seats, but we've made some gains in sunderland. we've made a few games there and when you look at the results of areas like sunderland where we didn't win, we got a lot of second places, so there are good there are good and bad across the board. there are plenty more results to come, with the parties watching closely, peering into what it might mean for their wider fortunes and doing so through the giant prism of brexit. oh, and here, at daft o'clock in the morning, was this some cross—party collaboration? or perhaps commiseration. chris mason, bbc news. let's get the thoughts of oui’ bbc news. let's get the thoughts of our assistant political editor norman smith at westminster. is this a case of the voters saying, a plague on both your houses to labour and the conservatives? many voters are absolutely fed up to the back teeth of the two main parties spending time on brexit and getting absolutely no nowhere. what is less