The Brexit Election: Part 3 (3am-6am)

let me take you through the headlines so far if you are just joining us nearly 200 seats have now been declared and it's been a bad night let me return that a terrible night for the Labour Party they've seen some shock results in the Northeast in particular so far a huge drop in their share of the vote the Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has arrived in Islington in North London for the results of his count and questions are being asked directly by a Labour MP a former Labour MPs over the future of his leadership a Jeremy Corbyn should announce that his leap he's resigning as leader at the Labor Party from his count today is absolutely he should have gone and you know he should have gone many many many months ago and the Conservatives have made big gains putting them on course to win something like an 86 seat majority predicted in the the exit poll you made just a Verdean Duncan Smith their former leader retaining his seat despite a big attempt to get him out by Labour 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 shoot sister well no no time to catch our breath let's talk to the former Conservative MP former attorney general now the independent candidates for what was his seat as a conservative but beckons filled Dominic grief joins me now did did you see any of this coming yes I think it was fairly obvious from the very start of this election campaign that it was being commenced on the footing that was undesirable for those who had an argument to make in respect of moderation and the reason for that was because the Labour Party was being led by a person who is not moderate in his views and therefore is a bogeyman to a very large number of the electorate and that from my point of view standing as an independent was always going to be a very considerable challenge because the fear of Jeremy Corbyn means that people feel that they're between the devil and the deep blue sea and therefore they're more inclined to the deep blue sea even though they don't trust mr. Johnson that's always going to be the case you did it's featured very prominently in the course of the campaign okay I mean you talk about challenges and and your personal feelings I mean personally do you think it's a challenge in in beckons feel that you haven't been able to overcome yes I'm sure that's the case it's pretty tall order anyway to take on a 25,000 conservative majority that I've built up over 22 years and the area is deeply conservative why did you bother their political inclinations because it was a debate that is well worth having and has to be had and indeed this election is not going to resolve it if anything it shows our even higher level of polarization and bear in mind that the polarization is now it seems to me to begin becoming even very acute both in the context of Northern Ireland's relationship with the rest of the United Kingdom and also that of Scotland so as I'm a unionist that's a matter of great concern to me and something that was a very good reason for standing that was the reason for doing it otherwise I could just have walked away yeah and I never John Bercow wants a word dominate you and I have known each other for over thirty years and we've been colleagues together in the House of Commons for over 20 years let me just say this to you if you have been under not going to continue are lamont for beckons field I think the House of Commons will be poorer I think the country will lose out because you have been an outstanding public servant independent minded principled articulate and unfailingly courteous to everyone with whom you're dealing at all times you are really an exemplar of how politics and public service all be conducted okay well that from John burka but you're not gonna be an MP Dominic griever yeah you know what what does this tell us then about you and other independents from all parties it seems we're back to the to the big two if you leave you're gonna get thrown out that may be the case although it doesn't mean as in the future independence may not prosper in certain circumstances it certainly highlights the difficulty that independents have and I've always accepted that in taking this on I had I had a desire to do this because I thought it was right also had quite low expectations but it's always worth going forward and making democratic debate because the future of our country depends on it and I am very worried about our country's future I think it's a serious risk both in the quality of life of its citizens and indeed our future as a United Kingdom what are your thoughts about the nature of brexit no doubt that withdrawal agreement will be passed by the House of Commons very soon but it's the shape it then takes after that and you know this one theory doing the rounds isn't there with with this size of majority if it does turn out to be that it pretty much looks that way might even be a bit low that exit poll the way things are going in freeze Boris Johnson up he doesn't even have to pay any attention to the ERG well I don't know about that Oh time will tell whether mr. Johnson's policy succeeds and on that note I'm going to have to leave you okay I've been called over to the table for the candidates so I wish you a pleasant evening for the president thank you very much great talking to you mr. green we have to go as well because there's so so much more to discuss better agree he is very busy not very but he won't have any commitments in in the House of Commons and that serious point a you know just on this on the squeeze again by the big - well the biggest squeeze coming from the conservative party but all these independents Chuck Ramona they're failing and many more to come it's always the way though that yeah but in of course individual MPs of incumbency factors but then you cannot kind of overcome the party machine and you saw in the city in Westminster seed that chukka emunah didn't win that had one of them stood down labor all the Lib Dan's had they done an official pact or a non-aggression pact one of them would have won but the vote was split but there's another thing that's happening tonight as well which which John touched upon which are there are many a great Parliament mat parliamentarian whether you agreed with their politics or not that are now leaving the Commons as a big churn for X it really did bring John well I mean I'm particularly from the Conservative Party we saw those that were thrown out lost the the whip while they were mp's some of them standing again some of them didn't decide do you think that's just overall just a terrible loss of parliamentary talent that is my honest view I've always admired people who I think are dedicated conscientious articulate principled intelligent public services whatever their view if their dedicated public servants whatever their view is if it if we lose them to lose dominate grieve to say goodbye because of retirement all of a net win to lose just the greening and the roads gone he's chosen to stand down I think is great buddy by the way I just saw just looking at Joe Swenson they're arriving for her count the Lib Dem leaders some of the exit polls saying she might be in some trouble continue John Dermot man I just mentioned somebody who is perhaps known throughout the nation but I think I saw in the distance that how East have been retained by the local party and if that's so that is Carl Turner now Carl Turner who is by background a barrister and the person that's got to say there's some flash photography John Ferrier is like live pictures there but no continue back to Carlton no I just wanted to mention Carlton are a barrister by background a very agreeable fellow by disposition is nevertheless the noisiest member of the House of Commons and I have advertised that fact to audiences around the world Carl goes from naught to 60 in about five seconds and it's his usual refrain to yell at the government shocking it's a disgrace and then to point at the minister and to say how does behave okay smiles on Jess Winston's face there now listen it's just over five hours since we brought you the results of the broadcaster's exit poll the astonishing results on the bottom of your screen there and plenty of those results are now in our team of election analysts have been tracking those results and is ready to update the prediction contained in the exit poll [Music] and we at Sky News and out forecasting the Conservatives will win between 358 and 368 seats and labor between 192 and 202 that would mean a conservative majority off between depending on which end of the forecast you go with it between 66 and 86 so a range of 10 seats in it for both those parties let me take you through them again sky are forecasting clearly a conservative win a very large majority the Conservatives and Boris Johnson will win between 358 and 368 seats at Labour one nine two to 202 and Sky's election analyst professor Michael Thrasher is with me now tell me how you've worked this all out Michael well we're looking at actual results and we've been waiting to get enough results from every region because we're using a regional swing model and it's very it's really quite close to what the exit poll is saying although we we may be saying that actually the majority may be slightly lower than the exit poll had forecast so if you like the mid-range forecast that we're looking at currently would be a majority of 76 well I mean you're amazed by the way this is panning out this is the you know the fourth election when the Conservatives gonna be the following a majority or the largest party you've you ever seen anything like this no this is an exceptionally unusual election and for me now that I think the critical figure psychologically and of course electrically is whether labour will pass you know the important mark of 200 seats and on the upper end of our projection a forecast of for labour is 202 seats but they could be as low as 192 but even on 202 even on the high end of that that still worse than Michael foot in 1983 and still yes and you'd have to go back to 1935 for such a low result as that so but we are getting closer and closer to being able to sort of pinpoint where the parties may actually finish up but this is actually after just 200 results are in so less than a third we're seeing it happen because Sid John and I were conjuring just just on the numbers from the exit polling you more less staying on this where the seats are being won and lost because it seems the Conservatives are losing some seats particularly in Scotland and indeed parts of London and the south east but boy they're compensating for it elsewhere yes but they're also I mean for example labour held onto the stay with us might go better go to Richmond Watson Foreign Secretary again targeted by these tactical voters here we go Pizza Warren also known as Baron badger 326 three to six Harding Monica Bernadette Ethel Rhetta twenty-eight thousand three hundred and eighty nine to eight three eight nine [Applause] Keynes Kylie three hundred and forty seven three four seven rob Dominic renny31 thousand one has held on a big effort there to get rid of him the Liberal Democrats running him very close on twenty eight thousand the Labour but dropping down to two thousand eight hundred Dominic Rob back there another important seat Richmond Park declaring Zac Goldsmith trying to hold on for the Conservatives only Sarah Jane Liberal Democrats $30 and 559 Shaw Caroline Teresa independent two hundred there we go you can see for yourselves the Lib Dems have taken it Sarah only ejecting Zac Goldsmith from Richard Minh parties rather yo-yo there in a by-election himself which he lost over the issue of expansion of Heathrow Airport he got back in well he's out again now and first Lib Dem gain of the evening let's go to Anna botting talking about the big beasts now Anna botting is in Uxbridge in West London we're doing about there the prime minister's seat Anna what's going on there we're actually talking about the shadow Chancellor's seat John McDonnell Hayes and Harlington the result just come in John MacDonald won it but while he was making his acceptance speech talking about people waking up in poverty food banks and climate change people started shouting first of all terrorists and then liar and then a fight broke out take a look at these pictures from the count it is quite clear that there are fears also now for our democracy and the rise of the extreme right but I say now that we will organize and we will ensure this type of democracy will reign our democratic wishes of our people will be respected and this sort of extreme right-wing violence will not be tolerated within our society thank you very much so the response there of John McDonald as he walks away but it shows really the febrile atmosphere that has we've been brought to during this campaign and now he of course blaming the far-right we have to say do not know who it was who was scuffling there in the background but even during the postal voting we saw arguments here as well so clearly tensions running high kate mccain you're here certainly a very extraordinary scenes here at account with somebody so seniors shadow chancellor yeah you can really feel the tension in the room and you could see there from that footage just how kind of violent really that fight was was a proper punch thrown somebody was punched in the head john mcdonald before that happened was making a speech which sounded very much to me a bit like a leadership pitch we've heard Labour MPs across the country say Reed Smith very pointedly before that Jeremy Corbyn should have announced his leaving Uxbridge to go to the result in Islington North Jeremy Corbyn see Islington nods thank you I Lindsay Robertson being the acting returning officer at the election of a member of parliament for the Islington North constituency held on Thursday the 12th of December 2019 to hereby give notice but the number of votes recorded for each candidate at the said election is as follows Nicholas Charles Ellsworth the elves known as Nick the incredible Flying Brick the official the official monster raving loony party 236 [Applause] James Clark conservative and unionist party 5,000 483 Jeremy Bernard Corbin Labour Party thirty four thousand six hundred and three [Applause] yosef hyeme david brexit party 742 Caroline Russell Green Party 4326 [Applause] Nicholas Richard way chling known as Nick way chling Liberal Democrats eight thousand four hundred and fifteen the total number of ballots rejected is as follows want of an official mark zero voting for more candidates than a voter is entitled thirty-seven writing or mark by which a voter could be identified to be so Jeremy Corbyn there are holding on to his their constituency in Islington North with over thirty four who surprised of course that the Labour leader is winning here in Islington estate he's held all the way since 1983 but while it's not in a pressure here he's clearly under pressure in the rest of the country with a very disappointing night for labour losing many seats outside London weather [Applause] disappointing night for the Labour leader and now we'll do polls including from his own colleagues for him to resign saying a huge thank you to the returning officer and all the staff and the police that have ensured a fair and democratic election has taken place today and also to congratulate and thank my fellow candidates for their participation in this election and also a very heartfelt thanks to the people of Islington Norse for electing me again for the tenth time to represent hissing to North in Parliament I'm very very proud to do so and I've learnt so much from the people are visiting to North and it's my pride and my pleasure to continue to be their representative in Parliament I also want to thank Ruth Hayes our agent for this election and all of the wonderful friends comrades and supporters in hissing to North Labor Party for the huge effort they put in in this election campaign and they put in all the time to carry a message of hope and justice all over our constituency and through me I hope to a wider world the pressure on those surrounding politicians is often very very high indeed the media intrusion on people's lives is very high indeed and the attacks that take place against family and loved ones of politicians continue and they're disgraceful and frankly they are disgusting I want to take this opportunity to thank my family my close friends and those that have been close by and been very supportive during this and every other election campaign I want to thank my three sons for the huge support they give me and thank my wife Lara Alvarez for all that she puts up with because of the way in which the media a v' towards me towards her and indeed towards my party during this election campaign and this this is obviously a very disappointing night for the Labour Party with the result that we've got but I want to say this in the election campaign we put forward a manifesto of hope a manifesto of unity and a manifesto that would help to right the wrongs and the in justices and inequalities that exist in this country for those who need housing those who need an effective health service that will deliver for them and those children that need a school that is properly funded and they're not being told by oversized classes and a manifesto that gave hope in dealing with the environmental crisis the world faces by investing for the future through a green Industrial Revolution all of those policies were extremely popular during the election campaign and remain policies that have huge popular support all across this country however brexit has so polarized and divided debaters in this country it has overridden so much of a normal political debate and I recognize that has contributed to the results that the Labour Party has received this evening all across this country the issues of social justice and the issues of needs of people will not go away just because brexit is dealt with in the way in which Boris Johnson presumably plans to deal with it at the moment all those issues will come back center stage in the debate and the fundamental labour message about justice and equality within our society is going to be one that is there for all time because it's the very core of what my party believes in and what I will always advocate on behalf of my constituency and on behalf of my party I want to also make it clear that I will not lead the party in any future general election campaign I will discuss with our party to ensure there is a process now of reflection on this result and on the policies that the party will take going forward and I will lead the party during that period to ensure that discussion takes place and we move on into the future because I'm very going to go from the Labour leader currently how much longer asking her to the former and most successful leader of the Labour Party evers former seat tony blair's of course Edgefield is it a back order to turn at the said election is as follows Paul David Richard brexit party 3518 furnace John Charles the Green Party 994 how old Paul the Conservative Party candidate nineteen thousand six hundred and nine choice Michael Anthony independent 394 Welsh Don Elizabeth Liberal Democrats 1955 and Wilson Phillip Labour Party 15 thousand and ninety six I said what a symbolic result Tony Blair's old seek just as we were listening to Jeremy Corbyn talk it's turn blue the Conservatives have gained this from labour Phil Wilson ejected as the end people how old will now take over in the new House of Commons a majority a healthy majority 4513 this year 1935 keeps coming up well that seat has been labour since then as well and this is looking like turning out to be the worst performance by labour since that year 1935 and Wow we've been speaking of a while we've been listening to Jeremy Corbyn you saw the primary arrived at his count we will also bring you the results from Boris Johnson in Uxbridge in his speech when that happens but meanwhile the inroads that Boris Johnson's party is making into labour territory continuing barrow-in-furness has fallen and the Conservatives have gained back a high peak a loss for them in 2017 it goes on and on death it really does but I mean Jeremy Corbyn is just effectively announced that he intends to resign as party leader he just confirmed at his count I will not fight another general election as leader of the Labour Party but he didn't seem to be in a resigning immediately he said that he would stay on for a period of reflection so maybe he intends to stay on and try and just get his people into place for any leadership contest so not an immediate resignation but I mean Jeremy Corbyn is just there announced his intention to resign now I'm waiting for the time frame I mean John Becker oh man if it's I mean in this exit poll in our projection it is going all Boris Johnson's way now you got in we mentioned Tony Blair that so I mention you got in in that in that landslide went I suppose against the trend a bit pretty safe seating bugging them but you you got in in 97 and you saw you know a smashed party how long does it take to recover from a drubbing like that oh it can take a very long time it's always very tough if you suffer a heavy defeat in terms of size of majority to get back into government in one go it doesn't mean it's impossible it was a very tall order so far as the timescale for the election of a new leader of a political party is concerned I do think there's anything particularly odd about what Jeremy Corbyn has just said I mean if you think for example of the Conservative Party in 2005 after a notable and quite heavy loss Michael Howard announced that he would step down but that he would oversee a process leading to the election of a successor and he finally stood down several months later so anything is anything particularly quirky or irregular about that it seems to me to be a perfect alderney thing to do but what Jeremy was signaling was that he didn't intend to try to lead his party into a subsequent election that seems to be crystal clear yeah a lot of cell searching perhaps going to go on pretty soon in that party let's set concentrate on that what is gonna remain clearly on this projection the party of government where they're big majority there he's got you can see that mane of hair on the right hand side of your screen with his back to us the Prime Minister Boris Johnson we're expecting his result very soon we're gonna hear that all here the result under here his speech afterwards as you may know Anna botting is there over to you Anna lots of hair ruffling I have to say but inwardly that man must be absolutely delighted it does appear that we are looking at the next Prime Minister for Great Britain and Northern Ireland Boris Johnson it's his dream job he was already Prime Minister but now he has his own mandate Kate McCann is here you've been following him for the last five weeks there was nervousness was there not yeah there was and I think a lot of people including these politicians have been burnt by previous polls and of course what happened in 2017 but the Conservative Party in this general election to focus their resources on those Midland areas and the north which Boris Johnson needed to win needed to turn blue and it looks like he has and they played an offensive game didn't they really going after those leave voting seats in the Labour heartlands so was it brexit was it Jeremy Corbyn was it both or was it this man did he make the difference because Teresa made tried to do the same in 2017 what difference has it made then that Boris Johnson is the leader of the Conservative Party right now I think certainly anecdotally speaking to people in some of those seats on those visits it has made a difference because lots of voters particularly those who voted labour for a significant amount of time have said that they are voting for Boris Boris Johnson not the Conservatives not the Tory Party so yes it's made a difference it's also about timing we're much further on in the brexit process and I know Kate Lacan that you heard people out and about campaigning with Ross Johnson suggesting they were not voting for Jeremy Corbyn because he was anti-semitic and too close to terrorists the shout we heard tonight at John McDonald's constituency so Sophie what reaction has there been where you are then to the news that Jeremy Corbyn will not stand or not continue to stand for much longer as Labour leader well I think that there was a bit of shock freely in the room Jeremy Corbyn is now just left at the counter you can probably hear the chairs been packed up behind me but a really significant piece of news unfolding in the last 30 minutes or so because as those labour seats fell like dominoes Jeremy Corbyn stood on the stage behind me and announced that he will not be leading the Labour Party into the next general election he said a period of reflection is needed there was clearly my understanding is some soul-searching going on about the regional disparities in the labour losses that we've seen her this evening and what needs to be done about them he says he will stay on as lay believer while that period of reflection goes on he will then cleared away for a challenger and I have to say they've been 2 counts going on here tonight isn't a North Jeremy Corbyn feet but also Islington South in Finsbury which is the scene of emily Thorne bury the shadow foreign secretary she gave a speech moments before Jeremy Corbyn which sound an awful lot like a leadership pitch at saying that we're not beaten the fight is just starting against the duplicity as gutless breakfast Prime Minister that is Boris Johnson my sense here is very much that with Jeremy Corbyn effectively announcing that he is going to be departing the political stage sues the race to succeed it is going to be kicking off pretty quickly very interesting Sophie thank you very much indeed well the the noise you can hear in the background now is actually that Boris Johnson's dog is at the count Dillon who we saw obviously he took him voting with him earlier today but certainly for the prime minister the person I say the Prime Minister we don't know yet do we it's not to be confirmed a Dermot back to you for the moment okay Anna thank you very much indeed lots of developments they just keep coming in dawn Valley has fallen to the Conservative Party Caroline Flint going there and you may remember at the start of the campaign that a lot of flooding in the area and it was thought that sir the reaction by the government might might have had a lasting effect on the election who knows about that anyway Caroline Flint ofcourse supporting the withdrawal agreement bill against the Labour whip and many votes wasn't enough to save her though in that leave leaning seats there you go look how far the Labour vote fell 17.8% nearly 18 percent the Conservatives didn't actually go up very much but the brexit party have come in there Nigel Faraj deploying his party against those labour seats and taking 13.7 percent of the vote is is that what made all the difference Lib Dems up a smidge as were the Greens also hearing are just in terms of seats have been watching closely five northeast now this was the most marginal seat in the country what's something a little bit to cheer for the Liberal Democrats - that's right the majority are off - therefore Stephen Geffen's well he's outs and the Lib Dems are are back in is there a little bit to cheer for the Liberal Democrats taking that see there you go let's have a look at it so um by the standards of that seat of thumping majority for Wendy chamber in 1316 four figures she'll be happy without Stephen Geffen's 18,000 447 I mean and the other side of that coin is is that it's clearly not very be going entirely the SNPs way they're predicted to get something over 50 seats tonight up from 35 so it is going to be not therein fried northeast well look I mean in the big scheme of things 35 seats in 2017 they were hoping to get in the mid forties the projection puts them back in the 50s I mean you know Scotland is Goan SNP again and what was interesting was there was a sort of expectation that the Conservatives great Grimsby bet we all want to see this knowing absolutely [Applause] Christopher Paul the brexit party 2,370 [Applause] Emerson Leighton the Green Party 514 80 [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] with Nigel - Jillian's independent 156 [Applause] say - that one there was an intake of breath here John burger Melanie on out 10,000 891 and look at that change the Conservatives there 18,000 150 in great Grimsby it just does keep going on and on excuse the pun labour since 1945 yes a pro brexit avalanche has knocked out liliane she stood up for herself she argued the case for a less anti brexit position she signaled a willingness to go along with some sort of the drawn agreement but I think that what the evidence very clearly shows is that when the tide is running strongly in one direction and the very appropriate remedy and the tides running against your party simply standing up and saying oh but I didn't go along with this however well-intentioned he is unlikely to avail you 16.7% I mean someone's in great grief he wasn't here Monday handling the fish in the fish markets I mean I have to say like Melanie on there's lots of Labour MPs in leave seats that probably wish they'd batteries may still now yeah indeed your wood sorry just lets this is point out there you could just see Jeremy Corbyn at the back of that throng leaving his County in North London there when John Burke I was saying reading between tho case letting us know that after a period of reflection he's gone yes well I mean that's how I entertain you in gently dignified statement that he's made but just to go back to those losses for labour Caroline Flint share of the boat was very sharp and got about as well very shortly down and on Bonnie indeed okay well listen let's do some analysis Sam coats is crunching through all these numbers and we've been looking Sam at this issue of the brexit party standing only in these labor formerly labor health seats what effect are they and others having thanks Dermot well it's been fascinating to look in this election at both the brexit Party and the Liberal Democrats and it looks as if the Conservatives were quite right to be worried about the impact of the in over two Oxbridge prime minister's seat let's listen in [Music] I lied white being the acting returning officer for the election of a member of parliament for the Oxbridge and South Ruislip constituency do hereby give notice that the number of votes recorded for each candidate is as follows Harvey Jonathan David commonly known as count bin faced independent 69 who's David Stephen commonly known as Lord Buckethead the official monster raving loony party 125 Burke Norma independent 22 Courtney Jeffrey Dennis UK Independence Party 283 Humphreys Jo Ann alone Liberal Democrats to stop brexit 3026 johnson alexander boris TEFL commonly known as Boris Johnson the Conservative Party candidate 25,000 [Applause] [Music] [Applause] 25350 one Kia mark Alyn Green Party 1090 [Music] Milani Ali Riza Labour Party 18140 one right we don't need to go any further then now we can clearly see the result there they didn't lay a glove on him in reality our ally Milani they're a huge effort by the Labour Party to decapitate Boris Johnson there there we get him out a huge attempt to mobilize some tactical votes there but you see the Liberal Democrat for 3,000 of them they're still stayed with Joanne Humphreys but the Prime Minister returned as they didn't really lay a glove on him there twenty five thousand three hundred fifty one for mr. Johnson we should hear from him very shortly indeed let's just take you through some other numbers we'll keep our eyes on the left-hand screen and turn that into some analysis for you or where we hear thank you all very much listen I don't want to I don't want to tempt fate because clearly lots of results are still coming in and we're still only dealing with projections but at this stage it does look as though this one nation Conservative government has been given a powerful new mandate to get grexit done and not just you get brexit done but to unite this country and to take it forward and to focus on the priorities of the British people and above all on the NHS and yes we will recruit 50,000 more nurses and 6,000 more jeebies and we will build 40 new hospitals and I am proud to say that one of the across the country and one of those hospitals will be right here in Uxbridge and South riesling and I am grateful I am grateful once again to the people of Oxbridge incise Ruislip for returning me to serve you an absolute privilege to do this job and to work for you and I thank once again the the police the council everybody who's worked so hard all night to count for us the returning officers I thank my fellow candidates in all their glory lord Buckethead and others Elmo and others forgive me if I if I don't if I don't identify them all but I Bubb all I want to thank I want to thank the people of this country for turning out to vote in a December election that we didn't want to call but which I think has turned out to be a historic election that gives us now in this new government the chance to respect the democratic will of the British people to change this country for the better and to unleash the potential of the entire people of this country and that is what we will now do and if we are lucky enough to be returned as the polls as the exit polls seem to suggest then that work will begin tomorrow thank you all very much or rather I should say not tomorrow today thank you all very much thank you [Applause] well the Prime Minister there returned in Uxbridge and as you heard they're rather cheekily perhaps they're staying with those campaign pledges that was so questioned in particular about the fifty thousand nurses he said they'd be new ones fifty thousand new nurses and and the 40 hospitals well that's by the by because there was a big attempt as we were saying before we heard their numbers there too to get rid of Boris Johnson and they didn't really get very close and as they must say as the Prime Minister was speaking the news just keeps getting better and better and there so the defeated Labour candidate Ali in Milani yeah just just before Anna botting is they want to hear from her but Joe Swinton East Dunbartonshire the Lib Dem leader 55 David model McLeod UK Independence Party you kept 208 Liam McKechnie Scottish family party 197 kalmyk Nally Scottish Labour Party 4849 Carolyn's gamja Scottish Green Party 916 Joe Swanson Scottish Liberal Democrats nineteen thousand five hundred and twenty Swinton we're talking about a so-called b-cup identity me Colin who've Boris Johnson well in terms of leaders you've gone that's the second one no I drugs on to Westminster leaders the DUP has gone on the SMP as you can see there have taken these Dunbartonshire Joe Swinson will no longer be an MP well so many questions being asked even during the campaign about the nature of the Lib Dem campaign well we'll talk about that an awful lot more later but there we are Joe Swinson is out of Parliament another gain for the SNP well we knew from the exit poll it was going to be a good night for the SNP they had to win the seats somewhere and they've won one of them gained one of them from East Dunbartonshire the SNP triumphant there let's listen to the winning candidate and then one presumes from a rather upset looking there yes a rather upset looking John Swinton he's the winner and to all those work in the count tonight and two polling stations all across Eastern Barton sure to say thank you so much for your patience in your commitment and this is an absolute privilege in thank you the good people of east in Barton sure for putting your trust in me as your new MP our work tirelessly to represent you all that sends a clear message to Boris Johnson that the people of Eastern Barton reject austerity we reject poverty and we reject all of the damage that the Tories and the Liberal Democrats have imposed on the people of Scotland and a personal note from me what I see it's a Boris Johnson his hands off are they NHS but emphatically this is a clear message that the people of Eastern Barton sure want to choose our own future not the future of Tory's the Saudis have been imposing on us this could not be a stronger mandate for us to do so so Boris Johnson your lesson loads and your lesson clear Scotland stood enough of your policies being imposed on us we deserve better a nice Tim Barton sure has said that by electing me as their MP I have so many people to thank him from a partner Sean who's been there for every single high in every single law empty my parents who've always taught me to believe in myself from my brothers my boss I'm a close friend Rona McKay MSP Mike sandy family and friends Malaysia agent Gordon Amma campaign manager Danis and to every single activist who chops one door or ten doors for me who delivered one leaflet at a thousand leaflets for our campaign thank you all because of our hard work and dedication and commitments this campaign we're one step closer to our independence due to your hard work to any young women out there watching this you get two women here with varied after an ideological views and myself and Joe Swanson but what you can take and what we show you together is that young women can smash boundaries they can smash barriers so don't ever let anyone tell you that you can or that you're not good enough believe in your sales theory that means you'll have and know that there's no limit to what you can achieve and finally just to finish off there's one person that I really wish was here tonight to share this with me um I was the very cause for injured in this campaign him who believed that I could be the MP Feliz in Barton sure long before I thought I could him so join this one's for you thank you everyone thank you well I'd like to thank the returning officer and all of the staff that have been involved in this election campaign in emergency services and all of my fellow candidates and congratulate Amy wholeheartedly it is an amazing job I'm sure you will love doing it and I wish you well and what you said about young women and smashing boundaries I wholeheartedly agree I would also like to thank my agents Liberal Democrat campaigners and activists who have made this campaign special with the additional challenge of doing it as leader of the Liberal Democrats too I particularly would like to thank my mom my sister Nicola my husband Duncan and our two darling boys Andrew and Gabriel and I would like to thank the people of Eastern Barton sure for putting your faith in me for 12 and a half years to represent this wonderful place I have enjoyed serving our communities I've enjoyed having the opportunity to make a difference whether it's here on local issues whether it's supporting people working on the national minimum wage by introducing penalties for rogue employers whether it's women in our economy by introducing gender pay gap reporting tonight we have seen that it is likely that Boris Johnson is on course to get a majority and it is clearly a good night for the SNP some will be celebrating the wave of nationalism that is sweeping on both sides of the border and I do congratulate all those who are newly elected these are very significant results for the future of our country and I will be making further remarks later today but let me say now for millions of people in our country these results will bring dread and dismay and people are looking for hope I still believe that we as a country can be warm and generous inclusive and open and that by working together with our nearest neighbors we can achieve so much more Liberal Democrats will continue to stand up for these values that guide our liberal movement openness fairness inclusivity we will stand up for hope Josh Winston there the leader of the Liberal Democrats no longer an MP though just narrowly lost her seat there in eastern but ensured to the SNP majority of 149 or Amy Callen of the Scottish National Party so not too good night for the Liberal Democrats just got an awful lot worse personally for Jo Swinson she's not returning to Parliament the many many questions then about her leadership but a very big win then very big scalp for the Scottish National Party and predicted to do well well they're already doing very well in in Scotland they're obviously up 9 seats so far they've taken four from the Labour Party they're just hearing therefore Jos wins and the Lib Dems have taken st. Albans but I want to go now to the leader of the Scottish National Party Nicola Sturgeon and this was her reaction to that results in eastern Barton sure her candidate getting out [Applause] [Applause] well she joins me now live Nicola Sturgeon I take it you were sad pleased about that result didn't look very magnanimous no did at your reaction yeah I'm delighted for Amy Callahan she's one of the bright young stars of this election and I predict great things ahead for her but can I see no signs in that understandably excited reaction Cuba's additions to Jos Swenson I understand more than most the pressures and the challenges of leadership and to lose her seat tonight when she's late our party through this campaign will be a better blue folder so on a personal level I really feel for okay we'll do it but of course I can't help but be delighted by the performance of my party yeah exactly we'll take that a celebration for the party and as I said there's the prediction and there's the reality what you're up nine seats so far already plenty to declare if you get above 50 which it looks like and some what does that mean then for your campaign for another independence referendum well if we win the election and it looks as if we don't course to win the election and win it well you know the exit pull me slightly over state where we end up but we're going to win this election and we put forward a very clear proposition and people at Scotland will have made very clear that they didn't want Boris Johnson as Prime Minister that the dawn warned breaks it and they want Scotland's future to be in Scotland's hands and there is a mandate now to offer the people of Scotland a choice over our own future that Mandy already existed and it has been reinforced I absolutely readily exempted not everybody who 14 SNP yesterday will support independence necessarily but there is a clear desire an endorsement for the notion that Scotland should not be landed with a Boris Johnson government and ripto of Europe against her will we should have a choice over our own future and that mandate has to be okay and just what you've been talking to us you may not have noticed or been told oh here your party's taken from the Conservatives as well may be time for another little jig perhaps not why while you're on there but keep I'll keep myself a bit calmer okay thank you but but I mean in a sense it's not that bad you say well okay you know Johnson is pretty clearly going to get back into Downing Street whether with a big majority brexit in terms of the formal exit from the European Union is going to take place but in a way if Scotland wants to remain doesn't that then help you in your campaign for an independence referendum I'm bitterly disappointed at the result Yukie way that I think 2d governments are bad for the UK I know that they're bad for Scotland and I really don't want the UK to leave the European Union but I've got to accept the England appears to have voted in a particular way they appear to have voted for a Conservative government and appear to have voted to endorse the UK leaving the European Union so Boris Johnson we have a mandate to take England out of the European Union he emphatically does not have a mandate to take Scotland out of the European Union and Scotland must have a choice over at all the future because it can't be any clearer than it has been made in this election today that Scotland doesn't want a five-year Boris Johnson government and doesn't want to lose our status as a European nation and what about choice it's about seeing very clearly it's not for Boris Johnson to say it's Scotland's future it's for the people of Scotland to decide it but so many questions flow from that I might only have time to put one of them choose we just watching by the way Boris Johnson's car taking him back into central London we don't know if he's going to do Downing Street or to Conservative Party headquarters to congratulate the staff there but but Nicola Sturgeon that how does it happen given we're looking at Boris Johnson's car anyway not the man himself but we know he hasn't he's not changing his view he's not going to growl at you and he's not going to grant you another referendum I think I'm not I looks as if and we don't have all the results in Scotland yet but it looks as if the position that I put forward of offering people in Scotland the choice has yet again been endorsed by the people of Scotland in this election so that question really has to be for polished rods and he has no right to stand in the way of that choice sees every right supposed Scottish independence and I think he has to think carefully I think the Scottish Conservatives who've suffered significant defeats they have to think very carefully this is about respecting mandates and respecting choice spoken cannot be kept in the Westminster system against its will it can only be kept in that if it chooses that and that is the choice that must be given and I think the tool you really have to think long and hard about the position because it is not a sustainable one in the long term judging by the chairs behind you you might have won another one but I do have time for the second question may I put this to you and this is on the issue of rejoining European Union Scotland will obviously still be part of the UK that leaves and you know that's a thorny issue you had cast-iron reassurances if you get that far if you get independence that the EU will let you back in and indeed without joining the euro no country can be forced into the euro and and I have no doubt at all that it's not and chooses to be independent will be welcomed with open arms in the European Union of course we will have to go through the process if we are out of that but you know the European Union is an organisation that has existed to enlarge itself it was always fanciful and 2014 to say that we wouldn't be allowed to be in the European Union and of course back then we were told that rejecting independence was a way to protect our European membership so this scare stories about Scotland not been allowed into the European Union will simply not wash again okay I just see it's because you've taken the cheering cuz some people taken Glasgow northeast are another one another labour one down it is quite astonishing is it over the course of what five years or so you've wiped labour out well you know I'm afraid is responsible for its own position in Scotland labour has lost touch with people in Scotland it's phoned itself floundering on the issue of independence on the issue of brexit and it's got some very hard thinking to do I mean look Scottish Labour there's no an existential crisis in Scotland but thankfully is not for me to worry about in the immediate future and you know I'll continue to do what I can as First Minister to make sure Scotland is not in the position of having to put up with a Tory government we don't vote for and a break says that we don't want okay you've got a question here coming in to you from John Bercow I guess for the evening Nicola Sturgeon no actually wasn't a question from me to Nicola I just wanted to say that while acknowledging the enormous triumph of the SNP in eastern Barton show which deserves to be acknowledged I did think that Jo Swenson made an extremely gracious concession speech on which she should be congratulated that's a very difficult situation I think she handed it to her in Burien conceded that I mean I obviously I'm delighted for any candidate there but I think it's very difficult situation for just winced and I do personally as a leader of a party feel for her right now and you know it's difficult for women in politics perhaps even more so than the male leaders so I've got a great deal of sympathy and I agree that I think the speech to me there was incredibly gracious I just lastly on the nature of the progress you're making there you you're interpreting it quite clearly as an endorsement of of another independence referendum but you've also mentioned of course the the issue of brexit Scotland doesn't want to leave isn't partially your vote about that it's not entirely an endorsement of independence it was an emphatic rejection of brexit but you know given how England has bought it it looks as if grexit is going to happen and therefore that makes it all the more important that Scotland has a choice about its future because we've demonstrated yet again we don't want brexit we don't want to be outside the European Union I will absolutely readily concede that not everybody who voted SNP yesterday will necessarily vote for independence in a referendum that people must have that choice and that's the fundamental issue of principle that was very much to the fore in this election and will be to the forward in the days and weeks to come Nicola Sturgeon great talking to you thank you very much indeed the Yankee leader the triumphant leader of the Scottish National Party it's gone four o'clock you're watching the brexit election on Sky News let me take you through the headlines far and our Sky News forecast is predicting that the Conservatives will win the 2019 general election by a majority of between 66 and 86 seats Boris Johnson as you may have just seen house retained his seat with the Conservatives making big gains overall putting them on course to win a large majority in line with the forecast Jeremy Corbyn held on to his seat as well but has announced he will not lead labour into the next election clear that I will not lead the party in any future general election campaign I will discuss with our party to ensure there is a process now of reflection on this result and on the policies that the party will take going forward and I will lead the party during that period to ensure that discussion takes place and we move on into the future and Nicola Sturgeon and the SNP are celebrating and some after Lib Dem leader Joe Swenson lost her seat to the Scottish National Party for millions of people in our country these results will bring dread and dismay and people are looking for hope ok we are just well the Conservatives are just shorts of this this formal moment so when they have definitively won this general election they got a hit 326 seats that's half a number in the House of Commons plus one there less than a hundred seats short you can see of that total and the prediction is that they'll go way beyond that Beth your thoughts so far as we just seen seek after seat in these labour heartlands for well let's just also pause on Jay Swenson I mean Joe Swenson has lost her seat she's gonna have to stand down as a Liberal Democrat leader and I think we're gonna get that in the morning she said she was going to mail it you further remarks at Davy the deputy he will be no doubt taking over as a caretaker leader let's watch to see what happens is Luciana Berger the former Labour P can she win is Finchley and can she run for the leadership with the Lib Dems I mean that's something I'm watching and then the Labour Party I mean Jeremy Corbyn they're saying I intend to resign he's going to have a period of reflection I can't get any sense from the Labour Party about how long this period of reflection will be but maybe as I was saying it's to get their selves in order in order to try and put a Corbin candidate in to try and keep the movement going despite losing two elections on the back of a Corbin manifesto to be frank but big shop tonight Laura pitcock Durham Northwest she was corbin backer she is someone from that wing of the party that has been anointed that was going to be pushed that was potentially the future of that movement she might have stood for the deputy leader she's out she has lost her seat in Durham Northwest so there are serious upsets and movements in the rival parties to the Conservatives but as you said some of services I mean Boris Johnson is heading to being the most successfully much last early surveys but that HAP's a John burka just on that issue of these the decapitations I'm calling perhaps that's that's wrong with Joe Swenson gone Nigel Dodds gone for the DUP jeremy corbyn saying well he it'll be gone well before the next election presumably well before that it's a real drama well politics is a legalized bloodsport and it can be very brutal and the consequences can be both very serious and very speedy so there are always surprises is every election I was particularly struck by what Joe Swenson had to say and by the manner in which she said it but the rest I suppose naturally flows one would expect Jeremy Corbyn to have made some reference to the situation and he did and as I said earlier and I repeat it doesn't seem to me there was anything particularly odd or peculiar about the way in which he responded he said well look I'm not going to fight another election as to how we proceed well that will take a period of time there has to be after all a process you can't just appoint someone as leader there will be an election and I rather a mentioned that will take place in the months to come John thing for the time being for that and of course some dozens more MPs that's not at the top of their part he's going and already lost their seats the majority of them in the Labor Party and on that note we at Sky News and our forecasting the Conservatives will win between three hundred and sixty three and three hundred and sixty nine seats prediction conservatives three six three two three six nine Labour will have between 193 and 199 below that 200 level 193 194 the Labour Party now that would mean a conservative majority that the spread between those predictions of between 76 and 88 and sky's election analyst professor Michael Thrasher is going to be joining us very soon but I mean it's just that we've been talking about this is this is the fourth term for some form of conservative it's unprecedented Boris Johnson and his team this is an unbelievable victory for him as I was saying at the beginning of the program he was on the back benches a year ago it wasn't clear that he would ever get a tilt the leadership the whole brexit drama in the way it unfolded the way he positioned himself as the true Bret satiric got his foot in the door at number 10 and boy has he converted that leadership win he's now converted it into the biggest majority for a Conservative Party since 1987 just take that in I mean he has become the most successful conservative prime minister since Margaret Thatcher that is an unbelievable achievement by him and his team and yes he has done it on that brexit message and yes it might be that this is people lending the vote because they want brexit done but he has a proper majority and five years in government to truly transform this country how he sees fit and that is a different form of government than we have had in the past decades so this is a really big moment for the country and how we're going to be governed okay let's talk to Labour's Rebecca Long Bailey joining us now from Salford and Rebecca long Bailey there's no good way of putting this is there really it looks like it was a disastrous campaign with a disastrous result for you well it's been a devastating night so far we've had great results here in Salford but across the country we've lost fantastic colleagues and I think there's going to have to be a very detailed analysis of what's happened it's been a very difficult campaign for everybody certainly my experience in the north and across the some of the marginal seats that I visited was that brexit was a big issue for voters and it was very difficult to to try and reinforce our message of one that tries to bring together both sides of the leave and remain divided and certainly it didn't play out very well tonight yeah well you say you were hearing that from the voters you were hearing it from so many people saying it's it's really difficult you airing it from candidates I don't know if you had difficulty in explaining it on the doorstep people just didn't really get it did they no and I think the problem was was that the message you know was lost in translation some way it was quite a simple message that we were going to make sure that we got a credible deal that we would put to a final vote and but ultimately many of our leave voters felt that we were in extreme romaine party and many of our romaine voters felt we were in extreme brexit ear party and never the twain would meet and our position actually was to try and build consensus between those who voted leave and remain but as I say you know there'll be a very detailed analysis now of what happened and and why we couldn't get our message reinforced on the doorstep but sadly as a result of that and I'm sure other factors we've lost some very good colleagues tonight I'm gonna ask you about the other factors so just want to share I'm sure you'd be delighted Donald Trump the US president has tweeted imagine that say he looks like a big win for Boris in the UK look you've just just seen their Birmingham North fielder another one as gone they just just keep dropping it's got to be something to do with the leader as well hasn't it well they'll certainly be an analysis I haven't spoken to anybody this evening apart from colleagues in Salford yet and and it will be an analysis of whether brexit played an important factor which elements of our manifesto went down well on the doorstep and broadly many of the proposals that we put forward were received quite positively but ultimately the messaging of the campaign and how that campaign was delivered I think is a key factor because it's all about the ground war at the end of the day and in whichever party fights that ground more well okay wins the election the Conservative Party had a simple message but no policies and and it looks like they're doing very well tonight they did indeed well there is going to be a vacancy we heard that from Jeremy Corbyn himself he says he's not going to fight the next election would you like to fight it as leader for labour well I think we'll be having discussions within the party it's certainly not something that I've been thinking about and we'll have to convene look at the election why we lost the election and determine a process going forward okay Rebecca long Bailey thank you very much indeed for your time egg corn ways up here now to talk us through some of these remarkable results where the battles are being won and loss will I say battles more or less looks like the smoke is clearing the battle feel it's lost for labour okay so let's start with can answer quiz question to the the panel of white people which do you think is the most brexit e constituency in the UK constituency that voted most for brexit can i offer a view you can be completely wrong but my hunch would be Boston and skegness 76 % Boston the scariness if I said great I'm up there great Grimsby as well so 71% leave great Grimsby of course conservatories and let's have a look at because there's the interesting story there if we look at the numbers there we've shown you this before I mean it's a really striking board this was supposed to be the the seats that Labour was defending all of these at the start of the night were read all of these seats and it would have taken up to a full percent swing for other parties to win these seats just look all of the different colors there you've got many Tories you've got the SNP they're up to 6% here up to 8% up to temper so they've got beyond a 10 percent swing these are enormous gains you know the idea that the Tories would be competing here with would have seen extraordinary the start of my life anyway great Grimsby where are we over here great Grimsby okay so great Grimsby Humber s3 let's let's just have a look at this constituency what's going on beneath the surface when it comes to great grooms because you know there's an interesting story here again similar story in terms of the change in the share of what we've seen elsewhere so labour down about 16 points 7 Tories up by 13% but look over here I mentioned the brexit leave oh so 71% leave vote in Grimsby under 45 you know actually quite a high proportion under 45 bit lit below the neck but consider that for exit leave fare okay come back over here constituencies here great Grimsby okay what we're going to do is we're gonna take all of these constituencies and plot them on chart just showing you the brexit vote in different declared state seats so we'll just take this one look at these they're going to go across all of these seats and great Grimsby is over here now these are the areas that voted the most to leave the EU and that referendum two years ago three years ago sorry and then these are the areas that voted most strongly for remains so we've plotted them this is every single constituency that's declared so far today tonight rather well this morning and just look at how much blue there is around here now this is the key battleground that the Conservatives have done so well in so far over this election they've been winning seats off labour around here and actually if we could've take a step back and look at this you know here we have it here we have what are the new battlegrounds for this election campaign the Tories really fighting very well and then labour the SNP look at how much yellow there is for the SNP in these areas that voted to remain these are the remain areas remain over here leave over here and just look at that big glut of constituencies right there you know we've yet to see at the end of all of these constituencies being declared more coming in every moment but already you can see the geography is changing and that old geography that we used to I'm gonna take do the same thing again the old geography which was all about class and deprivation we take all those put those across in terms of deprivation you know it was labor dominating this area and now look at how many conservative seats these are the most deprived seats in the UK look at how many conservative seats there are there in these areas many of them in the Northeast you've got a lot of SNP there is also winning seats off labor there and then the Tories still doing well here but interesting look labor Lib Dems if fighting in this area which is the better off parts of the UK this is a you know the highest level in terms of you know our deprivation index the best off places in the UK when it comes to kind of qualifications when it comes to housing quality final final question I'm going to go back to the to the table off a final question here there are three seats here three conservatives seat I can see doing work Berko what are you asking okay three conservative seats there's there's Henley there's other Hampshire's there's one other seats which is among the least deprived in the UK hasn't yet declared any guesses as to which this seat might I think what the see might be well I mean it could be one of several but new forests west would be an example of that it's Buckingham Buckingham itself it would be very I know a little bit about Buckingham it is not a deprived constituency although like lots of places has pockets of disadvantage and I remember the former MP Tim Collins used to joke that the last time an unemployed person was found in the Buckingham constituency the individual concerned was expelled and I said Tim that is very unfair and here you're having a laugh in a light-hearted sort of way but actually there are disadvantaged people in back them as well but overall of course it is a picture of affluence and there we have an in it's just interesting that Labour annelid Dems competing so strongly at that top end you know including buckingham but maybe they okay this time around join the pop quiz there with our in business let's catch up on their developments fast-moving as indeed is the Prime Minister's motorcade they're going back in the dark into central London not entirely sure whether he's going to Downing Street or could certainly party headquarters and we're hearing there is a protest of some form outside there so keep an eye on that if he does arrive there other developments in terms of seats we haven't concentrated too much on northern island apart from the fact that the Westminster leader of the Democratic Union Party Nigel dogs lost his seat in north Belfast a result just in the SDLP Social Democratic and Labour Party er their leader Colin Eastwood gained foreign soil from shin Fane one of the most the most marginal seat in Northern Ireland the 17,000 majority there is raising the prospect so many different stories developing the prospect in Northern Ireland of more nationalists than unionists being returned as MPs for the very first time we've got now keeping an eye on the prime minister's motorcade seeing where that ends up and what's awaiting him at the end of it got the co-leader though the Green Party candidate for the Mayor of London Sean Barry I think joins me now from Westminster the the Green Party's performance sean barie you're treading water at best aren't you no our vote shows up around the country looks like we're set to about double our overall vote share versus 2017 and that and that reflects the positive campaign we put forwards the the ideas around investing in the country remaining in the EU the positive case we made consistently for remaining in the EU but we're making gains in terms of boat share in leave and remain voting areas and I think that shows overall the the positive campaign that we ran in their artwork of many of our people okay positive but costly so far you've lost your deposit in 326 seats so far we've retained our deposit in price as many seats as we did in 2017 already just from this decline okay Sean Barie we'll come back to were going to Kensington now I believe we're now we're showing Sean Barie was showing Caroline we're showing you Caroline Lucas hf4 or returning officer give notice that the number of votes for each candidate at the election of the Member of Parliament in the Brighton Pavilion constituency are as follows Dobbs Bob independent 212 Furness Nigel UK Independence Party 177 Hogan Emma Louise Conservative Party candidates ten thousand one hundred and seventy-six even poor Adam Labour Party thirteen thousand two hundred and eleven Lucas Caroline Green Party 33,000 let's go take Kensington there is a let them some Jima there's a Labour MP there Emmett dent code we are expecting this declaration there it is let's listen see June [Applause] what a bit of a protest going on there let's talk a bit more than B until we get the returning officer speaking there um well that one of those big gains from 2017 for the Labour Party amid encode but of course this high-profile Lib Dem put in there some jima former conservative left the Conservative Party across the floor to the Liberal Democrats and again relying hoping on some evidence of tactical voting that let's see if they've split the vote and giving it back to the Conservatives [Music] [Music] [Applause] okay well there as we were discussing there the Conservatives have got the numbers for you have gained Kensington back from Labour evident code gone we need to see those numbers to see the effect that the Liberal Democrats had some jima on that remain votes remain leaning seat a majority of just one hundred and fifty as the okay there's loosely buckin back in in Kensington for they conservatives a narrow squeak buts it seems that the Lib Dems and the Labour Party spit about there and the Conservatives get it back in they just want to say they're saying Crewe and Nantwich has gone this was one of the ones we thought we would go even if it wasn't such a good night for Boris Johnson crew net which is saying okay again for the Conservative Party but just let's have a think they're about Kensington John Burke oh and it seems they're they just if they wanted to put a remain alliance together they didn't get their act together and if we've seen it in several other seats where they they had some I hopes those who wanted at least another referendum and there's a there's another concern getting back in yes oh it simply hasn't worked and the attempt was made but it's backfired or linear ate not succeeded and as you say a Conservative member of parliament has been elected for that constituency I'm not quite sure because we've not been given now we need to look exactly the second and third but it's also this idea of tactical voting it's not so much about it online they were saying this time I think it's the dog that does it it's the dog that doesn't bark and the other thing is is the power of the party system as well because if you think about the way in which the tensions within Parliament split people from their traditional parties in the last Parliament and you had so many of the defectors and the disillusioned go into other parties or standards independence and none of them have come through the other side on a super egon trucker amoun are gone Phillip Lee a conservative gone Antoinette's Ambika conservative gone Dominic Greve gone in beckons field and now some gamer who was a conservative who's left who's Luciano I think Luciana might get that see so that is wonderful to be engaged and if she does she really could be in pole position try anything what were the figures do we know what the figures I mean that would be a classic case of a split the remain vote splitting between labour and that's then there's the tail of the tape so far and we'll just concentrate very quickly on who's gained and lost and the Conservatives have put on 37 seats so far and labour have lost nearly 50 listen we were talking about the Greens was talking to sean barie who's kindly a stayed on the line to reflect on and I was saying well treading water was was my phrase Caroline Lucas we then interrupted you to to go to that answer mother can't she'd got back in in Brighton with an increased majority so we'll give you that but doesn't look like you're gonna win any other seats no our birth target was Bristol West we doubled our vote there we came in a very strong second but but the Labour Party continued to hold that seat we're in a very strong position there to carry on gaining councillors and we've got an election for mayor in that city next year where we've got an excellent candidate so that's a very good springboard for that but overall across the country we've seen strong support for many of our candidates so some big swings to us we've increased our vote by several times in some of the unites remain seats my colleague Jonathan Bartley has got a very strong second place in Dulwich from West Norwood these are all places where we have counselors and we're going to continue building up green representatives who when you get elected is a green but you work hard and you continue you get an increase vote as we've seen from Caroline Lucas just now historic we'll just have a listen to her I'm totally gonna listen yeah let's have a listen the darkness I'm very finally let me thank my amazing husband Richard my children Theo and Isaac for all of their love and support all the way along thank you [Music] [Applause] okay yeah well she's finished then and delighted and life.you I'm last question I mean you mentioned this we're we're calling at the romaine alliance it was pretty feeble wasn't it compared to the Conservative Party and the brexit party that was you in England with some of the Lib Dems and in Wales with plied Camry I mean you really had to get some kind of accommodation with the Labour Party if you wanted to make any inroads at all I think I think this election should be a wake-up call for the Labour Party that they do need to work with other parties in order to overcome the problems we have with the electoral system it's pretty clear now that the the two-party system is not serving this country first-past-the-post is not delivering votes that reflect the people's wishes and that and we need to sort this out and and we should be getting together and working towards some kind of electoral reform in the next parliament but Caroline Lucas will be there in Parliament she'll be putting forwards our good ideas making sure that there's a strong green voice there and being fantastic as she always is yeah I mean I just got I've just got to say that I have an eye so Boris Johnson wins this large majority through the first-past-the-post system and is therefore going to reform the voting system yeah I can say that and I can't pretend that Boris Johnson be Prime Minister is going to be good for the country we needs to see the country renewed he's not gonna deliver that now he has to deliver on his election slogan which he absolutely refused to come on and give details of and take scrutiny of get brexit done I don't think in a year's time we're still going to be mired in a brexit mass and okay he's got a very difficult job ahead of him Sean Sean Barie thank you very much indeed very quickly John back over to you rightly so in these circumstances there's no way on earth the Conservative government is going to consider reforming the electoral system from which it very handsomely benefits that isn't on the agenda it doesn't mean that Sean doesn't entitle to make the argument made against it but that is the reality just on a positive point I would say though although it's incredibly difficult for one person on his or her own to make a great impact Caroline Lucas I can say this from the vantage point of the chair over ten years has been an absentee outstanding an indefatigable member of parliament she's her own leader she's her own Chief Whip and she's ubiquitous she's there all the time she speaks in debate after debate after debate she uses the procedures of the house to proselytize for a cause and you know she really is a model MP okay John thank you very much indeed for that stoke central has gone it's a gain for the Conservatives Gareth Snell they're not returning for the Labour Party the assault continues interesting developments shall we we touched on them a little earlier in Northern Ireland the headline being that the leader of the Democratic Unionist Party in Westminster Nigel Dodds lost his seat many other developments and there's our senior Ireland correspondent David Blevins to tell us about them David yes Dermot if gadding Briggs are done has worked for Boris Johnson that certainly hasn't worked for the DUP they knew they were in trouble in Belfast but the big story here is Belfast north where they're Westminster Leader and Nigel dogs the man who is Arlene Foster's deputy leader of the party has lost his seat to Shin Finn's John Finnegan with the majority of around 2,000 votes John Finnegan is the current Lord Mayor of Belfast he's the son of the Belfast solicitor Pat Finnegan murdered by loyalist paramilitaries back in the 1980s it is a very significant moment and let me briefly try and explain why in losing two seats the dup are down to it we're still waiting to hear from from Anna South to Rome but it looks like on balance Shin Finn has held on to all seven of its seats but when you had on the fact that the SDLP have gained two there are now nine nationalist MPs and it unionist MPs nationalist MPs will outnumber unionist MPs in Northern Ireland for the very first time in the history of this place and that certainly will increase the volume of calls for a border polska brexit has not only moved us towards a nother referendum in Scotland but has moved us into referendum territory here in Northern Ireland - so brexit may be done but the UK may be undone David thank you very much indeed David Blevins there in Belfast it's half-past four you're watching the brexit election on Sky News the headlines so far and Sky News forecasters predicting that the Conservatives will win the 2019 general election by a majority of something between 76 and 88 seats Boris Johnson held on to his seat comfortably with the Conservatives making big gains overall [Music] Jeremy Corbyn has retained his seat but has announced he will not lead labour into the next election I will discuss with our party to ensure there is a process now of reflection on this result and on the policies that the party will take going forward and I will lead the party during that period to ensure that discussion takes place and we move on into the future and Nicola Sturgeon and the SNP are celebrating this was Nicola Sturgeon after hearing as she was hearing that the Lib Dem leader Joe Swenson lost her seat to the Scottish National Party [Music] for millions of people in our country these results will bring dread and dismay and people are looking for hope [Music] okay you're watching the brexit election let's have a look at this winning line the formal winning nine is 326 seats the Conservatives are closing in on that here's ed Conway to talk us through developments yeah that's right Dermot we are getting pretty close to that moment that moment where there may well be a new government 326 seats all-important as you said where do these current results put the Conservatives and the Labour Party let's have a look they are getting close the Tories 284 seats and you can see that line just there that line they are aiming for 326 remember the sky forecasters predicted the Conservatives to get between 363 and 369 seats a majority of up to 86 seats so we are getting closer and closer you can see that there now let's just consider some of the big names the big names who have been lost from the House of Commons potentially lost potentially from portator tonight let's consider first of all Joseph wince and Lib Dem leader Joe Swinson in East Dunbartonshire DUP deputy leader Nigel Dodds and Laura Pitt coughs some people heal the forest some people thought that she might well be a future potential labor leader and consider as well Caroline Flint let's have a look at the next route group of people including Caroline Flint so she was seen as another high-profile labor loss at Dominic grieve as well he ran as an independent in beckons Phil was always going to be tough for him former conservative and as well as them Anna Sabri as well wouldn't went to another forum Ettore lost tonight and former Labour MP choco Amana he defected to the Lib Dems of course famously he will not be an MP in the new Parliament that's now official them from early on really this was shaping up to be a tough night for labour it's worth looking at another seat Workington because now we can see it so you can see it working tonie's constituency have been pretty much labour red since 1918 since his creation but now it is Tory blue Labour's lost a few of its shadow cabinet as well including shadow environments secretary Susan Haven and Leslie Laird in Scotland on top of Laura peacock who we mentioned a little bit earlier but better news for the party in Hartlepool the exit poll remember suggesting that the Tories would take that seats in Hartlepool let's have a look at that but in the event it was held by Labour MP Mike Hill and Richard twice coming in there in a close third but nonetheless in third place and the sky for costs has now narrowed the conservative majority and here you can see it it's narrowed the conservative majority from that exit poll it is now the Skyfall cost at 363 to 369 Donna incredible okay Edie thank you very much indeed while ed touched on it there this issue of the remain alliance what there was of it there the Lib Dems and their greens in a lot of seats in England applied come reuniting they owe they hoped to have some kind of effect well they don't seem to be making any impact no one wears skirts and coach has been drilling down into those numbers they haven't had any effect in terms of benefiting themselves Sam but they've been doing some damage perhaps as well to labour so thank you Dermot yes you've got to remember that we're only having this election because the Liberal Democrats teamed up with the SNP to hand what Boris Johnson wanted and have this December election yet so far at this point in the night they have made zero net gains overall and lost a leader while also putting on a couple of seats elsewhere but look at the effect in seat like Kensington there Sam Dima was the Liberal Democrat candidate huge Liberal Democrat resources in that seat yes it went conservative there were just a hundred and fifty votes in it between the conservatives and labour yet Sam kima got 9,000 plus votes in that seat suggesting that if he hadn't been standing perhaps that actually would have stayed with another party that supports a second referendum you could see that same pattern in city of London the chucker emunah and Watford really number of seats where if the Liberal Democrats hadn't been standing the result could be different and the second referendum party might have got into power Sam thank you very much indeed I want to join Labour's Hilary Bennie's at his count in Leeds central and Hillary been just hearing her just we country Dudley North another gain for the sorry Darby North Dudley's already gone Darby norfair another gain against your party again for all their conservatives it just does get worse and worse it's like some kind of slow-motion political car crash from your point of view isn't it well it's a very very bad night for the Labour Party it looks as we're heading for the lowest number of Labour MPs since 1935 that's more than 80 years ago and what come on say we have failed to win the people's trust and confidence we won't have the opportunity to put our policies into effect and we need to reflect on what happened but before we elect a new leadership to take us into the battles that lie ahead and Hillary bear just looking we're just looking somebody's list all the stoke seats have now gone conservatives you held two of them before this general election newcastle-under-lyme hasn't been conservative has been labour since 1919 we've been talking about the second world war that's just after the first world war look we know you're no fan of Jeremy Corbyn there was a point of course when you tried to get rid of him he's got to go pretty soon as he well Jeremy I think in a very dignified speech said he won't leave the Labour Party into the next election the precise timing of his departure is a matter for him I think it's important that we reflect on what went wrong how we're going to respond to this terrible without that we have had because I think that then informs decisions about who should take positions of new leadership for the party but we will need to get on with it but in the meantime we have a job as the opposition to hold Boris Johnson and the government to account because I think the promise is going to find things pretty difficult I'll remove the comma I mean you will have a job holding them to account with fewer it scenes than 200 MPs would you tell me what you think went wrong you at the heart of the campaign I I think well I think very simply many voters bricks it was the one and only thing that mattered and they voted accordingly secondly any Labour candidate or canvasser will tell you we knocked on too many doors where people said I've always voted labour in my life but I'm not going to vote labour on this occasion and they didn't have confidence in the leadership of the party and thirdly there were some voters who said we're not entirely sure that you can do all of the things that you have promised and i've evan famously said once that socialism is the language of priorities but at the same time there were a lot of voters who were enthused by what we had to offer particularly younger voters so it's not about throwing all of that away you have to have credible leadership to win people's trust and confidence because that's how you are able to form a government and then you can get on and try and create a fairer and a more equal society because i tell you one thing Dermott what isn't going to go away is the fundamental unfairness in the fifth richest country in the world of over a million people last year going up to a complete stranger to say I can't feed my family and I cannot feed myself will you help me now society either says well that's the price you pay for having this kind of economy and that seems to be the conservative approach or you say it doesn't have to be like that we can change it for the better and that thirst that desire for a fairer country is not going to go away despite the depth of the defeat that we have suffered tonight thanks very much indeed thank you Amanda in Leeds let's just check in on the Prime Minister's movements we've got some shots of him you saw his motorcade arriving into central London a bit earlier we're told that he did go to Conservative Party headquarters no doubt to congratulate the campaign staff there and their their well-crafted and successful campaign and there's a festive downing streets which we are expecting the Prime Minister to arrive back at fairly shortly and no doubt in a very festive mood he referred in his acceptance speech when he was elected for the seat of Oxbridge how jolly it was to have a christmas election well it certainly worked out of him let's see get the thoughts of my panel here John Burke and I want to go back to what I was discussing there with Hilary Benn and you know we've been doing all these parallels with history I refer to 1919 for newcastle-under-lyme this is the worst performance since 1935 but isn't the comparison the more recent comparison in terms of the Labour Party's future here something like 1992 so go through these for election defeats in a row and the Labour Party realizes that it has to change and change fundamentally two years later Tony Blair came along and then three years after that won a landslide are there any signs that Labour will address it that way or will they just think we need more Corbin or a different Corbin or a better Corbin I think it's a big challenge to the Labour Party and I rather agree off the top of my head that there is some sort of parallel with 1992 to lose again so soon after the last victory for the Conservatives is obviously very very demoralizing for the Labour Party particularly when they did better last time they're not winning they did better last time than had been expected and this time they've done very considerably worse than was expected so some very very serious soul-searching needs to be done I do think it's just about a personality I think it is about a program it's about a mindset it's about a philosophy the Labour Party can't just have what it can have but I think it would be frittering away it's time foolishly if it would just have a debate about personalities it's got to be about you who'll approach in fact seeing Hilary up on screen causes me to call to mind his late and great father that wonderful parliamentarian Tony Benn who always used to say as probably Dermot you'll recall in those debates in the eighties whenever he was challenged about some other figure in the party put away your prepared BBC script mr. Dimbleby it's not about personalities it's about issues it's about the policies it's about the priorities of conference and so on and so forth and I think now the Labour Party has got to have a debate about what sort of party is what its priorities are and what its philosophy is to best bring in Bethan on the other side of this because even in victory you've been touching on it during the evening as this story this remarkable performance it seems by the Conservative Party has developed it the Conservative Party now has to have a bit of a rethink given where it's now got an awful lot of its MPs in places where it never did before that's absolutely true but I think what was so interesting about Boris Johnson's manifesto was how slim it was how many pictures were in it and how little text was in it what he effectively did was call an election and win an election convincingly on a single message of get brexit darn and then when you look into the manifesto the tax-and-spend was pretty modest there wasn't that much commitment the social care policy was part why was he doing that well I think he was doing it so he had latitude and so once he came into number 10 he could begin pulling the levers dependent on the majority he's got but I do think that if he has won a big group of traditionally labor seats in blue-collar workers he's got a different voter base that maybe want different things from a government and if they've lent him their vote in this election to get brexit done he somehow has to reinvent the party do with them a reason to vote another time we will continue this conversation I want to bring in out Conway though because he's got some of these historical comparisons for us you've got in a big red chart there what does it tell us ed yeah I mean if that I don't think any labor supporter will much enjoy seeing you know this is a comparison of different labor majorities over the years and we've taken the exit poll here so 391 we're currently forecasting a little bit more than that but still to be below 200 so below 200 is the projection may be getting up to 199 seats you can see in the bottom of the screen they're kind of getting closer to that but the number of seats that would have we have yet to declare are dwindling but let's just compare that with previous eras of the Labor Government's obviously jeremy corbyn's result last time around 262 considerably higher you've got the Ed Miliband years Gordon Brown there that said that was seen as a poor result I'm clearly it was over they didn't remain prime minister and then the Blair is just look at those Blair years in historical comparison you can see there's no other period in terms of the length of time that labor have actually managed to to get those majorities that compares with it Michael first in 1983 so the famous there long suicide note in history still over 200 209 seats in other words higher than the projection for Jeremy Corbyn this time around and that is historically has tended to tend to be seen as the worst ever late performance in recent history and then go back to the kind of years of Wilson through to Clement Attlee here obviously the famous 1945 result there but there is really no other period okay comparing what you've got in this time projected for this election there was no other period like this that has a result like this as low as this since all the way back in the 1930s so you know that's the other big story of the night after the conservative like key victory is what happens to the Labour Party now now that they are back at the same kind of levels they saw in 1935 I mean it will be a staggering a staggering thing for labour to have to absorb and who knows quite how they absorb it and where they go from here but I mean it's a very stark choice isn't it DOMA thank you very much indeed i popping really i wonder it is for john Trickett Labour's john Trickett who joins me now i don't know well obviously you can't see what ad Conway was describing but you know this is one of the worst labor performances ever since dinosaurs roamed the earth while political dinosaurs anyway what are you feeling about it well hope you doctor yes and I'm a dinosaur but look at a Tsaritsa it's devastating for the Labour Party I think it's damaging for the country because things which the government have promised I don't believe we do delivered in the way that you said they have you do need an effective opposition and where it's going to take us some time to think through the defeat and how we begin to rebuild an effective opposition and alternative government look I think there were people inside the Labour Party who gave them some of them senior who gave the impression that Labour was simply a romaine party but how could we really have done that when these people had spoken especially across the north of England where I am here in West Yorkshire people clear they wanted out the European Union but there were significant players in the labour party who were giving a different impression that was a big mistake and left the impression that we'd left behind the very people who supported us for over a hundred years I know I can eat them clearing up behind you you I mean you got it you got back but you had a much reduced majority didn't you even though you were sending out you were sending out that message that we hear you well you're saying it was then clouded by the overall message well look I think I think the first thing is and this was about right there I've not about that at all but it symbolized for many people who thought the past labour had lost touch with the people who stood by us for all those decades and I was warning in private and in shadow cabinet week after week after that to do that to go down that truck was dangerous for us because the majority of labour seats are in the north of England and the vast majority of them voted to leave now politics is part about mathematics as well as hearts and minds and big ideas and you cannot win the election if you cannot persuade a sufficient number of people to vote for you but we walked they felt as though we'd walked away from them that was a mistake I pointed out clearly and we've now paid a very serious price probably there were other mistakes as well but I think that was the key yeah I mean what's one of the other big mistakes this fact of credibility individually a lot of people when polled did like a lot of offerings from the Labour Party but the word what is important here there were lots and lots and lots some that popped up after the manifesto and it added up to billions upon billions of spending and in the end people just didn't believe any of it yeah look at our pockets taken one by one we're extremely popular I think everybody could see that they went down very very well but were they cohere ins did we offer a way to fund all of the promises which we were making in a way which was plausible and that political economy I think was a problem for us I go back to breaks it but I have no doubt at all that we'd need to have a review about exactly how we did this tax-and-spend store Jorge cricket rightly to try to put the problem sorry to cut it off John tricky we're going to Devon East there's an independent son here Claire right to set in with a good chance legend the Green Party Chuck Simon Jade the Conservative Party candidate thirty two thousand five hundred seventy seven Democrats to stop practices 1771 Wilson Daniel commonly known as Dan Wilson the Labour Party candidates 2817 right Claire L independence twenty five thousand eight hundred sixty nine closer twice there in the past but the Conservatives actually putting on some boats and just seeing at the bottom of your screen nearly fourteen seats to formally win this general election John Burke oh you know something about devil you know about all these these constituencies but as I say Claire right for it for an independent is run it close twice called locally she's very well-regarded and so she got a dramatically bigger boat than ordinarily an independent forget she's been there before and she's done well but not well enough and it is traditionally a very strong conservative seat we have pictures of Boris Johnson the triumphant Prime Minister arriving back in Downing Street carrying a red box I think not too triumphant in the wee small hours of the morning no doubt going to get a a few hours sleep after this long long winter campaign which has resulted in them I'm gonna set winning this general election formally they haven't wanted yet as you can see on your screen there they are exactly 13 seats away from doing that but plenty more still to count we're just hearing well by the way you may have you been with us all night just hearing that Christine Jardine from the Lib Dems has held on there in Edinburgh strong Scottish National Party performance there Beth I wanted you to come in near off the off the back of Claire right not not doing then this is a bit of a bit of a theme there you've already been describing it at these these independents these people that left to join other parties sometimes fighting their Elsie sometimes going to other ones they just don't seem to have made it no there was a couple of things at the beginning of the election that we thought would be big themes one was the sort of fall party race the sort of surge of the Liberal Democrats and the brexit party didn't happen I mean we're in two-party territory again and of course the SNP utterly dominant in Scotland but in England and Wales two-party politics and then the other big theme was the defectors how disruptive would they be in a campaign but they've failed to make their mark really but I think that that's a reflection of how strong party politics are on the ground when you're just grinding out an election campaign but it does mean that there will be more discipline again in the Commons there won't be all these independence or defectors it's very good point winner John Berger given what you presided over well I think that's a pity personally I think it's a very good thing for politics when there are some free spirit highly principled personally very assertive individuals who say no whatever the party says this is what I believe this is what I stand for this is but we saw the whipping system kind of break down and you were pleased about that there where you you helped it whatever it could yes I mean I think that is is I say a good thing I think if you ask the public they always say what we want is politicians who stand up for what they believe we don't just want people who operate is nodding donkeys we don't want people who simply take instructions and vote entirely as they're told about we want people with a bit of independence a bit of get-up-and-go a bit of willingness sometimes to be different you know you cannot have a parliament exclusively made up of people like that in a modern era parliamentary democracy you have to have parties and you have to have some discipline but all I'm saying is three cheers for those who had a bit of tenacity and spirit and who that's just one careers on the line we're close to formally seeing the Conservatives get across is three to six but what what's going through your mind then when you've heard these arguments about you know we want sovereignty for the great British Parliament and then some people who espouse that very strongly then say well we can't have this parliamentarians broke in government policy did what was your view on it well that's what they're there for well I don't say that's the only purpose of a member of parliament by any means but it is part of the purpose Member of Parliament to stand up for personal causes and for principle and it did seem to me frankly contrary and inconsistent when people who had championed the cause of brexit for years under the banner of take back control then seemed to inveigh against the idea that Parliament should have control I suppose it really comes down to this question of who governs and the government took the view that only the government should initiate legislation and policy my own view from the chair was that as it was a minority government as he didn't have a majority in the House it must be open to other actors on the stage who weren't part of the government to put forward their own proposal and I make absolutely no apology for that and far from thinking that the last Parliament was a bad Parliament to retrograde Parliament of Parliament to a denounce I think it was a good Parliament and I said it went around the country though the fact was that the public were really angry with Parliament is actually really angry because they felt there's another irony here isn't it I mean who who blocked two resumes withdrawal borås must be speaking autobiographically when he talks about parliamentarians blocking breakfast he must be speaking autobiographically because I'm sure he hasn't got any problem with his short-term memory and he will know that in two out of the three votes on the May withdrawal deal he voted against it he voted to block it he voted to stop brexit now apparently it was alright when he voted to stop it but when anybody else chose to do so a different set of rules apply I'd like to explain and you can argue that it's not up to labour to pass a conservative version of brexit which is why in a way many Labour MPs didn't want to support Mays deal or Boris Johnson's deal because it wasn't the sort of brac sale is not they're alienated bars whether you like it or not or whether you think it's fair or not the way that Boris Johnson and his team framed it as Parliament blocking brexit was extremely effective oh the best I absolutely acknowledge that it has been a highly effective focused campaign on the part of Boris Johnson and his party with real message discipline you don't normally associate Boris Johnson with the idea of discipline and restraint and sticking to a line but he has done so the only point I would make is that although Parliament may be unpopular and it may be subject to excoriation by very large numbers of bases around the country I am sticking to the view that he was a good Parliament Jeffrey Cox for example the Attorney General said this Parliament is a disgrace well he's entitled to that K and I'm entitled to the view that it was actually a good Parliament that should be cherished just keeping an eye on the can and four seats in a three please how worried were you about a No Deal Braxton did you want to stop it I was worried about No Deal brexit but very particularly my answer is this better the House of Commons wanted to authorize a No Deal brexit that was entirely within its gift and perfectly proper what seemed to me to be constitutionally and indeed ethically unacceptable was for there to be a new deal brexit inadvertently by accident because we crashed out and because perhaps because of the prorogation of Parliament Parliament had no opportunity to stop it my point was not that it was for me to stop an OD or brick snow but to enable our you actively were you actively thinking you were actively thinking of new and innovative ways for those back benches to achieve it to rule out No Deal I was certainly thinking of as you put it new and innovative ways to facilitate members of the House of Commons to discharge their duties absolutely I totally accept that that was part of my thinking and I make no apology for that I wasn't trying to will a particular outcome but to facilitate those in its pursuit but if you call it facilitating I mean others called it plotting ah plotting well plotting is a rather subjective and loaded term not the sort of term that I when I set up my light might have seemed alike - well I sort of the front page of some popular newspapers oh you mean some downmarket rag you may say that I can't possibly comment John do you mean some organ of well-known bigotry I think you do yeah I mean no such thing I think it's um puja deist newspaper scribbling away a mainly and constituting tomorrow's fish-and-chip paper no the responsibility of members of parliament is to do what they believe to be right the fact that they might be subject to denunciation and in a sense journalistic flagellation is really neither hill or that i always took the view that I should try from the chair to do what I believe to be right the fact that somebody was sounding off in the background and saying how awful it was and what a disgrace I was and so on say well didn't lose me a wink of sleep I couldn't give a TG freedom I mean there's water off a duck's back wasn't it I mean most of the more bigoted organs I gave up reading some very considerable number of years ago you're quite right you're absolutely thought you know me too well Devon took absolutely no notice of the sort of bilious bluster of some of those newspapers and one of these days one of these days perhaps in my soon-to-be published book I will tell you what okay my shyness available in all good book shops at conservatives need this is a formal moment approaching one seat to win to get that that formal moment when they get 326 seats and therefore cannot be beaten irrespective of whatever results come in there they're on three to five they've been ticking up us we've been talking and listening to a marvelous set well in the end monologue of rock from Tom burka that we are waiting for the next seat let's let's build up to that it's going to come in soon I'm sure the Conservatives holding Bournemouth East three to five and holding Worthing West that is it Worthing West is the Constituent [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] well that's it confirmation of the result the Conservatives have formally won this general election taking their 326 seats meaning they cannot be beaten whatever happens now I think taking their 327th as well seeing her Dagenham and rain I'm John Kronus big beast the Labour Party they're going conservatives gaining that the s there it goes up to 327 the Conservatives and Boris Johnson have won the general election of the winter of 2019 well a formal moment Beth I mean you as we were counting that down there that intake of breath on John Curtis for John Rogers in Dagenham I had heard that that was quite tight on the ground but I'd also heard that Labour were hopeful of holding it one of very big interests - John Becker Buckingham is declaring lumps on the stage and once I have declared the result each of them will be invited to say a few words if they wish starting with a successfully elected individual and so to the formal announcement of the results for the election of the Member of Parliament for the bokkeum constituency held on 12th of December 2019 i Andrew small being the deputy acting returning officer that the aforementioned election do hereby give notice that the number of votes recorded for each of the candidates is as follows bell Andrew Ronald Macmillan brexit party 1286 Doral Steven James the both Liberal Democrat candidate sixteen thousand six hundred and twenty four Morgan John David commonly known as David Morgan Labour Party candidate seven thousand six hundred and thirty-eight Smith Gregory David commonly know in his Greg Smith the Conservative Party candidate thirty seven thousand Thompson Ned Stephens independent 681 good elo Antonio Daniel very clear victory as expected for Greg Smith the Conservative candidate ins Buckingham taking over from official none other than John Barker your reaction to that then John well many congratulations to Greg Smith I don't know him well but I do know him I miss him several times in the past he's a very very dedicated conservative campaigner he's long aspired to enter parliament and now he's done so with a very handsome victory indeed it doesn't come as a surprise to me it is a very very deeply ingrained conservative seat there hasn't been a direct party contest of that kind since 2005 as a general election by virtue of the fact that I've served a speaker that I want to wish Greg Smith every possible success in representing the constituency okay also hearing that heart Southwest David go that's gone conservative David Gore was standing there as an independently ejected of course from the Conservative Party and you were making this point earlier John Burke a David Gore gone from Parliament gone a cabinet rank minister of course not to very long ago in the Conservatives gone altogether as he a loss I think he's a loss he's a very accomplished guy he's very measured Bain intelligent reasonable he represents a moderate Tory tradition which the party can't possibly afford to loose and I think it's a great shame that he's left the House of Commons just hearing just a little tip John just hearing from Paul so that if Dennis Skinner would have been the father of the house has lost voiceover the Conservatives in there he's the oldest MP to lose the seed of the age of 87 and this is the victor would just tell it have a look at that Beth we were reacting to that because it's Dennis Skinner yes right on the receipt on the results already he's not there due to ill health we we understand but on the results it was always gonna happen it was it was I that I was not surprised that done it Dennis Bob also but but I should just tell you as well that Luciana bird you did not win in Finchley so that's a lot of David Gordon that's another David Cook but I mean if we just think about what's going on here in terms of as I said last night ahead of the polling day Boris Johnson consolidated a vote leave base going into this election he went in with 58% of vote leaders prepared to vote conservative he came out the other end with 70 percent and as I said last night if he could turn out that vote and hold that vote and get that vote to back him that group of vote leaf voters he would get the mandate to deliver brexit and he has done that with bells on hasn't he and that all these seats have fallen in vote leave areas it was the strategy perfectly executed in this election and it had an opportunity I mean beyond getting Breck's had done whatever form that takes is it an opportunity John Burke o4a one nation a different one nation conservative party though to reassert itself very much depends on the leader because in the Conservative Party an enormous amount hangs upon what is directed from the top I'm not saying that there are no democratic decision-making procedures at all but they're nothing like as deep-rooted as they are in a number of other political parties so really it's Boris Johnson's call it's up to him to shape and configure the conservative party the future in his own image we've just sorry I've just got a fourth on the Tories I've just got a correct one of the results we gave you a Dagenham and rain has been held i held by the lake i think we we can run i mean it's amazing it's in john chorus it's amazing i was shocked by but it's amazing given the amount of data we're processing in the course of one evening that there's just that - i'm but just just coming in on what John was just saying as well there were some of those anti-node dealers in the Conservative Party some which got expelled some which got the whip taker given back to them and they believed that Boris Johnson although he had put himself in full brexit ear armor that if he did win a majority he would pivot to who they believe Boris Johnson really is which is a worn nation conservative and what has been interested in as we go up and down the country is although there was no mention of one nation conservatism in his manifesto he talks about it a lot and he and he talked about it didn't he in his acceptance speech so maybe there will be a different John Young USA you were saying it forward what do you think he knows well he was politically he'll have to decide I mean I've always felt that Boris Johnson doesn't carry a very large quantity of baggage I don't think that he has a very large number of dogmatic convictions I think he does have a very very strong and enduring conviction that he Boris Johnson should become and remain Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and that's where I draw the parallel with Disraeli that was very much Disraeli as approach to politics it was about getting power and once you've got power you then it wasn't that I mean let's draw a more recent parallel in his big rival for many years of course the former Prime Minister David Cameron it was said that he didn't carry an awful lot of ideological baggage hold the thought but that's also true the two statements are not mutually exclusive badly and spend [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] being held by the Labour Party you may remember that sir it was the seat of the murdered Labour MP Joe Cox a trace of Rabbinate took over in that seat you know holding on there with twenty two thousand five hundred ninety four a majority of 3525 and I wonder if we'll be hearing from Tracy babban in a moment or two and just at the bottom of your screen the Tories continued to go well past that 326 mark were there the formal point at which they have won the election three three seven so far Tracy Brabant [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] for labor in battling spend but as you can see they're pretty much in tune with what's been happening to labor in lots of seats they've lost down 12.8% in terms of share but still how long they're reduced majority of 3525 also at the bottom you were screen well some better news for labor but it's bad news not for the Conservatives for the Liberal Democrats labor holding on in sheffield hallam the seat that labor took remember that was the seed of or melindam leader Nick Clegg seems to be a story of our times that them leaders losing their seat Joseph 2015 the wipeout yeah yeah Nick Clegg gone in Sheffield alum and late lost in that 2017 and labor have held on Joe Swensons lost her seat as well want to talk though okay so something going the right way for labor but it's not enough they are be there are as john was pointing out to me and that's why they have hit 200 see they have it or they might underperform on that size Gordon about to declare now this very interesting seat was of course once the seat of the former leader of the Scottish National Party Alex Salmond once spectacularly by the Conservatives that's Evelyn's o'clock Scottish conservative on unist 23,000 and [Applause] however Sony Herbert Scottish Labour Party 3052 James Bradley oats Scottish Liberal Democrats 5000 and 913 Richard Gordon Thomson Scottish National Party SNP 23,000 885 are so many narrow margins particularly in a lot of these Scottish seats three-way and four-way margins and many of them but the SNP have taken it back 819 that said the Conservatives holding on there in Aberdeen Western Bank and inhabiting sure but that one it's so strong the Scottish National Party when Alex Salmond was rejected it was a high swing in any seat in the UK away from the SNP to the Conservatives well they've taken it back and well rather expected on that exit poll which is predicting a very good night for Nicola Sturgeon and the SNP gained Gordon there gained it back there from the Conservatives quick look at their share in the vote the SNP 42.7% up 6.9 their Conservatives up a bit as well labour vote again so depressed it's not as much as it has been in many seats in England bets and we'll stay with the Labour performance because we've got to get this in so many questions now so many crab out the leadership journey who've been addressed it but said he would go before the next election well that's probably not gonna be for another five years well Jeremy Corbyn said he wouldn't fight of the election but he's thence talked about a period of reflection and I think that they would probably go away and lick their wounds and reflect and and try and come up with a plan but now I think a big theme of the next Parliament will be the civil war now in labour as to who takes over and which direction the party goes in an interestingly when you interviewed Richard Bergen earlier the shadow justice ministry was obviously a big Corbin backer one of the main protagonists and champions sorry of the Corbin regime he said we need to fight back not triangulate we will analyze the result can you translate that then for what he's basically saying the project will continue he's basically saying we need to continue fighting on the Corbin project we're not going to move to a Blair area where we begin to triangulate ie try and appeal to lots of different types of voters through our policies and I think that that's something to watch for who takes control of the party do they put it back to a more center ground position it was the most radical manifesto it was double the amounts of public spending that had been in seen in 2017 it was almost like Corbin was trying to make the manifesto so radical that it was such distance to travel to get to a different type of a Labour Party and just in terms of the runners of riders who would I have my eyes on I think we need to look at kiss star mer I think you've got Emily Thornbury there's just Philips Evette Cooper will she make another run for it listen Andy in Wigan I mean it might be that they decide that they need a leader who isn't a london-based MP okay well we've also been John Berger just quickly on that and I just went back a long Bayley of call belly then I mean I very much identify with what Beth I said I think there will be a very strong body of opinion in the labour party that is absolutely determined this time around to get a woman but there seem a certain irony about the fact that other than for purposes of acting leadership for relatively short periods the live body has never been led by a woman now there are lots of good female calendars there are good male candidates but I've just got this sense that there will be a very strong appetite for a female condom okay watch this space on that we're also watching the space we've been talking about it the effect on the Union V United King you may have heard me talking earlier to the leader of the Scottish National Party Nicola Sturgeon saying that the performance of her party was well a clear message she was saying to Boris Johnson and to Westminster that there should be a second independence referendum in Scotland and in Northern Ireland there also voted to remain inside the European Union we are looking at the situation where there will be for the first time now more nationalist MPs elected than unionist ones thoughts to conjure with and going to be analyzed now by our deputy political editor Sam Coates thank you very much indeed Dermot yes if you look at Scotland to start with the turnout in Scotland is actually up in the rest of the country it's down but in Scotland they turned out about two percent more and the SNP are the big winners their share of the vote has got up to 45% uncannily that's the same amount that the independent cause got in 2014 and they have SNP have won 13 seats tonight the last of which Gordon was retaken from the Tories you heard just in the last 20 minutes or so that is bound to put questions about whether or not that might be could be another independence referendum over the course of this Parliament but then you cross the Irish Sea and you look at Northern Ireland there again the picture is being redrawn it looks as if at the moat it stands at the moment with one seat left to declare it looks as if the SDLP and chin Fane the two nationalist parties have eight seats and the DUP also have eight seats with the DUP actually taking a smaller share of the vote 32 percent or so than the nationalist parties which are combined on about 35% there has been lots of talk of the impact of Northern Ireland in its place in the Union particularly given the structure of Boris Johnson's brexit deal I suspect that the results tonight will put further pressure and generate further questions on that in the days to come okay Sam yes plenty of talking points there we are hearing a result is imminent in Barry North now this was as seats that labor took from the Conservatives at the last election the Conservatives wanted back a non-current former would have a pretty good chance of doing so we'll have a look at that as and when it declares but John burka on that issue of the Union we heard Nicola Sturgeon saying right and and can you clear this up for us because I keep putting it to SNP representatives including the leader well how do you do it okay so you're saying this is a clear message to Westminster but if Westminster won't legislate we will deal with that in a moment Barry North is declaring okay Charlie green party 802 daily James berry the Conservative Party Canada's 20 1660 [Applause] 555 Lloyd Johnson Gareth daily Greenlee well done okay they've taken it back pretty much on trend there the Conservatives counts as a game very narrow though very narrow indeed James Daly there with 20 1660 and James forth for lay but just behind there look at that majority just over a hundred 105 the brexit party and the Lib Dems both losing their deposits in Barry North I wonder if I can get back to John Burke on that issue Sam Coates was touching on there the Union in particular Scott and where Nicola Sturgeon now says they have this lag clarion call for another independence referendum how how does it how does it happen if Boris Johnson will not legislate for well it remains to be seen it's a juxtaposition of political advocacy by the Scottish National Party on the one hand against legislative power the power of initiative on the other the position as I understand it is very straightforward in constitutional and legal terms the power of initiative lies with the UK government it is for the UK government to decide whether such a plebiscite whether such a referendum whether such a public poll can take place now I suppose if the government refuses which I confidently expect Boris Johnson's government will refuse to allow such a referendum there's nothing to stop Scotland going ahead with a public vote of its own and if we get a territory or indicative it wouldn't have any binding effect so it seems to me that ultimately it comes down to a matter of politics possibly of negotiation but certainly of politics and if the UK government which has won the election by a thumping majority simply says we will not do this it will not at any rate for a very appreciable period happen that said if for a very very long time for many many years there is a push from Scotland you know there may be a sense that politically such a request has to be acceded to at some stage but I do think he's going to happen anytime soon I'm bound to say okay I listen we're waiting for a result Jewsbury labor see polish sheriff there are under attack from the Conservatives yet again we'll we'll bring that to you guys and when it happens but ed Conway scan to tell us the story of the night so far and how the Conservatives have won this general election that's what let's have a look here of course the main objection for every political party is to get over the winning line 326 seats and to get into 10 Downing Street let's have a look at what happens with this election look at the conservative line there it is over the winning line the Conservatives have passed that landmark and now they are in government comfortably in government there and you can see labor they're on 200 seats so above the 200 marks some people thought they might not make it that far will they get more than they got in 1983 a lot of people still trying to work that out but let's have a look at how those numbers translate into our results map our representation of the UK there you can see the scoreboard on the left let's fly past that and have a look at the new political geography of this country and how does that look all the way from the more yellow in Scotland's through to the rest of England where you can see a lot of blue some labour red still but a lot more blue than there was at the start of this evening and we are getting now to the final stages where most of those constituencies have been declared you can see Wales actually really eating into in Wales the Tories really eating into traditional labour territory they're so similar some blue dots there in Wales and then we saw also didn't we I mean look up at Scotland look at that yellow a sea of yellow perhaps not as much as we saw at the peak of SNP power a few years ago but nonetheless a lot more really clear it's a clearer picture there isn't in Scotland but let's consider as well some of the big names who tonight and this morning we have seen potentially is at the end of their political career is certainly the end of their time as an MP so starting with Joe Swinson Lib Dem leader in eastern Barton sure she's not the only big name to lose their seat tonight also DUP deputy leader Nigel Dodds in Belfast North lost his seat there to Shin fain and Dennis Skinner who would have become father of the house he's lost his seat in bowls over he had stood there Turner he'd stood there for almost 50 years so it's a really kind of stunning reversal of fortune we've seen tonight and who knows maybe there's a few more twists and turns yet to come Eadie thanks very much indeed let's go to Plymouth Plymouth more view to be precise Johnny Mercer yes Jeff Berger chime said of course every time you mentioned a constituency he knows precisely where we're going out Johnny Mercer good to talk to you got John Burke oh here of course who knows your constituency and all the others inside out as you know your reflections on the evening you've crossed the winning line and going well past it yeah look I think it's been a successful evening for the Conservative Party I think the country really clearly wants to move on get back sit down I'm moving on to all these other things it wasn't really a shock if you spent time out and the doors if you read the media and spend a lot of time on Twitter obviously tonight it's a bit bit of a shock but for the rest of us I think it was always coming I think the Labour Party had been peddling load of nonsense for quite a long time and they've and they've been punished for it but you know we need to get on now and meet the challenges that piano expect us to what the key walk with the majority Conservative government that's what I'm looking forward to what are they what are the key challenges what do you want to see taken on head-on immediately after that withdrawal agreement is passed brexit is done okay there's a lot of negotiating to do next time yeah for me things like public services 30% of my jobs down here public service public sector just to Mercer I'm so sorry to interrupt you when we're going to come back to you but Winchester is declaring a Steve brine there who actually did lose the width or a bit trying to get back in Winchester let's listen George Labour Party 2000 723 wine Steve the Conservative Party candidate 28,000 430 Ferguson Paula wengie Liberal Democrats 27,000 445 well one of the big Lib Dem targets there in Winchester but Steve brine getting back in 28,000 434 him down slightly on his last performance but not a good enough performance by the Liberal Democrats again he was one of these remain alarm seats there the Green Party me not standing there well listen let's say hear more from Johnny Mercer who was kind enough to hang on there and you wrote your reflections on holding on to Winchester Steve Bryan you're you're calling they're back in black glad to see him because I say did lose the whip for a bit yeah look Steve's a good guy and he's a good one nation modern compassionate conservative like myself and I'm pleased that he's come back but we've got a job of work to do to get on with the country now and to fix a lot of the challenges that were talked about in this election and we're very much looking forward to it yeah one nation conservator mean do you see the party still being bad or has it moved to the right no I think that's very clearly been answered by the British people doing this during the selection elections are won by parties that are to try and go for the center ground that try and go for the one nation agenda you know fulfilling a referendum result is not extreme it's actually honoring the result of the something the British people voted for so let's get that done and then move on to all the progressive modern compassionate conservative stuff that I know Boris believes in and people like me or in politics for but how do you reach that connection with the public who we all know and it was part of the conservative campaign how disaffected they've got with all the politicians now in a lot of those seats conservative MPs are replacing Labour MPs some of whom were self-avowed socialist s-- how does the Conservative Party take that on board look I think I think what you're getting at is fair I think the a lot of people who put their faith in us now you know who voted for house perhaps for the first time that's a that's a challenge that's a real opportunity to go and redefine who votes for the Conservatives in 2019 2020 and beyond and for people like me who who think we're on a journey to reach out to more more voters I think that's pretty citing I think you know Boris's clearly got this agenda he's always had this agenda this is why people like me supported him brexit has sort of clogged up the machine but you know once that is done we can move on to some really exciting stuff we've gotta invest in the NHS and schools and all those good things that you know the British public wants to see and would it serve them if by the end of 2020 in Boris Johnson has pledged that there will be no extension to the transition period if the trade deal is not done with the European Union would it be serving these these new conservative electors if there were in effect are No Deal brexit I think everyone's kind of fed up with the constant watersports poorest is pretty clear he's gonna get a trade deal by the end of next year let's let him get on with it let's get it done and meanwhile get on with all these other things we talks about in the election that people like me Gordon's problem in things sorry they're cheering behind you I wonder if you can still hear me but you know the thing is is that it isn't done it isn't done with the withdrawal agreement there's an awful lot more to do that the heavy lifting is still to be done ok Johnny Mercer there thank you very much any juice breeze declaring there as I say Paula Sheriff trying to hold on to a pretty slim majority there for the Labour Party she can't she go against the trend [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] as I said there Paula sheriff defending a pretty slim majority certainly by the standards of this evening of ver 3321 that's been overturned again it goes in the conservative column it goes under a conservative gain there's the result mark Eastwood elected now comfortable majority 1561 Paulus sheriff will not be sitting in the next House of Commons it's just gone half past five and you are watching the brexit election right here on Sky News then we take you through the headlines so far so many of them the Conservative Party has won the 2019 general election and secured a majority in the House of Commons the prime minister who retained his seat says it's given a powerful mandate to get brexit done Jeremy Corbyn says he will not need labor into the next election after big losses for the Labour Party and some very big names from all the parties have lost their seats over the course of the evening including the leader of the Liberal Democrats Joe Swinson Dominic grieve and Labour's Caroline Flint amongst many others but it has been a successful night as well for the SNP and its leader Nicola Sturgeon who was celebrating there after the Lib Dem Leader Joe Swinson lost her seat to the Scottish National Party [Music] okay brexit election conservatives have won John bokor talking to to Johnny Mercer there and it is I mean it's a recurring theme now it's going to be discussed course the celebrations but it's what do we do now really we do braixen they've termed it rather narrowly get the withdrawal agreement passed but then you've got a big majority some big opportunities and maybe some big problems too well there are gonna be lots of big problems because governing is an extremely taxing and challenging business and there are all sorts of problems some of which are intractable I think the difficulty really with the conservative manifesto was that it was thin almost to being threadbare there was a number of very very small possibly valid but very small ideas in it but it was obviously designed to be a safety-first approach and indeed to be a focused manifesto focused overriding ly and overwhelmingly almost to the exclusion of all else on the delivery of brexit now that had the advantage that's all the resource all the intellectual resource all the campaigning resource was focused on that one subject but it did mean that there was a huge void there was a blank page and it seems to me that in manifesto terms there is dare I said a third way to use Blair right terminology you can have ridiculously loaded manifestos that have got far too many things in them given that most people don't read them anyway or you can have a virtually blank canvas and I change to me that the Tory manifesto was a virtually blank canvas now the opportunity of that is that Boris Johnson can fill in the pages and it's up to him and others to do so and if we're going to get a flavor of what what we're asking for asking for something better it be we're talking then pretty soon about to recast cabinet we had gone on it Ron it seems an age ago how long to his seat quite easily in the end in Asia and Walton didn't seem sure if he's gonna stay as foreign secretary we here's Santa Javed will say but that personnel will tell us a lot won't it yeah look it was it was interested in the campaign there was only one cabinet minister that Boris Johnson publicly said I'm keeping them in the job and that was Sajid Javid the Chancellor so Sajid Javid is nailed on but everyone else he wouldn't comment on and yes he will get to pick his cabinet now I have to say that given he only selected this cabinet in July he's been he's only been Prime Minister for just over a hundred days I wouldn't expect a gigantic reshuffle at this point in time but it was - I mean it was to send out a message get brexit done pretty but tell Dominic Robb in there on that on the hard side Jacob Riis markquart in brought into government he doesn't necessarily have to keep them there does he he doesn't have to keep them there but he's going to get a very different party it's gonna be a very different makeup in his parliamentary party now there's gonna be a lot of new people who have to learn the ropes and he's not he's lost a lot of big beasts as well so maybe he will sort of sit and think about that I wouldn't expect a big dramatic reshuffle he doesn't need to be radical right at this moment he probably the focus will be for Boris Johnson not what his cabinet looks like it will be getting the withdrawal agreement bill and the Queen's speech through the Commons before Christmas because he promised people that he would get brexit done get the withdrawal agreement passed by the end of January and he needs to get a read and through the comments before Christmas doesn't need you okay much much much more on that coming up but let's bring you up to speed it's 538 just turned in the morning and the Conservatives have won the general election and Sky News can now project the size of their majority and this is it the sky news projection is that the majority will be between 78 and 82 the highest majority for any government since 2001 the Tony Blair years we hope to hear from our election analyst professor Michael Frazier he's been involved in that projection pretty soon but he's well he's getting a seat put in there he'll be with us very soon come on Michael I know it's early in the morning and you've been up all night rien formal microphone no formality now this time in the morning tell us about that I mean the size of that majority I said it's a Blair right majority yes and let's just let's just remind ourselves of what we said at 10 o'clock with the exit poll we said a majority of 86 and this projection after all of these results takes us pretty near that it's only two or three seats and for the Conservatives so I think that's a remarkable yeah performance by the exit poll how does it do it how does it get it so accurately you mean you're in you're involved in it this is well two back to back and plenty more before that yeah I mean in truth what happens is that you make a forecast on every constituency and then you add all those probabilities up and you come up with a number and if you examine the detailed entrails of all the results the exit Polo's missed some or is overshot some and you kind of hope that the error more or less balanced is an which it has done can I can I don't watch this how stressful is it how stress was it having to do the exit polling and waiting all night to see if you're right or wrong do you get really stressed or just to be honest with you they it is so exciting waiting for that initial view of what the exit poll is telling you and it told us it was quite a sizable conservative majority but then as more labor voters command during the day that the size of the conservative majority you know did reduce and it reduce all the way through until we got to that eight we're expecting a Majoris what you said to me a few days ago you were exposed to a majority didn't you I knew I sort of thought yes there will be a conservative majority what I didn't and therefore I was pitching around about 40 or 50 but I also added that if Labour imploded in some parts of the country which well it did you've seen well New England Scotland and parts of Wales yes and therefore it was going to increase the the conservative majority and in in you know so to get a majority like this and we are the difference between a majority of 78 or 82 is three seats yeah so we're waiting for same times right if the Tories lose st. Ives obviously their majority goes down if they lose Cheltenham to live down you know so there are a little still many for those young on there but this is it easily a working majority vote for Johnson and as you say it's the largest majority since Blair in the 2001 general election so it's a amazing performance really and it's after for conservative Innes administration it's of course some of them have been truncated for the reasons we all know about but it is is that unprecedented to put on so many things well certainly in the modern era to add votes in the way that you know the conservative vote share has increased over these elections but I think it also reflects upon the poor performance of labour as well I mean you know the Conservatives looked good because labour have performs so poorly and and the problem was all along that Labour was having to fight on two fronts it was it was trying to defend seats in strong remain areas and it was trying to defend those seats in strongly varies you just can't fight on two fronts and they end up with an ambiguous position on the most important issue of the day in the brexit election and and they pay the price could you say all say that although Boris Johnson's taken the spoils big time tonight that Teresa made did a lot of the groundwork for him in 2017 so a lot of the seeds it was the same strategy really wasn't it and a lot of these seats were swinging in anyway to the Conservatives but she just missed out a week away and he gave her the final heat yeah in one sense yes in another sense you know what's been happening in these constituencies is the there's been demographic changes taking place and and we focused in in our campaign courage on what's been happening in many towns and contrast that with cities so that labor has performed okay in the cities but it's not perform very well in the towns and the conservative just marched into these areas not to find this ground and it will take the Labor Party I think more than one election to recover from Sybil to bring in John Berger John burka and then it's that time in the morning now I know you've observed many many of the MPS up close and personal over the years in in the House of Commons and you know you're quite good at giving us some flavor of how they speak how might we imagine Boris Johnson addressing the the troops after this tremendous victory he'll get a hero's welcome he knows that very large numbers of those new members have arrived in the house thanks to him and very importantly they know that they are arriving in the House of Commons very much thanks to him so well there of course it's customary for conservative leaders and cabinet ministers as Michael Gove did earlier in the proceedings to say well we've got lots of wonderful candidates around the country and all of that is no doubt true and each party can say that the truth is that the leadership matters the framing of the narrative matters the passion and energy of the communication matter and these people who come into the house Commons the first time will feel an oval riding sense of gratitude to the Prime Minister and as good boys and good girls and appreciative boys of appreciate those they'll want to support I fall into line what about some you know the course of the campaign what about the the oratory you know how you've heard Betty a good speeches made a few yourself you make plenty yourself how is Boris Johnson on that scaling I've never myself regarded Boris Johnson as an orator he can be very witty he can have a deft turn of phrase he's got a certain aplomb and panache I'm not sure that many people would call him an orator but you know he has something about him he is obviously an intriguing and too many people charismatic character there are many criticisms that can be lobbed at him but look tonight this morning he has clearly won he's won big he deserves the attention of the country and the opportunity to put into practice his philosophy his program and his policies and Beth how how has he done Eton educated you know plenty of others in in that cabinet gone to these areas of the country where you know they wouldn't allow a taller dog in me in the past yes but how does it be done look if you actually look at the ratings of Boris Johnson through the campaign he's got less popular with the public okay so he started off with pretty good and I I've got them here I don't know if I can find them in ties but he got he started off with quite good favorability ratings relatively and he actually takes downwards in the election and actually Jeremy Corbyn managed to have Boris Johnson's need so I just want to frame it in basically it's not because the country really loved Boris Johnson that the Tories got this majority as I was saying in the campaign it almost became a race of which of these two people is the least repellent to you to be honest bricks it deep the the message in and the message discipline and you've got to give it to that vote leave team in number ten the guys that and and the girls that did the vote leave campaign in 2016 with take back control they read a recruit they went into number ten they were run in a government but really they were running a campaign machine again and they came out with get brexit done and it was so powerful and if I say to you what was labor and strapline in the elec do you know what it was well it was let's have a renegotiation that'll take about three months and then we'll have another referendum and I might or might not campaign in favor of it do you know when a party has got a good message we did a couple of focus crews and people were parroting backward just think get brexit done and when people are unprompted running out your slogans Labor's this time was time for change but it didn't cut through in the way that get brexit done did so it was just a very very wet again and the Tories didn't take risks they didn't take risks I suppose there was the risk of the election but beyond that as far as some cravings of resistant a narrative was concerned they didn't take risks they closed down the negatives and they resisted where they felt they could and you mention any scrutiny as well he did have impressive message message discipline in all the press conferences in you know the interviews yet that it was he it was that message on loop and he did do that he did do that well he did do it yes I remember those head-to-head debates every answer was well after we get breaks we were playing gets wrecks it does bingo event yes ed Conway's standing by because we want to examine a very important feature of this election campaign do you remember all these all this talk about all the the new registrations that had been taking place that the millions of people that were apparently registering and it was thought that too many of them were were young people and would vote to not get brexit done that they do they'd form another youthquake which exactly 2017 did it happen any of it in 29 yeah that was it and everyone talks about in 2017 and said there is the youth cake quake and then actually when the British electoral survey looked at it they found maybe it wasn't really a youth quake and it's worth just looking at what we know so far from the data that we've got here before we do that though I want to show you just for me this is perhaps the best way of looking at the results that we've had so far because you get a sense of which where the gains are coming from for the Conservative Party and where the losses are coming from from the Labour Party so have a look at that's hopped in there you have the tories 355 seats and let's move across to the right and you can see 56 gains for the Tory party you see that up there let's add on who those gains have come from and then you can see 53 of those gains have come for the Labour 43 from the Lib Dems and then none from the other parties and then over on the other side you can see the Tories about 10 losses to a variety of parties and now look at labour I mean I think it's stark isn't it one gain net from the Tory party and just have a look at this over here 59 losses 59 losses in 53 of them to the Tory party we've covered a little bit perhaps some of the demographic reasons why that might well be brexit being a large part of it it must be said but let's look at another question which is age and youth comparator just just the proportion of people below the age of 45 within particular constituencies and here we have two ends of the spectrum here Norfolk North one of the oldest constituencies in the country so the proportion of people under the age of 45 29.1 say one of the oldest and partly that was a conservative game before you know worth putting out conservative game from the Liberal Democrats Norman lamb their former MP there and then here we have a labour gained from the conservative that Labour gained from the Conservatives it's is in Putney where it's one of the younger constituencies and if we take all of these constituencies across the UK Norfolk North around there and plot them against how old people are let's move those over here you can see the different picture the changing picture of Britain's political landscape the older the area is these are the older areas of the UK they're more blue they are look the more blue there that's Norfolk north over there then more blue they are the younger they are the more they go for labour you know this is a real change in the landscape in the UK happening over the course of this election Dermot a demographic divided thank you very much indeed for that well now the brexit election may nearly be over well it is over formally the Conservatives have won but their reaction to it of course has barely begun my colleague Aberle has special edition of Gabe early at breakfast live from Westminster in a few minutes time inkay what a night what a morning indeed so brilliant work guys during the night you knocked the spots off the rest of them both you better than the rest of the team you've done an absolutely fantastic job headlines of the night a massive Tory win and the scalps of the leaders that they have claimed along the way Nigel Dodds of course who is the Westminster leader of the DUP he lost his seat Joe Swinson the Lib Dem leader she lost her seat Richard ties the chairman of the brexit party it didn't even get a seat in Hartlepool and Jeremy Corbyn it's a moot point as to whether or not he has resigned but certainly he's handed in his notice and he said on after a period of reflection he will no longer be leading the Labour Party to reflect on that talking points weird will Walden will Walden you'll know he was the former press man for Boris Johnson managed to get him elected as mayor Craig Oliver he'll be here he did the same for camera and Alastair Campbell you'll know him and polly mckenzie he's special advisor formally to Nick Clegg all of that to come and I've got a funky set as well here with the Palace of Westminster just behind me all of that to come in just a few moments time but for now back to you okay now funky said there quite a few results still to come in as well so stay with Kay for all that now listen Boris Johnson we've been talking about the the triumph or the Prime Minister we've got some audio we've heard him speaking to some of their workers at Conservative Party headquarters a little bit earlier this morning let's listen in when the Conservative Party genuinely speaks for every part of the country [Applause] working gentle working have not 100 years which I first contested 22 years ago with Sandy flat 5 well an ebullient Boris Johnson there recorded at a Conservative Party headquarters congratulating they start from all the workers on a incredibly successful campaign got a couple of minutes skies in this studio before we hand over to Gabe early to sum it all up oh what do you take away from an extraordinary evening well my first takeaway is there is a prime minister that took a big gamble he could have gone down as the worst fire minister in recent history if he'd and we're taking this down but and shortest-lived and lost and he took the gamble and he won and he won big and now he has got a five-year term with a proper majority to change this country in a way that he sees fit and legislate he will get for exit done and that is a incredible achievement for Boris Johnson and his team okay John Burke oh and thank you very much indeed for being with us to take me those constituencies during the course of this dramatic evening what are you making what what do you take away from it all it's an unalloyed triumph for Boris Johnson it is a total disaster for the Labor Party and it's an utter misery for the Liberal Democrats as a party and for Joseph Winston personally Boris Johnson's got a terrific opportunity he's got the power he's got the numbers he's got the bandwidth both to deliver his policy on brexit although there are other actors on the stage and the second and subsequent phases of that policy will take time and they will be subject to the views of others in Europe and Beyond but he does have that opportunity and he's got an opportunity to frame a policy for the country as a whole at rank John thank you very much indeed and that's it for me at least on the brexit election much more to come an election won convincingly by Boris Johnson and the Conservatives Cape early will be taking over the battle at Westminster as Britain wakes up to the result but from me and the team here in the sky LexA Center it's goodbye John Bercow bring us to order order order goodbye the exit poll is predicting is indicating it's a conservative win that the Conservatives will have 368 seats chin yellow Susan inverter 20 1560 the Conservative Party candidates 32000 [Applause] I want to also make it clear that I will not lead the party in any future general election campaign have you lost your seat mr. Winston and I declare that Amy Callaghan has elected to serve in the United Kingdom Parliament as the member for the Eastern Partnership and tone taken statutes [Applause] I hereby declare that the said Boris Johnson is duly elected at this stage it does look as though this one nation Conservative government has been given a powerful new mandate well that's it confirmation of the result the Conservatives have formally won this general election [Music] [Applause] you you

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Length: 178min 26sec (10706 seconds)

Published: Sun Dec 22 2019