what allowed me to be here today, in parliament, giving my maiden speech, as a proud new mp for enfield southgaterking and studying locally. i love our welcoming community that brings out the best in people. the new scottish conservative mp reflected on brexit. the challenge is an opportunity —— the challenges and opportunities will be of fundamental importance of the next few years. —— over these. i it will work tirelessly to ensure that we come out stronger than we are even now. -- i will out stronger than we are even now. —— i will continue to work tirelessly. to me, is an advantage of being at home. this is where i was born and grow. i did so in martin's brother. they few hundred yards from the birthplace of captain james cook. and i can think of a few that are ambassadors for a new global britain than a man who discovered half of the world. the cottage stands in the grounds of stuart park. — — cottage stands in the grounds of stuart park. —— cook. the grounds originally belonged to middlesbrough's first of may. he was a generation of industrialists. —— first mayor. — — a generation of indust

bambos charalambous is the new labour mp for enfield southgate.baron, conservative mp for basildon and billericay since 2001. ben bradshaw, the labour mp in exeter since 1997. ican i can barely remember that year! welcome everybody. we've got voters as well. let me ask, not the politicians, our voters first of all. what word would you use to describe politicians right now? shady. disindisingeneralous. dishonest. i'll come back with one word! laughter i have more than one word. no, give mea i have more than one word. no, give me a some if you can't contain it to one. in need of one. yeah, i strongly believe they're divided. you can see that throughout their parties, notjust in the conservative party, but also in the labour party. too divided. what about you ? labour party. too divided. what about you? i would say unavailable. unavailable definitely. meaning, what you can't get access to them? they don't come across that way. they don't come across that way. they come across from a come across as if they're from a completely different world. how do

labour are behind but doing much better than anyone expected, taking enfield southgate from the conservativeso get and held it. what a situation, we are near the line now but we are not near enough for the conservatives. look at the end, the seats on the end are not yet in, where they are dark blue for the conservatives or dark red for labour we don't know the final result, truro, crewe, saint austell, st ives... the thing we do know, the conservatives cannot, cannot underline make this 326 line, that is just over half the total number of mps in the houses of parliament, they cannot do it and therefore its been a terrible, terrible mistake for theresa may to throw away the majority won by david cameron in 2015 and yes, labour have come second and they have done far better than almost anyone expected. david, thatis than almost anyone expected. david, that is the story. amazing. laura kuenssberg has been sitting here since 10pm last night and you have to be done to downing street to wait for theresa may. do you know when she is speaking? we were told that might be 10am, but we know now it isn't

we ask people in enfield southgate — which turned labour this time — what they make of the election resultit was exactly a week ago that kensington town hall was recounting one of the tightest fought battles of the general election. a seat that overturned a huge conservative majority — to go labour byjust 20 votes. today, it became the centre of protest as locals and residents of the grenfell tower fire descended upon it to scream their anger — demandingjustice, information, and answers from government and the media. arrangements for survivors and evacuees in the borough has been shambolic. powered by volunteers with little coordination from authorities. tonight, as more protests spread to the centre of london — it felt like a bottle had been uncorked. the heat of early summer, the anger of grief — a potentially toxic combination for a government so fragile in its grip on power. john sweeney has been in the thick of it all day and joins us. what is the mood like where you are? well, the situation here, it is tense. i just walked past a candlelit vigil, many people standing outside the chur