but they voted strongly for brexit, andy ukip are no longerfielding a strongly for brexit, andy ukip and ukip voters here last election. in a moment a summary of the business news this hour but first the headlines on bbc news. prosecutors in sweden have dropped their seven—year investigation into rape allegations against the wikileaks founder, julian assange. the shadow chancellorjohn mcdonnell has accused theresa may of abandoning older people, saying means testing winter fuel payments is a "savage attack on vulnerable pensioners". us warplanes operating over syria have attacked a convoy carrying pro—government militia forces in a mission to protect british and american forces. russia has condemned the strike. i'm egon cossou with your money update. online food ordering firm just eat is facing an investigation into its takeover of its great rival hungry house. regulators are worried the deal could harm competition and lead to worse terms for restaurants using the service. london city airport is to become the first in britain to abandon its control tower in favour of high tech remote

ukip and labour. in the home of the pay rant saint of mayism the tories achieved their best win of these elections. street, andyte is duly elected as mayor for the west midlands. his success in the west midlands mayoral contest shows that the conservatives are on the march in labour heartlands. the giants of the labour movement would be stunned as bastians fell. glasgow and the land of michael foot. they won greater manchester and liverpool, giving the party some hope that urban areas may save it from meltdown on the 8thjune. ukip changed the country by laying the ground for the brexit vote. but in their success, they may very well have put themselves out of business. on the other side there was little sign of a bounce from aggrieved k rfiieeffieeafl eart'fl ' " " in the un with nicola sturgeon. talk us through the snp‘s fortunes today? do you agree we've reached peak nat in the words of ruth davidson? we possible have. you heard in my report that labour has lost control of glasgow. what is interesting. they might be talking about it in a few decades time today, is the return of the conservative party. 20 years ago

but andy burnham has been elected metro mayor for manchester. he took 63% of the vote. ukiply, most of that going to the conservatives. here in the studio we will get some reaction in the next hour or so from john mcdonnell of labour and iain duncan smith, thank you for giving us company and peter kellner is here to give us analysis and we'll be joined by professorjohn curtis who will give us his latest take on the days events. all that, but let's look at the scorecard, the scoreboard at the moment. this is where we are, in terms of council seats, these are the numbers of councillors, if you arejust the numbers of councillors, if you are just joining the numbers of councillors, if you arejustjoining us this is the numbers of councillors, if you are justjoining us this is where we are justjoining us this is where we are virtually at the end of this day. 550 gained for the conservatives, 385 losses for labour, independence losing 12, the lib dems as we speak having lost 36, the snp having lost seven and plaid cymru having gained 33. the greens are on 40 as we speak, they have