we will also be going to colchester in essex and talking to colchester in essex and talking to our correspondentis point, having heard the initial contributions from our guests? well, ifi can, i would like to have some fun with the panel. there are always aspects of curious expectation management, we have not talked about where the big numbers end up, we will be thinking about how many seats did the government lose, and how many seats overall did labour and the lib dems gain? because all three of you be as honest as you possibly can about where you think it is going to end 7 where you think it is going to end up? what would be a bad or good night? you don't want to lose seats. these are ha rd—working night? you don't want to lose seats. these are hard—working councillors. you don't want to lose seats. but for us, let's take the independent figures, that is probably the fairest, lord heywood was predicting somewhere between 500, 800 and fairest, lord heywood was predicting somewhere between 500,800 and 1000. losses. those are the figures that have been kicking around in the public domain. you kno

i am thinking of colchester. andrew is there.d into the result? it is interesting. this was the main conservative target seat in eastern england and they failed to take it. in fact they have lost two seats tonight, including that of group leader losing his seat to the greens but it has not been a great night for the tories on the east of england. combinations of gains from the lib dems, labour and greens. they have held on to most of the other seeds but losing places like south and, basildon and peterborough are not great things for the tories. the main story though seems to surround the liberal democrats. they have one seat in colchester, they are making games in other areas. expecting to take control of north norfol soap feeling quite on a high tonight. —— north norfolk. they think they are bouncing back so it looks like they are bouncing back. not so good for the tories. a quick word about labour. they held on to harlow and hip switch and cambridge but those are there strongholds. the state ipswich. remember, if we are quite c

there is colchester in essex, where the conservatives are close to winning a majority.l be interesting to see how the liberal democrats do. and a last one to look at, walsall and the west midlands, the conservatives could take control. they unexpectedly won the walsall north seat in the general election back in 2017. so, plenty to keep you going with huw in the dead of night, and more to follow throughout the day on friday. and if you're feeling just a tad left out, perhaps you're in scotland or wales or those parts of england where your council isn't holding elections this time, well, there's the european parliament elections. they're looking increasingly likely to happen all over the uk towards the end of this month. chris mason reporting. and for full coverage and analysis of the results as they come in you can join huw edwards tomorrow night on bbc one and the bbc news channel starting at 11.35. the ukip leader gerard batten has launched his party's campaign for the european elections, speaking to supporters in middlesbrough, he said ukip was only party with a clear

i think in colchester we beat the tory leader of the group there by something like 800 votes.le have had greens campaigning and they know the greens campaigning and they know the greens can win and then the big interest do an eco interesting surge in climate change, that has pushed our majorities. where people haven't campaigned, maybe not so much. with vote shares, if you look at the council, we got the biggest increase in vote share where we haven't necessarily been campaigning hard. there are lots of reasons to vote for the greens at the moment and they come together in this moment. somewhat interesting results coming in. reeta, update us. result from north norfolk. this was in no overall control and it has gone live dead. this is a liberal democrat gain with seven still —— it has gone liberal democrat. you can see 27 seats for the liberal democrat, for for the conservatives and two for the independents. prior to tonight, the independents. prior to tonight, the conservatives needed five seats to gain this council. the liberal democrats needed six. it's the liberal democrats

natasha lindstaedt is a professor of government at the university of essex and joins us live from colchester, england. thanks for joining us. >> thanks for having me. >> president trump is pushing back against congressional democrats, vowing to fight all subpoenas and the 20-plus investigations, and it is a stalling strategy that's working very well for him. so how do the democrats get the white house to comply? what are the options available to them? >> well, unfortunately the options available to them may end up taking a very long time. as had already been mentioned in the report, there are 20 different investigations and "the washington post" had reported that they had made 79 requests to trump and he sort of blocked all of them or not complied with any of them. so if we were just to take one of the requests to get barr to testify and that they've subpoenaed him, and they voted -- one committee voted him in contempt. so the entire house could vote him in contempt. but then they're going to need to get a court order, and that's not so simple because the courts can have appeals and then thi

let's talk about it with natasha lindstadt from colchester, england.udging from our story, it seems it is anyone's game right now in iowa. >> no, i would agree. it's really too hard to predict what's going to happen because we're just still so early on. there's so many democratic candidates that have thrown their name into the ring. the other thing that we have to look at in terms of what is motivating democratic voters is top on their list is someone that can beat trump. it may be that democrats think their best strategy is to go with someone who they know is more moderate, who is really experienced and really seems to be able to instigate trump, to push trump a little bit, to get under his skin and that's something biden can do. anything can happen. his early attempts at running for president didn't go very well. he tended to kind of go out very, very early never getting past iowa as had been reported so it's going to be a real test here if he can emerge on top after the iowa caucuses. >> right. he literally moved into iowa before but never really go

me begin by thanking chris kahans, let me thank blaine kennedy fitzgerald, the young lady from colchester. what a beautiful voice. let me thank grammy award winner brandy carlyle. let me thank jenny nelson, who has one of the most beautiful farms in the state. let me thank hope patrero, the part of the young generation that is going to transform this country. let me thank congressman peter welch, peter and i have worked for so many years on so many issues. thanks for your work, peter. and let me thank long time friend ben cohen. you know, in 1928, herbert hoover ran for president on a message that said a chicken in every pot. well, maybe we run in 2020 on a message that says cherry garcia in every freezer. thank you, ben, for all you've done for the state and country. and let me thank shawn king and his family. i think many of you don't know that shawn is one of the real leaders in addressing a major, major crisis in this country, and that is the need to reform a racist and broken criminal justice system. today, i want to thank all of you for being here this afternoon. looks like we're ge

joining us from colchester, england. good to have you, natasha. >> thanks for having me. >> these launches, as we mentioned, do not violate kim jong-un's promise not to test long-range missiles, but it is saying now north korea is saying to washington the ball is in your court. how important is it now for the trump administration to get things moving with the continued talks and negotiations? >> i think actually in trump's defense, any u.s. leader is in a very difficult spot in dealing with north korea and, in fact, there really hasn't been any u.s. leader that has been able to get much out of the north koreans. they have been difficult to deal with because historically what their strategy has been to push things to the brink, test missiles, really try to provoke almost and get to the point where they can negotiate and they use all of these provocations as leverage to get to the negotiating table. the issue is for trump to negotiate with the north koreans, they will have to alleviate some of the sanctions and they may ha

there is colchester in essex, where the conservatives are close to winning a majority.e interesting to see how the liberal democrats do. and a last one to look at, also in the west midlands, walsall in the west midlands, the conservatives could take control. they unexpectedly won the walsall north seat in the general election back in 2017. so plenty to keep you going with huw in the dead of night and more to follow throughout the day on friday. and if you are feeling just a tad left out, perhaps you are in scotland or wales or most parts of england, where your council is not holding elections this time, well, there's the european parliament elections. they are looking increasingly likely to happen all over the uk towards the end of this month. chris mason keeping a lid on his excitement for now at least. we're using fewer plastic carrier bags than ever. thanks partly to the fact that, for the past few years, we've had to pay for them. despite that, more than a billion are still sold every year. britain's major supermarkets have all signed up to targets aimed at reducing

there is colchester in essex, where the conservatives are close to winning a majority.democrats do. and a last one to look at, walsall and the west midlands, the conservatives could take control. they unexpectedly won the walsall north seat in the general election back in 2017. so, plenty to keep you going with huw in the dead of night, and more to follow throughout the day on friday. and if you're feeling just a tad left out, perhaps you're in scotland or wales or those parts of england where your council isn't holding elections this time, well, there's the european parliament elections. they're looking increasingly likely to happen all over the uk towards the end of this month. the ukip leader gerard batten has launched his party's campaign for the european elections. speaking to supporters in middlesbrough, he said ukip was the only party with a clear policy on how the uk will leave the european union. mr batten said he hoped the elections wouldn't take place, but inisted he was confident of success if they did. no second referendum. uk does not want these elections

let's here more on this from our health correspondent, nikki fox, who‘s in colchester at a so—calledalled a super surgery because it doesn‘t just which is called a super surgery because it doesn‘tjust have gps working here, this is one of the solutions from nhs england to the gp recruitment crisis. and they have all kinds of different professionals working here, paramedics, upstairs there are people taking blood tests, there are people taking blood tests, there are people taking blood tests, there are osteopaths working on people‘s backs. they also have nurse practitioners and people going out to visit people‘s homes. it is all supposed to take the pressure off gps because there isn‘t really enough gps to go around. one of the people who works here is the lead gp doctor hassan. he can explain more about the pressures affecting them. how serious is this? this is pretty serious. we have got to a point now whether workload is increasing, and we have a workforce that is shrinking in terms of doctors. we have over the last few years tried various different initiatives to try to get more d

basildon and southend, failing to ta ke basildon and southend, failing to take their target council of colchesterse great yarmouth to no overall control. two other things to note, as vicki was saying, we have seen in the east a big increase in the number of independent candidates getting elected and green party candidates so there is clearly some sort of backlash going on, much in evidence against the westminster parties. the other interesting things involves spoilt ballot papers. here in great yarmouth, there are no liberal democrats or greens standing so if you want to protest, what you do? normally, in any ward you would have about half a dozen or perhaps a dozen spoilt ballot papers but in some of the wards here this morning we have had 119 spoilt papers, 82 in another, 62 in another. are hearing this sort of thing from other camps across the region. i am told there would traitor appears in quite a few of those spoilt ballot papers and quite a few other words are used which we cannot use at this time of day! quite a few of the papers are left blank as well but it seems there has been a big in

there is colchester in essex, where the conservatives are close to winning a majority.e conservatives could take control. they unexpectedly won the walsall north seat in the general election back in 2017. so plenty to keep you going with huw in the dead of night and more to follow throughout the day on friday. and if you are feeling just a tad left out, perhaps you are in scotland or wales or most parts of england, where your council is not holding elections this time, well, there's the european parliament elections. they are looking increasingly likely to happen all over the uk towards the end of this month. breaking news to bring you. julian assange has been sentenced to fifty weeks in prison for breaching his bail. he has got the maximum for that offence. the wikilea ks co—founder, who's 47, spent seven years avoiding court by staying in the ecuadorean embassy in london but he was removed from there last month. he has been in southwark crown court this morning, this is a picture of him going into court this morning, holding up his fifth in a gesture of defiance as he

across the country, in places you wouldn't expect, like south tyneside, sunderland, places like colchester done that through hard work, our local teams working hard for all the years since 2015 when we last contested these seats and what we haven't reached yet is our defence, the councils, councillors we already had, when we were on quite a high, we had had a green surge up to that year, we had our best ever general election results that year, we are defending those seats but given the results we have had so far it looks like we will do well there too. i can confidently say we will have a record number of greens on a record number of councils at the end of day. some people contrary to what you were saying will say that is only because people are looking for an alternative place to put their vote, because they have disillusioned and that is one of the pictures that is coming through with the two main party, and they are just looking for somewhere else to put their vote. i think that explains some the margins by which we have been winning, but remember these elections are held under first pa

they failed to take their target seat of colchester.ad in north norfolk district council and they are running that but the very big one la st running that but the very big one last night was chelmsford. until yesterday, they only had five seats on the council and today they have 31 and they are now running the council. in the next few minutes, vince cable, the liberal democrat leader, will go to chelmsford to congratulate his troops. on top of that, the lib dems picked up seats all over the region does not gaining southend to help them take the council to no overall control, to ta ke council to no overall control, to take it away from the conservatives. also worth noting that we have had 33 independent councillors elected so 33 independent councillors elected so far, and eight greens. it seems that if the voters are wanting to ta ke that if the voters are wanting to take it out on the main westminster parties over the handling of brexit, they seem to be voting more for the smaller parties or for the independents. a quick word about labo

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