The Brexit Election: Part 2 (midnight-3am)

of our country I mean it's quite astonishing but it is an exit poll let's see how it is an exit poll and it could be the case we expect it won't be the tab live Valley is an outlier listen now you're watching the brexit election on Sky News it's just gone midnight let me take you through these dramatic headlines so far the first results are in and the Conservatives have gained a seat as we've just been mentioning in the northeast its Blythe Valley but labour held on in Newcastle Central and happened and Sunderland South we were hoping to hear from one of the returned candidates there but let me tell you Labour's vote chair has dropped more than 18 percent in Sunderland and Houghton John Bercow our special guest here tonight telling us said the early results are a catastrophe for labour and the exit poll for Sky News the BBC and ITV News has predicted that the Conservative Party and this is why we're predicting it could be a catastrophe for the Labour Party that the Conservatives will get 368 seats on that exit poll that would be a majority of 86 it is suggesting that for labour they dip below 200 seats secure 191 seats or so now that would be their lowest number of seats for many decades since 1935 in actual fact the Shadow Chancellor John MacDonald told us the situation does look dramatically bad ad after the exit poll Boris Johnson thanked voters on Twitter saying we live in the greatest democracy in the world that for the Prime Minister [Music] well John Bercow you've made our headlines imagine that years sitting right beside us but I mean the serious point being if we've got to keep saying that but the early results confirming that trend there and what I was saying to bethe before we hit 12 o'clock they're buried God that John McDonald have all been on the program and they're there looking pretty shell-shocked yes they're obviously very deflated to put it mildly everybody insert some quite rightly the caveat let's wait to see whether these early extrapolations are replicated elsewhere in the country but if on any significant scale we see what we've seen over the last hour elsewhere in the north and in the midlands that spells doom for labor I should say in relation to Bridget philipson I mean she's a very dedicated name Huntress and principal Member of Parliament Helton and some land south and very active in the House of Commons but she's on fire while you're on Sunderland in your unsurpassable knowledge of these seeds we've got Sunderland Central I'm hearing they will count in this in the same building they're they're due to declare now this really--it yeah and this but this could be better for the Conservatives yes it's perfectly possible that it could be Julie Elliot is the outgoing and long-standing member Republic but the exit well the exit poll is suggesting because he does do seed by seed and I was suggesting that it's too close to call in Sunderland central well again you've got the brexit fact I come back to this point that we touched on earlier Dermot that in Newcastle of course they voted to remain in the European Union in Sunderland back in 2016 there was that sharp intake of breath when the results from Sunderland were announced was a very heavy leave vote and I have to assume that there is a link between that heavy leave Oh on the one hand and the punishment of labour members of parliament and candidates on the other yeah much reduce what we'll have to see what happens exactly that we sharp intake of breath if the Conservatives take Sunderland central roads you know Sarah Jamie is in Sunderland forests and can update a Sarah Jane hey Rupp yeah hide Irma and we've just been given a three-minute warning here the returning officer has asked for all these Sunderland central candidates to gather to the right of the stage they're all in a huddle at the moment they're then take to the stage behind me in the returning officer Patrick Melia will announce that result it's really interesting actually el labor sorry so Jake Newcastle East is declaring let's see how it goes one tiny East constituency is as follows Nikolas Hugh Brown Labour Party 26,000 and forty nine votes Robert Charles Patrick wind also known as Robin win the Conservative Party ten thousand five hundred and eighty six votes Nikolas Terry hartley also known as Nick Hartley Green Party candidate [Music] 2195 Wendy Barbara okay we leave there Nick Brown long standing Labour MP there are back in vote down ever so slightly we were concentrating on something central wearing it's too close to call Sarah Jenna me is there I think we're getting a declaration acting returning officer hereby give notice that the total number of votes for each candidate for the Sun Dance Central constituency is as follows Tom the silver the Conservative Party fifteen thousand three hundred and seventy two Julie Elliot Labour Party 18,000 Rachel okay Thank You Rachel Sarah Featherston green party [Music] 1212 Niall Jane Hudson Liberal Democrat 3025 Dale Mackenzie independent 484 [Music] corral cash Akuma Parikh 5000 and 47 and that Julie Elliot has been duly elected to serve as member for the said constituency today very few sub Julie Elliot is back there as the Labour MP for silent central with a much reduced majorities you know we're talking to Sarah Jamie who's who's right there and well back but shaved that majority way down the Conservatives and indeed the brexit party Sarah Jane yes indeed I'm Julie Elliot's the majority last time out was nine thousand nine hundred ninety seven reduced significantly to two thousand nine hundred and sixty four here tonight a lot of folks actually went the Lib Dems way the last Lib Dem candidate got one thousand seven hundred and seventy seven votes that has got up to three thousand this time round which is interesting but Julie Elliott hangs on to Sunderland central there had been a rumor that that tonight could turn blue but it remains red the ceiling she's just making her acceptance speech we're still awaiting the Washington and Sunderland West result but we'll bring that to you as soon as we get it Dermot okay yeah Jane thank you very much indeed let's stay on that change in share in Sunderland Central though we were told it's too close to call well it wasn't but it was by the standards of the the previous majority held there by Julie La Tercera Jane was saying it was nearly almost exactly ten thousand after the last election nine thousand nine hundred ninety seven well wax down by thirteen point four percent and you can see there the performance of the brexit party just to remind you the brexit party did not stand in this general election against conservative candidates where the seat had been held by the Conservatives but did in the main stand against the Labour Party and perhaps that explains the effect the conservative vote more or less unchanged they're two percent Lib Dems actually up quite a lot they're doubled their vote in the greens at one point two percent John burka we keep relating this to the exit poll and it's pretty much in line if you put those vote chairs the change in shares on labor seats with smaller majorities then they're going to be getting home in a lot of seats where we previously thought they did another squeak yes I mean this is another very bad result and anything it's a personal reflection on Julianne she's extremely active in the house I've heard her speak on fire stations and court services and transport infrastructure and state pension inequality for women of a certain age and so on and so forth she's a very dedicated in deciduous member but we come back to this point is the Labour Party not able to resonate with the voters in an area that voted heavily and even the answer is clearly it isn't resonating and in a sense you could argue that only the intervention of the brexit party calls that Pro brexit vote to split a bit and it probably already saved Julie's bacon and what about Bridget Phillips in next-door because you mentioned they leave remain votes Bridget philipson I mean as you who saw up close and personal in the House of Commons was quite an avid remainer in her in a very leave leaning seat yes she was and he is an avid remainer and she has also been an outspoken advocate of a second referendum and I mentioned this not in any sense to indict her or to be pejorative but simply to say that she made a calculated decision that she would get that proposition out there and I suspect it hasn't helped her locally it's what she believes is the right way forward in relation to the brexit but I suspect that it got a very poor response in her a let's get Beth's thoughts on this and we're looking at seats here which we imagined because as a whole deluge of seats to to declare over the next three or four hours these Southie these are the early declares which traditionally it's just mean about who's first to declare they're telling us that they're not sorry and pretty on the numbers and it's gonna be dire for the way but one of my labour sources has said to me that this looks in terms of the early results that the exit poll is looking pretty accurate actually in terms of extrapolating out the exit poll from the early results I mean it's interested in this particularly in Sunderland central the brexit party vote if you add it to the conservative vote would have given them a majority what I think would be really interesting about this though when we begin to chew over this in the coming days is to the extent to which the vote was lent to the Conservatives Jesus Stuart vote leave labour MP now not an MP anymore did a big press conference with Boris Johnson and Michael gave where she said please if you're a Labour voter lend Boris Johnson your vote lend your vote was the phrase in order to get brexit done and that appears to have resonated and the question is and let's talk about the conservative sentence and that is the issue isn't it John Bercow if this is kind of a referendum through the prism of a general election there's been a single answer single slogan certainly more or less from the Conservatives about getting brexit done well then with that kind of majority you're in for five years and you've got to satisfy then those people who have as best as lent you your vote yes there's a huge public policy challenge first in the delivery of brexit because once the government is back in office and ministers are as Roy Jenkins used to say in central command of affairs they've got to deliver they've got to make it happen they've got to show that what they've promised can be translated into practice and that's on brexit where you are dealing with a lot of other players on the stage my point earlier to Beth was yeah legislatively of course the government can give effect to the withdrawal agreement because it's got the numbers but there are other people with whom we have to interact and negotiate and then secondly the question is having had those votes linked to it can the Conservative Party craft a wider policy prospectus that will appeal to those voters whose votes have been given to them tonight well again talking about it this evening but as those brexit negotiations continue you're very aware you've heard it many many times in the chamber of the House of Commons the argument coming and let's give a name to it from people like Jacob Riis mark who's saying what we can do zero tariffs you know we can go to World Trade Organization rules and we'll well put no tariffs on agricultural goods and things like that everything will be cheaper for the British public but of course an awful lot of people in various industries would be put out of work there'd be a complete rebalancing of the British economy do you think people who voted for the Conservative Party voted for for that brand of conservatism no I don't think people who voted for the the party tonight voted on the basis of a closely argued interpretation of tariff or non-tariff barrier policy and I don't say that to be discourteous or insulting I think people are making an overall judgement about what motivates them on what they would like to happen but the idea that people have voted in very large numbers for a particular form of brexit I think really would be stretching a point okay I think what they've done is vote to say we are frustrated we want to see progress we haven't had it let's get it but as to the results no no no I'm John plenty more to discuss on that issue as these results come in and put more flesh on the bones of that exit poll plenty more from our correspondents at election counts tonight we've got so many covered and there are some crucial votes taking place in Yorkshire and as you've seen in the northeast of England they've got leads Wakefield and Hartlepool covered early well let's go to Sally Lockwood in Leeds first we haven't visited you yet and what's the mood there Sally well it's very busy here Dermer Leeds arena there are eight constituencies being counted here at the moment behind me five of those labour seats and three of those marginals to help ID Conservatives which were challenged by labour tonight and another which was a Lib Dem target seat as well well out of those three marginal seats done it really does seem that only leads Northwest could be vulnerable but that's of course only according to that exit poll what more will be clear after 2:30 as those results come in but one to watch is is putzie which has a majority of only 331 votes for conservative Stuart Andrew there he lost four thousand of his majority to labour in the last election but according to the exit poll he'll hold that tonight so we'll see we are going to get those votes from 230 running to about five o'clock we've been told we will have to clear out if the counting goes on beyond that because they need to set up for a Vengaboys concert for tomorrow night John Bercow saying what who are they a popular beat combo m'lud okay let's talk to Nick fowl in Wakefield now well even before the voting took place we think it could be well a narrow squeak or maybe a heavy defeat there are four Mary crow yeah I think she is probably facing a defeat them no beat combos here John burger be delighted to know but a Labour source has told me already who's involved we want the other two seats here that he thinks Wakefield has gone that Mary crazed insistence on beating the romaine drum is going to cost her in an area here which is very heavily leave at the referendum and if you assume that that is correct that leaves two other red bricks from that wall are they under pressure as well if vet Cooper not part of the inner Jeremy Corbyn sanctum got twice as many votes almost exactly as the conservative last time the feeling on the labor side is that she may be okay and John Trickett in the Hemsworth constituency who is in the Shadow Cabinet he - not certainly survived such is the scale of the labor collapse in this part of the country and indeed around the country German my goodness me okay Nick plenty more - a check in with you when the time comes let's go to Gerard tub though in Hartlepool and Jared very interesting they're given what we've seen happening already in parts of the Northeast yes a good performance by the Conservative Party but the brexit party doing well and their chairman standing there in a constituency that's had a Labour MP for 55 years richard theis of course could pick wherever he wanted to go he and Nigel Farage have put this party that Nigel Farage said is a company not a political party together so richard theis chose this seat because he thought about 7650 majority that Mike Hill the Labour MP had was vulnerable 70% voted to leave here but boy this is this doesn't feel like a conservative seat high unemployment high benefit rates more chance of dying on average young if you live here lower education attainment on average etc not that many professionals they haven't voted if they've voted conservative here for a small state for individualism for for freedom of of trade they voted because seven out of ten who voted at the referendum wanted out of Europe the question is can Richard Tice capitalize on that frustration have they voted for him looking at the votes tallied up on the table now Mike Hill looks to have more of course you don't know because you don't know which wards have been stacked up there but there's plenty on Richard Tice's table plenty on the Conservatives as well it's gonna be quite tight Gerard thank you very much indeed goes without saying back with you later of course cinder thanks to Nick and Sally as well that we're live in many more cants like those as well we're watching Sheffield or one of these significant developments there the Lib Dems have hopes of regaining sheffield hallam er the seat held by Nick Clegg which he lost in 2017 also watching Doncaster there are three Labour held seats while they were labour held at least one of which a major poll suggested was at risk of falling to the Conservatives that's also true of Grimsby Labour's majorities just 2,500 any day you could see litter that was one of the seats Boris Johnson campaigned in towards the close of the campaign well listen let's talk to the brexit secretary now not the brexit secretary it's michael gut yes Barry here's Michael Gove very good to see you tell me this do you believe the exit poll are you heartened by it well I think it's still too soon when we've only had a limited number of results declared to be confident that the exit poll is right in all its particulars but I do think it points to the fact that Jeremy Corbyn appears to have been decisively rejected by labour voters and I think that there are three things that we can draw so far from what we've seen the first is that jeremy corbyn's approached a brexit his failure to ensure that he honored his manifesto commitment in 2017 to get brexit dom that's clearly labour I think it's also the case that the more that voters saw Jeremy Corbyn and his approach both on national security and on economics the more they felt that he was not the right person to be Prime Minister I think the the third lesson that we we we should draw from this is that related to the first people wanted a democratic vote to be respected they've looked at Parliament over the course of the last three and a half years they've seen that a variety of MPs have been you know trying to frustrate that verdict and they wanted to make sure that they had a strong prime minister who would deliver that that appears ke the verdict okay and it's appears to have resonated let's talk Mr Gove about the the seats we have seen declare I mean did you expect you're out the campaign trail of course did you expect to do so well in those parts of the the northeast these are in the main labour Reid dance I certainly the case that we have some very good candidates in the Northeast and in Levy who won in implied a mental health worker in the NHS is someone who I know will be a superb MP but I'll be honest I didn't expect that we would necessarily win that seat I'm delighted through the key in her as I knew he fought a brilliant campaign but I mean there is the fact looking at it as well the brexit party also doing well and Boris Johnson said didn't he he said well you know if you vote for the brexit party you'll be taking votes away from us and you may let Jeremy Corbyn it seems that may not be the case almost certainly won't be the case according to the exit poll but nevertheless you might have done even better perhaps in some of those seats that have already declared if the brexit party weren't there I think that is probably true again I want to be cautious at this stage perhaps more cautious than you'd like to omit so my apologies but we still to see if what the pattern is across the country but it was certainly the case that we argued during the election I think it's true that a vote for other parties other than the Conservatives risked us not getting a majority people understood how important it was I hope that we didn't heat the mistakes for the person to have a hung parliament well let's get back to the central promise you say that it seems to have hung on lot this general election that is of course getting brexit done do you really believe that brexit can be done in the form of the withdrawal agreement well yes that's that's almost certainly going to pass if it is a majority of that size but do you really think that brexit all of it can be done and dusted by the end of the year yes not this year by the end of next year that a trade agreement that a trade agreements as Michel Barnier says not really any chance whatsoever a comprehensive trade agreement can be renegotiated with the European Union in 11 months well Michel is a tough negotiator he would say that at this stage and the negotiations but if we look at the past it was the case that when Boris Johnson was renegotiating their withdrawal agreement people said you can't change a word of it and he said well in particular I want to get rid of the backstop and they tell you you can't do that that's inviolable but the Prime Minister succeeded in changing the withdrawal agreement which nobody said could be done and getting rid of the backstop which again very very few people acknowledged was likely to happen so of course I think it's important for us to recognize there's a lot of work to be done but we can do it and we must do it as quickly as possible and if it can't be done you know if it finds you run into some difficulties isn't it prudent to have an extension to the transition period in place as tourism a negotiated or you saying we will never use that under any Constance's a long time ago I was a reporter deadlines concentrate minds and it's really important that we get this withdrawal agreement through the House of Commons by January the 31st and we can then get on with making sure that the other policies which were in our manifesto which the public would expect us to deliver on additional investment in the NHS in fighting crime and in leveling up educational opportunity are delivered as well but you'll be aware obviously um that deadlines have been missed by this very prime minister who was going to die in a ditch if we didn't leave by the end of October you know on a pragmatic basis see for necessary reasons and it seems being vindicated in the strategy if this is going to be the election outcome but nevertheless if circumstances dictates you don't know what's out there an extension might be useful well I think that everyone knows and certainly if this exit poll is correct the majority of the public appreciated that the fact that the October 31st deadline set was through no fault of the prime ministers it was because there were individuals in Parliament you know they've perfectly respectable arguments they made but they ran counter to what what now appears to be the strong public desire to have secured our exit in a timely way but I mean have they voted for that date at the end of 2020 or have they not just voted people not just voted for January the 31st get that withdrawal agreement through and then that the legal leaving of the European Union has taken place yes Britain has left yes but that's what I'm saying that's what they voted for that and voted for the end bit do they have they voted for what happens at the end of 2020 according to your timetable well again being cautious if it is the case that we have a majority then people who voted for the Prime Minister Boris Johnson it's it's his victory and the Prime Minister was very clear that he would use a mandate if the British people gave him one to make sure that we had the withdrawal agreement concluded by the 31st and we then moved quickly and expeditiously to secure a new arrangement with the EU based on free trade and friendly cooperation but we can do that in a timely way absolutely ok and what about our No Deal planning I know you're a sister in the election campaign you're gonna keep that going in in case the talks don't go well and you will stick to leaving at sorry it's who leaving the transition period at the end of 2020 well I think that quite a lot of the planning that was called no deal planning was planning for live outside the single market and the customs union and that work of preparing Britain for life outside the European Union will go on but we know now if this exit poll is correct but the government should have a majority which will allow us to conclude a good deal as the promise was said an oven ready deal which we can get done by the 31st ok Marco thank you very much indeed off to your counter I know thank you very much indeed maybe talk to you a bit later well the results are starting to come in fairly quickly think it's going to speed up an awful lot more later in the evening Middlesbrough and there we don't have the numbers for you a Labour hole there in Middlesbrough Andy McDonald as John Bercow is helpfully pointing out there for labour backing we haven't got the numbers but it's always interesting to to see as we've been finding out just that change in share just have beat the Conservatives or not they've managed to penetrate into seats like that we'll get those numbers for you maybe my colleague ed Conway has them he's certainly going to show us what's the results that have come in so far combined with the exit poll teller said yeah that's right I mean let's look at the big picture and here we have a very big picture indeed for you have a look at those numbers so far so you can see those without so far 5 seats for labour one for the Tories actually bit of a surprise that the Tories got that boy volley extraordinary swing and then have a look beyond that let's fly beyond that scoreboard to see the map of the UK slowly colouring in you can see largely curve north-northeast and seats that are the first ones typically to declare and we have those results through but gradually over the course of the evening and through into the morning we'll see that map start to be colored in and we will see some interesting stories across the UK especially if that exit poll is right and it looks rather live from some of these results like it it will be time to until we can actually see enough results to see but listen as we saw newcastle upon tyne won that race remember that first race to be the first constituency to declare and it was new cost of one south this time around narrowly beating Houghton and Sunderland South labour candidates Sheehan whare and Bridget philipson the first to be declared back in 2017 and the same again this time around she were the first this time and let's have a look to other constituencies around the UK in particular I mean when it comes to labor Durham North West I mean think about this constituency Laura petcock until recently I mean still talked about as a future like cutting you off Swindon North we alerted you to that it's about to declare let's have a look here conservative seat in the last part obsession is a sports family and commonly nervous and Bentley 340 1710 [Applause] [Music] all Labour Party 16450 just [Music] [Applause] okay well there we have it a conservative seat before the election staying a conservative seat with an increased majority there just in Tomlinson increasing that majority for the Conservatives to 16,000 at the last election it was half out it was 8335 it is also the constituency that contains the Honda factory of course having major concerns about its access to European markets after her exit but a poor performance there from the labour party as well just in Tomlinson has say doubling that majority let's go through these numbers for you nearly 60% of the vote for the Conservatives the Labour on half at around about 30% the Olympic Games increasing and there we have it the Conservatives putting on five-and-a-half percent the Labour Party going down eight point six percent the Lib Dems wear a decent performance up four point four and the Greens also increasing their share of the vote now we mentioned that the result from Middlesbrough the fact that Labour had held on there in the form of Andy McDonald so let's take you through those numbers were so interested in these changes in share and in these seats these labour health seats from the last Parliament how the brexit parties been doing well you can see the answer via cell phone in Middlesbrough not too well from the brexit party's point of view but Andy McDonald clearly lost their deposit there with just over 200 votes but let's so look at the top line labor on 17,000 202 and Ruth Betts in for the Conservatives on 8800 and an independent there or coming from the council there with 14 more 2% that's from a standing start so that's their share of the vote let's look at the change in share labour down again 12.2% the Conservatives more or less level pegging that independent taking 14 percent the Lib Dems up a shade as are the greens and the brexit party now it said just go on a couple of minutes after midnight you're watching the brexit election on Sky News better take you through the headlines so far the first results are in in the Conservatives have gained a seat and the few that have declared in the northeast Bligh Valley but labour held Newcastle Central and Houghton and Sunderland South but with juice patchouli Elliot's liver partying 18,000 in Sunderland central labour held the seat but with a reduced majority of just under 3000 results Justin you've just seen there in Swindon North Conservatives have won with an increased majority and John burka former speaker has told us the early results are looking catastrophic for the Labour Party the exit point for Sky News the BBC and ITV News has predicted the Conservative Party will win this general election and some with 368 seats if that happens that would equate to a majority of 86 for Boris Johnson jeremy corbyn's Labour Party is forecast to win something around 191 seats now that would be Labour's worst performance since before the war since 1935 the Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell told us appropriate decisions will be made about jeremy corbyn's future and after the exit poll Boris Johnson thanked voters on Twitter saying live in the greatest democracy in the world but Michael go Estela cities it's still too soon for the Conservatives to be celebrating well you are watching the brexit election live here on Sky News what an extraordinary night it's panning out to be not an enjoyable one though if the exit poll is to be believed for the Labour Party dawn Butler the shadow equalities minister joins me now very good evening to You dawn Butler it's looking pretty bad on that exit poll do you believe it when I've traveled around the country and I must admit hadn't felt that negative so I really do think we need to see how the rest of the night pans out but on the results coming in on the swing you know against labour it it does seem and feel quite devastating and did you go to the Northeast because that's where things really quite did you go to the Northeast because that's where the majority of the results have come in from so far and labour down down down and down and out in Blyth Valley yeah unimaginable a couple of elections ago yeah it is and brexit obviously played a huge role there you know ronnie was telling people to vote conservative to get brixi it done and you know you cannot deny that that was a great soundbite you know get brexit done it's very simple to digest it's very simple to repeat the fact that it isn't true and you can't just get bricks it done didn't really matter so people I mean and talking about six I mean we've all were sort of thick of brexit and but the whole point is it's not going to be done and it can't be done simply it only only should being sick of things they were also sick of Jeremy Corbyn do you not hear that I mean a lot a lot of candidates had only viewed it if a lot of candidates didn't mention the leader while they were campaigning to try and get it back in a lot of labour candidates no mention of Jeremy Corbyn but it was bought up on the doorstep was it not oh no I don't think that's I don't think that's true hundred percent true um I mean it is true that there was some things that I mentioned the doorstep mainly what was pirated from the media what was out there print these record low ratings they weren't made up by the media these are these are detailed polls no but the media tributed to it and that's and that's the point and also you know if you look at the fact checking sites that talked about the advertisements that were placed by the conservatives eighty-eight percent of them were false so a lot of that contributed to it but ultimately you know we do have to look at these results we will have to analyze them and we will have to look at call me analyzing them I better come in on this just your colleague Gareth's now he has just said stoke central he said he says he thinks he's lost his seat and he said publicly that he thinks that Jeremy Corbyn should resign I mean this would be the worst result in terms of seats for the Labour Party since 1935 I mean it's quite something I mean Jeremy Corbyn can't stay on Tony the thing is is that elections and politics is pretty bruising and when you're going through me and when you pull all of your heart and soul into an election campaign to then turn around and be faced with the possibility of leaves in your seat it is really hard and tough and I think that you know we've really got a I've got to thank all of the labor supporters have been out there that have worked this if if Labour have actually really seriously lost 71 seats Jeremy Corbyn calm stays leader can wife lost 71 seats it will be absolutely devastating and you know I also just bringing the recent record with John Bercow who sat there watching it all you know you lose one election you tend to stand out Gordon Brown will David Cameron lost er lost a referendum you go this would be two elections because let's not forget Jeremy Corbyn lost the last election as well kind of almost spun it as a victory but I mean could you imagine him staying on well the Labour Party will have to make a decision about that for itself and I'm quite certain that it's something - it's Jeremy Thorpe him will give thought he's a well of reflecting always already I don't know but it seems to me that you know that's a judgment for the Labour Party certainly the result if it is as foreshadowed by the exit poll is just as a matter of fact the worst result for the Labour Party for a very very very long time I think I'm right in saying in 1983 labour got 200 - 909 with myself you know less but let's stay with little ship and flip it round on Butler do you want him to stay do you still see him as as an asset Joey Corbin you know I think just so early on in the evening I think we really have to wait and then we really have to reflect quite seriously about where we go and the direction of travel for the Labour Party but I think it's just too early in the evening to be talking about that to be honest I agree with that because a political party in the face of a defeat has to have a debate and although of course is an absolutely natural media reaction to want to see a scalp scalp I mean just dealing I mean we're in a party what the policies might be in the future just in different directions - no but John it's about the numbers if they are the numbers you should comes in and we're seeing this direction of Michael's can I drink can I just cause Sam Sam Cates is my colleagues just tweeted this out about the pattern for labour it's not just about brexit he's saying from the exit poll he extrapolated out it looks like labor down everywhere in both leave and remain votes in areas so that is not just about bricks it also is about during the Corbin's leadership isn't it but it can also be about how we portrayed brexit for a long time that's just a brexit issue there's something out you still but you still can though because people on both sides we were trying to unite argument again about road to travel has been misled been gullible no no that's not what I'm saying at all what I'm saying is that our position in the labour party for a long time people who kept saying we don't understand your position and that that would have affected how people thought about did you find out you renegotiated in three months and then have a referendum did you find it difficult for people to get their head round that what precisely you were offering well I was very clear on my positions because I was very clear that I wanted to remain in the European Union but also very clear that we did we still need to I mean let's not forget we still you need to relight and reunite and unite the country and I don't think that this result is essentially going to do that so I think that in a you know in by the end of you know this week we're still going to be talking about what happens next and with the countries still going to be very divided don't if you can stay with us because Beth referring there we're communicating with sound coats through Twitter well we can sound a sound really interesting just take us through some of those numbers in if gone but we'll stay and we'll have a look at those Sam of course Dermot so we've been crunching the numbers and looking at the different trends up and down the country using the exit poll mainly with my colleague will Jennings and we found something quite stark when it comes to the conservative vote there you see the Conservatives doing better clearly doing better in areas that voted to leave more strongly but when it comes to the Labour vote well as you've been seeing from all of what eight results that we've had so far it's down pretty uniformly whether it was a leave seat or a remain seat and that's just a complication for those in the labour party who are trying to pin tonight's bad results as John McDonnell was on breakfast Dermott okay well Don Butler answer that what do you put it down to then leave that and remain seats so far you write early days but on the hard and fast facts that we've got so far you're not appealing to anyone but I still think it's to do with the messaging you know at the end of the day you know I can easily concede that the Conservatives had a very clear message okay but what about your message and who formulated that that would be the reason wasn't as clear as it could have been and should have been what we've got to admit that we have to admit that but don't you have yeah but it was the lead it was about the leadership as well I mean Jeremy Corbyn went into this election the most unpopular leader since Pollan began he did pick up a bit but his polling ratings were terrible you must be able to recognize that he was part of the block on labor in this election and and and has to take responsibility for this performance if that is correct that poll well Jeremy is the leaders so of course he would have to take responsibility that's what the leader role is is to take responsibility for the team or might that take well as I said you know it's not something I mean I've never been a kind of person when you know when labor Lawson 20 I've never said oh you know Gordon Brown has to resign that's not the person that I am I think that we have to reflect the direction of travel and where we go and we have to take an approach about that you know I'm not gonna sit on here and say oh yes such as such as ago that's not that's not the way I think we should conduct politics and I think the lesson from this election is that we really need to do politics differently and we need to be a little bit more measured and we need control for 15 years she's loyal to the labor tribe and loyal to her core and being the law of person she is I wouldn't expect her for one moment to call for the resignation of her leader the lack of appeal of Jeremy Corwin but it could also be the messaging as dawn Buffy was saying they get brexit done pure and simple message you know renegotiate and then never have a referendum at some point it's a bit more complicated it could have been that and the point you have not you could well have been that yeah I mean the clarity and starkness of the conservative message manifestly has resonated now the fact that is resonated because there was a slogan that resonated doesn't necessarily mean that that message is correct what it means is that that message has worked for now and it certainly does appear to work don't detract from her but it doesn't mean that the message itself is necessarily correct in all its particular okay listen we're gonna get back to Scott and talk don't but let's thank you very much indeed for coming in and we leave you to go and reflect and consider what the future holds perhaps for the leader and indeed for the party very good to see Don but listen we're gonna Scotland as I say and tommy Shepherd is the SNP candidate for Edinburgh East and let's check in first of all Tommy Shepherd on how you're feeling do you think you're going to become the the MP for Edinburgh East again I hope so comets good morning from Edinburgh it's looking quite good innit Mauritius and certainly have the first time ever just with the SNP has won the postal ballot which is not something we've ever done before so it all goes well for a big night ahead okay and we have to get straight into the issue of a referendum and independence referendum as well on the exit poll no results in yet in Scotland of course but um that's exit poll 55 seats that would be right back up towards the 2015 performance what what does that mean for an independence referendum in your view at this point in time I'm taking the exit poll with a big pinch of salt until we can see some hard results that exit poll is not in line with other polls during the campaign it's not aligned with our own data so it would be quite a surprising and short result where it to be true we're contesting 59 seats in Scotland if we win 30 or more of them then we will regard that as a victory and it looks as if we're on course to do a lot better than that and in answer to your question about the referendum Dermot we put three propositions before people in this election one was to lock Boris Johnson out of government two was to escape brexit and three was to assert the right of people here to choose their own form of government and it does look as if we've received a resounding endorsement of all three propositions so yeah we're on Wow no to pursue that mandate with the UK government and it's for them to decide what they want to do about it yeah but but one and two aren't going to happen that's for sure on that exit poll what how does three happen though how'd you get that pass Boris Johnson and Westminster after legislate to allow it well that's if the people of Scotland have spoken very loudly and firmly to with one voice saying that they do believe that whether or not Scotland should choose it a former government should be a matter for the people here and that's the principle we've been trying to establish in this campaign I'm not expecting Boris Johnson to suddenly support Scottish independence we've simply been saying that when and whether there is another referendum that should be a matter for people in Scotland and for the elected Scottish Parliament not for Westminster I would hope that he might want to listen in the morning to to that voice and if he doesn't then frankly I don't know how many more mandates we have to get before he will okay Tommy Shepherd thank you very much indeed I will let you go and find out how you've done there it's going to be returned to Westminster let's get more now from our correspondents since the election counts tonight so many dotted across the UK there are some crucial results jus from across the Midlands that's for sure skies Martha Kellner is in Fenton that's near stoke-on-trent Martin brunt come back Martin is in Chesterfield and Dominic Waghorn is in Birmingham well let's go to Martha first now stoke-on-trent three seats there one of them was in conservative hands what about the other two yeah it's been a huge battleground during this election as you said three seats being counted here stoke-on-trent south central and north as you mentioned stoke-on-trent South he's already in conservative hands Jack Brereton one DC in 2017 he became the first conservative conservative elected to be elected here since the 1930s but the Conservatives tonight are hopeful of taking those other two seats and in fact I've just been speaking to the Labour incumbent and the Stoke and Stoke central Gareth's nel and he's incredibly dejected he says if those exit polls are correct and if there's 71 seats gone he's convinced that his will be one of those and he is furious with Jeremy Corbyn he says these traditional labour heartlands have been completely neglected and he says in many ways this is an election decided along brexit lines but it's also a failure of leadership he says he's calling for Jeremy Corbyn to go and but we'll get a clearer picture here once the declarations are made we're expecting around 4 to 5 a.m. this morning ok Martha thank you very much indeed you are Martin bronty's in Chesterfield we're amongst others the Bolsover count is taking place will tell us about boss over and Dennis Skinner well people bandy around the phrase the end of an era if the predictions are right and the tourists have taken this from Dennis Skinner and that phrase really would apply he's been the MP here for 49 years this has always been a Labour seat they say round here come election time that if you put up a Jack Russell and pinned a red rosette to it it would win for labour there's no sign of mr. Skinner yet and as you can probably see Dermot we're not being allowed into the counting hall so mr. Skinner's not here the the Tory candidate Mark Fletcher the grandson of a minor he won't talk to us either I think perhaps although everybody is aware of the predicted results it may go down to the wire so nobody really wants to come and talk to us officially at at this stage but we've got a long time to go this is a very rural area the votes have taken a long time to get here and we probably won't get a result come confirmation of that predicted result until about 4:30 ok Martin thank you very much indeed you say that's a very rural area let's go to a very urban area don't eat my corn there in Birmingham and two seats in particular where we're looking out there we're hearing from that exit poll anyway Dominic Addington Jack drom ease seats and Northfield both leave leaning constituencies that's right Irma and being Britain's second biggest city a lot of votes to count here so an even longer night for us possibly waiting until 6:30 or 7:00 in the morning possibly if you look at what has happened in previous elections here this isn't Newcastle with Sunderland it's a it's a slower steadier rate of County so may have a long wait before we find out exactly what has happened here there are 10 constituencies in Birmingham several of them being counted here three of them in their constituencies it voted by a whisker I think 50.4% in favor of leave but despite that I think labour had been hopeful that all its nine seats here would remain in their hands but as you say there are concerns about two seats in particular earnings in Jeremy's seat the exit polls are suggesting that's touch-and-go as to whether he's going to retain his seat in Northfield Richard burden that looks like according to the exit poll at least that that will go to the Conservatives which would be quite an upset here of course Andrew Mitchell is the only MP Conservative MP who has a seat in Birmingham he's likely to retain his seat so that red wall that we've heard about crumbling may well crumble as far south as Birmingham and there's been some reaction to that from Jess Phillips who even though her constituency voted in favor of leaving in the brexit referendum she looks like she will be safe she has a pretty firm majority in the exit poll doesn't suggest that she's going to lose it but she has been reacting with I would say a sort of air of despondency on Twitter on Twitter to this evening two hours ago saying there are very few words for how heartbroken I am for the community our represents who have been through enough and then an hour ago she tweeted it feels like a punch in the stomach we will all be thinking of the harm that could be done to those we care for she's interesting of course because if Jeremy Corbyn does resigned in the wake of this of these results then she is one of those expected or likely to or seen as a possible contender for his job ok listen thank you all we'll be back with you all for the results as they come in just to alert our viewers to another count with keeping the closer I'm going to talk to John Bercow in a moment once Becky and Lavery the Labour Party chair sitting on in the last Parliament's a majority round about the 10,000 mark another seat in the northeast just north of Newcastle we are told that it's close they're on a they are going to a recount their inlay perhaps in some difficulties therefore the Labour Party John Bercow as you saw there a special guest for the evening the former Speaker what do you think John Burke about this let's talk personally yeah you know you you often described there as the man who partially was helping those backbench MP s bloc brexit I mean it looks like brexit is definitely gonna happen in the form that Boris Johnson has termed it personal feelings on that well I always saw it as my role dermis as Speaker to stand up for the rights of members individually and of the house institutionally it wasn't the job of the speaker for example to get brexit done or indeed to stop brexit getting done it was for the speaker to allow the house to breathe to allow members to say what they wanted to allow the House of Commons to debate the motions and subjects of its choice so when members came to me and said we want to debate XYZ motion or we're keen to support a particular amendment to a government motion my instinct was to be permissive and to say yes if that is the will that his perfectly proper that should happen that should proceed and then in terms of what the outcome was well that's a question of what the numbers were the speaker doesn't vote unless as a tie I had to vote once and I voted for the first time in my speakership but I wasn't making decisions about policy I was simply saying yes the house should have an are you making you're making decisions and you know you were there controversial decisions about the rules and I mean centuries of precedent in one case overruling that with the when you said that well how do we set a precedent if we don't overturn well do you think you went too far no I said did I think I went too far at all first of all in one case I was trying to protect the house from being frankly berated her and and intimidated into voting for something which it made it very clear it didn't want namely that ariza may withdrawal agreement and I invoked precedent and the precedent was very very very long established that the house shouldn't be asked repeatedly to pronounce on something where it had already made a decision the houses decisions matter they needed to be respected and they shouldn't constantly be returned to day after day after day on the principle oh well if you don't like it we're just going to keep beating you over the head a third or fourth or fifth six time until you do as we the executive the government say so there I was invoking precedent to protect the house there were instances in which I said well precedent isn't the only guide if we were guided exclusively by precedent manifestly nothing would ever change and I made that point when if memory serves me correctly in January of this year I simply allowed an amendment from a former Attorney General and I absolutely stand by this to a government motion to be debated and voted on by the house and I remember the government Chief Whip saying to me mr. speaker you will not dictate what happens in this place and I said Tim Julian with a very greatest respect I'm not seeking to dictate what happens in this place what I'm saying that house should yes I know you didn't know what you were deciding was controversial you you had some some rouse in that chamber as well do you have some rouse in the chamber if the Speaker of the House of Commons is going to be a craven lickspittle of the executive branch it's just going to be pushed hither and thither and told what to do that person frankly will be like a floating cork in a fast stream of water that would be an absurd state of vests if the speaker is going to be browbeaten and instructed what to do that person isn't doing did you pay more I mean maybe it was July job does that mean the Parliament but did you did you pick more on that on the brexit it's I mean Andrea led some you had some very happily deal with that let me deal with the two points first of all on the issue of brexit the truth of the matter is if you look back over the years the consistent thread in my speakership was that I stood up for the rights of minorities to be heard when the tears were in the minority on the conservative side in fact before the word brexit ear had even been coined they were known as Euroskeptics I consistently gave them their head I selected urgent questions from Bill cash and Bernhard jenkin John redwood and others because I thought the government needed to be probed questions scrutinized challenged and so on and I remember saying to burn a Genk in quite recently when he was really something of a moaning Minnie grumbling at me when I was making decisions that suited you you weren't moaning the reason why you're grumbling is that you don't like the decisions being made now I treated the bricks of tears in a fair way and I treated the remainders in a fair way and that's for here led some well Andrea was perfectly entitled to her view she didn't have a very strong grasp of parliamentary procedure and she was entitled her opinion but she suffered from the rather material disadvantage of being wrong but you do accept don't you think we were one of the most controversial speakers of modern times indeed of parliamentary times I mean there's also there's also the question John about your personal relations with your staff those allegations of bullying I mean it was incredibly controversial what do you answer to those I answer to those as follows first I've never bullied anyone in any way to any degree in any situation at any time is you'd a straightforward rebuttal it is not true second I would emphasize that you could just look at the facts I had several people in my office who worked for me for year after year after year the speaker secretary Peter Barrett who served me loyally in that role for eight and a half years served with me in the speaker's office in total for ten his deputy likewise eight and a half years as deputy to the speaker's Factory and there was investigation that never really took place the sense was that it was being swept under the carpet well city not by me absolutely wasn't swept under the carpet by me it was for the house to make a judgement about what the procedure should be and if somebody wanted to come forward and make a complaint he or she should have the opportunity to do so the particular point I want to members is this and I hope that this will resonate with people across the country in the course of a working life you would certainly hope that most of your working relationships succeed 70 percent or more is perhaps not a bad guiding light some working relationships fail and a very very very small number of mine in the early years did that doesn't prove that one person maltreated another what it proves is that it wasn't the right fit it didn't work I have extremely harmonious relations both with my Buckingham constituency parliamentary office staff and with the speaker's office staff and I think if I may say so the proof of the pudding is meeting when I stood down a speaker I had staff from the past making contact saying they wanted to come back ok so the last Prime Minister's question they wouldn't be doing that if I were some sort of ogre and what about well will you become a lord let me put it that way yeah what about this a former speaker a nice custome isn't it to get appearance do you think you will be denied one and if you are do you think it's going to be pettiness well we'll have to wait would you like one yes if I'm offered it I'll take it it has been the very long-established practice that a former Speaker of the House leaves the house after ceasing to be speaker and tends to go to the House of Lords so if I'm offered the opportunity to serve in the House of Lords I say to you an equivocally that I will take it I'm not sitting awake at night worrying about it I'm not losing sleep it isn't ultimately for me to decide it's for others to judge and I will have to rest content with whatever the outcome is but look the way I put it you is this none of us is without floor to err is human I made my fair share of mistakes I tried to get the big strategic judgments about conduct and atmosphere and opportunity in the chamber right and decisions right about how the parliamentary estate should be run I've no plans to die tomorrow but if I were to die tomorrow I'd die happy thinking I've been incredibly lucky I had a wonderful experience and I'm very grateful to the house but on that desire for a period I mean I asked you earlier about the future so it might not be over for you if you did get one Pollock it might not be over for you you'd be an active member of the of the House of Lords would you if you get that peerage well I mentioned to you earlier that one of my early challenges is to overcome my natural shyness reticence and self-effacement I mean if I feel that I can overcome that innate caution and disinclination to express myself and I were in a forum okay that was YouTube chamber that gave me the chance to speak would I sit well what mentees would you sit on as well having you Conservative MP would you sit on the conservative benches if you did get a pitch ordinarily the speaker if the speak against the Lord's goes to the Lords of crossbench in here so I wouldn't expect to go on the basis that you're suggesting as a conservative I left the Conservative Party on the night of 22nd of June 2009 in conformity with convention because I was elected the speaker and the house expects the speaker to be independent of and unconnected with party politics back to politics this evening and these results starting to come in John Berger thanks very much indeed for that but you're not going yet you're not going anywhere for many hours yet because you are watching the brexit election on Sky News it is threat I can't see the clock the cameras covering it three minutes past but to engross them John Berger the headline so far and the first few results are in conservatives have gained a seat in the Northeast Bligh Valley and there they've held on in Swindon north with a bigger majority just in Paul the Conservative Party candidates 32,000 [Applause] and I've been shot results for labor in the northeast in Sunderland central labor holding the seat but with a much reduced majority of just under 3000 and these results that we've had so far many more to come of course they are in line with this exit poll for Sky News the BBC and ITV News that predicted the Conservative Party will win the general election with 368 seats that would mean a majority of 86 for Boris Johnson labour support has been projected to go down everywhere in both leave and remain leaning seats The Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell told us appropriate decisions would be made about jeremy corbyn's future and after the exit poll Boris Johnson thank voters on Twitter saying we live in the greatest democracy in the world a declaration now in the West Midlands one of the first is the seat of Nuneaton as you can see they're voted leave let's listen in at the above election do hereby give notice that the numbers recorded to each candidate at the said election is as follows frightfully noisy Richard Adrian Liberal Democrats 1862 Jones Marcus Charles the Conservative Party candidate 27,000 319 conduct Keith Anton Green Party 1692 main Zoe Christie Labour Party 14200 46 the number of ballot papers rejected was as follows one top official mark zero voting for more candidates very neat Turner a conservative seats after the easy last election but a big majority now for Marcus Jones an increased majority up there to thirteen thousand one hundred and forty four from around about four thousand seven hundred last time around so a big increase and a big push back again for the Labour Party you must remember that this actually was a fairly marginal seat four years ago or so and the Labour Party pushed back to fourteen thousand or so votes it is a and leave tending seat one voted to leave in the European Union referendum in 2016 but John Bercow I say back to business look at that increase in vote chair for the Conservative Party 60% of the vote there in what was once it's not anymore a marginal seat in the labour vote down there about 10 percent yes it's very striking in Marcus Jones has tripled his majority and to put it in context as you rightly said it has been a marginal seat and that includes having previously been a Labour see Marcus Jones has been the Member of Parliament since 2010 but no way would any wouldn't ordinarily characterize it as a safe seat it's not the sort of seat Dermot where the benefit of your viewers that one would expect to see a 60% share of the vote going either to the conservative all to the Labour candidate so obviously it is a commentary on the campaign and no doubt to some degree also on the British news efforts of Marcus Jones yeah he's got up to 60% of the vote political editor Barry Barry we're seeing this now it's patently still early days but the exit poll we're seeing this pattern of the conservative vote going up all over the place all parts of the United Kingdom their ever reported self yeah that's right I mean look what what's happened is it has been there was a frame in battle if you like between labour and the Conservatives labour wanted this to be the NHS the austerity the cost of living election Boris Johnson his three lines strapped get bricks dan had the vote leave team from the 22nd 16 referendum in his camp you remember their slogan of 2016 that also won that referendum take back control a very simple slogan and and tonight what what it is clear is that if there was any hope of turning this into a different sort of election from Labour they have won sorry they have lost and they have lost definitively and that red wall isn't just wobbly and I mean it's been obliterated it's almost yeah so I get the reference that was a polystyrene wall roller this one is well not brick specter made of MPs and it does seem that if the exit poll is to be believed it is going to tumble tonight the prediction there the Conservative Party will have a majority of 86 and DOMA now let me bring in the green party's co-leader Jonathan Bartley in Westminster if this does turn out to be the case a majority of 86 for Boris Johnson and the Conservatives in Boris Johnson's terms brexit is happening the UK will leave the European Union at the end of January well we didn't vote for this election we didn't want this election we warned that something like this might happen and it's a deeply disappointing night I think for all progressive parties but it is labour that I've lost this but what it does reveal is that Boris Johnson will have a 60 70 seat majority whatever it turns out to be in the House of Commons and nights young but we'll find out in due course but won't have achieved 50 percent of the vote in this country which again underlies the need I think for electoral reform we've constantly reached out to other progressive parties to work with us they've rebuffed us and as long as Labour continues to refuse to back proportional representation it will always just be lining up the next Conservative government even when the Conservative government fails to get 50 percent of the vote in this country let's just stay with the system we've got and you said well we didn't vote for this general election well to be fair to labour they were reluctant and it was really the the Lib Dems your colleagues in the room Alliance did they let the site down no I mean labor posted full square for this general election it took him a couple of attempts but then they went for it and they believed that they could win it and we thought that was a very reckless thing to do certainly with the Liberal Democrats we agreed with them about remaining in the European Union we still feel that's the best thing for the future of the country but of course we disagree with them on a lot of things and we disagreed with them about calling this general election at that point and I don't know if you've been talking to your colleagues have stood up and down the United Kingdom but do you go along with this exit poll prediction one seat Caroline Lucas one imagines what we're going to see I think a big swing in somewhere like Bristol West so we'll see what the night holds I think that count is a long way to go still but we'll have to wait and wait see in due course okay and what about the other thing the Greens stand for in the name of the party of course do you think I mean your vote sure looking it's early days isn't it of course we've been looking at you virtually a ticking up a percentage point or two in some of those constituencies do you think that's also an endorsement there of your environmental warnings I think it is we of course doubled our number of councillors this year we've doubled a number of MEP s in the European Parliament it looks like we might just double our vote share in this election clearly the climate was front and center for us and the climate emergency is the thing that we've got to hold this government's feet to the fire about but let's be under no illusions this is a very very bad result for the climate emergency this is a bad bad night for our future security and I think we should need to take this result very very seriously and we need opposition MPs from right across the parties holding this government's feet to the fire about this and not get diverted simply on the issue of brexit because this is a bigger issue it's a more important issue we've been proud to have you know led the agenda and push the other parties in the right direction but the spotlight must not now fall off the climate emergency okay but I mean is it a bad day for the climate emergency as you put it the Tories have legislated haven't they to go net carbon zero by by 2050 shouldn't you Emily talking about healing the country and bringing it back together shouldn't you work with them obviously we'll work with them where those common ground but if they're road-building expanding airports continuing fossil fuel subsidies if they're going to continue to block wind power on shore wind that is no way to tackle the climate emergency I don't think this government has any real sense of the kind of change that we have to make it isn't even including aviation and shipping emissions in its own targets targets incidentally which are too late and which it already on track to miss it fails on every single measure when it comes to the climate emergency okay Chandler Bartley thank you very much indeed very good to talk to you right more results expected very soon significant results for this Labour Party performance we're expecting results coming in from Warrington very soon and Caterina vertice is in Wrexham in Wales for us and I say there they're very important in Endor Brady is in Workington there and in part this election apartment being the brexit election Endor was termed as the battle for Workington a seat that the Tories have really targeted yes they have and they're sounding very very confident a declaration is imminent here Dermot this constituency has been labour for 97 of the past 100 years and the Conservatives really did target the seats we know of course the phrase Workington man was trotted out by this right-leaning think-tank early in the campaign and Workington man was identified as a and northern labour leave voter in rugby league towns like Workington who could possibly be swayed by Boris Johnson's mantra of get Bragg's it Don and just looking around the room the Conservatives are here they're eating pizza they're smiling and they feel very very confident indeed this will be absolutely seismic if they were to win here this having been a Labour constituency as I say a Labour seat for 97 of the past 100 years we've had the turnout figures through already 67 point nine four percent turnout declaration just a few minutes away a most unlikely bellwether town really working Tangier in northern Cumbria labour last time round had a majority of just under four thousand and they're looking quite low at the moment conservatives are smiling as I say eating pizza awaiting the declaration and we'll know in a few minutes time okay keep an eye on it for a sender but in the meantime let's set check in with Catarina Batak see they're in Wrexham this red wall talking about it starts there in north east Wales and a slim labour majority there yes it was really the slimmest of margins only 1800 votes in it between labour and the Conservatives in 2017 and I can tell you that when those initial exit polls came out at 10 o'clock there are a number of people gathered in the 4a area of the Sports Hall whether the count is underway and it was palpable the sense of shock just seeing those numbers I think it really dawned on people here who already knew that Wrexham was a marginal that it was a tight seat that this would likely be one of those areas where a labour seat could for the first time since 1935 turn blue the Conservative candidate for Wrexham Sarah Atherton has been wandering around listening and having watching the vote counts happening here they are feeling extremely confident there are some very glum labour faces in this hall behind me it's really quite a seismic shift if it does go the way that the exit polls suggest and and if it goes away that certainly the conservative activists here think that it eventually will go towards that conservative when seismic when you think no Wrexham is the town of miners it's the town of steel workers for generations labour is all that people here have we'll know probably in about 40 minutes or so whether that will change for the first time since 1935 okay keep an eye on it Caterina thank you very much do we know you will got to talk now to the deputy chairman of the Conservative Party Paul Scully and Paul Scully just I'm sure you're aware we're keeping an eye on these declarations Workington you'll be very interested to hear so we might break in but then we will come back to you for reaction but are you daring to dream now on this exit poll and the results we've seen so far it looks like a remarkably good night for the Conservatives and some well I mean obviously this is a projection but it's encouraging certainly I think it's testament to the amount of work that candidates up and down the country have been doing it's testament to the simple message that Boris and the Conservative government have been putting out there that you know getting brexit done leaves means that we have a parliament that will better reflect the people showing clear leadership clear direction and that's what people have been crying out for for 3/9 years to make sure that we can get on to talk about police they fifty thousand more nurses and and funding a leveling up our funding for education well you say it was a simple message we accept that get brexit done but do you think you're really leveled with people that it's going to be a complex process to untangle a 46 year or so relationship I think the process is undoubtedly complex but the simple message was we we need to get on with it we need to focus on how we're leaving with the e the EU and not getting bogged down with whether we're leaving with the the the EU which we settled three-and-a-half years ago so now hopefully although there will be differences in the debate about our future relationship we can hopefully come down to a narrower focus of that building that trading relationship and getting that negotiation right with the EU so that we can both sets the EU and the UK can prosper in years to come but also unlock the domestic agenda as well okay well what's the priority for you just as there we keep an eye on more counts that sir that's Darby but Paul Scully what what is the priority for you after the gap Breck sig done presumably that means January the 31st what want to see is the symbol of delivery for these it looks like hundreds of thousands maybe millions of people who are voting for the Conservative Party who haven't voted for them before what's going to say to them in policy terms what's going to say to them we hear you we understand you well first thing is as I say is just getting there that referendum result are enacted so we're leaving but also I think that it's delivering things that they can actually tangibly see that actually improve their outcomes health outcomes standards and skills more policemen on the street to make them feel safer it's these key things it's not getting bogged down with a race on theoretical policies or just telephone numbers when it comes to budgets it's what money that money can actually deliver for people when they go to their hospital their schools and look in their streets for the policeman but the point is you know you talk about improving health outcomes more police on the streets I mean that takes years as well recruiting and training up all it does I'm saying undoubtedly it does yes it did but you know so what's going to show them pretty soon that the Conservatives hear them that's a different Conservative Party from the one that generations perhaps in their family have said we we won't touch them with a bargepole well we've already started recruiting the 20,000 new policemen we've got record amount of GPS in training at the moment but as you say I'm doubting takes time to get them through training and we've got to get that first batch through the policeman on the streets the doctors actually in the GP surgeries and in hospital departments as well to make sure that when we're talking about 50 million new UK appointments people can actually see that okay Paul Scalia I'm cutting across you because there's a result coming that perhaps you might want to hear I'm sure it is working to be discussing sue Heyman was the MP their shadow cabinet member for the Labour Party also let alone you we've got a lot of w's going on here Workington they're about to declare one spec you may have remembered if you've been with us that I mentioned before Ian Lavery the Labour Chairman we are told is declare fairly soon it oh I and receipt he has been here since for the Workington constituency do he died hereby declare that the total number of votes cast for each candidate was as follows Coburn Nikki independent 842 Heyman sooo Labour Party sixteen thousand three hundred and twelve huge Neil Liberal Democrat 1525 ivanson Roy Allen eighty-seven Jenkinson mark the Conservative Party twenty thousand [Applause] [Music] 20,000 488 Perry Jill green party 596 Walker David brexit party 1749 well there we have it working turn tumbling as anybody on the spot they was telling us working to learn was one of the phrases going for this election a conservative game from labor they did have a majority the Labour Party did have a majority of 4,000 that's been almost identically reversed by mark Jenkinson putting the Conservatives in there with a majority four thousand 176 sue Heyman shadow cabinets member ejected from Parliament's and vote chair let's take you through them her vote chair that fell quite considerably you know by at least four thousand share 39% there this change in chair is perhaps the most interesting of the evening as the Conservatives start picking up these seats that Labour used to be incredibly strong it up seven and a half percent lay back down in eleven point nine percent the brexit party a performance their four point two percent some coats are deputy political editor is putting all these into his database and reading what it tells us and what it tells us some even from down here is is that this exit poll is looking pretty accurate absolutely Dermot that's increasingly clear we are on course for a majority around the range of the 86 that we saw in the exit poll at ten o'clock just look at the swing in that seat of Workington Workington has been labor since 1979 now there's been a swing from the Labor Party to the Conservatives in the region of ten percent um if you look the Tories now have around fifty percent of the vote in that seat and that was that was what the Labour Party got in the 2017 elections so now there's a whopping 4,000 majority in this what was once an absolute labor heartland so I think that will be perhaps the result this evening that has stung the Labour Party the most if we want to look at one other result um in Lavery the Labour Party Chairman there were rumors that he might even lose his seat he has hung on but by only the slimmest of margins we had that result in the last few minutes and there his majority has gone down from 10,000 at this election to 814 again swaying in the region of about seven eight percent from Labour to the Conservatives in Lavery will be glad to have hung on but that kind of decline in his support in his in his seat will sting whether it means he doesn't run for the deputy leadership or not will remain to be seen okay we're just looking at that result in fault Sam thank you very much indeed for the analysis and back there to working to in a son was saying there I'm getting there first Conservative MP for 40 years there the shadow Environment Secretary sue Haman losing a seat I think we might be able to hear us speaking in a moment or two yes sir she is apparently conceding up on the platform there and working - let's have a listen he stayed with me for the whole four years that I've been a member of parliament I'd like to thank my agent my campaign team who have worked so hard and I'd also like to thank my husband thank you well just disappointed to him in their shadow Environment Secretary losing seat another gain for the Conservatives in these formerly strong labour seats also seeing at the bottom of your screen they're worth keeping an eye on there the results are beginning to pick up the SNP with their first gained in Scotland now this exit poll predicting that they'll get 55 seats obviously going to be some gains there if the exit poll is correct SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon these you can see they're saying it's gonna be a good night for a party well gained rather Glen and Hamilton from Labour let's go to Darlington another key seat for labour let's see how the Conservatives are doing good evening ladies and gentlemen I live swim have been the acting turning officer for the election of a member of parliament for the constituency of Darlington do you hereby give notice the number of votes recorded for each candidate at the said election is as follows Branch Kevin John independent 292 Chapman Jennifer Labour Party 17,000 607 Carrie Anne Murray Liberal Democrats 2097 Gibson Peter Alexander the Conservative Party candidate 20,000 [Applause] Wrexham party 1544 snicker Matthew Charles Green Party candidate 1,057 the total number of spar ballot papers was 81 the turnout was sixty five point six three percent and I do hereby declare that Peter Alexander Gibson is to be elected well my goodness me Darlington falling now to this conservative advance into labour areas now you may remember in 2017 this was a seat that the Conservatives tried very hard to take away from labour that to resume strategy which is kind of a pre echo of what Boris Johnson has done in his doing at this evening but they've gained it this time Peter Gibson elected there for the Conservative Party taking out Jenny Chapman her majority well her vote says you don't have a majority anymore did have a majority 3280 number of votes went down by about 5,000 the first time a conservative is God in there since 1992 let's have a look at the first result we were mentioning there from Scotland and this Rutherglen in Hamilton West and SNP gained the other feature of the exit poll this evening is suggesting as Nicola Sturgeon is saying at the bottom of your screen quoted as saying good night for the SNP as well does this begin to prove it a gain from the labour party it swapped hands in 2017 labour took it from the SNP they've taken it back in the form of Margaret Faria with a twenty three thousand seven hundred and seventy five labour pushed back down there to 18 thousand five hundred and forty five this is the share then we show you the change the SNP up to forty four point two percent that's a a big gain given the way that seat has flip-flopped to 7.2% up labour down three point one percent the Conservatives down four point six percent and Lib Dems more or less level pegging John Burke who you wanted to say something about Rutherglen yell well simply to say that that's a return for Margaret Faria she was one of the people who came in in 2015 she was in fact ubiquitous presence in the House of Commons jumping up and down every day I remember very well she was an immensely active member but she lost in 2017 now she's back and with a significant interesting that I want to talk to Beth Rigby though about so what's been going on in Workington Darlington as well Beth Ruby I keep going back to it because we still have not very many results but my goodness I mean it could be dare I use the word bloodbath for labour it keeps going it's beginning to feel that way isn't it and look labour tried to have this jewel strategy on for exit where they faced both remaining seats in their metropolitan areas such as London and Manchester and then they also tried to have a vote leave element by saying that they would have this referendum and there would be a choice between a Labour brexit and remaining in the EU and they they tried to straddle both these camps because they wanted to try and keep some of these vote leaves seats but it just appears like they are falling like dominoes and that strategy has totally failed and comprehensively failed and there will be a lot of soul-searching I imagine whether that was the royally is to be I'm going to be talking to the shadow justice circular he Richard Bergen from the Labour Party in a moment or two we're hearing he's suspend lined up as we say but there's an awful lot for Edie Conway to take us through about how the night is panning out for both the main parties Edie yet come down and have a look at this I mean here on our map and you can see there the school board evolving you wouldn't normally see as many conservative seats as you see there I mean normally most of those sees early declare is tend to be in the Northeast you tend to get a lot of Labor around now but just have a look at that map the map of Britain the political map changing there you can see brother kind of Hamilton in the first Scottish seat just there and just look Northwest you can see Workington a lot of seats there in the Northeast many of them still staying with labour but you're seeing across much of the Northeast swings around ten percent or so from labor to the Conservative Party and over the course of the evening that map will get filled in and we will show you just how the political geography of this country is starting to change it certainly looks like it's changing it certainly feels like it's changing at the moment and there are many stories and that we're going to tell you about individual stories of MPs some of whom are facing a big surprise and a big shock at the moment starting with Durham Northwest Lord pickle some people thought she might be the future Labour leader it looks according to the exit poll as if she might well loser see actually at the moment it's a bit about too close to call but it really is possible that she could go given what we're seeing us wearing given what we've seen in the exit poll if she could fall to conservative candidate Richard Holden you can see him there I mean that would be an enormous blow at one of the Rising Stars of the Labour Party there Laura pick core and you've also got other potential monumental problems for the party's stoke-on-trent North that's been labor since nineteen fifty that looks very vulnerable Wrexham labour since 1935 Lee since 1922 and is liberal before that never conservative it could well Cowan let's take a moment to talk about the brexit party though because we've talked a lot about the Conservative Party talks a lot about the Labour Party but what about the brexit policy because the exit poll you'll remember suggest they won't win any seats that their best chance was probably here in Hartlepool so in Hartlepool Richard theis was was facing selection there one of the brexit parties biggest hopes he might not win but he might pick up a big share in the constituency and the data suggests that that seat is going to go from Labour Hartlepool piece of metal to old sea from labour to the Conservatives now that would be extraordinary but it's so interesting to see what's going on beneath the surface is the brexit party picking up votes off the Labour Party but not necessarily off the Tory party allowing the Tory party to get in there that's the big question they're in see tough to see the northeast we're seeing that happen in the brexit party in some cases that is allowing the Tories to do well that's precisely precisely what might well happen in other seats around the country particularly Hartlepool seem to have an implied Valley as well also let's have a look at it down in the metropolitan areas because this really as Beth was saying a moment ago you know Labour Party hoping to do well in those metropolitan areas hoping to do well in cities and indeed that's a big question that they're facing in at the moment Richmond Park might well ago to Sarah only it looks at the moment like there won't necessarily be as good news with Boris Johnson there the Tory party struggling in those urban areas doing very well in towns instead Zac Goldsmith could well lose his seat it was just 45 votes in 2017 so very close indeed but the interesting thing is there are diverse stories here the Tories doing incredibly well in comparison to previous elections in comparison to history in the northeast but in other seats around the country they may well face losses but overall Dermot I mean as you were saying a moment ago that exit poll does look pretty convincing at the moment given what we are seeing in these results so far tonight well some of those historical comparisons are pretty breathtaking it thank you very much indeed let's see if my next guest Labour's shadow justice secretary Richard Bergen think so how would you very good evening to you mr. Burdon good morning in actual fact how would you describe the evening in the early morning so far and what is to come perhaps well it's very disappointing and it's very worrying I'm very disappointed very worried about if this exit if the exit poll proves to be accurate as it appears like it is then I'm very worried about all the children will wake up in poverty all the people won't get paid a ten-pound an hour minimum wage all the people are homeless all the people who won't get a council house all the people stacked up with debts all of the people are going to end up languishing on NHS trolleys in our cuts of the bone National Health Service I'm very very disappointed and very worried about their future seem I mean I'm here was a brexit mr. Bergin but you know I'm hearing this argument it's election night the people have voted it's the purest form of democracy it's still fresh the votes are still being counted in the majority of cases and you making it sound like the people have made a foolish choice haven't you been the ones that have let them down if you believe that you didn't make the case for it no what's happened is we had a very similar manifesto to the manifesto at the 2017 general election well with that manifesto and with Jeremy's leadership we gained 3 million votes the thing which appears to be different this time is it was an election in which bread's it overshadowed traditional party loyalties however I don't want to prejudge I think we need to analyze objectively where did we lose votes and who to in what parts of the country and the the totals and the proportions so we need a sober serious analysis over the next 24 hours or so okay well I can kind of answer that where do you lose votes just about everywhere who to just about everyone are you beginning to believe though with the results we have let's deal with the hard and fast figures Jenny Chapman sue Amon good colleagues of yours gone are you beginning to think is anybody safe in the labour party tonight well we don't take anything for granted I don't take my seat for granted that's why I've been working very hard on it we need to look at the results that have come out some deeply deeply disappointing results some fantastic colleagues losing their seats and as I say I'm very worried about the future of people in this country when they're going to be allowed to buy a Thatcherite like Boris Johnson what we've had actually is the two sides of the coin of establishments working together the Thatcherite sin the brexit parts they pretending the not gotcha rights and the Thatcher rights in the Conservative Party like Boris Johnson working together it seems against labour and against our progressive manifesto so of course just as when we lost five million votes between 1997 and 2010 when we supported policies of austerity in war we had to analyze those what we need to do in the same way after what appears like tonight results we need to analyze very carefully those results and work out what the Labour Party I mean you've left something out on that list of what you're going to analyze are you gonna analyze Jeremy Corbyn in his performance well of course Jeremy who I admire greatly was raised by some voters on the doorstep as ed Miliband and Tony Blair and Gordon Brown were when I was campaigning for them as well but and yes some people did say things about Jeremy that they'd read in the Daily Mail or seen on the TV or seen in the Sun newspaper of course if these things didn't have traction then these the Murdoch press and others wouldn't bother spending the time pushing it but actually the interesting thing is that people on the doorstep weren't complaining about our policies and we wouldn't have had the policies now the the last manifesto or this manifesto if it weren't for Jeremy's leadership and we gained three million votes at the last general election is very very disappointing tonight the only difference it seems to me at this stage but I want to analyze it further is the fact that this was a brexit elect an election the next election won't be a brexit election and against a strong fact Conservative Party we need to fight back not triangulate because the people who will lose out in communities across the country under five years of abortion Johnson government deserve no less than a fighting labor policy the one analyze our bad results but won't give up okay Richard Bergen thank you very much indeed for joining us back to your back to account therein leads to the shadow justice secretary got sir South Britain here Baroness Britain the presidents of the Liberal Democrats a very good evening to Vera Ness is it a good evening it doesn't look like it for the Lib Dems does it I think actually we know that there are still six from the exit poll they're still 65 seats are too close to call and we know that a number of those are ones where we are hotly in contention and what's interesting about tonight is that their seats that we've not been particularly strong in before so assure and Walton and Finchley in Golders Green are just two examples of that so I'm gonna wait to see what comes in but you know well let's look at the distance in terms of time between here we are with the results coming in and the beginning of the campaign you must admit you've fallen from those mighty soaring heights of imagining the job Swenson might become prime minister now you're talking like you normally talk as live Dems which is picking up a few seats here and there I think the arithmetic changed when Nigel Farage and Boris Johnson did the deal to where they stood back in half the seat that weather breaks apart I stood back in half the seats and the clearly that the poll starts to reflect that what we have said over the last few weeks is that we still remain determined to stop brexit that we still remain committed as it's very clear in our manifesto that we wanted to people's vote Joe was only talking about revoking article 50 if she was prime minister that's honest though again you know against a pure slogan like get brexit done we were very our line was clear but it often got cropped by other people you just became the revoke party didn't you a lot of people we front of our manifesto talked about stock brexit and the one thing we do know is tonight we're seeing our votes share has gone up not much but it's gone up and that's I think we're gonna see it's gonna play very well for us in the strong remain seats where we know we are heavily in contention so we we have all to play and I was talking to Richard Bergen there about leadership I mean are there any questions about leadership if she keep holds on to her seat jealous winks and what else she might be in some difficulty in eastern Barton well again this one would you look at that would that be on the list as far as we're concerned the words that we've been getting during the day in her seat are things were looking good on streets and she's absolutely only at the beginning of her role as as leader and the party likes what she's done in the message and absolutely we're standing Foursquare behind Joe just jump in if if she does lose a seat then Davey will have to become the leader won't he that's just what will happen look it's far too early to say anything about us at all I don't want to get into speculation and we will see what happens but I think what is going to be interesting is the seats that people didn't expect us to get tonight that we will get because of this issue about strong remain votes and where we are playing very strongly and by the way you Joe switz and plays okay that the polls for with Joe in those seats are strong as well we'll wait and see but let's get back to that point you made about to the Conservatives and the brexit party getting that their act together on the leave side of the equation it didn't happen well on the remain side did it you've had a fairly confusing messages it seems on the doorstep the Labour Party the Lib Dems and Jos wins well I think meant a lot of time criticizing Jeremy Quartermaine if it was a brexit election June you've got a more unified message so the main problem is that nobody quite knew where labour stood and I think that point was aptly made by Richard Bergen they are not a remain party they have been arguing for a people's vote and Jeremy Corbyn himself has been arguing that what he wants as a people's vote where he can put his brexit plan that is not a real let me ask you this actually look at all I mean on that exit poll you know remain remain is over we're leaving would you be a rejoin party you think further down the line I think we always see benefit in us [Music] at the elation of another choice I'll bring way we're getting a result of beta bruh there's the by-election a few months back is as follows Briscoe Paul the Conservative Party candidates 20 2009 [Applause] further solute independent 264 Lisa Jane labor party 19,000 [Applause] bringing Michael Thomas brexit party 2105 its end of Martin John the official monster raving loony party 113 Christian People's Alliance 151 Democrats to stop brick 6 2003 party 720 face Paul Bristow is duly elected [Applause] there we have it so I've got the numbers for you port Bristow he's making his acceptance speech that again from Labour by election they're the original Labour MP I had to stand down a problem with with the law and there was a by-election and there we are let's just take through the numbers I wonder worth hearing from Paul Briscoe conservatives out there a returning the by-election result and of course the previous general election result on which we base that the share the changing chair of the vote progress where they were 22,000 44 Lisa Forbes who got in in the by-election 19,000 744 all the counties done and of course the police making sure that this town was free and fair amazing today but we fought to the bitter end and we've got the result that we deserve and to the name many of my team individually would take far too long but I do want to thank my agent Peter my campaign manager sandy and all of you really know that you've done and finally I want to mention my parents and Alan my feet bands we've stood with me through thick and thin today is a massive day for me but tomorrow could be an even bigger day because it's what my second Charlie to Sarah and my unborn child but it's waiting and yes because Petros rejected an extreme and dangerous left-wing agenda yeah we are just hearing our cutting away from Peterborough there again therefore the Conservative Party is also hearing of it again seeing there for yourself at the bottom of the screen there conservatives gain the veil of cleared from labour this is one of those seats in the north-east of wales so-called chris rellenas John Bercow is helpfully adding there the former MP now for the seat of the Vale of cluded taken by the Conservatives hard on the heels of Peterborough returning to the Conservatives let's talk to the Justice Secretary mr. Buckland who's in Swindon now there is with her the blue rosette very prominent there it's standing proud and presumably you are as well well I'm still waiting for the declaration here in south swing and the count is proceeding apace I'm in the well-worn phrase cautiously optimistic the result in North Swindon from my colleague Justin Tomlinson was a stunning 16,000 majority so we are very hopeful in what is seen as a great bellwether of the country that both Swindon seats will stay blue tonight yeah I mean and it's not just those isn't we've had Peterborough Vale of cleared workings and Darlington you mentioned that my Valley that the lists is being added to almost minute by minute right now and that exit poll looks pretty on the numbers for the Conservatives well I'm very much hoping that it is and what I'm really pleased to see is the geographical spread of seats getting James Davis back in the Vale occluded Paul Bristow after many attempts winning in Peterborough but those seats up in Cumbria and in Northumberland and County Durham this is a Conservative Party that will represent the whole of the country that will bring its challenges yes but it will also bring huge opportunities for the conservative and unionist party well interesting what you say they want to pick up on that to represent the whole of the country you know you understand of course I mean I know you use that phrase but several countries in the United Kingdom and let me talk about Scotland just hearing we mentioned the gains for the Conservatives well the SNP have taken Angus away from you and again on the exit poll which you seem to accept the direction of travel in Scotland the direction of travel is that the SNP are going to be very very well-meaning presumably you're doing very badly what do you think it means for the integrity of the United Kingdom if the reserve result turns out this way for the SNP I very mindful of results in Scotland we need to digest fully what the final picture looks like what we must avoid is more years of damaging and wasteful debates about the Constitution you know Scotland decided decisively to have progressive devolution back in 1997 it increased its powers ever since it's a proud nation part of our United Kingdom but I still believe passionately as a Welshman and as a British patriot that Scotland is better off with us we are better together and I think that message still has to be very clear from the Conservative Party but at the same time understanding the needs of the people of Scotland respecting that I'm working as construct only as possible to make sure that the whole of United Kingdom Cleaves together in a in a positive way ok secretaries say thank you very much if you were going to part knee let's see if the Conservatives can hold on here or as their main vote in London dönitz let's listen in that the number of votes recorded for each candidate at the said election is as follows Fleur Anderson Labour Party twenty two thousand seven hundred and eighty [Applause] burger just Mackenzie green party 1133 will switch the Conservative Party candid eighteen thousand [Applause] to which the Liberal Democrats don't over to here that's to which the Liberal Democrats 8,500 [Applause] the total number of ballot papers rejected as follows one two official mark okay well they were going to get a new and B anyway because Justine greening who had held the seat stood down left the party and was not standing in partly but there you go not all doom and gloom for the Labour Party again there a big gain there am twenty two thousand seven hundred and eighty four the Labour candidate say around about eighteen thousand for the Conservatives and John Bercow so this is the mixed picture picture isn't it in a strongly remained seat and metropolitan remain seat the Labour Party vote holding up but in so many of the seats we haven't seen too many declares somebody seeks in their northeast in in Wales labour losing them all together they consider yes I mean we were doing the arithmetic between ourselves Dermot you and I on Beth earlier in the evening and it was obvious that if the Conservatives would have a majority that big of 86 it remains to be seen but it's looking likely well it meant that they were going to have to make huge gains in the north and the Midlands because we could tell that they had lost seats in Scotland and that was every prospect of them losing seats in London Putney is just different it is a very very very heavily remain area just in greening was the Member of Parliament there for 14 years and in my experience and incredibly personal and highly regarded parliamentarian in Westminster in all likelihood she was very well regarded locally and I don't know but it may be that were some people locally who didn't much like the way she was treated in okay why he wear earring and Wales though on the other way it's going that Wrexham has gone to the Conservatives as well and matching that exit over Vaughn's that's the first time since 1935 and I mean this is so fascinating because before we began the program the Tories were telling me that they were nervous and they said it looks like we've had losses in London and will we make them up by gains in the Midlands and the north and look is what what is happening and then there you have POC they're turning to labor but also a delicious little morsel is that in terms of a big majority that was buried into page four of the Conservative Party briefing notes that they give out which suggests that they didn't necessarily think they were going to get such a big majority if the exit poll is correct ie they were probably predicated that there would be a smaller majority conservative majority than they thought they would get so this is much more than they hoped for which suggests that the red wall as I said well it has come down in a way that it didn't and that's exactly what Ed Conway is going to talk to us about just the scale of these inroads ed that the Conservatives are making into these labour territories that's right but I mean let's let's start with that last result partly because I mean you know here we have it on our board which was looking at some of the marginal labour Tory targets so those are the seats that Labour wanted to win most of them the Conservative Party there's Putney over there touken up to 2% swing to win it and there are the conservative talk isn't just to look at that to take a close this board you might thought oh maybe it's not going quite so badly for the Labour Party but let's have a look a little bit a little a little bit deeper into that labour red ward so these seats that they were defending that they thought they might have enough strength to defend the Tories off on this is the the red wall and this is the Labour defense and these are the kinds of seats many of them in the Northeast here's Workington in the northwest that they expected that they might be able to hold on to because these are very traditional labour seats up to a four percent swing would have lost them these seas it's more than 4% it's up to a six percent swing would have lost them working too much with a percent swing would have lost them B's C's truely obviously the speaker's seat they've they felled on up to a 10 percent swing would have lost them Blythe ally Anderson indeed precisely what's happened we're seeing 10 percent swings from the Labour Party to the Conservative Party of course much of the Northeast not all those seats are going but I mean these are enormous enormous swings by the grand scheme of things and when you have a look at seats for instance like Workington like Darlington let's just kind of zoom into the details of these seeds so let's I'll change the screen and we can have a look at what's going on Ben the surface so we're talking about kind of ten percentage swings in both of these seats working in Darlington both conservative gains from the Labor Party have a look at some of these numbers so brexit leave votes so that in the referendum in 2016 about sixty percent voted leave in Workington over here in Darlington about 58 percent very similar story there under 45 how old are these constituencies they are slightly older than the average so the average across the UK is they're slightly older than the average graduates and this is rather interesting one quite low in terms of the average number of people who are graduates and let's just kind of think about that so graduates look at this map here we have Workington over there let's take that map and plot all of these constituencies so these are constituencies in the UK against their percentage of graduate voters because we'll get a sensitive where the Tory party are starting to pick up seats let's move those across here onto our chart now the further you go here the more the higher their percentage of graduates so this is a measure of higher education and the interesting thing is the Tories are starting to pick up seats here around this kind of area of the chart you've got Workington in there around there where they have on average lower levels of graduates in the population that's a very different kind of distribution what we've seen in the past so this is an interesting way in which the map is changing now the vast majority as you've seen if these seats are gray at the moment have yet to declare but as the night goes on as the morning goes on we'll see just what the color what this map is looking like and we'll also plot agates other things as well just before before I go Toma and shout at me if anything's about says class but seats in which the Lib Dems have lost their deposit let's just have a look at that should we compare that the number of seats where the Lib Dems have lost their deposits so far and compare it to the brexit party so far we're early in the night but so far the Lib Dems have lost their deposit in all of these seats embezzled and Southdown developed curd in Wrexham it's 12 so far 12 seats that the Lib Dems have lost their deposit thus far how many have the brexit party lost now they're not fighting all of the same seats so bear that in mind but it's 10 and their bridge support he's doing actually a little bit better than many people had expected beneath the surface as we were saying earlier actually having an impact on the final result not necessarily winning any of those seats the export just they might not but things are going on beneath the surface that suggests they are doing a little bit better than all the people that had things going on right now I'm gonna cut you off Furyk is declaring got another one coming in here we go throated leave and a declaration imminence we'll wait for them to beam the speak because certain other dramatic things have happened and they are reading it out recorded for each candidate at the said election is as follows Doyle price Jacqueline the Conservative Party candidate twenty-seven thousand seven hundred and ninety five votes [Applause] Harvey been the Green Party 807 Kent John George Labour Party sixteen thousand three hundred and thirteen stone Stewart Malcolm Liberal Democrats 1510 well there we have it it was a conservative seat it's staying a conservative seat and some Jackie Doyle price return there with a very much increased majority was or the election happened seen as something perhaps of a labor target John Kent they're only getting 16,000 Jackie doll price reelected air with the majority of eleven thousand four hundred eighty-two coming in much more quickly now stop them north [Applause] Liberal Democrat 1631 Martin undream breakfast party 3907 it was as follows want of an official market zero voting for more than one candidate 26 right thing mark I went to the voter could be identified two unmarked avoid for uncertainty ok Vale of Glamorgan a conservative seat Allen Ken's was the and be there let's listen in we got a declaration under wife died yes all I from organic and that can verdict of Ansem or blade leash I are avoid Ebola invasive Fellig online Cairns Alan the Conservative Party candidate twenty seven thousand three hundred and five Divac sized meal tree hunter fin love look Edwards Belinda Welsh Labour severe Camry twenty three thousand seven hundred and forty three Divac tree mail scythe can't petrol sick tree slaughter Anthony David the Green Party plight where 3,250 One Tree meal I found him digging Williams Lawrence Vlad Vlad 508 pimp cancer growth therefore I give public notice that Alan Kearns is duly elected as the member of okay Alan kids getting back in there in Vale of Glamorgan slightly increased majority they're up to three thousand five hundred sixty two again another above for the Labour Party mites before that exit poll came out being seen as one of the potential targets for labor butter Labor's vote more or less staying on the numbers who was an increased turnout they would put out than have put up the number of voters say labor more or less standing still the Conservatives gaining two point three percent the Green Party up five and a bit percent plied the Lib Dems and others down I'm told we are expecting a result fairly soon staying in Wales included south we've seen Vale of cleric change to its South a Labour majority there around about 4,300 but while we wait for more results to get in time I think just to check in with a deputy political editor Sam Coates is feeding it all in where we got Putney there again for the Labour Party but apart from that it's a pretty grim night Dermot that's right I want to draw your attention to one result that we've had in the last 10 minutes or so and that is of Lee in Greater Manchester it's the seat that Andy Burnham used to hold before he became mayor of Manchester Greater Manchester that had turned conservative on a massive swing if you look at the list of targets for the Conservative Party that they wanted to take from labor that was 91 on their list it truly does suggest a dire evening for the Conservatives now a few minutes ago you saw from Edie Edie Conway on his wall how the red wall for labour was tumbling some of the seats that people really didn't think at the start of this campaign would fool have now gone blue Lee is the furthest along that list of any of them but I think the point that Labour folk tonight are just coming to terms with is that these these seats haven't been taken by tiny majorities they've been taken by really rather big majorities so Wrexham 2,000 votes they'll have cleared 1,800 lead nearly 2,000 votes Workington 4,000 votes now the point about that is that it's gonna take not just one election but maybe two or three general elections for the Labour Party to know that they can get places like that back we've got shadow cabinet ministers we've got the first one sue Heyman went in Workington but on the watch list we've got Laura peacock in Durham North West and in cote leslie led the shadow scottish secretary I think the bloodbath is starting to dawn on labour figures that's why I'm being urged to mention that already figures like Lisa Nandi are under pressure to stand for the leadership if there's a vacancy anytime soon okay Sam thank you very much indeed may have missed our attention some results from Northern Ireland have been coming in the Alliance Party a seat for them gained from the independent Silvie Hermann stood down there but in north down taking their DUP had hopes of that but the alliance party getting in there up against two unionist party LC Eunice body and the Democratic Unity Party Shin FINA for held on in Tyrone West want to talk now to the leader of the brexit party Nigel Faraj well Nigel Farage I mean it's clear that in Boris Johnson's terms brexit is going to get done if this exit poll is to be believed and it looks like it is to be you happy about that well look the last thing I wanted was a second referendum that would have been absolutely dreadful for the country and that was the main reason why I said we should stand down in those 317 seats because they were in areas like the South of England the southwest of England the Liberal Democrats would have won lots of them and they themselves now say that it rather pollaxe their campaign so of course I'd prefer Boris Johnson to be Prime Minister talking in positive terms about brexit the slight problem of course is that getting brexit done isn't really true because if we pass the withdrawal agreement as it is unamended that I fear we're in for perhaps up to three years of agonizing negotiations don't you believe in then Boris Johnson when he says you know this 11 months of transition and whatever happens by the end of 2020 it's out you know you don't believe in me think would go for an extension well even if he goes into this with the best of intentions the problem with the withdrawal agreement is that it puts so much power into mr. Barney as hands and I I would have thought they would enjoy seeing our discomfort look I hope I'm wrong I hope we finish up with a free trade deal I hope we don't finish up with regulatory alignment on everything from financial services to fisheries but as it is the way that withdrawal agreement is worded is from a brexit ears point of view not satisfactory you know what you agree on one thing anyway with my guess I'm sure you've been watching during the evening former Speaker John Burke oh and that is John burka on the fact mr. Faraj they're saying that passing that withdrawal agreement is not getting brexit done well we agree on that point but for pretty different reasons as I note the expression on Nigel's face shows he's relieved to discover my position is to say that they can get the withdrawal agreement through but there's a huge amount more to be done if breakfast is to become a reality and that will take several years I think to be fair Nigel's point is that he just very strongly disapproves of the withdrawal agreement because I'm he could articulate it for himself he doesn't think it constitutes a proper withdrawal that I think that's obviously where you begin to differ I mean I'm always happy to be obliging Nigel and to try to advance your own argue absolute Copperbottom rubbish nevertheless I'm happy to help to articulate your point of view if I'm invited to do say what is not common bottom rubbish is that people act me a campaign for a quarter of a century for us to become an independent country and my concern is we're leaving one set of EU treaties for a new set of EU treaties which bind us too closely and I want us to be absolutely free but look that argument is one that will begin next week for now for tonight I did all that I could leading a very new party that was set up to get brexit back on track I tried to use whatever influence I could to stop a second referendum and I think I've had some success let me put another point - well I'll let John Bercow put it as well another point that John Burke has been made about the size of the majority which is forming here potentially and if it is on the exit poll of 86 seats John Buckley put it - Nigel Frost that it it frees Boris Johnson to do more or less whatever he wants yeah I'm sure the point will have occurred to Nigel Boris Johnson can pivot either way on the back of a very large majority he can either take the attitude I'm going to go ahead I'm going to insist on what I've said so far no extension to the transition period that will be an agreement on trade and we'll be out by the end of 2020 and that way he would be holding too firm to what he's been saying over a period of months and that will probably strike Nigel as more less satisfactory alternatively he could say I've got a big majority it's gonna take longer I don't care what I said in the past what is what I'm saying now or I don't get a change tack and that a cake will bring a scowl from Miss I mean I mean look that is a very very good point to make the truth of it is that half the cabinet voted remain Michael Gove I was with him earlier clearly wants the softest of Albrecht's it's Boris whilst he's committed to leave as never really I don't think being keen on leaving on WTO terms and my view is a big majority means that the influence of the ERG the influence of those who are committed Euroskeptics becomes a lot weaker and I would expect I'll predict that by the 1st of July we will be extending the transition period out till 2022 well I hate to say so Nigel and I'm sure it's embarrassing for you too but I think we might agree about that so let me let me put another point - you have given the performance of the brexit party and the seats you've stood in against those some Labour MPs doing fairly well tended to join the Green Party the Lib Dems and others who are coming on this programme saying we urgently need electoral reform doesn't allow you're gonna get any seats oh look you know I let you Kip in 2015 we stood across the whole country we got 4 million votes and one seat that needs to change I do believe that I think the postal voting system is so open to fraud and intimidation that needs to change I think the House of Lords the ability of governments these days to use you know patronage in terms of peerages is outrageous outdated and rather than that needs to change and I also think you know we're gonna need a written constitution because we now have a Supreme Court making political decisions without any rulebook to work from so look I'm a radical I think British politics is living with a set of nineteenth-century institutions that need to be brought into the 21st century the problem is it doesn't suit a conservative party with a big majority to do of those now you let me tease you you spoke with seamless and undiluted eloquence in opposition to the use of patronage and you reference the House of Lords therefore I think we can take it from you at 212 in the morning that if you are offered a peerage you will in fact turn it down as a matter of absolute and unbending Ferrari and principle well that's the difference John isn't it they won't even offer you one they had they keep trying to fire big over sale agreement and Joe Burke oh listen results son coming in and expected not Virology be interested hear that Hartlepool is expected to declare soon richard toys your your Chairman's standing there see if you actually might manage to get a seat the exit poll doesn't seem to suggest that and thank you very much any we're going to say goodbye to mr. Viraj Stockton South this was labor gain in 2017 a declaration expected they're cleared South you may remember me mentioning a few minutes earlier in Wales up in the northeast of Wales there we didn't show you the numbers though again they're from the Labour Party Simon Baynes there with sixteen thousand two hundred and twenty two labourer pushed back to nearly 15,000 Hartlepool I just mentioned well let's see how this one goes Brett Syd party there may be the Conservatives will do well as well let's see how it goes we're going to bring in that shot in a moment or two in between time there we are declaration imminent as I said that once the seat of Peter Mandelson way back when in those distances where our ears Mike Hill that defending now for labour in this constituency the results for a general election are declared by the first citizen of the which is the ceremonial mayor of Hartlepool Borough Council Council the mayor Brenda loins and I would like to invite Brenda live loins now to declare the results of this election Thank You Jill aye Brenda loins being the returning officer for the election of a member of parliament for the Hartlepool constituency held on the 12th of December 2019 to hereby give notice that the number of arts require recorded for each candidate at the said election is as follows bousfield Joseph Alexander commonly known as bousfield Joe independent 911 votes from a Kevin socialist Labor Party 494 volts Hagin Andrew Michael commonly known as Hagin and a Liberal Democrats 1,696 sports hill michael roberts commonly known as might as hell Mike Labor Party fifteen thousand four hundred and sixty four votes Parton Stefan Richard the Conservative Party candidate eleven thousand eight hundred and sixty nine votes Tice Richard brexit party ten thousand six hundred and three votes the number of ballot papers rejected was as follows wanted of an official mark nil voting for more candidates than thought it was entitled to twenty seven writing amok well there we are a dramatic result in Hartlepool in spite of the fact that it's going down on the school board as a labor hold Mike Hill they're elected with the reduced majority 3595 but the tale of that seed even go back to the numbers is that the split in the vote between the conservative candidates honor around that twelve thousand and the brexit party around about ten thousand and this the argument remember you keep were second they're not so very long ago if you put those two numbers together you actually get a leave majority there perhaps Mike Hill as sir dodged a bullet there so to speak John Bercow nodding along right now I'm told we are hearing well I was just saying that Hartlepool was where Nigel fraud made the announcement that he was going to stand down in 308 conservative seats and that was their main target really Hartlepool but as you can see there's be a 25% increase Blackpool South declaring right now Conservative Party candidate 16,000 247 Brown David Brett sick party 2009 Coleman Gary Ian independent 368 Daniels Rebecca Irene commonly known as Becky Green Party 563 Green Willie me Lewis commonly known as bill Liberal Democrats 1008 Marsden Gordon Labour Party 12,000 557 and another win for the Conservatives in a heavily leave voting seat back in 2016 Scott Benson they're getting in and a very decent majority taking it from the Labour Party majority 3690 labour Gordon Marston had a majority in 2017 2523 so another big turnover there in the north northwest this time in a leave leaning seat Stella Creasy we are hearing the Labour MP down to London in Walthamstow is waiting for her result and there she is there with a a big rosette oh I'm working out there Stella Creasy you got the little one act tonight sleep or awake there well she started heckling me when I gave my acceptance speech so she's starting to wake up a little bit but she's two weeks old so I can really leave her at home okay well I indeed and tell us though about about the night's personal results aside well tell us about that first of all because there is a tale of two elections at the very least isn't there developing for the Labour Party yeah look I'm extremely honored that the people of Walthamstow have yes again voted for me to be their MP and acutely conscious they don't just need a Labour MP they need a Labour government and I can't pretend that what is happening across the rest of the country isn't absolutely devastating and I'm gutted to see very very good colleagues who I know just like me are passionate about local communities passionate about this country not being returned to Parliament I am very concerned about what Boris Johnson could do especially if he gets the the majority people are talking about and very aware that we've had 10 years of austerity bleeding dry communities like this we're now possibly facing a very hard brexit and that raises some really tough questions for people like me in the labor movement which I've been part of for over 27 years now about why we weren't able to win the trust of the British public at this point in time to offer them an alternative and is this inquest gonna focus on that you mentioned the message but what about the medium through the forum at the top of the leader the questions need to be asked about Jeremy Corbyn I'm sure there will be questions asked about all sorts of things yes including leadership also including policies including campaigning that's what happens after an election right now it's about half-past one close to 2:00 in the morning we're still seeing what is happening obviously some of my colleagues are managing to hold on which is fantastic some of them aren't winning and I'm really hoping we're gonna get a positive result here tonight in Chingford that's the one result we're waiting for now here look we have to see how the pieces lie first but I don't think any of us can pretend this is what we were hoping for and what we've been fighting for and obviously we owe it to the British public to ask ourselves why we didn't win you mentioned Chingford they're waiting to see if Ian Duncan Smith might be might be removed by by a remain vote and that's what I refer to I suppose in my first question to you this tale of two elections at least is labour now becoming a Metropolitan Party you can only win in remaining seats like yours let's see how the results fold out from what I understand we've just won held on and in Hartlepool which I think you would argue is a very different type of seat we have to see what the results are I've only seen a handful come in so far observe in here at the count and also looking after this one but I do accept the challenge that we need to be a party that can win support across this country in order to win a government I don't think that's an unfair question I just don't know at this point in time what the test is that we've met okay thank you very much indeed we are hearing from the leader Jeremy Corbyn thank you very much for coming well Jeremy Corbyn arriving a discount therein is Islington in North London we'll see how he's done when they declare their round of applause from the party activists some shots there from some of the journalists in there about asking him if he was going to resign no answer specifically on that issue from Jeremy Corbyn and as I say some cheering not too much of it from the party activists and I want to talk now too they was just Phillips sir a Labour candidate one of the Labour candidates in Birmingham and just Phillips let's stay because we're looking at pictures of your leader would you be cheering him would you be clapping him if you were there this evening I might act with courtesy so yes maybe I don't think that it's nothing to gloat about is there that I don't think that I don't think that there's much for the Labour Party to feel particularly good about and to be chopping and clapping and cheering but you know what these things are like it's for the cameras isn't it well out of courtesy I mean do you think that okay after a period of reflection and examination you need a new leader I mean it would be impossible to say honest anything other than that but you as I've said on everybody use put a camera in front of my face I'm not going to stand here and scalp Jeremy Corbyn the country once all the results are in it appears it is making quite a clear statement about how it feels about the Labour Party the Labour Party's offer the Labour Party for quite some time and you know I'm not I'm not going to be the person who writes your headlines because actually I think that there are other people I'm just a mere backbencher there are other people who probably aren't letting you put cameras in front of their faces who probably should be talking about what they think has gone wrong and I'm not going to write your headlines to you tonight okay we don't you've got a change you're right we don't know what the headlines are fully going to be yet but so the results are coming in in line with what the exit poll is telling us and many people like you prominent figures in the Labour Party are saying yeah well it's not going to be a good evening to to say the least so just let me ask you it's terrible well there we are a bit of a headline in itself one might say Jess Phillips but this issue of where labour can win it's it's the cities now you're looking like you could become almost an extinct species in in the towns and major parts of the kind of post-industrial northeast northwest Wales the list goes on it won't become extinct if we properly go out and listen to what is going wrong and properly act on it and actually try and do something it's funny because Jeremy Corbyn is always being seen as being of radical something radically different but the reality is is the Labour Party needs to radically change because I don't believe it's extinct in towns or in places where I am absolutely certain as somebody who represents a leave seat that has suffered terribly from austerity the Conservative Party will be found incredibly wanting and so I don't think that the Labour Party is extinct and I think it has every chance to rebuild itself but in that notwithstanding tonight is terrible it's horrendous it's heartbreaking it's painful it's painful for the people that I need to serve it's painful for all of my constituents who are facing real challenges because of decisions made by the people who have governed us for nearly a decade I remember when things used to get better and now people have just got used to things getting worse okay and that is a tragedy that tonight the Labour Party wasn't able to rescue them from that okay Jess Phillips thanks very much indeed for spending the time to talk to us so we want to go live now to this count of Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn there in North London my colleague Sophie Ridge is there and Sophie we saw this ripple of applause as he arrived looks fairly muted tell us about it I think it does feel quite muted here I mean this is really is you know Jeremy Corbyn stomping ground he's held this heat this seat since 1983 he's certainly not under pressure here if the number of red papers been counted up for anything to go by but certainly when he came in although he was greeted by supporters by colleagues there was a ripple of applause it does feel muted and that is clearly because of the exit poll and the results coming in so far he may not be under pressure here in Islington North but he is certainly under pressure nationally and I think there'll be questions asked of his leadership as the night unfolds because 71 seats lot losses that the exit poll is predicting the worst results for many decades we've seen some of these results coming out soon one of the results that we're expecting to hear right now is in Stockton South again this is the kind of libo ting area where labour has been under pressure so we can have a court listen to try and find out what's happening there a special drug that the number of votes recorded for each candidate is as follows deadly Brendon Michael William Liberal Democrat 2338 [Applause] okay we need to leave that go to Chingford Ian Duncan Smith a target for the remain as pfizer Shaheen Labour Party 22200 thank you either therefore I give public notice that Ian Duncan Smith is to be elected as the Member of Parliament for Chingford a Woodford Green constituency we know back that one of the top targets there for labor and the remaining Klein vote form a leader of the Conservative Party of course leading leading leave a brackety a member of the European research group well he's back and what did I see him breathing almost a sigh of relief they will get you the the numbers specifically on that constituency very soon but just there at the bottom of your screen well conservatives have reached 50 seats of this predicted total 368 a bit of a swing there to labor and the Lib Dem vote though look at that just about splitting it enough to let Ian Duncan Smith in it was a close-run thing let's listen in to mr. Duncan Smith can I can I thank I hope on everyone's behalf mr. mayor the returning officers all those who have worked incredibly hard here both at the the polling stations and also here doing the count tonight can I thank all of them the police and all the security staff and everybody else I wonder if we could give them a round of applause they've done incredibly well [Applause] I'd personally like to thank my wife Betsy who's been with me through thick and thin through all these years and also the incredible team my team who have worked unbelievably hard to get the results oh my thanks go to all of you heartfelt thanks for the hard work that you've all put in can I [Applause] and can I most of all thank after 27 years my constituency Ching from the woodford green I think they are fantastic and I dedicate the next five years to serving them in my best capacity that I possibly can no matter what they voted no matter what their views are I'm pleased therefore incredibly grateful to them that they have returned me once more to represent this constituency and I'm also incredibly pleased that it looks like that I shall be doing so starting from Monday in a conservative majority government thank you very much indeed in Duncan Smith back in their narrow squeak inching for let's say go to a Labour gain from last time around practices 2019 do hereby give notice that a number of votes recorded for each candidate at the third election is as follows Kim caddy the Conservative Party candidate twenty one thousand six hundred and twenty two Lois Lane Davis Green Party 1529 [Applause] Marsha untold occurred over Labor Party 27,000 to [Applause] what he can heal yourself raucous cheering thereby a and the relief labour supporters Marsha did Cordova who took the seat in 2017 an increased majority there in a heavily remain voting seats their return we haven't got the numbers for you but there we are they are back and they've also reached 50 seats also got to alert you to another of the big turnouts a big turn ups from 2017 Canterbury you may remember when that was declared that Labour had gained that with a very slim majority of 187 we are hearing that rosy Duffield yes John Burke Oh rosy Duffield has got back in there the exit polls suggesting that the Tories might regain Canterbury well they haven't again and look at the turnout 75% again a remain leaning she knows he does feel there 29,000 over there conservatives 27,000 rows he Duffield elected with an increased majority as it was only 187 well she's multiplied that by more or less exactly 10 1836 let's go back to Sophie Ridge and get her assessment of what we're what we're seeing here Sophie is in all of us pudding in part two - Jess Phillips labour where they are doing well tend to be these cities with remain leaning seats and in the southeast and these farce ways it looks like of their former heartlands under real threat it really does feel Dermot like we're seeing a realignment and that is certainly what people in labour are saying as well and labour candidates at the elections saying that they think there's different stories going on in London and in the rest of the country talking to people in close to Jeremy Corbyn the Labour leader as well they're saying and she was to sort of just hearing some overhead speakers from the the declarations here not we're not expecting them quite yet though people close to Jamie Corbett also saying and that just look at the areas where we're losing that goes to the heart of the problem and I think it's brexit but also perhaps go a bit further about identity as well and do they feel that the Labour Party really represents the identity that they feel and politically as opposed to being perhaps a bit too much of a liberal metropolitan a party that some feel it's becoming and certain you're seeing that in some of the seats labour taking games in places like Putney losing some of those really long-standing seats they've had for a long time the life value Workington Blackpool south Darlington and we can bring in my colleague Jason peril now who's been following a Jeremy Corbyn you're just looking at pictures there of him arriving at the counts just a short time ago 10 minutes ago wasn't it Jason and you were there what did he look like well I just got him getting out in the car actually so when he was still outside and he was quite hard to get in I asked him you know his reaction for result he just thanked me for the question but did not sir asked him if he was gonna stand down he was quite determined to get to the door asked him a few times he didn't answer earlier when I spoke to someone from his camp who was with him at the time of him get seeing the exit results he was apparently in shock he that person said he needed a bit of time to just absorb the result but I think as his colleagues absorb it especially those more in the centre of the party are they're reacting and blaming him and he must be seeing that he must be seeing some of his own MP is really turning on him now especially those who tried to oust him back in 2016 saying a sense of i-told-you-so also a lot of people MPs I've spoken to in the North saying that he's created a cabinet that was to London centric and saying you know don't just blame this on brexit it's about more than that yeah okay thank you Jason very much all about analysis well as Jason was just saying pressure really growing on Jeremy Corbyn many feel that he should be considering his position if that exit poll is right if the losses that they've seen food far had continued throughout the night projected to lose at 71 seats compared to in 2017 so certainly pressure growing out on the Labour leadership now and actually for now okay yeah Sofia back with you soon I just want to talk to John Burke about some of those results we've just seen first of all the labor holding and increasing their majority in Canterbury holding on we're seeing there as well in Norwich South again what so V was saying really these these remains seats labour holding on there but not in a lot of other places no so if you region of course it's absolutely right about that Dermot but I think that's just one other point to add in relation to rosy duffel boosting her majority in Canterbury and Clive Lewis being returned in north/south and that is that it's not just a matter of remain Perseids is that those two particular constituencies are of course university constituencies a very significant student vote there as far as Battersea is concerned happens to be my home seat Marshall de Cordoba has strengthened her position there and that doesn't really come as a surprise the demographic is just markedly different from that in 70s reflect on and your overall thoughts as well Barry political editor there in Chingford and Duncan Smith getting back in a feature there of the III called it the remain vote let's call it the referendum vote but labour in the Lib Dems well if one of them understood they had enough to do this was meant to be one of the chant ACTA can tell you they were very very worried about that Priti Patel the home suck she was in that constituency leafleting with the in Duncan Smith he has worked his socks off and he's only just hung on but keep talking but I'm gonna throw this in there conservatives have gained Scunthorpe we now have the numbers yet but they're they they they've just keep come yet I mean look this is really a seismic election election here we've become used in certainly my sort of lifetime of covering politics narrow majorities coalition governments hung Parliament's Parliament's and party systems that's give-and-take and compromise this sort of majority is going to give Boris Johnson the kind of power executive power to really potentially reshape our country to have a very different type of politics for the next five years I can't overstate what a big change this is going to be for the country and secondly and thus Kanthal result reflects it the basis of the parties are changing London is becoming Metropolitan University educated liberal if you like the Tories are taking traditional labor working-class Heartland areas and that is going to have an effect too on how Boris Johnson has to run his government because he's going to have a different bunch of voters now just just very quickly John because make your point sure know what we've got here is identity politics trumping old-fashioned socioeconomic determination of how people vote people used to vote on a straightforward economic basis and maybe people are now betting on a different basis and the question is will that be sustained we've got was 22 years and has not been a Conservative member of parliament force come thought until now yeah lots of implications both major parties there another gay look like just keep coming as I say red car 15 points swing or so again for the Conservatives 15-point swing or so away from the Labour Party there's the numbers for you what reading that makes for Jeremy Corbyn and all the leadership of Labor Party Jacob young in there at 18 thousand eight hundred and eleven and look at that change in share it's just the way it's just the way that the Labour vote has been whacked down 18 percent for their brexit party doing fairly well there prexy party standing in these in these former labour seats now a red car again another gain listen the Conservatives also doing well in Wales we've seen held on in Vale of Glamorgan took Wrexham took clued south and Dan Whitehead is there to talk about there the picture in Wales Dan yeah Derman were fascinating evening we are having here in Wales vale of glamorgan Alan Ken's the Conservative MP holding on to his seat here despite controversies he had to stand down of course as the Welsh secretary at the start of November but he held down at this seat here doubled his majority in fact to 4,000 votes but we are seeing some significant Tory gains in Wales and to discuss those we are joined by the head of politics from Cardiff University Roger Allen Scully thank you for joining us Roger and I mean let's start with Wrexham for instance what have we seen up there tonight all the Conservatives not had this seat for a very very long time they did not win it at all in the entire 20th century yeah they won the seat quite clearly tonight and that was very significant actually result because it's the first ever time that the Welsh conservatives are elected a female MP significant polling earlier this week it looks like that the Tory gains that you had predicted going that way what else have we seen especially in North Wales well we're seeing you know labour potentially on labour being the dominant party in Wales almost a century yeah they could come very close to if not actually being wiped out in North Wales losing all of their seats there we're seeing also significant losses in terms of labour vote share and some seats in South Wales maybe one or two further seats going to the Conservatives and it seems as if the Welsh conservatives could equal Margaret Thatcher's record from 1983 of 14 Welsh Conservative MPs you know the best they've done in any election since the war and that's the record anything above 14 for the Tories in Wales is going to be a record yeah absolutely this would be genuinely historic and you know seeing the results here seeing the results in other parts of Wales it's far from inconceivable when this night is done they could actually do that what's going on here Roger is this brexit is it Jeremy Corbyn is it both we're seeing I think in many parts of Wales as we've seen in much of England as well in those sort of smaller towns and some of those traditional labour areas that voted for brexit people are deserting the Labour Party in significant numbers going straight over to the Conservatives in the ultimate labour nightmare we're also seeing though I think you know the Jeremy Corbyn leadership did not work in Wales Labour's traditional Bastion anymore that's worked in many of Labour's other traditional a strength we're just gonna cross to Anglesey I think I believe we're gave me a declaration there now okay well thanks Dan and talking about to Wales there and the threat to Labour's dominance there are so many decades and indeed centuries but so we were looking at the picture in in ishbal and this of course is a Labour seat that on current performance is under threat so we're not able to bring you that declaration bringing the numbers yeah but what I do want to tell you about is that the s end be made again it's not all great news for the Conservatives and certainly not in in Scotland the SNP have taken aqil and South Perth sure John Nichol is is back there John Nicholson yes excuse me John Nicholson is it is back there after a short period out after losing the seat in 2017 john byrne no no no no previously the Member of Parliament that constituency was the indefatigable mustard airbrushed osmeña nobody could ever history she had a registering was record but she lost her seat no John Nicholson was a member yes where and now he's got back in this constituency that's obviously very good news for you but the overall point being Beth Rigby that yes Oh overall a great victory it looks like for for the Conservatives but not in Scotland and you know not in parts of the remaini South and the remaining and some of the cities so and if one theme of the election it seems to be will be this return to big majority government if this plays out as it looks I mean that's going to be fascinating in terms of how our politics works but in terms of the Conservative Party if they have losses in Scotland if the SNP really build their base that will just strengthen Nicholas sturgeons hand in calling for second independence referendum you put into the mix brexit which Scotland voted against and what you can see is a strong Boris Johnson in Westminster in in Parliament there the west wrongs with Wes can labor hold on here majority 4,400 from the last election said election is as follows Bailey Sean Steven the Conservative Party candidate 1701 17,000 the biggie pardons 17 talukas Helen flora commonly known as Lucas flow Liberal Democrats to stop rx-8 915 Cunningham James Thomas Labor Party 13600 and $20 EO Valerio Francesco to gains in quick succession for their conservatives once again west bromwich west their that we're looking at inish mom that we briefly focused on their angle seat in wales again there from the Labour Party looking at West Bromwich West as I say there was a majority there for the Labour Party of 4400 it was a seat the verbage 68.7% to leave the European Union the brexit party standing there not doing too well and this conservative gain from labour they've turned that 4,000 odd majority for labour into a majority for the Conservatives of 3,700 or so taking just over 50% of the votes and the Labour Party cooked below 40% and changing share up 10% nearly 11 percent the Conservatives the Labour vote down 12 and a half percent brexit party 5.3 percent Bishop Auckland very slim majority from the bar selection for labour parishioners also Paul Durham County election of a member of parliament for Bishop Auckland held on Thursday of the 12th of December 2019 I Terry Collins being the afternoon returned officer at the election do hereby give notice there the number of votes recorded for each candidate at the civil action is as follows brown Nicholas Allen brexit party 2500 Ferrum to hit henna shodhan the conservative and unionist party 24,000 and 67 Jolson Raymond Lawrence Liberal Democrats 2133 Goodman Helen Catherine the Labour Party 16,000 105 [Applause] [Music] [Applause] there were 130 ones there we are at gain another gain for the Conservative Party in Bishop Auckland not too high a mountain for them to climb given that they were only facing a 500 to vote majority therefore Helen Goodman who took it at the last election but look at the size of that majority look what they've turned it into nearly 8,000 majority in Bishop Auckland another heavily leave voting seat taken over 50% of the vote in Bishop Auckland labour pushed down to 36% again laboured down double digits 12.1 percent the Conservatives up 6.8% and also the brexit party up 5.6% worth talking they're now going to stoke a dog their Labour's Ruth Smith first of all your exit poll is the exit poll is suggesting that you're going to be in a bit of trouble Ruth Smith I mean do you see it that way seems it could be although I've definitely lost well very frank of you thank you very much indeed for confirming that that makes it then a a grim night personally and a really grim night for the party this is never mind the party this is an appalling night for my constituents and it's an appalling light for the country and the Labour Party has huge huge questions to answer by first of all having this general election when they were so ill prepared for it but then having this option available to the country having this platform having this leadership and allowing this devastation that hit all of our communities and this is an appalling heartbreaking night for the Labour Party but I'm much much more worried about now what happens to my constituents indeed well you say more or less the Labour Party's let them down where does the finger-point first of all Jeremy Corbyn has he got to go a Jeremy Corbyn tchard announced that he is Lee he's resigning as later at the Labor Party from his count today I think he should have gone over he should have gone and yo he should have gone many many many months ago I am I was the parliamentary chair of the Jewish labor movement we passed a vote of no confidence in him in April there is absolutely no justification for why he's still there and his personal actions have delivered this result for my constituents and for Suede's of the country overnight well mana saying the guilty man well what about this issue of dealing with anti-semitism in the labour party do you see there was so much talk about it but we never really seem to see any evidence of solid disciplinary action being taken yeah well I think it's very clear that when someone says I haven't got human blood and they're not even suspended from the labour party when someone says vile misogynistic things about people like me and others words I wouldn't use on sky TV and they are not expelled from the labour party suggest that we have a problem and I don't care what Jeremy Corbyn and Jenny fooled me have said about anti-semitism in the locality and how they've dealt with it they simply have not and in terms of anti-semitism that was you know the internal party processes how did that play from your perspective in this general election was it was it raised with you as an example of one of the the faults of the leadership jeremy corbyn's actions on anti-semitism have made us the nasty party we are the racist party and when you've got a leader a prime minister that has said such vile Islamophobic comments and we're the racist party because of the actions of my leader the lack of actions of it and who he's associated with and these friends are then we have a real real problem the Labour Party now these detoxifies we need to move on and we need to make sure that this culture is destroyed within the Labour Party that racism has no place that there is no hierarchy of racism and that everybody makes it clear that Jews have a safe space in the Labour Party because quite frankly they don't at the moment you mean you've got the recipe there do you see any prospect of it actually happening given who's in control of the party apparatus I'm sorry Ruth Smith with hopefully we would be able to continue that but they're declaring its cities of London and Westminster now this one of the hopeful chipper of mana formerly of the Labour Party now with Olympics and 49 McLaughlin Gillian Mary McLaughlin commonly known as Jill McLaughlin Christian People's Alliance 125 Nidal Gordon Lawrence Labour Party 11,000 624 Polanski Zach Green Party 728 Oh Mona chukka Harrison Liberal Democrats 13,000 and 96 okay well there we are look at that 13,000 for chukerman and the Lib Dems and the Labour Party taking over 11,000 would easily have outstripped Niki akin who've taken it have held it for the Conservative Party so much for tactical voting all these websites and apps we were told about though people were going to get their act together and take these kind of seats and all that very notes want to go over to Chingford and talk to the former leader of the Conservative Party in Duncan Smith there you are mr. Duncan Smith they returned there in Chingford don't if you can eat me mr. Duncan Smith hello sky sky new sorry sir you may have heard John Burke oh there Oh from familiar voice to you on this issue yon right on this issue of the of the tactical voting and this remain alliance or whatever it wanted to call itself they came pretty close to getting rid of you well I think it there was definitely some tactical voting in this seat and I think the biggest problem is that we haven't settled brexit so now I hope and believe that with Boris Johnson getting what looks like an overall majority I hope a good substantial one then we have a chance now to bring this whole thing to an end get brexit done get that trade deal that we talked about finish it all off the only way I think will bring society together again over this issue and stop this being an issue at every election and even in people's private life is to do that to get brexit done and that's what Boris Johnson is the only one that made that promise otherwise if it have been anybody else we've been meandering along for another six months to a year with no decisive results so getting that majority was critical and I believe Boris Johnson is a one nation prime minister and I don't think he's going to expend his time doing anything else he's gonna do brexit he's gonna do well strain it more police on the streets sorry mr. Duncan Smith they're gonna try and be snappy because a lot of results is you know coming in but just on the issue of brexit when you've been so concerned about for so long particularly under the previous leader I mean say you've called it get brexit down we all know it's only the withdrawal agreement do you think then that it all can be done and dusted that the trade association and all that hangs off that by the end of 2020 I think it's wholly feasible because a lot of this work has already been scoped by the civil service and the Foreign Office behind the scenes the brexit Department have already been scoping out what the arrangements are and they've been discussing those with the EU it's not as though it's going to start from scratch in January the reality is it is feasible to do that they want a deal I think this majority that we're going to get now it looks like with the Conservative Party does also do something for that negotiation it tells the European Union you're now dealing with a government that can get things through which means now settlement is almost instantaneous it'll come back to Parliament and we'll be able to get these things okay so the meeting so that relationship changes between the two but I mean mr. Duncan Smith he can get things through I'm sorry gotta cut it off going to Belfast North because Nigel Dodds they at Westminster leader of the Democratic Unionist Party standing there will he hold on 35 to 1 1 3 5 4 newton-john chin thean 23,000 and 78 one might say the biggest scalp of the evening so far Nigel dogs their leader at Westminster of the Democratic Unionist Party lost his seat to John four new Kundera version fame the Lord Mayor Belfast John Finnegan son Pat felucca net who was killed in a terrorist shooting but he's taken the seat 20 3078 you may notice there very few standing there the SDLP stood down a form of remain alliance that was turned by shin Fane they taken the seat from Nigel Dodd says gone in Belfast North John Bercow well that is the biggest scale for the night Nigel Dodds is a long-serving member of Poland he has a very high profile but with that high profile has come controversy and if you are a big figure you're a big target and Nigel dance was a big target and that's reflected not just in the identity of his shin vein opponent but in the fact that other candidates withdrew in order to give shin pain the best possible chance and what that really is about is very very very strong hostility I think to the DUP s position on brexit Beth and just to pick up I mean I was watching that because we thought that Nigel Dodds might lose that seat but we've talked a lot about Scotland and the issue of brexit and how that affects Scotland but of course of Northern Ireland and how world Boris Johnson's brexit deal affect Northern Ireland and will in the long term that also need to suggest move perhaps a border poll in Northern Ireland as well you know that is another con to tional issue that comes out of this election so one big constitutional crisis resolved and other ones bubble up Beth it's interesting isn't it because one can't help but think that if forced to choose between the Union and brexit the DUP would go for the Union but for the time being they have strongly supported brexit and I think that they are a great regret that let's just throw in there the Conservatives have gained Eastbourne from the Liberal Democrat so it's not all bleak for them in the southeast as well Beth continue it's just going to ask you John do you think in retrospect the DUP would have been smart to have batteries of may in her withdrawal agreement bill because they didn't back her and it didn't go through but as that ambition to be for the whole of the UK to be treated the same I'm going to cut you off there because we are approaching the top of the hour it's so just about to turn three o'clock there for an appropriate a moment the moment to remind you that you are watching this brexit election special coverage right here through the night on Sky News as it turns three o'clock let me take you through the headlines so far

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Published: Sun Dec 22 2019