:00:00. > :00:07.I'm Ben Brown live at City Hall, where Labour's Sadiq Khan appears
:00:08. > :00:11.to be heading for a comfortable victory
:00:12. > :00:17.A victory for Sadiq Khan would end eight years of Conservative rule
:00:18. > :00:19.under Boris Johnson - and he would become the first Muslim
:00:20. > :00:27.In Scotland, the SNP has won an historic third term though
:00:28. > :00:31.are just short of an overall majority - and will now try to form
:00:32. > :00:34.The Conservatives celebrate coming second in Scotland -
:00:35. > :00:47.Labour fares better than many expected.
:00:48. > :00:49.Its vote is up on the general election last year -
:00:50. > :00:55.In Wales - Labour remains the biggest party-
:00:56. > :01:40.but UKIP wins seven seats, their first in the Welsh Assembly.
:01:41. > :02:03.Good evening. We are expecting the result of the race to become the
:02:04. > :02:13.next Mayor of London, that result should be coming within the next
:02:14. > :02:21.hour, but we do know that Siddique Khan looks accept -- looks set to
:02:22. > :02:24.succeed Boris Johnson. In the biggest test of political opinion
:02:25. > :02:32.since the general election, the votes are steam -- still being
:02:33. > :02:37.counted. In Wales, no dramatic change, but it has still won the
:02:38. > :02:40.most councillors overall. Ukip had a good night, winning their first seat
:02:41. > :02:43.in the Welsh assembly. Let's focus on London, and to take you through
:02:44. > :02:45.the votes that have been made so far. Labour's Sadiq Khan had more
:02:46. > :02:48.than 1,150,000 votes. His conservative rival, 910,000. If we
:02:49. > :02:52.look at the chair of the vote, Sadiq Khan well ahead on Zac Goldsmith.
:02:53. > :02:59.That is after the first preference votes. Because Tim Mack did not get
:03:00. > :03:01.the 50% of the vote, it goes to second preferences. -- because Sadiq
:03:02. > :03:08.Khan did not get 50% of the vote. The more things change,
:03:09. > :03:11.the more they stay the same. Nicola Sturgeon reigns
:03:12. > :03:15.still in Scotland. Tory divisions don't seem
:03:16. > :03:17.to trouble their vote too much and Labour clings on,
:03:18. > :03:23.maybe inching forwards. All across England last night
:03:24. > :03:32.we were getting predictions that We didn't, we hung on and we grew
:03:33. > :03:38.support in a lot of places. Because our party is standing up,
:03:39. > :03:40.standing up for the steel industry, standing up against the cuts
:03:41. > :03:45.in disability payments made by this government,
:03:46. > :03:48.standing up against the grotesque But it is almost impossible for him
:03:49. > :04:00.to win the country with this. Heartbreak as they were pushed
:04:01. > :04:10.to third in what was home. You will not have seen a Tory grin
:04:11. > :04:18.like this here for decades. I promise that I will serve
:04:19. > :04:24.to the very best of my ability, And the SNP with a touch fewer seats
:04:25. > :04:32.but very much in charge. We are the very first party
:04:33. > :04:36.in the era of devolution to poll more than 1 million
:04:37. > :04:41.votes in constituencies The result of the
:04:42. > :04:45.election was emphatic. The people of Scotland once again
:04:46. > :04:48.placed their trust in the SNP We won a clear and unequivocal
:04:49. > :04:57.mandate and I secured the personal mandate I sought to implement
:04:58. > :05:05.the bold and ambitious programme for government that I asked
:05:06. > :05:11.the country to vote for. For the Westminster government's
:05:12. > :05:14.party, a few sweaty and awkward moments but despite the Tories'
:05:15. > :05:16.splits and spats over Europe, Enough for the Prime Minister to be
:05:17. > :05:28.able to keep his bounce. Six years into government, of course
:05:29. > :05:30.we don't get everything right, of course we can make mistakes
:05:31. > :05:33.and sometimes things go wrong but I think people look at the big
:05:34. > :05:37.picture and they want us to go on delivering what we
:05:38. > :05:46.promised in our manifesto. But Labour dug in to keep
:05:47. > :05:49.all but one of its councils, In areas in the south and around
:05:50. > :05:55.England where they had feared But the challenge, as many party
:05:56. > :05:59.members and MPs know all too well, is that they have to show they can
:06:00. > :06:02.take back territory, But in London, Labour's Sadiq Khan
:06:03. > :06:10.is on his way to do just that, on track to snatch City Hall
:06:11. > :06:12.from the Conservatives' A big win for Labour but a powerful
:06:13. > :06:21.perch for a man who has avoided The Lib Dem leader rushed
:06:22. > :06:33.to his party's pockets of success. Even these baby steps
:06:34. > :06:42.are worth popping corks for. Last year we had a terrible result
:06:43. > :06:45.and the result of that outcome was that we had to roll
:06:46. > :06:48.up our sleeves and fight back and we have done that
:06:49. > :06:50.with that traditional Why not if you are Ukip
:06:51. > :07:00.with new seats in Wales They squeezed Labour and the Tories
:07:01. > :07:08.almost everywhere but their success Where Labour held on to power
:07:09. > :07:14.but suffered pain and surprise as the Welsh valleys fell
:07:15. > :07:18.to the Plaid Cymru leader. A new dawn is about
:07:19. > :07:22.to break in Wales. Here in the Rhondda a new dawn has
:07:23. > :07:27.already broken over the Valleys. There are layer upon layer
:07:28. > :07:33.upon layer of results but underneath all that at the core
:07:34. > :07:36.there was most pressure on Jeremy Labour has avoided a disaster
:07:37. > :07:42.and on one measure they are even ahead of the Conservatives but this
:07:43. > :07:45.is not a good set of If they are to have a real shot
:07:46. > :07:49.at returning to power, they need to be piling on hundreds
:07:50. > :07:52.and hundreds of seats It is not just Jeremy Corbyn's
:07:53. > :08:00.enemies who are warning the party Tonight one of his powerful
:08:01. > :08:04.union backers put him We are at the stage where we should
:08:05. > :08:11.be winning hundreds of seats but I don't think that's
:08:12. > :08:13.just about Corbyn. People will not vote for a divided
:08:14. > :08:17.Labour Party and those on the right or place them
:08:18. > :08:20.where you like who are pushing against Corbyn, they are not doing
:08:21. > :08:23.themselves a service and certainly not doing the party a service and,
:08:24. > :08:26.most importantly from the GMB union's perspective,
:08:27. > :08:27.they are not doing working It is about time they rallied behind
:08:28. > :08:31.Corbyn and let's give it We do nearly know that these boxes
:08:32. > :08:37.contain a Labour victory in London, an important victory for the party,
:08:38. > :08:40.but politics is not just about piling up votes
:08:41. > :08:42.where you know you can win, but persuading others
:08:43. > :08:44.where you don't yet dare. Laura Kuenssberg, BBC News,
:08:45. > :09:00.Westminster. Here at City Hall, we are waiting
:09:01. > :09:05.for the results of the mayoral contest. It looks clear that it is
:09:06. > :09:09.Sadiq Khan for Labour, but we have not had the official declaration.
:09:10. > :09:10.Last time, it was around midnight, we are hoping it will be earlier
:09:11. > :09:12.this time. Let's take a closer look
:09:13. > :09:15.at the situation in Scotland - where First Minister Nicola Sturgeon
:09:16. > :09:19.has ruled out forming after losing six seats -
:09:20. > :09:22.just short of a majority. A surprise was the Conservatives
:09:23. > :09:25.gaining 16 Holyrood seats and are now the second largest party
:09:26. > :09:27.becoming the main opposition. Labour, losing 13 seats,
:09:28. > :09:29.have dipped into third place Our Scotland Editor
:09:30. > :09:48.Sarah Smith reports. Good morning, it is Friday morning,
:09:49. > :09:51.welcome to a special election Ruth Davidson's Conservatives look
:09:52. > :09:58.like they will be the new official opposition in the
:09:59. > :10:01.Scottish Parliament. Scots awoke this morning
:10:02. > :10:06.to news many thought Labour, once so dominant, beaten
:10:07. > :10:11.into third place by the Tories. Ruth Davidson, the Scottish Tory
:10:12. > :10:13.leader, barely mentioned in her campaign that
:10:14. > :10:18.she was a Conservative, promising simply to stand up
:10:19. > :10:21.to the SNP and against a second I know there are thousands of people
:10:22. > :10:32.who voted for me and my team who aren't natural Conservatives
:10:33. > :10:34.and are probably quite surprised they might find themselves
:10:35. > :10:36.considering voting Conservative but they did because they wanted me
:10:37. > :10:39.to do a specific job for them. They wanted somebody to stand up
:10:40. > :10:42.to the SNP and say, you cannot ignore our voice and the decision
:10:43. > :10:46.we made as a country and try to drag Ruth Davidson is certainly
:10:47. > :10:49.not your average Tory. A working-class, kick-boxing,
:10:50. > :10:51.openly gay woman always game She can talk to voters other Tories
:10:52. > :10:55.simply cannot reach. Scotland Street now has a Tory MSP
:10:56. > :10:57.for the first time. It is just one of their remarkable
:10:58. > :11:01.gains across Scotland. A couple of days ago, Ruth Davidson,
:11:02. > :11:06.who won this constituency, told me she did not think she had
:11:07. > :11:09.a chance of taking it. But the voters in Edinburgh Central
:11:10. > :11:11.responded to a very I think she went out the last few
:11:12. > :11:20.months really campaigning and going for the fact
:11:21. > :11:22.that they could do I think whoever came up with that
:11:23. > :11:28.strategy hit the nail on the head. Traditionally it used to be Labour
:11:29. > :11:36.everywhere in Scotland. It is funny now that they don't seem
:11:37. > :11:44.to have anything to say. What can the Scottish Labour leader
:11:45. > :11:46.say about being bludgeoned What we saw in Scotland last night
:11:47. > :11:56.was the referendum arguments Strong support for the SNP
:11:57. > :12:00.from those people who voted yes and strong support for the Tories
:12:01. > :12:02.in the areas that I regret that because I thought
:12:03. > :12:08.Scotland might be interested in moving on from those arguments
:12:09. > :12:10.of the past and that If Scottish voters don't move on,
:12:11. > :12:15.Labour will struggle to find While Nicola Sturgeon's SNP
:12:16. > :12:18.increased their vote, denied an overall majority but ready
:12:19. > :12:21.to rule and still dreaming Sarah Smith, BBC News,
:12:22. > :12:33.Edinburgh. That's the picture in
:12:34. > :12:37.the race for Holyrood - Labour is still the largest party
:12:38. > :12:41.in the National Assembly though its vote dropped and it lost
:12:42. > :12:44.a key seat to, Plaid Cymru. A breakthrough for UKIP -
:12:45. > :12:46.securing seven new members Our Wales Correspondent
:12:47. > :12:56.Hywel Griffith reports. For a fifth term in a row
:12:57. > :13:00.the National Assembly has Labour The celebrations showed relief
:13:01. > :13:05.rather than rapture. Labour knows its grip
:13:06. > :13:06.on Wales has loosened. Its share of the vote is down
:13:07. > :13:10.and rows in the Westminster party I do wish sometimes the politicians
:13:11. > :13:21.in London would remember there is an election in Wales
:13:22. > :13:25.and in Scotland and I made my views I don't think it affected the result
:13:26. > :13:29.if I'm honest but certainly, on occasion, people
:13:30. > :13:31.were raising it with us The election results brought some
:13:32. > :13:35.small but significant changes In the Rhondda, a heartland Labour
:13:36. > :13:38.seat, Plaid Cymru's leader Ukip, the party promising to break
:13:39. > :13:42.the cosy consensus of Welsh politics, now has Assembly members
:13:43. > :13:45.too so why are voters The first time ever I voted
:13:46. > :13:57.Plaid Cymru, I've always been Labour but I don't think they are doing
:13:58. > :14:01.anything to help the communities. As for Ukip, it is on everybody's
:14:02. > :14:04.lips, immigration, and that's why, Change has already come
:14:05. > :14:11.to the National Assembly, some new faces have already been
:14:12. > :14:14.sworn in but for as long as the anti-Labour vote is split,
:14:15. > :14:17.it will remain Wales's We have the opposition to Labour,
:14:18. > :14:25.the non-Labour parties spread and whilst they make some challenges
:14:26. > :14:28.to Labour, they cannot capture Labour can now take its time
:14:29. > :14:37.in deciding if it is happy to govern The new era of Welsh politics
:14:38. > :14:42.still feels a lot like the last. Almost a third of the seats
:14:43. > :14:52.in the Northern Ireland First minister and Democratic
:14:53. > :14:56.Unionist Party leader Arlene Foster topped the poll in Fermanagh
:14:57. > :14:58.and South Tyrone. In West Belfast, Gerry Carroll won
:14:59. > :15:00.a first ever assembly seat for the People Before
:15:01. > :15:02.Profit Alliance. Our correspondent Chris
:15:03. > :15:18.Buckler is in Belfast... Just over a third of the assembly
:15:19. > :15:22.seats have now been decided. But it has to be said that the counting
:15:23. > :15:26.will continue long into the night and into tomorrow. You can see the
:15:27. > :15:29.teams behind me who are busy reallocating and sorting out the
:15:30. > :15:35.ballots. This is a consecrated voting system. It involves
:15:36. > :15:41.candidates, when they are elected, all being bottom of the poll, being
:15:42. > :15:48.eliminated and votes being reallocated. 108 seats to be filled.
:15:49. > :15:59.Just over a third now filled. If there are winners, it has to be the
:16:00. > :16:07.UUP. Arlene Foster the first female leader of the party. They will be
:16:08. > :16:17.returned as the biggest party. -- PU P. It has been a pretty good
:16:18. > :16:22.election for Sinn Fein. Martin McGuinness will likely be Deputy
:16:23. > :16:27.First Minister. They have had some problems in their heartland of
:16:28. > :16:35.Westville -- West Belfast, to the people before profit Alliance. It is
:16:36. > :16:39.an anti-austerity, left-wing party. When you take a look at all of the
:16:40. > :16:44.boat across Northern Ireland, it has been successful for Sinn Fein and
:16:45. > :16:52.the UUP, at the expense of the SDLP and also the UUP. -- it has been
:16:53. > :17:01.successful for the Democratic Unionist party. When you look at the
:17:02. > :17:04.power-sharing coalition, it will be Sinn Fein and the Democratic
:17:05. > :17:07.Unionist dominant. They will try and work out a programme of dominant. --
:17:08. > :17:18.a programme of government. We have been getting some reaction
:17:19. > :17:24.on social media from both sides of the campaign. We are waiting for the
:17:25. > :17:35.official results, but Jeremy Corbyn has already tweeted congratulations
:17:36. > :17:39.to set the Khan. -- Sadiq Khan. Sat Goldsmith's sister Jemima has
:17:40. > :17:57.congratulated Sadiq Khan. Although we have not had the
:17:58. > :18:01.official results, we are getting lots of political reaction as you
:18:02. > :18:05.can see already. Let's go to Micky Young. We are in a strange position.
:18:06. > :18:12.We effectively know that Sadiq Khan has one, but we have not had the
:18:13. > :18:16.official declaration. -- he has won. Let's talk about the acrimonious
:18:17. > :18:23.campaign. Zac Goldsmith got into this thing of accusing Tim won of
:18:24. > :18:26.sharing platforms with extremists. Many people thought that was a
:18:27. > :18:30.smear. It has been really acrimonious. A lot of people who
:18:31. > :18:35.know Zac Goldsmith have been surprised. He has a reputation of
:18:36. > :18:40.being quite genteel. He is an environmentalist, eight slightly
:18:41. > :18:45.detached person from the Tory party. He is not a street fighting
:18:46. > :18:48.politician. People were surprised by that, blame being put on Tory
:18:49. > :18:54.Central office for running back campaign. Interestingly, the other
:18:55. > :18:58.tweet from Jemima Goldsmith was that the campaign did not reflect her
:18:59. > :19:02.brother, and his views on anything. I think that is going to be a
:19:03. > :19:06.problem for the Tory party. Interesting that Steve Hilton, a man
:19:07. > :19:10.who used to work for David Cameron, was very much behind saying that the
:19:11. > :19:14.Tory had to detoxify, and he feels that this campaign by the Tories has
:19:15. > :19:19.brought back the nasty party tag. There will be remit --
:19:20. > :19:26.recriminations over all of this, and a blame game, certainly. There will
:19:27. > :19:31.be a by-election in tooting in south London, an area that is Asian, where
:19:32. > :19:36.Sadiq Khan has represented on his kids go to school. They will have
:19:37. > :19:41.two fact that seat. There will be many people looking at this thinking
:19:42. > :19:44.this is a potential problem for the Conservative Party. Some
:19:45. > :19:49.conservatives have said that the smear campaign, if that is what it
:19:50. > :19:52.was, it backfired on the Conservatives, and a lot of people
:19:53. > :19:59.may have voted Labour because they did not like the weight that tax cut
:20:00. > :20:02.-- Zac Goldsmith campaign had gone. It is the turnout that is the
:20:03. > :20:11.highest it has ever been. There were suggestions that it could be a very
:20:12. > :20:15.low turnout. That is a suggestion that people were motivated because
:20:16. > :20:21.they did not like the look of that campaign. This is a labour city, it
:20:22. > :20:31.has been, it voted this way in the general election, so it is not a
:20:32. > :20:35.huge surprise if Labour win, but Boris Johnson backed that trend and
:20:36. > :20:40.he polled above the Conservative Party. What kind of job is it? Sadiq
:20:41. > :20:45.Khan, assuming it is him, he follows in the footsteps of Ken Livingstone
:20:46. > :20:49.and Boris Johnson, big colourful personalities. They are people who
:20:50. > :20:56.are known around the country. A lot of people say, white we focus on
:20:57. > :21:01.this? To people outside London care? But it is the major city in the
:21:02. > :21:05.United Kingdom. There is power, but there isn't a huge amount of power
:21:06. > :21:13.for the mayor. What difference will it make? It is around transport,
:21:14. > :21:18.such a huge issue in London. Sadiq Khan has promised things like
:21:19. > :21:22.freezing tube fares. They have to have a relationship with the
:21:23. > :21:25.government of the day, so we're Sadiq Khan being Labour, there will
:21:26. > :21:31.be issued, but talk about who will be in his team, will he bring in
:21:32. > :21:38.experience people? Busy does not have the experience. But it will be
:21:39. > :21:46.interesting to see how it is spun. Will it be a victory for Jeremy
:21:47. > :21:51.Corbyn's leadership? There were no pictures of them together. Speaking
:21:52. > :21:55.of Jeremy Corbyn, this will be a boost for him, to have eight London
:21:56. > :22:01.mayor. But it has not been a brilliant day for Jeremy Corbyn, has
:22:02. > :22:05.it? Especially in Scotland. They have combat the -- backwards in
:22:06. > :22:15.Scotland, and have not made huge strides forward anywhere else.
:22:16. > :22:23.Jeremy Corbyn saying that they hung on, that has upset some MPs. If they
:22:24. > :22:29.want to win in 2020, they have a huge mountain to climb. They have
:22:30. > :22:32.had two general election campaigns. The boundary changes will be in
:22:33. > :22:36.advantage to the Conservatives. They will have to win dozens of seat in
:22:37. > :22:40.England and Scotland, which they have not done so far, so there are
:22:41. > :22:46.many MPs who think that they need to reach out to the centre ground, to
:22:47. > :22:50.people who are not die-hard Labour supporters. Many feel that Jeremy
:22:51. > :22:54.Corbyn has not been doing that. But Jeremy Corbyn has a neat leader for
:22:55. > :23:02.eight months, and many say that you cannot blame him for all of these
:23:03. > :23:07.woes, but the GMB saying that he has a year to sort this out. So this
:23:08. > :23:10.time next year, when the other elections,, they will be looking for
:23:11. > :23:18.him to make big strides. In contrast, David Cameron sounded
:23:19. > :23:21.pleasantly surprised. They are in government. Government always lose
:23:22. > :23:24.seats at this kind of time, particularly when you look at what
:23:25. > :23:30.has been happening to the Tory party in the last few months. Not only
:23:31. > :23:34.policy issues, you'd turned and climb downs, on academies and
:23:35. > :23:38.refugees. The budget went wrong, and they had to backtrack on tax
:23:39. > :23:42.credits. It has been a difficult time, and there have been or are
:23:43. > :23:45.these internal rows about the European Union. He would have
:23:46. > :23:50.thought that this would have been a moment where Labour could gain a
:23:51. > :23:54.huge number of seats. That has not happened, and that is what is
:23:55. > :23:58.worrying some people in the Labour Party tonight. We are still waiting
:23:59. > :24:05.for the result of the mayoral contest. I went downstairs to the
:24:06. > :24:12.cafeteria. Good place to start! It does not look that imminent. That is
:24:13. > :24:17.the latest from our chief political correspondent! But we do know that
:24:18. > :24:20.Sadiq Khan is very well ahead on the first preferences. He was way ahead
:24:21. > :24:28.of Zac Goldsmith. He has already been congratulated by Jeremy Corbyn.
:24:29. > :24:35.That is the latest from City Hall. I will hatch back to the studio. -- I
:24:36. > :24:41.will hand you back to the studio. In other news - the government has
:24:42. > :24:45.announced a major climbdown