good morning. i'm annita mcveigh, at westminster. labour and the conservatives experience a night of mixed fortunes in the local elections in england. jeremy corbyn‘s party failed to take control of any london councils from the tories, but the party celebrates a decisive victory over the conservatives in plymouth. obviously, i am disappointed we lost a bit of ground. but if you look at the overall picture, labour gained a lot of seats across the country, we gained a lot of votes in places we have never had those votes before and we had a very effective campaign all across the country. the conservatives win barnet and make gains in councils across england — but lose control of trafford. the liberal democrats have a good night, making gains in many areas — seizing control of richmond—upon—thames. support for ukip collapses. i'm rachel scholfield, with the rest of today's news. the nobel prize for literature

is cancelled for the first time in 75 years after a sexual assault scandal. and the breast screening scandal, helplines take 8,000 calls after it emerges two nhs trusts raised concerns with public health england last year. hello, good morning from westminster from me and all the team here. and it is from here we will be taking you through the day and telling you the story of the local elections 2018. we know part of that story already, but not the complete picture. we will bring you those developments as we get them. along the way, plenty of opinion and analysis as well. so let's look at what we do know so far. local elections across england have failed to produce a decisive swing for either of the two main parties, with both labour and the conservatives claiming success,

while also losing councils. jeremy corbyn‘s hopes of gains in london failed to materialise — the conservatives not only hung on to wandsworth, but also retook control in barnet. but the tories lost trafford in greater manchester, and plymouth was poached from them by labour. these are the key results. this is the national picture after two thirds of the results had been declared. not much change, with both of the main parties holding onto the main councils they were defending. although labour has made one net loss. and the number of councils re—elected now so far, both labour and the lib dems have made gains with ukip losing nearly all of the council seats they held, losing 92 seats. all the seats in london's 32

boroughs, much talked about, they we re boroughs, much talked about, they were up for election. labour hold onto their inner city stronghold but failed to win over key target seats in barnet and westminster. the lib dems took over control of richmond from the conservatives. taking stock of the night so far, here is our political correspondent, jonathan blake. once i'd think they are winning, but so once i'd think they are winning, but so does the above. along night in the london borough of wandsworth, once rock—solid tory council labour thought they could win, and the conservatives held on. and through the night across england, those who set and spend your council tax watched and waited for the voters verdict. there were celebrations in swindon, and at council labour wa nted swindon, and at council labour wanted to win, but again, the

conservatives kept control. plymouth was labour's big win of the night. they took it from the tories at 2:30 a:m.. if you are was later in the morning mist, jeremy corbyn said it was a sign labour was back in that pa rt was a sign labour was back in that part of britain. we got the result that we deserved. congratulations, well done, labour! not a win here, but the tories losing control was enough for labour to celebrate in trafford. the only conservative council in north west england. but in the london borough of barnet, home to a largejewish community, labour admitted he anti—semitism row had hurt them and the tories took control. i went to 650, 700 different doorsteps and i said, you planning to vote, who for? and they mostly told me, you know what? we labour supporters, but we are jewish. and we just can't bring ourselves to vote for the current labour party right now. yellow was

the winning colour in richmond—upon—thames, the liberal democrats took that london borough from the tories. one place where views and brexit may have come into play. overall, not that much has changed. gains for labour but not as many as it hoped and the tories largely held their ground, doing well out of the collapse in ukip‘s support. but it is not over yet, there are plenty more results still to come. absolutely. with me is our assistant political editor, norman smith. good morning. so, what is your take on the results we have so far? some changes around the edges, but nothing seismic. the most extraordinary thing, normally when we do these posts local election midterm results, the inevitable headline is, government gets a kicking. yet, that did not happen is made. it is extraordinary that here we are, eight years into

conservative rule, after austerity, a week when we have had amongst other things windrush, resignations, brexit rows, economic growth slowing, somehow the conservatives have contrary this largely unscathed. they have suffered some losses, trafford is a significant loss. i met another big win for labour. but by and large, they'll still in one piece —— plymouth. part of that is down to the they have been more successful at hoovering up ukip votes and you can see them getting loads of former ukip council in places like dudley and north east lincolnshire. but there has not been some huge haemorrhage in tory support. and in london, where the tories are absolutely on the back foot for all sorts of reason, partly because of brexit and because londoners the younger and more

diverse city, but we have seen them ina diverse city, but we have seen them in a council like hillingdon, one of the labour target seats, actually gaining four seats. what does that mean for theresa may and jeremy corbyn? the question mr corbyn faces is, it if you cannot give the government a kicking now, when can you? and government a kicking now, when can you 7 and there government a kicking now, when can you? and there will be questions as to whether we have reached the high watermark of corbynism. because outside of london, in really crucial areas, they have gone backwards in some areas. you could have somewhere like derby, nuneaton, another very interesting, crucial, bellwether midland council, they lost eight seats to the conservatives. and you look at the old tony blair lands, the commuter seats, basildon, swindon, not making progress. and the great victorian london has not happened. in part, that is down to just pour electioneering, they allowed expectations to get way out of hand and they were never going to

ta ke of hand and they were never going to take seats like westminster or wandsworth or hillingdon, you need swings of 8%. but they allowed expectations built. in broad terms, if you are sitting in team corbyn, these were pretty good circumstances, it is midterm, we had momentum, we were on a roll, you have to think, yet we have not been able to take advantage of that. that would be the cause of some concern, i think. what do the results also say about how voters are thinking and feeling? there are so many issues to consider in these elections. have they decided to largely stick with what they know?|j think largely stick with what they know?” think the one thing which seems to be becoming apparent is how far brexit has changed the shape of our politics and is still forming how people vote. because if you look at an area like walsall, which used to

be read, solid labour. last night, labour still losing seats to the tories. and walsall was a big leave town and labour is still suffering heavily because of the aftermath of brexit. and we are in a situation where, broadly speaking, the tories losing out in a former remain areas and labour is broadly moving out in its broadly brexit areas. brexit is a huge cloud that overhang is our politics, including local elections. thank you very much. norman smith. as norman was saying, brexit really the dominant force, one might think, in local elections like this. it might be the issues of bin collections, education, leisure services that dominate, but if you look at this particular set of local elections, it has been those big national issues that have certainly

been a very strong force when it comes to people going to the ballot box and deciding where to place a mark on the ballot paper and who to give their vote too. we are going to discuss all of this little bit more. i think discuss all of this little bit more. ithinki discuss all of this little bit more. i think i have my next guests in place. yes, over my shoulder. the conservative party's vice—chair and the labour mp conservative party's vice—chair and the labourmp and conservative party's vice—chair and the labour mp and shadow health secretaryjohn ashworth. good morning. jonathan ashworth, first of all, norman smith was looking at the results we have so far for labour and asking the question, have we seen and asking the question, have we seen the high point of corbynism. a decree in london, results not what the party was hoping for, due to agree with what you are suggesting? we have made progress across the country in important areas. winning

the plymouth council. a key constituency in the area we need to win in the next election, johnny mercer's seat, he was very fed up if you saw him last night on the tv. we have got disappointing results in some parts of the country but i heard an analysis when i was doing media earlier which suggests that these figures were extrapolated into a general election, the tories would be losing seats, will not be able to form a government, and they would stay about the same, which is disappointing, we have got war —— work to do but this is a huge failure for theresa may. back to london in a moment, but a huge failure for theresa may? absolutely not, we should be standing here right now, the conservatives should have lost hundreds of council seats and labourgained have lost hundreds of council seats and labour gained hundreds, a succession of councils, and what we saw last night was conservatives holding places like swindon were jeremy corbyn has been nabbed five times and throwing the kitchen sink. momentum activists from everywhere. councils like derby, nuneaton going

into overall control. and taking councils like basildon and barnet we re councils like basildon and barnet were labour seem to have been fatally damaged by the anti—semitism i’ow fatally damaged by the anti—semitism row and the failure ofjeremy corbyn to get a grip of the hard left in the labour party. would you have beenin the labour party. would you have been in this position without the colla pse been in this position without the collapse in the ukip vote? we need to look at it in the round and last night, we took a seat from the greens in my constituency and in oldham is —— from the labour democrats. the ukip vote has gone back to the party from which those vote rs back to the party from which those voters originated, or whether it be the liberal democrats, the conservatives or the labour party. we cannot completely pin it on that and certainly, we have made gains across the country from the labour party. in my area, we made seven gains from the labour party. we are going to be talking in a moment to the labour group leader in barnet, but i want to ask you about the result there, the conservatives only had one seat majority. this, in

theory, should have been an easy picking for labour. but they did not do it. the conservatives held on. is that because of the anti—semitism row, it in your opinion? a big jewish population that. i suspect it is and it is hugely disappointing not to make the progress we wanted in barnet. i was campaigning there the other week with the labour group leader who is a decent man and had great ideas for the future of barnet. i would say we in the labour party must not dismiss concerns about anti—semitism. we should take them seriously and we have to work ha rd to them seriously and we have to work hard to win back the trust of those people who have turned away from us, jewish voters and non—jewish voters have turned away from us in parts of the country because this row and we have to win that trust back. that means making sure whether it is candidates or activists, if they labour activists on twitter and facebook, it seems to be done online these days, once they are identified, they should be kicked out of the labour party. thank you

both very much for your time this morning. we can now go to barnet. let's speak now to barry rawlings, the leader of barnet council. good morning. jonathan ashworth, you'll labour party colleague, saying he suspects the anti—semitism row is the reason labour failed to ta ke row is the reason labour failed to take this key target seat, it's number one target seat in london. is that also your feelings? yes, if you look at how the votes worked out, it was wards with a higher proportion ofjewish voters moved away from us so there is no getting away from the fa ct so there is no getting away from the fact that if the anti—semitism had been dealt with a couple of years ago when it should have been, the people of barnet would be waking up toa people of barnet would be waking up to a labour council today. are you frustrated with jeremy to a labour council today. are you frustrated withjeremy corbyn over this? not particularly personally. i feel

desperately sorry, we had lots of good candidates who did not win. we had some really fresh ideas in our ma nifesto. had some really fresh ideas in our manifesto. i do believe in collective responsibility so i do feel the nec other whole should have dealt with this earlier when it came up. but mr corbyn is the leader of the party, sorry to interrupt, he sets the tone, and he has been accused multiple times by thejewish community of not doing enough to resolve this issue. i think the movement is in the right place. obviously, jeremy corbyn has a responsibility as a leader but i do feel the whole nec had a responsibility. if you think what has happened recently, when they said to the general secretary we need things done, it happened. if they said the same thing two years

ago ian mcnicol would have got things done and we would not be in the position we are now. however, you have to live in the real world. we are in this position where there isa we are in this position where there is a distinct lack of trust with the jewish community. there will be a long road back to regain that trust. here in barnett we are further along the road. we had 11jewish candidates, including a senior rabbi who got elected and will be representing labour in barnet. i think we are example of how you can work with all different communities andi work with all different communities and i have said it before, i will repeat it, i'm inviting jeremy corbyn to come to barnet to see what we do and see if they can make the steps on thatjourney themselves.

you must be thinking you have lost a brilliant opportunity here with such a small gap between labour and the conservatives on the council. yes, it isa conservatives on the council. yes, it is a blood opportunity and especially with such a hopeless council as we have with the barnet conservatives. but the voters chose the conservatives? yes, but as you know yourself, a lot depends on different chill votes. in some wards with a hidejewish population, they had over 70% of people voting, compared with 20% in other wards. it was definitely a protest from jewish people, many of whom are supporters of the labour party, many of whom are supporters or members of the labour party who feel they have been let down. from my point of view, we know where we stand. whether that has gained or lost votes, frankie, i don't care. sometimes you have to ta ke don't care. sometimes you have to take a moral stance. don't care. sometimes you have to take a moralstance. our don't care. sometimes you have to take a moral stance. our moral sta nce take a moral stance. our moral stance is to stand next to our jewish brothers and sisters to fight

anti—semitism. that is the right place to be and that is where we remain. if it means we don't win the council, i do not want to be in a position where i am accept in some forms of hate are different from other forms of hate. we are in the right place, i think the labour party generally is beginning to move into the right place. we should be used as an example. i will accept that we have not done enough to regain the trust of a lot of the jewish community. we need to do more. we are further along the road, we will continue to stand by our jewish brothers and sisters to fight anti—semitism come what may. i do see something that's bigger than the election but yes, it is very disappointing that we did not win. i have felt better in my life. but in a week's time, we will go out canvassing again. we will continue to fight the campaign because i think the people of barnet deserve a

labour council who can provide a proper future labour council who can provide a properfuture for them. labour council who can provide a proper future for them. all i labour council who can provide a properfuture for them. all i can do is agree with you, it is frustrating, it is desperate, but there is a good future in the labour party and we will work to make sure there is no place for hate, any form of hate within the labour party. 0k, barry rawlings, thank you for your time today. the conservatives holding on to barnet despite that being the number one target seat in london for neighbour. —— for labour. well, there was also a parliamentary by—election in west tyrone yesterday. sinn fein held the seat with a slightly reduced majority. our correspondent keith doyle has more details. he's in our belfast newsroom now. good morning to you. the election triggered by the resignation of barry michael duff. a slightly reduced majority that almost twice as much as the second placed candidate from the dup solution they now still dominant there? yes, there

was a little drama surrounding yesterday's voting but it was not in the result which came in late last night or the early hours of the morning. all begley got 16,000 votes with an 8000 majority. slightly down on the election last year, but this isa on the election last year, but this is a strongly nationalist constituency. sinn fein have a grip on it, there was never any doubt that sinn fein would hang onto it. in second place was thomas buchanan from the dup. this was triggered by the resignation of barry mcilduff. he posed on twitter with a picture ofa he posed on twitter with a picture of a loaf of kingsmill bread on his head which was on the anniversary of the kingsmill massacre is. but did

not affect the turnout for sinn fein. they got a massive majority, an 8000 majority. you mentioned there was drama elsewhere. one man was arrested on suspicion of possessing a firearm? yes, the police service of northern ireland have told us that a 59—year—old man has been charged with firearms offences for allegedly entering a polling station and having a firearm in that polling station. another drama during the count last night when the sinn fein president, mary lou mcdonald, this is herfirst by—election as president of sinn fein. she was denied entry into the count along with the winning candidate because they did not have the right id. common sense prevailed and they were eventually allowed in to hear the results. marylou mcdonald said this result was a

vindication of our position on brexit. sinn fein were staunchly remainers in this. they are saying the turnout there in this west constituency, very closely aligned to the republic of ireland, many of the constituents there looks out towards the border —— they look over the border towards the south. they are saying that sinn fein's position on remaining was vindicated by this vote. thank you for that. with me to dissect the results we've had in so far is tony travers, professor at the department for government at the london school in economics, and an expert in local government. very good to have you with me this morning. welcome to you. your broad thoughts first of all on what we have seen so far? i think what we have seen so far? i think what we have seen so far? i think what we have seen so far is quite a remarkable set of results really. if you look across the country,

conservatives and labour are both winning a few seeds. they have lost some on one side but overall, and the liberal democrats also winning as well. ukip down quite a lot. it is patchy from one place to another. the conservatives have been winning seats in outer parts of the cities in the north of england and the midlands. in london, overall labour winning seats but have not been able to win councils yet. i think if you stand back from all of that, it is a relatively good result for the conservatives. they have been in power one way or another for eight yea rs. power one way or another for eight years. for neighbour, out of power after eight years, they probably ought to be doing rather better than this in these kind of elections. that is what the politicians will be looking at as they tried to extrapolate towards the next general election. give us your thoughts on

what this says about the voter mood at the moment and how much brexit is influencing voting? the first thing to notice is actually the conservative and labour parties have almost certainly both increased their votes. it is almost back to a form of 2—party politics. for years the two parties votes were in decline but now it is perking up again. it is not quite the old 2—party vote. rex it will have played a role here and there, perhaps more outside london than within london. it looks like the within london. it looks like the within london. it looks like the within london vote is being influenced by other issues, perhaps more local issues in some ways which have allowed conservatives to hold on in what is after all a remain city where last year the conservatives suffered for being associated with brexit. that was one question, how local worthies local elections or were bigger national issues going to dominate? there is a lwa ys issues going to dominate? there is always a mixture of the two. in london where you have results in

places like wandsworth and westminster, very low council tax is, a long—term conservative administration, i think that has brought out the conservative vote in quite a local way. other issues, we have mentioned brexit, but looking at other things like the labour pa rty‘s at other things like the labour party's struggle with the anti—semitism row, posterity, these are national policies which weigh in on the local elections. for everybody voting yesterday, everything that councils do affect you as soon everything that councils do affect you as soon is you step outside your front door. that means these elections, as though they are often seen as elections, as though they are often seen as randomised test of public opinion nationally are about local issues —— they are from seen as a grand test of public opinion. we have seen the conservatives winning over night this time. thank you very much. much more from me here at westminster after 9:30, but now let's return to the studio and rachel.

thank you. the swedish academy has decided that it will not be announcing the nobel prize for literature this year amid a controversy over alleged sexual misconduct. several of the experts who serve on the swedish academy which decides on the winner resigned, after allegations of sexual abuse were made against the husband of one of its members. he denies the claims. it's emerged public health england was warned about the breast cancer screening errors last year. two nhs health trusts raised concerns in march 2017, but were told it was a local — rather than a national matter. 450,000 women were not invited to breast cancer screenings due to a computer error. an independent review has been announced by the government. public health england has said the response to the crisis cannot be rushed. we've had an expert advisory group running with expert clinicians who have told us they are very clear that women need to have a helpline

in place to have all of these things there and for us to have the complete picture before we go out to them so we don't cause them any more anxiety than the current situation. the world's first national review of the number of deaths of people with learning disabilities has found either abuse, neglect, delays in treatment, or gaps in care played a part in one in eight deaths that were scrutinised. the review was commissioned by nhs england after the avoidable death of a young man called connor sparrowhawk. hundreds of afghan interpreters who served with uk troops fighting the taliban will not have to pay for the right to stay in britain. more than 150 interpreters who were given five—year residency permits said they faced being sent back to afghanistan when they expire, unless they paid £2,400 for indefinite leave to remain.

the home secretary says the fee will be waived because they had "put their lives at risk" for the country. bill cosby and roman polanski have been expelled from the us academy of motion picture arts and sciences. the academy — which runs the oscars — said this was done in accordance with its standards of conduct. tv star cosby was convicted of sexual assault last month. oscar—winning director polanski admitted statutory rape of a 13—year—old girl in 1977. let's get a look at the weather prospects now. hello, some sunshine for eastern england and scotland. further west, some patchy rain and drizzle. we should see some bright and sunny spells helping temperatures to between 15 and 19 celsius. there is still that cloud, the breeze and

outbreaks of light and patchy rain for northern and western parts of scotland. elsewhere, dry, variable cloud, clear spells and temperatures falling to six to 11 celsius. for the bank holiday weekend, most places are looking drive. some good spells of sunshine and temperatures will be rising day on day. there will be rising day on day. there will be rising day on day. there will be some misty and murky conditions along irish sea coasts. breezy with outbreaks of rain for the far north—west of scotland. i is tomorrow of 21 celsius. —— highs tomorrow. good morning. i'm annita mcveigh at westminster labour and the conservatives experience a night of mixed fortunes in the local elections in england. jeremy corbyn's party fail to take control of any london councils from the tories, but the party celebrates a decisive victory over the conservatives in plymouth.

obviously, i am disappointed in any place where we lost a bit of ground. but if you look at the overall picture, labour gained a lot of seats across the country and a lot of votes where we have never had those votes before and we had a very effective campaign all over the country. the conservatives win control of barnet and make gains in councils across england, but lose trafford. the liberal democrats have a good night, making gains in many areas — seizing control of richmond—upon—thames. support for ukip collapses. i'm rachel schofield, with the rest of today's news. the nobel prize for literature is postponed for the first time in 75 years, after a sexual assault scandal. the breast cancer screening scandal. helplines take 8,000 calls, as it emerges two nhs trusts raised concerns with public health england last year. much more from me here at

westminster in the next few minutes, including thoughts from dudley and birmingham. but now, let's cross to the bbc sport centre. good morning. there will be no fairytale ending for arsene wenger at arsenal. they lost 2—1 on aggregate to atletico madrid in their europa league semi—final, with the second—leg party ruined by former chelsea striker, diego costa. our sports correspondent, joe wilson reports, from madrid. on the edge of madrid liza football stadium weather fans wait for their tea m stadium weather fans wait for their team to concede a goal. it really happens. atletico madrid have players to score, diego costa left his mark on english football with moments like this. arsenal had not been helped by the early departure of laurent koscielny to injury, but at1-0 of laurent koscielny to injury, but at 1—0 down, they had to score to stay alive. the fact that did not

could be explained by missed opportunities and resolute opponents. diego simeone in, the manager of atletico madrid, banished to the stands, wild with joy. arsene wenger subdued in the knowledge that it was over, without glory.” wenger subdued in the knowledge that it was over, without glory. i am like the team, very sad and disappointed. overall, very frustrated as well. because when you go out of the competition and you have performances in 180 minutes that we had, it is very difficult to take. but as well for the club, now some time to think about what to do for next season. this is a stadium built for a club which is one of the very best in europe. that is atletico madrid. it remains arsenal's ambition. and arsenal team to inspire, any takers?

the fa have been asked to appear before a parliamentary committee to discuss the potential sale of wembley stadium. wembley‘s redevelopment was part—funded by taxpayers money. the digital, culture, media and sport committee have invited board members at the fa and the sports minister tracey crouch to give evidence on the impact of the sale of the national stadium. it's been described as the world's toughest cycling race, in the world's most beautiful place. the giro d'italia starts today with a time trial, and all attention will be on britain's chris froome. he gets under way at 2:40. team sky have defended froome's involvement, despite his ongoing anti—doping case. this is the one he wants, having won the tour de france and vuelta a espana. only six men in history have won all three of the big tours. the race actually starts in israel, before finishing — at the end of the month — in rome. barry hawkins and john higgins lead their semi—finals at snooker‘s world championship. hawkins, who was a finalist five years ago, has a 5—3 lead against two—time winner mark williams.

hawkins made a blistering start in that first session, with a 129 break in the opening frame. they will resume this afternoon. in around half an hour, john higgins will resume against kyren wilson. higgins, who's going for a fifth title, will hope to extend his 5—3 lead. wilson, a first—timer on the one—table set—up. that match is live online and on bbc 2 from 10am. rory mcilroy is in contention after the first round of his first tournament since the masters. he's lying 3—under par at the wells fargo championship in america — that's three shots behind leaderjohn peterson. that chip helping him on his way. england's tyrell hatton is just two off the lead. tiger woods was level par through his first round. and tony bellew says he will close the curtain on david haye tomorrow night. the two boxers meet in london, in a rematch of their enounter 14 months ago. it's fair to say the pair really don't like each other. bellew came out on top, as tempers got a little frayed yesterday when they went face to face after the press conference. the weigh—in takes place this

afternoon, with haye promising to put his soul on the line in the bout. that's all the sport for now. thank you very much. welcome back to westminster, where we're analysing the results so far from yesterday's local elections across england, the first large—scale political test for the parties since last year's general election. we are about two thirds of the way in which the results. about one third are left to comment with can starting this morning, rather than those areas where they counted overnight. let's look at cancer control first. not much change, with both of the main parties holding most of the councils they were defending. although labour have made one net loss. in terms of the number of councillors... labour and the lib dems have both made gains.

ukip the big losers of the night. they are down 92 on the council seats they had held at this point. there has been a big focus on the london boroughs. all the seats in london's 32 boroughs were up for election. labour held on to their inner—city strongholds, but failed to win over key target seats of barnet, wandsworth and westminster. barnet was the number one target in london. the lib dems took control of richmond—upon—thames from the conservatives. joining me from her brighton constituency is green party co—leader caroline lucas. good morning. your aim, good morning. youraim, going into these elections, was to get the green and every council, how are you doing so far? we have not got every

council, but we still have good results we have given later on this to noon, looking at islington and lambeth. but we have broken onto three new councils, trafford and peterborough, and spectacular result in richmond where we have four new councils on richmond councillor. and su ccesses councils on richmond councillor. and successes in sheffield, where our wonderful councillor alison teale who was instrumental in the fight against the massacre of the trees up there, she had a majority ofjust six votes before and has over 1300 votes despite labour throwing the kitchen sink at her. and she has beenjoined by a couple of colleagues, so we have more councillors in sheffield. in camden, in london, sian berry has been re—elected which is fantastic news because again, labour fighting really ha rd to because again, labour fighting really hard to get her off camden council and i really hard to get her off camden counciland i am really hard to get her off camden council and i am delighted she has kept her seat belt. so a good night for the greens and we hope for some good results later today. how much have you been helped by the

zeitgeist, there is so much discussion in the public arena about tackling plastics plastic pollution, aboutair tackling plastics plastic pollution, about air quality, how much is that yourcampaign? about air quality, how much is that your campaign? -- has that helped your campaign? -- has that helped yourcampaign. ithink your campaign? -- has that helped your campaign. i think it has, people know when they let greens onto a local council, the environment is at the top of the political agenda all year round. and what people have been doing is voting for greens because they know the way we do politics is much more inclusive, we are not doing politics to people, but with people. holding the other councils to account. you will find 1—party state councils across the country, both tory and labour, and! across the country, both tory and labour, and i think people know that is not good for democracy. so increasingly, they are collecting greens to help hold those other councillors to account, to make sure they are putting their residents first and not their party interests. you talked about successes in some

areas like sheffield four example. very much a local issue with the felling of those trees under the labour run council. is it not difficult at this stage for the greens to make much traction and those big national issues on people's minds when they vote in local elections, especially brexit? well, i think that people do know that the greens have been in the forefront of the campaign to oppose an extreme brexit and to ensure that we have people's vote on the final deal. surely that will have been in the minds of some people when they voted. i think you are seeing that when people see green councillors in action, they like what they see and they liked more. we have an electoral system that is really tilted against us, and obviously, we don't have anything like the resources that the other bigger parties have all stopped but despite that, i am parties have all stopped but despite that, iam really parties have all stopped but despite that, i am really proud of the fact that, i am really proud of the fact that right across the country from the midlands, to london, to

sheffield, to liverpool and manchester, people are voting green because they know when they do that, they get incredibly hard—working councillors who stand up for what they believe in and asked the difficult questions and make sure social and environmentaljustice are at the top of the agenda. caroline lucas, thank you very much. let's get around the country now. we will be in birmingham in a couple of minutes. let's get the latest on the situation in dudley. our correspondent phil mackie is there. bring us up—to—date with the situation there. things are on a knife edge after last night's vote. 38 for the conservatives, 35 the labour and one remaining ukip council who was not real action. conservative gains from ukip and labour holding steady. it is a microcosm of the west midlands in general. conservative gains in nuneaton and derby and conservatives gaining seats in other places as well. so it is almost an entrenchment of what we have seen over the last couple of years where the conservatives have remained

strong in places like wolverhampton & dwelt where they have a majority, they have increased that majority. sorry, that is where labour have the majority. what is surprising is labour has not done better and the conservatives have had a bad week with windrush and the loss of the home secretary amber rudd. but i have been speaking to labour activists who say especially the west midlands, not so in the bigger cities, the corbyn message does not play well on doorsteps in places like dudley in the black country. it is likely the conservatives in this local authority will be able to run the council with the support of that remaining ukip counsel. and i think one of the interesting things here in the black country, it is doubly north, one of the most marginal general election seats in the country, held by labour —— dudley north. this is the kind of seat the conservatives would need to win for a parliamentary majority in four yea rs' a parliamentary majority in four years' time. thank you from dudley. our correspondent kathryn stanczyszyn is in birmingham. well, the counting started at 9am in

birmingham and this is one of the areas of great interest today. people wondering how much the trends from overnight might prevail here. the tories making some gains in leave areas and labour holding their status quo in younger, more urban areas. the brexit vote was on a knife edge in birmingham, leave by a fraction. this makes this unpredictable. what makes it would be difficult to predict is this is a com pletely be difficult to predict is this is a completely different system of elections. it is an all—out election for the first time in 14 years, after a complete change of the boundaries and the wards in the city following the kersla ke boundaries and the wards in the city following the kerslake review bought a couple of years ago that's it birmingham was not run properly and the governance was not good enough. they read drew the map, so 101 seats have been reduced from 120 and every seat is up for grabs and the wards

have changed. single wards or dual wards rather than three councils makes it difficult to predict. at the general election, 63% of the population voted labour and it is seen as a population voted labour and it is seen as a labour heartland. but at the mayoral election, the conservative candidate prevailed and there is a lot of chat that this could be the best chance the opposition parties and the conservative opposition has to make significant gains. a lot depends on how much labour has been able to mobilise its core voters out and that depends on turnout as well. we could be looking at interesting results, always birmingham, first results, always birmingham, first results possibly at midday and we should know at five p:m., 6pm the final results. thank you very much. we probably are not expecting so many results over the next couple of hours, but from lunchtime, they should start to comment after a brief hiatus from the overnight counts. with me here on college green

are kevin maguire, who's the associate editor of the mirror, and deputy political editor of the times, sam coates. it is good to have you with me this morning, welcome. let's get your overview first of what has happened so overview first of what has happened so farand overview first of what has happened so far and then we will get into detail. the first thing is not to overstate the importance of these elections. not a huge amount has changed. that in itself is pretty significant. i think labour have done less well than they expected. i think there are interesting findings to pick overfor the think there are interesting findings to pick over for the conservatives, especially in relation to brexit. but no big switch. two things, the big question labour will be asking today and in the coming weeks is, when the results are in, is there a question of the effectiveness of momentum and the grassroots campaigning they have been doing? and the second big question from today is, what does this tell us about brexit? does the collapse of ukip tell us people are with the

weight the government pursuing it although at the centre, there does not look to be much of a plan, or does the fact there has been a resurgence in the liberal democrats in south—west london suggest that vote is fractious and could go to someone vote is fractious and could go to someone else in the tories do not handle brexit well? early to say, but those are the big questions from overnight. the verdict i think is pretty much where we were. if we transferred this through to a general election the tories would still be the bigger party. labour won more seats but i think they lost the war of expectations early on where labour and allowed itself to be played up and allowed itself to be played up and it would win wandsworth and westminster which are tory citadels. the tories were full of doom and gloom far more than they needed to be so they could claim some type of victory when they haven't got it. this is like 1990. i remember then labour made gains but the tories

held on to westminster and wandsworth and ken baker spun it as a great win. labour have not made that crucial breakthrough. if you are in government, you will probably be happier if you are clinging on. if you are the opposition you have to be moving forward at a faster pace. sam, you said the fact there have not been a hugely significant change in aware, that was a story in itself, just explain a bit more what you mean by that. what you have got is if you look at the overall number of seats which have changed hands, the number of councils hands, you have a changing barnet and the tories lose overall control of trafford, but broadly speaking, i don't think the big picture has altered. if you look at the national campaign you had the windrush scandal dominating the tory narrative, the anti—semitism scandal dominating the labour narrative and it looks like, i expect there was an amount of dissonant, the troubles of

both political party leaders probably cancelled out much enthusiasm for voters to make some kind of big protest or big gesture today, and that is why things are probably today, and that is why things are pro ba bly less today, and that is why things are probably less exciting today than they might otherwise be. on that point of the grassroots campaigning for labour, by the momentum grid and others, if you look at the london result, you have got to say it should not be as effective as it might. but you are attempting to ta ke might. but you are attempting to take tory stronghold so, wandsworth has been tory since 1978 so you are not going to easily turn that around. i don't buy that labour would be in a worse position if it was not for all those momentum activists knocking on doors and handing out leaflets. is it about managing expectations? it is politically undeniable that labour has not punched its way along way forward. it did lose the battle of expectations. there is an admission

of that now in labour. i had a text from one of their election winners saying they were dire on that. andrew gwynne the election coordinator said it is a consolidation. he is not trying to pretend they have made a great leap forward. he is one of those who talked down the expectation more than others. he did. perversely, where having all those activists going out knocking on doors can count against you is on social media. of course in an election they are all excited and they go out to win and build—up that bubble, but you can't always deliver it. sam, one of the questions you raised was does the vote means that voters are largely content with the way the conservatives are handling brexit, where they have voted for the conservatives who have obviously benefited from the collapse of ukip. do you think out in the country actually come out in the doorsteps, that people are largely content more so that people are largely content more so than one might imagine if they

are listening to the throws over brexit in westminster?” are listening to the throws over brexit in westminster? i think we can draw some careful lessons. i would not say anyone is content with the way the government is doing brexit. if you look at the polling it would suggest that people are not content. it would suggest that people are not co nte nt. as it would suggest that people are not content. as long as there is paralysis and indecision in westminster, at the heart of the cabinet, there is no decision—making, people are broadly giving that a free path. i suspect voters will take a look at the deal when it is done, but they are not terribly interested in the punch and judy back and forth cabinet split stories of the sort that keep us alive in westminster. i don't think there has been a big judgment on that because i do not think it is totally meaningful. there might be a split but i don't think voters went to the ballot yesterday intending to passjudgment on to the ballot yesterday intending to pass judgment on that. to the ballot yesterday intending to passjudgment on that. what is this brexit? it is not as if one party has lots of turmoil and the other

hasn't, both parties have turmoil going on. certainly on brexit. brexit is a labour issue as well. the cabinet cannot even decide on the customs union arrangement. it is a myth that they know what they will do with brexit. the elections were about a lot more than that. we must leave it there. thank you both very much. much more from me here at westminster after 10:00, now it's time for the latest business with jamie. good morning, iam good morning, i amjamie robertson. in the business news. a fall in profits at europe's biggest bank. this is hsbc and the numbers are just for the first three months of the year, but the group said profits were 45% down on the same three months last year because of increased costs. but underlying business is good enough, especially in asia, that it has promised to spend £2 billion buying shares back from investors. the former boss of volkswagen, martin winterkorn,

has been charged by us prosecutors in detroit over the diesel emissions scandal. he has been accused of conspiring to mislead regulators about the german car maker's efforts to cheat the emissions tests of its diesel—fuelled vehicles. he is the ninth person to be hit with us criminal charges connected to the scandal. a bounce back for car sales. after months of falling sales the industry has finally reported a rise in new car registrations of 10% in april. however, that should be put in context. it is 10% up on last april when sales saw a massive 20% collapse in sales on the introduction of new tax rules. let's look at those new car sales numbers in a bit more detail. there was a strong 10% recovery in the single month of april compared with april last year. but car sales have been struggling for around a year now and taken together over the 12 month period they have fallen almost 9%. added to that are two distinct trends — the continuing rise

in a alternately fueled cars — up about 50% over the whole year and the steady decline of diesel. i'm joined now by the smmt‘s emma butcher. emma, april is always a bit of an odd month, the start of the new financial year with new taxes. just explain what happened ? financial year with new taxes. just explain what happened? absolutely. great growth this month which is obviously very welcome. but also as you alluded to, we have to be careful not to overplay that, because it comes off the back of an april last year where we saw the market fall by a fifth. you are right. the primary reason for that is there where tax changes which came into force in april meant a lot of buyers got in early in march to avoid the rises. what we are seeing now isa

is a bit ofa is a bit of a market correction. is there any indication that you can see in these figures, that makes one feel things might get better for car sales over the coming months. feel things might get better for car sales over the coming monthsm feel things might get better for car sales over the coming months. it is still early on in the year. we are 996 still early on in the year. we are 9% down in the year to date, but we are also at a very high level, so you have to remember in 2015, 2016, we had record levels of registration. we always expected the market to decline and we have seen larger declines than expected, but what we are seeing now is we are expecting to see a bit of levelling off in that decline by the end of the year. one extraordinary thing has been the rise in alternatively fuelled cars. it still makes up 5% of the market at a year ago you said it was only 4%, year before that you said it was only 3% of the market, the extraordinary thing is the

growth, isn't it? yes, we have seen extraordinary growth. manufacturers are investing in bringing lots of new models to market. consumers are responding to choice. we have to remember that the market is still at a low level, particularly the sale of plug—in and electric vehicles which are only about 2% of the market. we want to see more people going out and buying these cars, because they are just fantastic technology. at some point we hit an infrastructure wall. when will that happen? quite soon, i would infrastructure wall. when will that happen? quite soon, iwould have thought? one think we need to see is a real commitment to boost the level of infrastructure right across the country, make it merely visible, make it really easy for consumers to go out and charge up cars. we also need to see a compelling package of incentives as well, to get people into this new technology. and finally, poor old diesel, what has happened to that? no one wants to buy those. we are now in our 30th

month of decline for diesel. that is very concerning for a lot of reasons. we have already seen co2 rise, we have seen people staying in their older cars for longer because they are so confused and don't know what to buy. that is having an impact on fleet renewal. the important point we want to make is the latest diesels are cleaner than ever before. there is no reason not to buy them but you have to look at buying the right car for their needs and that is the strong message here. look at the type of driving you do, where you do your driving, and it may be that diesel is perfect for you, but it may be that petrol, electric or hybrid car could be the right choice as well. emma, thank you for that. a couple of other stories for you. ba owner is up.

there is a question about whether iag will take over norwegian airlines? and klm has issued a profit warning. you have to remember the higher costs of fuel and the strong euro also hurt profits. bmw has seen a similar fall in its profits — profits are down 3%. the reason is that it's being hit by the strength of the euro. operating profit fell 3% in the first quarter of the year. however bmw actually sold more cars — 3% more — but the revenues they made on the sales, when measured in euros, fell 5%. that's all the business news. i will be back in an hour. thank you. annita and the team back in westminster will be back with us at ten o'clock but the weather first. hello, we have an east—west

contrast. the murky cloud and patchy drizzle will lift for many but it is then cloudy, breezy and damp in the far north—west of scotland. where we have got the sunshine, a little bit of cloud developing but in the rest of cloud developing but in the rest of the sunshine, highs of 15 to 19 celsius. overnight we keep the cloud and breeze. elsewhere apart from scotla nd and breeze. elsewhere apart from scotland it is dry. variable cloud. some nifty murky conditions for irish sea coasts. for the bank holiday weekend, most of the country looking largely dry with sunny spells and slowly getting warmer. the east coast will always be cooler. mist and fog clearing the weight morning. most places will have a largely dry day with good spells of sunshine. good morning, i'm annita mcveigh at westminster. labour and the conservatives

experience a night of mixed fortunes in the local elections in england. jeremy corbyn's party fail to take control of any london councils from the tories, but celebrate victories over the conservatives in plymouth. obviously i'm disappointed, any places where we lost a bit of ground. but if you look at the overall picture, labour gained a lot of seats, we gained a lot of faith in places where we've never had those votes before, and we had a very, very effective campaign all over the country. labour fails to win their key target of barnet as local councillors on both sides blame the anti—semitism row for lost votes. there's no getting away from the fa ct there's no getting away from the fact that if the anti—semitism had been dealt with a couple of years ago when it should have been, the people of barnet would be waking up toa people of barnet would be waking up to a labour council today. the conservatives make gains in councils across england — but lose trafford —

their only council in the north—west. the liberal democrats have a good night, making gains in many areas, seizing control of richmond—upon—thames. support for ukip collapses. i'm rachel schofield with the rest of today's news. this year's nobel prize for literature has been postponed for the first time in 75 years, it follows a sexual assault scandal. the breast cancer screening scandal — 8,000 calls are made to helplines as it emerges two nhs trusts raised concerns with public health england last year. good morning from westminster. local elections across england have failed to produce a decisive swing for either of the two main parties, with both labour and the conservatives claiming success, while also losing councils. we are about two thirds of the way

through the results. about one third to go with those fresh set of results, the results being counted as first thing this morning rather than the overnight camps, those results expected to start coming in from noon onwards. jeremy corbyn's hopes of gains in london failed to materialise, the conservatives not only hung on to wandsworth, but also retook control of barnet, where the anti—semitism row was blamed for lost votes. but the tories lost trafford in greater manchester, and plymouth was poached from them by labour. let's take a look at the key results. this is the national picture after around two thirds of the results have been declared. in terms of council control there has not been much change with both of the main parties holding on to most councils they were defending. although labour have

made one net loss. in terms of the number of councillors, labour and the lib dems have both made gains with ukip losing nearly all of the council seats they held. there has been a big focus on london in this election with much discussion about whether labour could make big gains. all the seats in london's 32 boroughs were up for election — labour held on to their inner city strongholds but failed to win over key target seats of barnet, wandsworth and westminster. the lib dems took control of richmond from the conservatives. with the story, here's our political correspondent eleanor garnier cheering

cheers from labour in trafford, but celebrations to from the conservatives in swindon. both main parties claiming they've done ok, but no big shocks, no big surprises, no decisive shift to either labour or the tories. cheering it was plymouth jeremy corbyn or the tories. cheering it was plymouthjeremy corbyn had to travel to to celebrate his party's big win of the night. with labour taking the south coast council from the tories. but in the morning mist, he admitted results hadn't all been good. obviously, i'm disappointed with any places where we lost a bit of ground. but if you look at the overall picture, labour gained a lot of seats across the country, we gained a lot of votes in places where we've never had those votes before and we had a very, very expected campaign across the country. a long night in the london

borough of wandsworth, once a rock—solid tory council that labelled thought it could win. they gain seats but the tories held on, relieved that it had been as difficult as expected. in all elections use the churn. we are just focused on making sure we do everything we can to have representatives that local and national level at every opportunity. cheering yellow was the winning colour in richmond, the liberal democrats took the london borough from the tories. not a complete bounce back for the party but certainly some ground read gained. liberal democrats have done better than we hoped for last night. we saw some stunning victories, taking seats of labour in leave voting areas like hull and sheffield, and taking seats in the south of the conservatives in remain voting places like cheltenham, winchester and cambridge. and success winchester and cambridge. and success in richmond where we won the council. elsewhere in the country might not have been a win but the tories losing control was an offer labour to celebrate in trafford.

what was once the only conservative council in the north—west of england. but in barnet in london, home to a largejewish community, labour admitted the anti—semitism row had cost them votes and the tories to control. there's no getting away from the fact that if the anti—semitism had been dealt with a couple of years ago when it should have been, the people of barnet would be waking up to a labour council today. unhappy times for ukip who suffered an almost total wipe—out, raising questions about whether the party can survive. a lot of people who supported ukip recognise that actually the only people who can actually deliver brexit now is the current conservative government. in a sense, that means i think that many people feel they have to give that government support. it's been positive so far for the green party, who have opted their total number of councillors. but all isn't over yet. there are still results to come in,

in this biggest test of political opinion since last year's general election. the final picture won't be revealed until later this afternoon. with me is our assistant political editor, norman smith. what, in your opinion, is the story of these local elections so far?” think the big story is whether jeremy corbyn and corbyn is have taken labour as far as they can go ——jeremy taken labour as far as they can go —— jeremy corbyn and corbynism. it's not that it was a bad night for labour, they had good wins in plymouth, in trafford, they made some progress in london. but you got the sense the corbyn bandwagon which has been pondering since the general election is beginning to misfire a bit. the question is whether it's running out of steam, particularly outside of london where in key northern and midlands seats they we re northern and midlands seats they were either losing orjust not

getting the breakthroughs they want. derby is an obvious one. to lose three seats in derby. nuneaton, losing about seven or eight directly to the tories, that's not where they wa nt to to the tories, that's not where they want to be. then when you go down to the old commuter seats, the tony blair lands, swindon and basildon, again, really not managing to get forward. i suspect there will be questions on two fronts for labour folk. one is, is the corbyn appeal now as far as it can take labour? there's really not much more it can do to take labour to victory? secondly, organisation early whether the party misfired in this general election, overstating their ambitions in london for examples. do you still stick with that thought, even though many people are saying labour mismanaged expectations and the conservatives did better on that? there's no doubt that's part of the story. it's extraordinary

labour are allowed and promoted the idea that somehow wandsworth was a target seat. you would need a swing of 8% to get wandsworth. what that resulted in was a diversion of resources from the areas they should have been putting activists in, in the midlands and north and london seats. it is broader than that. there is a question now about whetherjeremy corbyn can win back labour voters, particularly brexit supporting labour voters in the midlands and the north. on the evidence of last night that is far from clear. what do you think theresa may's position as after the results ? theresa may's position as after the results? shall be pretty relaxed. she's had a dreadful week. she's lost her home secretary, she's had the windrush saga, she's had her brexit cabinet up in arms against. lo and behold, she's got a result where they haven't received a kicking which isn't bad given that mid—term government is always get a kicking. instead, they've picked up wins in places like basildon and

peterborough, and the ukip vote has by and large come to... lock stock and barrel. i obliged the tory vote is holding firm. thank you very much. labourfailed is holding firm. thank you very much. labour failed to win their key target seat of barnet, that was their number one target in london as councillors on both sides blamed the anti—semitism row for lost votes. our correspondentjoins us now. the labour group leader was clear that some issues are bigger than elections, although he was frustrated labour wasn't in charge he had no doubt where the blame lies. absolutely, and i think if there's one london borough which labour genuinely thought it could win it would have been this one in barnet. it's not happened and it's

been the reverse. it's actually been a significant when for the conservatives. if you look at the stats, the conservatives have won 38 of the 63 council seats here. that's a gain of six seats compared with the last local elections in 2014. labour have lost five seats. it's a significant margin by which the conservatives have won this council, and absolutely, as you say, anti—semitism seems to have played a role in that. the fact they're all these allegations flying around. the labour party and the labour party leader... the labour group leader barry rollins saying it should have been a labour victory but the party needed to do much more about the anti—semitism issue. conservative candidates we spoke to as well said he had knocked on the doors of about

650 people amongst the jewish community. labour supporters. he said he had been told because of this issue of anti—semitism in the labour party those voters decided they could simply not support the labour party this time. thank you. welcome to you both. do you think the conservatives and yourself feeling pretty relieved this morning? yes, it's a good result for the conservatives. labour have lost momentum in london. they didn't take barnet, they didn't take wandsworth or westminster and the conservatives have even gained in hillingdon. there are questions thatjeremy corbyn and his leadership, and in barnet the leader of the labour group has said jeremy corbyn needs to consider the lack of leadership he been showing over issues such as

anti—semitism. he been showing over issues such as anti-semitism. let's talk about the conservatives. obviously questions for the conservatives too. the party is in for the conservatives too. the party isina for the conservatives too. the party is in a lot of turmoil and has benefited overnight from the colla pse benefited overnight from the collapse of ukip. would you be in this position now were it not for that collapse? yes, there has been a consolidation of the vote and that has led to games for the conservatives outside of london in important areas of the country. the country is coming together behind the strong message of high—quality local services, the council taxes which is what explains the results tonight. you're shaking your head. at this moment we've gained more seats than any of the other parties. we've gained richmond council and we are looking at an exciting result in kingston as well. both in seats where we have been fighting the

conservatives but also where we been fighting labour we are making progress so fighting labour we are making progress so it's a great night for us. in terms of your anti-brexit platform, how do you harness that right? it looks as though in richmond that may have been a factor. richmond is one of the constituencies that voted most strongly for remain. i don't want to overplay that. these local council elections were about local services as well and i think lib dem councils have got a good track record of running and providing services, but without the inefficiencies that often are embedded in labour councils and the way they run. jo johnson, as you start to assess these results, what will the party be doing in terms of trying to extrapolate forwards to the next election? the important thing is to allow these conservative councils that have been put back in place to continue to deliver for them and show that moderate conservative government with low council taxes,

high quality public services is what the public wants and what we'll continue to deliver. thank you both. we've got two thirds of the results in so far. we're expecting the remainder to start coming in from around much time —— from lunchtime onwards. it's interesting looking at the labour and conservative vote. a lot of discussion about management of expectation, selling the conservatives did a betterjob of that —— saying the conservatives did a betterjob. they didn't raise expectations which has allowed them, given the result, to say they are reasonably happy and things are looking positive. whereas amongst labour there is clearly a discussion going on that some voices within the party were raising expectations, particularly in london seats which haven't come to pass. as norman smith was saying a few minutes ago, perhaps campaigning resources were therefore diverted into some areas

where they could have been used better elsewhere. no better person to give us some analysis than professorjohn curtis, professor of political studies at strathclyde university. where are you act in your thinking with what has happened so your thinking with what has happened so far? not a great deal happened in this election. with one exception, and it's an important exception, looks remarkably similar to the outcome four years ago. even though an awful lot has happened politically in the meantime. one exception is the collapse in the ukip vote which of course is essentially repeats what we saw happen to ukip last year. that matters, because one of the reasons why these elections are not as bad for the conservatives, as a lot of the commentary suggested, is that

where the ukip vote collapsed heavily that's where the conservatives did best. that's where the swings to the conservatives are greatest and what is revealed by the conservative success and labour losses in derby and nuneaton. that is an important part of the story. we're also seeing a reminder of what happened last year, which is that the conservative party gained in remain areas —— gained ground in leave areas and lost ground in remain areas. divide the conservatives now enjoy and the vote helping to boy up theresa may's popularity at the moment is very much believe fight. therefore i think it's a clear signal to the government that if they are going to hang onto the electoral position and hang onto the electoral position and hang onto the electoral position and hang onto their voters, they are going to have to deliver a which broadly speaking appeals to the instincts of leave voters. given the various obstacles facing the prime

minister is whether she'll be able to deliver on that. the nature of that brexit, that's almost a com pletely that brexit, that's almost a completely different story. let's have a look at labour, particularly in london. in terms of the seats that labour were looking at when they sat down to strategise for these local elections, saying if we could win in these areas that puts us in could win in these areas that puts usina could win in these areas that puts us in a good place for the general election, how did they do? london in some sense looked attractive to the labour party. they did well in london last year. they were doing well in remain voting areas. the problem that faced the labour party is that with the possible exception of barnet which had its own particular issues, there wasn't anywhere easy for labour to pick up. it therefore started focusing on the possibility that maybe they could win wandsworth and westminster. but in truth, the swing required always

looked substantial and unlikely to be in labour's grasp. labour did do somewhat better in london. there was a swing to labour in london. barnet happens to be the part of the uk with the largestjewish population and it looks as though the row about anti—semitism in the labour party didn't do them any favours there. it's frankly the victim of exaggerated expectations. where does this place the critics ofjeremy corbyn within the labour party? does it strengthen their hand or not?” think the critics ofjeremy corbyn will criticise jeremy corbyn. think the critics ofjeremy corbyn will criticisejeremy corbyn. they will criticisejeremy corbyn. they will undoubtedly look at this and say he's not making progress. these election results and much better than the first year of local election results that mr corbyn had and during the reign of ed miliband. they will look to see what happened in leave voting areas and the midlands. they will say tony blair's

middle england is leading the labour party. there is another interpretation, although this is not particularly comfortable fit jeremy corbyn. that is that given the apparent importance as to whether you are remain or leave voter as to which direction you will go in, it is perhaps rather difficult for the labour party to profit from any discontent voters may have with the conservative government at the moment. we know there are quite a few leave voters who aren't too sure the conservative government is making a decent fist of brexit and at as making a decent fist of brexit and atasa making a decent fist of brexit and at as a result going to switch to the labour party because the labour party is regarded by many voters as soft on immigration. given the raw brexit is playing in politics now, maybe it is more difficult for an opposition to advance —— the role that brexit is playing. given that the country is divided 50—50, perhaps we shouldn't be surprised the country also looks divided 50—50 between predominantly leave voting

supporters of the conservative party and the predominantly remain voting supporters of the labour party. a good night for the liberal democrats as things stand, gaining another 40 seats. we've also seen the collapse of the ukip vote. down 92 councillors when i last checked. it was interesting listening to suzanne evans talking in a way of legacy about the party, as if it was very much a thing of the past. she had been saying if you look at what it achieved in a short time, a very successful party but very much talking in terms of legacy as if it really is no longer a political force. and with the collapse in its vote you've got to ask that question. with me is the conservative

mp, theresa villiers. we've been talking a lot about barnet today, the tightest of contests going into these local elections. the conservatives just one seat ahead of labour. clearly the anti—semitism row has been a big factor in that area. it was a factor, i think. factor in that area. it was a factor, ithink. notjust factor in that area. it was a factor, i think. notjust amongst the jewish community but across barnet we pride ourselves on being a diverse borough with a great deal of social cohesion. the fact that labour have this problem with anti—semitism which they are dealing with was a concern for many residents, whatever faith or cultural background they come from. also, i think residents didn't want to trust the radical left with their bin collections, their roads and pavements. this was a local election about local issues. i think this will be an extremely difficult result for labour across the board.

if they were in a position to be challenging for power at westminster, they should have been doing a lot better in local elections like this than they clearly did. in truth, if it hadn't been for the anti—semitism row, would we be talking about a conservative run council in barnet? it's hard to answer on that hypothetical question. i think we may have held on in barnet even without the anti—semitism row. may have held on in barnet even without the anti-semitism row. the labour leader that thinks that's why labour leader that thinks that's why labour lost there. labour have to examinea labour lost there. labour have to examine a lot of the reasons why they lost in barnet. it certainly sends a signal that labour must deal with their anti—semitism problem. it was absolutely shocking that the nonpartisan leadership of thejewish community felt hat so strongly about this issue that they came to protest outside parliament. that is unprecedented in british politics and labourare unprecedented in british politics and labour are still not taking this

problem seriously enough. the conservatives have been judged to have managed expectations much better going into this election than labourdid. better going into this election than labour did. clearly, the conservatives have benefited from the collapse in the ukip vote. what kind of message do you think that sends to the party about the delivery of brexit? there's still presumably a big debate about what the nature of brexit should be. what we need to do is to make a success of the decision to leave the european union. the pie minister is committed to that. that means listening to people on all sides of the debate to try and shape a positive new partnership with our european neighbours which enables us to respect our results, control our borders, but at the same time maximises the opportunities for trade between us, between us and the european union. that is the task the government is getting on with. european union. that is the task the government is getting on withm european union. that is the task the government is getting on with. is it going to quieten some of the critics within the party of theresa may in

the short term at least? this election result shows that many people across the country recognise that conservatives deliver better services and lower taxes. that is a strong message for us locally and nationally. is it going to quieten some of the critics of theresa may within her party? it's a good day for theresa may. i think she's working incredibly hard on the brexit discussion. she's had some considerable successes with the negotiations today and i believe she will continue to have support within the party and beyond and these elections demonstrate broad support in the country for the approach she's taking. thank you. now let's return to the studio for the latest news. the swedish academy has decided

that it will not be announcing the nobel prize for literature this year amid a controversy over alleged sexual misconduct. several of the experts who serve on the swedish academy which decides on the winner resigned, after allegations of sexual abuse were made against the husband of one of its members. he denies the claims. let's speak to our reporter, maddy savage in stockholm. tell us more about how this has come to pass. this is highly unusual but not completely unexpected decision in sweden, where the swedish academy, the body that decides the nobel prize for literature has been for months. the academy has been facing criticism of the way it's dealt with sexual assault allegations against a french photographer with close links to the

academy, jean—claude arnault. he ran a cultural group that got funding from the swedish academy, and he is married to one of the academy members katarina frostenson. she resigned last week amid a huge wave of resignations linked to the way the academy has handled the scandal. last week the swedish can —— they hinted things were tricky and recognised they had started to lose credibility over this. a fewer hours ago they finally released a statement confirming they wouldn't go ahead with this year's nobel prize for literature. instead they will hand it out alongside the 2019 price. they say they want to spend the time focusing on looking at how they handle issues of conflict of interest and communication in future and crucially recruiting new members. only ten out of 18 members of the academy currently remaining. we'll have to see if it pans out and

if they are able to restore their reputation. the other prizes will be handed out as normal in the autumn. thank you. it's emerged public health england was warned about the breast cancer screening errors last year. two nhs health trusts raised concerns in march 2017, but were told it was a local, rather than a national matter. 450,000 women were not invited to breast cancer screenings due to a computer error. an independent review has been announced by the government. public health england has said the response to the crisis cannot be rushed. we've had an expert advisory group running with expert clinicians who have told us they are very clear that women need to have a helpline in place to have all of these things there and for us to have the complete picture before we go out to them so we don't cause them any more anxiety than the current situation. let's get a look at the weather

prospects. the bank holiday weekend is nearly here, there is some sunshine in the forecast. further west more cloud and mistand forecast. further west more cloud and mist and fog and patchy drizzle. that is likely to continue, quite breezy and cool. further south the cloud will tend to thin and break. we'll see some spells of sunshine. temperatures between 15—19. higher in parts of aberdeenshire and the south—west. we'll see patchy light rain from northern and western scotland. elsewhere mainly dry with variable cloud and clear spells. mist murk is developing along irish sea coasts. the bank holiday weekend much of the country will be largely dry. good spells of sunshine, slowly getting warmer. eastern coasts cooler. cloud and breeze and occasional light rain but elsewhere

it isa occasional light rain but elsewhere it is a dry day. some good spells of sunshine with clouds billing in. top temperature tomorrow around 22. occasional light rain from northern and western parts of scotland. good morning. i'm annita mcveigh at westminster. disappointing night for labour in the local elections in england as it only makes limited gains and doesn't pick up some of its key target councils. jeremy corbyn's party celebrates victory over the conservatives in plymouth, but acknowledges losses elsewhere. obviously i'm disappointed in places where we lost a bit of ground, but if you look at the overall picture, labour gained seats across the whole country and gain votes in places we've never had them before and had a very effective campaign all over the country. labourfails to win any of its target councils in london. failure in barnet is put down to the anti—semitism row.

there's no getting away from the fa ct there's no getting away from the fact that if the anti—semitism had been dealt with a couple of years ago when it should have been, the people of barnett would be waking up toa people of barnett would be waking up to a labour council today. the conservatives make gains in councils across england but lose trafford, their only council in the north west. the liberal democrats have a good night, making progress in many areas, seizing control of richmond—upon—thames. support for ukip collapses. i'm rachel scholfield with the rest of today's news. this year's nobel prize for literature has been postponed for the first time in 75 years. it follows sexual assault allegations engulfing the academy. the breast cancer screening scandal. eight thousand calls are made to helplines as it emerges two nhs trusts raised concerns with public health england last year. much more

analysis of the election results westminster shortly. i'll bejoined by a panel of commentators for their take on what's happened. first, to the bbc sport centre and ben. there will be no fairy tale ending for arsene wenger at arsenal. they fail to reach the europa league final, beaten 2—1 by atletico madrid, and as our sports correspondent explains, it means arsene wenger cannot compete for a trophy in his last game in charge. on the edge of madrid lies a football stadium where the fans weightlifting to concede a goal. it rarely happens. atletico madrid have players to score as well. diego costa left his mark on english football with moments like this. arsenal had not been held by the early departure of koscielny to injury, but a 1—0 down they had to

score to stay alive. the fact they didn't can be explained by missed opportunities and resolute opponents. the atletico madrid manager was banished to the stand but while enjoy. arsene wenger was subdued with the knowledge it was over. a goodbye without glory. like the team, i am very sad and very disappointed. overall and overall very frustrated you had performances for 100 —— very frustrated you had performances for 100 --180 very frustrated you had performances for 100 —— 180 minutes, it's difficult to take. it is as well for the club now, some time, to think about what to do next season. this isa about what to do next season. this is a football stadium built for one of the clubs that is the best in europe, and that is the atletico madrid status and it remain —— remains arsenal's ambition. and

arsenal team to inspire. any takers? the fa have been asked to appear before a parliamentary committee to discuss the potential sale of wembley stadium. the redevelopment was part funded by taxpayer money and the digital culture media and sport committee have invited fa board ministers to give evidence. the session will look at the impact of the sale of the national stadium. chris bruma has had a scare in italy. this was put on social media a minute ago. he came off his bike while practising for the opening stage of the time trial motherjust some cuts and bruises. —— chris froome. froome goes off at 2:41 p:m., and having won the tour de france, this is the one he really wa nts. france, this is the one he really wants. only six men in history have won all three of the big tours. rory

mcilroy is in contention after the first round of his first tournament since the masters. he is three under par at the wells fargo championship in america, three shots behind leaderjohn peterson. that chip helping him to a birdie on seven. tiger woods was level par through his first round. tony bellew and david haye will weigh in laterfor their heavyweight fight. they meet ina their heavyweight fight. they meet in a rematch of their encounter 14 months ago tomorrow. it is fair to say that the pair do not like each other. bellew came out on top as tempers got frayed when they went face to face after the press conference. david haye promises to put his soul on the line in the bout at the 02 arena. and the world snooker championship semifinal betweenjohn higgins snooker championship semifinal between john higgins and snooker championship semifinal betweenjohn higgins and kyren wilson has resumed. higgins had a two frame lead going into the session. let's take you to the crucible in sheffield. live pictures from the crucible coming up. wilson has pulled one back with the first

frame of the session, so it is currently 5—4 and higgins is at the table. you can keep up—to—date with the action on bbc two and by looking at the bbc sport website. the other semifinal continues this afternoon as barry hawkins leads mark williams 5-3. welcome back to westminster. we're analysing the results so far from yesterday's local elections across england — the first large scale political test for the parties since last year's general election. let's take a look at the key results. we will keep updating this through the day as the results come in. this is the national picture after around two thirds of the results have been declared. in terms of council control, there has not been much change with both of the main parties holding on to most councils they were defending. although labour have made one net loss. in terms of the number

of councillors, labour and the lib dems have both made gains. the conservatives have lost two councillors, with ukip losing nearly all of the council seats they held. they are down 93 councillors at the moment. all the seats in london's 32 boroughs were up for election. labour held on to their inner city strongholds but failed to win over key target seats of barnet, wandsworth and westminster. the lib dems took control of richmond from the conservatives. let's get the latest on the situation in the west midlands. our correspondent phil mackie is in dudley. bring this up to date. dudley is

a lwa ys bring this up to date. dudley is always one of those interesting boroughs. there were three and a half parliamentary constituencies in it and that general elections they are keenly fought. we are in dudley town centre, the dudley north constituency where there was a vote for labour ofjust constituency where there was a vote for labour of just 30. constituency where there was a vote for labour ofjust 30. it's one of the most marginal seats in the country, and a key target for the conservatives. last night in the local elections you could see the conservatives have made gains. dudley, the black country, that has been a real stronghold for ukip in recent yea rs been a real stronghold for ukip in recent years which is an area that voted overwhelmingly to leave at the referendum. seven councillors lost their seats to the conservatives, including bill etheridge, a ukip mep and one—time party leader ukip was

not completely wiped out but not voted for in the numbers to let them keep the seat. ukip feels like a spent force in its heartland and it's pretty much like the national picture and for the west midlands. the conservatives have made some games that were not well expected. labour has held on and in places like wolverhampton and sandwell increased majorities but has lost ground to the conservatives in other key marginal seats. there's also been a little bit of improvement for the greens. they picked up a couple of seats and in worcester, marginal general elections if they'd hold the balance of powers where the conservatives lost out. a really interesting counter going on. all of these are seats that they held in these are seats that they held in the blair years. they are bellwether seats to see how the country is going. joining me now.

joining me is political commentator, formerjournalist and tory staffer, jo—anne nadler... political commentator and middle east expert, rachel shabi. and polly mackenzie, director of demos, a think tank on the centre—left of politics. polly, what are your thoughts on the results so far? it's interesting because labour has done well in london but managed to miss play the expectation game which means people feel it is disappointment. they are not making the games they should be making given how moribund the government is at the moment. the liberal democrats are making gains —— gains and that is a really astonishing result and shows they become a national party again will stop i think it has changed the night. at this point, labour should

be doing better than it has on the basis of the results so far, do you think? i think there is a need to see the tories take more of a hit than they have at this point in the cycle and with everything going on with the wind rush scandal and the economics stagnation and you would expect the conservatives to be punished a lecturer in but we are seeing in the election cycle that ukip voters are going conservative and that is the question for the labour party. it managed to get some of those ukip voters in the general election to vote labour and they did so on election to vote labour and they did so on the forefront of the campaign. joann, welcome to us. a former

councillor from wandsworth, which was one of the supposedly target seats for labour and that did not go their way. was there a big problem with expectation manager —— management? if you strip away the expectation... we are not hearing you at the moment so i will put a question to polly and hopefully we can sort it out. oh, no, we have got you. sorry for the confusion. let's ask again, was there an issue with expectation management, and did labour do rather worse with that than say the conservatives?” labour do rather worse with that than say the conservatives? i think labourdid than say the conservatives? i think labour did raise than say the conservatives? i think labourdid raise their than say the conservatives? i think labour did raise their expectations too high as seems to have been the case. whether that was a problem for the conservatives, i don't know. it may be helped the conservatives because it motivated the vote to come out. and there is now talk of people saying that the conservatives in wandsworth whenever that concern,

but they were concerned because if you look at the results from the general election there was a big swing against the conservatives. people can feel quite relieved today. the vote has held up. maybe i did —— labour did hold up, so we should not be complacent. clearly the lib dems have done well in places where there was a large remain vote and richmond is a case in point. do you think they have benefited from having a clarity of message and less infighting in the party and conservatives and labour? i think it helps and it's interesting to see them make a gain in somewhere like sunderland, just building a narrative that the labour party and conservative party are not delivering what the people want. in my view it's because they have resorted to extreme versions of their own politics and if one party was to arrest itself back to the ce ntre was to arrest itself back to the centre they could sweep up votes and

transform the political landscape. rachel, the theory has been put out that perhaps we have reached peak jeremy corbyn support. it is a theory. there's lots of ways to read theory. there's lots of ways to read the tea leaves. wandsworth, when's minster —— westminster and barnett, the conservatives will be scared at how close labour got that is the point to the local election for the labour party as it's about building the ground game and getting the million—plus members to campaign and campus and become part of the movement being built around the labour leadership. and in that sense they have done well. i have people united behind and course and they will look to build on it on the yea rs will look to build on it on the years to come. we are still having a few problems with your sound, joann. i was talking to therese of ilia ‘s

earlier and i asked if this silenced some of the critics of theresa may in the short—term. she would not quite be drawn on that, but what your thoughts? it gives theresa may, it's brought her out of what might have been a potential crisis. lord knows she has had a number in her leadership. this is a more calm period which might not have been anticipated before this result. but ina sense, anticipated before this result. but in a sense, her bigger challenges are to come with negotiating through the customs union issue. these elections have come just before what might prove to be the bigger challenge for her. i still think we had a few problems with the sound but hopefully people could here. apologies to viewers if there were issues. butjoann, apologies to viewers if there were issues. but joann, polly apologies to viewers if there were issues. butjoann, polly and rachel, thank you for your time. well it was a bad

night for ukip. they are down 93 councillors compared to where they were going into the election. and one of the party's senior figures has compared his party's performance in the local elections to the "black death". paul oakley is ukip‘s general secretary. it's not over at all. think of the black death in the middle ages. it comes along, causes disruption and goes dormant and that is what we will do. our time is not finished because brexit is being betrayed. you have just compared your party with the black death? absolutely. what is wrong with that? paul oakley, with the only major reaction so oakley, with the only major reaction so far. if you have been watching and thinking they have spoken to labour, the conservatives and the greens but not to ukip, let me tell you we did invite a ukip

spokesperson to come along but they have turned down this particular interview opportunity at any rate. just let you that we did ask ukip to come along and talk to us. more from me after 11, but now the latest business news with jamie. a fall in profits at europe's biggest bank. this is hsbc and the numbers are just for the first three months of the year, but the group said profits were 4% down on the same three months last year because of increased costs. but underlying business is certainly good enough — especially in asia — for it to promise to spend £2bn buying shares back from investors. the former boss of volkswagen, martin winterkorn has been charged by us prosecutors in detroit over the diesel emissions scandal. he has been accused of conspiring to mislead regulators about the german car maker's efforts to cheat the emissions tests of its diesel—fuelled vehicles. he is the ninth person to be hit

with us criminal charges connected to the scandal. a bounce back for car sales. after months of falling sales the industry has finally reported a rise in new car registrations of 10% in april. however, that should be put in context. it is 10% up on april 2017 when sales saw a massive 20% collapse on the introduction of new tax rules. the owner of british airways international airlines group is the ftse‘s best performing share this morning, up 5.5%, after reporting a rise in first—quarter sales and operating profit. but what's getting the attention of investors this morning is this airline — norwegian which has said it has unanimously rejected two bid offers from iag. iag said last month it was looking at a possible take—over and said it had bought up 4.5% of norwegian's shares.

joining me now is daniel russka, a senior research analyst at sanford c bernstein. where do we go now? norwegian have said no. so do you think iag will chase it? that is not the end of the story as it make sense in a synergy sense, i think if anyone will buy them iag has the best chance. but willie walsh will not overpay for the airline. what is good about norwegian? why would they want it? they have the original business in the nordic territories which is hugely possible, and they have the long haul low—cost business we know about but they also have the europe to scandinavia business which makes loss. iag could come in and through —— pics free potential issues, which

is the long haul business need more protection, and more corporate travellers, which iag could switch on overnight and give them the track record in restructuring low—cost airlines like vueling. they could help norwegian how to improve profitability on the tube to scandinavia routes. it has to raise more funds and it made a loss last year. it is struggling a bit, isn't it? i am concerned at this point. we are at the point where norwegian has not increased any fuel hedges, which means increased in the fuel price hits their bottom line and they are deepening their losses. they are -7.1%, deepening their losses. they are —7.1%, and that is not a pretty picture. norwegian, without any deal, will have to consider restructuring the business fundamentally. are theyjust holding up fundamentally. are theyjust holding up more from iag? it has been made

clear today that iag will not pay an outrageous amount for the airline. likely there was little to no intersection about what the norwegian board thought it would wa nt to norwegian board thought it would want to have for the shares or what iag was prepared to pay. holding out for more money after today would be futile. what about iag and their results today? pretty impressive. shares results today? pretty impressive. s ha res we nt results today? pretty impressive. shares went up sharply and that was reacting really to the profits rather than anything to do with norwegian. that would be my view. the consensus was around 210 and they came out significantly higher, 280, for the first quarter in an environment where you have fuel costs going up and even though they like to look at prices, net of currency, if you strip the currency back, revenues did not go up, so they performed well in a tough operating environment and i expect

that to go through the year. they got to a higher operating results in 2018 against 2017 despite the higher fuel costs, so a really good set of results. air france—klm has warned its profits are going to fall short of expectations. it's nothing to to do with demand, and it says business is good and tickets sales are on the up. it's the strikes that are doing the damage. there have been 13 days of walk—outs this year. the higher costs of fuel and the strong euro have also hurt profits. the financial regulator has called for more help for so—called "mortgage prisoners". these are long—standing mortgage—holders who find they're unable to switch to a better deal because of stricter affordability criteria in place since the financial crisis. the financial conduct authority estimates there are 150,000 mortgage prisoners and says it's exploring options to help them switch mortgages, if it can save them money. bmw has seen a fall in its profits — they are down 3%. the reason is that it's too being

hit by the strength of the euro. operating profit fell 3% in the first quarter of the year. however, bmw actually sold more cars — 3% more — but the revenues they made on the sales many of them overseas, when measured in euros, fell 5%. a quick look at the markets. the ftse is up, led by iag, british airways. hsbc holdings, even though it is paying money back to shareholders, its profits were down and the shares have suffered a bit there, down 2.5%. the pound a bit weaker. dan backwater of the euro, and the ftse is up half of a percent. that's all the business news. see you in about half an hour.

hundreds of afghan interpreters who served with uk troops fighting the taliban will not have to pay for the right to stay in britain. the home secretary sajid javid said all fees would be waived for the group. andy moore reports. they shared the same dangers on the front line with british troops. their faces are obscured in this footage because they face the additional danger of retribution from the taliban. many of them were allowed into the uk under a relocation scheme, but faced the prospect of paying nearly £2,400 for themselves and for each family member if they wanted to seek indefinite leave to remain. more than 150 interpreters wrote a letter to the government saying their lives were in limbo. only yesterday, the defence secretary was lobbying on their behalf. they've done an amazing job working with our armed forces in afghanistan. we have a personal duty to do the right thing by them,

and i know that's something that's felt right across government. late last night, the new home secretary, sajid javid, accepted that argument. he said it had always been clear the interpreters would be able to stay in the uk with theirfamilies, and now they would be able to do that for free. more coming from westminster ihnat moment, but let's look at the weather —— in a moment. there is sunshine in the forecast, particularly this morning across eastern england, eastern scotland and this was taken a few hours ago in essex a beautiful morning. some differences further west with more cloud, miss, fog and drizzle and you can see the sunshine is coming through here in cornwall and that theme will continue further west that there is another thing to look at, this front that is never too far away from the far north and west of

scotland. it is breezy, kular unlike rain continues on and off. where we have the glad it will try to break so we see have the glad it will try to break so we see sunny spells but conversely with the sunshine this morning the cloud will fill in the most morning the cloud will fill in the m ost pla ces morning the cloud will fill in the most places largely dry and in the sunshine 15 or 19 celsius and south—east england maybe a degree or so south—east england maybe a degree or so higher. we will keep occasional drizzle for the far north—west of scotla nd drizzle for the far north—west of scotland in the evening, but elsewhere dry with a mixture of variable cloud and clear spells and temperatures dropping to between seven and 11 celsius. the irish sea coast might see mist and fog reforming. but for much of the bank holiday weekend for many of us it is looking dry, good amounts of sunshine and the temperatures will be climbing day on day. allow this mist and fog along the irish channel in the morning. the occasional patchy light rain for north and west

in scotland but elsewhere dry dates with good spells of sunshine. the cloud my fill—in across the east of wales and the midlands in the afternoon. in the sunshine, 19, somewhat cooler north and west. the high pressure dominates the weather pattern through the rest of the bank holiday weekend but the fronts are never too far—away from the far north—west, so here it will be cool, breezy, cloudy and with light rain and drizzle of this on sunday, once the mist clears, a good deal of sunshine and starting to feel cooler and there could be some breeze off the sea with temperatures on sunday between 19 and 23 celsius and some degree or more higher in the sunshine. for bank holiday monday, eastern parts of scotland might be disappointingly cloudy with mist and fog and a bit cooler, but elsewhere a good deal of sunshine, dry, fine day with temperatures widely in the high teens and early 20s and parts of south—east england on bank holiday monday could get up to 27 celsius. good morning, i'm annita

mcveigh at westminster. it's been a disappointing night for labour in the local elections in england as the party makes limited gains and doesn't win some of its key target councils. jeremy corbyn's party did pick up plymouth — but the leader acknowledges losses elsewhere. obviously, i'm disappointed in any places where we lost a bit of ground but looking at the overall picture, we gained a lot of seats across the whole country, volkswagen places we have never had those bouts this before —— voters in places. labourfails to win any of its target councils in london — the barnet result is put down to the anti—semitism row. there is no getting away from the fa ct there is no getting away from the fact that if the anti—semitism had been dealt with a couple of years ago, when it should have been, the people of barnet would have woken up

toa people of barnet would have woken up to a labour council today. the conservatives make gains in councils across england — but lose trafford — their only council in greater manchester. the liberal democrats have a good night, making progress in many areas — seizing control of richmond—upon—thames. support for ukip collapses. i'm rachel schofield with the rest of today's news. this year's nobel prize for literature has been postponed for the first time in 75 years — it follows sexual assault allegations at the swedish academy. the breast—cancer screening scandal — 8000 calls are made to helplines as it emerges two nhs trusts raised concerns with public health england last year. good morning from westminster. labour has made some gains in local elections across england but overall it's been a disappointing night for the party which failed to win its key target seats. jeremy corbyn's hopes of major gains in london evaporated

as the conservatives not only hung on to wandsworth and westminster, but retook control of barnet, where the anti—semitism row was blamed. the conservatives increased their number of councillors in many places in england — benefitting from a collapse in support for ukip — but they lost trafford in greater manchester and plymouth was snatched from them by labour. lets take a look at the key results. the situation really unchanged nationally because after the overnight counts, bringing as the results on the screen, lots of cou nts results on the screen, lots of counts going on this morning and we wa nt counts going on this morning and we want get these results for a while yet. you can see one council again for the lib dems, one loss for

labour. overall, not my change. both of the main parties in england holding on to the councils they were defending. let's look at the number of councillors. labour and the lib dems have made gains. labour up 38, the lib dems up 40. conservatives have maintained around the same number of councillors. the dramatic figure there on the screen is that ukip have lost nearly all of their castle seats, down 96 as things stand. —— their council seats. castle seats, down 96 as things stand. —— their councilseats. let's look at london boroughs. labour held onto the inner city strongholds, failing to win on 32—bit seats, barnett in particular, wandsworth and westminster. —— on key target seats. here is our political correspondent eleanor garnier.

celebrations here there and everywhere. both of the parties claiming victory. plymouth travelled ——jeremy claiming victory. plymouth travelled —— jeremy corbyn travel to plymouth. labour took the south coast castle from the tories. he admitted that the results hadn't been good. i'm disappointed in any places that we lost a bit of ground. looking at the picture, labour gained a lot of seats across the whole country. lots of bouts in many places we have never had those bouts before. we have had an effective campaign across the country. a long night in the london borough of wandsworth, once a rock—solid tory council labour thought it could win. they gained seats at the tories won. a

relief that overall the night hadn't been as difficult as expected. in every election, you see many things. we are focused on doing everything we can to give good conservative representatives at national and local level at every opportunity. yellow was the winning colour on richmond—upon—thames, the lib dems took the london borough from the tories. not a complete bounce back for the party but ground gained. we did better than expected and saw some stunning victories, taking seats from labour, hull, sunderland, sheffield. taking seats in the cell from the conservatives, remain voting arrears. stunning success in richmond, will restore and one that got. elsewhere, it may not have been a win, but the tories losing control was enough for labour to celebrate

in trafford, was the only conservative council in the north—west of england. in the area of barnet, a largejewish community meant that the labour party had to admit that the anti—semitism issue that they lost seats. there is no doubt that we would have woken up to a labour council today if it wasn't for the fact of the anti—semitism row not being dealt with. many people supported ukip recognise that actually the only people that can deliver brexit now is the current conservative government. in essence, that means that many people feel they have the gift that government support. it's been positive for the green party, who have upped their total number of councillors. all isn't over yet. there are still results come in. in this biggest

test of political opinion since last yea r‘s test of political opinion since last year's collection, the final picture will be revealed later in the afternoon. joining me now is the labour party's deputy leader tom watson. thank you for talking to us. obviously, you have gained councillors so far, 30 and more at the moment. should you have been doing better than theirs? at this stage in the election cycle. given the government has been taking a lot of fits of cuts to local government budgets. we've consolidated the games gains made after the general election. the bodies were neck and neck and i think we've done better than that in some areas. in london, we could come back with more than we have had since the 70s. we have one in places we have been written off in, places

like plymouth. we are making gains in some of the seats we need to win in the general election. you can a lwa ys in the general election. you can always do better but we have consolidated or praise, we think and are satisfied. you may perform better than last time round, but the story that is emerging as one of disappointment with the large results because of the message put out by some in the party was that there was potential for great in london. —— for great advancement in london. —— for great advancement in london. it's very hard having done so london. it's very hard having done so well in the general election and defied expectation to manage those expectations. people said we would win in wandsworth and westminster. we haven't helped us for 40 years but we are neck and neck with the tories in those areas. —— we haven't held those for 40 years. we shouldn't let the expectations management debate take away from the real results in london, showing that

sadiq khan is a popular mayor. we had a clip from jeremy corbyn saying that this was an effective campaign. in some constituencies, we would have hoped to make gains in order to position ourselves for the next general election, but hasn't happened. as the campaign been as effective as he's claiming? having done this with 30 years, it's very ha rd to done this with 30 years, it's very hard to extrapolate what that says about the general election, from those local results. the party chair is the mastermind of these elections and he will want to see where we have done well and better and assess what we need to do as we refine our general election planned. does it gives the critics ofjeremy corbyn within the labour party more to go on? there are people in the labour party who will always criticise jeremy corbyn but on these sets of results, it's a good set of results

for the party, we have consolidated gains made last year, members worked very ha rd gains made last year, members worked very hard and there are always lessons to be learned from collections and we will do so. i think we've done well and we should ta ke think we've done well and we should take pleasure in the results we've had blood in particular. you can use the word consolidate a lot but would you not have hoped to do better than this at this stage in the election cycle a nd this at this stage in the election cycle and if i can make reference to my first question, given the criticism of the conservative government over cuts to local government over cuts to local government budgets?” government over cuts to local government budgets? i don't like to quote polls, but the general election we had 25 points and were written off. we are now at 40 points and are neck and neck with the tories. we have to do more to win seats to get the government, but so far so good and rebuilt the base last year, we have consolidated that and now we need to go further in the yea rs and now we need to go further in the years ahead. this will make politics more interesting in viewers to combat we are up for fight, by

jeremy corbyn. i interviewed a man from barnet has said that the anti—semitism row was but lost labour control of that castle. there is no doubt that the jewish community have sent us a message of barnet and we have to understand that. when there are internal disciplinary matters that end up on the front pages and later, it started getting a positive message of change over and that is what has happened. you've seenjeremy‘s leadership on that, we have hired in a load of lawyers and implementing the report, also disciplinary procedures. public about barnet in yea rs procedures. public about barnet in years to come and say that we have learned our lesson and dealt with the anti—semitism problem. —— i hope that we can come back to buying it. that is no consolation to those that stood in barnet and didn't get

elected and the labour leader said we had an opportunity couple of yea rs we had an opportunity couple of years ago to do something about this and it has taken too long. i'm sorry for those members and council candidates that were growing hard. also for the people and planet that deserve a council. —— that have been working very hard. that is one of the lessons we will take away from this set of results. these are local circumstances and we have to be pleased with the work we have done nationally. good gains in london, we can now focus on the general election whenever it might come. thank you for taking the time to talk to us. it was certainly a bad night for ukip. one of the party's seniorfigures has night for ukip. one of the party's senior figures has competitors night for ukip. one of the party's seniorfigures has competitors but it was not result in the local elections to the black death. paul oakley is ukip‘s general secretary. it's not over at. think of the black

death in the middle ages, it is dormant and it comes back. brexit is being... can ijust clarify, you have just compared your party with the black death? absolutely, what's wrong with that? ukip, as things stand, 93 councillors going into these elections. with me is our assistant political editor, norman smith. we've been talking for quite a while in service elections for the leadership of ukip, whether this really is the end of the party.” noticed one of their senior members comparing ukip to the black death, which didn't seem to be an encouraging an analogy. suggesting it goes away and comes back. suzanne eva ns, it goes away and comes back. suzanne evans, she was talking about whether the party was great to grumble and fade away. it is really hard to see how it comes back now. —— was going

to crumble and fred. it has been pretty much a pledge rigid, lost its figurehead, it's lost its main purpose. i can't see it coming back u nless purpose. i can't see it coming back unless mrs may was to backtrack on brexit. then it would have the reason to exist. it doesn't at the moment. on the brexit issue and its influence in these elections at the mess the conservatives will take away from these elections. given they have mopped up the majority of ukip voters, what does it say about the course that the government is on the course that the government is on the type of except that the uk is looking at? it tells us two things. —— the type of exit. looking at? it tells us two things. -- the type of exit. it tells us how farour -- the type of exit. it tells us how far our politics are now defined and shaped by brexit. that is what is driving force. whether people feel they are remain inclined or brexit incline. it the —— it tells the tory party is that they cannot back off,

they are locked up in mission brexit and where they have gained, they have gained some seats from labour, they happen predominantly in working—class brexit supporting areas. for mrs major can be no question of retreating brexit. not just because the turmoil and civil war expert broke —— would provoke here. they are in effect the brexit party. talking to the deputy leader of labour, he repeated the message that labour had consolidated its position. i asked whether they should have done better than consolidating its position. i'm going to go back to that if i can. actually, we're going to go to once with now and to my colleague vicky young. the prime minister is out and about in wandsworth. the conservatives held. that picture speaks volumes. this is a strange

situation, this is seen to be a bit ofa situation, this is seen to be a bit of a celebration. the conservatives actually lost eight seats on this castle but not overall. i don't know if you can hear what is being said. he is addressing the crowd. let's see if we can hear theresa may. thank you very much. congratulations to everybody in wandsworth and particularly to the console leader. —— to the council leader. as brandon says, i know you have been working really ha rd over says, i know you have been working really hard over the last few weeks. as conservative councillors have worked hard for local people here and what's worse over the last 40 yea rs and what's worse over the last 40 years that we have controlled council. —— in wandsworth. labour thought they could take control and bring an end to this. this was one of their top targets and they threw everything at it. but they failed. joe the people of wandsworth

re—elected a conservative council. that is because you try to be second lowest council tax and the country, provide excellent local services, the weekly bin collection, that is the weekly bin collection, that is the message of these elections across the country. that conservative councils deliver great local services at lower taxes. we've seen local services at lower taxes. we've seen other local services at lower taxes. we've seen other success local services at lower taxes. we've seen other success and london. barnet, westminster. outside of london, we've made progress in places like dudley and walsall, basildon, peterborough, that is all the result of the really hard work of councillors, activists, supporters and revitalised campaign machine. but we won't take anything for granted. we will continue to work hard for local people and build on the successful future. if i could just save this to everybody in wandsworth, i started my political

career as a little borough councillor in just next door, murton. i know how much time and effort and dedication it takes. whether you are a long standing council that has been re—elected or a councillor elected for the first time, thank you, congratulations and i know you'll carry on doing a great job for people in wandsworth. well done. thank you. applause theresa may addressing the re—elected conservative council. the campaign of roger has been pretty much on local issues. you might remember our prime minister's questions on wednesday, theresa may make the point that this conservative council, with neighbouring labour councils, people pay a much lower council tax and there has been a big campaign about bin collections, people moving to fortnightly bin collections in other councils. that isn't happening here.

you might remember that last your trusty greening, then education secretary, she saw her vote got down by 10% and it has been a pretty marginal seat here. even today they are celebrating moderate, you must progress has been a conservative seat for 40 years, as theresa may has pointed out. i don't think she expected to be travelling around london today saying that they have been some successes here. certainly, labour will be disappointed that they point to the fact they have gained several seats from the conservatives here. how worried do you think the conservatives were about seats like wandsworth?” you think the conservatives were about seats like wandsworth? i think they must be concerned about it. they knew labour were throwing everything at them here and at westminster. they certainly will be glad they have managed to hold on. there is not a pay was —— there is no doubt they were slightly fearful. overall, they will field is what they could not. digging back to last

year and the general election, the big swing to labour in london elvers. wandsworth is a missed area -- is elvers. wandsworth is a missed area --isa elvers. wandsworth is a missed area —— is a mixed error. the actual borough has two labour mps, one that took a seat of the tories last year and the other sadiq khan, the mayor of london. it's an area where it is seen as a of london. it's an area where it is seen as a bellwether about how people are feeling. it feels a bit like they have stood still but i think the tories are certainly pretty pleased their local campaigning seems to have paid off and worked. they see this as the first stage in rebutting that grassroots which they feel have become dilapidated over the years. they want to get the campaign machine running so they can challenge labour. maggie rae much for that. —— thank you very much for that. is there to say that the lib dems

are is there to say that the lib dems a re pretty is there to say that the lib dems are pretty happy with the results so far. they are at least 40 councillors. severus cable has said: currently local elections —— servers cable said that he was not expecting... we can hear now vince cable's reactions to the results. let's go to richmond where liberal democrat leader vince cable has just been addressing supporters vince cable has just been addressing supporters. we are here to celebrate in richmond. a great victory for the liberal democrats. in excessive expectation. both sides of the rock, big games against the conservatives. those of you following the national news will see this is happening across the country. we are doing extremely well, not just across the country. we are doing extremely well, notjust here but in some of the northern cities. big games against labour in hull,

sunderland, liverpool, beginning the fight back across the country, whether it's against labour conservatives, in brexit remain country, we are reasserted herself asa country, we are reasserted herself as a major national source, dumped a lot of hard work and effort. i want to thank you all for what you've achieved. with me is the chairman of the local government assosication, lord porter — who is also a conservative councillor . thank you very much. in your area, the seats were not up for election. we did have a by—election last night and my candidate took 67% of the poll. i stand corrected was one election. obviously, there has got so election. obviously, there has got so much criticism of cuts to local government in news coverage, are you perhaps slightly surprised that the conservatives have performed as they

have done? i'm really pleased. it's not just about the conservatives. this is a good vindication that were councils to a good job, they mainly get returned. people are starting to see a difference between the local elections at the national elections. people appreciate good councils. this has been a strange mix in some places local issues have dominated and in other places you can see big national issues coming into play, like brexit. it'll be interesting to see if this gets driven by somebody. people have stood last night and returned. position for those that didn't because they have put in a lot of work to get there. conservatives will be unhappy about losing trafford. they will be happy about bono. lib dems will be happy to have gained a council. labour countered —— went for some seats but

they took trafford and plymouth. it was a mixed bag for all parties last night. by and large, we see a vindication for good councils deliver good services. conservatives we re deliver good services. conservatives were talking about value for money and efficiency and local authorities. there is clearly an issue with local authority budgets. spending is so squeezed, so much of the budget goes to social care, that sector is expanding all the time it seems. what is on assisted theresa may off the back of these elections about local authority budgets? —— what is your message to theresa may? we need be progress. the conservatives at the local level as the solid rock that the rest of the bodyis the solid rock that the rest of the body is built on. local government has to be funded adequately. we can show that we can deliver more for less. there is only so much more that can be delivered for less. did you expect to take a hit in some places where you haven't?”

you expect to take a hit in some places where you haven't? i expected we would take a bit of a hit. to be honest, to be chamber of the lga, which is now your eight of a conservative administration national league, for the conservatives still to be running the lga is a massive achievement. we expected some hits. i think that labour overplayed their hand. they give much, the chairman of the lga. we will have more at reaction and analysis for you later on. back to the studio. the swedish academy has decided that it will not be announcing the nobel prize for literature this year amid a controversy over alleged sexual misconduct. several of the experts who serve on the swedish academy, which decides on the winner resigned, after allegations of sexual abuse were made against the husband of one of its members. he denies the claims.

maddy savage has been following developments from stockholm. this is a highly unusual but not com pletely this is a highly unusual but not completely unexpected decision in sweden, with the swedish academy, the body that hands out and decides the body that hands out and decides the nobel prize for literature teacher has been into other minds. it's based in the budding behind the alongside the nobel museum, a major its attraction. the academy has been facing criticism of the way is dealt with sexual assault allegations against a french photographer was closely to the academy. —— with closely to the academy. —— with close links to the academy. he ran a cultural group and is married to one of the academy's members until last week. she resigned amid a huge wave of resignations late to the way that the academy has dealt with this scandal. lastly, these readers academy headed that things were a bit tricky and that they understood they had started to lose national

and global credibility over all of this and if you are a sick of the finally released a statement confirming that they would not go ahead with this year's prize and will hand it out alongside the 2019 price. they say they want to spend the time in the meanwhile focusing on looking at how they handle issues of conflict of interest and communication in future. crucially, recruiting new members. only ten of 18 members of the academy currently remain. we will have to see if it pans out, if they can store the reputation. other prizes, science prizes, the peace prize, these will be handed out as normal in the autumn. it's emerged public health england was warned about the breast cancer screening errors last year. two nhs health trusts raised concerns in march 2017, but were told it was a local, rather than a national matter. 450,000 women were not invited to breast cancer screenings due to a computer error.

an independent review has been announced by the government. public health england has said the response to the crisis cannot be rushed. the world's first national review of the number of deaths of people with learning disabilities has found either abuse, neglect, delays in treatment or gaps in care played a part in one in eight deaths that were scrutinised. the review was commissioned by nhs england after the avoidable death of a young man called connor sparrowhawk. bill cosby and roman polanski have been expelled from the us academy of motion picture arts and sciences. the academy, which runs the oscars, said this was done in accordance with its standards of conduct. tv star cosby was convicted of sexual assault last month. oscar—winning director polanski admitted statutory rape of a 13—year—old girl in 1977. twitter has warned its 330 million users to change their passwords. the site said a technical glitch had led to some passwords being stored in plain text

on an internal computer system. in a blog post twitter said the error has been fixed and there was no indication that passwords had been stolen or misused by anyone. a volcano has erupted in hawaii. mount kilauea erupted on the big island of hawaii. thousands of people have been told to leave their homes after lava ran down into a residential area. kilauea is one of the world's most active volcanoes. the weather with alina jenkins. something of a west east split this morning. the best of the sanction further east. further west, more cloud. this begin continues to bring patchy drizzle to the islands in scotland. bright and sunny spells, sunshine... for most places, it is

dry. in the best of the sunshine, howzat! -20 howzat! — 20 celsius. outbreaks of letting pretty rain, as well, cry and a mixture of variable cloud and crystals. those between 7—11dc. some misty and patchy fog, that's on the channel calls. try and spells of sunshine, tempered as climate daytime one day. eastern coast will a lwa ys daytime one day. eastern coast will always be somewhat cooler. tomorrow, good spells of sunshine from any but still outbreaks of rain in the north—west of scotland. top temperature 21 celsius. good morning, i'm annita mcveigh at westminster. we are covering all the local election results for you. it's been a disappointing night for labour in the local elections in england as the party makes limited gains and doesn't win some of its key target councils.

jeremy corbyn's party did pick up plymouth — but the leader acknowledges losses elsewhere. obviously i'm disappointed that we lost a bit of ground but if you look at the overall picture, labour gained a lot of seats across the whole country, we gained a lot of votes in places we had never had votes in places we had never had votes before and we ran a very effective campaign all over the country. labourfails to win any of its target councils in london — the barnet result is put down to the anti—semitism row. there's no getting away from the fa ct there's no getting away from the fact that it should have been dealt with years ago. the people of barnet will be waking up to a labour council today. theresa may celebrates with activists in wandsworth — as the party held on to their flagship london boroughs. theresa may says overall, it was a good night. they thought they could take control. this was one of their top targets and they threw everything at

it, but they failed. lib dem leader vince cable celebrates his party making progress in many areas, seizing control of richmond—upon—thames. support for ukip collapses. i'm rachel schofield with the rest of today's news. this year's nobel prize for literature has been postponed for the first time in 75 years. it follows sexual assault allegations at the swedish academy. the breast cancer screening scandal — 8,000 calls are made to helplines as it emerges two nhs trusts raised concerns with public health england last year. much more analysis of the election results from here at westminster shortly. first, to the bbc sport centre. steven gerrard will be announced as

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one, and paralympic medallist gordon reed and among five of the world's top ten players due to take part. the event will feature singles and doubles action, just three weeks before wimbledon. the world snooker championship semifinal betweenjohn the world snooker championship semifinal between john higgins the world snooker championship semifinal betweenjohn higgins and wilson continues this afternoon. higgins had a two frame lead into this session but wilson took the first one with the opening frame. these are live pictures from the crucible in sheffield. it is currently 7—4—mac to higgins. the other semifinal continues this afternoon. barry hawkins leads mark williams. that's all the sport for now. back to the studio. welcome back to westminster. we're analysing the results so far from yesterday's local elections across england — the first large scale political test for the parties since last year's general election. let's take a look

at the key results. there hasn't been much change with both of the main parties in england holding onto most of the councils they were defending. we are having problems with our graphics but we will try to bring you an update of that as soon as we can. to summarise, not a huge loss or gain for either of the two main parties, labour and conservatives. with me to dissect the results, we've had in so far is tony travers, professor at the department for government at the london school in economics. what will the parties make of this so what will the parties make of this so far? we have seen theresa may in wandsworth in a celebratory mood even though they lost a number of seats, but they retain control of the council. tom watson said labour

consolidated its vote, trying to move the story away from mismanagement of expectations. we are busy now in the post voting stage although there are many councils to be declared, but there are busy politicians trying to move ahead for the conservatives. i can see why theresa may wanted to stand outside wandsworth town hall. they may have lost a few seats there but that conservatives won. labour are not picking up seats and when opposition party would expect at this point. they have lost seats in some part of the midlands and the north and i think they're going to have to go away now and think what it was about this campaign or the way the presented itself locally and nationally that just didn't way the presented itself locally and nationally thatjust didn't rack up the votes and didn't take control of councils. what was it about this campaign in your opinion? the

conservatives were like this too but it locked in a struggle over a number of issues. the conservatives had brexit but labour had the anti—semitism row, my accusations of ta keovers anti—semitism row, my accusations of takeovers of local parties and all that running for some time so think what the labour party need to think about is how they can come up with an offerfor about is how they can come up with an offer for next year's local elections, the next big test of opinion when it will appeal locally and nationally. the liberal democrats are happy in richmond. richmond was clearly a constituency that voted for remain in the european referendum so do you think they're just benefiting from that remain position? are they also benefiting from having a clear message rather than internal struggles the conservatives and

labour are having? liberal democrats we re labour are having? liberal democrats were not expected to do brilliantly, suffer them, against expectations, is the of labour —— so for them, they doing better. in london, it is not quite as good. still better than they have done in recent years, in their heyday before the coalition, so their heyday before the coalition, soi their heyday before the coalition, so i think the lib dems will now be looking next door to richmond to see if they can pick up this afternoon, meaning they would have the bug together in london and they would think it is the beginning of building back. whether brexit did it there, it's not clear because it doesn't look as if labour benefited much from a brexit vote in the rest of london in the way they clearly did not only in london, but last year the general election —— in the general election. in terms of brexit and the government's perspective between now and early next year when the uk is due to leave the european

union, what is thus result on the mopping up of the ukip vote say to the government about the course they are on? i think it will give the conservatives some confidence that they're not responsible for brexit ina way they're not responsible for brexit in a way that is wrecking their chances for winning or seats they got a local elections with the potential for the next general election. it might even make it easierfor the opposing election. it might even make it easier for the opposing sides within the conservative civil war to fight rather more aggressively. they might feel, that is the risk ofjeremy corbyn right now, we can get on with it, with their own internal struggle. it's hard to know how this will play out. it is undoubtedly the case that brexit is going to dominate british politics in the house of commons and across the country in the months up to at least march next year and actually well beyond. thank you very much,

professor tony travers from the london school of economic. we have heard today that after eight years of opposition, labour may have been hoping to have done better than they have done at this stage, although they have gained councillors, clearly there were hopes of taking some areas, taking control of some areas, taking seats that haven't materialised. tom watson, labour's deputy leader, was talking about consolidating the vote and we seen theresa may out celebrating in wandsworth. they probably managed expectations better, cox dan chances and, asa expectations better, cox dan chances and, as a result, are able to have the prime minister walking around in wandsworth looking happy —— they talked down chances. let's talk now to our midlands political editor patrick burns. a labour stronghold in most areas,

but obviously there has been local issues, like bin collections. how is it playing out? you were talking about labour using words like consolidation and here in britain's biggest local authority when labour had an absolutely dominant position in the outgoing council, they held almost twice as many seats as all the other parties put together, i've been talking to a couple of senior labourfiguresjust a been talking to a couple of senior labour figures just a few minutes ago and they're actually feeling quite gloomy. they're cracking on with the count but there are signs of the turnout being low, possibly around 25%, that's not a confirmed figure, and this is raising something of a concern in labour circles. have they struggled to get their vote out, particularly in white, working—class areas of the city where they traditionally do very strongly? this actually tallies with something i was told during the course of the campaign, by a leading

conservative campaign organiser. he said there is something almost counterintuitive, they were finding that in areas, particularly towards the northern side of the city, which is generally less prosperous and generally more solidly labour supporting, with exceptions, but that's generally the case, conservatives were saying that they're surprising themselves that they're surprising themselves that they are likely doing better than expected there, whereas they're doing less well in the traditional, more well—to—do tory areas to the south of the city, so those two things coincide. one other factor is that the south of the city is where momentum have their strongest part of their organisation in birmingham, plus the university, a major community not just of plus the university, a major community notjust of students but also of academics, and i wonder whether one of the fact is missing here is an explosion of many islingtons in a way. labour

supporting areas in affluent urban areas. one other thing to compute into this is that the big cities have never been quite such ukip strongholds, even during their heyday. we were looking at places in the conurbation like dudley, wa lsa ll, the conurbation like dudley, walsall, like nuneaton and bedworth, so walsall, like nuneaton and bedworth, so in that sense there is less scope here than there was in the results we saw in the black country ‘s last night. for the conservative party to trade on the general desertion of the ukip vote. some very interesting early suggestions here, but if there isa early suggestions here, but if there is a low poll, that might point towards the final result emerging sooner towards the final result emerging sooner than originally projected, the original projection for birmingham to be between five and six. there may be some recounts but

maybe we will get a final result later. thank you, patrick, fascinating analysis. our middle as political editor in birmingham for us. one result to bring you in one of the mayoral elections, the election for the mayor of lewisham and damian egan has been elected on the first count to become the mayor of lewisham, damien egan, that results just in. you of lewisham, damien egan, that resultsjust in. you can of lewisham, damien egan, that results just in. you can see the images on the screen, labour are well ahead of the second placed candidate, the conservative candidate. the conservatives held on to wandsworth in london. labour had been talking about a charge for that seat and they gained councillors, the conservatives lost councillors, but overall they maintain control

and theresa may has been there, she was speaking a short while ago and she was congratulating her conservative councillors.” she was congratulating her conservative councillors. i know you have been working really hard over the last few weeks. we have been working hard in the 40 years we have controlled this council. labour thought they would bring an end to that this week. they thought they could take control. this was one of their top targets and they threw everything at it, but they failed. cheering and the people of wandsworth elected conservative council. you provide excellent services like the weekly bin collection and that is the message of these elections across the country, that conservative councils deliver great services and lower taxes and we have seen other

success in london in hillingdon, barnett, westminster and outside of london we have made progress in places like dudley, walsall, we have taken control of places like dudley, walsall, we have ta ken control of basildon peterborough and that all the result of the really hard work of councillors, activists, supporters and our revitalised campaign machine. but we won't take anything for granted. we will continue to work hard for local people and we will build on this success for the future and if i canjust will build on this success for the future and if i can just say this to everybody here in wandsworth, i started my political career as a london borough councillor and i know how much time and effort and dedication it takes so whether you area dedication it takes so whether you are a long—standing councillor who has been re—elected or a future councillor elected for the first time, thank you, congratulations, andi time, thank you, congratulations, and i know you will carry on doing a greatjob for people here in wandsworth. well done, thank you. meanwhile, labour has won plymouth,

taking it from the conservatives and jeremy corbyn give this reaction. across the country, we made a lot of progress. obvious and we want to do as well as we can everywhere and we look at every result across the country. we have gained in plymouth and also put up have gained in plymouth and also put up our vote have gained in plymouth and also put up ourvote in have gained in plymouth and also put up our vote in a lot of other places, and places we have never held before late london bowlers. surely you were hoping this morning to be spoiled for choice. well, i'm here in plymouth! what a beautiful place it is, to! in reality, this is the only place you could go to have this celebration. well, we've one plymouth and we have one because the labour party has stood up against low pay, stood up against underinvestment in the south west by this government and i think people

resonated with the labour party's investment in the southwest i think it is an important lesson. there are potential cuts to the naval base in plymouth, but is not potentially concern you that it could be very, very local reasons for labour's success , very local reasons for labour's success, not least a strong campaigning, but in the national picture, that the breakthrough isn't happening across the border we would like to see it? we were defending sees that were last won in 2014, which was a particularly good year for labour and local government. i'm disappointed that we lost a bit of ground but if you look at the overall picture, labour gained a lot of seats across the whole country, we gained a lot of votes in places we gained a lot of votes in places we have never had those votes before. let's go to richmond where liberal democrat leader vince cable has just been addressing supporters. we're here celebrating in richmond,

a great victory for the liberal democrats in excess of our expectation. both sides of the river, big gains against the conservatives. we will see that this is happening across the country in the national news, doing extremely well not just here the national news, doing extremely well notjust here but in some of the northern cities, big gains against labour in hull, beginning the fight back across the country whether it is against labour or conservative ‘s in brexit or gamine country, we're reasserting ourselves asa country, we're reasserting ourselves as a major national force down to a lot of hard work and effort and i just want to thank all of you for what you have achieved. thank you very much. vince cable there. right now it is time for the business news. in the business news:

norwegian airlines has rejected two separate takeover bids by the british airways owner iag. norwegian has become known for its low—cost long—haul routes across the atlantic. it said that iag's bids fundamentally undervalue the firm and its prospects for further growth. iag also published some pretty healthy operating profits — up 75% for the first quarter of this year — and it's among the top risers on the ftse today. the former boss of volkswagen martin winterkorn has been charged by us prosecutors in detroit over the diesel emissions scandal. he has been accused of conspiring to mislead regulators about the german car maker's efforts to cheat the emissions tests of its diesel—fuelled vehicles. he is the ninth person to be hit with us criminal charges connected to the scandal. a bounce back for car sales. after months of falling sales the industry has finally reported a rise in new car registrations

of 10% in april. however, that should be put in context. it is 10% up on april 2017 when sales saw a massive 20% collapse on the introduction of new tax rules. the worst performer on the ftse100 though is europe's biggest bank. this is hsbc and it's released profits for the last three months 4% down on the same period last year because of increased costs. but underlying business is certainly good enough — especially in asia — for it to promise to spend £2 billion buying shares back from investors. joining us now is bill blain, a strategist at mint partners. these figures were disappointing, many thought they would be better than this time last year. yes, they're disappointing than this time last year. yes, they‘ re disappointing in than this time last year. yes, they're disappointing in terms of

where they're coming from. they're making all of their money out of asia about spending money trying to grow business in europe. the big challenge for hsbc is to try and generate a return on equity they make from the asian business and replicated here in europe and that's what's got the market worried. here in europe, it looks frankly pedestrian. they're buying back shares. that is like a bit of a bribe. this is one of the big factors in the marketjust now, if you had apple earlier this week giving shareholders a 100 billion share back, if you look at what hsbc is doing in the uk, it faces enormous problems in bringing its brand up—to—date and making it very releva nt, brand up—to—date and making it very relevant, taking up the consumer accou nts relevant, taking up the consumer accounts that they offer, for instance, their premier bank, they need to spend money to make it better but instead they are just handing it back to shareholders. the

fines they have been facing, they're putting money aside to cover issues of the united states, legacy of the financial crisis. we're not so worried about that at all. hsbc is now out of the period when it was really managing itself to avoid another regular sony incident —— regular —— regular incident. another regular sony incident —— regular -- regular incident. what feelings about john flynn regular -- regular incident. what feelings aboutjohn flynn at the moment? he has the knowledge to make the european operation work, perhaps evenin the european operation work, perhaps even in america. i think after the last venture that's unlikely but to make the european operations soundly performing as the asian operations, but be a target people expectjohn flint and the rest of his team to deliver. let's look at the markets. investors

not impressed by hsbc. the ftse100 is up almost 0.5%. it looks like the airlines bid is not going ahead with norwegian airlines. we'll be back with more later. one more male election in tower hamlets, labour's john biggs one more male election in tower hamlets, labour'sjohn biggs has been elected mayor —— may oral election. in terms of the overall councils, 105 result in so far, 45 still to come and we will be keeping you up—to—date with all of those results, those 45 results, as they come in. huw edwards is yearfrom 12 o'clock. i'll still be here as well

so o'clock. i'll still be here as well so say what is on bbc news. right now, from a beautiful sunny day in westminster, it's time for the weather forecast. it's nearly the bank holiday weekend and it is more sunshine in the forecast late this afternoon, especially the further east you are, we have seen the best of the sunshine this morning, this was hastings not so long ago. it is a different story further west across western scotland, west england and southwest england. patchy drizzle, but what we will find is that further west, the cloud were thin and break but these fronts are never too far away from northwest scotland so too far away from northwest scotland so still some outbreaks of light rain and drizzle this afternoon but elsewhere, the cloud thins and brea ks to elsewhere, the cloud thins and breaks to give some bright sunny spells. where we have the sunshine, there is a little bit more co—developing through the afternoon, but it is dry in the sunshine, pleasa ntly but it is dry in the sunshine, pleasantly warm, 15 to 19 celsius, cooler from northwest scotland with parts of aberdeenshire getting up to

20 or 21 celsius. we keep the cloud and trees and light rain and drizzle but elsewhere it is dry with a mixture of variable cloud. temperatures generally between seven and 11 celsius. the bank holiday weekend is going to be dry. there will be a good deal of sunshine for many of us, temperatures rising day by day, although some eastern coastal town cooler through the latter half of the weekend. tomorrow, some mist and work from the irish sea. after that, a good deal of sunshine. that notable breeze and some rain and very far northwest of scotland but otherwise it isa northwest of scotland but otherwise it is a dry day, highs between 17 and 21 celsius, southeast england will be better at 22 or 23 celsius and this area of high pressure is dominating our weather right through the bank holiday weekend. those weather fronts in the far northwest of scotla nd weather fronts in the far northwest of scotland saw the chance of more cloud and a strengthening breeze and

occasional outbreaks of rain but for sunday, most places are going to be largely dry, a good deal of sunshine once we clear the early morning mist and fog so it is turning cooler on the eastern coast but inland in the sunshine, 23, maybe 24 celsius in places and fog bank holiday monday, a very similar story of the eastern pa rt a very similar story of the eastern part of scotland are perhaps seeing some mist and murkiness, somewhat cooler here, elsewhere, a good deal of sunshine. 16 celsius but in the sunshine, 25 celsius and the potential that some areas on bank holiday monday could see a high of 27 celsius which would make it the early may bank holiday on record —— warmest early may bank holiday on record. the late to do all the local election results in england, one that produced some surprises. dozens of councils extorted a clear across england. plenty of results to come in. one ortwo

england. plenty of results to come in. one or two important questions for the main party leaders. what everybody agrees in this brexit period is the most important time in british politics since the end