Election 2024 04 Jul 2024 Part 3

Election 2024 (04 Jul 2024] Part 3
Laura Kuenssberg and Clive Myrie anchor BBC News’ biggest programme on what could be an extraordinary night in British politics.
Alongside them, Reeta Chakrabarti presents the results on her giant screen and BBC political editor Chris Mason analyses what they mean for each political party.
This year, the programme is presented from all four nations of the UK. Jeremy Vine has taken the famous swingometer to Cardiff, Kirsty Wark gathers reaction in Glasgow, and Andrea Catherwood is with Northern Ireland’s political leaders in Belfast.
Professor Sir John Curtice, the ‘expert’s expert’ is on hand to offer his vast psephological knowledge and insights.
Fiona Bruce, Victoria Derbyshire, Naga Munchetty are among the well-known BBC faces reporting from key locations around the country.

um Charlotte thank you for that in North London two of the seats there going to labor one of them Margaret Thatcher seat now in Labor’s hand now it’s almost 6:00 in the morning time to take a breath catch up on the headlines let’s have a Roundup of the latest news let’s check in with Charlie State good morning it’s Friday the 5th of July the labor party has won a land victory in the general election with the conservatives on course for the worst result in their history R sunet conceded defeat congratulating the next prime minister Siria starma the liberal Democrats and Reform Party have made gains but there have been significant losses for the SNP our political correspondent Damien grammaticus reports a moment of history and finally a smile from sakir starma as the scale of his personal and political achievement became clear taking labor from historic lad to landslide and all in just four years a feet applauded by his wife because tonight people here and around the country have spoken and they’re ready for change to end the politics of performance a return to Politics as public service the change begins right here because this is your democracy your community and your future and a little before 5 in the morning rishy sunak reelect Ed but his party facing its worst ever election result conceded the labor party has won this general election and I have called sakir starma to congratulate him on his victory today power will change hands in a peaceful and orderly manner with Good Will on all sides elected the first senior Tory to go was just after midnight Swindon South a labor gain Robert Buckland former Justice secretary a lonely walk to end a 14-year career as an MP angry he blamed infighting and incompetence for leaving his party so diminished I’m fed up of personal agendas and jocking for position you know the truth is now with the conservatives facing this electoral Armageddon it it’s going to be like a group of bald men arguing over a comb the liberal Democrats then asked the current Justice secretary Alex chalk and the education secretary Jillian Keegan labor defeated penny Morant one of the favorites to be a future Tory leader and another one too the defense secretary Grant shaps we’ve tried the patience of traditional conservative voters with a propensity to create an endless political soap opera out of internal rivalries and divisions which have become increasingly indulgent and entrenched Nore Somerset Jacob Reese MOG lost his seat to labor all the while the Tory party chairman when Richard Holden looked nervous by just 20 votes he scraped through doing the damage to the conservatives in seat after seat was reform Lee Anderson won in Ashfield 21,23 and Nigel farage finally after so many failed attempts elected MP for clack believe me folks this is just the first step of something that is going to stun all of you thank you very much and already celebrating the liberal Democrats they’re on course for a record equaling Hall of seats and a short time ago a victory speech and now we can look forward again walk into the morning the sunlight of Hope pale at first but getting stronger through the day change S stama said begins now Dam grammaticus BBC News other stories for you this morning former nurse Lucy leby will be sentenced later this morning after being found guilty of the attempted murder of a premature baby girl 8 years ago the 34-year-old who is convicted following a retrial is already serving 14 whole life terms for the murder of seven babies the attempted murder of a further six the Countess of Chester Hospital between 2015 and 2016 Hurrican Barrel which is claimed the lives of at least 10 people across the Caribbean is now weakened to a category 2 storm hundreds of thousands of homes are still without power after the weather left a trail of Destruction across many island nations the UN has released more than3 million pound in emergency funds to help those affected and it was an emotional goodbye to Andy Murray Wimbledon after what could be his final appearance on Center Court following a defeat with his brother Jamie in the men’s doubles Andy and his family watched former BBC presenter Subara paid tribute to his career former world one was visibly tearful as he thanked his fans for their support let’s have a look at the weather now Carol’s there for as this morning morning to you Cal good morning Charlie good morning to you too today is basically a day of sunshine and showers but we do have rain across Southern counties of England and also Wales it’s been pushing in from the southwest through the course of the night and it’s steadily pushing southeastwards rain too Crossing Scotland tending to fragment now into a band of hours so the heaviest rain clearing from the southeast but in its wake there’ll be a lot of cloud and some patchy like rain and drizzle before it peps up from the southwest later move north of that a lot of dry weather some Sunny Spells at worse bright spells and fewer showers than yesterday not as windy as yesterday either with temperatures 13 to about 20 maybe 22 in Lincolnshire now the front bringing this rain is going to push steadily northwards and eastwards through the night and into tomorrow which means that tomorrow will start wet and also windy in eastern counties improving in the west with some showers but showry on Sunday Charlie Carol thank you very much we will have updates throughout the morning from here for the moment though I’ll hand you back to London and Clive and Laura are there now [Music] welcome back um a little bit of a break there for a Roundup of the rest of the news but what a night it’s been uh in the election for 2024 labor on 390 seats as I speak the conservatives they’re still I’m crack three figures yet uh liberal Democrats on 60 the SNP on seven um it’s been quite a night it has so if you’re just beginning your day if you managed some sleep or you were otherwise engaged labor has won the general election 2024 and they’ve won it very convincingly with a majority that is not quite but nearly is as big as Tony Blair’s was in 1997 we can show you the numbers in some detail on our catwalk graphic you can see their labor as things stand is on 408 oh forgive me that’s the graphic of the forecast this is we’re predicting based on all the numbers we’ve had so far our forecast result is labor on 408 the Tories on 13 six but as Clive said they’ve yet to break three figures in the Real Results but the lip dams are projected to reach 66 seats another huge story of the night the SNP is predicted to drop 40 ending up with just eight seats and another big headline underneath all of that Nigel farage and Richard Ty and Lee Anderson candidates for the Reform Party are becoming MPS they’ve taken a seat also in Great Yarmouth and the Reform Party as things stand are heading to Westminster with four MPS yeah did cotton Wantage is a liberal Democrat gain from the conservatives uh the swing there 14.9% so um not looking good there either for the conservative party so there are 571 seats declared already still 61 to go but we have the Lion Share of results that are showing K heading to Downey Street later today he’s already given a victory speech promising to govern for everyone but he did allow himself briefly to crack several smiles and say it feels good and Rishi sunak having already conceded well before Labour actually got to 326 the Finishing Line um but he saw the writing on the wall and he actually conceded or at least told the world that um he’d already been in touch with uh saki stama to congratulate him on his win and he did this before his own count actually came in um yeah an unusual move for him let’s talk about what might happen next so we know there’s been a huge historic result overnight we’re joined by Helen mamara former deputy cabinet secretary the number two most senior civil servant in White Hall um and Tim Montgomery very wellknown and promise prominent Observer and often critic recently of the Conservative Party Fair well Fair um let’s start with you Helen for a party to move into government what does it actually entail well it’s a really big change it’s fair to say so I mean the extraordinary thing about our system is that it happens so quickly so you know yesterday the opposition could criticize the government for anything they wanted to do and then here they are today this by this afternoon K St will be prime minister and suddenly you’re accountable for everything the government does so it’s both a really big change in terms of kind of what the policies might be and it’s a really small and a very small kind of human change as well so you all these people who now have to find their new desks and work out how the building works and get to know all their new teams and it will feel very different so the removal Vans will arrive for several families that kind of move in move out which happens in such a brutal way as people’s lives change in front of our eyes but as you understand it I suppose how ready would you say the labor party is a few people have said to me in the last couple of weeks look because the polls have shown them ahead for so far there is actually an unusually high degree of transition of preparation for the the transition well I’m sure there will be and I know there’s people who’ve been working really hard and thinking about this but it’s also difficult because there’s a whole lot of superstition around Politics as well and everyone’s always worried about looking like they’ve presumed the outcome of the election and I’m measuring the curtains so as much as they will have done all kinds of preparations being absolutely perfectly pitcho ready is quite hard because there’s lots of conversations you can’t really have or you don’t want to have and people you don’t want to disappoint so there’ll be a lot still to sort out and work through over the coming days m Tim Montgomery um the suggestion is that this is the worst ever um result for the conservatives in parliamentary history how does a big and proud party used to government how do they rebuild from this well it is exactly you said the electorate have punished the conservative party and deservedly so my party’s descent from 2019 to now has been an extraordinary descent and we deserve the kicking fortunately it wasn’t the biggest kicking that it could have been I was worried a few hours ago it could have even been worse with the if the projection is right and we end up with something like 136 seats it isn’t the extinction level event that some people in the party feared and I think the survival of people like Jeremy Hunt Ian Duncan Smith extraordinary um turn of events old boss yeah indeed um and I was really thrilled with that and I real he had a thousand majority yet he fought that seat he didn’t run away like so many other other people and having people like that who have experience will help the conservative party rebuild because my worry was that it would be quite a inexperienced sort of shallow young um conservative parliamentary party that’s not going to be the case one of the tensions there will be compared to 1997 when the conservative party last lost is the Parliamentary part is perhaps more Centrist whereas the 1997 party was more rightwing and there’s going to potentially be a tension between the Parliamentary party with that bias and the party in the country the Grassroots which are much more right-wing much more like reform in a way and that would be interesting to see how that plays out yeah all right we’re going to get more from you both uh in a few minutes but we’re going to go to Jeremy Vine and to put that point in context the idea that this is the worst ever parliamentary performance by the conservatives in parliamentary history Jeremy you’ve got a bit more context on it well yeah I was interested listening to Tim Montgomery there saying it not an extinction level event and and and that’s true in the sense that we we’ve not seen them reduced to 50 or 60 seats but I’m going to give you some context here to find leaders losing the number of seats that Rishi sunak is losing you have to go back and we’ll go back first of all to Disraeli in 1880 because Disraeli lost 113 seats still not as many as sunak is forecast to lose tonight another one for you another comparison there’s aswith liberal 1924 100 years ago bad election lost 114 seats still not as bad as the forecast for Mr sunak so then we hit the 97 Landslide and John Major let’s see that and major going down 178 and what’s interestingly quite a similar election to this one we’re seeing overnight but 178 is still fewer than sunak is forecast to lose what about this extraordinary result in 1945 Churchill here have a look at Churchill so came through the second world war and then was booted out by the voters got back into power in the ‘ 50s but in 45 lost 187 seats so Clement atley’s labor came in like a storm there not as many as sunac again we’re searching around here who lost as many as sunac conservative let’s go to Bala here 1906 his loss was 21 seats still not as many as our forecast for sunak I’ve got one more for you labor 1931 Arthur Henderson lost 215 he was in a tricky spot because Ramsey McDonald Had peeled away so he lost half his party so I don’t know if you really even count that so we are left here and it may not be an extinction level event for the conservatives they’ve got enough MPS to form an opposition but look at the forecast for sunak when you compare them all he is right down the end with a forecast loss of 236 and you can go back 145 years and not find a leader doing that badly in any general election Jeremy thank you for um The Long View to put at least and um yeah some rather impressive hats I think it’s a shame politicians don’t wear hats anymore we have seen some fantastic hats from returning officers I think there was some various sort of town May ceremonial robes hats with feathers all sorts of incredible things Okay can show you some pictures live of the prime minister for now Rashi sunak who playing there leaving tside airport tside airport often talked of as being an achievement for the conservatives in that area they’ve got a powerful and popular mayor in that part of the world Lord Ben hin but richy sunak beginning his last journey from the northeast of England down to London as prime minister where in the early hours of this morning he will be returning to Downing Street and then we would expect him to emerge sometime midm morning he’s promised he will have more to say about how things have gone so terribly wrong for his party before of course he will head off to bucan Palace to ex to Tender his resignation to the king before an hour or so later we’d expect to see kir starmer make that journey in reverse and go and accept the king’s invitation to form a government just the seventh labor government in history and it’s likely Tim Montgomery here in the studio that um he will step down as party leader I mean it’s highly likely isn’t it and that might well happen today I think it probably need to there is a lot of anger in the conservative party about the campaign that’s been fought the choice of the election date is still upsetting many people My Hope though is that and this may be a foror hope is that the conservative party doesn’t rush into a leadership election it doesn’t just have a leadership problem it has F to lose the kind on the scale that it just has done it has problems with its structure as an organization it’s campaigning ability it’s policy thinking it hasn’t been the serious competent adult party that made it such a force in British politics in the post-war period you know already the debate’s going to start now the polling boo are closed people will talk frankly in a way once there’s a new leader in place the conversation is closed down the Canadian conservative party they wait a year to choose a leader they take time to get the structures and the policy right before choosing a leader I’m not expecting the Tory party to pause it I’m going to pause you there Tim with respect we’ve just seen the Home Secretary there James cleverly who has just it looks like he’s held yep he’s giving a little thanks to the crowd he’s held his seat in Essex but he’s about to speak let’s listen in much I’d like to say a thank you to the people of brain tree uh the new constituency of brain tree who have returned me to uh Parliament as their representative ative their Champion their spokesperson in Westminster it is a privilege and an honor to serve and I thank you for the opportunity to do so again uh I would like to thank also all the people who made this election possible the people who man the polling stations who are involved in the count the people who maintain security and the uh members of the press who cover these uh proceedings um I would also of course like to thank my uh Association my campaign team um too many to uh mention by name but I would particularly like to single out my uh campaign manager and my agent who have worked so tirelessly through this uh campaign I’d also like of course to thank the other candidates um this has been I think a a well-mannered and good-natured campaign as it should be and I think that shows uh the brain tree constituency uh for what we know it to be which is a a wonderful place full of wonderful people and the fact that the candidates who put themselves forward reflected that I think is very much to their credit and of course I would like to thank my family my long-suffering family my two sons who have seen far less of me um over the last 6 weeks I was about to say then previously but as a government minister no one gets to see that much to me um and of course I want to pay a special um level of gratitude to my to my beautiful and wonderful wife uh who has not just had to put up with me being a member of Parliament and a minister but as you know has also fought and successfully won her own battle and I could not have done it without you so thank you very much this has been a very difficult night for my party and losing uh losing the position of government of this country is uh painful but it is the nature of our democracy that it happens and when it happens it is incumbent upon the uh I suppose all parties but particularly the party leaving government to listen carefully to what the voters are telling us I am not going to rush to any quick judgments I think the right thing to do is be uh thoughtful and take a short period of time to really assess what the voters are telling us but it is clear that uh when you see the vote of share of the traditional main parties of government that many voters are disillusioned with all of us and we should take that on board I think it is also right that we have the humility to recognize that there is nothing Honorable in presenting simple simple and um thin solutions to challenging and complex problems and the world is a difficult and dangerous place and we have to respond to that but this evening I will finish as I started by saying thank you to the wonderful wonderful people of the brain tree constituency it is an honor to serve thank you James cleverly technically still now the Home Secretary but he will be moving out of that job tomorrow but he has held his seat in brain Tree in a very somber Ste very somber speech put my teeth back in from him there at this time in the morning so James cleverly there not making Grand pronouncements on the state of the conservative party but clearly acknowledging that this has been a terrible night for his party the conservatives even though he unlike so many of his colleagues has managed to hold his seat yeah um the prime minister at least for the next few minutes um Rishi sunak taking off there from tside airport heading back to London um and at some point in the next few hours he will be heading to Buckingham Palace to offer his resignation and Zaki stama will be called upon to take up the offer from the King to become the prime minister so that a reflection of what happened overnight and into this morning let’s speak to a senior conservative another one of those who has lost their bid to become an MP in the House of Commons Douglas Ross who still technically Douglas I believe you would be technically still the leader of the Scottish conservatives who joining us from Aberdine thank you for joining us at the early hours of this morning can you believe how bad the UK picture is for your party I know it’s extremely difficult this has been a hugely challenging election we have seen uh the exit pole which has been borne out with the huge majority for the labor party and we are unsure at the moment what that will deliver there’s a lot of talk about change but we don’t know what change will be uh here in Scotland however I think the the story of the night is the demise of the SNP H the exit pole as we heard from some of their senior politicians was at the lower end of their expectations once again in this campaign Independence at the Forefront of their campaign um and not the issues that really matter to people such as our Health Service education and other key public services but it’s not just the demise of the SNP in Scotland I mean you may only have dropped one seat so far but your share of the vote has dropped by 12% I mean that is a significant fallback isn’t it well we knew that would be the case the campaign we ran here in Scotland was focusing on our key seats the the key seats where we knew there was a straight choice between the Scots conservatives and the S SMP and in fact our tally of seats could have been considerably more had it not been for the fact that many of our voters and and many voters across the country selected reform despite the the risk that it would allow snmps to be elected and that’s certainly what happened in my own seat of abure North and M East the reform candidate got over 5,000 votes 15% of the vote almost and that has allowed an smmp to be elected here so that’s another thing we will have to reflect on both here in Scotland and across the UK what ought you to have done then as a party to hold off that threat from reform which you blame for you losing your own birth well I I’m not blaming that solely look I will carry the burden of my own H issues here locally and nationally as as party leader I’m not trying to shy away from that in any way I don’t think that would be the right approach to take but we have seen that voters have been uh disenfranchised recently from a lot of the parties I think they have looked for an alternative and in this election we know a lot of conservative voters have gone to reform that will not see a lot of Reform MPS elected it has seen however a significant number of conservative MPS fail to be elected and that was the risk that we were highlighting particularly here in Scotland because in many of the key seats it was a straight choice between Scottish conservatives or the S SMP uh and seats where the S&P have been able to hold on is because that reform vote such as here in abure North and M East I think it’s the highest anywhere in Scotland an area that that voted for brexit so it was always going to be a key risk here has allowed the S SMP to win through the back door and Dr briefly if you code what should happen next so Tim Montgomery prominent conservative commentator with us in the studio has said the party should have a long leadership contest they shouldn’t rush into anything is that what you would like to see or actually do you want to just get on with it no I think Tim’s right I think we shouldn’t rush into anything um the time in opposition has to be uh used wisely H there’s going to be a significant job for those elected to the House of Commons as conservative MPS to to scrutinize and hold to account this labor government with a massive majority but with very little detail H into the plans that they uh consider are right for the future of the country but we also have to make sure that we take time as a party to select the right approach to uh move on from this very difficult night and the defeats that we’ve seen to to rebuild and get back into power as quickly as possible Douglas Ross thank you so much for giving us time after a very long night and your own loss of AC SE thanks very much indeed for joining us uh we’re going to go to Wy Valley and uh Adrian Ramsey co-leader of the greens um smiling very broadly there um it’s been a good night it has indeed and we have won all four of our Target seats including here in wavy Valley the first screen MP in East Anglia as well as winning all of our other Target seats across the country and I think people have very responded very positively to us putting forward a hopeful vision for a future where people have active local MPS representing them but also where we have Greens in Parliament to push the new government to be bolder whether that’s on restoring our public services or on defending the environment you over turned a conservative majority of 22,000 incredible well this is this it is incredible and I’m truly humbled by the level of support for people I’m from East Anglia it’s a constituency that spans the noruk suffk Border an area that I love and where people have been used to having green counselors representing them over a long per period of time they’ve seen that greens do a diligent job as local representatives and do a credible job in trying to make a difference for their local communities whether it’s on public services or whether it’s on the environment and people at this election have clearly wanted to change and here in wavy Valley they voted for a positive change for greens who will work hard to represent them I’ll be an active visible local MP and with the other three greens who’ve been elected tonight a record number of Greens in Parliament will be pushing the new government to be bolder because K has been been somewhat timid in this election in doing his u-turns both on climate and on funding for public services will be pushing for the real action that’s needed on the issues that are affecting people yeah you’re going to be pushing from a base of four seats um K starma he’s on 397 at the moment doesn’t need you doesn’t need you well it’s about having a diverse range of voices in the political debate and if you look at the fact that labor has got this huge majority but actually on not a particular high percentage of the vote compared to previous labor votes in in previous general elections I think it shows that people haven’t been massively inspired by labor and so many people have looked elsewhere and with the greens they’ve looked for a positive alternative we’ve seen during the course of this election how we’ve influenced the debate we forced climate up the agenda we’ve shown that there is a way in which we could put more funding into the NHS and social care if we’re willing to take the the Bold choices ask the very richest in society to pay a little bit more in tax to do so so we will be pushing for labor to be bolder on these issues and we’ll be champions of our own local communities in those four constituencies where we’ve got greens elected including here in wavy Valley where I know the issues that people really want to be addressed um what you would really like is a change in the uh the first Pastor post uh system uh here um that is even further away than it was at the beginning of the night given the scale of Labor’s victory well we’ve just had our most successful set of election results ever in the green party we’ve run the most ambitious election campaign we ever have standing candidates right across the country with what I believe will be a record vote share and going from one MP to four and we’ve won in places including here in Wy Valley and in North heriage here two seats we’ve won from the conservatives in places where people really didn’t expect us to do it so we’re very pleased with this result we’ve done that under the voting system we have and yes I would like to see a change to a fair assistant but that’s not because of about which party that will support that’s because it’ll be better for the voter in ensuring every vote counts equally and I think those questions will be asked on that given that labor will have such a huge majority but with not much more than 40% of the vote I believe okay Adrien Ramsey thank you very much this is thank you this is election 2024 time now for a round up of the latest news where you are good morning and welcome to BBC London’s ction special I’m Lux mopal labor have made significant gains across London in the general election the liberal Democrats have increased their number of MPS in Southwest London while the conservatives have hung on to nine seats as it stands with a couple of seats to declare labor have 56 the conservatives have nine and the libdems have six Jeremy Corbin also won as an independent in Islington North our political correspondent car merer has more a winning welcome for a winning leader K starma seeing the country and the capital go a wider spread of red they won in former conservative heartlands like here in Beckham really pleased really proud of the campaign that we brought absolutely delighted this historic moment this is the first time nebor have ever won consy victories to in neighboring Beckley Heath in Westminster in Finchley and gold as green in chipping Barnet and in Kensington there was defeat though to their former leader Jeremy Corbin who easily won his linkon North the seat he’s represented for more than 40 years we have shown what Kinder gentler more sensible more inclusive politics can bring about I couldn’t be more proud of my constituency than I am tonight I’m proud of our team that brought this result thank you very much Islington North for the result that we’ve achieved tonight thank you the livb demons were celebrating a good night in the capital building once again in their strongholds in the southwest and picking up Wimbledon for the first time I remember is losing in 2019 that’s the thing I remember and that spurred us on for 5 years well from very workingclass background dad’s scaff mom’s a cleer grew up in a council house they’re still Council tenants to this day and I don’t see enough of that in politics I think the public don’t see enough of that in politics as well and I I feel like I want to go in there and be a voice for families like mine the conservatives did hold on to some seats they thought they might lose here here in Harrow East and in chingford where their former leader Ian Duncan Smith won 17,28 the labor vote split after they replaced their candidate just weeks before the election I know that we are going to be so disappointed to have being dunan Smith all over again and be disappointed knowing that we could have won if it hadn’t been for the lies but hadn’t been for the what labor party did to me why do you think um conservatives aren’t connecting with londoners well I think the trouble is we’ve forgotten about working for people in the communities I’ve worked relentlessly for people here my record of success from getting a new Hospital built right the way through to getting rid of antisocial fighting about the closure of the broad m road bridge these are everyday issues for people here and it’s important therefore that people MPS focus on that and too many of them have thought Parliament was everything and not their communities so the new prime minister is a London MP and a labor one during May’s meral campaign sadique Khan said that would mean a better deal for the capital his opponent back then says now we’ll see if that’s true sadik Khan has spent his entire time blaming the conservative government that he can’t do this he can’t do that well he won’t have anybody to blame although I suspect he’ll still try well I think K’s right to talk about a long-term plan I think he needs two terms we’ll I’ll be working with him straight away I’ve already been in touch with him today I’ll make sure that you know with a labor government uh me as the mayor uh is working as closely with them as possible look for the last eight years we’ve had a Tory government putting obstacles in our way rather than working with us for the benefit of our city and our country working against us that will not happen with a lab government now we’ll be able to find out labor is as strong in London as it has ever been and has a national government with a huge majority Carl Mercer BBC London let’s go straight to our political editor Tim Donovan who’s in the seat of Chelsea in Fulham where one of the latest results uh one of the final results has just come through Tim update us yeah and you’ve come just at the right time because uh seconds ago uh the winner here is Labour Ben Coleman who is Deputy leader of Hammer Smith Council but the the major achievement of his is that he has defeated the minister for London Greg Hans and I havn’t been able to couldn’t hear the exact number but I think it’s under 200 votes there’s been a recount here in fact there have been two uh recounts here Greg Hans had an 11,000 majority it’s another Central London seat alongside cities of Westminster uh Greg Hans had fought a what people regarded as a really good campaign he had a visibility here um and he is a senior conservative official uh but he has lost his seat after 19 years Tim thank you for the very latest there I’ll political editor Tim Donovan well let’s look at results elsewhere in our region in Su the conservatives have held on to godling and Ash the seat of Chancellor Jeremy Hunt they’ve also held East Su while the liberal Democrats made a gain in Su Heath in hartfordshire Grant shaps lost his seat to labor they also took the seat of haml Hempstead harpenden and berkhamstead has gone from conservative to libdem while the Tories held on to Harts in Essex labor took the Thor seat from the conservatives they also won both constituencies in south end and one in harow the conservatives held on to basilon and brenford in Chelmsford the lib Dems were celebrating success there and BBC London will keep you up to date with the latest throughout the day Eddie Nestor is live on BBC Radio London through to 10:00 this morning there he is there and to find the specific results where you live you can head to the BBC News website that’s it for now now back to more election coverage goodbye [Music] a warm welcome back to our coverage of the general election 2024 where just after 6:30 in the morning on a day when kir St will become the next prime minister of the UK after winning a very substantial majority indeed Boris Johnson’s 29 SE seats have fallen like dominoes and be taken by K starmer’s labor party okay you’ve just mentioned two former Prime Ministers and uh one man is about to leave we’re now going to talk about Liz truss because we’re going to go to the count down in Southwest Norfolk Ros Atkins is there Ros when we spoke to you a few minutes ago you said this was on a knife edge what’s it looking like now well qu all evening in this Leisure Center in kingsling there’s been a hubub of activity as two counts go on for Northwest Norfolk and Southwest Norfolk Northwest Norfolk has gone to the conservatives Southwest Norfolk is Liz truss’s constituency and a quiet has fallen over this hall because as you can see here all of the other candidates have gathered they are ready to go on stage we’re expecting the results to be called in the next 10 minutes one candidate though isn’t here at the moment that is Liz truss and the BBC has received a strong indication that she has lost her seat we don’t know the result this is not confirmed but we have received a strong indication that Liz truss has lost for the last few hours the labor party has been telling us they believe they’re in a strong position we also know from numerous sources that reform’s vote has exceeded some expectations so we do not know the results of this but the BBC has received a strong indication that Liz truss has lost and with just a few minutes to go before this result is announced we wait to see if Liz truss will be here along with the other candidates to hear that result announced uh Ros thank you for that 10 cabinet ministers have lost their seats and now potentially one former prime minister Tim Montgomery well the first pass the post system has been cruel to my party tonight because we probably have lost more seats than we would if the percentage of the vote was true but it’s amazing how you know in Germany the social Democrats survive almost every election it’s very hard with a proportional representation to really get rid of a party if you really want them out out of power but if you really want people out of power in the first place of the post system you can do it and Liz truss really showed no repentance for her time as prime minister she damaged the country she damaged the party and she’s being punished it seems tonight and someone who has seen so many good conservative people lose seats tonight partly because of the conduct of her government that brief period when she was inow I’m afraid I’m not going to shed any tears for her the Koda party has to rebuild with fresh faces and people like this trust hanging around wasn’t going to help the conservative party so the voters of that constituency may well have done the conservative party quite a big favor by outting someone who was a real anchor on Tory progress so it wasn’t just her conduct in office it was her conduct when she left office as well you’re saying I mean hanging out with the likes of Steve Bannon and so on yeah definitely that CDE but just to failure to show any sort of acknowledgement that she made mistakes um I think the British people are reason reasonable people she definitely needs to be judged harshly for her time in office but they’ll forgive people they’ll welcome them back into public life at least if they show some Contrition she never showed any Chris it would be extraordinary if this result comes to pass and we don’t know yet for sure but the fact that list trust is nowhere to be seen Ros is being told on the ground that labor believe they might have done it it is incredible for a former prime minister to be booted out of their constituency in this manner a majority of I think 24,000 it was potentially being overturned hugely huge L safe conservative seat in conventional times she faced uh a lot of uh candidates running against her there including a uh independent part of a family who had been non too pleased when she became the Conservative candidate way back when they were known as the turnip Taliban uh in Norfolk when she was as they saw it imposed upon them uh back in uh 2010 I think it uh I think it was but yes if this were to come to pass for a recent prime minister to be toppled in in a traditionally incredibly safe seat for their party would really be quite something and it looks like that moment’s coming inde there’s still there no sign of there’s trust there now all the other candidates are lined up there on the stage in kingslin waiting for the Declaration in her seat of Southwest Norfolk it looks like there’s rather an air of hesitation perhaps they’re looking for her perhaps she’s left we just don’t know at this stage but it may be many hours after the direction of travel of this election result became clear that we are about to see one of the biggest headlines of the night a former prime minister losing her seat the former prime minister who had to leave office after an extraordinarily short time there just over 40 days and if if you have been at the count throughout the day while the votes are being counted do you have to be on the stage AG can they now make this declaration without her being there yes candid sometimes they go off in a h g not on the stage in in rdale early in the evening I say evening at qu to 7 in the morning you know what I mean so even though she’s not there we could be getting this result in the next few seconds they waiting looks like the landscape is being surveyed doesn’t it they’re waiting for something but as we just chat I mean Tim Montgomery you were just saying to us that you won’t shed a tear for L Trust might some people in your party rather see this as a metaphor actually for what has happened not in the first part of your time in charge perhaps since 2010 that period of stability when you ruled with the liberal Democrats perhaps the period since the referendum which publicly split your party in two and since then so much turmoil so many events where you’ve played it out in public and if L trust loses her seat is this the finale to that terrible period Well I hope so in a way because hope she loses I do hope she loses because I think there is a need to cleanse the conservative party and to cleanse the conservative party of some of these very malign influences um can I just say though you’re right Laura completely to emphasize how badly the conservative party has descended since 2019 but I think the global cont we could be very parochial sometimes but the global context is important look what’s happening in France at the moment look at what’s happened in Germany with the afd rising I only have to mention Biden Trump to make the point for all over the Western World we are seeing mainstream political parties that used to rule their countries you know in two-party systems being broken and torn apart when we understand that there’s something actually more fundamentally wrong with Western democracy rather than just the conservative party rather than just the Republican Party rather than just macron’s party will perhaps begin to repair our Democratic systems because I think in 10 to 15 years time if we don’t really look at that we may look back at this period and say all the warnings signings were there actually of democracy and trouble and we didn’t heed them but hang on Tim you’ve just sat there and called a conservative former prime minister who was a minister during comparatively very stable times under David Cameron she was on the remain side in the referendum you’ve sat there and said she’s a malign influence I completely I completely stand by that Laura I think she she made terrible mistakes in time in government um she blamed everyone else other than herself she poisoned the conservative party’s reputation never then really backed or helped her successor Tim there slow hand clapping apparently there in kingslin if we can bring it up there we go and that must be for the candidate who is not on the stage and that would be the former prime minister Liz truss um if she has lost her seat having been prime minister defense secretary remember as well senior positions in government this is an ominous end isn’t it well look I hope she’s not ill in anyway let’s not rule that possib I don’t know why she’s not on the stage but if she’s well and just as avoiding a kind of Portillo moment of the kind that we saw in 97 if she’s not willing to face the electric after losing other than a health reason it’s a real form of cowardice and we only confirm the harsh words and I me they are harsh but I think they’re Justified words that I’ve just said about I mean rishy sunak and so many conservative candidates they spent the last 6 weeks running away from the record of Liz truss because it was a record that was detrimental to any kind of message positive message um it seemed to put out there to voters yeah and I I’ve been very critical of orishi sun but one thing he never really did he didn’t lay into his predecessors he could have done much more blaming of his predecessors for his inheritance he didn’t do that actually to his credit I think just while we’re waiting to find out exactly what is going on here you can see some of the candidates getting a bit impatient actually not just the people doing a slow hand clap on the floor but some of them getting really quite cross I just want to think ask you Tim do you think if Rishi sunak had behaved differently that he could have prevented this result being so bad and we should tell our audience you have been a staunt Critic of rishy sunak for some time ah she’s here ah there we go there she is on the stage let’s listen in I David flux being the returning officer the election of a member of parliament to South West norol do hereby give notice that the number of votes for each candidate is as follows Bag James independent 6,282 Conway Gary Daniel Dominic Heritage party freedom family Nation 160 uh do Val py pvy green party 1,838 dougas Lorraine Communist Party of Britain 77 Jeremy Terry labor party 11,846 McKenzie Tobias reform UK 9,958 obvious e Anglia Earl Elvis official monster raving Looney party 338 Ratcliffe Josie liberal Democrats 2,618 truss Liz the Conservative Party candidate 11,217 the number of ballot papers rejected was 139 and I do hereby declare that Jeremy Terry is duly elected um it was a close rung thing in the end but remember she was defending a majority of 26,000 over 26,000 and it has been completely squashed the former prime minister of the United Kingdom has lost her seat and this caps an appalling night for the conservatives T’s result proves let’s just hear the victory speech here for GR you should trust has lost with a majority for labor of 630 votes so hardly anything in it but no avoiding a genuine humiliation for the former prime minister Liz trust who has lost her seat in Southwest Norfolk as Clive was saying is an absolutely massive majority that she had previously has been absolutely overturned let’s talk straight away to James cleverly as think stand the Home Secretary he’s just one his seat but James a brutal night for your party capped off by this humiliation for your former colleague Les truss well look we we we’ve got to recognize this is an incredibly difficult night for us um sorry I’m getting I’m hearing myself sorry about that Laura I’m just hearing myself in uh in my ear okay uh it’s incredibly difficult night for the conservative party we have uh lost a number of I think good parliamentarians excellent parliamentarians we’re going to have to reflect on that we’re going to have to ask ourselves some proper searching questions not jump to not jump to uh answers but actually ask ourselves what we need to learn from uh this result and what we do to get ourselves back into government uh and start serving the British people again as quickly as possible was those trust a good parliamentarian now she’s lost her seat Well I think when you’ve had uh so the short answer is I think she was a u a great parliamentarian however of course um her most recent uh time has been marked by her short time as a prime minister she was very high-profile and of course that sometimes has an effect an impact on electoral results like this um I mean Liz was a friend as well as a colleague she was incredibly generous of spirit when Susie was diagnosed with breast cancer uh she was my boss as foreign secretary I will always have a huge degree of affection uh for Liz and it is really sad to hear the result that I heard just before I came on a in terms though of her humiliation she is by far from being alone there are dozens of ministers many well-known people who have lost their seats tonight in a matter of moments we might hear directly from her at the lecture on the stage and we’ll go straight to that in fact she’s there oh she hasn’t quite started we’ll bring you that as soon as we possibly can so I’ve put you on notice James cleverly that we may have to cut into you but actually I think she’s walking off the stage let’s see if we can show our viewers the pictures list is leaving her account there she will not speak on the stage our cameras perhaps can move in a bit more closely to see her she’s in the middle of that crowd there having lost by only 630 votes she’s standing there chatting to her husband but what an incredible moment of history is a former prime minister is booted out of office only 630 votes in it um but James cleverly she’s far from alone dozens of ministers have lost their seats some people in the studio tonight have said oh well well it’s the swing of the pendulum this was always B to happen we’ve been in charge for such a long time but it didn’t have to be this bad did it look democracy as I’ve said is is is both a beautiful but also a brutal thing and we all recognize that when you go into elected office there is a risk that you are uh you know you you lose it’s one of those things that happens you don’t want it to happen but you recognize that it does happen and it’s an it is as important a part of democracy as uh winning is um but it’s it’s it’s horrible when uh good friends and colleagues lose um their their positions as members of uh Parliament um but all we can do is as I said before think carefully about why this has happened not jump to conclusions or or or rush to answers but take a period a short period time to uh think about what has happened and why and how we respond to that and that is what the conservative party does this is a very very bad result for us tonight but as the labor party has proven you can go from a very bad result to being in government in a relatively short period of time that should be our natural aspiration and that’s what we will work towards but it is by far your worst ever performance in terms of the sh share of the vote I mean it’s unimaginable previously to think that the conservatives would be down so low this is not a standard election defeat why do you think it happened you must have thought about this it’s been clear which way the wind was blowing for some time well we we we’ve seen that uh sadly as we predicted uh a large number of people who previously voted conservative voted reform uh and that meant that the labor party in many many seats um were able to win and that’s not you that’s not about blaming anybody it’s a statement of it’s a statement of of fact we need to think why did those people uh move away from the conservative party what do we need to do to win back their trust and their support uh how do we make sure that we uh are put ourselves into a position where we can once again be a party of government a broad-based party of government that reflects the needs and the desire desires and the wishes of uh the British people uh I’m not going to pretend to have all the answers to those questions here this evening but um as a party we’re going to have to think hard about that um James CL Clive Meer here I mean you’ve you’ve talked about a period of reflection that you feel is needed not too long um although there are some suggesting that it should be like the Canadians and it should be at least a year to have a proper analysis of what went wrong but as you saw your friend there Liz truss lose her own seat was she partly to blame for that period less than 50 days in office is she part of the issue here and that radical form of Economics does she try to put forward so I just said not going to jump answers here and I’m certainly I’m certainly not going to uh kind of make comment about someone who I regard as I say not just as a colleague but as a genuine friend um so all I can say is what I’ve said already which is rather boring television for you but it just happens to be what I feel which is that we need to think about this we need to not rush to conclusions we need to look at the full set of outcomes um through the uh through the rest of the uh through the rest of today we’ve clearly been told that we know that the Labour party are going to have a very large majority um but I think and I I may be proven wrong when I have a look at the numbers but I think that that large majority is off the back of a very very modest increase in share of the vote and indeed the lb party and the conservative party the two traditional parties of government in the UK um we have had you know a much smaller combined share of the vote than in the past and we need to ask ourselves why the conservative party will certainly do that I think it’ll probably be smart for the labor party to do likewise and we’ll do that thinking before we take action okay James cleverly Home Secretary for now thank you very much indeed for joining us early in the morning so trust out Jeremy Corbin in Nigel farage in so night with big headlines it is and we’re all wondering what you’re thinking about all this you hear James cleverly there TR losing I’m watching those pictures from from Norfolk in many ways Liz trust’s Story personifying the conservative story of recent years really of when the highs are high and then the lows are low so you have someone who was prime minister a matter of not long ago not able to hold a seat that was one of the conservatives safest and one little stat a colleague has just shared with me LZ trus has lost her seat Theresa May seat has gone to the liberal Democrats David Cameron’s old seat has gone to the liberal Democrats and one of Boris Johnson’s old seat has gone to labor so Richi sunak is the only prime minister of the last 14 years whose seat is still conservative how extraordinary it is extraordinary but you get the sense tonight as the numbers have come in there are there is no safe territory for the conservatives in this election quite exactly that exactly that I mean that was a majority of 26,000 yes exactly and therefore clearly nothing nothing was uh was safe and if we take half a step back to the kind of electoral cycle going back five six seven years and that whole notion of safe seats for so many parties has taken something of a something of a battering really has I suppose 2019 was such a product of volatility this is also a product volatility voters can change their mind lity very very quickly although I would have thought a lot of people thought that volatility from 2019 was not necessarily a thing of the past but that things had calmed down a little bit since then well there aren’t any rule I think all the rules got broken a long time ago I think our rules are that we’re probably heading to the news are we we are yes indeed uh I think Charlie State’s got an update on uh the situation uh in news away from the election Clive thank you very much good morning it’s Friday the 5th of July the labor party has won a landslide victory in the general election with the conservatives on course for the worst result in their history Rishi sunet conceded defeat congratulating the next prime minister saki stama in the past few minutes the former prime minister Liz truss has become the latest conservative to lose their seat as labor overturned a huge majority the liberal Democrats and Reform Party have made gains but there have been significant losses for the SNP here’s our political correspondent Dam gatas [Applause] 500 a.m. and enter the winner a new prime minister elect in Just 4 years he’s taken labor from historic low to Landslide and now we can look forward again walk into the morning the sunlight of Hope pale at first but getting stronger through the day shining once again on a country with the opportunity after 40 years to get its future back earlier reelected but knowing he’d LED his party to its worst ever election result RI sunak conceded the labor party has won this general election and I have called sakir starma to congratulate him on his victory today power will change hands in a peaceful and orderly manner with Goodwill on all sides elected the first senior Tory to go was just after midnight Swindon South a labor gain Robert Buckland former Justice secretary a lonely walk to end a 14-year career as an MP angry he blamed infighting and incompetence for leaving his party so diminished I’m fed up of personal agendas and jocking for position you know the truth is now with the conservatives facing this electoral Armageddon it it’s going to be like a group of bald men arguing over a conb the liberal Democrats then now said the current Justice secretary Alex chalk and the education secretary Jillian Keegan labor defeated Penny Morant one of the favorites to be a future Tory leader and another one too the defense secretary Grant shaps we’ve tried the patience of traditional conservative voters with a propensity to create an endless political soap opera out of internal rivalries and divisions which have become increasingly indulgent and entrenched Northeast Somerset Jacob Reese MOG lost his seat to labor all the while the Tory party chairman Richard Holden looked nervous by just 20 votes he scraped through doing the damage to the conservatives in seat after seat was reform Lee Anderson won in Ashfield 21,25 and Nigel farage finally after so many failed attempts elected MP for Clapton believe me folks this is just the first step of something that is going to stun all of you thank you very much and already celebrating the liberal Democrats they’re on course for a record equaling Hall of seats in Scotland labor has scooped up seats from the SNP they had 45 now reduced to single digits so this is Kia starmer’s moment to savor a time he said for the nation to start start a new chapter Dam caticus BBC News a summary of other news for you this morning as well the former nurse Lucy leby will be sentenced later this morning after being found guilty of the attempted murder of a premature baby girl 8 years ago the 34-year-old who is convicted following a retrial is already serving 14 whole life terms for the murder of seven babies the attempted murder of a further six at the Countess of Chester Hospital between 2015 and 2016 hurricane Barrel which has claimed the lives of at least 10 people across the Caribbean has now weakened to a category 2 storm hundreds of thousands of homes are still without power after the weather left a trail of Destruction across many island nations the UN has released more than3 million pounds in emergency funds to help those affected the online retail company Amazon turns 30 today the Seattle based firm which is valued at $2 trillion began live as an internet book seller that was in 199 4 and an emotional goodbye to Andy marriet Wimbledon after what could be his final appearance on court following a defeat with his brother Jamie the men’s doubles and he became emotional while chatting to BBC presenter suaka let’s have a look at the weather cars there for us now good morning everyone today essentially is a day of sunshine and showers for most of us but if you’re in the south of England South Wales we are looking at more cloud and also some rain that is the picture at the moment the rain has steadily been coming in from the southwest it’s drifting towards the southeast a weather front Crossing Scotland bringing rain now fragmenting into a band of showers so some of this rain in the South will be heavy as it clears away into the near continent you’ll find its left behind it a legacy of cloud and also some patul like rain and drizzle before it rejuvenates from the southwest later move north of that we’re into sunshine and some showers and not as windy as yesterday temperatures 13 to about 20 possibly 22 around Lincolnshire now through this evening into overnight and into tomorrow this weather frr bearing the rain pushes northeastwards it’s going to be wet and windy in the East tonight and also first thing tomorrow in the west some showers and widespread showers on Sunday Char Carol thank you very much Clive Laura back to you [Music] welcome back to our coverage of the general election 2024 the UK will have a new prime minister sakir styr will take Office later on today Rishi sunak has been sent packing by the electorate the conservatives crashing to their worst ever parliamentary defeat in Modern Times And Rishi sunak plane has just landed took off from T side uh in the last hour or so and it’s now landed at uh our RAF North Al and uh at some point in the chucking rain there um that’s actually how this whole thing began rain outside number 10 when he announced that he was going to have hold the election at a point this year when he didn’t have to and uh I’m sure they’re going to be lots of criticism um of uh of that decision clearly because it just has not worked out he’s landed there and at some point today he will be heading to Buckingham Palace to Tender his resignation and uh he will no longer be prime minister that will be Kia starma he’s already made it clear um at his count in Richmond in Yorkshire that he intends to stay on as an MP how much longer he’ll stay on as leader of the conservative party is the big question um the suggestion being that at some point probably today um he will actually step down but we’ll uh we’ll see what happens there and these are live pictures now of his plane Taxi being in and uh he’ll be at some point disembarking and heading back to number 10 probably to start packing and it ter ofish she time in office 20 months from he came into office Chris didn’t he believing that he as a brand because Richi sunite was very much a brand was more popular than the conservatives and hoping to drag the party up to where he was in terms of popularity however actually the opposite has happened and he is now on his way out yes so he he knew I think on assuming office as prime minister that he was walking into significant political headwinds not least because to win a fifth term in a row for the conservative party would have broken any modern precedent but yeah he did Define himself certainly at the outset against his most recent predecessors and argued that yeah he would be different in tone and style and Outlook both the Liz trust and to Boris Johnson but when there wasn’t any significant Improvement in the conservatives polling position he tried various other strategies to try and arrest that which often were in contradiction with each other frankly so reboot restart refresh none of it worked and they went into reverse yeah I the classic example being at the Party Conference last year last October where you saw Richi sunak in his conference speech pretty much Define himself against the record of the previous conservative Prime Ministers and indeed previous labor ones a matter of weeks later he appointed Lord Cameron one of his predecessors into his into his cabinet I think Laura what interesting about Richie sunak and his legacy if you like is that I suspect the history books sha as they are of the daily noise of news will acknowledge that he stabilized politically and economically the UK after a period of extreme turbulence in both of those categories but doing that that was never likely to be enough to win a general election given the political inheritance that he that he took on okay I don’t think very many conservatives will be feeling very kind to him this morning I’m not sure also the reception in Downing Street will be very kind to him where believe it or not as Clive was saying the weather in Downing Street right now for Leela nathu Pur who sensibly remembered umbrella unlike the prime minister is just as about a horrible of his reception as the electorate has just given the conservatives Leela what’s the I was going to say What’s the mood like in Downing Street but I think we can see on on the screen what what the atmosphere must be like in Downing Street but what do you expect to see there in the next little while sorry Laura just lost you in my ear just briefly then but yeah it’s ending uh the election here in Downing Street very much as it began in the pouring rain Rishi sunak uh as you said is on his way back here he’s now landed uh back at Raf North thought you saw the pictures of his plane landing there he will make his way back to Downing Street we don’t know if he’s going to walk up the street uh behind me or go uh in the back entrance but of course there is this very kind of human story here as well in Downing Street of a family having to pack up their lives very quickly and head to a new home so we’re expecting rishy sunak to arrive here in the next hour or so we’ve already seen Jeremy Hunt uh the chancellor about an hour ago uh pitch up here into number 11 he of course will also be vacating his workplace and his home here in Downing Street perhaps unexpectedly one of the cabinet survivors uh who we were all very surprised to see uh pull up here but he of course will be making a way for the new occupants of number 11 so Rishi sunak we expect to hear from him we don’t know whether he is planning a stopover at the conservative party headquarters for the moment that perhaps might be a farewell message to his staff a thank you message uh there first before he gets here and then we do expect to hear a few more words from Richi sunak he hinted at that didn’t he in his speech at his at his own account that he would be saying more about the result uh later on so we’re expecting another speech a departure spee speech from richy sunak as he heads off to the Palace okay Leila NAU thank you very much indeed from a very soggy down stre Downing Street I’ll see you there a bit later on and you wonder what it would be like for rishy sunak if he does go to Tor headquarters or particular nerves have been jangled because he’s given his chief of Staff a peage and sending him to the House of Lords even though lots of people are furious at how the campaign was run yeah um lots of uh lots of analysis and uh recriminations one suspect and possibly so as well in Birmingham Birmingham Yardley let’s go and talk to Jess Phillips who has held on to her seat there but with a drastically reduced majority uh Jess Phillips um of a few hundred less than 700 um just sum up how difficult it’s been for you there despite the victory um I mean here at the count you mean I mean it’s been pretty and throughout the campaign uh it’s been pretty gruesome it’s been one of the worst um election campaigns I’ve ever stood in although the brexit one wasn’t all that cracking um and I’ve suffered attacks then as well but um yeah it’s it’s been pretty grueling here and and I’m afraid to say some of my opponents uh did not reflect at all the manner in which my constituents behaved which was with deorum and class um so yeah it’s not been much fun um you you know what I won and so did the LA party so I’m quite chuffed sure sure a win is a win um you did resign uh uh from the front bench over Gaza was that part of the issue here mhm what was Gaza my resignation wasn’t part of the issue no but Gaza was part of the issue was absolutely there was an issue in my constituency uh yeah yeah yeah so Gaza was definitely part of the issue but also the reform vote was massively uh increased as well so it’s a sort of pins uh movement uh which shows I suppose the diversity of my constituency uh which is one of the reasons I really like it um but um yeah Garza was a massive issue no doubt about it I mean you you uh have a reduced majority now um and it is reflective of uh some of the way the night has gone in relation to the share of the vote that labor has got um that’s a warning to isn’t it to the party despite the huge majority that it has of course it is a a warning to the party but I have to say I started watching it seems like years ago when W uh Street was in the studio with you I have to say I I think that trying to find the sort of difficult story for the labor party there is a difficult Story to Tell in Birmingham and people like me are going to have to work incredibly hard uh which I’m more than happy to do to to make sure that my community feels loved and trusted again um but the the the fact of the matter is is my constituents will be way better off under a lab government just like I was growing up there uh and to be honest I think that’s the story that I will be taking out to them but we have to prove that so the issue there’s all sorts of things that the labor part is going to have to do but the the biggest one is we’re going to actually have to start saying things that can actually be delivered and then delivering them and I very much look forward to that work all right Jess Phillips in Birmingham Yardley a win is a win thank you a win is a win but the performance of a small party there nearly knocked her out of our seat and it’s worth reflecting tonight we think that the smaller parties when you put it together have actually got combined they biggest ever share in a UK general election so we’re checking those numbers add up in that way carefully but it looks like the smaller parties have received their highest ever share in a UK election which is something of a landmark moment one of those parties doing very well is the liberal Democrats and we can show you some of their gains haraga eastley Chelmsford cheltonham kelon hael Grove Tor Bay so the southeast Southwest and parts of the north of England and we’re going to show you some more on the screen of where they’ve been Victorious tonight Daisy Cooper the deputy leader is here well I was about to say how’ you feel and then you crack open this massive grin before I even get my question out yeah we’re we’re feeling really good I mean I was here a few hours ago shortly after uh the exit pole saying um that it looked as though if the exit pole had been correct it looked like it could be um you know a once in a century result and now we can see what the results are and it’s a record-breaking result for the liberal Democrats we’re really humbled uh that millions of people have put their trust and support in us but we’re also incredibly excited what do you are going to do with it because your ambition was to get back to being the third biggest party you’ve done that you promised in the campaign basically you’d be more leftwing than labor but what are you actually going to do with this new found power and profile in the House of Commons well the very first thing that we’ve already called for has been to call for an emergency Health and Social care budget we put Health and Social care front and center of our general election campaign we talked numerous times about our pledges to boost GP numbers to end Dental deserts to have mental health hubs in every community and to finally fix social care um and we want to see that emergency Health and Social care budget as soon as possible but you’re not going to be able to push labor to do those things on your own they’ve got this whopping majority so I wonder if in particular there is one thing perhaps you’ve already had discussions with some people on the labor benches about the kinds of areas where you might be able to put pressure on this government the whopping major majority actually to get things done we stood in the general election as our own party on our own platform with our own Manifesto and we set out our own priorities we believe that with the numbers that we’ve won this evening we are going to be a really strong force in British politics and every single liberal Democrat MP is going to add to the strength of our voice in Parliament to call for those reforms that we want to see in our NHS and social care and this stts over oh let’s see well I just wanted just before you came into the studio we were seeing pictures of Ed Davy I mean doing some epic dad dancing has there been widespread liberal Democrat dancing I mean d I say can invite you to give us a few moves in the studio probably not just yet no my my local radio station did ask if there was a particular song I would play if I was going to have a dance in the kitchen but I’ll probably do that Saturday morning what was the song Oh basement Jacks do your thing there you go all right I I I wonder I wonder though Daisy was there this quiet are a little bit of sort of unease when the suggestion of how you were going to run this campaign aign was was sort of put forward to the to the wider uh uh elements within the party that it was going to be stunts that were going to be the trigger to get into the policy was there a sense that oh my God what are we doing well the stunts were kept of Highly coverted secret throughout the entire campaign so even Ed didn’t know what some of the stunts were until a few hours before they took place but if you look back at the at the last Parliament the stunts started with our different byelections and if you think about the very first one that we in chesham and amam in True Blue buckinghamshire that was when we had the blue wall we actually built a blue wall out of blue boxes and Ed knocked it down and that introduced the concept of the blue wool into our conversation into the British lexicon really um and then we continued with those stunts we had the stunt saying you know we burst boris’s bubble it was time for Rich soon act to go time was up etc etc and so it had already become sort of part of our campaigning strategy uh it was working very well so it was hardly surprising when we decided to to do it the trouble though is for the lids in a sense is that when you’re getting bigger and we’ve seen it in this campaign when you’ve had scrutiny on some of the policies that you’ve put forward not all of your sums add up not all of the policies are deliverable and if you’re going to become as you say this bigger force in politics a bigger voice in the House of Commons again you’re going to have to accept much more intense levels of scrutiny oh and we’re very happy to have those levels of scrutiny and we do believe our Manifesto is fully costed um we worked very intensely as you know as the Health and Social care spokesperson I can say I my team worked with more than 300 different health organizations to develop our top pledges um and we worked on the sort of granular detail that you know sat underneath it so we are um very confident that the pledges that we put in our Manifesto are pledges that could be delivered um and those will be what we’re campaigning on okay Daisy Cooper thank you very much to for joining us doing your a thing in the studio you might say yes yes uh it’s been quite a story uh across the uh the night and into the uh the morning here um and one of the big stories has been the situation in Scotland uh let’s get an update on all of that Kirsty walk is live in Glasgow hi Kirsty hello there good morning to you and I am joined by Neil gree the MSP Neil gree who’s the Scottish Health secretary uh thank you very much for joining us I’m just going to say two different figures you went into this election with 48 MPS you were coming out of this election with eight it’s catastrophic for you is it’s a it’s a very poor night a very a devast ating night for the SMP and I’m devastated for colleagues that have lost their seats and their staff uh who have lost their jobs and um but you’ve also presumably let down the voters because you know voters felt they couldn’t vote for you because you weren’t delivering for them and though Independence itself was pretty firm and 48% to 50% they clearly didn’t trust you to deliver it and we’ve got to reflect on the message that’s been given by the people of Scotland uh yesterday and the results that we’re facing today and we will do that we will reflect we’ll rebuild and we’ll refocus to make sure that we continue to deliver for the people of Scotland and we’ll work to earn and re earn their trust because this is a a devastating night for the S SMP it’s it’s a a horrendous position for us to be in and we want to you take the blame of course we have to because let me just put your former leader but to um said Nicholas sturon um one of the questions I have the S&P result tonight is where they let themselves between two stools and the independence question because I think in my view it wasn’t really put front and center it was never followed through on a day-to-day basis in the campaign that’s one criticism another criticism is actually the other way around and that is Joanna Cherry’s criticism that Nicholas sturgeon to blame for this result so you know every’s blaming each other and Steven Flynn saying there has to be some kind of bearing of the soul and all this but what will the bearing of the Soul achieve well of course there has to be soul searching there has to be soul searching I I don’t want there to be recriminations what I’m interested in is learning the lessons of what has happened uh not just over this election campaign uh but in previous months where we uh have seen uh our support H fall away I want to make sure that we reflect on that as we were doing as we were knocking doors in my case in Adrian shots for anim ker to a very uh strong MP who served her constituents well and there are examples of that across Scotland we need to make sure that we come together we reflect on what has been delivered to us as message by the people of Scotland and respond and respond well but of course it’s a Westminster election but of course the SNP is not judged really and how they do and not won’t do again actually at pmqs where you as the third party got two questions that’s not what You’ been judged on in Scotland you’ve been judge what you’ve been able to deliver in the way you govern and the way you govern in Scotland you’ve been there to since 2007 and people feel that lots of things just aren’t going very well not least a financial Scandal not at least a transport system that’s not working properly not at least a bot return scheme a gender recognition problem a debate that was never really resolved and more importantly for a lot of people the fact that you cannot deliver an education to the extent that you promis to deliver you promis to deliver high standards right across the educational spectrum and that hasn’t happened either and and as I say we need to reflect on that and we need to reflect on uh what we’re delivering government what we are what we have sought to achieve through this campaign which is to make sure that we do focus in on Public Service delivery that has been the focal point of John sny’s campaign in terms of saying that we must not see a continuation of austerity we must see an investment in public services to allow us to continue to make the change that we need to in our Health Service in the reform that we need to see in our education system and I’m confident that we can do that but we will also be looking to hold a labor party to account in terms of the change that they say they will deliver but the very little change that they’ve actually proposed in terms of the manifesto they have committed to following the Tory spending plans and that is incredibly significant for the ability for not just ourselves in Scotland but for colleagues in Wales uh to be able to invest in the Public Services the way that we would want to and that is a key issue for us maybe they’re just some some things that it wasn’t right to do actually maybe it was some things like you know maybe you shouldn’t actually have offered free prescriptions maybe that wasn’t a priority maybe there are other things in the Health Service that you could have done it’s devolved you were varying income tax in order to pay for public services maybe didn’t calibrate it properly well I think on on two of those issues um I was getting very clear support for the prescription uh free prescription position uh here in in Scotland and in terms of uh the issue around income tax people have told us to take responsibility for our decisions in Scotland we’re absolutely doing that which is why we’re seeking to mitigate 14 years of austerity that’s come from a Westminster government by raising a billion and a half more in Revenue here with the powers that we have in order to invest in the in our Public Services imagine where we would be without that investment and that’s why we need to see an end toity elsewhere in the UK as well new agree thank you very much indeed Kirsty thank you the S&P share of the vote in Scotland down to 30% 20% lower than I think in the 2015 election incredible and the two parties the SNP and the conservatives who set off on constitutional Adventures have both been hammered in the general election of 2024 however someone else who has been humbled in the last hour at the hands of the voters is the former prime minister Liz truss now she did not speak on stage at the Declaration where she lost her seat losing her enormous majority however our colleague Ros Atkins did manage to catch up with her before she left the count do you take responsibility for what’s happened to the conservatives this evening because what happened when you were prime minister I think the issue we faced as conservatives is we haven’t delivered sufficiently on the policies people want and that means keeping taxes low but also particularly on reducing immigration and I think that’s been a crucial issue here in Southwest norick that was the number one issue that people raised on the doorstep with me but do you accept that but do you accept that first as a cabinet minister and then for a brief time as prime minister you were part of the people in power who were overseeing those things not being delivered I agree I was part of that that’s absolutely true but during our 14 years in power unfortunately we did not do enough to take on the the Legacy we’d been left in particular things like the human rights act that made it very difficult for us to deport a legal immigrants and that is one of the reasons I think we’ve ended up in the situation we are now now thank you do you still want to stay in conservative politics I I’ve got a lot to think about uh it’s been a very very hectic few weeks uh I haven’t slept last night so give me a bit of time but I will definitely talk to you again uh when I’ve got the opportunity one more question would you like to say sorry to the people of Norfolk because they clearly feel a little left down by you your campaign M trust M trust the former prime minister they saying I agree was part of the problem but she was pointing the finger of blame at The Inheritance that the conservatives got way back in 2010 for having been part of the problem but she said we didn’t keep our promises we didn’t do enough but I think C there’ll be lots of conservatives watching that and seeing her on television and pointing the finger of blame very closely in her Direction she say she’s got a lot to think about as well um so it’ll be interesting to see what she does moving forward um but what about the story of the night Jeremy Vine has been uh periodically bringing us up to date and uh he’s now in Downing Street hi Jeremy well and and and Dawn has arrived here as well what about that so yeah we’ve got our wedge here of these conservative hexagons and some SMP as well these are Labor’s top 300 targets arranged by order of marginality so as you go down Downing Street the hexagons get higher meaning the seats are safer and I’m going to do a thing now where we can translate the colors from 2019 which is what we’re looking at now into the new colors and see just how much damage labor did so have a look here and let’s see what happens so you’ll see this wave now Rippling down Downing Street there it comes and now we have the 2024 result if any are flashing by the way it’s because we’re still waiting so the smallest majority is down this end and you see labor of pretty much cleaned up here with two exceptions actually Keith Le stays Blue and of course this is chingford and Woodford green Ian Duncan Smith seat who amazingly Mr Duncan Smith managed to keep his seat despite it being a very very vulnerable one as we get further down we can see a large red block around here that is White Haven and workington you’ll remember workington man it was a big Boris Johnson thing the so-called red wall the conservatives were trying to smash down that was back in 2019 that had a conservative majority of 2,144 look how high this hexagon is now it’s a labor majority of 13, 286 as I say any flashing seat is still a forecast we head down to the end and here’s what you see about the end point is almost all the Tory seats have had their majorities reduced so there nothing as high as it was a lot of them are now unsafe they’re vulnerable despite having been the safer ones at this end that that one that sort of turquoise in the corner just down there is clack so that was a very safe tour seat translated by Nigel farage into a safishing here at the Damage Done to the conservative party’s holding of seats and the amount of incursion that labor has done all the way down this line and I’ll just add one thing which is that you don’t really see SNP yellow here because they took those seats as well back to you thank you Jeremy stay with us much more coming up uh but this is election 2024 and it’s time for a Roundup of all the news where you are good morning and welcome to BBC London’s general election special I’m luxm gopal labor have made significant gains across London the liberal Democrats have increased their number of MPS in Southwest London while the conservatives have clung on to nine seats as it stands with just one more seat to declare in the capital labor have 58 the conservatives have nine and the libdems have six Jeremy Corbin also won as an independent in Islington North our political correspondent KL merer has more a winning welcome for a winning leader K starma seeing the country and the capital go a wider spread of red they won in former conservative heartlands like here in Beckham really pleased really proud of the campaign that we brought absolutely delighted this historic moment this the first time play have ever won consy there were victories too in neighboring Beckley Heath and in Westminster I’m Rachel Blake and I’m cities of London and Westminster MP how does it feel to say that uh that’s the first time I’ve said it um so I’m very I take the responsibility very seriously so I’m very happy it’s been an incredible campaign and it’s been a really exciting night for labor they won as well in Finchley and gold as green in chipping Barnet in Kensington and in Chelsea and Fulham where former Minister for London Greg Hans lost his seat there was feat though to their former leader Jeremy Corbin who easily won his linkon North the seat he’s represented for more than 40 years we have shown what Kinder gentler more sensible more inclusive politics can bring about I couldn’t be more proud of my constituency than I am tonight I’m proud of our team that brought this result thank you very much Islington North for the result that we’ve achieved tonight thank you the livb demons were celebrating a good night in the capital build once again in their strongholds in the southwest and picking up Wimbledon for the first time what I remember is losing in 2019 that’s the thing I remember and that spurred us on for five years well from very working-class background Dad scaff mom’s a cleer grew up in a council house they’re still Council tenants to this day and I don’t see enough of that in politics I think the public don’t see enough of that in politics as well and I I feel like I want to go in there and be a voice for families like mine the conservatives did hold on to some seats they thought they might lose here in Harrow East and in chingford where their former leader Ian Duncan Smith won 17,28 the labor vote split after they replaced their candidate just weeks before the election I know that we’re going to be so disappointed to have Duncan Smith all over again and be disappointed knowing that we could have won if it hadn’t been for the lies if it hadn’t been for the what labor party did to me why do you think um conservatives aren’t connecting with London well I think the trouble is we’ve forgotten about working for people in the communities I’ve worked relentlessly for people here my record of success from getting a new Hospital built right the way through to getting rid of antisocial fighting about the closure of the broad m road bridge these are everyday issues for people here and it’s important therefore that people MPS focus on that so the new prime minister is a London MP and a labor one during May’s maral campaign Sadi Khan said that would mean a better deal for the capital his opponent back then says now we’ll see if that’s true Sadi Khan has spent his entire time blaming the conservative government that he can’t do this he can’t do that well he won’t have anybody to blame although I suspect he’ll still try well I think K’s right to talk about a long-term plan I think he needs two terms we’ll I’ll be working with him straight away I’ve already been in with him today I’ll make sure that you know with a labor government uh me as the mayor uh is working as closely with him as possible now we’ll be able to find out labor is as strong in London as it has ever been and has a national government with a huge majority Carl Mercer BBC London well now let’s go live to our political editor Tim Donovan Tim what’s the latest packing up here in Chelsea and Fulham uh the MP here was Minister for London a Greg hands during the campaign he’d been one of those people to say vocally labor are going to win a Super majority it was perceived as trying to suppress the vote and hopefully uh voters around here would keep him on as a as a presence of scrutiny if you like for a labor mayor a labor government a labor Council but he lost here by 152 votes well I think it was always going to be a difficult race here in Chelsea and Fulham um you know the notional majority was I think about 8,000 and I think it put it into What Jeffrey boycott would have said the corridor of uncertainty to the conservatives uh now hold currently nine seats in London that will be their worst record there’s one more henden about to come back but it’s either way going to be the lowest number of MPS they’ve had thank you elsewhere in our region in Su the conservatives have held on to godling and Ash Jeremy Hunt’s seat they’ve also held East Su while the lib Dems made gains in Su Heath woking Guilford and eer and Walton in hartfordshire Grant shaps lost his seat to labor they also took the seat of Hamil Hempstead and harpenden and berkhamstead has gone from conservative to libdem while the Tories held on to hartsmere in essics labor took the thork seat from the conservatives they also won both constituencies in south end and one in harow the conservatives held on to basilon and brenford BBC London will keep you up to date with the latest throughout the day Eddie Nestor is live on BBC Radio London through to 10 o’clock this morning there he is now and to find the specific results for where you live you can head to the BBC News website now to join the rest of the team for more election [Music] coverage hello there welcome back to our coverage of the 2024 election we’re expecting Rishi sunak to turn up at uh conservative party headquarters quite soon so that could be interesting and yeah we’ll bring you that as soon as we soon as we get it and if you are just beginning your day rather than staying up with us all night then Labour has won an absolutely whopping victory in the general election Rishi sunak will in the next few hours be on his way out of Downing Street as prime minister for the last time and probably around lunchtime sir Sarma will be on his way in an astonishing turnaround for labor after that terrible result in 2019 so let’s imagine what might now be going on behind closed doors in Dow Street in government as they get ready for this new Administration to arrive Helen McNamara is with us he used to be the second most senior civil servant in the land now Helen you know what it’s like behind the big black shiny door when the new boss is about to arrive so just paint paint a picture for is everybody panicking frantic or actually if they got lots of folders and everything’s all organized I’m very sure there’ll be no panicking is very very good at keeping it cool in these situations but it’s an incredibly emotional and tense time because the first thing you’ve got to do is see off the outgoing prime minister with respect and kindness and that’ll be somebody that you’ve worked with quite closely so there’s all of that to deal with first and then you stand together really in number 10 and you wait while the you know the outgoing prime minister and the incoming prime minister at the palace and then you see the new boss in so he he or she stands in the street outside makes their speech turn around walks through the door is clapped in by the team and then if you’re you know the cabinet secretary or the prime minister’s top team you follow them into the cabinet room and straight away run to appointing the cabinet and getting on with the business of governing and so as they walk through that door their life changes and the country’s Life Changes too but you were there under Boris Johnson and also richy sunx you worked closely seen him up close how do you think he will be handling this moment you know he’s got a reputation as being very businesslike very managerial very sort of methodical but up close how do you reckon he’ll be handling this moment well this must be hard for him right and he’s a very dignified and respectful person but I mean seeing what he’s had to go through this evening and just this whole experience is a really big moment I’m really sure having worked closely with him he’ll be taking the time to say thank you to his team think he’s doing that now with the conservative party I’m sure he’ll do that in Downing Street with the staff that have worked with him then what about um the business of governing before he’s actually got his ministers and stuff in place because we know that there’s a NATO Summit coming up for instance I mean how much preparation would he get in order to deal with all that how much help would he get to deal with those things that are on in his inin now before he’s really actually properly settled in and it’s one of the extraordinary things about becoming prime minister is the Inay you have on going into the job the business of governing has been going on all the time and you do have to get your head into and around all of these difficult and complicated issues foreign policy is one of the very first things a foreign uh prime minister has to do so he’s been spending the last three few weeks talking about domestic policy and all the things that his government will deliver actually of his first few days will’ll be talking to foreign leaders they’ll be getting ready to the summit as you say um but the civil service is very used to Preparing People for these things and we’ll have a very very well oiled machine ready to serve him and one of the interesting things about kir st’s preparation is it’s quite sometime since he appointed a woman called Sue gray you might know Sue Gray’s name for being the official who conducted the report into party gate who published that report which was part of the finale of Boris Johnson’s time in office Helen you will know Sue Gray she’s going going to be an incredibly powerful figure all our viewers this morning might have to get used to hearing a bit about her what’s she like and is she really the kind of person who you think actually if you wanted somebody in charge of government making it all smooth making it work that would be who it was because she’s got a reputation for being a bit fearsome I mean k sta has an amazing advantage in having Sue gry in his team in the same way that Tony Blair had Jonathan Powell so much as many of his political team won’t even have been in Downing Street before in Sue he’s got someone who’s deeply familiar with the cor corridors of power and work some of the dark corners and some of the light ones too Laura I think that you know she she will be able to help him and his new team navigate how to do things very well okay Hal mam thanks so much for being with us okay it’s been a night of shocks it’s been a night of surprises and high drama Rita has some of the highlights of what’s been a very very eventful night highlights depending on your stance I suppose cly really really low points for a lot of people we’ve got nine seats left left to declare so we’re nearly there and as Clive said there have been some really really outstanding moments in this night possibly Chief among them is the loss by a former prime minister of her seat Liz truss losing in Southwest Norfolk she had a majority of 24,000 over 24,000 and she lost her seat to the labor party truly remarkable for somebody who was in Downing Street what two years ago uh other other notable names who’ve lost their seats Grant Chap’s defense secretary has held various cabinet positions over the last few years he’s out in welln Hatfield Jillian Keegan education secretary as was she’s out in Chichester that’s a liberal Democrat gain from the conservatives uh I’ve got more and more of these Penny Morant leader of the House of Commons she lost a seat to labor in Portsmouth uh Michelle donellan uh science secretary she’s lost her wilcher seat to the lib dead and Johnny Mercer veterans Minister has lost his Plymouth morview seat to labor I’ve got a few more to bring you as well it really has been a shockingly brutal night for the conservatives Jacob Reese MOG Arch brexiter losing his seat to labor in Northeast Somerset ter raas coffee who for a brief period of time was Deputy Prime Minister to Liz trust she’s lost her seat in suffk coastal and Liam Fox a very senior figure uh on the Tory right for many years has lost his seat in North Somerset that is a labor gain from the conservatives I want to show you one more thing which shows you the shape of the vote share um over this election uh it is an estimate and I say an estimate because there are still a few seats to be counted but this is where we are um landing on as our 2024 estimate in terms of overall share of the vote and that is labor on 35% the conservatives on 24% the libdems on 133% and others that’ll include reform and the greens on 2% um I don’t want to give you an enormous history lesson at this point in the night morning but if you go if you look at the lines going back you will see that labor share of the vote despite having this enormous majority this Landslide Victory it’s actually relatively low and in fact I can tell you it is five percentage points lower than what Jeremy Corbin got in 2019 and it is the lowest share of the vote of any single governing party so how has that happened not in a position to tell you and I’m sure treatises are going to be written about this but it is a very interesting fact about their Victory and the conservatives are on their worst performance ever all right Rita thank you for that I mean famous I mean a generation of conservative Poli politicians Liam Fox Tes coffee Liz truss and Steve Baker we started the night with Steve Baker here in the studio and it’s good of you to come back Steve because we were giving you less than 1% chance of surviving in Wickham um you told us that you thought you’d sque it um but you didn’t well no I think I ranged it and said I might have lost handsomely or possibly sque so what I expected to happen was for my me to maintain my British Muslim voters which is I think I probably did and for labor to lose theirs but the reality is the independent G Gaza candidates underperformed compared to my expectations and so labor of have won with the help of Reform but look today really I just feel terribly sad for our country because labor are going to be a disaster um I’m happy to talk about that I’m very sad for the probably a thousand parliamentary staffers who will now lose their jobs who don’t deserve to including my own who have diligently the people of Wickham um given their all to look after people in all kinds of ways they don’t deserve to lose their jobs and i’ wish them I commend them to any employer but I’ll be honest for myself I I wanted to win this I wanted to I F it to win I’m incredibly proud of the campaign we had I’m proud of my campaign manager but for me personally uh you know thank God I’m free uh it’s over and I’m glad you’re glad explain that oh yeah I mean I’ve been doing this for Duty and it has been a well I mean I would invite you to become a member of Parliament and Laura of course kindly followed me around with the camera for a long period and uh have a look at inside the brexit storm but look being a member of parliament is uh long hours uh a lot of abuse um my house is now for like Fort knock and you know enough’s enough and I would have been glad to continue and serve the people of Wickham it was often a joy to do my duty uh but I’m going to be honest with people you know members of parliament time and again say what an honor well it was an honor it was an honor but my goodness it’s good to it to have it behind me and I will not be coming back you can have that as an exclusive well I mean that is rather a depressing way to end the interview Steve thank you for that um yeah there you go and making it clear that he’s he’s now free it’s interesting though because lots of MPS actually through this campaign have sometimes talk privately sometimes a little bit publicly about how tough It’s been some of the abuse they’ve encountered some of the threats they’ve been also to their families which of course is not something that anybody involved in this process would want to see politicians have great privilege but also it is not an easy life right someone who’s been working hard for all of us though tonight of course is Jeremy Vine uh Jeremy take us inside the House of Commons to show us what it might look like here we are to break it to you it’s not a real House of Commons it’s all just you know virtual but let’s have a look at the num going be in there oh listen I know it’s a surprise let’s do the numbers here labor 413 bit of for casting still because there are nine seats or so to go then on the opposition benches with plenty of room to stretch out the conservatives on one22 let’s have a look at the other parties then liberal Democrats what a night 71 what an incredible night best in the history of their party SNP crushed reduced to 10 reform on four the greens on four great result for them pled cry in Wales on four also a good result for them and then we have the others including the Northern Ireland parties and Jeremy Corbin Etc on 22 now before I go I must pay tribute as I know Clive and Laura you will want to to our wonderful colleague Sir John Curtis because I’ll just remind you what he told us right at the start of the evening what did he say labor would get 410 413 it is what did he say the conservatives would get he said 131 they’re on 122 he had the lib Dems on 60 one that was close SNP he said 10 bang on played cry four Greens on Two And he did say when he said reform 13 He said I that’s the one I’m most worried about so John if you’re listening you’re a genius and uh it’s a pleasure to work with you and there’s the actual results so far as we know at this point he’s listening thanks Jeremy he’s grinning well John is most certainly listening to that allowing himself to crack a smile after all of that hard work and the headlines really really here John devastated SNP delighted reform devastated Tories and the jubilant labor party what are your closing Reflections after this really historic evening of Politics as it’s unfolded well first of all before I directly answer your question I need to give tribute to all of my colleagues who’ve worked on this exit poll it was actually a lot of hard work uh yesterday it was probably the most difficult election to model I guess you know as with every these things yes we worked hard and perhaps we demonstrated a bit of science but it was quite probably a bit of luck there as well to come back to your question well my reflection is that this is essentially an election that the conservatives lost that is the big movement in this campaign their support is down by around 20 21 points but the electorate in expressing their dislike of the conservatives they wish to get rid of them have cast their favors across many seas yes the labor party have been the Principal beneficiary in terms of seats but they’re not the principal beneficiaries in terms of votes actually once you take Scotland out of the equation where labor undoubtedly did put on a spectacular increase in their support more or less doubling their support in England hardly up at all in Wales actually down this was the conservatives going down that for the most part enabled labor to get where they are although what labor were able to do was to advance where they did Advance they advanced in places where they were chenging the conservatives because voters were wanting to use labor in those places to get rid of the conservatives but equally liberal Democrats who now have almost got their proportionate share of seats um which is you know utterly remarkable they equally benefited when the conservatives they were challenging the conservatives and with the conservative vote Falling Away more heavily in places where they were previously strongest you know labor and liberal Democrats really profited but a lot of the damage the under the foundations of conservative U support and Prospects in this election were undermined by reform they’re going to run it about 15% they’ve only got four seats but but for the fact that so many 2019 Tory voters moved to reform the position of the conservatives this morning would have looked an awful lot better being in government difficult and that’s not really a problem for the for the conservatives it was also a problem for the S SMP who in the end did end up with around 10 seats just only around 30% of the vote in Scotland um and that now leaves them a much diminished Force at Westminster we do now have reform with four MPS that’s now a potential platform for nigal for to use but the greens also they’ve got their best performance ever and they’ve got four seats we are going to have in a sense rather than the House of Commons where we normally expect one big party and another big party on the side then a few Fringe parties we’re going to have one big party on one side and lots of other par is of varying sizes but but you know of innumerable number on the other side and to that extent at least it’s going to be more fragmented House of Commons and we’ll have to see who managed to take advantage of that situation all right Professor sjn Curtis thanks to you and your team uh for well frankly getting it right thank you and through the day on BBC news on radio TV online and everywhere of course there’ll be more analysis from John maybe after a couple of hours of kip but we’re shortly going to be leaving you in the very very capable hands of Sophie Sophie rayworth and John K there they are ready to go you look absolutely raring to go Sophie you ready it’s going to be a big day we have what a night you have had and what a day we have ahead of us and we are going to be bringing all to you live the moment that we see rishy sunat return to Downing Street for the last time and then leave when he tenders his resignation to the king we will be following all of that live and of course the moment when sakiss stama makes that same journey to to the palace and becomes the new prime minister for the United Kingdom we will bring it all to you live in this terrible weather because it’s all rather familiar isn’t it back to the day when Richi sunak called this election it is pouring down here in Westminster today uh so Carol Kirkwood will also be with us a bit later to tell us whether he might need an umbrella this time uh I think Laura is heading to Downing Street as well a bit later so you might need an umbrella too it really is Chu it down but MPS will be turning up here today some of them for the first time some losing candidates will be turning up as well coming to talk to us the party headquarters are nearby uh everyone is going to be focused on this one area of London today in fact we’ve got s Davey who will be joining us just after 8:00 after quite an extraordinary night for the liberal Democrats Clive how are you feeling have you finished I’m still man if you hav’t I’m still awake still going um I’ve been nicking Laura’s sweets and nuts uh so that’s kep me going but what a night it’s been of drama um you know you have Labor with an incredible majority but on such a low vote chair absolutely astonishing and then of course a former prime minister losing her seat Liz truss um it’s it’s been an astonishing night and a privilege to be to be part of the coverage here with uh with some wonderful colleagues uh getting these results out and keeping the public informed it’s been amazing you say all the right things uh Chris brief final word from you before we hand to John Sophie we’ve had a decade of convulsions in politics haven’t we in British politics going back to the independence referendum in Scotland Through The brexit Years uh the Coalition years the conservative small majorities that whopping majority for Boris Johnson and then a whopping majority on stilts now for K starma quite extraordinary the capacity of British politics to continue to surprise and in terms of that volatility it does seem maybe the volatility is The New Normal right everybody can move around all the time nothing is permanent the evidence substantiates that precisely doesn’t it in this election in the previous election and therefore it’s not unreasonable to imagine that that might continue and so whilst K stama will arrive in dowy street with a smile on his face and a whopping majority behind him he’ll be very conscious of that undoubtedly Chris briefly what do you think the next 100 days are going to bring it’s going to be busy for folk like me I suspect and indeed for those going into government I think what we’ll see from Kia starm in Downing Street in a couple of V is a uh businesslike Manner and tone a because that’s his character B because he thinks that’s the nature of the uh economic and political inheritance that he’s taking on and see because I think a nod to the fact that in that share of the vote considering the scale of Labor’s numerical victory in seats is pretty modest so I think there’ll be an acknowledgment of that tacitly uh that accepts that yes he has a whopping majority of the seats but 30 odd per 35% is of the uh of the vote and then from then his challenge in the next couple of months will be able to show able to try to show a change in the tone of politics that’s what he’s promising but then very quickly people want to see some sort of delivery and that will be that’ll be difficult it’s a big majority doesn’t make some of those big challenges all that much easier and yet potentially as we close we should just underline an incredible turnaround for the labor party from where they were whopping colossal any every superlative is is deserving of throwing out that description no doubt about it okay yeah indeed for his party what a job K dama has done well thank you for being with us as the results have unfolded um your votes have been counted and politicians Futures and the fate of the nation has been decided we’d just like to thank everyone here for being with us all night and that includes Jeremy Vine of course Rita who’s been in the studio with us Chris of course of course our political editor and Sir John Curtis as well Kirsty walk and uh everyone all our reporters and guests from right around the country and of course a big thank you to all of you who have watched all night later we will bring you sir kir starmer’s journey to bookan Palace to accept the king’s invitation to form a government there will be huge challenges ahead but today our next prime minister will walk into Downing Street only the seventh labor prime minister in history the leader of a new government the start of a new chapter for his party and the beginning of a new era for us all thank you for being with us [Music] goodbye and as Big Ben strikes 10 the exit pole is predicting a labor Landslide sakir starma will become Prime Minister with a majority of around 170 seats blim me just take take a look and take in those numbers the conservative party so often an election winning machine looks pulverized tonight I think that an electral meteor uh has now struck uh planet Earth it is going to be quite the night we’re looking for the first count we are we need the first count and we’re hoping that it’s going to be one of these counts which’re just going to come cut in there because we got a declaration 18, 837 how would you sum up the evening there is no way of describing this as anything other than a bad night for the conservative party Laura I’m fed up of performance art politics I’ve watched uh colleagues in the conservative party strike poses write inflammatory op-eds and say stupid things I’ve had enough of it Grant shaps there looking really quite shaken by what has happened to him tonight some of the most familiar faces that we’ve been seeing certainly over the last parliament are gone the former prime minister of the United Kingdom has lost her seat one has to say this does look like an election that the conservatives have lost and have lost primarily because of the votes they have lost to reform believe me folks this is just the first step of something that is going to stun all of you this this effectively is the 2024 election result here all of those seats blue in England yellow in Scotland replaced by labor red labor gains labor gains labor gains 18,9 76 you have voted it is now time for us to deliver I don’t know if you could tell but I’ve rather enjoyed this campaign we’re going to go to Adrien Ramsey co-leader of the greens smiling very broadly there um it’s been a good night that Douglas Alexander is duly elected James this is a disaster for the S&P isn’t it it’s a total