and sedgefield — yes, tony blair's old seat, sedgefield.rived there this morning because it, too, is now tory blue, and make no mistake, the choice of seat to visit, that of labour's successful former pm, will have been chosen to maximise the imagery. i know that people may have been breaking the voting habits of generations to vote for us, and i want you, the people of the north—east, to know that we in the conservative party and i will your repay your trust. cheering when mps return here at the start of the week, the conservatives will be buoyant. 365 of them willing to do johnson's bidding. for labour it will be very different. their mps will be sore, disappointed and looking for a new leader one of those tipped to run declined to declare her interest this morning. we don't, we should have a period of mourning, we need to have a chance to stop and think, 0k? i've got nothing else to say. jeremy corbyn wants to mind the shop until a new leader is elected, leading through the reflection period but his critics reject that idea. i don't thin

the headlines at 11:00: boris johnson thanks supporters in tony blair's former seat, sedgefield. you have changed the political landscape, you have changed the conservative party for the better and you have changed the future of oui’ and you have changed the future of our country for the better. nicola sturgeon celebrates her party's election success in scotland, saying the country's seeking a different future to the rest of the uk. rail passengers are urged to check train times ahead of major timetable changes rolling out tomorrow. a british tourist is reported to have been shot dead, during a suspected robbery, outside a hotel in buenos aires, argentina. police in new zealand name the first victim of the white island eruption as krystal eve browitt, a 21—year—old australian. fifteen deaths have been now been confirmed following monday's eruption. tens of thousands of people have rallied again in rome, protesting against italy's far right, league party. the protesters pack themselves so tightly into squares they've become known as ‘the sardines‘. a triumphant kelvin fletcher and

boris johnson thanks supporters in tony blair's former seat of sedgefield.rvative party for the better. and you've changed the future of our country for the better. cheering nicola sturgeon celebrates her party's election success in scotland, saying the country is seeking a different future to the rest of the uk. rail passengers are urged to check train times ahead of major timetable changes rolling out tomorrow. kelvin and ot! a triumphant kelvin fletcher and oti mabuse raise the coveted glitterball trophy as this year's strictly come dancing comes to an end. good evening. the prime minister has visited the north—east of england to thank voters in traditional labour heartlands for backing his party. borisjohnson met with supporters in newly—conservative sedgefield, tony blair's former constituency. the labour leader, jeremy corbyn, is coming under increasing pressure to resign with immediate effect after his party suffered its worst election results since the 1930s. our political correspondent, iain watson, reports. good morning. a prime minister is a famil

now is in the resort than tony blair because my old stomping ground of sedgefield.g habits of generations to vote for us. i wa nt of generations to vote for us. i want the people of the north—east now that we in the conceptual party andi now that we in the conceptual party and i will repay your trust. what issues will he have to focus on if he is to retain the cost of new supporters? he's got to get brexit done. i want to get the nhs done, and education, everything else he has promised. jeremy corbyn was re—elected in islington, but his party so—called red his long—standing critics just want him to go. i don't think you can have the proper, deep reflection that we need to have under the leadership of a person who thinks that the programme is all right and he worked really hard on the only thing that was wrong was that the media did not like him and that the brexit message was wrong. when labour mps return to westminster next week they will be a much diminished group — nearly 60 fewer of them than after the 2017 general election. the party is looking for a new leader

and sedgefield, yes, tony blair's old seat, sedgefield.isjohnson arrived there this morning because it, too, is now blue, and make no mistake, the choice of scene to visit, that of luba's the choice of scene to visit, that of lu ba's my the choice of scene to visit, that of luba's my success and former pm will be chosen to maximise the imagery. i know that people may have been breaking and voting habits of generations to vote for us, and i wa nt generations to vote for us, and i want you, the people of the north—east to know that we in the conservative party and i, will your chest. cheering when mps return here at the start of the week, the conservatives will be burnt. 365 of them willing to johnson's beating. for labour it will be very different. there mps will be very different. there mps will be very different. there mps will be sore, disappointed and looking for another. one of those tipped to one declined to declare her interest this morning. we don't, we have a set of period of mourning, you need to have a chance to stop and think, o

borisjohnson met with supporters in newly—conservative sedgefield, tony blair's former constituency.r leaderjeremy corbyn is coming under increasing pressure to resign with immediate effect after his party's worst election results since the 1930s. 0ur political correspondent, iain watson, reports. good morning. a prime minister is a familiar sight in these parts, though it's usually been a labour and not a conservative one. so where better for borisjohnson to rub his opponent's nose in the election result than in tony blair's old stomping ground of sedgefield? i know that people may have been breaking the voting habits of generations to vote for us. and i want the people of the north—east to know that we in the conservative party and i will repay your trust. so what issues will he have to focus on if he is to retain the trust of new supporters? i hope he does a good job, he's going to get brexit done and i hope he gets the nhs done, and education and everything else he's promised. mad hatter, really! that's how he comes across! but who knows, he might sort it out. jeremy corbyn was r

how big a shift is this, that sedgefield is now conservative? it's unbelievable.ghs but derek has changed the way he votes. a retired pit worker, he's been labourfor 70 years. how did you feel voting conservative for the first time? i didn't feel anything. i thought it was the right thing to do. and that's why i did it. and do you now consider yourself to be a conservative? no. no, i don't. i voted againstjeremy corbyn. that's what i voted against. it was a vote against labour, not necessarily for conservatives? no. we heard that a lot today. as we headed west, through newly—blue bishop auckland, former labour voters saying they just hadn't trusted jeremy corbyn on brexit, security, or the economy. the parties needed to woo. the conservatives won here as well. so, what now? how much do you trust borisjohnson to deliver what you voted for? boris, boris himself, i don't know, er, but the party in general, i'd like to think there is some truth. trust's a big thing in politics, isn't it? because there's many an amount of them that tell a lot of lies, but fingers cross

seats like sedgefield, tony blair's old seat — a seat where he once had a 25,000 majority.hamshire, now a conservative seat. let me show you what happened to the labour vote. down 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

working class people — tony blair's majority in 2005 in sedgefield was over 20,000.nd it may have started... it is notjust about the numbers, it is about an attitude, it's about complacency, and taking people and places for granted. i'm sorry, stephen, i'm going to pull you up on that because that is a narrative and it is a myth... let me put a quote into the mix, which actually comes from a former ally of yours, a guy who worked closely with tony blair, just as you did — he probably wasn't quite as close to him as you — but peter hyman, you know him very well. he reflected on what happened during the blair years, actually a couple of years ago, and he wrote, "we failed to develop talent, we failed to cement organisational and cultural change in the labour party and we failed to secure our legacy." he's talking about the party and its failures... i agree with all of that. ..particularly in those areas, farfrom london, where labour drew most of its vote. peter hyman, who is a very, very good friend of mine, of the brightest guys i have ever worked with, i agree with e

mrjohnson met supporters in sedgefield, the constituency once held by the former labour prime ministerd a conservative party mp in this week's elections. the labour leader, jeremy corbyn, is coming under increasing pressure to resign immediately after his party suffered its worst result since the 1930s. our political correspondent iain watson reports. good morning. a prime minister is a familiar sight in these parts, though it's usually been a labour not a conservative one. so where better for borisjohnson to rub his opponent's nose in the election result than in tony blair's old stomping ground of sedgefield 7 i know that people may have been breaking the voting habits of generations to vote for us. and i want the people of the north—east to know that we in the conservative party, and i, will repay your trust. so what issues will he have to focus on if he is to retain the trust of new supporters? i hope he does a good job, he's going to get brexit done and i hope he gets the nhs done and education and everything else he's promised. a mad hatter, really! that's how he comes across. but

how big a shift is this, that sedgefield is now conservative? it's unbelievable.iggest change i've ever seen in my life. are you going to change the colour of your car? no. he laughs. but derek has changed the way he votes. a retired pit worker, he's been labourfor 70 years. how did you feel voting conservative for the first time? i didn't feel anything. i thought it was the right thing to do. and that's why i did it. and do you now consider yourself to be a conservative? no. no, i don't. i voted againstjeremy corbyn. that's what i voted against. it was a vote against labour, not necessarily for conservatives? no. we heard that a lot today. as we headed west, through newly—blue bishop auckland, former labour voters saying they just hadn't trusted jeremy corbyn on brexit, security, or the economy. ourfinalstop, cumbria... bringing together the whole of this united kingdom... ..where workington man was supposed to be the typical vote voter the parties needed to woo. the conservatives won here as well. so, what now? how much do you trust borisjohnson to deliver what

, and also we could have seen sedgefield, and also we could have seen conservative mps in places wherending. even though the drama is over, the conundrum has been solved, people are not happy and relaxed. people are not united and on friendly terms. imean, i'd i mean, i'd made your massive discipline, but don't think you can just say this was all about getting brexit done —— i admire. you have to concede that some of this is about how unpopularjeremy corbyn was and if there was another, if there was a different labour leader that was not polling as badly people might have, you know, even if they had been levers, they may have held their nose and voted another way. there are still great anxieties about other things, you know, public services, and it does not feel like the country has come together over this. it still feels like it is incredibly divided. chris mason has p0p incredibly divided. chris mason has pop in. sit down, catch your breath. all right, let's talk aboutjeremy corbyn then. here is what he had to say in an interview on friday morning. have a listen to this. i've done ev

first, the headlines: boris johnson thanks supporters in tony blair's former seat, sedgefield.d the political landscape, you have changed the conservative party for the better and you have changed the future of oui’ and you have changed the future of our country for the better. nicola sturgeon celebrates her party's election success in scotland, saying the country's seeking a different future to the rest of the uk. rail passengers are urged to check train times ahead of major timetable changes rolling out tomorrow. kelvin and oti. a triumphant kelvin fletcher and oti mabuse raise the coveted glitterball trophy as this year's strictly come dancing comes to an end. hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are the deputy leader writer at the sun, olivia utley, and the editor of the political website labourlist, sienna rodgers. lovely to have you here. let's take you through the front pages. the telegraph reports borisjohnson is plotting a dramatic overhaul of whitehall following his election victory to ensure it delivers his

the prime minister speaking in sedgefield in the last 20 minutes., says he won't quit until a successor is chosen —— which is likely to be early next year. shadow cabinet minister emily thornberry is being tipped for the role, but today said more time is needed before decisions are made. i don't have anything to say. i have to get to my surgery this morning and i'm already late. there is an awful lot of work to do in the next five years seeing as we have this awful tory governments coming. my surgery is going to be very full for the next five years. i feel a surgery is going to be very full for the next five years. ifeel a period of mourning. we need a chance to stop and think. i have nothing else to say. emily thornberry giving her reflections there. rail passengers are being urged to check their train times before they travel from tomorrow, as a new winter timetable comes into effect. the plan is forjourney times to be cut, services increased and new routes added across the country, after infrastructure and carriage investment. our business corres

you know them very well, in the north—east of england, seats like sedgefield and stockton—on—tees in—west where you spent some of your young yea rs, where you spent some of your young years, leigh, never been tory before oi’ years, leigh, never been tory before or not the generations.” years, leigh, never been tory before or not the generations. i was in several of those seats during the campaign and while it is true, sedgefield for example and i was in bury before the election and while it's true you might meet the occasional person who was absolutely adamant that because labour was not just saying leave means leave and we are out, that they were no longer voting labour. they were dwarfed, and we have to be honest by this, they were dwarfed by people saying i'm not going to votejeremy corbyn downing street. let me quote you the words of dominic cummings, in many ways the intellectual architect boris johnson's campaign. 0n ways the intellectual architect borisjohnson‘s campaign. 0n the day after, he poured scorn direct from people like you. he said this election result is an educatio

and borisjohnson is speaking out in sedgefield, addressing tory supporters.nobody wanted this election in the run—up to christmas, but what an incredible thing you have done. you have changed the political landscape. you have changed the conservative party for the better, and you have changed the future of our country. cheering i want to thank all of the people of sedgefield, of bishop auckland. cheering of stockton self, darlington,. north—west durham. blyth valley and redcar. cheering i want to thank all the people of those incredible constituencies, and i want to thank all of you for the trust you have placed in us in the conservative party and in me, and i know how difficult it was and it can be to make that kind of decision, andi be to make that kind of decision, and i can imagine pencils hovering over the ballot paper and wavering before coming down for us and the conservatives, and i know that people may have been breaking the voting habits of generations to vote for us. and i want the people of the north—east to know that we in the conservative party

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

from surrey heath to sedgefield. from wimbledon to wolverhampton.t change so that we, in parliament, are working for you, the british people, and that is what we will now do, isn't it? cheering and applause. let's go out and get on with it. let's go out and get on with it. let's ignite this country, let's spread opportunity to every corner of the uk with superb education, superb infrastructure, and technology. let's get brexit done. but, first, my friends, let's get brea kfast but, first, my friends, let's get breakfast done, too. cheering and applause. cheering and applause. cheering and applause. applause thank you all very much, thank you, thank you! classic borisjohnson... thank you! classic boris johnson. .. a triumphant victory for him and that reflected in the enthusiasm and exuberance of the statement of the prime minister, looking at a hefty majority in the new house of commons, and outlining a great torrent of a speech what he intends torrent of a speech what he intends to do so we were talking about tone earlier, we were talking about con

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

and just as he took to the stage inslgton, sedgefield, the seat of tonylair, held by labour for all timeoke for boris johnson too. the victories of labour past crumbling before our eyes. thparties falling more heavily where people voted leave. >> you lost your seat. >> the lib dems had a crushing night, too. just a few weeks ago, jo swinson claimeshe could be prime minister. in, the middle of the nighte even lost her own place in parliament and closed the day neither an m.p. nor party leader. >> all of us who share a vision -- alternative vision for society have a responsibility to learn from this result and find new answers. >> they lost to the hands of t tories and snp, too, who cleaned look at the first er, unable to hide her glee as the results came through. scotland yellow. england now largely blue. the union uneasy. another vote for independence on the way. >> i acknowledge not everyone who voted snyesterday is ready to support independence. whether or not scotland becomes an independent countrybe a >>tter for the people who live here. he map moved in northern ireland, too. theup l

sedgefield, the former seat of tony blair. in 2005 he had a majority of over 18,000.. 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 eating massively into the labour vote and again a very big swing from labour to the conservatives. a big turnout in yorkshire and a massive swing towards the conservatives from labour, never happened before in parliamentary history. 0ur correspondent dan johnson is in maltby and sent this report. the colver steyn was built on make the area solid labour for more than a century. they use to talk about the socialist republic of south yorkshire but not now. brexit has brought out new blue support here. first time ever and i have done it. i have no faith injeremy corbyn. three and a half years of eu

that sedgefield is now conservative. it's unbelievable. it's just totally 100% mad.e everseen in my life. are you going to change the colour of your car? no. but derek has changed the way he votes. a retired pit worker, he's been labourfor 70 years. how did you feel voting conservative for the first time? i didn't feel anything. i thought it was the right thing to do. and that's why i did it. and do you now consider yourself to be a conservative? no. no, i don't. i voted againstjeremy corbyn, that's what i voted against. it was a vote against labour, not necessarily for conservatives. no. we heard that a lot today. as we headed west through newly blue bishop auckland, former labour voters saying they just hadn't trusted jeremy corbyn on brexit, security, or the economy. our final stop, cumbria. where workington man was supposed to be the typical vote ——voter the parties needed to woo. the conservatives won here as well. so what now? how much do you trust borisjohnson to deliver what you voted for? boris, boris himself, i don't know. but the party in general, i'd like

we need a labour leader who understands that good politics are rooted in the communities of sedgefieldarty was created to represent. we have to turn the page. this is a failed experiment. we also need a leader who doesn't buy into a right—wing and nationalistic narrative, which thi5 and nationalistic narrative, which this government will push and many people on this country are really concerned about. because of a certain 5ection concerned about. because of a certain section of the electorate ha5 certain section of the electorate has now decided to vote conservative, former labour voter5, that we throw other5 under the bus. there are still million5 that we throw other5 under the bus. there are still millions of people in this country who will still be very upset we are now leaving the european union. 0ne very upset we are now leaving the european union. one of the things we can't actually expre55 european union. one of the things we can't actually express and what could happen, if we had shifted to a more leave position, we would have overlooked the other flank where the vast majority

in a fateful moment, just as he took to the stage in islington, sedgefield, the seat of tony blair, held time, broke for borisjohnson too. the foundations of labour victories past crumbling before our eyes, the party falling more heavily where people had voted leave. have you lost your seat, ms swinson? the lib dems had a crushing night too. just a few weeks ago, jo swinson claimed she could be prime minister. in the middle of the night, though, she even lost her own place in parliament. she closed the day neither an mp nor a party leader. all of us who share an alternative vision for society have a responsibility to learn from this result and find new answers. they lost at the hands of the tories and the snp too, who cleaned up. look at the first minister, unable to hide her glee as news ofjo swinson's defeat came through. scotland yellow, england now largely blue. the union uneasy — another demand for a vote on independence on the way. i acknowledge that not everyone who voted snp yesterday is ready to support independence. whether or not scotland becomes an independent country must be

victor the spoils of 2 days after the landslide election boris johnson surveyed his demands this is sedgefield tony blair's former seat labor since 1935 but now conservative blue and i know that people may have been breaking the voting habits of generations to vote for us and i want the people of that all the to know that we in the conservative. i will repay your trust. of all the stories in the 2019 election this is perhaps the biggest the working class communities in england's midlands north and in wales who deserted labor in droves it's a seismic realignment of british politics for sure the u.k. is a small country but it can still feel a long way from big multicultural urban centers like london to the kinds of places that have just given boris johnson his majority labor still does well in liberal minded metropolitan areas but say it's paid the price for alienating more socially conservative bricks that voters outside of the big cities. labor activists canvassing in such places before the election fed back grim reports the party's model position on bret's it was one complaint but perhaps a b

the headlines: the prime minister tells supporters in tony blair's old constituency of sedgefield thathanged the political landscape and the country. our country has now embarked on a wonderful adventure, and we are going to recover our national self—confidence, our mojo, ourself belief, and we are going to do things differently and better. labour leaderjeremy corbyn is coming under increasing pressure to resign immediately after his party suffered its worst election result since the 1930s. to try and disguise it, which i think the leadership of the labour party is doing by saying it was brexit or the mainstream media, just man up. the project has failed and you have now got to leave the stage. scotland's first minister, nicola sturgeon, warns borisjohnson he must not "stand in the way" of efforts to pursue a second scottish independence referendum. it could not really be clearer now that the majority in scotland want a very different future to that that has been chosen by much of the rest of the uk. scotland said no to borisjohnson and the tories, no to brexit. now on bbc news, it's t

it shows the country wants to get brexit done and, for me, the iconic moments were things like sedgefieldrland seats, where of course, had the brexit party not been standing, we even would have seen some conservative mps there. but listening to those callers on 5live, i mean, even though kind of the drama is over now, the conundrum has been solved, people are not happy, people are not relaxed, people are not chilled out, people are not united, people are not on friendly terms with the other lot. i mean, i admire your massive, brilliant message discipline. you came up with these sort of slogans which have won again and again. but i don't think you can just say this was all about getting brexit done. you have to concede that some of this was about how unpopularjeremy corbyn was and if there was another, if there was a different labour leader that was not polling as badly, people might have, you know, even if they'd been leavers, they may have held their nose and voted another way. there are still great anxieties about other things, you know, public services, and it does not feel like the co

i will expect to see much more of borisjohnson in a lane off, we already seen him in a sedgefield a dayny more of those events focus in the north, saying to people, we get it, we are listening. in terms of delivering, that is no quick fix, the business of government are wiser and at our shambolic mess. you are talking about putting serious money in the, major investment over the long term, you cannot build railways in a year oi’ you cannot build railways in a year or two, it is a long—term project. borisjohnson has to get the leeway from voters up now to trussed up like it is going to happen, even if it doesn't happen automatically. —— to trust him. i guess a lot of that will come down to his rhetoric, his language, justly says that he is listening. i will expect to see much more of boris johnson listening. i will expect to see much more of borisjohnson in a lane off, we already seen him in a sedgefield a day after the election. i will expect to see many more of those events focus in the north, saying to people, we get it, we are listening. in terms of delivering, there is no quick fix,

sedgefield, tony blair's old seat of sedgefield is now blue in colour, no longer the lifelong red laboures, thank you. donald trump has congratulated borisjohnson on his victory in the general election. the president's administration has repeatedly spoken out in support of brexit and voiced enthusiasm for a free trade deal with the uk. i want to congratulate borisjohnson on a terrific victory. i think that might be a harbinger of what's to come in our country. it was last time. he's a friend of mine. it's going to be a great thing for the united states also, because it means a lot of trade, tremendous amount of trade. they want to do business with us so badly. rail passengers are being urged to check their train times before they travel from tomorrow, as a new winter timetable comes into effect. the plan is thatjourney times will be cut, services increased and new routes added across the country, after infrastructure and carriage investment. our business correspondent, katie prescott, has more. this is the nightmare scenario, when train timetables were changed in may last year, chaos ens

from surrey heath to sedgefield. from wimbledon to wolferhampton.st rise to the challenge of the level of expectations and parliament must change so that we in parliament are working for you, the british people. and that is what we will now do, isn't it? that is what we will now do. let's go out -- let's go out and get on with it. let's unite this country. let's spread opportunity to every corner of the uk with superb education, superb infrastructure and technology. let's get brexit done. but first, my friends, let's get breakfast done. thank you all. thank you all very much for coming. thank you all very much. thank you all. thank you. thank you. thank you. >> boris johnson, prime minister, who let's be absolutely clear now, has actually been elected by the people. up until now he was merely appointed by the inner leadership of his own party. and now he's been elected by a massive majority by the british people to, quote, unquote, get brexit done. but let's also be very clear that this is chapter one in the long brexit divorce and renegotiation sto

in blyth valley, sedgefield and other places.to deliver for them because we promised we would get brexit done and then invest in public services, invest in the nhs, 1a billion in schools. get 20,000 police officers on our streets. all these things we have to deliver. you will find with borisjohnson, the have to deliver. you will find with boris johnson, the one have to deliver. you will find with borisjohnson, the one nation prime minister, and i have known boris for 25 years, he will have a laser—like focus. he has an incredible memory for detail for stop focus. he has an incredible memory for detailfor stop every focus. he has an incredible memory for detail for stop every time i see him, as one of his ministers, the smallest thing i reported to him three months ago, he will ask me, what happened on that, what is the latest? a remarkable memory. he has a laser—like focus on delivery and delivery. kirsty blackman, you are listening to that, as part of a big contingent from the snp, with a loud voice in the house of commons but n

victor the spoils of 2 days after the landslide election boris johnson surveyed his demands this is sedgefield tony blair's former seat labor since 1935 but now conservative blue and i know that people may have been breaking the voting habits of generations to vote for us and i want the people of that all the to know that we in the conservative party and i will repay your. of all the stories in the 200-9000 election this is perhaps the biggest the working class communities in england's midlands north and in wales who deserted labor in droves it's a seismic realignment of british politics for sure the u.k. is a small country but it can still feel a long way from big multicultural urban centers in london to the kinds of places that have just given boris johnson his majority labor still does well in liberal minded metropolitan areas but it's paid the price for alienating more socially conservative bricks that voters outside of the big cities. labor activists canvassing in such places before the election fed back grim reports the party's model position on bricks it was one complaint but perhaps a

places like sedgefield. i mean, that was tony blair's old constituency and a conservative won it.it and corbyn. the people who wanted brexit largely were united and voted for him. the people who didn't want brexit for divided. their votes were scattered among a number of parties. but jeremy corbyn, a 70-year-old leader of the main opposition labor party, was really deeply unpopular. he's basically a marxist. and this is the second time he's lost. he refused to resign today. many people saying he still doesn't get it. he was deeply, deeply unpopular. >> when you talk about boris johnson and what the conservative party was able to win, it's a perfect comparison but it's like donald trump winning the upper midwest. breaking the blue wall. it was unexpected. usually, those voters go for democrats. a lot of people are looking, bill, at the uk and they are making the comparison to the politics here in the united states. and they're looking also at the brexit vote and how that seemed to be an indicator of where 2016 was going when the uk voted to remove itself from the european union. i'

do you think about leigh, wigan, bury, hayward, rochdale, workington, blyth valley, don valley, sedgefielde 1992. west bromwich east, a couple of wolverhampton seats are conservative. there is a lot of work to do for labour. there is, and when tony blair came to power these are the kind of places you had to return orwin the kind of places you had to return or win over. the journey ahead for labour is how to win back those people who for the first time voted for the conservative party. and how do you win them back? for me it was about slogans. the answer from the conservatives is, will they go beyond slogans and win the trust of the people who have invested in those slogans, to get something done. somehow labour has to provide a viable answer. if we have concerns about brexit, will it be done? it probably won't, but at the same time, the nhs and all these other issues. this slogan has been very effective in this election. for me personally, i would say as a child of immigrants, i am someone who is mother proudly the wears letterbox. last week someone shouted, go home. those are the things i

i mean, he won in places the conservatives have never won, for example, sedgefield, an ex-mining area, margaret thatcher's conservative government absolutely decimated. won in places like that so it really was a pretty amazing victory for johnson. >> let me ask you about brexit. what does this actually mean? that the problems of the last three years have been minority governments, plan. plans that have failed. conservatives who can't get support of their own parliamentarians in a deal to get out of the eu. now, boris johnson goes in with that mandate. does that mean that at the end of january, the united kingdom leaves the european union? >> it does. so whether you're for brexit or against it, at least after three and a half years, there is clarity. on january the 31st, in 50 days time, britain will leave the european union. but then comes more uncertainty because what happens next is a year, two years, years of negotiation with the european union about a trade deal and with the united states about a trade deal. now, donald trump, as you played there, is tremendously optimistic that t