour. be in no doubt about that. >> and suella braverman has won her seat and used her speech to apologise for not listening to you, the public paving the way

for a possible leadership. leadership hit . leadership hit. >> i'm sorry that my party didn't listen to you, the conservative party has let you down. you the great british people , voted for us over 14 people, voted for us over 14 years and we did not keep our promises . promises. >> well, we've got a very interesting guest to speak to now, craig mckinley. most recently, the conservative mp for south thanet, who stepped down in this election. good to see you. thanks very much for coming in. you're interesting because actually you successfully defeated nigel farage previously in your old seat. what's your reaction to what's happened overnight and also what did you make of what suella braverman was saying there? it was very legal sort of wording, wasn't it? she wasn't saying she had done anything wrong. she was very critical of the party. is she going to

remain loyal or might she team up with farage at some point? >> well, i suppose the thing is, who are you loyal to now? the party is now in some state of flux. i would say. let me be the first to congratulate nigel. i mean, i beat him at his seventh outing in south thanet in 15. he hasn't had a go since. but, you know, he's been trying for so long and the world loves a trier and he's got there in the end. so let me congratulate him. but you know i have to say the reform effect in many seats has meant we have now got what was been, said by cchq over the last few days, this super majority. i mean, realistically, it doesn't much matter if a party gets a majority of 50 or 200. you've got an absolute government and absolute power. but in many seats , the reform vote has taken seats, the reform vote has taken out some really good conservatives , some good, some conservatives, some good, some conservatives, some good, some conservatives who actually are of a similar mind on many issues to reform. and they're now gone and replaced by, you know, a rookie new labour mp and who knows what they think and do. but suella, yeah, there was a

quite a sobering speech. i think she gave a very honest speech, but that is suella all over. i think she probably reflects, as i do, that things could have been different. they could have been different. they could have been different. they could have been different if we'd played the, you know, the game of cards a little bit differently and perhaps a little bit better. but no, the party now, i mean, it is in a state of flux. we're now just over 100 mps, by the looks of things. not many more than 100. we've got reform there. the key now is how will the opposition parties, i.e. key now is how will the opposition parties, he the lib dems, what are they going to do? are they going to be preferring to sit with with labour, as you know, yet another socialist party or will they actually find some backbone and perhaps sit with the other opposition parties and be the real opposition with us, with reform, with anybody else ? the, the bits with anybody else? the, the bits and pieces, the here and theres to actually form an opposition to actually form an opposition to actually form an opposition to a super majority labour government. craig >> that state of flux reflects itself with your previous seats. i safetonet and why do you think that has gone to labour

overnight? why do you think that that has been? >> well , we've seen a lot of >> well, we've seen a lot of labour flow across across kent and all of those seats. well, all the seats i've looked at, i think we've lost about ten across kent, lost some very good friends like adam holloway and gareth johnson. i would, i would notably point out big brexiteers. you know there there were members of my net zero scrutiny group. so there, there on that sort of right side of the party, right thinking, thinking as well as sort of right of centre. they've been taken out by the effect of reform and all the seats i've looked at, if the reform vote was added to the conservative vote, i know it's not quite as simple as that, because there would be some reform voters that were ex—labour voters. but majority, i would say, are conservative voters or would be, the reform vote has been the difference between us. >> let me ask you then, what does that mean in terms of moving ahead, looking at the future? i mean, reform will have ambitions in their own right, but practically has reform and the conservative party got to come to some sort of realistic

settlement that suits both of them well. >> what is rather sad? you know, the people who are doing the maths in the background will be adding up the votes. i don't know quite yet, but it could be that the conservative plus reform vote is bigger than the labour vote, and that will be something of a travesty for the right of centre voters that you've got an absolute socialist government with a huge thumping majority, a majority that can do whatever it likes with. and yet the right of centre voters were were a larger vote share than has propelled sir keir into number 10. now, that is an odd situation, which means the right does have to get together, because i think, you know, i would say it wouldn't i, the people of this country are small c conservatives. they like small small estate, lower taxes and all of those good things. and they're going to be a lot of very disappointed people over the next. >> so does the conservative party move towards reform or does reform move towards the conservative party if that is to happen? >> well, i think suella what she's saying is you know, i

think there should be an accommodation. i mean, i've said it on this channel just last week, i think there should have been a reaching out to the brexit party. those days, way back in 19, when they did deliver us a big favour by not standing against incumbent conservatives. i got the benefit of that. i think there should have been a reaching out there and an accommodation to actually widen our very broad tent. that is the conservative party, to accommodate those who are minded to vote reform. we had a unique situation in 19 and we've well, we haven't got it now. but they did vote conservative once. they could have continued to do so. >> craig, whilst you were speaking, we were looking at the live shots over downing street and the world's media all gathered underneath umbrellas sheltering from the rain. i think it is forecast to last for most of the morning, but it contrasts with the weather gods. >> they're as disappointed as i. >> they're as disappointed as i. >> yeah, and it doesn't really work with sir keir starmers speech. when he actually declared victory, it was 5:00 this morning when he actually said we've won. you know, we did it.change said we've won. you know, we did it. change begins now, he said. we can look forward, we can walk

into the morning. the sunlight of hope pale at first, but getting stronger through the day. it's like a forecast shining once again on a country with the opportunity, after 14 years, to get its future back. not seeing much sign of that just yet, though, are we not in the weather? >> i mean, i think we're all rather mystified as to what this change banner really means, because there wasn't very much behind it, was there? is it change underwear? change socks? i really don't know yet, but we will find out, no doubt. all right. >> thank you. appreciate that. nice hearing from you, craig. thank you. sophie reaper. now let's go to her. she's in manchester to paint the picture there. good morning sophie. >> good morning to you both. well not really a night of surprises here in greater manchester but certainly a night i think the labour party will be celebrating 27 constituencies here in this part of the world. and labour now hold seats in 25 of them. now, they already held 18 and they've managed to hold on to all of them. but those they've managed to take seven additional seats, six of which were from the conservatives, one from the worker parties of

britain. george galloway losing his seat in rochdale, which he took in just february of this yeah took in just february of this year. so only four months ago. not a bad night either for the liberal democrats, it has to be said, taking those other two seats from the conservatives in hazel grove and in cheadle. so i'm sure that will be something that they'll be. they'll be pretty chuffed with looking back on, but i think something that we'll all be able to agree on is that it's been a pretty shocking night for the conservative party here in greater manchester. it's never an area that they do particularly well in, but in the 2019 general election, they did manage to get a few shocks, taking several seats. bury north, for example, the lee and atherton constituency. that was a huge shock back in the 2019 general election, when they managed to take that away from labour for the first time in over 100 years. well, this time in 2024. just five years later, joe platt of the labour party has managed to take the leigh and atherton seat back with a

majority of over 7000 votes. so of the 27 constituencies in greater manchester, the conservative conservative party now hold absolutely none of them. so a pretty shocking result for them. and i think if you take a look at the reform party, who who did pretty well in several constituencies coming second in quite a few of them. in fact, i think that may give some explanation as to exactly why the conservatives have had such a poor showing. because many of those voters who may have voted conservative back in 2019, they may now have gone to reform instead. so an excellent night for the labour party. not so great for the conservatives here in greater manchester. >> thank you sophie, thank you jeff moody. next let's go to jeff moody. next let's go to jeff and he'll tell you what the picture is like in somerset. and it's a shocker there for the conservatives big name in the form of sir jacob conservatives big name in the form of sirjacob rees—mogg. >> i know we've lost one of our most colourful characters in

parliament, haven't we, eamonn? he came in in 2010, so he's been a member of parliament as long as that. this conservative government has been in power, to start with, he was regarded very much as a bit of a curio, a bit of an eccentric , someone not to of an eccentric, someone not to be taken too seriously. he very famously went on the campaign trail back in 2010, accompanied by his nanny. and in this, in this campaign, he's been going through the streets of north east somerset, blaring rule britannia out of his car. but of course, it was during the brexit debates when he really began to get prominent and he became a bit of an anti—establishment figure, a lot of younger voters decided that he was the one that they would look to, which is quite ironic, really, that you wouldn't normally associate jacob rees—mogg as an anti—establishment figure. he's anti—establishment figure. he's a very establishment person in, in the in his family seat. and the way he talks and the way he acts. but he certainly took on that role and became very

prominent during boris johnson's government. but he also very famously reclined on the seats in the house of commons, which threw a lot of criticism from a lot of people, some saying that it was a very scornful, quite who he was scornful towards, whether it was to remainers , whether it was to remainers, whether it was to remainers, whether it was to remainers, whether it was to the debate itself or whether it was to the electorate, we really don't know. but it certainly didn't do him any favours. having said that, he should still have won this seat fairly easily. he was up against dan norris, who was the labour mayor for parts of for the west country, he was the candidate back in 2010 and jacob rees—mogg defeated him then. he's got his own back today, but there was only 5000 votes in it . there was only 5000 votes in it. and i think one of the main reasons, as well as the national picture, is that they've changed the boundaries here. i'm here in chew magna, which is a beautiful

little village with lots of thatched cottages, and it's very much tory heartland. he should have had no problem if it was just areas like this, which is what he's contested before. but they've now included areas of bristol. hanham in particular, is a suburb of bristol, that's now been included within the boundary change. and that was part of the kingswood constituency, which you may remember, there was a by—election in kingswood earlier in the year, and that went to labouh in the year, and that went to labour. so there's a strong labour. so there's a strong labour support right on his doorstep. and during this boundary change, that labour support, that doorstep became much, much closer. and he found that that labour support was something that he couldn't really reckon against. but having said that, his speech was very gracious today, as they've all been, whereas boris johnson quoted cincinnatus , didn't he, quoted cincinnatus, didn't he, the roman general, and talked about returning to his plough, jacob rees—mogg quoted caractacus potts from chitty chitty bang bang. he said out of

the ashes of disaster, the roses will grow. well, we're not sure what roses jacob rees—mogg will be growing now. now he's got a bit more time, but we do know he's going to be coming back to gb news very soon. >> exactly. you might not be heanng >> exactly. you might not be hearing that sort of language in parliament, but you can still get it right here on the channel for now. jeff moody, thanks very much indeed. thank you. >> well, lee anderson became reform uk's first elected mp. this is what he had to say. >> this wonderful place, which i call my home, is going to have a massive say in how this country is shaped in the future. i want my country back and nashville can play their part in that. thank you, lee anderson to will hollis and he can tell us more about that picture. >> will good morning. >> will good morning. >> good morning. yes. overnight in ashfield at kirkby leisure centre, lee anderson reclaimed the member of parliament position. but unlike 2019, he wasn't standing as a

conservative. he was standing as reform and was elected last night as the first reform mp . of night as the first reform mp. of course, many more came as the night proceeded. the big question that we've been asking is will red wall areas once again return to labour? will they stay with the conservatives, or will they go for a new party like reform well in ashfield? they did go to reform and they stuck with lee anderson, a local person who they said that they wanted to continue representing them down in parliament. just a little bit of a shift away here in bassetlaw in 2019. this constituency was beaten blue by bofis constituency was beaten blue by boris johnson, urging people to back brexit. bassetlaw was the seventh highest brexit voting area , with some 69% of people area, with some 69% of people choosing to leave the european union. but last night this labour heartland had the colour returned to its cheeks. jo

white, who has served on the local council here in bassetlaw for many years, was elected with a majority of 5000, ahead of brendan clarke—smith, who'd been the conservative mp since 2019. a further 3000 or so ahead of the reform candidates as well for the area and who is jo white, who will be representing bassetlaw? the towns like worksop, where i am today, and retford down in parliament? well, as well as being a councillor, she's also the wife of the former mp for this area, lord john mann, who held this position since 2001. and what is it that she might be talking about when she's in parliament? well, here, this was the base for wilko's, a massive depot where thousands of people lost their jobs. where thousands of people lost theirjobs. only where thousands of people lost their jobs. only a few months ago when wilko's went into administration. you can probably see behind me on the high street here, people are setting up. it's almost as if business as

usual and seen as labour had beenin usual and seen as labour had been in power here since 1935. it very much seems that it is back to business as usual for labour here in the red wall. >> very much will. let's cross back to a very rainy downing street. our can give us an update on movements this morning. i've just checked my forecast and it looks to be dry in ten and 11. might that be a good time to perhaps step out and head to buckingham palace ? and head to buckingham palace? >> thanks, isabel. that's a good thing for me or the prime minister. you're totally right in saying that. that's right. 10:30 am. we'll hear from rishi sunak on the steps of downing street behind me. he will then formally make a statement, maybe apologising for having the election six months before. he had to have one anyway. but he'll he'll make a statement about what he feels is his record in government, and then he'll be driven by government car to buckingham palace . he'll car to buckingham palace. he'll meet the king and formally resign as prime minister. he'll then drive away in his own car. not a government car, because

he'll be a private individual, a backbench tory mp. and then it's the turn of the new prime minister, sir keir starmer. he is driven probably in a should be in his own car. i think to downing street and he's and he's returned to the buckingham palace where he meets the king and he then is he made made the prime minister. he then leaves there in a government car and drives here and gives a statement around 1220 behind me on the step of downing street and perhaps the weather may, may, may have cheered up by then, but that's what we're expecting this morning. mr sunak, the pm, he goes to the palace and then we see sir keir starmer later on the step of downing street. >> mr thanks very much. and for you, of course, not just for the prime minister. i was thinking, you know, a little bit of respite from your umbrella there. >> what a busy day. it's going to be or not for keir starmer. yeah. and, he's got to make phone calls to world leaders and, you know, appoint a cabinet, do all sorts of things, today, as well as move house

furniture in a night as well, and joining us now in the studio, we say good morning to political commentator theo usherwood and former labour adviser scarlett mccgwire is here as well, and former adviser to michael gove . charlie rowley, to michael gove. charlie rowley, very good to see you. and we also have dehenna davison as well former mp. >> welcome all of you. where shall we start? shall we start with you, theo? because you're closest to me. i think you've had an hour's sleep. that's pretty much the average i'm gathering from most people around here. >> i would start with you people. i tell you why. i think people. i tell you why. i think people are forgetting. i'm not sensing this at all from our programme of panel, that it is a celebration that a new government in place. the change has happened and no one really seems to be doing well with something different. >> yeah it is. i'm it's going to be very different. i mean, it's, it's not going to be a socialist government . whatever craig might government. whatever craig might have said, what is really important now is that actually, one understands that you have to

deliver on the manifesto that this isn't a time for sort of gimmicks or anything like that, and that not a socialist manifesto. no. it's not. well, i mean, a socialist manifesto is a manifesto that is going to improve the health service, improve the health service, improve education. i mean, i don't think there's anything it's going to do that. >> is that what you're saying? no. >> well, i don't think there's anything i think it's great that actually, you know, that that what we're going to do is we're going to sort out public services and, and, and also with rachel reeves, we're going to sort out the economy. i mean, those that's what's important. right? and actually what this election showed is that the british people have lost trust in politics. i mean, that's what it is. and we have to get it back. and it's and it's up to keir starmer and his shadow cabinet and his ministers to understand we have to get that trust back by delivering what tells you that we've lost the trust. >> there's low turnout, low turnout. >> a lot of the i understand that people voted positively for reform, but they also voted for

reform, but they also voted for reform as a rebellion. right and that's what we have to understand. and it's quite interesting that in 2001, margaret hodge saw her in barking, saw her share of the vote go down. she did focus groups about what the problem was and it was, as she says, it was and it was, as she says, it was not apathy, it was anger. and people are really, really angry. and they're angry because they feel that they're not listened to. and what labour has to prove is that we're listening and we're going to do what we say. >> are you saying the reform bubble will be burst in five years? >> i'm saying it could be. or it could be enormous. it could be. if labour is good in government, then actually people will understand that. that you can vote for a party and they'll and they will deliver. and that's what has to happen. >> so how do you feel this morning as a labour supporter? >> well, i feel happy. >> well, i feel happy. >> i mean i don't feel triumphant actually. and i read the daily mail online that talked about gloating and i

don't know anybody who's gloating and none of the people. >> so i remember, you know, when blair was elected, there was a wave of, you know, there was a lot of happiness. there was a lot of happiness. there was a lot of happiness. there was a lot of people were literally dancing in the streets and whatever. and but not the same, different feeling. this time. >> i think what we know is it's going to be a really tough job. it's going to be a really and it's a really, really important job. i mean, tony blair got in on a wave. we're we're there because there because people are saying we need a change, we need something new, and we need people who are going to deliver. and it's what we all know is it's is governing is going to be very, very tough. >> diana, will they deliver? >> diana, will they deliver? >> it's a hard task , isn't it? i >> it's a hard task, isn't it? i mean, keir starmer is promising change and bold change and delivering change in government is hard. it takes time , i think, is hard. it takes time, i think, for the level of ambition that he's claiming he has and my critique would be there's a lot of rhetoric such as smash the gangs without a for me, a clear

plan of what that's going to look like. but hopefully we'll see those plans manifest in the coming weeks and months. but i think one of the most difficult things in politics is that you try and create change that will last a generation, but you only have a five year cycle, so politics will come into play within 2 or 3 years, and it's whether he can get enough done within that time period to really demonstrate change to the people. and i think it's a tall order. >> theo, what about the story of the night for you? i mean, it was expected that there would be this landslide, but the fact that we had this low turnout, we've got this lowest share of any winning government, of any party, in any general election. do you think there will be a lot of people, perhaps even sir keir starmer, who feel like scarlett mccgwire this morning happy but not triumphant? >> i think the problem for keir starmer is he's built a sandcastle and there's very, very significant chance that it gets washed away at the next election. if we look at what happened with reform in labour seats or seats that labour would have won, they went to reform, went and saw their vote share go up from 9% to 30. and i agree with scarlett. what scarlett

says, i think it is about delivering. but the problem is there's no money. you know, just just to get back to parity where you don't have to go ahead with £20 billion, of spending cuts to come in the next two years, 2 to 3 years, which is going to come to prisons, transport, all of those unprotected departments. keir starmer has got to find economic growth and that's very difficult. well, that's what rishi sunak's been trying to find. and he's and he's tied himself in a straitjacket with his fiscal rules. the promise to of course not increase the likes of course not increase the likes of income tax and vat and national insurance. and it's very difficult to see he can't raise any more significant amounts of money because, of course, outside of that, there's only about 25% of the total tax to take play with. and then at the same time, he can't borrow more because he's promised to bnng more because he's promised to bring down debt as a share of gdp by the end of the forecast. and it's already at 100. so it's very difficult to see in the manifesto where he is actually going to find the room to deliver on his policies. and if he doesn't deliver on his promises. i have a feeling that nigel farage will come back even stronger at the next election, >> charlie, how disappointed are you this morning ? how does this

you this morning? how does this feel? our scarlet heart felt for her, and there was a, you know, obviously the happiness and whatever. how are you feeling? >> incredibly disappointed , it's >> incredibly disappointed, it's been a very difficult night because there was some very, very good people that have lost their jobs, very good people that have lost theirjobs, i know that's no a winning sort of sympathy from from the electorate, but the reason why it's so frustrating is that it didn't have to be this way, they didn't have to be an election on the 4th of july. they could have been some more good news, more time for rishi to sort of actually build up a campaign. >> why did he go for the 4th of july? >> only he, i think will know. and maybe he'll tell us at some point later on in the day. but it didn't have to be this way, you know, gamble gate during the campaign didn't have to happen. if people around rishi sunak actually took some responsibility. you know, if suella braverman spent more time focusing on the issues at hand rather than mounting her own leadership campaign against their own party, we might not be in this situation we're in. if people in downing street didn't party during partygate, we might still have had boris johnson as prime minister if we didn't have

people that could not wake up in the morning and just do their job and be a team player as well as recognising the difficult decisions that the party has had to take over the space of 14 years, we might not be where we are today. so i'm incredibly frustrated. i'm upset, you know, having been an adviser in some of the toughest union departments during cabinet office, during covid, starting to sort of level up the country for the country to totally reject us because of the scandals and because of the way in which british politics has been under our watch, it's a tough night, you say it's the country who's rejected you. >> it is a mess. and how do you rebuild that? can it be rebuilt? will the conservative party have to be reformed ? do you grow to be reformed? do you grow closer to reform, or do they grow closer to you? what? what way do you see it shaping up? >> i think, it's going to take time. there's going to be divisions within the party you're hearing. so often now, commentators sort of say, look, you must now, you know, see what reform have done. and we've got to sort of follow their lead and

their approach. i think you do that. or if you do that, you ignore the number of seats that we've lost to the liberal democrats that have got no real alignment with reform to be, to be perfectly honest. so what the party needs to do is it just needs time to reflect. it needs to look in the mirror, and everybody has to take responsibility for the failures, but it has to then come forward with, better ideas, ideas that actually resonate with the public. but having a very, very clear plan as to to how tackle it. now, if immigration has been your issue during this election, and if that's why you've left the conservatives to vote for reform, well, we need to hold reform's feet to the fire now. they'll have a number of mps in parliament. what is their plan? if we did have a very clear plan, okay. it it wasn't executed. the election was called before any flights took off to rwanda. maybe rwanda wasn't the right outcome that the public want. so what is it that we need to, how do we sort of articulate what the public actually want? do we have a clear enough plan? do we have a good communicator, as the leader of our party, to be able to articulate that? >> and who do you put your money on just quickly? if you had to choose a leader right now, i

wouldn't bet, on if you were to guess who might be thinking dunng guess who might be thinking during this election. >> okay, we'll have to see who's left. but i we'll see. >> you mentioned , conceding a >> you mentioned, conceding a number of constituencies to the lib dems. they're on 71, gained 63 overnight. and we can hear from their leader sir ed davey. he says he's very proud of the result all over the country. >> give notice that edward jonathan davey is duly elected as the member of parliament for the kingston and surbiton constituency tonight. >> the liberal democrats are on for our best result for over a century and i'm really proud that our party has fought so positively during this campaign . positively during this campaign. >> so this is ed davey in south london, >> this morning and theo usherwood, we, i mean , i in usherwood, we, i mean, i in particular, i didn't think he was going to get anywhere with the all the pranks and the paddleboarding and bungee jumping and everything else. but

he's sitting on 71 seats. it feels like a it feels like a sort of artful dodger rickroll, because the nigel farage has pinned rishi sunak to the wall. >> and then davies picked his back pocket and taken his phone. it's literally they spent so long focusing on reform that ed davey's just come in and ignored that those potentially remain voting conservatives middle of the road stockbroker stockbroker belt conservatives who are actually would like decency , actually would like decency, integrity and accountability. and they've worried too much about focusing on the reform. >> we're going to pause there. he's making his speech. we just want to hear what he has to say. >> but what you've done, your hard work, you know, you have helped rebuild our party. you've helped. you've helped ensure that the liberal democrats are winning again. great you have helped us get our best results

for over 100 years. so i really want to thank you and i want to thank the millions of voters who want change and who've looked to the liberal democrats to deliver that change, and who've put your trust in us and our candidates. now your mps, they will be your local champions. they will fight for the fair deal that you deserve . so thank you for deserve. so thank you for putting your trust in us. and you know , trust is a very you know, trust is a very precious commodity . it's hard precious commodity. it's hard won and sometimes you've lost

it. you lose it and you have to work very hard to win it back . work very hard to win it back. and i want to thank people for trusting us again. we will not let you down. we will honour your trust and we will keep working. so you keep putting your trust in us. i like to think we've done that by listening to you , by hearing listening to you, by hearing your concerns . and that is why your concerns. and that is why in this campaign we fought a really positive campaign about your concerns , about how we your concerns, about how we wanted to make sure you got help with the cost of living and the difficult economic circumstances . difficult economic circumstances. we listen to you on the environment and your concerns about the appalling sewage scandal, and that's why we have policies to tackle that. and above all, we listened to you about your concerns about the crisis in our health system , in

crisis in our health system, in our care system. and that's why we put solving that, fixing that right at the heart of our agenda dunng right at the heart of our agenda during this campaign. i've told you about my own story of caring and being a carer for much of my life , and i want to thank all life, and i want to thank all the people who've come to me and responded in such generosity , responded in such generosity, telling me that my story is your story, and i want to make sure that we represent the millions of carers out there as we rebuild our health system and do something special to support carers and care workers. and i think if we do that, we can earn your trust. so i promise you, having put it at the heart of our agenda, we are now going to work on health and care. we're going to go to parliament to represent you, our first campaign that starts today is a

campaign that starts today is a campaign for emergency budget. this month for health and care . this month for health and care. for every one of our record number of liberal democrat mps is going to go to to parliament campaign for that emergency budget for health and care. they're going to stand up for their local health service, their local health service, their local health service, their local care service that you rely on. they're going to stand up for the policies, whether it's getting more gp's, more nhs dentists, free personal care that will fix the system, every liberal democrat mp will be a voice for carers and we are going to make sure that your voice is heard like never before. that is the fair deal that we fought on. that is the

fair deal that all liberal democrat mps and our whole party want to deliver. so thank you for giving us the opportunity to serve you. and my invitation to you is come and join us and help us turn around our country and transform our health and care system , transform our political system, transform our political system, transform our political system, and bring the better, brighter, fairer future our country so desperately needs. thank you . thank you. >> diana and scarlet listening to that, those are the lib dems best days since charles kennedy, era. i personally, i had my doubts with all these stunts. he was doing. i didn't think they they held a lot of credibility, but everything's worked well . but everything's worked well. did the stunts work for him? >> i think i think what the stunts did was they gave him airtime. is that over? and over again? we saw ed davey, we saw

ed davey. but frankly, their strategy was a very clever strategy was a very clever strategy and goes back long before the stunts and, and, and it was to look where they were in second place to the tories and, and to take on the tories and, and to take on the tories and actually, i mean, sort of everybody's known this. i mean, i read sarah vine in the daily mail possibly two years ago saying this is terrible. we're going to have a left wing england. but but one of the things that they had to have for this strategy to work was to have a labour leader that people weren't frightened about, because they said that under jeremy corbyn they couldn't get people to vote for them because the tories wouldn't swap, because they said we really don't want jeremy corbyn in, but actually a lot of soft tories 9°, actually a lot of soft tories go, well, keir starmer, he'll be okay, so we'll vote liberal democrat and we'll get rid of the people in. so that's been their strategy and then there was the then there was the air war that we saw, where we just kept on hearing about about, you know, this centrist dad actually doing very weird things in his

speech there. >> i didn't even have to paraglide in. and i think it was much to everybody's relief this morning, quite frankly. but we were saying the best result since 2005, i think i mean, he's increased it ten seats for the lib dems. theo, we're talking about this landslide for the labour party. but this is an absolutely fantastic result for the liberal democrats. >> fantastic result. i'd also i'd also point to the fact, and this is something a labour strategist said to me, many, many years ago, is that hope always wins over fear and i think if you project yourself as being somebody who actually has something to offer and wants and has a positive message that that and you can communicate it properly. so there is a caveat to that. you've got to be able to that. you've got to be able to communicate it and you can trump a more fearful message of worry and scare mongering. and i think the tories, when they got into that defensive mode quite early on and then it switched to the worries about a supermajority just found themselves just line after line, fear mongering, line after line after line . and if that's that's after line. and if that's that's okay. and it worked against ed

miliband. if the other side haven't got a positive message, and i think with the liberal democrats, they came up particularly against ed davey and this, this sort of mad air war with these, i was going to say no, he wasn't. he stopped short of paragliding, bungee jumping and paddle boarding and the like and going on roller coaster roller coasters that actually you had somebody who, who had at least he had a sense of joie de vivre. if you like. he had something to offer. >> and i think, would you have advised that charlie would you would you have advised him those sort of stunts, >> not all of them. some. some, but not all. but i think it's. i think it's important because in such a depressing election. so, you know, rishi sunak launched the campaign in the pouring rain, for goodness sake. you know, sir keir starmer, the reason why the vote share is low and the turnout is low is because i still think people aren't sure what labour are offering. still, this morning i think people don't know. and it's not taking that away from a great labour victory and it has been today, but it's almost bofis been today, but it's almost boris s ed davey was doing this sort of bumbling sort of, but not quite as well somehow,

because you do find yourself chuckling with boris, but with ed, you sort of cringing. >> that's my own, you mean. >> that's my own, you mean. >> yeah, i think that's the do. >> yeah, i think that's the do. >> well, i don't know what it was, but just boris, he just has got buffoonery down to a fine art hasn't he. >> exactly. but it got people. there were none of those crotch shots. >> you're right. where he was stuck on the wire. >> there were some moob shots, though, weren't there, worse than the lib dems didn't manage to topple the chancellor, though he clung on, perhaps a bit of a surprise there in godalming and ash, >> yes. and i think not just in this particular constituency, but i think where there is a good personal attachment to say, look, you know, jeremy hunt's been around that area for a very long time. there is a personal attachment to, to jeremy, even though it's a new constituency. so he's picked up a few votes there. but i think, you know, that's one example. you know, in stockton west, you know, where there's been a total wipe—out for the tories in the north—east of england. you know, matt vickers has held on his doctor because of a, a personal campaign. and, you know, you could say the same for iain duncan smith . duncan smith. >> let's break off and break into nana akua. in richmond

prime minister's constituency . prime minister's constituency. but for how much longer? that's the question. morning >> good morning. it is an absolutely beautiful day. it's gorgeous here in richmond, north yorkshire . rishi sunak, as you yorkshire. rishi sunak, as you said, kept his seat. we are here at the little drummer boy tea shop and the main issues in this constituency have been brexit, the nhs and of course a housing shortage which is affecting pretty much the entire country. but we've been sitting chatting to a lot of the locals here who have pointed out their issues as well, and it's quite interesting what they have to say , but it's what they have to say, but it's amazing that so many of them did so well . reform did incredibly so well. reform did incredibly well. xander now a morning. now, listen, this is the first time you voted. how old are you? 19. who did you vote for? >> i voted for reform uk in this election. >> well, why did you vote reform ? >> reform? >> i voted reform because they have a vision. they have bold policies to tackle immigration. they said they'll leave the echr which you know is boldness. they'll stop that. you know,

that's a way to stop the boats, they're going to be, you know, a bit more relaxed on taxation, you know, that, that pay as you earn going up from £12,575 to £20,000, so that that will incentivise people to go out and work. they'll be they'll be tough on education as well . you tough on education as well. you know, i'm a student. i've just left college and i've and i've seen some, you know, some of the, the wokeness in our school. it's appalling really. >> what keir starmer seems to think that if he changes the voting age to 16 upwards, that he may. i suspect the reason he's doing it is because the young people will vote. more likely to vote labour, in your view, is that i don't think that's the case. >> no, i think a lot of people you look on social media now, reform uk have the biggest viewership on social media than any other party. you know, nigel farage has got a basis for young people. people are rallying to nigel farage, young people especially like myself, because they believe in his vision, let's be frank here, keir starmer did not win this election. the tories lost it. you know keir starmers approval

ratings —19. tony blair's was plus 20. that just shows the leadership and how people are just so disenfranchised with the two parties. and i think this really sets up a good ground for reform uk to build on in the next election. >> well, thank you for that, zandeh i mean, they did do very well. i mean, they got about 7000 votes. what are the issues. because so far it would suggest that brexit, housing and the nhs are issues. but what are the local issues that affect you as a small business holder? >> i own a sandwich shop, tasty max, just down the road here. and the biggest issue is getting staff and that might be to some extent down to the nhs. people on the waiting list are unable to work, but that's certainly one of the issues that we face. staffing the other thing is, i mean, maybe now this is a good chance for rishi to sit back and carry on with the constituency issues here, and have a break from , you know, leading the tory from, you know, leading the tory party. i'd imagine he's probably

going to resign as leader on guessing, but good. good for reform. i think. yeah, you will. >> you voted reform, didn't you? as well. and, what about you, will? what issues affecting you? because the three issues were supposedly brexit. was that something that affected you? >> yeah. brexit. massively, we now have to pay an import tax, which started off at 4% and now is at 14, which is putting a massive increase on flour prices . massive increase on flour prices. >> now, if you had a chance to vote again, would you vote brexit again? >> no i wouldn't no you wouldn't. >> wow . interesting. you >> wow. interesting. you wouldn't vote brexit again. very quickly very quickly. and i come to you, jill, briefly . what what to you, jill, briefly. what what are your thoughts. are you pleased with the result here. and anything affect you? >> the tories are always going to lose. weren't they, fairly inevitable, i don't think it's the best result for the country. and with a low turnout and a low vote share for labour to get such a massive majority. but

it's all to play for now . it's all to play for now. >> it's all to play for. and very, very swiftly, must come to you. i've got to hand back quickly. so what are your thoughts, please, with the result? >> as i said earlier, is what it is. i think my concerns are is the infrastructure on the nhs. we have an ageing populations in rural areas. are they going to be able to cope if angela rayner gets her way? >> we shall see. we shall see. thank you very much. well that's the thoughts of the people here. we shall see what happens. rishi sunak did win his seat. maybe he'll be more active in the community. only time will tell. >> thank you very much, nana appreciate it. lots of international congratulations pounng international congratulations pouring in. president vladimir zelenskyy i said, i wish the incoming government every success, both in domestic affairs and in solidifying the uk's leadership on the world stage. president macron of france also offering his congratulations. he's spoken to sir keir starmer, we're told, and was pleased with his first discussion, and says he will continue to work well with. >> but i wonder, is he going to continue as an elected representative? rishi sunak nana

was in his constituency there. what do you think diana ? what do you think diana? >> he says he is, i would like to take him at his word, and i think we can. i mean, he needn't have said it if he wasn't planning to. he needn't have said it. and he doesn't need to. >> and he's not a career politician. you know, i just i have my doubts whether he would continue once you've tasted the forbidden fruit, why would you go elsewhere? >> and he has had a really rough run, i think. i think, you know, becoming chancellor, having that great promotion and immediately being thrust into the pandemic and facing all of that pressure, basically having the weight of the nation's finances on your shoulders at such an uncertain time, followed by his stint as prime minister, trying to fix an awful lot of issues. i, i don't envy him at all. can i talk starmer? not not in a negative sense, actually, but just in terms of the fact that he's got these international calls coming in early, which i think for the country is a good thing. but starmer is going to have to work really hard to build those coalitions, because some of the big issues internationally that are going to rise at the moment. we've got climate, of course, which is a major global factor.

but the rise of i, we touched on it briefly earlier on in the show. the only way we're going to get a decent ai regulatory framework is working internationally. i think starmer's been quite focused domestically. it's going to be interesting to see how he works. the foreign field as well. >> okay. thank you for that folks. thank you all very much indeed. and we will talk again later. but right now we're going to head to the weather forecast and find out what sort of picture it's going to be, not politically, but meteorologically on this friday the 5th of july. good morning, alex burkill. >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors of weather on gb news >> morning. here's your latest gb news. weather forecast coming to you from the met office. plenty of showers to come as we go through this weekend, but first we have some fairly wet weather across southern areas today. heavy persistent rain affecting some southern parts. some of that is going to clear away for a time, but more pulses of wet weather pushing in from the southwest. further north scotland, northern ireland,

northern england seeing quite a few showers, perhaps not as many as yesterday. and then in between these two zones, something a little bit drier and sunnier across central northern england and wales. and here we're likely to get the highest temperatures just about getting into the low 20s. but for many feeling a bit cool for the time of year. as we head towards this evening, we are going to see more wet weather feeding in across parts of central southern england and wales. staying dry across northern parts of england and wales to end the day. but still plenty of showers for northern ireland and scotland. some of them could be a little bit on the heavy side. and do watch out for some blustery winds, most likely out towards the north sea and particularly the north sea and particularly the far north—east of the uk. more wet weather then feeding its way north eastwards across much of england and wales overnight. so a pretty wet night to come for many, but that should quite quickly start to clear away towards the north sea as we head through towards dawn on saturday, as we see quite a bit of unsettled weather around temperatures not dropping a huge amount, but it is going to be a little bit fresh, especially for

the time of year. like i said, that rain does clear away towards the north sea quite quickly, but there could be some strong winds associated with that around those north sea coastal parts. but once that wet weather clears through, there are going to be plenty of showers following in behind and some of them could be heavy, possibly thundery. some sunny spells in between, but also blustery winds adding to the relatively cool feel for july as we look towards sunday. and again, we're going to see plenty of showers around. some of them could be heavy at times and these could affect both wimbledon and also the british grand prix at silverstone. again, the odd rumble of thunder possible and temperatures still on the low side for the time of yeah >> by that warm feeling inside from boxt boilers sponsors of weather on gb news

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congratulate him on his victory. >> well after that, sir keir starmer will himself head to the palace and he will become our new prime minister >> change begins now . and it >> change begins now. and it feels good. i have to be honest . feels good. i have to be honest. >> and it also feels good for nigel farage as he was elected at the eighth attempt as reform uk took four seats across the country . country. >> we will now be targeting labour votes. we're coming for labouh be labour votes. we're coming for labour. be in no doubt about that. >> democrats improved on their 2019 results. ed davey's party, now at 71 seats. >> so that's the political picture on this friday morning,

the conservatives are out, labour are in. and christopher hopeis labour are in. and christopher hope is standing in the rain in downing street. let's find out how cataclysmic historic , how cataclysmic historic, euphonc how cataclysmic historic, euphoric all of this is. christopher >> eamonn isabel. yes, it truly is. it's a disastrous result for the tory party. it's the biggest landslide for labour since 1997, when tony blair came to power, yeah , it the superlatives never yeah, it the superlatives never stop coming for labour party. they've seen off more than a dozen cabinet ministers. liz truss, the former prime minister. she's lost her seat. sir jacob rees—mogg. these are sirjacob rees—mogg. these are totemic figures in tory politics in recent years they've all gone, labour majority of around 170. elsewhere. you've got over 70 lib dems. that's an increase of six fold increase on what they had in 2019. you've got four reform uk mps and that's fascinating of how the how the right rebuilds itself. now will it be will the tory party be

drawn more towards where reform uk is and not into the centre ground? and that will help the labour party cement their their rule for maybe the next election as well? quite extraordinary result last night. so we are expecting to hear from rishi sunak. he'll give a statement around ten 1030 on the step of downing street, and he'll then go to the king. he'll then resign as prime minister. he'll be driven away in his private car, having arrived there by government car. and then sir keir starmer sees the king, becomes prime minister and then comes here for a statement around 1220. and we're expecting him to start appointing the big cabinet jobs in the early afternoon. before that, we should see shortly. jeremy hunt, the chancellor, leave number 11, downing street for the final time. he is not expected to say anything doing that, sir keir starmer so far we've heard words of hope, he gave a speech around 5 am. in bankside power station. now, of course, tate modern, he said a change begins now. he said a weight has been

lifted, a burden removed from this great nation. he said a sunlight of hope. he said the opportunity for this country to get its future back, a real moment, a real moment, i think in our in our recent history with labour storming back to power, what they do with that power, what they do with that power is interesting, lord kinnock, neil kinnock, he told me for gb news just before 6 am. that he wants to see some patience and people wait to see what labour can do, because there will be lots of urgency to get on with it. don't waste time. as many think, tony blair did waste some time with his reforms when he, when he won that huge landslide in 1997. the hope, i think, for many will be get on with change and try and get on with change and try and get the economy growing. he needs the economy to grow, of course, keir starmer to try and ensure that he can afford his his programme for government. ensure that he can afford his his programme for government . so his programme for government. so all change here in downing street. but the weather is still the same. it was raining when the same. it was raining when the election was called and it's raining today. >> it's gone full circle. thanks very much indeed. christopher hope from downing street. for us

there we can cross to buckingham palace, the scene of a lot of the constitutional hoops that you have to jump through on days like this, karen. and you can fill us in on what exactly the king will be saying to both of the leaders today, rishi sunak andindeed the leaders today, rishi sunak and indeed sir keir starmer. >> absolutely, isabel. well, the king is not currently in residence in london. the royal standard not flying above buckingham palace yet. he's had to cut his week in scotland short holyrood week to come back to london to, of course, appoint a new prime minister and accepts the resignation of another one. but the king's one of his final remaining prerogative powers is to appoint a prime minister. he is the only person who can do that, and of course, rishi sunak has lost the election. he's failed to gain a majority of mps in the house of commons. he can no longer command the confidence of the house of commons, so he is expected later on this morning to arrive at buckingham palace to tender his resignation to his majesty the king. after the king has accepted that resignation. rishi sunak is expected to exit the palace via

a back exit, perhaps to preserve his dignity. but of course, the king needs a prime minister and keir starmer has won a big majority of mps for labour, so he will be summoned once rishi sunak has left to buckingham palace by the king, where the king will invite him to form a government in his name and thus becoming prime minister of the united kingdom. the third prime minister of king charles's reign. but the first one following a general election. so sir keir starmer will drive up here, we believe, up the mall and will be driven into the forecourt of buckingham palace, where he will be greeted, we believe, by sir clive alderton, the principal private secretary of his majesty the king and one of his majesty the king and one of the equerries, before being escorted inside. now the king and keir know each other relatively well. they've been spotted mingling at various receptions and events over the last couple of years, but a video which surfaced in 2021 talks about, of course, that the fact that sir keir starmer did in his youth wants to become a republic. clearly he's no longer

got those views. so it's all to play got those views. so it's all to play for in a couple of hours time here at buckingham palace. >> thanks, cameron got to interrupt you there. we have got bridget phillipson standing by. member of the new government. and, bridget, could i just say to you, congratulations . to you, congratulations. >> thank you very much. >> thank you very much. >> and what does it feel like? you know, you've got a job to do, can you are you looking forward to getting stuck into it ? forward to getting stuck into it? >> absolutely. we're determined to get on with the work in delivering on the commitments that we've made to the british people. and apologies. it is very noisy in the background here, we're determined to deliver on the commitments that we've made to the british people to honour the trust that they have placed in us. that's a big responsibility. but people have voted for change and we want to deliver a better future . deliver a better future. >> your constituency, one of the first to declare, if not the first, wasn't it. it's probably been a very long night for you. or maybe that meant you actually were able to squeeze in a few

hours of sleep. i'm not sure, but certainly seems to be the mood from a number of your colleagues that we've spoken to labour supporters, labour advisers, throughout the course of the morning. happy but not triumphant, i think, was the phrase, and i suppose there are those people that will say this is a landslide, but a bit of a loveless one. lots of questions about how long the honeymoon is going to last for sir keir starmer . starmer. >> i mean, this is an historic win for labour, but more importantly, it's an opportunity for our country to turn a corner . for our country to turn a corner. after 14 years of all of the chaos and the division that we've experienced, what we're focused on right now is making sure that we deliver on what people have voted for. the british people have spoken and they voted for change, and that work begins today, and we want to make sure that we put we demonstrate that where people have put their trust in us, we'll deliver. whether that's more police on our streets tackling the issues that we see at the moment in our nhs and more teachers in our classrooms. they're just some of the priorities that we'll get to work on straight away. >> a lot of priorities. i would

say, have been there in your constituency for the last two counts in houghton and sunderland south and what have you got to do there? there's a lot of deprivation in the area. >> yeah, absolutely. what i know is that families are really feeling the squeeze at the moment. you know, living standards are not where they should be. we've you know, wages haven't been going up and far too many of our children are growing up in poverty. and that's why education is so important to that. and the commitments that we set out dunng commitments that we set out during the campaign around universal free breakfast clubs and all of our primary schools, for example, would make a really big difference. and, you know, we've we've won tonight, last night in places that we'd never won before. so we know that that's a huge responsibility. we've returned labour mps in seats like hexham and banbury that have never had labour mps before. that's an enormous responsibility, but it's an opportunity for us to make the change that people have voted for. we don't take that for granted. we take absolutely

nothing for granted. but this is a chance for our country to have a chance for our country to have a brighter future. and i really do believe that our country's best days lie ahead of us. >> you've also lost some heavyweight shadow cabinet members jonathan ashworth and also thangam debbonaire. we've seen incredibly low voter turnout and the lowest share of the vote for a winning party in any general election. do you accept those that argue that actually your mandate for this historic win, as you see it, is actually not as thumping as previous leaders have had? in fact, jeremy corbyn had a higher share of the vote in 2017. >> under keir starmer's leadership, we have secured a clear mandate to govern and in this country the basis for that is by parliamentary seats and the number of mps that are returned to westminster. and on that basis, we have secured an historic win. but i do recognise that a number of our colleagues weren't successful in making it over the line. i'm really, really very sorry about that . in

really very sorry about that. in john ashworth, we had someone who fought, you know, was part of fighting what has been a fantastic campaign. he has been a tireless champion of working people over many decades. and i'm really sorry he wasn't successful this evening . and successful this evening. and thangam debbonaire to an amazing and brilliant colleague and again, really disappointed that she wasn't successful. but i'm sure both of them, you know , sure both of them, you know, recognise that we have at least been able to secure that labour government that will make such a difference to working people. right across our country, and we will get to work on repaying that trust that people have put in us today . in us today. >> we understand that sir keir starmer is going to appoint his cabinet today. no pause for him and lots of rumours swirling around westminster that he might even cancel parliamentary recess this summer. so intent is he on hitting the ground running in his first 100 days? can you update us on that possibility? >> i'm afraid these are all matters for keir starmer , both matters for keir starmer, both in terms of the appointments he will make today and for any

issues around parliamentary. the parliamentary kind of timetable. but what i am confident about and what keir has said to all of us, and what keir has set out to the country, is that we will hit the country, is that we will hit the ground running from day one. we know we face a really, really big challenge ahead of us and that's why it's so important. we get on, we get cracking and we make sure we show to the british people the difference that voting labour will make. >> big job to do. thanks for your time this morning and as i say, congratulations. thank you very much indeed. and well amongst our panel here, joining us now, judith da silva, who is a broadcaster . and, the last a broadcaster. and, the last time we spoke was the golden globes. i think you were. so, you know, all about showbiz. you know all about glitz and glamour. you know about charisma and what it takes to grab the pubuc and what it takes to grab the public attention. do we have it with the labour party and their leader? >> i'm simply put. no, you don't, unfortunately, which is kind of feeds into what a lot of the people you've spoken to this morning have said that you haven't won power , the tories haven't won power, the tories haven't won power, the tories have lost it, and it should be

very mindful also about the comparisons being made to 1997, because, simply put, keir starmer, when i go to work in africa and i work in america, i'm always curious to get like a temperature check of what they think of what's going on in the uk and they just say he isn't box office. when they think of david cameron, when they think of tony blair, he was fresh. he was dynamic. when he spoke, he was dynamic. when he spoke, he was charismatic. he was he was different from what had come before. but when he walked into a room, he commanded the space. it's called the john wayne effect, that you can just walk in a straight line and people just want to know you. they gravitate towards you. they're cunous gravitate towards you. they're curious about you. keir starmer doesn't have that. you're now in power. what you have to prove is that through your competence as a leader, you galvanise respect for the position because based on his tone of voice, how he delivers it, how he motivates people, he just hasn't got that electricity, but he can translate it into competence. and then kind of even the scale that way. >> can he theo usherwood translate it into competence because as you've been telling us this morning, he's tied

himself up a lot in some pretty strong fiscal rules. there's no money left as we know, you know, how is he going to be able to do the things that he's promised, regain the trust that they've promised , and return competence promised, and return competence as they see it? >> so there are two areas that keir starmer wants to focus on. the first is housing building 300,000 homes a year. and that's been a big failure of the conservative party. i think when you look back over the last 14 years, there's been a huge amount of focus on partygate. on the 45 days that liz truss was in office. but actually, if you look at the policy failures that just as important, if not more important, and young people have not been able to get on the housing ladder because the homes haven't been built. so keir starmer needs to focus on that. and then also focusing on the infrastructure around those homes. so there are places that people want to live because you just don't want these pop up towns where nobody wants to live. towns where nobody wants to uve.the towns where nobody wants to live. the other area he's looking at, and i think this might open some doors politically for reform and also for the right of the conservative party, as he wants to bring in closer alignment with the european union to get rid of the red tape. and that will mean and it's going to be

an uncomfortable one, potentially saying to the european union , whatever rules european union, whatever rules you wish to change, particularly around things like chemicals, car manufacturing, we're going to go along with those rules. and in return, our companies aren't going to have to go through all the aeons of paperwork. so those are two things that he can do, which are quite to easy do. and you don't have to spend any money. but there is a big question now whether keir starmer can make the changes that affect people's lives, where people actually feel i am better off as a result of a labour government, because if he doesn't do that, as i was making the point before, i think they're in for the labour government is in for real problems and i don't think there's a honeymoon period. i just don't think it exists with this government. he hasn't got the opportunity and he's got to. >> do you think he's going to cancel recess, as some people have been thinking? >> it's going to be i think it's going there's no rest for you. >> political? no, no, there's a there's a possibility you cancel it or it would just be much, much shorter. >> and we were all looking to go to the end of july and that's unusual. and then start straight away at the beginning of

september. >> craig, just looking at the day that keir starmer will have ahead of him. >> absolutely incredible. i mean, it involves mundane things like moving into a new home and it involves phoning world leaders and sending out messages. it involves forming a cabinet. goodness me. >> well, i don't think anyone was really particularly surprised that he's become the prime minister. i think we sort of knew that with the polls, we all we all rather hope the polls were horribly wrong. but i think were horribly wrong. but i think we knew it was coming. i'm sure he's got preparations underway. i mean, the mystery of what happens with the king is one of those things that none of us know, but it is always quite an interesting process where the outgoing pm goes in the official car and comes back in a taxi. >> i think not when it's rishi sunak. he'll have a private jet or something standing by, and then the new new pm goes and attacks him, comes back in the official car. >> it's all rather mysterious and rather lovely, actually. but no, the beauty of this and andrew neil actually on the tweet, i was just reading while i was in the green room, said, isn't it remarkable how we do a transfer of power in this country? you know , we don't have country? you know, we don't have police and army on the streets

like we see in many countries. we have quite ordered ballot boxes and there's no crisis or chaos. and i think it's a i think it's a strength and it's why people are willing to invest in this country because it has that strength and security and legal order. >> diana, as somebody, you were a red wall winner, weren't you? for the conservatives under bofis for the conservatives under boris johnson, you've left parliament. but where do you think the conservatives are going now? it's been a bruising night, the worst in 200 years, rishi sunak said as he won his constituency of richmond that he would stay on for not weeks but months, maybe even years. do you think that's likely to happen, or do you think he may, as lots of people had predicted, actually go off i go. silicon valley's calling. >> i think at the very least, i hope that he stays on for a couple of months to allow the conservative party to just regroup and decompress, because there will be a lot of anger this morning. there will be a lot of sadness. and i think people just need to allow their own emotional dust to settle for

a day or two, particularly those who've lost their seats, who were perhaps in so—called safe seats and were not at all expected. >> there's also going to be a lot of happiness and joy, particularly amongst young people. >> well , that's right, and it's >> well, that's right, and it's something that i find fascinating about polling because i'm a massive geek. like thatis because i'm a massive geek. like that is when you look at other parts of the world, you look at france. now, the right is doing incredibly well with young people here in britain. reform is doing incredibly well with young men, not with young women, but with young men. so as a conservative party, we are clearly failing in our offer to young people. i've been saying for a while we need to improve it, and i hope that as part of our rebuild, we can look towards that next generation and see what they can offer us and what we can offer. >> what do you think is there for young people, which is the party? is there anything for young people? >> i think what people have to accept, whether you love him or hate him, is what started with trump. trump tapped into the zeitgeist, which is the generation of loving social media. when you think of things like that have come out of it's cancel culture, outrage politics, what young people like

is don't shilly shally, what do you stand for? stick to it's dig in. yeah, but anyone who thinks like i have to make everyone happy do what's best. that's just not the language of young people, right now. and when you tap in, particularly to what people dislike, what people hate, what they're upset about, thatis hate, what they're upset about, that is potent motivation for action. trump saw that he played to it with great success. farage has seen that he's played to it. he's getting success. marine le pen, the same thing. you have to stand for something and be unwavering and young people feel that someone i can get behind because monday, tuesday , sunday because monday, tuesday, sunday or friday, i know what they mean. >> that would make young people unhappy. what is it that particularly hits their nerve that says, this is bad? >> this is awful because you're coming out , particularly out of coming out, particularly out of covid, where you have a generation of young people where i can't get a house, i can't live the way i want to live, particularly with instagram. and i'm constantly being bombarded with imagery that my country's been inundated with, people i consider to be outsiders. they're taking what's mine. all you're doing is brewing a sense of discontent. that who i am and

who i want to be is impossible in my own country. tap into that and offer that i stand with you. you being angry is a good thing. point it in this direction, which is my direction. and they will move with you. that is why you're seeing that trump is even getting young black voters because they feel i don't owe you anything just because i'm black. i'm not going to vote liberal. i will vote with somebody who speaks to how i think. >> just to explain the shot that we are sitting on at the moment. this is the live shot of downing street, but the camera's still endunng street, but the camera's still enduring the bad weather. but they're trained on number 11 because we are expecting the chancellor and his family to take a step out onto that famous street . and, as they often do, street. and, as they often do, make their way symbolically down the street as a sort of end of his time as chancellor, he managed to hold on to his seat as not as host, but not his house. yeah. so moving back to his constituency in godalming and ash and i just want to get your thoughts, craig mckinley, you're you've gone you've left as an mp, you've been promoted, isuppose

as an mp, you've been promoted, i suppose , is the word. you i suppose, is the word. you could say you're now in the house of lords. labour have said they want to reform the house of lords. what do you think it might look like under a labour government? >> i don't think they'll be playing with it in the first term. i think they've got other priorities, they've won a victory under all the political system that exists in the uk. i don't think it's going to be top of their agenda. there will be some within the labour party, and we'll wait to see how loud they roar, whether the, you know, the proper deep socialists get a get a look in because we will now be seeing how broad the shirts of the labour party is. we've always had to focus on how broad the conservative party is. do we rail with each other and all the rest of it? we will now be seeing in great clarity the different factions of the labour party. there'll be some of those that will be calling for the, you know, destruction of the monarchy and destruction of the house of lords and all the other institutions. but i don't think sir keir will be on that track. i think, you know, he's not of my type, of course, but i think there is a sense of traditional service within the man, and i don't think he'll be messing

around with the house of lords any time soon. they might want to get rid of the last 80 hereditaries. i think you meddle with the constitution at your peril. frankly, i know maybe i'm just dull and boring, but if it works, don't fix it. is often my advice. >> jeremy made some interesting comments as he accepted his win in godalming and ash he said a message to my children who i sincerely hope are asleep now this was about 5 to 5, i think. something like that. this may seem like a tough day for our family as we move out of downing street, but it isn't. we're incredibly lucky to live in a country where decisions like this are made not by bombs or bullets, but by thousands of ordinary citizens peacefully placing crosses in boxes and bits of paper. don't be sad. this is the magic of democracy and i thought it was incredibly dignified thing to say. >> that's exactly what tony benn used to say. you can change the course of the country with a bit of paper and a stubby pencil. i think he said. and it is it is a great strength of ours. i mean, it is a strange election, i have to say. and you've highlighted some of the bits, very low

turnout that the labour vote only actually has gone up by 1.5% since 2019, which is incredible. and david cameron actually got a bigger vote share in 2010 and ended up with a hung parliament. so, you know, it's a weird system. there will be those no doubt reform in the greens and others who will say, oh well, this proves that the system is it should be reformed to some sort of pr system. i've always been against pr on the bafis always been against pr on the basis that if you've got a constituency mp there, your mp , constituency mp there, your mp, you have to look back at, say, the mep system, you know, different system across a large area. nobody really knew who their mep was or frankly cared. and i don't think any of them probably responded to anything. the link i think with the constituency is very powerful, you know, with its flaws and all the rest of it. it's british, it works, and you get strong governments out of it. well, the chancellor is no longerjeremy chancellor is no longer jeremy hunt. >> theo, is he done? is he is he finished? he's leaving his home there. he's leaving. leaving number 11. but where do you think we'll see him resurface,

if at all? he's still a big beast within the conservative party. >> he is a big piece. i was at an event, that he attended. and what was interesting, actually, was he came for a very short stint in the morning and then dashed off back to his constituency. and i have a feeling that the reason he's kept his seat, as he worked it very hard, he was put his own money in there, put his own money in there, put his own money in, and he was plotting the street for six, seven, eight hours a day. and i think that's one of the reasons he said, he said at the end of the of his speech that he was a question answer session, actually, that he wanted to remain in public service, that he'd had a very successful business. of course, pnor successful business. of course, prior to going into parliament. but actually he wanted to remain in public service. he's going to remain. he's going to stay on as an mp. it was something there had been question marks about whether he would go early and then avoid the humiliation of losing his seat. that obviously hasn't happened and he's kept his seat. and i imagine that he will be a key unifying figure on the backbenches for the tories as they work out what to do next. >> it always amuses me and interests me. when you look down the downing street there and

there's lots of talk about number 11, obviously, because that's where the chancellor traditionally is. but there's been lots of talk about which flat the starmer family will move into. i mean, there was even debate at one point about whether they'd even go in. i think that happens every single time we had it with tony blair. i remember it with the camerons as well. i think when you've got as well. i think when you've got a family, kids in school, we know the starmer's kids have been doing gcses. there's not much appetite, is there to move. but do you have any insight, theo. >> they're going in. >> they're going in. >> but which one? >> but which one? >> 11 or 10. number 11. because that's the one. that's the big one which is above number 11. and they are going they are going to go in. i think it's worth remembering that with the gaza protests, there were some completely unacceptable demonstrations outside the starmer family home in north london. and i think that for security measures given the given everything that's been going on in that regard, i think they'll bring the family in and there won't really be much of a choice about it. i think that's a they'll bring the family in and they'll be in the flat above number 11, which is the bigger, which is the bigger the bigger one. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> well, i will say goodbye to you, at this stage, thank you for being with us today. as we,

brought you those very latest results that will continue throughout the day here on gb news with bev and andrew up next. and britain is under new political ownership on this friday, the 5th of july. >> yes. and as we continue to look on that live shot and we can wonder exactly when we're going to see the chancellor , going to see the chancellor, jeremy hunt, stepping out of there and making his way down downing street. and indeed, as rachel reeves, she's got she's got children as well, theo. they'll be making their way in as well. >> so we're expecting to see jeremy hunt, the chancellor, one of the few cabinet survivors in a night of carnage for the tory party. a lot of people thought he was going to lose his seat. they thought it was going to be the michael portillo moment. but i think that fell to liz truss when the former prime minister lost her seat. but he'll emerge from number 11 downing street, his political frontline career is over as the tories have suffered their worst election drubbing since probably 1832. >> but yeah, if you're just waking up this morning to the

news that we are going to have a huge majority labour government in the uk, a lot of the significant events will happen. history will be made this morning, andrew, won't it, between now and midday. what are we expecting to see? >> well we'll see the so the chancellor jeremy >> well we'll see the so the chancellorjeremy hunt and the chancellor jeremy hunt and the outgoing chancellor will speak as he leaves number 11. but the prime minister, rishi sunak, is going to address the nation at 1030. interesting isn't it? he launched the campaign soaking wet, dripping wet . it's raining wet, dripping wet. it's raining again. i think this time at least he'll have an umbrella. he will tell us, presumably if he's going to resign as tory leader , going to resign as tory leader, immediately triggering an immediately triggering an immediate tory leadership contest, or is he going to carry on as an interim leader, which is what michael howard did in 2005 when tony blair won his third election victory? michael howard carried on as tory leader all the way up until october, and it meant the tories crowned their new leader, who was david cameron back then? at the conservative party conference in october? if he does the right thing by his party, he will stick around for at least a few

weeks because they've got to they've they've suffered their worst defeat in modern history . worst defeat in modern history. and it's his fault. yeah. he went early . nobody seemed to went early. nobody seemed to understand the logic of why he went so early. and he also, in my view, conducted a worse than useless campaign. >> it's a very good point. and of course, even though labour have so many seats, this morning, their vote share in 2024 this year 33.8% 411 mps at the latest call , some of them, the latest call, some of them, astonishingly, actually still to be confirmed this morning. i think only about 3 or 4 maybe left at the moment. the vote share in 2019 was 32. so in fact, the vote share for labour has only gone up one one and a bit percentage if you're listening on the radio, jeremy hunt is emerged on the steps of number 11 with his wife and two three children and the family dog. >> he did say in an interview dunng >> he did say in an interview during the campaign that the dog was the most important part of

his life. and then, of course, he had to say, apart from my wife and children, that is. so he's posing for photographs. i'm not sure if he's going to say much, because of course he gave a very gracious speech when he won his seat. he held on in his surrey seat by just 900 votes. big disappointment for the liberal democrats, who thought they were going to get him. no, he's not saying anything. his wife looks happy. i'm sure she's happy because it's they're out of the hothouse of 11 downing street. the children have got those four smiles on the children. have they seem quite sweet? >> they're probably quite relieved as well, to be honest. i mean, this wasn't exactly a surprise, was it? they've had a lot of time as a family, just on a personal level. they've had a lot of time to get used to this life change that will be facing them now. >> yeah. so jeremy, so jeremy hunt walking with his i wish i could remember the name of the dog. it's a labrador and the three children and his wife. so he'll be going into his he'll be going into his ministerial car for the last time, i imagine, because when you're a mere backbencheh because when you're a mere backbencher, which is what he'll be, he will lose all the trappings of power, which

include, of course, the grace and favour house in number 11 downing street and also include the grace and favour mansion dorneywood in buckinghamshire . dorneywood in buckinghamshire. very nice it is to dorneywood. not that i've been invited, not that i've been invited. and i certainly won't get invited under rachel reeves, that's for sure. the new chancellor, who will be in power in place very soon. so here we are , andrew soon. so here we are, andrew pierce and bev turner, britain's newsroom on this historic day. welcome to a brave new dawn , babe. >> it really is, isn't it? it feels like, you know, we had a six week election campaign. this wasn't a huge surprise. we've got between now and midday to explain to you all the twists and turns of the last 12 hours. well, last 24 hours, in fact. see who the big beasts are who actually lost their seats. penny mordaunt is gone. grant shapps is gone. gillian keegan is gone. gillian keegan didn't take that defeat particularly well. she did not, did she, during the night, >> don't forget liz truss, the former prime minister. that is,

to me, the michael portillo moment . remember when