wales ever. she conservative mp in wales ever. she has done it with 45% share of the vote as compared to labour's 39%. and again, i want to show you the way in which the vote share has changed since 2017, and it is the same story is in peterbrough. the conservatives up a little bit, but they have been given the seat by the drop in the labour vote share. labour down by 10%, and that has allowed sarah atherton, as i said, to become the first female conservative mp in wales. discreetly you well, i never thought in all this time i'd see wrexham of all places turning conservative but that's what this night is about, parts of wales and across the uk, apart from scotland, are looking at gaining some areas which have been solidly labour for decades and decades. we have resulted from northern ireland which i'd like to

go to in but before that, look at this response from diane abbott to labour's performance. she is a close associate ofjeremy corbyn, saying: that is diane abbott's response. we have in from north down, an interesting seat in northern ireland. this is where lady sylvia herrmann was the mp from 2001, the independent unionist. this has been taken by the alliance party of northern ireland. a read again. stephen farry on 18,358 and alex easton of the du p being beaten. 45%

to the apni and look to the percentage boost for the alliance party, up 36% in the seat which was held by lady sylvia herrmann and the dup not moving. let us also look at the result from leigh, gain, greater manchester. james grundy taking the seat on over 21,000 votes on a turnout of 61%, a chip majority of 1965, the labour party on 41%. joanne platt, the labour mp, well, out of a job because this is now in conservative hands. nine percentage points up for the tories and labour

being hammered down by 15 percentage points. in leigh, this is a 12% swing in greater manchester from labour to the tories. looking at a seat like that going from red to blue, that's astonishing. a lot of people will be familiar with andy burnham, a cabinet minister and now the mayor of greater manchester. if seats like leigh are going. there are seats like leigh are going. there a re lots of seats like leigh are going. there are lots of label people who are worried about prominent labour mps like lisa nandy, who has held on but the seat of lisa nandy —— leigh, thatis the seat of lisa nandy —— leigh, that is astonishing. so how is that changing the political landscape, the electoral map? sophie is outside broadcasting house and that's join her.

it isa her. it is a bit wet out here in the piazza but that's what you get when you have your first december election in almost a century but this is our map of hexagons and you get a much better idea, one hexagon is one mp and we've reduced a constituency to the same side so by the end of the night you will get an idea of where the power lies but already, you can see that red being breached, some of the seats already, this is workington, a very strong labour seat which has now gone blue and over here, one of the first tonight, blyth valley, which has never been blue, darlington, the north—east corner which has been a labour stronghold. the wall has been breached. it's been breached around brexit as well as, to be honest, attitudes to jeremy corbyn brexit as well as, to be honest, attitudes tojeremy corbyn but brexit as well as, to be honest, attitudes to jeremy corbyn but we're going to see more conservative wins in this absolute labour heartland

and it's starting to become a recasting of british politics and thatis recasting of british politics and that is what the exit poll is predicting in what seems to be happening. then page from ipsos, thank you. as i travel down england, three labour voters, who all changed their minds and voted conservative. for me, i couldn't vote for labour while they havejeremy corbyn as leader. i feel that he while they havejeremy corbyn as leader. ifeel that he is really dangerous for this country so grudgingly i voted conservative for the first time as did my father and is in his 70s but has never voted anything but labour. what was it like you? surreal. ithink anything but labour. what was it like you? surreal. i think that it wasn't an easy decision for me but my couldn't conscience wouldn't let me do anything else. was it about exit orjeremy corbyn? both but my fundamental thing about jeremy corbyn is if you know your party is not behind you and the sentiment saying the country is not behind you, what time do you put beside

your ego and do the best for the country and the fact he didn't do that said a lot about him as a leader and i can't support somebody who's willing to their own ego out of what is best for the country. difficult for you? to be honest, the decision was clear, we needed to get oi'i decision was clear, we needed to get on with brexit, and just dithering oi'i on with brexit, and just dithering on the policy, it made it quite a simple decision for me. we needed to make a change to this country and get on with it. it was more about brexit for you than the leader of the labour party? is a problem. i voted on policies, i'm not a particular fan of forest but the key policy of the day, no position. how does one expect to lead a country when you cannot lead with your own position? is this a one-off vote, for you? would position? is this a one-off vote, for you ? would you position? is this a one-off vote, for you? would you go back to labour 01’ for you? would you go back to labour or could you be voting conservative for many years? once they get rid of jeremy corbyn, i will probably go

back to voting labour. i still believe in many of our policies but for me, ijust can't do it while he is in power. thank you all very much for joining is in power. thank you all very much forjoining us out here in the rain. sophie, i'm thinking, there you are with the brollies and braving the wet. looking at the turnout figure, it's 64.6% based on the result in 60 cents and 590 to go, slightly down. you are there chatting to some voters and i'm thinking, the rain, the weather, hasn't really affected the weather, hasn't really affected the turnout. it's a great reflection on people's keenness to vote. and if you saw some of the pictures and footage of the queues and many of the voting stations today, extraordinary queues, the rain didn't put people off. it's been a terrible day, raining all over the country, the rain here is expected

to stop quite shortly am pleased to say. right! i'm very optimistic. sophie, thanks to you. laura? when we've been going around, people won't enthused by this election and we heard people were cross about the choice put before them but there was certainly an awareness with voter after voter we met that this was an important election, it genuinely was a junction for the country. either we will come out of the european union union at speed will go towards another second referendum with two different visions of how to run the country. one interesting point, it's clear and labour sources are indicating that it's clear from our numbers that labour are being far more hit in leave areas. they are down and remain areas by five points, but that contrast is there but falling back in both an important to notice the contrast is there already in the numbers. laura,

thank you. in wandsworth, they accounting, in battersea and tooting. clive myrie is there. what is the feeling? actually, they've finished counting here. everyone has left and we had that victory for the labour candidate, fleur anderson, taking the seat from the conservative justine taking the seat from the conservativejustine greening, who is not standing. we still have tooting and battersea and i suspect the labour candidates here and the activists here are feeling pleased, not just with activists here are feeling pleased, notjust with putney activists here are feeling pleased, not just with putney they believe they can hang on to that labour margin in battersea and tooting which is a very safe labour seat, 13,000 for the incumbent they are.

while there has been this talk throughout the evening of this red wall crumbling in the midlands and the north, there is this red wall here in the south as well. it rings london, a8, 49 here in the south as well. it rings london, a8, a9 of the 70 seats here in the capital are labour seats and there is a sense that because the vast majority of them are remain seats, labour will do very well. you may hear people shouting and cheering there. that is again a reception for the labour candidate in putney but the sense the labour wall around london has survived because it's protecting remain seats. i suspect this will probably be the only bright spot for labour in what has been a pretty dismal night. the winner of the putney seat, fleur anderson, night. the winner of the putney seat, fleuranderson, said night. the winner of the putney seat, fleur anderson, said this is a bright light in a dark night. and she made it clear that brexit would

be damaging. she said labour must stop efforts to block, and must continue their efforts to stop and block boris johnson's continue their efforts to stop and block borisjohnson‘s hard brexit so a labour success here, that these constituencies are remain constituencies are remain constituencies and i suspect that will be the story of the night. clive, thank you again. clwyd south, another seat in wales, gained by the conservatives from labour. another very notable result, notjust in welsh terms but in the overall trajectory if you like of the conservative performance overnight. simon baynes for the tories taking justine greening and for labour,

susan elan jones, a justine greening and for labour, susan elanjones, a majority of 1239 votes. a5— a1% and that really is an end to the current parliamentary career of susan elanjones has been the mp since 2010. simon baynes who contested the seat last time is a local musician who runs a charity but he is now the new mp for clwyd southin but he is now the new mp for clwyd south in the swing, 7.5% from labour to the tories. again in this part of north—east wales, there is a pattern emerging of labour seats falling to the tories in that area. let's have some more response to some of these results. we saw some good news in putney for labour but lots of bad news including in north—east wales forjeremy corbyn. what is alistair campbell's view, he is with andrew. let's find out, he is here, just like magic. these momentum talking

points with heard from john mcdonald sitting in that seat several hours ago that this terrible result for labour which is what it looks like it will be is all down to brexit and i suggest that is the line they are taking because they can then argue, we can continue with corbynism, not jeremy corbyn, but we can have corbynism withoutjeremy corbyn because brexit was so bad tonight. what. them from winning that argument? i don't think they will win the argument. they have control of the structures of the party that will help them in terms of securing some sort of legacy that politics but when you look at just some sort of legacy that politics but when you look atjust how bad these results are, this is notjust a defeat forjeremy corbyn, this is a defeat forjeremy corbyn, this is a defeat for the politics he represents and there are three places you can look it. anti—semitism, which wasn't handled properly and played a big part in the chief rabbi's intervention was a big moment. the sense of saying to

people that they can have everything they want pretty much in terms of they want pretty much in terms of the public services and an economy that works for everybody and only a few rich people have to pay for it. and yes, brexit is a problem, it has been for the labour party but when you go to some of these places in the north and how come ian labrie's majority got shredded when he has been fighting to deliver exit? what people in the north have been saying thatjeremy corbyn people in the north have been saying that jeremy corbyn and people in the north have been saying thatjeremy corbyn and his politics don't represent them as working class people in the north of england in this delusion that they sort of have to keep on with this corbynism and eventually the british public will see it for what it is and they will see it for what it is and they will flock to support it is never going to happen and jeremy corbyn, the country decided a longtime ago they weren't going to put him in power. he began by saying, the corbynistas are in charge of the party and they are calling the shots

and have a clear narrative to explain what's happened. it was going to stop them from the social democrat wing of the labour party? well, look, tonight, the results are coming through, it's going to be a bad result for labour in the end, you've got to root your public politics where the public are now giving the clearest possible message. that may be true but that was not my question. mr brown and others in the past now admit that mr corbyn's momentum had been terrible for the party and your wife said that as well but what are they going to do about it? who is going to stand up and say it is notjust mr corbyn about what he stood for. where is the fight to come for because of the

forces of corbynism a still in control. a proper analysis in and debate and fundamental truths have to be faced otherwise the labour party face oblivion. the things they are staying tonight is delusional. —— saying. what happened with 2017 and the relatively successful result has camouflaged this reality. if you go around saying to people, we do not want your votes, your help, do not want your votes, your help, do not be surprised if they will vote for the tories. the way they conduct the politics... is your party heading for a civil war?|j the politics... is your party heading for a civil war? i hope not because it is so obvious what has to

happen... not to a lot of labour voters. they are delusional if they think the public are going to support their politics and let me have this one fact. if borisjohnson ru ns have this one fact. if borisjohnson runs the full—time it would have been 50 years since any labour leader other than tony blair one a general election. can they let that sink into their heads and let them start rewrote the politics. sink into their heads and let them start rewrote the politicslj sink into their heads and let them start rewrote the politics. i wish john was sitting here but he's actually over there... i will askjohn, let's have a response to the damning reader that alistair has given. that is not what

he did over brexit. he wanted labour to have a more pro remain policy and i think the result of that would have been worse tonight if we would have been worse tonight if we would have had it that way. you look at what happened... we have not had that many results from remain areas but if places like putney are anything to go by, we are doing well in remain areas and doing badly in leave areas. i think this was primarily about brexit. it is true thatjeremy was primarily about brexit. it is true that jeremy was make primarily about brexit. it is true thatjeremy was make brand was damaged by brexit. —— geremy ——mr corbyn's brand. i know that it is

bad but it was going to be bad.|j just disagree with him. we had john mcdonald saying that basically, admitting, that the brexit strategy was a bit of an impossible one to carry off, partly because he felt under pressure from all sides and your view has been very clear. john says it is partly responsible for why leave it is that. i accept that brexit has been a difficulty for all parties but you have had a sense of a leader who was not led on and drag toa a leader who was not led on and drag to a position he is clearly uncomfortable with. if it is all about brexit and i think it is fascinating thatjohn about brexit and i think it is fascinating that john suddenly says the election was all about brexit. in scotland, where someone has shown

leadership, that is what the country was crying out for, not trying to balance it and john, was crying out for, not trying to balance it andjohn, he was crying out for, not trying to balance it and john, he did not take the slogan get brexit done. we did try to change the agenda from brexit and we did a lot of testing of our messaging. actually, the messages under the nhs public services did work. they did not work enough. ultimately, it is clear we failed to change the agenda. unless you defeated them on the argument of brexit, that he will not get brexit done, you are not going to get that.

iam afraid done, you are not going to get that. i am afraid you have let him win. i do not think it is right. another issue about routeing politics, if we wa nt to issue about routeing politics, if we want to change things, we have to change public attitude and that means making argument about radical new policies. they are traditional social democratic policies. public ownership of the things that we were proposing to take... industries are commonly in the public sector in many other european countries. it is not that radical. we were not proposing to increase public expenditure or the share of public economy to anything like... jeremy corbyn arriving. just happening now. while we are looking at him, clearly he would have taken in the extent of

the defeat that the exit fault projection is putting forward. these are life images. as we look at these images, iam are life images. as we look at these images, i am about to ask of the direct question, are you calling on him to stand down? i think mr corbyn will make his own decisions as is right. i do not think that we have to rush into this. we need period of reflection. i think we were far too quick to rush into leadership elections in 2010 and 2015 and we needed more reflection. i think we... ifjeremy chooses to go, we should have an election in the spring for a leadership. do you

think he would want to face prime ministers question after this kind of result? boris johnson was scared to face him in this election campaign, scared to debate the argument butjeremy corbyn i am sure would be perfectly willing to face him when they bring their withdrawal built next week. you thinkjeremy corbyn should hang on while the party works out what to do but i am intrigued to know if you think the party would have to move on from the kinds of policies you are putting forward. i noted you said we have to change public attitudes. isn't it actually that the party has to change its attitude towards the public? i think we do listen to the public? i think we do listen to the public and i think the public are actually enthusiastic about many of our policies. alistair actually accepted some of that. we presented accepted some of that. we presented a very lengthy, bold, manifesto

which was really a programme for more than a government, it was a programme for ten years plus. maybe we should have had a shorter ma nifesto. we should have had a shorter manifesto. we did not have much time to sell some of the newer policies and that. i think it is right because of the state of the economy, the public service, the threat of climate change is so dramatic that it requires drastic solutions and we will still need them at the next election. i will bring alan duncan in as well, you have been very patient. nick robinson is there, what is going on in terms of the mood music around the labour leader? extraordinary and sombre. he has

arrived here, a few yards away from where he lives. he must have dreamt of arriving here to cheering crowds, to the expectation that he might become a minister but, instead, he comes to knowing his days in control of the labour party coming to. will they end tonight? probably not but in the next few days. whatever analyse, the jeremy in the next few days. whatever analyse, thejeremy corbyn era is over. it is whether his people, the people who brought into the labour party and controlled the labour party, can they cling on to control even as mr corbyn waves goodbye to the leadership of the labour party? that is the argument taking place and, as! that is the argument taking place and, as i look down here onjeremy corbyn, standing just below me, i am in the galleryjust above him, he's to people who have worked with him

not just yes to people who have worked with him notjust yes but decades and that is why the hugs are coming in. he grips them by the arm as if to say, it is all now coming to an end, not of course here in islington north, he will have a huge majority but the corbin project, his brand of socialism could take the labour party into government, that project is over, at least for him. —— corbyn. the former office minister and conservative mp, allen, you look at this campaign, which we now think has led to this result, someone you have been critical of, jeremy corbyn, what are your thoughts? my first comment is that i have decided john is my new best friend because... i do not think he is

happy about that. he has played such an enormous role in making the labour party unelectable and he has destroyed it for many, many years. i do not think this has just been about exit. i thinkjeremy corbyn was never a credible future prime minister. —— brexit stop and on brexit he did not have a clear view and he demolished himself on that as well. we will have reversals in scotla nd well. we will have reversals in scotland and there is some pressure in london. i hope mike freer, for insta nce in london. i hope mike freer, for instance holds his seat but there is a phenomena which could redefine british politics which is something has happened on the back of brexit which for one i have been wanting to see for many years. we have gained appeal in working—class areas in the midlands and the north which for far too long the labour party have taken

for granted. the challenge now is to make sure we can bank that for future years and future elections and that means we have to have competent in government and clarity of policy to say that people who voted conservatives are notjust going to say, thank you i have done it because we got brexit but also because we have delivered on broader policies in those areas and that is a massive challenge for eight boris johnson government. nick robinson in islington. striking images. i was with the labour leader in carlisle and there was still the remnant of what you saw in the 2017, cheering crowds, chanting, now bite different. silent here. jeremy corbyn is looking up at me as it happens. he is talking with people

he has known for many years but none of the exuberance, none of the excitement. this is the corbyn of ten, 30 years ago. loved by the people who worked with him but gone is the aura of leadership, gone is the sense this is an alternative to a minister, gone is the idea that this is a man who carries a vision that can carry labour into office. what he knows, what they know, what people watching no, is that he looks set to do worse than michael ford in 1983. it is a shocking fall from the heights that he was thatjust a couple of years ago. nick, many thanks. we can get another sense of the labour reaction because andrew is talking to one of the labour candidates as well.

labour shadowjustice labour shadow justice secretary, welcome to the programme. you are facing a pretty bad defeat, what has caused it? sorry, my which parts of sorry. my which parts of the country, which parts we lost them and i'm concerned about what people are going to face with five years of thatcherite prime minister in the shape of horace johnson. thatcherite prime minister in the shape of horacejohnson. —— boris johnson. it seems to be the primary reason is this became a brexit election, the brexit issue overshadowed traditional party loyalties. was it all down to brexit and nothing to do withjeremy corbyn? in 2017, we had a similar ma nifesto, corbyn? in 2017, we had a similar manifesto, the same leader and we gained 3 million votes. two years

later and we haven't done very well at all and it's a very worrying result indeed. you had a much more radical manifesto this time. a lot more spending and tax rises and a lot more borrowing. in 2017, you said you would take 10% of every company employing more than 250 people. it was a more radical ma nifesto. people. it was a more radical manifesto. is that not played any pa rt manifesto. is that not played any part in the results? when i was going around my own constituency and others around the country, people won't complaining about policies of taking things back into public ownership, the minimum wage or stopping privatisation of the nhs. it does appear people wanted to get brexit done so that seems to be to be the main thing that's changed, —— changed, similar manifesto, same

leader. so tonight, let me get this right, you've lost leigh and wrexham, you lost blyth valley, labour since 1950 two, darlington, since 1992, —— 1952. you are saying thatis since 1992, —— 1952. you are saying that is all down to brexit and nothing to do withjeremy corbyn and john mcdonald and the kind of policies espoused? of course, the murdoch press, the daily mail and the sun have done a good job of making people thinkjeremy corbyn, a decent man, is some kind of threat to national security, some kind of terrorist or racist. is that the best you can do, it's the fault of the media, it's the fault of brexit, it's not the fault of the people in control of your party? is that it?

if the right—wing newspapers, if it didn't work when they do that, they wouldn't either wasting their time or expertise on that but the primary reason was this was a brexit election but we need to analyse objectively and soberly, 0k, between 1997 and 2010, we lost 5 million votes when labour supported policies of cuts and policies of war. we had to analyse why we lost those votes. after tonight, we need to analyse objectively where we lost those votes a nd objectively where we lost those votes and how and how to get them back but facing five years... you are not back but facing five years... you a re not really back but facing five years... you are not really telling me anything at the moment. do you think in five yea rs' at the moment. do you think in five years' time, the labour party should fight the election with broadly the same manifesto, same policy stance, that it's had in the selection. this

election was a brexit election. that's it? this election was a brexit election, the next one won't be and after five years of thatcherite government, there is no future for the labour party in supporting some kind of triangulation or watered—down version of austerity. so you will stick with corbynism. i think our policies were popular. do you stick with jeremy corbyn? well, jeremy will issue a statement in due course. what is your view? what would your advice be? he will make his mind up. he can speak to himself on this matter. i wasn't asking for him. clearly i'm not going to get it, that's fine, it's later night. my it, that's fine, it's later night. my view... you are going to answer

the question? my view is thatjeremy corbyn is a far more decent, progressive and effective if person than many of his cheap and tawdry critics in the conservative party. that is fine, it doesn't answer my question. we will return to it in the days ahead. let us go back to huw. lots of results coming in. some interesting gains and losses and rita has been looking at some of the latest ones. if we go to our results centre, rita can take us through the results she has picked out. the results coming in thick and fast and we have a selection here. iain duncan smith, former conservative leader has hung on in chingford and woodford, his majority cut in half. canterbury, you don't quite see it on the board but we are hearing that

isa on the board but we are hearing that is a hold for labour for rosie duffield. stockton south is a conservative gain and black wool south, the same story, the labour party has lost this to the conservatives. —— blackpool south. the conservatives have picked up half of the vote share and the new mp is scott benton for the conservatives. let us look at the share of the vote and a familiar story by this time of the night, the labour shared down by 12 points, the conservatives up by seven and the brexit party are putting in a decent performance here on six points. i just want to show you a pattern that is now emerging. the difference in which, the way in which leave britain and remain in britain has been voting when it comes to the

performance of the conservatives and labour. so we have talked about, when we talk about strong leave seats, seats were 60% or more of the electorate voted for leave and similarly in remain seats. if you compare the labour performance, labour are performing much less well in the strong leave seats, down by 12 percentage points. down in the remain seats as well but down by less. by contrast, the conservatives are performing better in the strong leave seats, up by five percentage points. they are down by three points. they are down by three points in remain but not by as much as labour and that is why we are seeing this by and large strong conservative performance across the board here with labour down in both sets of seats.

some interesting trends. another resultjeremy corbyn will be relieved about because in canterbury, it's a labour holden rosie duffield has been re—elected there, elected by a bit of a surprise, in 2017, lots of students voting in canterbury itself. in second place, local barrister anna firth but a labour hold on a turnout of 75%. we haven't seen turnouts like that in many cases. 180a labour on a8% of the 3% ahead. maybejohn can talk a bit about the different patterns of voting is in some of these areas. canterbury being an area which voted a5% leave to 5a% remains that as part of the thinking. the swing here is 1.a% from conservative to labour. what i'd like to do at this point is take stock in northern ireland because

there are some significant contests taking there and emma vardy is there and nigel dodds, the dup, the du —— and nigel dodds, the dup, the du —— and nigel dodds, the dup leader of westminster is standing. we could be close to a dramatic result here in north belfast and belfast itself. north belfast and belfast itself. north belfast and belfast itself. north belfast has been a bitter and savage battle, a campaign between the dp. sinn fein's possibility of unseating nigel dodds, the dup leader in westminster. a huge blow, the dup, the mp for north belfast for 18 years, very prominent for the dup for 18 years, very prominent for the du p throughout the brexit negotiations in westminster. what

happened in this general election was unprecedented and packed between nationalist parties stepping aside in order to nationalise maximalist —— nationalist or pro remain votes. and if sinn fein have one north l fast, nigel dodds will have fallen victim to one of those because in his constituency, the macro —— the sdlp and the green party stepped aside to give sinn fein a great run at it. it's been a bitter contest on both sides, not completely confirmed yet but multiple sources saying that nigel dodds may well have been an seated byjohn finucane. a famous name here. his father was unseated by loyalist paramilitaries. john

finucane is the lord mayor of belfast and sinn fein threw everything at this battle to try and unseat the dup's nigel dodds. if this happens, it has the makings of a bad night for the dup. that is intriguing and ammo, we will be back with you soon. let us go to richmond in south—west london. that's an interesting context —— contest in terms of the lib thames and the conservatives. what is going on? zac goldsmith is defending a very tiny majority, he won by only a5 votes. we are expecting that result in the next 10—15 minutes and word is that zac goldsmith is going to be unseated, the liberal democrats are expecting to win, both sides expecting to win, both sides expecting something in the order of 6000- 8000 expecting something in the order of 6000— 8000 votes, a big win for the

liberal democrats and richmond is a massive remain seats. all sides have said the biggest issue on the doorstep was brexit and even though many people in this pretty affluent pa rt many people in this pretty affluent part of london will have been worried about jeremy corbyn part of london will have been worried aboutjeremy corbyn and the boat that was going to put him in power, the polls giving the tories a reasonable lead in the last few weeks of allowed people to have the confidence to say we will still back lib dems. he is always switched between the tories and the lib dems but of course, zac goldsmith has represented it since 2010, almost consistently a pa rt represented it since 2010, almost consistently a part from when he stood down over the heathrow airport issue and then he lost by very small majority again. but zac goldsmith, a big ally. campaigning on behalf of zac goldsmith was a friend of the

prime minister. would it be a surprise if zac goldsmith was defeated by that margin. he was a very well—known exit figure in a strongly remain seat so we have the london factor but meanwhile, we've also got the result in wolverhampton north east which is a conservative gain and! north east which is a conservative gain and i think that reinforces the pattern with seen this evening which will determine this victory and its scale which is us doing very well in labour — held seats in the midlands and the north and that is the main determinant of what will be the national picture at the end of tonight. when people talk about accelerating the brexit process, the prime minister who is going to have a very decent working majority, what do you think the implications of that are, and is it going to be possible to accelerated to the

extent that things can be tied up in terms of a future agreement with the eu by the end of 2020. are you one of those people who thinks that is remotely practical? the big thing we are seeing is we are escaping from the deadlock of the last few months. it's caused paralysis in government, making us ungovernable and have a co mforta ble making us ungovernable and have a comfortable majority. it's plenty to be able to have a functioning government doing well. i'm absolutely convinced. let's face it, he got the withdrawal agreement and it was voted positively on once and then delayed, it was supported then watered, if you like. he will be able to get that important, really massive significant stage through before christmas, i think, and i think that is going to change the whole dynamics of our national politics. first of all, boris is the dominant political figure and has

been sincejuly, he will space in august, dominated the campaign, the biggest personality on the pitch and he is going to have a solid government but he's going to be able now to get us out of the total obsession with brexit, to govern across the whole waterfront of domestic and foreign policy which let's face it has been absent. you were one of the many conservatives scathing of boris johnson. why do you think you got it so johnson. why do you think you got it so wrong? i was a loyalist. i support prime ministers. i supported theresa may when she was trying to get the deal forever. i said to boris directly, when he wanted to become leader and he became prime minister, i supported become leader and he became prime minister, isupported him. this has been a massive vindication of him as a personality and the scale of this majority i think gives him massive

personal authority which he has now earned and proved and we now have to turn that into competent government and that is actually a bigger challenge and perhaps we are not focusing enough on what we do in government. we have to satisfy those who have supported us notjust on theissue who have supported us notjust on the issue of brexit but on broader domestic policy in some of these tough labour areas on the midlands and the north as well as reinstating authority on the world stage. i think we can do that with the majority... do you think he is up to it? you had real doubts about whether or not he is the kind of person who could take that kind of task you have outlined and be prime minister? i think since he got there, he has become almost a different person. when you are striving to get somewhere and you

are stuck in the horrors of brexit division, it is difficult but he can now be his own man and they have been a lot of comments in the media over what his real politics are, in terms of being a social liberal or not. i actually think he's a social liberal. 0k, he has been hard and strong on the issue of brexit but actually it is that certainty that can be said to have one him that election now he can govern with authority and i think we have to govern as one party not have any longerfactions within govern as one party not have any longer factions within the parliamentary party which think they can hold the leader to ransom. they cannot, he is his own man he has a numbers and he can lead. let's take a pause. a quick reminderfrom where we are in terms of the battle ground. and then a reaction across the country. looking at the

conservative targets, we have different battleground balls but this is where all the action is. the seat they have had their eyes on. we have coloured them in as they were coloured in the last election in 2017 and you can see the party that held them is the colour of the name. what has been happening? you will see immediately, the board gets washed in blue. where the blue is faint, it is a projection, where it is solid, it is a hold. all these seat projected to go. but this board is only seat 1—32, at the start of what the conservatives would have been hoping for. bear in mind, they

actually only needed eight seats in addition to the ones theresa may one to get a majority. let's see how far down the board they have gone. this is 36— down the board they have gone. this is 36 - 6a down the board they have gone. this is 36 — 6a and again, a lot of blue. you can see also the faint blue shown projection. yes labour again in gower but losing darlington and lots and lots of blue. a few more seats staying read here. but the conservatives reaching deep into labour territory, no more so than here in workington man and they took that just about an hour here in workington man and they took thatjust about an hour .5 ago. the state an hour and a half ago. you would not expect to have rich

pickings in this area of the board but that is exactly what the conservatives have got. halifax! all of those. we project the lib dems for bath. here it gets harder to win these seeds. wolverhampton north east, that goes blue. we're looking down here and we are seeing the conservatives even as far down as a seat 96. seat 96 being sedgefield. lancashire we have as the conservatives not taking. normally they would not have a prayer that, let's look for the most startling result, leigh. but only those

conservative. —— burnley. they are reaching deep into labour territory, the conservatives. getting a bit easierfor labour to the conservatives. getting a bit easier for labour to hold the conservatives. getting a bit easierfor labour to hold here. blythe valley going blue. this just shows you the extent of the conservative reach into labour's area. seat 132 is leigh. from that point on, labour start to hold the seat you would expect them to. the majority are in the thousands, about 10,000 in some of those seeds. is there any crumb of comfort here for

labour, conservative seat under attack by labour, you would expect them to hold them. as we look down, yes, one ray of light for labour, the gain of putney but, at the moment, nothing else to write home about. a very dramatic picture. moment, nothing else to write home about. a very dramatic picturem certainly is and when you start to think like caesar to ship auckland, you realise what is going on. —— bishop. i am just picking on this one but there are so many other illustrating what is going out there. bishop auckland has been labour since 1985. this seat goes back, back, back to the 30s. the labour chancellor was representing it stop look, it has gone

conservative. this is an account in durham. the new mp is davison. 0ver 2a,000 votes. this is not a small win, a majority of 7962. 36% to labour. what has happened to labour's vote? brexit party taking votes, probably from labour as well, in orderfor that result votes, probably from labour as well, in order for that result to work out and the swing, in bishop auckland, of all places, is 9.5%. john, when you see bishop auckland going conservative, what is going through your mind? it is extremely depressing, of course, to see places which were devastated by thatcher

now voting conservative. it is devastating but what you are seeing is not as a simple as alan was saying and maybe we need to do more analysis. it is not north and midlands in one way and the south different way, because there are a number of seats we have seen recently in liverpool where they have been a swing from the conservatives to labour or in other cases very low swings to the conservatives. in remain seats and i suspect those are remain seats, remain seats in the south where we are seeing swings to labour. ok stop i will pause you for a second because of the chancellor is waiting to andrew. we're going to the west midlands. the chancellor of the ex—

chancellor has been returned. chancellor, did you expect to do this well across the country? across england? andrew, i have not officially been returned yet unless you know something i do not know but iam you know something i do not know but i am optimistic. you are quite right but i do not think it is in a huge doubt. unless they have done it without me! what i was trying to find out, did you expect this result, to be picking up so many of these labour seeds? the/ seats. result, to be picking up so many of these labour seeds? the/ seatsm is incredibly encouraging this evening and i did not know what to expect going into this. we went in there fighting for every single vote and our approach clearly has paid off. 0ur message has got through.

beverly have rejected utterly the division offered byjohn mcdonald, diane abbott and jeremy corbyn and they want unity and they want this country to move forward. of course, they want brexit done and that is great we can move forward that way but they want so much else. they wa nted but they want so much else. they wanted government that listed to them and if this is a conservative majority government that is what they will get. you fought the selection on getting brexit done but you have not got it done and even if you have not got it done and even if you pass the withdraw agreement, yougov into difficult detail negotiations. —— you go into. with the european union. we do not really know the shape you are going in for? what we do know is that we have an exit deal stop we had before but we

not... i know all that. iam exit deal stop we had before but we not... i know all that. i am asking about the future. tell us the shape of this partnership deal you are going to get. the first thing is to get the exit deal through and we will start that process in parliament again, if the result are confirmed. i understand that... lets say that is going to happen?“ confirmed. i understand that... lets say that is going to happen? if we get that deal through parliament, which we will with a majority, we move to the next phase which is to get the excellent trader we have negotiated the principles of, that we sent out, we will get through parliament and do that next year. if the majority is the kind of majority suggested, i am the majority is the kind of majority suggested, iam incredibly the majority is the kind of majority suggested, i am incredibly confident we will get that through parliament and we will be having the smoothest of all exit from the eu and still have a friendly relationship but

move forward with brexit but also the bad with focus on so much the nhs and hospitals... ok, the election is over, we have had five weeks of that. a lot of blue colour workers, working—class labour voters voted for your party. are you preparing a budget that will reward them? give them something worth their vote? i said a few months back at our party conference when we said we other party of the working class... but what are you going to do with them? look at our manifesto. people have been looking at this and reflected on that and that is why we are seeing the night that we have had. we said in the first budget in february will be cutting taxes for working people, the national insurance cut... that is £85 per

year. and clearly this has been an important part of our message. i think it has got free but people also naturally, casting their vote, have compared what was said to the nonsense spewed out by the labour party and the numbers are just did not add up and the labour party... yes, yes, we have heard enough about the labour party are you staying as chancellor? has mrjohnson confirmed that? not yet. let's see what the results are tonight and i hope in a few hours, tomorrow morning, we will see borisjohnson few hours, tomorrow morning, we will see boris johnson back few hours, tomorrow morning, we will see borisjohnson back as prime minister and then one of the first things he will do is set out his government. very well. back to you. very interesting, andrew. some remarkable results coming through. let's catch up with rita and look at

some of the most remarkable results. more evidence of red seats turning blue and the conservatives taking real chunks out of the traditional labour hartman. seems like redcar, a tory target. burnley, 10a. west bromwich west and wolverhampton north east and ynys mon. the conservatives have got that as well. some detail on redcar. jacob young, 26 years old has become the

conservative mp. let me show you what has happened to the labour share, down by 18 points. the brexit party also getting 7% of the vote and that this is interesting because our analysis is suggesting that labour's vote is falling by twice as much in the most working—class areas compared to the least working—class areas so something really very decisive going on. i want to show you quickly the exit poll compared to the result so far. as you can see, the exit poll was really pretty accurate. labour's vote shakedown by 996 in accurate. labour's vote shakedown by 9% in the results so far and we were forecasting 10%. as you can see, the exit poll, the focus we had earlier in the evening, pretty accurate,

given the result we have had. thank you very much. just as we were looking at rita taking us through some of the results. laura and i we re some of the results. laura and i were jawdropping. if you look at past of the countries where things have gone red to blue, they are part of the country where, for decades, you just would have thought somebody was telling you complete nonsense. if anyone suggested you could ever go away to the labour party. it is not just a part go away to the labour party. it is notjust a part of go away to the labour party. it is not just a part of the go away to the labour party. it is notjust a part of the immediate policy but also about culture. these are part of the country that are absolutely drenched in red. people's heartland, use that terrible phrase. they are just heartland, use that terrible phrase. they arejust flipping heartland, use that terrible phrase. they are just flipping over to the other side and for a whole variety of reasons. jeremy corbyn leadership is part of it, anti—semitism is a

pa rt is part of it, anti—semitism is a part of it but i think the labour party is going to be starting tonight on a very serious battle for its sole ever tried to find a way to be able to move their seats back to get to a position where they may well get back to government. —— soul. remember this is a fourth general election defeat for the labour party. it is not about it is not a failure of thejeremy labour party. it is not about it is not a failure of the jeremy corbyn project it is about not looking deeply enough at a country in the way it was changing and responding to that. let's look at some of the new projections we have had. laura, let's look at some of the new projections we have. the bbc forecast is changed based on the results coming in. the latest figures are there for you. we are now forecasting the conservatives on. up on the 191. the snp on 55.

plus one. the plaid cymru and the brexit party or nothing. the broadcast house three o'clock in the morning on this election night and you are watching election 2019. let's ta ke you are watching election 2019. let's take a look at the news headlines. with more than 200 results declared, the conservatives seem on course for a substantial majority having their biggest win since 1987. labour is looking to its worst performance in more than 30

yea rs. worst performance in more than 30 years. results show them hit hard leave voting areas. as people take it in, it's worth remembering this is a forecast, not the final result but it rejects a big victory for boris johnson. as we have outlined through this entire campaign, the focus has been on brexit. we want to get exit done, you heard the prime minister say this, get it done before christmas, introduce the legislation and get moving. they are delighted, the tories have made inroads into labour heartlands that voted leave including unseating a shadow cabinet member in cumbria. tonight, workington constituency has elected its first conservative member of parliament since 1979. the people of workington, the towns and villages

in between have a message we want to ta ke to in between have a message we want to take to mr minster. they want us to get brexit done. labour's brexit policy has been under scrutiny in this campaign with claims that could alienate leave voters. it's not a good recipe and i think democracy was “— good recipe and i think democracy was —— democracy prevails and to be quite honest, the consequences will come back and bite you on the backside. again, for labour in london, taking putney of the tories but question now loom over his leadership. i'm not going to sit here and scalp jeremy leadership. i'm not going to sit here and scalpjeremy corbyn for anyone because that's all the headline will be and what i want to say is the labour party tonight, we have failed to meet the test of the public and in doing that, we failed the people who we aim to serve and thatis the people who we aim to serve and that is heartbreaking. for the lib dems, the surge they hoped for isn't looking likely and nojoy

dems, the surge they hoped for isn't looking likely and no joy for the brexit party in one of their main target areas. and while there is still a way to go tonight, the campaign is over. the finish line in sight. the snp are doing well in scotla nd sight. the snp are doing well in scotland where the exit poll predicts them with the first game of the night. they've also gained angus from the conservatives. in northern ireland, the democratic unionist party is having a bad night. in the last few minutes, deputy leader nigel dodds is lost is north belfast seat to sinn fein'sjohn finucane and the dup could lose south belfast to the nationalist sdlp. the conservatives are making sick thicken gains in wales. wrexham, the vale of clwyd and clwyd all from

labour. a declaration is expected later in boris johnson's labour. a declaration is expected later in borisjohnson's uxbridge and south rislip constituency. lord bucket head and count binface have been providing entertainment for those waiting. you can get more information from bbc news on line. 0ur live page has all the results and real—time analysis from the experts, all live in our website. now it's back to election 2019. basically we have 227 seats declared and a22 to go so we are in a position now because of sirjohn curtice's detailed result on the work that has come in to adjust the

original figures work that has come in to adjust the originalfigures we gave work that has come in to adjust the original figures we gave you, and they are suggesting a slightly smaller conservative majority than the one we were suggesting at the start of the evening. but i will let jeremy vine tell us all about it. we've taken the conservative numbers down a little bit but still, a thumping win for borisjohnson. here we are in the house of commons. 326 mps needed. that isjust we are in the house of commons. 326 mps needed. that is just a shade over half the house. let's see what we think is going to be the situation. we have the conservatives we are projecting on 357 seats. going up to 357. we think labour will get beyond 200. under our projection, 201, still not as many as michael foot got in the disastrous 1983 election. the snp, a

brilliant night for them in scotland. we project them on 55. the lib dems, no progress to write about. for seats we project still for plaid cymru, the greens on one and 19 more, mainly in northern ireland. but still, very useful for borisjohnson, a ireland. but still, very useful for boris johnson, a majority ireland. but still, very useful for borisjohnson, a majority of 6a. laura and! borisjohnson, a majority of 6a. laura and i were looking for these revised figures. we were talking about a potential majority, 86 for the tories at the start of the evening. that is now looking more like in the 605 but let's be honest about it, it's workable as a majority. it's something you can do some serious things with.

conversations i've had in the last couple of days, they were looking at anywhere between 20 and 60, hugely nervous, and it would be, if you get to that kind of number, a different way of doing politics. we had the coalition which was relatively sta ble coalition which was relatively stable but it was two parties trying to match together the kind of things they wanted to do and they had to stitch things up between themselves and they certainly didn't but there was a period of stability. since 2015, even with david cameron's majority, he had to do deals all the time, with the dp and we know theresa may, she had the sword hanging overhead every single waking hour as she was prime minister and also, powerfulformer remain supporters in her party who made

life very difficult for her. if borisjohnson gets life very difficult for her. if boris johnson gets back life very difficult for her. if borisjohnson gets back to downing street tomorrow with these kinds of numbers, it's a completely different kind of politics. a marvellous, how excited. it would make people think, how we going to do that? is there a declaration taking place? we will go to richmond? i. i, councillor nancy baldwin, being the turning officerfor i, councillor nancy baldwin, being the turning officer for the i, councillor nancy baldwin, being the turning officerfor the richmond park constituency, declare the total number of votes given to each candidate is as follows. goldsmith,

zacharias, known as zac goldsmith, the conservative party candidate, 20 6000, 793. keane, sandra gay, labour party, 3a07. ulney, sarahjane, liberal democrats, 3a,559. —— olney.

sarah olney, 3a,559. 2a7 votes, independent, caroline shah. john usher, independent, 61. 173 ballots rejected. the reasons were... as the returning officer goes through some of the logistics, that is a remarkable result. when you look at a sizeable boat that the lib dems have, zac goldsmith, the mp since 2017, was the mp, who attends cabinet as minister for the environment, an ex— london mayoral candidate, he has been very heavily defeated their when you think of the balance of the votes. the lib dems sarah olney, the former mp, she has been re—elected in richmond park for

the lib dems in what will be a fa ntastically the lib dems in what will be a fantastically encouraging result. look at the share of the vote, the lib dems have performed so well in this part of south—west london, a very afflu e nt this part of south—west london, a very affluent pa rt. this part of south—west london, a very affluent part. 53% to the lib dems, a1% to the tories which means the lib dems have put on eight percentage points in the tories are down four and labour are down four. an interesting balance of the votes when we look at the swing from the conservatives to the lib dems of 6%. 0ne conservatives to the lib dems of 6%. one of the wealthiest constituencies in the uk without a doubt in this rematch has resulted in a big gain for the lib dems. look at the turnout, 79%. that is somewhere the lib dems and the tories have been fighting hard, whole forests of leaflets being delivered by the lib dems detailing their greens policies up dems detailing their greens policies up against zac goldsmith who is famous for being an environmentalist but using the whole forest of trees

to sustain the lead bullets, it's been a hardfought campaign by the lib dems, they will be overjoyed but on what does seem to be a tricky night for them, certainly no breakthrough potentially going back and if you think the party leader may be in trouble herself, jo swinson, not so long ago, she started this campaign saying she was generally a candidate to be prime minister is that will make them feel better but not looking good. looking at the overall picture and we have updated the forecast stop let's go back tojohn, explained to us let's go back tojohn, explained to us what the adjustment are? we are now saying 357 seat and, to be honest, we know the margin of error for all. .. honest, we know the margin of error for all... we go to the jeremy

corbyn result. i, the acting returning officer, acting on behalf of the returning officer hereby give notice that the total number of votes given for each candidate at the election of 12 december, 2019, for a member of parliament, was as follows:

brexit party, 7a2. green party, a000 300 26. liberal democrats, 8a15. the total number of ballots rejected is as follows, want of an official mark, zero, voting familiar... the

result from islington north and a thumping win forjeremy corbyn. a majority of 26,000. a turnout of 7296 and we stay with these images because i am sure mr corbin will have something to say. ——mr corbyn. we are waiting to see about the result and labour's performance under his leadership under this general election. let'sjoin under his leadership under this general election. let's join mr corbyn now. thank you. could i start by saying a huge thank you to the returning officer and all the staff and police that have insured affair and democratic election has taken place today. —— two ensure. and to

congratulate my fellow candidates for that participation in this election. and also a heartfelt thanks to the people of islington north for electing me again to represent them in parliament and i am proud to do so and i have learned so much from the people of islington north and it is my pride and pleasure to continue to be the representative in parliament. i also wa nt to representative in parliament. i also want to thank ruth says, our agent for this election and all of the wonderful comrades, friends and supporters for the huge effort they put in for this election and they put in for this election and they put it all the time to carry a message of hope and justice all over our constituency and, through me, i hope to a wider world. the pressure

on politicians is often high indeed, the media intrusion is high indeed and the attacks that take place against family and loved ones of politicians continue and they are d istressful politicians continue and they are distressful and frankly they are disgusting. i want to take this opportunity to thank my family, my close friends and those who have been close by and very supportive during this and every other election campaign. want to thank three sons for the huge support they give me an i think my wife for all sheep put up with because of the way the media behave towards me, towards her and indeed towards my party during this election campaign. this is obviously a very disappointing night for the

labour party, with the result we have got. but i want to say this, and the election campaign, we put forward a manifesto of hope, a ma nifesto forward a manifesto of hope, a manifesto of unity, and a manifesto that would help to right the wrongs and the injustices and inequalities that exist in this country. for those who need housing, those who need an effect give health service to deliver for need an effect give health service to deliverfor them, need an effect give health service to deliver for them, and need an effect give health service to deliverfor them, and children who need a school properly funded and not being taught in oversized classes and a manifesto they gave hopein classes and a manifesto they gave hope in dealing with the environmental crisis the world faces by investing for the future through a green industrial revolution. all of those policies were extremely popular during the election campaign and remain policies that have due to popular support all across this

country. however, brexited has so polarised and divided debate within this country, it has overridden so much of our normal political debate. —— brexit. a recogniser that has contributed to the result labour party has received this evening all across this country. the issues of social justice and across this country. the issues of socialjustice and the issues of the needs of people will not go away, just because brexit is dealt with in a way that boris johnson just because brexit is dealt with in a way that borisjohnson presumably plans to deal with at the moment. all those issues will come back centre stage in the debate and the fundamental message about justice and equality within our society is going to be one that is there for all time because it is the very core of what my party believes in and what i will always advocate on behalf of my constituency and on

behalf of my constituency and on behalf of my party. i want to also make it clear that i will not lead the party in any future general election campaign. i will discuss with our party to ensure that there isa with our party to ensure that there is a process now of reflection on this result and on the policies that the party it will take going forward. i will lead the party during that period to ensure that discussion takes place and we move on into the future. because i am very proud of the trust that our half million members put in me to lead this party and i am very proud of the way that we thought this election campaign, we did not descend into the gutter, we did not undertake personal abuse, we undertook the task of getting a message of hope and justice to every pa rt

message of hope and justice to every part of this country and i am very grateful to the labour party in islington north of being able because i have not been able to be here as much as i would have wanted because i have been travelling the country to make sure the labour message is put out there. i will remain the mp for islington north andi remain the mp for islington north and i am proud to represent the people of islington north and i'm proud that we will forever to continue the course of social justice and not concentrate on the need and greed of the few. i am proud of the achievement of our party and the development of its ma nifesto party and the development of its manifesto and its ideas and, i tell you what, those ideas and principles are eternal and they will be there for all time. i thank the people of

islington north for putting their faith and trust in me. i have always have to represent and defend the people of my constituency because they are very special and i owe them so much and they have all taught me so much and they have all taught me so much. thank you very much. the scenes, life, at 3:30am at islington north, jeremy corbyn, the labour leader acknowledging it is a disappointing night for his party, announcing he will not be leading labour into any future election but saying he will stay on for the time being to lead the party in what he called a process of reflection, reflection on the result and how to lead the party forward. we will not seejeremy lead the party forward. we will not see jeremy corbyn, lead the party forward. we will not seejeremy corbyn, according to that version of events, resigning any time soon but that is something we

can discuss with our guests in the studio and indeed with hilary benn, the senior labour figure joining studio and indeed with hilary benn, the senior labourfigurejoining us. thank you for waiting to talk to us. iam hoping... thank you for waiting to talk to us. i am hoping... good thank you for waiting to talk to us. iam hoping... good morning. thank you. iam iam hoping... good morning. thank you. i am hoping you iam hoping... good morning. thank you. iam hoping you had iam hoping... good morning. thank you. i am hoping you had the party leader speaking. can i have your response to labour's performance tonight? i am terribly sorry, i am losing you as putting your question. i thought that was a very dignified speech from jeremy and he has announced he will not be leading us into a future general election. look, let's not beat about the bush, this is a very bad night for the labour party. it is the result that comes as a great disappointment to all of the thousands of members and supporters that have campaigned so are, the people for whom our message of hope and change for the better was so attractive, but we did not

win. we lost. and we again have to reflect on that defeat but i am sure we will return at some point in the future because borisjohnson is going to have a very difficult time as prime minister, i can tell you that. i'm hoping you can hear me. it is he right to stay on to oversee this process of reflection and to map out a way forward or do you think this kind of result would demand his immediate resignation or at least within the next few days? look, i think that is a decision for jeremy to make. he has fought a really good and hard campaign. no—one could have asked any more of jeremy and the effort he has put in the campaign. the night is still young. i think we should givejeremy the time and space to reflect

further on the timing of a transition clearly a transition to new leadership is coming because thatis new leadership is coming because that is whatjeremy has just said and it is important for the party to reflect on and discuss why we were not able to win people's trust and confidence. there are a number of factors. brexit was clearly one. 0ther labour candidates will say that they have open the door to people saying i have always been a labour voter but will not be voting labour voter but will not be voting labour this time. in order to move forward and decide what form the new leadership will take, we have to understand why we have suffered such a bad defeat here tonight and i hope that process will be able to start soon. lots of viewers will be interested to know that tony blair's of seat has fallen to the conservatives this evening. when you

look at is the sedgefield like and that loss, what is that down to? is it down to anger about the failure to deliver brexit or is it people dissolution with what labour's offer on exit and other things were?” think brexit is clearly part of the reason but there were also a lot of people who voted for labour before he did not feel they could vote for labour this time and they express concerns about the leadership. we might as well tell the truth about what we found on some doorsteps and we see some of the results in the south, in london, the taking of putney, rosie holding on in canterbury, which is a really, really good result. i think it was those two things and thirdly where they confident that we could deliver on the things we had promised but i think the fundamental message we we re think the fundamental message we

were trying to get across...” think the fundamental message we were trying to get across... i am sorry to interrupt you but we have to go to doncaster. liberal democrat, 1907. nicholas anthony fletcher known as nick fletcher, the conservative party candidate, 19,609 caroline flint, labour party, 16,979. christopher paul holmes, yorkshire party, 823. the green party, 872. paul allen whitehurst, 62a7. there were 82 rejected votes and i therefore

declare that nick fletcher is duly elected as the member of parliament for the don valley constituency. so there we have a defeat or caroline flint, the labour mp since 1997, a former shadow energy secretary and a critic of the leadership ofjeremy corbyn who supported borisjohnson's exit deal. nick fletcher there from doncaster now the mp for don valley. there has never been a conservative mpfor there has never been a conservative mp for this seat it has been labour since 1922. this is the kind of scale of change that we are seeing tonight and some of these very big labour seats, as they were. now they are turning towards the conservative. 0f are turning towards the conservative. of course, there will bea conservative. of course, there will be a huge debate about the factors behind these labour performances, these huge labour losses to a3%

there in don valley to the tories. a turnout of 60%. it is three and a half thousand plus majority and we see the labour vote there dropping by 18 percentage points to the brexit party vote is up 1a and the tories barely moving even though they gained vote. their percentage only went up by 1%. brexit party had a huge effect there as well. a 9% swing and caroline flint no longer the candidate there. at the moment, let's get some reaction to what has been going on from the foreign secretary. he held his seat. let's go to surrey where we arejoined by dominic raab. your

majority is now under 3000 on a night of huge tory victory. why would so many people desert you?m you look at the vote share, it is a9% and my vote was 31,000, upwards of 31,000, just shy of a000 less than last time. story here was the colla pse than last time. story here was the collapse of the labour vote and obviously some tactical voting. i am proud that in a difficult campaign, i have been returned and we have a chance now to move the country forward if the results go our way following the exit poll this evening and break the uncertainty and the logjam that we have had and move the country forward. that is what people in this constituency want. it felt like a referendum because of the way

the tactical voting went but at the end of the day we secured half of the vote share and that gives us a very strong mandate, both locally and with the results that appear to be going away this evening, to not just deliver brexit to deliver the agenda set out by the prime minister. but your majority was slashed. and these are the seats where tory majorities are the seats where tory majorities are built. now your seat is more the past of the tory party. the new tory party is gaining majorities in the north, not in the home counties. you lose seats in the london area. maybe you're kind of seed is no longer the future for the tory party. maybe your kind of seat. if we are as successful as we hope tonight, it will be to forge an alliance of

aspirational classes. exit was difficult for us with a majority that voted to remain but nonetheless, 50% of the vote share wa nt nonetheless, 50% of the vote share want us to move forward. effectively it became a bit of a rerun of that and, again, if you look at the number of votes that i secured, over 31,000, that is less than a000 difference between what i secured last time. what really happened was that labour, i cannot remember the exact numbers, they were in second place last time and theyjust absolutely plummeted. it was a unique election but the key is to hold, as we have done, seats in the south and make gains where we can but to make sure we can speak to some aspirational working—class constituencies as well who have heard what we have to say north of the m25. the tories are clearly doing very well in england and in wales as well. but the victors in scotla nd wales as well. but the victors in scotland are the snp who are sweeping the board. they fought the

election on the basis of a second referendum of scottish scottish independence. will you give them that? those questions will be for the prime minister but we were told that the scottish referendum was a once ina that the scottish referendum was a once in a generation referendum. that is what we said about brexit as well which is why i don't think people voted in this election for those parties that wanted to defy the will of the british people. the key thing now is to unite the country, bring them together with a positive agenda and that is what the prime minister is going to do. how can you unite the country when england and scotland are going in com pletely england and scotland are going in completely separate directions? i'm not sure that is true. we will see what the vote tally is in scotland and for the rest of the uk afterwards but i think i was reading afterwards but i think i was reading a poll today that showed there is still a significant majority they do not want independence and i think the challenge we have in the

challenge we will rise to, to bring the country together, all corners of the country together, all corners of the united kingdom with a positive agenda on global britain and a place in the world would also on the investment in the nhs and policing and levelling up opportunity across the country which is the passion that brought alive boris johnson's premiership so far. thank you and we will leave you to enjoy your victory there. i'm joined now by two experienced political strategist. a former adviser to number 10 as well isa former adviser to number 10 as well is a former adviser to ed miliband. what you will see over the next few weeks and months is borisjohnson... sorry, going straight to uxbridge where the prime minister seat is. let'sjoin where the prime minister seat is. let's join the returning where the prime minister seat is. let'sjoin the returning officer. harvey donovan david commonly known

as count binface, 69. hughes, david stephen commonly known as lord buckethead, 125. burke, norma, independent. 22. courtney, jeffrey dennis—, uk independence party, 283. humphreys, joanne, liberal democrats to stop brexit, 3026. johnson, alexander boris commonly known as borisjohnson, 25,000... alexander boris commonly known as boris johnson, 25,000. .. 25,351. mark alan keogh, green party, 1090.

—— mark alan keir. labour party, 18,1a1. smith, robertjr, commonly known as bobby elmo smith, eight. tobin, william john. five. known as bobby elmo smith, eight. tobin, williamjohn. five. utting, alfiejohn, aa. tobin, williamjohn. five. utting, alfie john, aa. 23 tobin, williamjohn. five. utting, alfiejohn, aa. 23 four yes interplanetary time lord juergen steyn. 93 rejected ballots. good morning

everybody, good morning ladies and gentlemen. thank you very much. i don't want to tempt fate because clearly many results are still coming in and we are still only leading with projections but at this stage it does look as though this one nation conservative government has been given a powerful new mandate. to get brexit done. and not just to get brexit done, but to unite this country and take it forward and to focus on the priorities of the british people. above all, on the nhs. and yes, we will recruit 50,000 more nurses and 6000 more gps and we will build 40 new hospitals. i am proud to say that one of those hospitals will be right here in uxbridge and south ruislip. and i am grateful once again to the people of uxbridge and

south ruislip for returning me. i think everybody who has worked so hard all night to count for us, the returning officers, i think my fellow candidates and all the glory. lord buckethead and others. elmo and others. forgive me ifi buckethead and others. elmo and others. forgive me if i don't identify them all. above all, i want to thank, i want to thank the people of this country for turning out to vote in a december election that we did not want to call but which i think has turned out to be an historic election. that gives us, now, in this new government the chance to respect the democratic will of the british people, to change this country for the better and to unleash the potential of the entire people of this country. and thatis entire people of this country. and that is what we will now do and, if

we are lucky enough to be returned, as the exit polls seem to suggest, then that work will begin tomorrow. thank you all very much. sorry, not tomorrow, today! thank you all very much. thank you. the prime minister there. re—elected and this is the count forjo swinson ‘s there. re—elected and this is the count forjo swinson '5 seat. let's join the announcement. we hereby give notice that the total number of votes polled for each candidate at the election was as follows. amy callaghan, scottish national party, snp. 19,600 callaghan, scottish national party, snp.19,600 and 72. rosie dickson, independent, 221. pam gosal, 7a55.

david mcleod, uk independence party, 208. liam mckechnie, 197. colour mcnally, scottish labour party, a000 859. the scottish green party, 916. jo swinson, scottish liberal democrats, 19,523. and i declare that amy callaghan is elected to serve in the united kingdom parliament as the member for east

dunbartonshire. a majority of 1a9, the party leader of the liberal democrats, jo swinson, has lost her seatin democrats, jo swinson, has lost her seat in east dunbartonshire to the scottish national party. amy callaghan just defeating her by 1a9 on a turnout of 80%. so a hotly contested seat there in east dunbartonshire and the sheriff the vote tells its own story. —— share of the vote. the lib dems down a%, the tories down 1%, labour down 5%. and the swing itself, 53% from the lib dems to the snp. a massive blow to the liberal democrats in this election, to lose their leader, and actually quite a newly elected leader, after a very tough campaign for them. she has been criticised in lots of parts of the party, and indeed among the

commentariat, about the way that the election has gone, not least because of that hardline policy as lots of people saw it of revoking article 50.10 people saw it of revoking article 50. jo swinson has lost her seat. martha is at account for us of bishop briggs. as you say, it really is an astonishing result for the snp, to be able to win a seat against the national party leader, jo swinson, leader of the liberal democrats, a seat she has in fairness lost in the past, and it shows you what a mixed blessing it can be to be the national leader, because you get the profile, but can you spend your time nursing your own constituency? that was the main focus of the snp attack on her, they called her the pop—up mp, because they felt that she wasn't here long enough, but this really is an extremely difficult night forjo swinson. when she arrived at the counter, reporters asked her was she going to resign? she brushed that

off and carried on straight through. given what has been happening to her party nationally, to lose her own seat on top of this, it really must bea seat on top of this, it really must be a devastating result for her. we will probably get, i would have thought, a response byjo swinson in just a second, martha, after the snp winner, amy callaghan, has said a few words. and you have been talking to party workers before this result was announced. did they think they had just about got there? did jo swinson's team think they had just about got the result they wanted? i am just thinking about their mood before this result was announced. you will know from having been to election counts yourself, we talk to as many people as possible, and early on the liberal democrats were saying they did feel fairly confident. but you just looked at the faces of the people counting the votes, and you could tell they knew it was going to be very, very close. piles of votes next to each other

we re piles of votes next to each other were all very close, and everybody i talked to from the snp locally was very buoyant, the local msp, member of the scottish parliament, was saying she was thrilled that amy callaghan had done so well. and you can hear in the background she is a very young candidate. she isjust 27, she hasn't stood in the seat before. she is somebody who has suffered from cancer and talked about that a lot in the campaign. and here is jo about that a lot in the campaign. and here isjo swinson herself. about that a lot in the campaign. and here is jo swinson herself. and all of my fellow candidates, and congratulate amy wholeheartedly. it is an amazingjob, congratulate amy wholeheartedly. it is an amazing job, i am sure you will love doing it, and i wish you well. and what you said about young women and smashing boundaries i wholeheartedly agree. i would also like to thank my agent, liberal democrat campaigners and activists who have made this campaign special, with the additional challenge of doing it as leader of the liberal democrats as well. i particularly

would like to thank my mum, my sister nicola, my husband duncan and our two darling boys, andrew and gabriel. and i would like to thank the people of east dunbartonshire for putting their faith in me for 12.5 years to represent this wonderful place. i have enjoyed serving our communities. i have enjoyed having the opportunity to make a difference, whether it is here on local issues, whether it is supporting people, working on the national minimum wage, both introducing penalties for rogue employers, whether it is women in our economy by introducing gender pay gap reporting, tonight we have seen that it is likely that boris johnson is on course to get a majority. and it is clearly a good night for the snp. some will be celebrating the wave of nationalism

thatis celebrating the wave of nationalism that is sweeping on both sides of the border, and i do congratulate all those who are newly elected. these are very significant results for the future of our country, and i will be making further remarks later today. but let me say now, for millions of people in our country, these results will bring dread and dismay. and people are looking for hope. i still believe that we as a country can be warm and generous, inclusive and open, and that by working together with our nearest neighbours we can achieve so much more. liberal democrats will continue to stand up for these values that guide our liberal movement. openness, fairness, inclusivity, we will stand up for

hope. jo swinson, the defeated leader of the lib dems, in dunbartonshire east, losing her seat to the scottish national party. and laura, this is really a very big piece of the political landscape again that is changing. it certainly is. forjo swinson this is a huge personal defeat, notjust her party failed to break through in way she proudly boasted at the beginning of this campaign, but for her personally to do it and lose her own seat must be extremely better. but it was interesting there that she repeated a lot of the messages actually she put out in this campaign, giving a lengthy speech saying i basically still believe in all the things that i said. but it just makes me think that this election is not just just makes me think that this election is notjust about the seat numbers. it seems to me this is potentially a real changing of the guard in westminster. those people who we have become familiar with seeing on our screens, whether that isjo swinson seeing on our screens, whether that is jo swinson orjeremy seeing on our screens, whether that isjo swinson orjeremy corbyn, he says he doesn't want to go yet but he has absolutely admitted that he is on his way to the exit door and

some people will try to push him out of it from early tomorrow morning, really. also nigel dodds, the westminster dup leader, going, and cou ntless westminster dup leader, going, and countless other mp5 who have been pa rt countless other mp5 who have been part of the landscape for a long time. and in that way, in terms of the personalities, it is really shaping up to be a very transformative election. shaping up to be a very tra nsformative election. whatever side of the argument you are on, we will be looking at a very different house of commons and a very different set of characters. having seen that defeat forjo swinson, it is not all dreadful news for the lib dems, because they have gained st albans. daisy cooper has actually gained that from the conservatives, a majority of 6000 plus on a turnout of 78%. so noting that very briefly because that is a good lib dem gain ina part because that is a good lib dem gain in a part of the country that of course was strongly remain. 62% remained 232% leave, so a swing of

1196 remained 232% leave, so a swing of 11% from conservative to lib dem. lots of things happening and we have lots of guests waiting patiently to speak. rachel sylvester and paul mason are with me. ijust want speak. rachel sylvester and paul mason are with me. i just want a quick thought at this point and we will come back and talk. where are we, rachel? what is your sense of this size of tory majority, and were you expecting it? no, iwasn't. it was bigger than the polls were suggesting, and i think now we're going to see borisjohnson liberated, if you like. he now has the chance to do he wants, to shape the chance to do he wants, to shape the country and the party in his image, as he wants, and that is a big responsibility. there is no—one else to blame if it goes wrong. do you suggest he is going to change tack? is he going to be a different kind of leader now than he was a few months ago? well, he doesn't have to rely on the erg, the eurosceptic european research group, any more. but we will see if he wants to rely on them. we will see what shape his brexit will be if it is his own

exit. he doesn't need coalition partners, he doesn't need the dup. this is him. it is on his head. a bit of a dingdong earlier between alastair campbell and jon lansman about whether this had been a jeremy corbyn issue or a brexit issue. what is your sense? for me on the doorstep, the 18 constituencies where i campaign, to the extent it was negative, commentary very pro— corbyn, but it was always negative aboutjeremy corbyn, but it was always negative about jeremy first and then brexit. let's be honest about that. i am proud ofjeremy let's be honest about that. i am proud of jeremy for standing let's be honest about that. i am proud ofjeremy for standing up to the vilification he has received, for dragging us to a green agenda and for fighting a hard brexit. to us, this is an attack on the working class, devastated in places like leigh by thatcherism, by a deregulation campaign, and we were right to resisted but we have paid the price for doing so. so in

somewhere like leigh, which you know very well, by the way, that is the prime minister's car going to downing street from uxbridge, speeding from north london, the point is in somewhere like leigh, you say that it is the working classes, working people, who have suffered in the past from the kind of policies you have been very critical of. why would they therefore vote for something which you say should be obvious to them? my guess when we look at this result is that the workforce of leigh voted labour. the x workforce of leigh, ex— miners, ex— cotton spinners, voted for brexit. there is a commitment to labour and its values among those people and we need to try and win them back. but we're not going to win the back when someone comes up going to win the back when someone comes up you on the high street and says let's deport all iranian migrants at aam, and their children, we are not going to win them back by giving into that. what happens now that mr corbyn has said he wants to

stay on while there is a debate about the future of the party, and that he wants to lead a period of reflection? can he credibly do that? i think he had the right position but the strategy was wrong. the strategy for fighting the whole election has been badly executed. and i think that he can't really lead the period of reflection. whether he wants to or not, there will be, both from the right of the party and i think also from the left, people who are prepared to say, look, iwould left, people who are prepared to say, look, i would quite like to lead the period of reflection. and i think it is likely that if he hasn't sued down by the middle of next week there will be a leadership contest on the way. and rachel, just a thought from you, now that we see the prime ministers speeding back to downing street where he has bought himself several years with this majority that we are expecting. what do we expect tomorrow? can we expect the statement from the prime minister and downing street on the kind of tone that he wants to set? he talked about unifying the country, which we all acknowledge

has been deeply divided. there is no reason to suggest it is not still deeply divided this morning. what does he need to do? is he going to reach out in a way that he hasn't reached out in the past?” reach out in a way that he hasn't reached out in the past? i think really interesting question is what he means now by one nation. that is a really different one nation than the tory party that someone like nicholas somes means by one nation. he is now talking about those so—called labour heartlands and the so—called labour heartlands and the so—called red world —— nicholas soames. that means very different policies, much less patrician, less liberal, less metropolitan liberal, more tough on immigration and crime, and public spending. a lot of money needs to go into it. i think he will have to press ahead very quickly with trying to get his brexit legislation through. it will be interesting to see how that works out. and indeed, the concept of one nation, if you are sitting in

scotla nd nation, if you are sitting in scotland seeing the snp piling up all these seats, the concept of one nation, if it is a uk context, is a nonsense to them. and we are seeing the remaining areas of swinging to the remaining areas of swinging to the lib dems, scotland swinging to the lib dems, scotland swinging to the snp. this is still a deeply divided nation, and borisjohnson so far hasn't shown any signs of understanding that. he seems to be behaving like an english nationalist prime minister. let's go to andrew marr in uxbridge. what did you make of what the prime minister had to say? well, very, very interesting. he arrived in a kind of human tornado with his girlfriend and a dog. made his speech and left very quickly taking no questions. what was interesting from what he said was interesting from what he said was first of all the way he is rebranding his party. he doesn't talk about the conservative party. he talks about the one nation conservatives. and he went straight into talking about more money for the nhs, more money for nurses and doctors and so forth, and i think that begins to answer the question we have been asking about what kind

of borisjohnson we have been asking about what kind of boris johnson government we have been asking about what kind of borisjohnson government are we likely to see, or what kind he would likely to see, or what kind he would like us to see. that was very interesting, first of all. i think borisjohnson is interesting, first of all. i think boris johnson is now interesting, first of all. i think borisjohnson is now unfettered. everybody is looking at him through their own lenses. a lot of his own mps don't know quite what they are going to get, but the indications tonight are that he wants to tack a bit towards the centre, and crossing fingers i am guessing towards a slightly softer kind of brexit. thank you very much, andrew marr, with some latest thoughts in uxbridge, where the prime minister was re—elected and is now on his way back to possibly conservative central office. i think at some point, sooner rather than later, he will turn up to tory hq to be greeted glowingly by his staff but perhaps he will drop into downing street on the way. i thought it was fascinating in that speech how quickly he went from saying i do wa nt to quickly he went from saying i do want to get brexit done, and then move on to the health service, was the first thing that he mentioned. asi the first thing that he mentioned. as i understand it, i think that is what we can expect this new

government to try to do, is to get through the brexit legislation so they can leave on schedule at the end of january, which they can leave on schedule at the end ofjanuary, which will, of course, more than 3.5 years on be the conclusion, really, of the first pa rt the conclusion, really, of the first part of brexit but an enormous junction for the country, and then after that i think it is likely we will see some kind of big domestic reset with a dramatic reshuffle and a big budget sort of february, march time. but for him i think mentioning the nhs and all those other domestic promises he made during the campaign, however much they were picked over and criticised and maybe not quite what they said on paper, it is clear, i think, how you can see he is going to try and move this conservative party, and they have run that kind of campaign, haven't they, vomiting to ease off the spending squeeze which has been so real for people around the country —— promising to ease off. that was the challenge for the conservatives, to win these kinds of seats, is could they get around the fact that they were perfectly well aware that there are millions of people around there are millions of people around the country whose fabric of their lives has been changed, often for

the worse, by the decisions of the last nine years of conservative governments, and that is what they have managed to do, against many people's odds. before we take a look at the news headlines, let's just have a quick look at the state of the parties. let's go to the newsroom and look at the results centre. whew, i've got a scotla nd the results centre. whew, i've got a scotland scoreboard up here for you. for what is shaping up to be a strong night for the snp. over half of the seats in scotland i declared now. snp have picked up 11 seat and theirgain now. snp have picked up 11 seat and their gain has been of conservative and labour losses. let's some of those seat. that seismic shock of course in east dunbartonshire with jo swinson losing her seat to the snp but otherwise they have picked up snp but otherwise they have picked up seats from both labour and the conservatives pretty much in equal measure. so the seats here with the

blue flashes at the end, they were conservative in 2017 and they have now gone snp. over there, glasgow north east and all of those down there with the red flashes, they we re there with the red flashes, they were labour and have gone snp. glasgow north east was labb's la seatin glasgow north east was labb's la seat in glasgow. tiny margins for labour last time round in other seats, the snp now have them co mforta bly seats, the snp now have them comfortably with margins of five or 6000. east lothian is interesting because the new snp mp there is kenny mccaskill, the formerjustice secretary in holyrood and he was the man who took the decision to release the lockerbie bomber on compassionate grounds when he had cancer. so this is how it looks at the moment, over halfway through. it is shaping up to be a strong night for the snp and we are forecasting

now snp seats of around 53. slightly down on the huge success in 2015 when they had 56 seats, but not far off it. many thanks their. for the latest on the successes of the snp. just to round up, we have been talking to the first minister we will speak to nicola sturgeon in just a moment. but before that i wa nted just a moment. but before that i wanted to talk to the cabinet minister, senior conservative michael gold. congratulations on your win michael gold. congratulations on yourwin in your michael gold. congratulations on your win in your constituency. thank your win in your constituency. thank you very much. i noticed that the lib dems actually had a surge going on, putting on 16%. your majority is down by 6500 that the majority is still over 18,000. let's think about how this conservative majority has come about. how would you sum it up? i think that borisjohnson was

absolutely right when this election was called. we did not want an election but parliament was broken and we needed to make sure that the referendum mandate of 2016 was honoured and the prime minister put that at the heart of his campaign. more thanjust that at the heart of his campaign. more than just promising to honour the mandate, the prime minister also looked behind what happened in the 2016 vote and he recognised that as a country we have divisions and parts of the north and midlands you had parts of our country which had been overlooked and undervalued. in particular, it was the case that we needed to make sure we had appropriate investment in skills and in infrastructure to ensure that we could more equally spread economic growth and prosperity across this country. and that would be the mission of this conservative government, notjust to honour the brexit mandate to take us out of the european union and into the world but to also ensure that the divisions that the result revealed, that those divisions in our society can be healed. there is a high

expectation now, isn't there, that in many of those deprived areas, former labour seats that have been taken by the conservatives tonight, there will be a high expectation that you will put policies in place that you will put policies in place that will convince people that you do understand what the problems raised by austerity are and what they have been through over the last ten years. are you confident you can do that? yes. i think the prime minister '5 analysis from the moment he took office was absolutely corrected it we do need to recognise that after difficult decisions that had to be taken in order get our economy back on balance, now is the time for investment in critical public service. our nhs is top of the list but we also need to level up the list but we also need to level up spending on education to ensure that we spread opportunity evenly across this country. we know that talent is read evenly but opportunity is not. we also need to make sure that people are safe and secure that they have a sense of certainty for the future and that means, of course, making sure that we invest in more police officers

and that ourjustice system effectively keeps the public safe by making sure that the worst criminals and terrorists are kept behind bars. five minutes past four. thank you for joining five minutes past four. thank you forjoining us, michael, and congratulations once again on retaining your seat. that is michael gove there. straight now to glasgow to talk to the leader of the snp and first minister, nicola sturgeon. good morning to you, thank you for joining us. good morning. thank you for having me. let's talk about the snp's strong performance in this election and was it something that you were expecting at the start of the evening? i was expecting a good performance, expecting us to win the election and win handsomely but i think the results that we are seeing recorded this evening somewhat exceed the expectations that i had so it has been an exceptional night for the snp and scotland has sent a clear message. we do not want to

borisjohnson conservative government, we do not want to leave the eu and we want scotland's future to be in scotland's hands. that is the message of this election in scotla nd the message of this election in scotland tonight to. wondering about some of the messages in the campaign and you are very clear about the fa ct and you are very clear about the fact that in your view, scotland needed a strong snp voice at westminster in order to, as you say, protects scottish interests in the interests of people of scotland. however, it will not be a surprise ifi however, it will not be a surprise if i say to you that on the basis of these figures, even if you have 50 plus mps, if you are up against a conservative prime minister with a majority of 60 or 65, there is not a lot you can do. the result across the uk is grim. i don't want a conservative majority government. but the fact that that is what is going to be the position after this election, underlines the importance of scotla nd election, underlines the importance of scotland having a choice of something different. i do not

pretend that every single person who voted snp yesterday will necessarily support independence but there has been a strong endorsement in this election of scotland having a choice over a future, of not having to put up over a future, of not having to put up with a conservative government that we did not vote for and having to accept life as a nation outside the eu. at independence referendum, very much at the heart of the snp campaign, a renewed refreshed and strengthened mandate for that. and asi strengthened mandate for that. and as i reluctantly accept, because it isa as i reluctantly accept, because it is a direction i regret, the boris johnson has a mandate now to take england out of the eu, he must accept that i have a mandate to offer scotla nd accept that i have a mandate to offer scotland the choice of an alternative future. and he will say, of course, that he has been clear about the fact that he does not think another referendum is good and he will claim that he now has a mandate to stop there. what is your response to that? his party has lost seats in scotland this evening. the scottish conservatives put the issue

of opposition to the referendum at the centre of their campaign. more than that, there was no other aspect of theircampaign and than that, there was no other aspect of their campaign and they lost this election and they have lost seats. so boris johnson's argument election and they have lost seats. so borisjohnson's argument in this election in scotland have been flatly and completely rejected. there is no doubt there is a mandate. i have a mandate to offer people the choice and then, of course, it is up to the scottish people to just to decide what choice they make. but borisjohnson has no right to take scotland out of the eu and, secondly, no right to lock the scottish people choosing their own future. thank you very much for joining us. over to you, andrew. from glasgow let's go to we are joined by the farmer —— former prime minister theresa may. good morning, mrs may. good morning, andrew.” know we have had some sound problems ijust want know we have had some sound problems i just want to check this. when you called a general election two years ago you lost your majority to boris

johnson has called one and achieved a substantial majority. what has he done right that you did wrong?” a substantial majority. what has he done right that you did wrong? i am very pleased at the majority that boris has achieved. what this does, the essential thing that i think for many people meant how they vote at this election which is enabling us to have a parliament that is going to have a parliament that is going to have, with a majority government, the ability to take decisions and the ability to take decisions and the ability to get the brexit legislation through so that we can get brexit sorted and get it done and move the country on and focus on those many other priorities that people want government to focus on ona people want government to focus on on a day—to—day basis. people want government to focus on on a day-to-day basis. my question was why did you lose your majority and why did he gain a substantial one? i thought i had thought have given you the answer in what ijust said which is that actually at this election i think people were faced with a very clear choice about whether or not they wanted to ensure that brexit was delivered and they

knew that if a conservative majority government got in that we would deliver brexit. every conservative candidate signed up to support the deal and to get that legislation through, that brexit through by january 31. that was a very clear choice for a lot of people. this election was about ensuring that we could get over this deadlock in parliament and could actually get brexit done and move on. is realistic in your view that mr johnson could negotiate a comprehensive free—trade agreement with the eu in 11 months? yes. because a lot of work on that has already been done. it was done in the original set of negotiations, it is in the political declaration alongside the withdrawal agreement that would form the core of the withdrawal agreement bill that will be before parliament. so a lot of work has already been done with the will on both sides to ensure that we

can now deliver on the future relationship and negotiate on the future relationship. yes, it is possible to scottish national party, they are the other big victors tonight. they have swept scotland on a manifesto of calling for a second scottish referendum. how would you advise the prime minister to handle that? i think it is very simple. i would advise him to continue caretaking position that he has done, which was the position that i took which is that the scottish national party themselves said in 201a that that referendum about scottish independence was a once in a generation, a once—in—a—lifetime referendum and therefore we should accept that result. and we all know that it accept that result. and we all know thatitis accept that result. and we all know that it is in scotland's economic interest for them to be a part of the uk. but in that scottish referendum in 201a, people like you also told the scottish people that the surest way of saying inside the ear pain union was to remain in the

united kingdom. that didn't quite work out and now they are voting for a party that wants a second referendum because there is a material change. england voted to leave the eu, scotland did not vote to leave the eu. so why should you deny them a second referendum? independence for scotland would not mean them being, staying in the eu. it was made very clear at the time of the independence referendum that if scotla nd of the independence referendum that if scotland became independent they would not be a member of the eu. but let them vote, if that is the case. let them vote, even if they know that. let them vote. scotland and england in our deeply divided. you cannot have a constitutional stand often simply say no, you cannot have another vote. as prime minister i have spent quite a time in the house of commons being questioned by the

snp and they had one issue only and that was about independence to actually, if you look at what has happened in scotland, where they are in element, their education system has deteriorated under the snp and government. they have problems with the national health service. i think it is time the snp focused on the day—to—day issues, on—the—job of doubling in scotland and stopped simply putting this single issue of independence forward. well, they still swept scotland tonight but we believe it there. thank you for us, theresa may from maidenhead. theresa may was reduced with —— returned with a reduced majority in maidenhead. let me come back to my patient guests, let me come back to my patient gu ests, let let me come back to my patient guests, let me come back to you, tom baldwin. coming back on the remain theme, the most remain party, the liberal democrats, getting nowhere overall. their leader has just lost her seat. they will be no people's

vote, which is what you have been campaigning for, and mrjohnson has a majority to take us out of the eu. he has a majority in parliament. i don't believe he has a majority in the country for his hard brexit. what does he have to do? people voted for a referendum in 2016 to leave. they have given a government that has campaigned explicitly on leave a huge majority. what else do you need? we need the permission of the british people. which they have just done. no, he wouldn't dare do that. he wouldn't put his deal to the british people whether people's vote. he exploited a divided opposition, he ducked an opportunity to win permission from the british people for his hard brexit. people will listen to you and think you are in cloud cuckoo land. you lose, you lose, you lose, but you still say he hasn't really got a mandate to do this. i think what we will see over the next weeks and months is boris johnson trying to fulfil many contradictory promises he made for

his brexit policy. i think if it comes under scrutiny, maybe if he is encouraged to sit down with you you can answer encouraged to sit down with you you ca n a nswer lots encouraged to sit down with you you can answer lots of questions.” encouraged to sit down with you you can answer lots of questions. i am not the story here. the story is that you lost badly. you keep on losing, and the people have voted again, and it is, whether you like it or not is another issue, it is time to leave. no-one is pretending that this is a good night for campaigners for a final say referendum, but the factor is... but they won't be a people's vote now. it's over. not now, i agree. ithink one of the big questions you can ask about what happened in this election campaign is why it was decided to disable the most successful and biggest people's vote campaign on the date the election was called. tim montgomery. there's a lot of constituencies that have been traditionally labour have now voted conservative, some for the first

time orfor several conservative, some for the first time or for several generations. are the conservatives really equipped to deal with these constituencies? in other words, to give them hope, to make sure that they are not left behind anymore? because i would suggest if you are not, there will bea suggest if you are not, there will be a terrible reckoning. yes, and we must rise to the challenge, because this isn't just must rise to the challenge, because this isn'tjust a british phenomenon. we saw the australian conservatives recently elected on the votes of traditionally labour parts of queensland. we saw pennsylvania in america trend towards republicans. the whole electoral geography of the world is changing. it is indeed, but you are in downing street and you will be advising. what will you be telling mrjohnson he needs to do to fulfil... these people have now put some faith in him. what does he need to do to fulfil that faith?” some faith in him. what does he need to do to fulfil that faith? i think building on what the tory manifesto explicitly said. when there are room for tax cuts, the tax cuts go to the lower paid, like on national

insurance and investment thresholds, infrastructure investment. in the north and in the midlands. absolutely, we have terrible wea kness absolutely, we have terrible weakness and inequality in infrastructure investment. do you think a prime ministerfrom eden and oxford understand that? his commitment shows that, and i think from yesterday, people who have never voted conservative before voted conservative —— eton. never voted conservative before voted conservative -- eton. and they might never vote again unless you deliver. i think that is a really good thing for our politics. we have had a longtime, especially when tony blair was in charge, when all of the competition was for the votes of the competition was for the votes of middle—class prisons. now there isa of middle—class prisons. now there is a real possibility in uk politics for the votes of working—class people. labour are only ever going to get back into power if they start reclaiming their northern heartland. the tories will only retain power if they keep those northern heartlands. and that is a good kind of competition to have in our electoral politics, that we haven't had before. you once wrote in the times... iam before. you once wrote in the times... i am sorry, we're going to go for a declaration. let's go

straight back to huw. yes, to brighton pavilion to join the returning officer. 10,176. 13,211, labour party. lucas caroline, green party, 33,151. richard melton, brexit party, 770. citizen skwith, the official monster raving loony party, 301. brighton pavilion, i

declare that caroline lucas is duly elected. the first green mp, former coleader of the green party, re—elected with a big majority. let's see what she has to say. well, a huge thank you to all the candidates, to the returning officer, to the staff here this evening, and of course, to my amazing team, who worked on the green party campaign. thank you from the bottom of my heart. in particular, my agent, steve, campaign managers, matt and paul, and kath miller for everything. campaign managers, matt and paul, and kath millerfor everything. and and kath millerfor everything. and a sincere and heartfelt thanks to the people of brighton, pavilion, who have once again granted me the honour of representing them in parliament. i feel incredibly proud that my majority has increased. i think it is around 57% now, because

it demonstrates that brighton, pavilion continues to believe in compassion and justice and a bigger future. but the pride i feel is also tinged with huge sadness, and frankly deep anger. sadness that so many people who desperately need a progressive government on their side won't get the socialjustice that they need. the living wage, the good public services and the security they need to build a future. and this election wasn't even necessary. it should not have had to happen. parliament was on the brink of supporting a people's vote on brexit, and two out of your three mps proudly voted against it and warned about the dangers that it was bringing. we want that it would tear this country further apart, and that is what i fear will happen. the status quo in this country is

intolerable. the inequality is yawning ever wider, and we are now on course for it to become wider still. and that brings me to the anger that i feel, anger that our political system is so badly broken, and is still letting down individuals and our country so badly. our lack real system is rotten to the core. —— our electoral system. and as i have travelled around the country, as i have travelled around the country, i have met so many people who have wanted to vote green, but they could not dare to do so for fear of splitting the vote and letting other parties in. now, there should have been many more greens elected tonight, if there was justice. i think it is also worth pointing out tonight that nationally, if you look at where the vote share is right now, those

parties supporting a people's vote campaign have got over 50% of the results. let us not forget that tonight, my friends. but instead, we have this rotten first past the post system that is locking out millions and ignoring their voices, and we are now paying the price for that. caroline lucas they're making a forceful and rather angry statement to the people of account in brighton, that is brighton, pavilion, about the nature of the electoral system as she sees it, and about the fact that lots of people will be underrepresented, those who need protection, she says, in the yea rs need protection, she says, in the years ahead. that is her take on the result, and the result of course is that we are looking at a fairly solid conservative majority at the end of this election. 500 results already in, at a:23 a.m., 150 to go, including stoke—on—trent. that will be with us in a short while. let's

have a look to see what is going on there. here is the result.” have a look to see what is going on there. here is the result. i hereby give notice that the number of votes recorded for each candidate at the said election is as follows. adam william colclough, the green party, 819. jo gideon, the conservative party candidate, 1a,557. tariq mahmood, exit party, 1691. steven

james pritchard, mahmood, exit party, 1691. steven james pritcha rd, liberal mahmood, exit party, 1691. steven james pritchard, liberal democrats, 1116. gareth craig snell, labour and cooperative party, 13,887. the number of ballot papers rejected was as follows... so there we have another conservative game, and this is in stoke—on—trent, stoke—on—trent central, this is where gareth snell has been the mp. we spoke to him earlier. he was incredibly critical of the campaign and jeremy corbyn's leadership. he has lost his seat and jo gideon has become the new mp. she isa jo gideon has become the new mp. she is a businesswoman, a social entrepreneur. a5— a3% tory to labour, and we have labour taking an 8% hit, an eight percentage point hit in stoke—on—trent central. this

had the lowest turnout of any seat in 2015. it is 58% this time, so it won't be the lowest this time. 6.9% swing from labour to conservative. this is where tristram hunt was the labourmp this is where tristram hunt was the labour mp between 2010 and 2017, before he left parliament. this has been labour since its creation in 1950. so yet another seat with a strong labour heritage, a rich labour background, which has turned tonight to the conservatives. laura? well, it's the kind of thing we would have expected from the beginning of the exit poll coming out, but it underlines again how much these places where labour's roots seem to have withered away. whether they are gone for good or can be resuscitated in the years to come is a completely different question, but it shows that boris johnson's gamble of trying to win this election by turning red to blue was paying off, and while we were watching that result there, the

results coming in. the tories taking back crewe, taking back warrington south, but the tories also taking back kensington. and if you like, you can sum up the extent of this conservative victory by saying the tories have one in warrington and they have one in blyth valley, but they have one in blyth valley, but they have one in blyth valley, but they have also won in kensington. look at that result there, you mentioned that, laura, and the conservatives have gained or regained kensington. this is the seat which includes grenfell tower. this is the seat once represented by michael portillo and other prominent conservatives. it has now gone back to the tories, 38.3 to 38%. the majority of 150. there is nothing in it, really, on a ten out of 68%. and if we look at the change in the

share of the vote, we will see the tories are down four, labour is down four, and the lib dems are up nine. this is something we have seen again, kensington being an area of very high remain supporting voters. 68% to 31% in that referendum back in 2016, so a small swing from labour to the tories, butjust enough for them to take it back. just enough for them to take it back, even though you mentioned grenfell, and one of the big moments was right at the beginning of the campaign, these very illjudged remarks from jacob rees—mogg, leader of the house of commons, whether he stays in that position or not, who he caused widespread offence when he talked about grenfell tower, and yet the conservatives have hung on despite a very strong challenge from the lib dems. they were pouring effort and energy into there, because a former conservative minister was fighting that seat on behalf of them. that talks to a wider thing we have seen tonight. in places where either defectors or

independents were standing, all those lib dem defectors, not so far successful. we will go to doncaster where caroline flint is waiting patiently to talk to us. thank you very much forjoining us. tell us what went wrong for labour from your perspective. well, i think there we re perspective. well, i think there were two fronts i was fighting on. one front was the fact that so many of my voters could not and did not wa nt to of my voters could not and did not want to supportjeremy corbyn to be prime minister. but the second front was the labour party's position on brexit, that we had moved to a position of being more like a stop brexit remain party, which wasn't the promise we made in 2017 at the general election. and despite on the doorsteps people would say we really like you, caroline, we really respect what you have done, but those were the two challenges that came up time and time again.

when we heard mr corbyn earlier he said he would not leave the party into another election but he said he wa nted into another election but he said he wanted to remain to oversee a period of the of reflection. what would your message to mr corbyn be?” would agree that the party needs a period of reflection. problem for the labour party is that this is the fourth general election we have lost ina fourth general election we have lost in a row. we did not have a proper period of reflection after 2010, nor in 2015 or 2017. so our party is very good at having reviews but they end up being a whitewash and then we are hurtled into a leadership contest. i thinkjeremy corbyn has to recognise it is notjust about him, perse, it to recognise it is notjust about him, per se, it is about the politics that he espouses, the nature of the political debate that he is encouraged and, to be frank, i

have not seen such sectarianism since ijoined the labour party back in 1979 that erupted in the 19805. it is clear that the corbyn project is not a project that will win us elections and i am afraid to say, some of the people who have been most ardent in support ofjeremy has been more interested in running the labour party then in winning the election. on the other hand, huw, i am afraid to say there are moderate mps who have driven us into a dead end regarding brexit and they have put the pursuit of remain at the expense of our working—class heartlands and i feel very annoyed, to say the least, about that. what is your plan from now on in terms of labour and is your plan from now on in terms of labourand in is your plan from now on in terms of labour and in terms of politics. are you prepared to share that with us? my you prepared to share that with us? my next plan is to go and have a cup of tea, actually, and if i am giving

good advice at this time of the morning about everyone taking a breath and having a proper reflection i think i should take my advice. i have been in the labour party for a0 years. i owe so much to it but i also owe so much to the people of don valley who have done nothing but treat me with kindness ever since i have been an mp and they have been wonderful to me and i hopein they have been wonderful to me and i hope in some small way i have honoured them by being there mp for 22 years. commiserations on your defeat and enjoy your cup of tea. thank you forjoining us. that was caroline flint. and we will have a word with rachel and paul in the second what i would like to do now is take a view outside. let's go outside the building because we have our map of the uk and it has been basically changing colour and changing shape. we have figures there on broadcasting house as you can see and they are all projecting

that majority for boris johnson. they tell their own story. but down there to the right where we have new broadcasting house, sophie is there with the changing political map of the uk. my goodness how it has changed. we can show you the shot tonight of what the map look like when we came on, with the colours of the 2017 general election. as a results came in we took them all up and now we have been relaying the map. but look at how dramatically different that map already is looking. one place that is pretty much unchanged, at the moment, is down here. london. huge on our map of hexagons because of 73 mp5 distorting our map and many of them remain red tonight that looks like an island of red. i have a couple of voters with me. you are a labour photo and you must be disappointed tonight. —— labour voter. photo and you must be disappointed tonight. —— labourvoter. ithink

they misjudged mood of wax it around they misjudged mood of wax it around the country and what it means to people in the traditional heartlands. they have only broken through in london and that was a safe best in the first place. and the liberal democrats, they took a seat, richmond park here in london. that is hugely important it signifies that we still have significance in the forward moving politics. overall it has been a dismal night for the liberal democrats and i think we need a new leader is evidently showing. what did they do wrong? it was a failure of leadership. it rests more withjo swinson that it does with our brexit policy. as a leader her personality did not connect enough with voters. let's ta ke did not connect enough with voters. let's take you across england and north—east wales here which is all those marginal seats that have just on blue and it is really striking just how much has changed. we were talking earlier about the redwall. that has been breached. in fact, if

you come up here the north—west of england there is literally a path now, a blue path from the west coast, all the way over into the east coast, past yorkshire and i have a voter from yorkshire. you are from halifax, a conservative voter. are delighted conservative voter. very much so. having the majority is far exceeding what i expected, and it is fantastic to see so many seats in the north and north—east and yorkshire elsewhere turning to blue because i think the labour party has taken the north for granted for too long. that is extraordinary tonight. some of those seats had huge had huge majorities huge labour majorities that are gone. indeed and i think that is down to the brexit issue because the north, the north—western north—east voted to leave but the mp5 refused to respect that result and ultimately that is the democratic justice that result and ultimately that is the democraticjustice coming back to bite them. their desire to leave

the eu from the constituents has not gone away but they have not acted upon it. and another big changes well, very much like it was in 2015 when we watched scotland go yellow. that is happening all over again. go swinson losing her seat, a big story there. i have a voter here from stirling with me now. your reaction. you want independence, you voted snp. your reaction tonight?m you want independence, you voted snp. your reaction tonight? it is a difficult night because scotland bodes one way and england votes another and you can see with all this blue, that is not what we want to we want our independence, a left of centre government and we want to be in the eu. will you get it? if voting means anything, it must. as you can see, this map really changing shape in front of us and that huge swathe, that red wall has definitely been breached. indeed.

thank you very much to you and your guests. there was a notable contribution earlier from someone saying that this is all about the conservative party trying to prove, and our proving, they say, that they are the party of the working class, given the inroads they have made too many of these labour areas to there is the small town working class that labour is culturally disconnected from but the scottish working class in the big city working class voted for progressive parties one the most interesting things i observing as the results come through is that yes it has been a terrible night for left labour that centrism has evaporated. there is no jo swinson, no sam, no and a suitably. many of the people who left labour, only eight months ago, eight months ago politics was broken and the

independent group was the answer but it has gone. it has fizzled out. and at the end of this kind of section of the evening, where are we? 20 minutes to five in the morning and we have had 5a0 result in. 110 left so we are well on their way now towards the finishing line and we are looking at a majority for the tories of around 60 which is less than we said earlier but still a hefty majority. what you expect to happen in the next week? what do you expect? we will get a withdrawal bill put through, possibly a queen speech as well. i think the reshuffle will be delayed until after the brexit stuff has been put through but i think the interesting question is that is this a permanent political earthquake or are these voters in the so—called redwall lending their votes to the conservative party just redwall lending their votes to the conservative partyjust to get brexit done. and once that is over. . . brexit done. and once that is over... focus brexit done. and once that is

over. . . focus groups brexit done. and once that is over... focus groups i sat through, people were saying we do not like the conservative. we still think they are tories but we want brexit done. we think borisjohnson is the man to do it but once that is done, we will go back to our traditional loyalties. and that is the interesting question. can boris johnson persuade them that he really is for them and can labour move on, notjust from jeremy is for them and can labour move on, not just from jeremy corbyn but from corbin's. some of the messages coming out, including from jeremy corbyn, blaming only brexit, i think there is a failure to recognise the scale of the problem that the hard left in the labour party has revealed about itself. paul, if you was asked directly, who would you say the next labour leader would be? in response to that, for many months now, to make has been less than some of its parts. it includes people like me, and internationalist pro— european and includes people who are economic nationalists. we have had that fight and it is that fight that

has distracted us from the key things. the person to take over needs to be a person of stature. because there is very little of the right wing of the party left. the party needs to be held together and before i think about people, i want a person of stature to come forward. i want them to understand what went wrong and then we go from there. the obvious runners and riders are people like starmer, thornbury, laura peacock would have been a potential runner but she is gone. bailey is favoured by the corbyn set up bailey is favoured by the corbyn set up but! bailey is favoured by the corbyn set up but i don't think she is favoured by the membership. it has been great to have you both with us. give very much. we will see what will happen with the results but we appreciate your analysis. and now we are looking at kensington where we saw that seat

going back to the conservatives and lucy manning is there for us. so let's have a word with lucy and find out how it panned out and what the response there was. rather an interesting evening. this is what was england's most marginal seat with just 20 votes in aid from the last election. it did seem for most of the evening that it was going to go the way of labour and certainly the labour camp were feeling confident. emma thought she had done enough to get this seat. but then 90 minutes ago there was a recount and it seems that the tories were ahead and the tories have taken this seat. it is important because it seemed that labb's vote was holding up in london but it is not happened in this seat and i think you can look at this seat and say that this is a big failure of the remain alliance because this was a massive remain seat. 70% fruit voted remain in the

referendum yet the tories with the candidate who voted leave has won this seat. and some recriminations at the end there. i hope profile lib dem defector who defected from the tory party, he stood in the seat and that remain vote split between the labour and the lib dems and when the vote was announced here, a number of labour activists were shouting and heckling sam, shouting shame, shame at him because this seat has gone to the tories. so i think a real failure of the remain alliance here. the tories taking this deed byjust 150 votes after that first recount. remember, it is the seat of gran fell and the tories were criticised at the time for not doing enough. at the tories have taken the seat here. if it is not too late in the morning

for a little entertainment throwback, there was a candidate standing here,j throwback, there was a candidate standing here, j alton, who was standing here, j alton, who was standing for the brexit party. and the voters here making their minds up the voters here making their minds up and choosing the tories. thank you very much. lucy manning there with a touch of the bucks fizz. that had straight to stockport because we are now talking about the big north—west of region and nina warhurst is there. just descends from of what the conservatives have achieved in the north—west tonight. —— just ——justa —— just a sense from you of what the conservatives have achieved. i came to stockport because this is where hazel grove is. lib dems seats that fell to the commuter belt, suburban affluent remain voting, the kind of

seats the lib dems were hoping to win back during this election. that did not happen. they were telling me that they thought the revoke message went down badly as did joe swenson but the much bigger story in the north—western greater manchester and beyond is that of the conservative win in places like wigan, a mining town that has been labour for a hundred years and in places like heywood and middleton in north manchester, places that are unimaginably conservative before the selection. obviously places where they voted leave and the message from those seats is clear, that there are no regrets in terms of how they voted in 2016 and similar m essa g es they voted in 2016 and similar messages in black pool in burnley in warrington. it is real shock across the north—west that the seats have turned blue, many of them for the first time in their history. and just a thought at this point about reasons we have had a debate in the studio, as you can imagine, about

whether this was about brexit, anger about the failure to deliver it or whether this was about a dislike of jeremy corbyn and the leadership and what they were offering. what would you say? i think i said throughout the campaign that people have not necessarily voted for who they like the most, it is herfor who they dislike the least. i think brexit has played a part. but equally in many labour heartland as predicted before polling day, there arejust many working class labour voters who do not feel they connect with jeremy corbyn. that is exactly what happened in those seats. great to talk to you and thank you very much once again. and nina was in stockport. let's talk about some of those conservative gains and crossover to the newsroom at new broadcasting house and go straight to our results. we have some of the latest

conservative gains. yes, to expand on what nina was talking about, some really staggering gains we are seeing in some ctf, seats you would never think would go conservative. sedgefield, where tony blair had a strong leader, has gone blue. west bromwich east, that was tom watson's old seat, that is now conservative. the north—west, where laura peacock has lost her seat, she was a rising star in the labour party, some thought she might take over from tom watson as deputy leader, she is no longer in the commons —— pidcock. in ashfield, gloria has lost the seat.

also conservative in the two stoke—on—trent seats. let's go into great grimsby and have a look at what has happened to the votes. the new conservative mp for great britain —— great grimsby. labour plummeting 17 points, the conservatives up 13, the brexit party taking 7% of the share, and thatis party taking 7% of the share, and that is the enormous swing from labour to conservative, 15 points in great grimsby. those are some of the extraordinary results we have seen for the conservatives, and that is the scoreboard as it stands now, with 562 of the seats declared, so well on the way to getting most of the seats declared, and you can see the seats declared, and you can see the picture. the conservatives with a very handsome a1 gains. the opposite for labour, losing 53. a strong night for the snp, quite the opposite for the lib dems, and the

dup opposite for the lib dems, and the du p also making two losses. many thanks. what i want to do now is to ta ke thanks. what i want to do now is to take a look at bassetlaw. this is a conservative game, the labour mp standing down, but it has been taken by the conservatives, a majority of 1a,000 in bassetlaw on a turnout of 6a%, the tories taking more than half the votes cast. 55% to 28% to labour, 11% to the brexit party, 7% to the lib dems, and if we look at the change, we will see that the tories added 12 percentage points to their share, labour down a tories added 12 percentage points to theirshare, labour down a huge tories added 12 percentage points to their share, labour down a huge 25%. and the swing, gosh, look at that.

that is the biggest swing in any english constituency so far. that is a gigantic swing of 18% from labour to the conservatives. and the reason that i am picking on bassetlaw is not just because of that i am picking on bassetlaw is notjust because of the record swing, but because with me in the studio isjohn swing, but because with me in the studio is john mann, swing, but because with me in the studio isjohn mann, the former labourmp, who studio isjohn mann, the former labour mp, who has been sent into the house of lords, invited into the house of lords, as the government's anti—semitism czar. and gina miller, the prominent anti— brexit campaign. it is good to have you both with us. thank you very much. bassetlaw, which of course you know like the back of your hand, john, is now represented by a conservative, with a 1a,000 majority, on the biggest swing in england. what happened there? it was very simple, it was very predictable. the last 18 months, every single household, and imean months, every single household, and i mean every household, said we are not voting forjeremy corbyn, or we

don't wantjeremy corbyn or we will stick with labour. one or the other. and in the last few days, i went into a few workplaces, and it was just unambiguous. we don't want corbyn, we're not having corbyn, they decided not to vote for the brexit party but to vote for boris johnson. that's purely because of his message of get brexit done. so when you think of borisjohnson than what he represents, in terms of his background and all the rest of it, these are people in the past that you would never have imagined would actually be in a position to offer their support to a conservative leader like him. but you are saying that the desire to get brexit done took them over the line. they have le nt took them over the line. they have lent their support to the conservative party to get exit done. and don't i have been warning privately and publicly the labour party for a long time on this. the parliamentary labour party was sick of me getting up and saying you

don't know what is going to hit you, here is what is going to hit you. my labour areas, those that voted for me, 90% brexit in the referendum. the strongest labour areas. and they we re the strongest labour areas. and they were voting to: one today for the conservative party, lending their vote on brexit —— 2:1. the labour party refused to listen to them. don't underestimate the toxicity of jeremy corbyn and the cult around him. it is extraordinary. people made their minds up. they don't want corbyn, they don't want corbynism. and if labour doesn't learn the lesson, labour might as well not exist. what will it take? well, first of all, corbyn needs to go. he ought to have resigned already. it is going to require a leader who understands where people are coming from, understands the issues, and then starts talking to those people, rather than... bassetlaw sums up the

arrogance of the corbyn project. they didn't let local candidate they then removed the candidate who was selected. they imposed their own corbynite candidate. he got humiliated. incredibly predictable, but that sums up the arrogance of these people, that they have taken working—class voters in the north of england and the midlands for granted. and that arrogance, if that doesn't go, then labour is finished asa doesn't go, then labour is finished as a political force doesn't go, then labour is finished as a politicalforce in doesn't go, then labour is finished as a political force in this country. and it needs a leader who understands that. gina, can i turn to you, because you have fought long and hard, you have been through the courts, you have taken a lot of abuse as a result of it, in terms of yourfight against abuse as a result of it, in terms of your fight against the brexit process and the right of parliament... no, it wasn't against the brexit process, it was being pursued in an illegal way. that is what i was fighting. yes, i take the point, and fighting for the right of

parliament as well to have a voice. soiam parliament as well to have a voice. so i am not denying that. but the point is this. there is a different question, isn't there, now that borisjohnson is question, isn't there, now that boris johnson is looking question, isn't there, now that borisjohnson is looking as if he has... well, he is heading for this solid majority. are you now going to say to viewers that the campaigns that you have been leaving have resulted in... what? is that campaign over? i have to say, so the tactical voting campaign, i just wa nt to tactical voting campaign, i just want to confirm whatjohn has just said, in that it was notjust across a particular group of people or age group, but we were finding the anti— corbyn... we were asking people to put a nose peg on their nose and tactically vote. they were not having it. they were saying over and over again we would like to. tactical voting was being talked about in every conversation across social media. but when it came to it, they just

social media. but when it came to it, theyjust couldn't do it. and we we re it, theyjust couldn't do it. and we were hearing that across the country, north, south, young, old. it was corbyn first. we just do not wa nt it was corbyn first. we just do not want this man is a leader. so the fa ct want this man is a leader. so the fact is i do think we should go, because we have no opposition that somebody feels they can vote for. and how does democracy work if we don't have a functioning democracy... opposition. and that is one thing. and the second thing is the other side were also tactically voting, and that is what we're seeing, actually. there was presumption that only remain voters we re presumption that only remain voters were going to tactically vote, and were going to tactically vote, and we we re were going to tactically vote, and we were picking up all the time that actually it was both sides. and i think what you are seeing is a lot of leave voters have tactically voted this time. so it has worked, but it was on the other side. so i think now, with this majority, we will see a queen speech, we will see a bill going through parliament, and then the next thing we will see when we come back injanuary is how boris will actually change his domestic policy to suit this one nation narrative that he is coming up with

-- queen's speech. because he now has to represent the whole of the country, north, south, old labour seats, mining towns, but also leavers and remainers. do you accept, i know that your court cases we re accept, i know that your court cases were about the process, but do you accept that that is definitely absolutely what is going to happen? it will come back, it will get to the house of lords before christmas, and the bill will go through, and that will be then lower. so on a domestic front it will be law, then it will get ratified in january, domestic front it will be law, then it will get ratified injanuary, and the next hurdle, if you like, for the next hurdle, if you like, for the government orfor the next hurdle, if you like, for the government or for borisjohnson will be 31 january. i can imagine that will be extended, because i can't see how he will hit that deadline. but the actual bill will go through parliament. let's take a pause therefore a second. i would like to get a little bit more analysis of where we are, with just 72 seats to go and the tories getting ever closer to that 326 mark. let's join getting ever closer to that 326 mark. let'sjoinjeremy

getting ever closer to that 326 mark. let's joinjeremy once again inside the house of commons. just updating our forecast, and inside the house of commons. just updating ourforecast, and we started the night with the exit poll. obviously we have real results now, so we're bringing them in. the overall majority comes when you get to 306 mp5 overall majority comes when you get to 306 mps in the house of commons. let's see what we are predicting now. and we think we will and the election night with 362 conservative mps, soa election night with 362 conservative mps, so a good, firm, solid, co mforta ble mps, so a good, firm, solid, comfortable majority for boris johnson. but let's have a look by contrast at labour. so we were just hearing from john mann about labour's travails there. we don't think they are going to get above 200 seats. we have it on 199, under our projection at the moment. 199, a historically awful result by the main opposition party. by contrast, the snp doing brilliantly in this election. 52, down a little bit from our original exit poll forecast, lib dems on 13, and without their leader now. plaid cymru staying on four,

and the others on 19, and that means and the others on 19, and that means a majority for the conservatives of 7a, which will give borisjohnson, i think the word andrew marr used, was u nfettered, think the word andrew marr used, was unfettered, the ability to work u nfettered unfettered, the ability to work unfettered as leader of the conservative party, which of course theresa may did not have. what about share of the vote? let me show you where we are at. if you look at the share of the vote in great vision, we have the three parties contesting the election across the country. a5% conservative is a historically high figure. it is a very impressive figure. it is a very impressive figure when you consider that even in1979, figure when you consider that even in 1979, when mrs thatcher won her first election, she wasn't quite at a5% . first election, she wasn't quite at a5%. in fact, you've got to go back to 1970 to see the conservatives performing that well. 33% for labour, but losing votes by the thousand in all the most critical areas. that's the problem with their

performance tonight. and the lib dems bumping along. i've got to say with the lib dems, 12%. if you had 1296 with the lib dems, 12%. if you had 12% of the mp5 you would have 70 mps. obviously the system doesn't work very well for them, but they are on 12, not really moving since the last election. green party about 396, the last election. green party about 3%, brexit party about 2%, but that share is history making for boris johnson. jeremy, thank you very much once again. the tories now on 317, very close to that 326 mark where we will formally declare that they have won this election, and well on their way to a majority, asjeremy won this election, and well on their way to a majority, as jeremy was saying there, of dozens of seats, which is a very different world for us to be in. let'sjoin andrew again. thanks, huw. president trump has tweeted that it looks like boris johnson is going to win big in the uk. it is good that the white house has finally caught up with the bbc exit poll. looking at west

yorkshire, yvette cooper has held onto a seat but with a much reduced majority. your majority has been slashed. your party has lost the north. did you lose it because of brexit or because of mr corbyn?” think there are a mix of things involved, and this is a really grim result for us. it is particularly grim for all the people who depended on having a strong labor party, who we re on having a strong labor party, who were relying on getting a labour government, whether that is families who are going to food banks or patients waiting in the nhs. i think that both were a factor. we obviously... brexit was a key issue in the campaign, but i think also perceptions of the whole party and perceptions of the whole party and perceptions of the leadership were clearly a key issue as well. sheu shelf of the end what do you mean by perceptions of the leadership? just that we were on many doorsteps. we got people talking about brexit and the party as a whole and jeremy and

the party as a whole and jeremy and the different views of the leadership, the different views of the party and also just leadership, the different views of the party and alsojust not in the end being prepared to put their crosses by another labour names across the country because they didn't think that we could be the kind of government that they wanted and that is really bad, that is devastating for us. should your party continue with corbynism but withoutjeremy corbyn or does it need a different strain?” withoutjeremy corbyn or does it need a different strain? i think what we've got isn't working, we really seem that this morning. we've seen that right across the country so clearly we've got to change. we have to spend a bit of time reflecting on all the different things that have been damaging for us. and i think there is this really serious growing gap between cities and towns. it is partly about the

brexit debate but more than the brexit debate but more than the brexit debate but more than the brexit debate and we are no longer being seen as a party that stands up the towns, even though many of our towns across the country have been ha rd towns across the country have been hard to hit by both austerity but also changing economic patterns across the country that conservatives haven't dealt with and we conservatives haven't dealt with and we have failed to make that argument in any convincing way and failed to be credible for people living in towns across the country have voted strongly against dust tonight or last night stop what you say to the message coming out from jeremy corbyn's office and those around him, and from momentum that this election, because exit, was sui generis. it wasn't corbynism, there is no need to change that. we will get a youngerjeremy corbyn or a female leader who is a corbynista and we don't need to carry on. and

brexit will not be the issue come the next election. i think the scale of our losses tonight, this morning, really shows we have to change as a party. it'sjust not working and it is broader. brexit is clearly a significant part of this, there is no doubt about that. things might've been different if the parties worked together from the beginning. been different if the parties worked togetherfrom the beginning. , maybe things might've been different if we got a customs union compromise in this ring. maybe the divisions around exit are so deep that it's going to require a mammoth effort to bring people together but i don't think very clearly from discussions i've had on many doorsteps around my constituency, around neighbouring constituencies that this was not just about brexit. it was about the

perceptions of the party, the perceptions of the party, the perceptions of the leadership and not people in enough numbers to support us across the country. there is going to be a labour leadership contest. do you fancy having a go? that is not discussion for now. the scale of this is so significant, the predictions are to have us below 200 seats at a time when we know that people have huge doubts about the prime minister. i don't believe this vote was a huge enthusiastic support for the conservative party. instead it was a recognition register choice

that they prefer the conservative party. | that they prefer the conservative party. i need to interrupt you. we need to go back to macro two. the number of votes recorded, liberal democrats, 17,600. the conservative party candidate. 2a,000162. ross semple—houston,

labor party, 13,3a7. and i therefore declare that mike freer is duly elected. finchley and golders green in north london, the seat once represented by margaret thatcher in parliament whether conservative mike freer has taken the seat. the interesting thing here, luciana berger, the labour mp, moved to finchley and golders green. so a majority of 6500 to the conservatives under a turnout of 71% and really, laura, as we look at those figures, that was actually one of the big hopes those people who

had left labour in order to campaign really for remain or against brexit. the lib dems for that seat very hard. we've seen that, at theme in quite a few of those seats. the tories holding onto the woods them pretty much. it is 5:06am and we are ina pretty much. it is 5:06am and we are in a position to say the election has been formally won by the conservatives. they are on 327 seats, 326 on the finishing line so they will proceed to a bigger majority but we can now say that based on the results that have come m, based on the results that have come in, 598 seats in, 51 to go, the conservatives are now on 328, they have passed the finishing line and they have formally won this election and that, laura, is a big moment. huge moment for boris johnson

and that, laura, is a big moment. huge moment for borisjohnson who one year ago was written off by many people, an enormous moment for the conservative party having had a torrent in turbulent time when they saw the majority going and he threw people out and they went backwards but they had a couple of months of agony relying on the democratic unionist party in northern ireland and david cameron before that with a very rocky time. it seemed like a big victory for him at the time, getting a majority of 15. unless something very strange happens, we will be leaving the european union next month and that answers the biggest question of british politics, was what happened in 2016 actually going to happen or not. that is the question that's paralysed parliament. they were not able to agree on how to leave and therefore they didn't agree on whether we would leave, the public is answer that question tonight and

thatis is answer that question tonight and that is what this prime minister will do. of course, the size of his majority beyond this will dictate how much freedom and how radical he may or may not be to pursue other projects. the results are still coming in. let's have a look at the palace of westminster which is where all the activity will start in a few days' time and we are the project in the result is it's happening on the banks of the river thames and there we have it so far, the conservatives on 330, is nowjust gone up to 331 with labour on 197 so they are now way past that fishing mark of 326 and the numbers are going up. we are heading towards that majority that john curtice was telling us about a short while ago. so the news if you arejust short while ago. so the news if you are just joining short while ago. so the news if you arejustjoining us at short while ago. so the news if you are justjoining us at 5:08am is that the conservatives are now past

the finishing post and have won a majority in this campaign and that is the formal result for us as they head towards a much bigger majority, a majority of at least 50, possibly 60 seats. we've beenjoined in the studio by the former director of communications forward david cameron sir craig oliver. good morning. what do you make of this result in what has led to it? what does it signify politically? it feels like the electoral landscape has been reshaped, and amazing victory for borisjohnson. the reshaped, and amazing victory for boris johnson. the big reshaped, and amazing victory for borisjohnson. the big loser was the labor party, the remaining cause taking a battering and the main opposition for boris johnson taking a battering and the main opposition for borisjohnson is now nicola sturgeon in scotland. will be played out and it will be a fascinating battle to watch. talking to nicola sturgeon earlier, she was clear about the fact that her mandate was stronger than ever and

that she would be pressing the case very vigorously for a second referendum. we've already had the prime minister telling us he is dead set against it. that is a clash that is waiting to happen. it's a clash for the next few years. there are a number of options for nicola sturgeon. one, create a massive grievance that builds up over the yea rs grievance that builds up over the years and a small possibility is she may try and call and illegal referendum, an option that was open to alex salmond and why david cameron called the referendum, he was nervous but the tension will be huge. the conservative performance and massive inroads into traditional labour areas which are leave areas for the most part, what you make of the strategy now because a lot of people are saying about horace johnson, get brexit done is an empty phrase, it seems to been far more of a clarion call. —— borisjohnson.

shire tories and metropolitan liberals was what david cameron did. borisjohnson, shire tories and traditional labour voters. it's extraordinary. the get brexit done slogan was a masterstroke. none of the opposition campaigns came up with anything like it. people were sick and tired of brexit, the shenanigans and it was a main contributing factor although i think the labour party will have to look very deep and whether or not corbynite socialism can work this country. the workings inside downing street, do you expect a queen's speech within the week? that is possible. what you will see as boris johnson's speech, he will grab the ball and run like hell for the centre. he thinks his future and remaining prime ministerfor this term and another one is by presenting himself as a one nation conservative. notice how he branded

himself as a one nation conservative, that is what he will continue with. you must demonstrate that over the coming months and it's going to be interesting how he does that when he's got so many people who traditionally voted labour on his side, how is he going to behave with them but he is in pole position, he is an extraordinarily powerfulfigure at position, he is an extraordinarily powerful figure at the moment but what's interesting is how does he use that power, does he reject the erg and say he will not put up with people like jacob rees—mogg anymore, what signal does he send? i hope he sends a strong signal that they are out and he will be a one nation conservative but it will require strength of character. one broader thought before i bring jeremy vine m, thought before i bring jeremy vine in, borisjohnson, thought before i bring jeremy vine in, boris johnson, dismissed thought before i bring jeremy vine in, borisjohnson, dismissed as a clown and all the rest of it until relatively recently and some stay —— some say that is still what he is

but the basis of this result in the kind of tory majority that margaret that she was getting towards the end of her time that she was getting towards the end of hertime in that she was getting towards the end of her time in 1987, still dozens of seats, his political profile and authority and status has been com pletely authority and status has been completely transformed. transformed. with elections, if you win, all the sins get washed away for a period of time and he is now at the pinnacle of his power, extraordinarily powerful, can do enormous things in terms of legislation, picking his cabinet, choosing the direction. i would be advising him to take hold of that and make use of that and show himself as a one nation conservative and push aside the other people, erg, in the party. thanks very much. the path to downing street, the road to downing street. jeremy, tell us all about it. they've gone past the 326 so we can look at how they did it. 326, the

winning line which gives you the overall majority and your leader goes through the door of number ten with con vince as borisjohnson will now do. let us pave the path. —— confidence. we will see where it crosses the line here. let's have a look. crosses the line here. let's have a took. 326 the line. we've got banff and bolsover, dennis skinner, the beast of bolsover‘s seat, he leaves the commons and that got them over the commons and that got them over the line. eventually, bournemouth east, lewes and dudley moore —— dudley north. wantage has come back to the conservatives. that is where they are at the moment. let's have a look at labour. they are a long way down the street. a seat in the house

of commons, a tile. these are the results we've got insofar. let's look at the number of labour seats. 199. we will go to the end of the line and just read them off if we can: some of these are marginals whether defence will be tight. let's have a look at the end of the conservative line and this brings in projections. we have not got results from these but we are calling them as conservatives, we will see what happens in the next few hours.

marcus 15 staying in their stop —— marcus 15 staying in their stop —— marcus staying in there. batley and spent, we cannot be certain about it but it looks like that would be a conservative gain as well. that is how they did it. fa ncy fancy that. thank you for underlining the fact that dennis skinner is no longer in the house of commons. he would have been father of the house. peter bottomley will now become the new senior member, the most long—standing member of the house of commons. bolsover, we're

talking about a former mining area in derbyshire and this has only had two mps since its creation in 1950 and dennis skinner was elected in 1970. he has not been well recently. look at the scale of the change in the labour fired. in look at the scale of the change in the labourfired. in that look at the scale of the change in the labour fired. in that kind look at the scale of the change in the labourfired. in that kind of pa rt the labourfired. in that kind of part of the country. as we have seen in quitea part of the country. as we have seen in quite a few places, whether it's bolsover or blythe valley, voters who have been labour voters forever, they have been hearing from jeremy

corbyn about traditional things. this version of the labour party has not necessarily kept up. i labour candidate said to me a couple of weeks ago they were desperately worried because what happened under new labour changed his community and then when labour changed, the community wasn't very interested in the direction had taken. there is a loosening of bonds that has happened over a period of time, not necessarily about brexit and who knows how quickly they can be reformed, if ever, with the new leadership. let's look outside broadcasting house. the latest figures... looking at a total of 337 in reality but we're looking the predictions that, 363 at the end of this contest. some significant

losses for the labour party as we have been mentioning. the liberal dams. we spoke —— lib dems. that is where we. straight into into our newsroom and they headlined. good morning with more than 600 results now declared, the conservatives have passed the finish line. they have formally one the election and are said to a substantial majority, the biggest win since 1987. labour is looking at its worst performance in three decades. leaderjeremy corbyn said

he will not need his party into any future general election. boris johnson has held his seat but the liberal democrat leaderjo swinson has lost hers. the prime minister will likely have his file. he called it an historic election. it gives us now the chance to respect the democratic will of the british people, to change this country for the better and to unleash the potential of the entire people of this country. they are delighted, the tories making those inroads into labour hartman that voted leave. i would like to thank boris... i would say i am going to

be on the train on monday, i am going to london, we are going to get brexit done. labour's exit policy has been under scrutiny and his leadership as well, as he acknowledged a disappointing result. i want to also make it clear that i would not leave the party any future general election i will discuss with our party, to ensure there is a process now of reflection on this result. i am not going to sit here and scalp jeremy corbyn on television for anyone because that is what the headlines will be but what i want to say is that the labour party tonight... we have failed to meet the test of the public and in doing that we have failed the people who we aim to serve and that is heartbreaking. for labour in london, winning off the tourist but a huge blow for the lib dems, the leaderjo swinson narrowly

losing her seat. the millions of people in this country these result will bring bread and this may people are looking for hope. —— dread and dismay. to drive the agenda is the road for borisjohnson and to steer the country to last next destination. 50 seats out of 59 in scotla nd destination. 50 seats out of 59 in scotland for the snp. they also ran securing a new vote on scottish independence from the uk. it has been a bad night in northern ireland with nigel don losing his seat. it also lost to the rcmp. it took north down and the s dlp took of oil from

sinn fein. just before the declaration, cuddle for dylan. he looks like he is dealing with all the attention pretty well. all the latest results on our webpage with real—time analysis from the experts. welcome back two of the bbc election centre and we are declaring a victory for the conservatives in this election campaign and this contest. they have now passed the line in which they form a majority in the house of commons. they are

already on 338 that this is the projected final score. we will see if it works out precisely. we are projecting onto the walls that boris johnson will be on 363 seat, just 35 seats to come in, and labour on 203. scotla nd seats to come in, and labour on 203. scotland playing a very big part in the story of the night. let's join rita to see what the snp games are looking like. shaping up to be a strong note for the snp. more gains declared fairly recently. labour ‘s last seat in glasgow fall into the snp. quite interesting because one of the candidates had been suspended over anti—semitic comments but his

name was on the ballot paper as the snp candidate so questions whether he will take that. coatbridge also going from labour to the snp. jim murphy's seat that conservative and now snp. if we just look at the scotla nd now snp. if we just look at the scotland board, the snp in a strong position, putting on 13 seat tonight and now on a6. the conservatives have lost seven. the labour party six. thank you very much. given that we're looking the picture in scotland, andrew is with a guest who knows all about this scottish

picture. the bbc now projecting the tories will get a5 — a6% of the vapour given conservatives are doing badly in scotland, that means the share of the votes in england would be higher. you have to go back to 1970 to get a share of the vote as high as a6%.jim 1970 to get a share of the vote as high as a6%. jim murphy, the former leader of the scottish labour party. another disastrous night for the scottish labour party. it is becoming the norm. this is our fourth successive defeat. a terrible night in scotland and even though it is early in the morning, i still feel as angry now as i did at 10pm when i heard the exit poll. it has been a when i heard the exit poll. it has beena campaign when i heard the exit poll. it has been a campaign byjeremy corbyn of corbynism which has made half a

century since we have lost one and it is highlighting an outdated sense of what the workers want from the labour party. it is a sense that we just need to patronise working people and promise them free things that someone else can pay for. in the labour party manufacture, everything was a priority and someone else would pay for it and the working class in northern england new you do not get these things for free. it was not credible. you are down to one now. is that mr corbyn's fault? people who voted yes in the referendum and people who voted no in the

referendum is how scotland is invited. those two cams and labour party is in neither. we have pretended to some people who voted yes that we were on the side and we said computer signals to those who voted no and it is a remarkable achievement. there is no future for the labour party in scotland or in england if we pretend to agree with nationalism. our politics has to be open and it has to be about breaking down barriers and not building them. it is about seeing immigration as a good thing for our economy and our culture. it was pretending to agree with nationalism, sending mixed singles on brexit. the real story of tonight is the conservatives have swept england outside london, the snp have swept scotland, and they

will be demanding a second referendum on scottish independence. borisjohnson will have a huge majority. a reserved palette for westminster. what should he do? deny a second referendum or should he say, if that is what the scots want and they voted for the party that wa nts and they voted for the party that wants it, we better give it to them. you cannot call these elections within a few hours of the poles closing... what would you... i was within scott through most of the general election campaign and the snp did not seek a mandate for. make they certainly do. i know you are from paisley... that does not make mea from paisley... that does not make me a bad person, just answer the question. in scotland the snp did

not ask for a second referendum... they say they did! until a minute to ten they said vote for us to stop brexit. so you are advising boris johnson not to give in?” brexit. so you are advising boris johnson not to give in? i cannot give advice to borisjohnson... johnson not to give in? i cannot give advice to boris johnson... he's the prime minister and you have through this before. i am asking you, what should westminster do, should they consider referendum?” am not involved in frontline politics anymore. if the snp won a second referendum —— want a second referendum, but this election in scotla nd referendum, but this election in scotland was not about a second independent referendum... you are as bad as mr corbyn on brexit. you cannot give us a clear position. my view and the scottish labour party

view and the scottish labour party view is that should not a second independent referendum. mr corbyn confuse that by coming to scotland and pretending and signalling that he might be for a second independent referendum. looking at what is happening in politics this evening, and what is happening in northern ireland and in scotland, i may be wrong, but i think we may see a united ireland before we see a divided britain. be able to elwood, james overton, green party, 1557. pollard, luke 25,000... graham richard reid, liberal

democrat, 25a5. smith, rebecca jane, the conservative party candidate, 20,70a. ann widdecombe, brexit party, 2909. in the number of votes reject it was 1a1. i do hereby declare that luke pollard is duly elected. labour holding onto plymouth sutton. the shadow environment minister, luke pollard. and ann widdecombe, now brexit party mep, back in third place. a8— 39% to labour and the tories. this is a 2017 labour gain which held it since 2010. an

interesting result for us. this is where nigel farage had been campaigning. the swing, what is the swing from plymouth sutton? 2.2% from labour to the tories. labour hold, a rare bit of good news for labour tonight. let's talk about the position in sheffield because one of the sheffield seat, sheffield hallam where nick clegg used to be the mp. harry, tell us what happened. it was a dramatic end to what has been a significant day here and i have to say that the result was a very good one for the labour party. they needed it. olivia blake won this and disappointing for laura gordon from the liberal democrats, about 800 votes that separated the two of them and you are right in saying this was

the nick clegg constituency up to a couple of years ago and thenjarrod o'mara took over. he had his problems as well so the liberal democrats were hoping they would have an opportunity to reclaim the seat that they feel is there is but it was a determined campaign and olivia blake has won this by over 800 votes and is absolutely delighted by that result. harry, many thanks. the latest in sheffield hallam, a labour hold and a bit of good news there. lord faulkner, charlie faulkner, a former cabinet minister and craig oliver and sian berry from the green party. you are such a prominent figure in the bladder years but are looking at a position where labour has done even worse than 1983 so let's have your

first thought. ——in the tony blair yea rs. first thought. ——in the tony blair years. is it a leadership of brexit policy issue? essentially leadership. this was a leadership in effect talking to a part of the labour party rather than talking to the wider community. ultimately, if you are the main opposition party, you are the main opposition party, you only make progress if you have an argument about what the future will look like that convinces the public and what we had here was a situation where we not only lost all the traditional conservative labour marginals with a few exceptions but we also lost our most heartland support in the midlands and the north—east in the north—west and that was because just as in scotland in 2015, that heartland support said you are offering us nothing and you don't connect with us anymore. just

as the scottish labour party and those who had voted for us in the yea rs before those who had voted for us in the years before 2015 decided to abandon us, the big question is, what do we do to start having a conversation again, both with the people in the marginals, the vote —— the floating voter which could be one or the other but also our heartland. and if we don't do it quickly, it will be too late to put it together again. jeremy, who has very many characteristics that demand respect, we need and we need to quickly to elect a leader and in making that choice, we've got to have somebody who doesn't talk just 218 of choice, we've got to have somebody who doesn't talkjust 218 of us but talks to the nation. he was giving the strong and oppression to oversee this process of reflection and map the way forward and in that seat,

john landsman was saying, i hope he sticks with us because he needs to create a leadership beyond. do you wa nt create a leadership beyond. do you want him to go tomorrow? in such time as it takes to have a reasonable leadership election and i would have in mind by march, april next year. this is not a normal of election for a myriad of reasons but we are in the middle of the european exit process. we are definite the leaving the european union because of this election but immediately afterwards, we a re of this election but immediately afterwards, we are going to be debating what is our relationship with europe. are we going to pivot towards the usa and leave a close alliance with europe or are we staying with europe, not in the european union by treating the usa may be more at arm's length and boris would want. we need a leader speaking for our party. we can't be

staring at our naval between now and set in the next year. we've got to haveit set in the next year. we've got to have it as soon as we can. there is a brutal reality, whoever you elect, you are up against the prime minister who has done in terms of his own party exceptionally well and will have a majority of possibly 60 or more so you would well have whatever boris johnson or more so you would well have whatever borisjohnson decides will be the relationship with the us or the eu will be what happens. he certainly has the boat in the commons to do whatever he likes with exit and the only way that you can prevent him is by an argument, a debate with the public that says actually, for example, we don't want that close relationship with the united states of america, to close. we wa nt united states of america, to close. we want to remain close to the us, yes, but we want to remain close to

europe as well and you can only do that with someone the public will listen to and is persuasive. you need somebody with gravitas who can command respect in what he or she says. who is that? it could be emily thornberry, it could be keir starmer. but we need to make the choice after the election, somebody who puts the country argument because the one thing that never came out, what is the conservative vision beyond the 31st of january? it is for debate and we need a champion or people who have not had a champion in this last election to speak to them. do you regret the fa ct speak to them. do you regret the fact that it's not been possible, it wasn't possible to form understandings with more candidates and parties and constituencies, for

you as greens, looking in areas where you have bits of supports, a realistic chance of winning. what we nt realistic chance of winning. what went wrong there? we made an agreement over 60 seats, some success there, some are much tighter than others but it would have been much better if we could have talked with the labour party as well. the 2- with the labour party as well. the 2— party system is not delivering for the country. labour stuck with it but i hope we can work with them in the future because it could have done something today, who knows? the greens have had a very good night in our own terms greens have had a very good night in ourown terms in greens have had a very good night in our own terms in terms of our boat share going up, we are saving more deposits, big swings in the seats where we focused our efforts. it's good and bodes well for future gains, we have city elections next year but the country is facing a pretty grave future. the conservatives have now won the

election with very little scrutiny, they've avoided scrutiny throughout this election, theyjust shouted out get exit done. that is theirjob now. on the 31st ofjanuary, if we're not going to see brexit done, thatis we're not going to see brexit done, that is alive. we can that is a fa ct, that is alive. we can that is a fact, nobody can tell us they have to hear the other side. as charlie will say, we will be leaving. we we re will say, we will be leaving. we were going to a transition period with an“— were going to a transition period with an 11— month deadline to sort out a trade agreement with the whole of the eu, never mind the rest of the world. brexit is going to be really ha rd the world. brexit is going to be really hard for this country and those of us in opposition are still going to have work to do and it would be good if we can work together. during the campaign, we heard caroline lucas earlier who made a forceful statement after her victory in brighton, basically making the point that you are making the electoral system, as you describe it, was bust and not delivering for people. when you look at the way you've handled this

campaign, understandably wanting people to talk about climate issues and the challenge of environmental change, in people's everyday lives but not as big policy issues, asking people to confront choices in their daily lives. and show the benefits. i'm proud of how we've done. we put our manifesto out first with the big bold green new deal talking about reaching into every corner of the country and investing and creating jobs and sorting out climate action and clean airand jobs and sorting out climate action and clean air and all those huge big ideas on the other parties did respond and make extra promises. we have to hold the conservatives to their gas fracking band. it was rushed out. let's hold them to that. let's work really hard to show that the people who felt ignored around the people who felt ignored around the country really want investment in the green investment which is the way to go, the best you can make, it pays back and will create a better

country. just before ijoined jeremy, given your understanding of how the tory party works, who is the labour leader they would most fear? who is the one they would think would present more of a threat to them? i think they would fear moving to the centre, if they would to become a bit more social democratic. someone likejust become a bit more social democratic. someone like just —— jess phillips would frighten the life out of boris johnson in parliament but whether the labour membership is repaired to give someone like that ago, i doubt it. what about keir starmer? he is somebody the metropolitan elite has a lwa ys somebody the metropolitan elite has always talked about, he is very articulate and thoughtful but i don't think he has the charisma to reach out beyond london to the rest of the country. if keir starmer was leader, borisjohnson would be secretly smiling. we've got to have a leadership election and see how the two candidates i mentioned, jess phillips is also a serious player, and see how they do. the key thing

they've got to be able to do is convince the public that they understand the issues and understand the public because that's what went wrong this time. that's what went wrong this time. that's what went wrong for labour this time. jeremy says, extent of labours troubles overnight? i want to bring you some history which we love to do, huw, and find an election where this kind of thing happened to labour. we are in our virtual central lobby in the house of commons. let me show you the projection, 2019, labour under jeremy corbyn have one 203 seats. people saying it's historically terrible and bad and awful but how bad is it if we compare? firstly, the corbin election in 2017, 262 was

an advance in the previous one where ed miliband was leader and the one before that with gordon brown. ed miliband got 232 in 2015 and 258 under corbin —— gordon brown said jeremy corbyn improved on both of them but the thing that was different was, gordon brown had the scottish seats which came in p.m., scottish seats which came in p.m., scottish leader, his own seat and by that stage, we hadn't had that great snp revival. ed miliband didn't have that. if we go back to neil kinnock, 1982, even then, 271. he was spanking all those scottish seeds but still ahead. 1987, another defeat. very low figure. still nowhere near as

low figure. still nowhere near as low as mr corbyn has been denied. michael foot, in 1983, on 209 is pretty much the result we are getting tonight. this was regarded as an absolutely dreadful election. ina way as an absolutely dreadful election. in a way it ushered in tony blair. the manifesto was described as the longest suicide note in history. well, they have done it again. you have to go back to 1935 to find was one. after the war, they then had some years as leaders. he made some progress in this election but we had to go back to 1985 and atley was a ca reta ker to go back to 1985 and atley was a caretaker leader. this is how bad this is for labour. this will stand

out for years and years and years. let's bring it on here. this is a really, really. .. if let's bring it on here. this is a really, really... if we are... bring on that last one. 2019, 203. if that is where they are, it is almost the worst in a century. pretty much the worst in a century. pretty much the worst since the very start of the party. that is something to think about. i wa nt to that is something to think about. i want to force for a second to give full credit to someone who willjoin us now fault the third or fourth time during the night, sojohn curtis with his marvellous team of a nalyst curtis with his marvellous team of analyst because john, of curtis with his marvellous team of analyst becausejohn, of course, has analyst becausejohn, of course, has a key role in fashioning the results of the exit poll accurately and it

was free hundred and 68 —— 368, we are now looking at 36a. ijust want to say, brilliantly played by you again. well done. tell us you think it is now heading in terms of that labour performance? we think labour might end up at 203 and certainly the labour party is not going to get past the 209 they got in 1989 but the team next to me are really the champions. they have done a brilliantjob in champions. they have done a brilliant job in analysing champions. they have done a brilliantjob in analysing the data. and not least the interviewers who braved the december whether to collect the data without which none of us would be able to do anything at all. to come back to the labour party, a startling contrast between labours defeat this time and the one in 1983 which might lead one to

believe this is a more serious defeat. back in 1983 when labour had a lower show of the vote, what enable labour to defend itself against what was no more of a 28% share of the vote was that it held on to its traditional areas, the midlands the working parts of the country. the striking thing about this election is a way in which it performed worst anything north of england, in the midlands, working—class seats. that is not just simply to do with brexit but it is certainly partly to do with brexit and it is a continuation of a pattern also evident in the 2017 election. a lot of speculation saying surely the workers could not possibly elect a conservative mp, not noticing that the reason why these seeds when now marginal is

that in 2017, this predominantly leave areas had already swung dramatically to the conservatives and to that extent, what has happened tonight should be seen as pa rt happened tonight should be seen as part two of eight to part story. theresa may allowed substantial movement not quite enough to deliver a victory but borisjohnson has been able to turn that legacy into valuable currency, a golden currency to hit this overall majority. the conservative's best result since 1987 and i think it's best performance in terms of votes since margaret thatcher. the historic victory in 1979, an election which we often see as a significant change to british public policy. clearly this election will be in the same

leg. for those people wondering what the size of the majority will be, we we re the size of the majority will be, we were same possibly 86 and we are now saying 78? 78, yes, remember that when you are talking about a majority, if you just get one seat wrong, that will change the majority by two. the metrics we will give you is this, we forecast 368 conservative seats, we ended up with 36a so the actual error if they pan out as we expect, it is exactly the same as 2017. foresees out! you should be ashamed of yourself what is the world coming to.” should be ashamed of yourself what is the world coming to. i know, all those people who went to bed at 11 o'clock last night safe in the knowledge they knew borisjohnson had won the election, i think we properly did the country a service. i think you deserve a knighthood,

personally. thank you very much to john, working his magic yet again and getting it bang on target. we're looking at a majority of 78 for the coming out of this election which is remarkable. laura will be living at relatively shortly and i am just wondering, some concluding thoughts before you go back to westminster and report on the days events. we will be talking again at ten o'clock tonight... and probably before them because we are expecting something to happen at westminster so hopefully i will talk to you from down there. if you get a chance to talk to the prime minister later, about what has been going on and the fa ct about what has been going on and the fact that he is now sitting on a pretty solid majority, what would you ask him about his priorities for the next few weeks? within the next few weeks, without any doubt, the

first thing that the prime minister is going to try to do is have a queen's speech on thursday, bring back the brexit built for its first reading, the first technical bid, i think on friday. at that point and we need to clarify with him, he will probably lead westminster and a new mps have a bit of a breather. there is an acknowledgement at number 10 and right across politics that the body politics is pretty exotic, fractures and people are angry and exhausted and burnt out by everything that has happened. i think what they will do is take a bit of a pause, come back in january, push through the rest of the brexit legislation as quickly as they can, which of course will have to go through the house of lords and then after that a big reset. february, march budget, a reshuffle and at that point borisjohnson were really show us the true colours of

the prime minister that perhaps he a lwa ys the prime minister that perhaps he always wanted to be stopped if we think briefly about his trajectory, imean, he think briefly about his trajectory, i mean, he has been now famous around the country for more than a decade for being desperate to be prime minister even though people do not clearly nobody wants to do with it. in the next few months, you can expect that will be revealed to us all but he is also somebody who divides as much as he delights. he is extremely divisive and controversial but has spent a career of doing things people told him it would be impossible. he was told he could not turn london blue and he was mayor. he was told he was not able to be the conservative leader because he messed up as foreign secretary and yet, against those odds, he did. and then told, you

could never turn places like darlington blue and look at what has happened tonight. maybe he a lucky general, maybe he and his team had a strategy. they were nervous stop they were seriously nervous in the last few days but it has been an historic victory for a man who has wa nted historic victory for a man who has wanted the job so long. let's see what he does with it. let's see what he does with it. we will talk later. thank you very much for now. let's join andrew with some guests. laura parker of momentum, phillips a brexit party mep. laura parker you said it is unquestionable that labour's policies are popular. your party has had its worst election defeat since 1935. what is popular about that? this has mainly been an election about brexit... about that? this has mainly been an election about brexit. .. no-one is buying at that. brexit may explain

why you lost, it does not explain why you lost, it does not explain why you lost, it does not explain why you half 160 seats behind the conservatives. i think probably does explain. if you look at public support like bringing the rails into public ownership,... support like bringing the rails into public ownership, . .. that has support like bringing the rails into public ownership,... that has always been support but it is never an election changer, the rails into public ownership. you were warned this kind of socialism was not going to fly but you carried on. this has undoubtably been an election about brexit. you told us during the campaign that it wasn't, labour told us it was about the nhs and public service. labour wanted it to be about those things but it has not come through. they have to be a period of reflection, i agree with that and we need to look at what didn't work... what did not work was

jeremy corbyn. we were told by labor party people thatjeremy corbyn was unelectable by the momentum cold would not listen. it is not occult, it isa would not listen. it is not occult, it is a membership organisation. —— a cult. it has been a disastrous experiment. it is not an experiment it isa experiment. it is not an experiment it is a serious election result. what is was about is what this means for the people of the country. the people of the country have spoken and they did not want you. they spoken largely about brexit and let's hope that borisjohnson will now deliver although we still have the worrying prospect of a no—deal. that is another matter... it is not to make it is because i am questioning you about the labour party and mr corbyn. are you going to continue with corbynism without mr corbyn? i believe it was always

more thanjust mr corbyn? i believe it was always more than justjeremy corbyn stop we need radical change in the country. the tories if they are watching, they would be cheering and saying we are infor they would be cheering and saying we are in for some decade! alex phillips, the brexit party, rip, it is over, done, finished, irrelevant, gone. it has been a big victory for leave... of which you are not a part. we said to the conservatives, we part. we said to the conservatives, we said you would not have an alliance. that's because our mind back to march when everyone thought brexit was dead. people's votes marches, stagnation, mrs may, her deal and when the brexit party from

six weeks before the european elections, which are far more favourable, we actually reset the agenda and if you look at the conservative manifesto, a lot of it is outright plagiarism of the brexit party... hold on a minute. nigel farage has told us several times that the johnson brexit agreement farage has told us several times that thejohnson brexit agreement is not even that... and i agree. now, with a strong majority in parliament, because from the beginning of his tenure ship, boris johnson says to the remain side he would not leave and is set a different thing to the drg... would not leave and is set a different thing to the drg. .. now he has a majority. it does not matter to you because you will not be there to you because you will not be there to hold them to account. it matters to hold them to account. it matters to the country. in many respects, the fascinating thing about the nigel farage movement, if you will,

is the ability to push the conservatives and the parliamentary agenda without winning seats. we have to back to you, huw. the time is six o'clock, and a very good morning to you. we've been on airforjust about eight hours, but we are fresh and fizzing with energy to bring you this morning's news, which is that borisjohnson has won this general election for the conservatives and is heading for a majority of 78, a very big majority indeed and the biggest since margaret thatcher's majority in 1987, the third victory that she scored. so this is where we are right now. let's take a look at the seat numbers on broadcasting housein the seat numbers on broadcasting house in central london, and here we have the projected end result, which will be the conservatives on 365 and borisjohnson, a will be the conservatives on 365 and boris johnson, a hefty will be the conservatives on 365 and borisjohnson, a hefty gain for him.

labour on 203 with