one in two children in this part of grimsby grow up in poverty.ain's poorest families see the election? a special report. look who's wrapping the christmas presents — america's first lady visits the salvation army in east london. and coming up on bbc news, a first return to the club that sacked him — jose mourinho will be in the old trafford dugout tonight, but as manager for his new team, tottenham. a good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. nato leaders have ended their 70th anniversary meeting in watford. borisjohnson, who hosted the gathering of the west's military alliance, spoke of the solidarity at the heart of the organisation. but there've been plenty of behind—the—scenes tensions. there have been arguments about nato‘s future direction and what to do about syria, and in a meeting that was meant to be all about diplomacy we had president trump calling his canadian counterpart two—faced. here's our deputy political editor, jon pienaar. this report does contain some flash photography. this report does contain some flash photography.

david pearce was once a trade union official in grimsby.there, i don't know if i'll be let in. have i betrayed anybody? no, i haven't. because what was happening was making us worse off. so i've changed my opinion. who do you blame for the fact that labour lost so much support here? jeremy corbyn. because he's old —fashioned, and you can't do that. you can't do what he was doing. you've got to accept 17.5 million. you've got to accept it. we never belonged in the common market. we just don't belong there. you get your sovereignty back, it's a big thing. grimsby is one of britain's busiest ports. much of its trade is with the eu. even so, grimsby voted overwhelmingly to leave and, on thursday, backed borisjohnson's conservatives. so, where, if no longer here, are labour's heartlands now? manchester is one surviving labour stronghold. this is prosperous metropolitan england. here, the labour vote held up, among the young, the college educated, the socially liberal, middle—class professionals, working in the health service and schools. when i

ed thomas, bbc news, grimsby. would be better than leaving under boris johnson's brexit deal. the party supported remain during the 2016 referendum campaign, but later said the result had to be honoured. it is hard to remember a time when pro—union politics has been so damaged. that is why we must offer an alternative. ulster unionist mps will offer a progressive, pro—union voice in the house of commons. ulster unionist mps will stand strong against any attempts to annex northern ireland from the rest of the uk. the conservatives and labour have both pledged to deliver their versions of brexit if they are successful in next week's general election. but what do their plans entail and when — if ever — will brexit actually be done? 0ur economics editor faisal islam has been looking at the parties' promises — and at what brexit negotiations next year could look like. tick—tock, time running out until the big decision for the nation. but, whatever the shape of parliament, a new brexit countdown will begin after the ele

the europeans good for grimsby is it because the fish markets all shut down on what i want to buy you know these people don't see the european as something anything for them at all and boris johnson has said we've got to prove to these people who have lent us their vote as you just said for the 1st time ever that we can actually do something outside the european union to make their lives better than they are and that is former industrial terms to build the industrial revolution when the u.k. was really an important think place in the world you know that fired all these things and they were everything shut down and gone away now and they and boris johnson got to give them an answer as to how leaving the european union is going to give them things that they used to have but don't have anymore let's talk about the realities in the practicalities of this when they come back to that big building there when you get people like michael gove you know who drove the whole thing not just during election campaigns the kind of kept him in a box during the campaign he drove the run up to the origin

i often fantasised, and i still do today, that one day grimsby town football club are going to win thehey would never have a conservative mp. lord lamont reflected on the government's top priority, taking the uk out of the eu. i made my maiden speech in the house of commons in 1972, supporting and joining the ec, as it then was. i never imagined that, 45 years later, i should find myself standing in this house, supporting measures to reverse that decision. lord hennessy once suggested that my own general scepticism came from the fact that i lived my early years in the islands with connections to norway. the mp once filled in a form asking where his nearest railway station, and he wrote bourbon. shetland was the only place that voted against membership in the 1975 referendum, but this had less to do with links to the vikings, and more to do with the fact that the government distributed to every house a leaflet detailing the advantages of the common market. the leaflet had a map of the uk on the front, but it left shetland off the map completely. not even in the usual insulting little bo

but we are doing what we can in grimsby. for me is that people are so keen to come and tell you they are keen to come. it can be very difficult, humiliating, to have to admit to being lonely, can't it? and as well, it is difficult to actually say, yeah, iam it is difficult to actually say, yeah, i am lonely and need some company, but also, some of our guests don't see people in between our events. it could be six weeks that they are stuck in the house in between. we actually go out and pick up between. we actually go out and pick up all our guests to bring them into us up all our guests to bring them into us for christmas dinner. a lot of them can't get out of their homes without help, so they will arrive without help, so they will arrive with us around 11, 11:30am. we have a sing song. one of our guest has a bit every christmas day, so we get him a little cake. he will be 79 this year. our eldest guest is 103. so it is just a fabulous, fabulous day, and to hear them... they will hold your hand, which in its own right isjust

grimsby are 21st in league two and without a win since september.ped officiating in august 2018, the reason given was that he was re—locating for personal reasons. in a lenghty post online today, the 34—year—old has revealed that he was sacked for what he calls ‘a dark humoured joke' mocking a disabled person at his daughter's school sportsday he says he had previouslyjoked about not taking part in the parents race and had been criticised in a national newspaper for making mistakes because he was overweight. he filmed the disabled person before sending it to a friend saying that he finally "had a chance of winning the race that year". madley says he was dismissed for "gross misconduct on grounds of discrimination". the ecb have said they're "cautiously" in favour of four day tests. that's a proposal being looked at by the icc as they try and finalise an increasingly congested cricket calendar from 2023. here's our correspondent katie gornall. supporters of this four—day limit on test matches argue it will ease congestion and ease up around a0 daysin

macclesfield town's fixture with grimsby town will go ahead as planned on boxing day, kick off 3pm.ved a zero capacity notice by the local safety advisory group and as a result of this, its fixture against plymouth argyle did not take place on saturday 21 december. the england cricket captainjoe root says he doesn't know if ben stokes will be available for the first test against south africa on boxing day , stoke's father ged has been taken seriously ill. stokes missed training today to be with him by his bedside. the ecb say that ged was taken to hospital in johannesburg yesterday where he's in a critical condition. ijust want i just want to throw all their support behind him and his family under stress the importance of trying to respect their privacy at this time but it is really sad news and, we are all different. you literally have no idea if he is going to be to play or not boxing day? it would be wrong to go into right now. family comes first and we will have to wait and see but most importantly we are all here for ben and the rest of his family. some other england team news,

europe is good for grimsby is it because the fish markets all shut down on one of. these people don't see the european anything for them at all and boris johnson has said we've got to prove to these people who have lent us their vote as you just said for the 1st time ever that we can actually do. something outside the european union to make their lives better than they are and that is former industrial terms to build the industrial revolution when the u.k. was really an important think place in the world you know that fired all these things and they were everything shut down and gone away now and they and boris johnson got to give them an answer as to how leaving the european union is going to give them things that they used to have but don't have anymore let's talk about the realities of the practicalities of this when they come back to that big building there when you get people like michael gove you know who drove the whole thing not just during election campaigns they kind of kept him in a box during the campaign he drove the run up to the original referendum a

michelle and john moved to grimsby this year. 25p a bag. you know, it's good food. for the homeless. how old is your daughter? five. it crippled us, we'd hit rock bottom. does it feel like a big general election for you guys? massive. does it feel like somebody could change your lives? yeah, a huge amount. who is the politician who is going to transform the way you guys are living? it's going to sound awful but i like everything that boris is talking about. for some, the priority is staying warm. we were all like this, bearing in mind we had dressing gowns on underneath as well. this year, lucy, a single parent with two kids, has struggled to heat her home. what are your children saying to you? sobbing. theyjust was like this, trying to keep warm. lucy is now getting help from the charity national energy action. do you have any faith in politics? no. and, in some ways, i wish i did, but who do you trust? and also with brexit coming up as well, it's worrying times, really. and is your vote up for grabs? yes. again and again, people talk to the lack of faith and trust

macclesfield have been given the go—ahead to play grimsby on boxing day — their last home match was calledd didn't have a safety certificate. they've also been docked 6 points for not paying wages and failing to fulfil another fixture. the juventus striker mario mandzukic is close to signing for qatari side al—duhail. he's been linked with a number of prmier league sides. alexandra bell is considering legal action against uk athletics after being overlooked for funding for the tokyo olympics. she was the top british woman over 800 metres at the world championships but wasn't selected for the world—class programme. australian open organisers have increased the prize money to more than £38m with the biggest gains in the early rounds. first round losers will receive just under 50,000. the winners have had a small increase to 2.1 million. talking about money in sport, solheim cup winner bronte law has said that prize money in women's golf needs to increase if the game is to progress. the british player was a rookie in the european team that beat the usa at gleneagles in september. an increase

aam, three crucial seats, lincoln, again, rother valley, great grimsby, 19a5 great grimsby had been labourt for them because that was marginaland result for them because that was marginal and they saved it but it wasn't enough, not nearly enough. wright, a:30am, now we are just glued to these results, they are streaming and now. let's have a look at the conservatives who now com plete at the conservatives who now complete the trio of stoke seats, taking stoke south at the last general election, now they have north and stoke central. the whole of stoke coloured blue. morley, ed balls old seat, still blue, staying with the conservatives. very hard to beat at this point in labour know it. we move on now to 5am. see what happens is, suddenly, the conservatives go for the line. let's a look. of all the seats, it is bolsover, right on the line. also, the home of the beast of bolsover, dennis skinner, in his 805, about to return as father of the house, knocked out of his seat by the conservatives. you can imagine how furious he will be an labour left a long way behind. i will complete the line be

when you look at blyth, sedgefield, stoke, grimsby, this is not conservative territory, and how fantasticey should have been won around, and how amazing that the labour party could see this heartland of theirs disappear. and the whole culture of politics seems to have changed, the blue—collar workers have gone tory and what i would describe as the intellectual middle—class, which is basically london, dominates membership of the labour party. borisjohnson i think understands this, and he realises that he has got to devolve business away from the capital. do you think his time as mayor of london has kind of helped him prepare for this? because of course london is very labour, and yet he became the mayor and at the time, he recognised the fa ct and at the time, he recognised the fact that "i am not a natural choice and yet i will try and deliver what is right for the capital city. and yet i will try and deliver what is right for the capital cityi people felt that he was approachable, and you could get to tower hamlets, walk down the street, hi boris, he would walk across the street and say h

the conservatives and he's not just lost the seat but he's lost his deposit and let's go to great grimsby and have a look at what happened. let's take a look at the change in the share of the vote from 2017 labour plummeting 17 points. the conservatives up and brexit pretty taking 7% of the share and that is the enormous swing 15 points and great grimsby. those are some of the extraordinary results that we see and that is the scoreboard as it stands now with 562, so well on the way to getting most of the seats declared and you can see a very handsome 41 games. at the office of losing 50. a strong night, quite the opposite also making two losses. >> what i want to do now is take a look. it's been taken by the majority of 14,000 desist of the 64%. they take more than half of the votes cast so look at this, 55% to 28% labor. 11% to 77% and if we look at the change we see that they added a 12 percentage points to their share down a huge 25% on their own votes last time. that is the biggest swing in any english constituency so far. that is a gigantic swing of 18% from labor to the conservative

again they voted to leave the eu, as did great grimsby. whow mul this wall crumbled tonigh over here is been page. are you surprised? >> i'm surprised at the scale of the majority. de exit poll is designed to precisely this. most of the polls we have had in the campaign have been about the percentage share of the vote. it is very unlikely that the exit poll is wrong have to mean tyat the conservatives have not got a large majo sophie: do you expect the red wall to gobble this evening?-- crumbled this evening? >> if the poll is correct you will see dozens of labour seats going to the conservatives. the scale of this victory looks as though seats like that, ashfield,ng workington, switchi to the conservatives. another area we will keeping a close eye one, wale, labour stronghold, and the midlands as well. >> the conservatives look to ains and in the midlands this is rpoalibrating of tics around the brexit vote. sophie: we will talk to you a lot throughout the ening. we have a lot of voters joing us for their responses. you voted labour. surp

including opposition labor heartlands that voted to leave the european union like the northern town of grimsby where he taught a fish market he's cast himself as the man to get done appealing to leave voters no matter what question comes up he how miss home the same message to move forward as a country if you make investments now to get that done we can you must have a poll of next year he's focusing on those issues he's focusing on that agenda is driving this country not wasting time again for another year. and pointless wrangling. despite repeated scandals and defeats in parliament boris johnson's party is still ahead in the polls and that's even though the conservatives are bitterly divided. earlier this year johnson $321.00 and peace out of his own parliamentary group for not toeing the party line among them winston churchill his grandson. the former chief public prosecutor. and the former finance minister and johnson's own brother resigned along with several other veteran tory m.p.'s it's populists it's telling the public was. this . they think that the public wants to hear it's over simp

including opposition labor hotlines that voted to leave the european union like the no then town of grimsby where he taught a fish market he's cast himself as the man to get bricks it done appealing to leave no matter what question comes up he hama's home the same message to move forward as a country you'd be making now to get all that we can we must have a poll of next year he's focusing on those issues he's focusing on that agenda is driving for this country not wasting time again for another year. pointless wrangling. despite repeated scandals and defeats in parliament boris johnson's party is still ahead in the polls and that's even though the conservatives are bitterly divided. earlier this year johnson $321.00 and peace out of his own parliamentary group for not toeing the party line among them winston churchill's grandson. the former chief public prosecutor. and the former finance minister and johnson's own brother resigned along with several other veteran tory m.p.'s it's populists. telling the public was. they. they think that the public wants to hear it's oversimplifying these but

ian holloway is the new manager of league 2 side grimsby, he'll also have shares in the club and takee led blackpool and crystal palace into rhe premier league but his last managerialjob was with qpr last year. he will take charge with the club 21st in league two and without a win since september. some arrows for you. gerwyn price and peter wright have kissed and made up after their bad—tempered semifinal at the pdc world darts championship. both men goaded each other on the oche and price refused to shake hands after losing. price took to social media today. he went on to apologise for not shaking wright's hand, saying "i should've bit my tongue". wright, who won six sets to three, has also apologised for his conduct. he said he was a bit of a clown. he'll face reigning champion michael van gerwen in tomorrow's final. fallon sherrock, who last week became the first woman to win a match at the pdc world championship, has withdrawn from the bdo women's world championship next week. her decision comes after the bdo announced that they'd be reducing prize money following poor ticket sale

ian holloway is the new manager of league two side grimsby.e led blackpool and crystal palace into the premiere league but his last managerialjob was with qpr last year. he will take charge with the club 21st in league two and without a win since september. rhys webb has signed a two—year deal to rejoin the 0spreys from next season, which could see him back in the wales side. the scrum—half has been at toulon, who have agreed to release him from the final year of his contract forfamily reasons. he left 0spreys last year to join the french side for three years, which ruled him out of international test selection, but his return makes him available to new wales coach wayne pivac. that's all the sport for now. you can find more on all those stories on the bbc sport website. the labour mp richard burgon has announced that he will be standing to be deputy leader of the labour party. the mp for east leeds and shadowjustice secretary made the announcement on twitter this afternoon. 0ur political correspondent mark lobel is here with me now. he isa he

but we are doing what we can in grimsby.i think as well, it is difficult to actually say, yeah, i am lonely, andi to actually say, yeah, i am lonely, and i need some company, but also, some of our guests see people in between our events. they could be six weeks that they are stuck in the house in between, and they took to either their past relatives or anybody they can't, a photograph on anybody they can't, a photograph on a bedside table. nina, we are so sorry, we can still hear you, but not see you. oh, there you are! i'm hear you, but not see you. oh, there you a ' hear you, but not see you. oh, there youa ' hear you, but not see you. oh, there you are! i'm sorry! i do look better on radio, so... not at all! not at all. so, what is on the menu? the usual, turkey and the trimmings, nut roast if you are vegetarian? no, it is risotto this year for vegetarians. apparently, it went down so well last year that we have got the same. so risotto for our vegetarians and traditional christmas lunch, so our day will start about 9am w

great grimsby, labour since the war, now conservative.wn by 25 points. the labour vote completely collapsing in bassetlaw and that represents a swing from labour to conservative of 18%. that is the biggest swing of the night that we saw. i want to show you one more thing, which is the different way in which the country voted depending on whether people were in strongly leave seats are strongly remain seats. as you can see, the conservatives doing well in those leave seats and labour's vote dropping sharply. but both the main parties losing share of the vote in the strongly remain seats. again, it's the difference between the two performances that is important here. the conservatives performed less badly than labour and therefore were able to pick up seats. well, you can find out much more detail on all of this, including your own results in your own constituency, all on the bbc news website. in northern ireland nationalist mp5 outnumber unionist mp5 for the first time — but it was a tough night for both the dup and sinn fein, who saw thei

early this morning he was fishing for folks in grimsby, a long—time labour seat that voted to leave thea rd across fishing for votes. we are working hard across the whole country and it's a message of unity and bringing this amazing united kingdom together. because if we can get brexit done we can move forward with investments in infrastructure and education and technology that will unleash opportunity across the whole country. had in the polls, the conservative campaign has confidence but recent elections have defied expectations and nothing is certain. borisjohnson continues to face questions about his brexit deal. according to a leaked government document, putting new customs arrangements for northern ireland in place before the end of 2020 will be a major strategic and political and operational challenge. the labour economic plans are radically different to the tories come from nationalising utility companies to big increases in public spending. today the party's shadow chancellor vowed to end austerity within its first 100 days in power. our agenda is radical because people are dem

back to october 30th 1937, the likes of grimsby, bolton and blackpool were enjoying life in english football'sed had only won two league titles and were playing in the old second division. their game against fulham at craven cottage started a remarakble sequence that is still continuing to this day. tomorrow, their match against everton will be the 4000th straight game featuring a home grown player in their matchday squad. one of their most successful recent academy graduates marcus rashford told us how important it is for united's identity. the way the academy is set up and the way that they breed players it is no shock to me at all because it is no shock to me at all because it is like they mould you into a manchester united player. but the process begins before you can even remember. so before i came here, there were loads of different clubs and obviously my mum didn't know much about football, she supported man united. it was my brothers who managed to categorise a good academy from band. and a final decision came down to which club do you love and wa nt to down to which club do you love a

mrjohnson started the day at a fish market in grimsby, one of a number of longstanding labour constituenciesu in the 2016 referendum, that both the conservatives and the brexit party are targeting. he said his message was that a vote for his party is a vote to get brexit done and unleash britain's potential. this is a big, big choice for our country. on thursday, we can either go forwards with a dynamic one—nation agenda that will get brexit done, unleash investment into this country, allow us to continue with 20,000 more police, a0 new hospitals, all the things we want to do for the country, or else we can have delay, division, deadlock with corbyn and nicola sturgeon, in a coalition. another hung parliament. that is not the right way forward for our country. that is why we want a working majority, to get brexit done, help the fishing industry and so much else besides. john mcdonnell has promised to deliver a budget to end austerity, in a speech setting out labour's priorities for its first 100 days in government. the shadow chancellor also detailed plans for democratic control of newly nat

great grimsby, labour since the war, now conservative.e completely collapsing in bassetlaw, and that represents a swing from labour to conservative of 18%. that's the biggest swing of the night that we saw. i want to show you one more thing, which is the different way in which the country voted, depending on whether people were in strongly leave seats or strongly remain seats. as you can see, the conservatives doing well in those leave seats. labour's vote dropping sharply. but both the main parties losing share of the vote in the strongly remain seats. but again, it's the difference between the two performances that's important here. the conservatives performed less badly than labour and, therefore, were able to pick up seats. well, you can find much more detail on all of this — including your own results in your own constituency — all on the bbc news website. in northern ireland, there's been political change too. nationalist mps, whose political goal is a united ireland, outnumber unionist mps for the first time. the big result of the

bassetlaw, redcar, scu nthorpe, leigh, dudley north, great grimsby, sedgefield, rother valley.swing of the night. john mann standing down, former mining town in nottinghamshire, big leave area. look at the vote share. you can see labour's vote collapsing. the brexit party entering into a little bit of it. look at that massive swing. 18%. another one. dudley north. it's never been anything but labour. a big leave area. again you look at the vote share. almost a straight swap labour to conservative, another massive swing. here's another extraordinary one. sedgefield, the former seat of tony blair. in 2005 he had a majority of over 18,000. after nine years of labour opposition. look at that. the conservatives now have a majority of 4500. again another big vote share change. brexit party is eating into that again. we are just picking out one last one because this is rather interesting. rother valley, it's never been anything but, it's been labour since the first world war since 1918, big leave area, but look at this. this is the one that nigel farage will point to. the brexit party

did it to the liberal democrat bus and one of the brexit party buses and a brexit party office in grimsbyeared in. they are part of the extinction rebellion protest movement and they have seemingly stuck themselves to the front of this bus, so we are stalled. we have been, for a while. the police are in attendance, trying to unstick the bees. mrjohnson isn't on this bus but on a day where he had hoped everything to stay very firmly on track with only a very short time before people go to the polls, not sure he will love the bees protest although borisjohnson will try to keep brexit his central message for the rest of the day. alex, for now, you may be some time i guess, thanks for now. let's assess what is going on in the labourcamp. our political correspondent jess parker is on the labour battle bus and joins us now. yes, you join me in a yes, youjoin me in a pub in carlisle. a short while ago, this entire pub was completely packed with supporters and activists of jeremy corbyn. he held a something ofa jeremy corbyn. he held a something of a rally, pretty much speaking from where i am sa

the new conservative mp for great britain —— great grimsby. 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 h

the most watched also to do with the election, and this is a film, four and a half minutes long, grimsbying. sport now and time for a full round up from the bbc sport centre. selling agent is waiting for us. —— sally nugent is waiting for us. good morning. let's start with everton — their board will meet today to decide whether or not to sack their manager marco silva. it now looks to be a case of ‘when', not ‘if‘ silva leaves after they were thumped 5—2 by liverpool in the merseyside derby. everton have never been relegated from the premier league, but are now in the bottom three. they've got some horrible games coming up too — their next four games are chelsea, man utd, leicester and arsenal. it was always going to be a difficult game tonight, but the defeat now puts you in the bottom three. does that change anything for you and for your position the club? i am not the right person to answer to you about the situation, or to ask this situation. and this question for different people, because i am not the right person to talk about it. the pressure has eased on 0le gunner solskjaer as h

grimsby is where boris johnson was this morning. we are about 50 miles along the road in barnsley.ome people who want to leave the european union and have abandoned the labour party but won't make thejump to abandoned the labour party but won't make the jump to the tories, so he is arguing the brexit party can be almost a go—between. and continuing to argue, despite the fact that the brexit party vote appears to have been squeezed, despite the fact that some brexit party mps quit in opposition to mr farage's stands, he is continuing to argue that his party ca n is continuing to argue that his party can pull off something of an upset in the next few days and in places like this, wins a bunch of labour votes, potentially get an mp. i have got to say, the polls still suggest that the brexit party is continuing to be squeezed and will still struggle on thursday, but they are continuing the fight, concentrating on a few key areas like this one. nick eardley, thank you. time to catch on the weather now, and it looked rather nice in barnsley, but it is unsettled this week, why is that? fi

we are showing pictures of borisjohnson in a fish market in grimsby. the last few days. anything that will get a clip on the news. chris? anything you want to say a about fish? this is about the big photo opportunity for a politician who aspires to be prime minister to be seen with a cod in his hand, that is the money shot. you won't escape that picture. since this general election was called, we have asked multiple times for a conservative minister to come onto our programme to put forward their arguments about why you should give the tories your vote. on behalf of you, we wanted to question ministers about their record, and scrutinise their pledges for the future because they want to govern us for the next five years. notably, not once since the election campaign began was has a minister or official spokesperson available to come on our programme. senior politicians from all the other political parties have been able to join us. all the conservative politicians we've had live on the programme since the campaign began have agreed to come on because we

leigh, dudley north, great grimsby, sedgefield, rothervalley.gefield, the former seat of tony blair, in 2005 there was a majority of more than 18,000. that was after —— after nine years of labour opposition the conservatives have a majority of 4500. another big vote share. the brexit party eating into that as well. one last one. rother valley, it has never been anything but tory. labour since 1918. a big leave area. this is the one that nigel farage will point to. the brexit party eating massively into the labour vote and a very big swing from labour to the conservatives. chris tim, thanks. two of the three wolverhampton seats in the west midlands saw the conservatives gain from labour. phil mackie is there. phil, what can you tell us? well, two out of three went. the third might easily have been won by the conservatives last night as well if there had not been a brexit party candidate. they took a significant number of votes off the conservative party. labour mps eleanor smith and emma reynolds have both lost their seats. part of the picture ac

great grimsby, labour since the war, now conservative.ompletely collapsing in bassett law, and that represents a suing from labour to conservative of 18%, that's the biggest swing of the night that we saw. i will show you one more thing, which is the different way in which the country voted, depending on whether people were in strong leaves seats are strongly remained seats, as you can see, the conservatives are doing well in those leaves seats. labour vote dropping sharply, but both main parties losing share of the vote in a strongly remain seats. but, again, it's the difference of the two performances that's important here, the conservatives performed less badly than labour, and therefore, were able to up seats. you can find much more detail on all of this, including your own results in your own constituency, all on the bbc news website. that was rita chakra party a little earlier today. —— earlier today, the prime minister appeared in front of the cameras at downing st and said he'd lead a people's government that would take the uk out

they voted to leave the eu, as did great grimsby which has been labour since 1945.uch will this wall crumble tonight? over here is ben paige from ipsos mori carried out the exit poll and your initial reaction? surprised ? the exit poll and your initial reaction? surprised? surprised at the scale of the majority but it is designed to do precisely this, measure the seat share and not vote share put up most of the polls had been the percentage share of the vote but our system can deliberate surprises like this when we come to the seat share so it is very unlikely the exit poll is wrong enough to mean the conservatives have not got a large majority. looking at this red wall, do you expect it to crumble this evening? if the poll is correct, and i have no reason to believe it is not, we will see dozens of labour seats going to the conservatives. you might even see places like all sober which has a majority of about 5000 —— bowl . even seats like ashfield, workington, switching to the conservatives. and quickly down here, another area to keep an eye on, in wales and the mi

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