political commentator and middle east expert, rachel shabi. and polly mackenzie, director of demos, a democrats are making gains —— gains and that is a really astonishing result and shows they become a national party again will stop i think it has changed the night. at this point, labour should be doing better than it has on the basis of the results so far, do you think? i think there is a need to see the tories take more of a hit than they have at this point in the cycle and with everything going on with the wind rush scandal and the economics stagnation and you would expect the conservatives to be punished a lecturer in but we are seeing in the election cycle that ukip voters are going conservative and that is the question for the labour party. it managed to get some of those ukip voters in the general election to vote labour and they did so on election to vote labour and they did so on the forefront of the campaign. joann, welcome to us. a former councillor from wandsworth, which was one of the supposedly target seats for labour and that did not go their way. was there a big proble