Part Three Election 2017: Northern Ireland

a big drop when you look at what the DUP candidate got which was 13,000.

We will pore over those in more detail surely. Chris, your thoughts.

What Newton was saying is panning out, we are seeing the voters

flocking to the DUP and Sinn Fein. This will be the highest ever vote

for the DUP. They got 225,000 votes in March and they have now added

50,000. Sinn Fein is in line for its highest ever vote. Clearly

Nationalists have looked at the SDLP and decided that they will call time

on them. One of the stories will be the tactical decision that Colum

Eastwood made. Just to explain these pictures. This is the count centre

in Omagh leisure centre. Michelle Gildernew, she looks pretty please

with herself. It was on the cards that if Sinn Fein were able to get

the nationalist to turn out, they would win that seat. I think even

Unionist accepted that. It looks like Sinn Fein have won back that

seat, which was a number one target. I think South Down was probably on

the cards, Foyle is the real surprise and it shows the dire state

of the SDLP. In one sense, to lose one seat would be misfortune, two to

be curlers, three is utterly calamitous. It now means, where do

they SDLP go? Similarly, word of the Ulster Unionist goal? It looks like

they were registered the worst percentage share of the vote

probably ever. You might have thought they could have come back in

a Stormont election but the trends here are irresistible. I think a

Stormont election would make it worse for them. Just pick up on the

figures, as far, just referring to them there are moment or two ago, as

far as Neary and Ahmad is concerned, still a big collapse in the Ulster

Unionist vote. In 2010, it was 8500, so it is down to half of what it

was. There was only one candidate... That ties in with what is happening

elsewhere. In the seat that Unionist could not win, they all tended to

line up behind the DUP. We hear that Theresa May has gone to Conservative

Party headquarters rather than Downing Street. I gave a little bit

of false information there. Alex Maskey... There will be trouble

ahead for Theresa May. Do you think she can hang on? It is none of my

business. I would have to say, she called an election on a very

specific purpose and it has dismally failed and in any other situation,

she would be gone by tomorrow. Simon Hamilton, welcome. Thank you for

joining us at a moment of high drama. I have to ask you about going

back, not you personally, but the party going back to Westminster with

ten seats, you have added two on before, did you think in your

wildest dreams that you would get that result? It is a phenomenal

result. We had a sense that people were moving in our direction, that

our message of sending a strong team to Westminster, to register support

for the union, especially on the back of a disappointing Assembly

election, it was a wake-up call for many unionists and they have rallied

to the DUP. Some phenomenal results, to take the three Belfast seats, but

even away from that, if you go to places like West Tyrone, Mid Ulster

and Newry and Armagh, not seats we were likely to win, but we have

posted huge totals for our candidates. Alex Easton in North

Down. Alex represents a neighbouring constituency to mine in the

Assembly. It is an endorsement. We have a declaration for Fermanagh and

South Tyrone. The eligible electorate was 70,000 601. The votes

polled were 53,000 714. The valid votes were 53,000 488. The invalid

votes were 226. And the percentage turnout was 76.08%. I, Martin Fox,

as the deputy returning officer for the Fermanagh and South Tyrone

constituency hereby declare that at the election, the number of votes

for each candidate was as follows. Noreen Campbell, Alliance Party,

886. Tom Elliott, Ulster Unionist Party, 24,000 355. Mary Garrity,

SDLP, 2587. Michelle Gildernew, Sinn Fein, 25,000 200...

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE. That is 25,000 230. Tanya Jones,

Green Party, 423. I declare that Michelle Gildernew is returned to

serve in Parliament for the Fermanagh and South Tyrone

constituency. So, Michelle Gildernew has won Fermanagh South Tyrone for

Sinn Fein, taking the seat from the outgoing MP, Tom Elliott of the

Ulster Unionist Party. The DUP did not run a candidate. Quick bit of

mathematics, I think her majority is 875. I think that is right. We are

going to hear what she has to say. She has made her way quickly up to

the platform. Lots of Sinn Fein supporters are very pleased with the

result. I first of all want to thank Martin Fox and his staff here for

what has been a bruising year for the Omagh Electoral Office, two

elections in less than six months. A tough toll on all of our families. I

commend Martin Fox and his staff. I wanted, and the other candidates and

it was a very positive campaign and I know we tried to get our message

across that there was a lot of fear and anxiety, particularly about

Brexit and what it will mean for us here, not just the closure of border

rolls, tariffs and delays but potentially fracking and all sorts

of complications that we do not need. People did vote with their

hearts and heads and voted in huge numbers for Sinn Fein in this

election on the basis of the fear and anxiety that Brexit and a

referendum result has produced and also the anger that the failure to

accept the majority in favour of staying in Europe, that we have here

in the six counties. I want to also congratulate my other Sinn Fein

candidates, I cannot believe I am being returned to Westminster along

with Elisha McCallion. Brilliant, well done. We are also joined by

Chris Hazzard and I think that is seven. Who could forget, the main

man, Barry McElduff? I want to thank Jemma Dolan my election agent, I

want to thank Sean and all of the people. This campaign has been

characterised the amount of goodwill and support there is right across

Ireland. It was unprecedented and I will be spending the rest of my life

doing payback canvasses all over Ireland, because without you, we

could not have done will be dead and team Sinn Fein is a very proud

tonight and we are all each and everyone of us and equal part of

that team and I am proud and humbled to be here as part of Team Sinn Fein

tonight. I want to thank Michelle O'Neill for the part that she has

played. CHEERING AND APPLAUSE. I want to

thank my family, Jimmy and the wee ones. Mummy and daddy, my entire

family, all of the people who were involved in this election, a special

mention to their cabin crew, because without you...

APPLAUSE. We polled 25,000... Something like that. But I want to

acknowledge the hundreds of people who applied and were not able to get

their postal vote and we have a lot of frustrated and angry people who

if we had lost the seat by a narrow margin would have blamed themselves

and that is not fair and we need to recognise that people, especially

here when people are working away from home at university or unwell,

we need to get a system that works for everyone because some of our

most vulnerable are sitting at home tonight worrying and here's their

vote was the one that did not get us over the line. For the hundreds of

people who missed out on a post or proxy vote, I want to thank you

because you tried your best. APPLAUSE. We have huge challenges

ahead, let us not be mistaken, I have not heard what is going on

across the water but Tory austerity is going to really impact upon the

most vulnerable people in our community and it is our job to work

on behalf of everyone, not just the working poor are other nonworking

prayer, but the most vulnerable. The people who are concerned about the

environment and jobs, pylons in Armagh, the lack of broadband, there

is still a lot of work to be done in this constituency, it will not be

easy over the next number of years, but I can tell you this, I and Team

Sinn Fein are up for the challenge and just before I finish. I was not

prepared to write anything down, just in case. I also want to give

special mention to the people who camped out in Fermanagh and South

Tyrone, because you know every corner of Fermanagh and South Tyrone

and you know all the challenges. I will think of something and wish I

had said it. I want to say, everybody, say, good night.

Michelle Gildernew obviously delighted to have won the seat back,

a majority of 875. Her vote was up on two years ago but so was Tom

Elliott's, who despite that has lost the seat. Hopefully we will hear

from him. We will stick with this for a moment or two more. Can anyone

see Tom Elliott? Maybe he's not going to speak. We will see, if he

pops up we will try and take it. Let's come back to my panel and we

have been joined by Danny Kennedy of the Ulster Unionist Party, so let's

go to you. Not the result you were hoping for. You had to seats at

Westminster, you lost Danny Kinahan earlier and that finishes off a

pretty wrong light for your party. We're very disappointed the loss of

John, disappointed for Tom and for the party, disappointed for unionism

and also in a funny way for the entire electorate Fermanagh and

South Tyrone because they now have no representation at Westminster.

But that's what a majority of people there voted for. That's part of the

democratic process but it is a matter of regret for me that in

constituencies mostly west of the barn there will be no

representation. That is a fact of life. What is the message to the

Ulster Unionist Party and the SDLP, no longer members of the House of

Commons, so no SDLP, no UUP, a stronger DUP and Sinn Fein, what

does that tell us? The backdrop to this election was an Assembly poll

in March and there has been a reaction in the unionist population

who have gravitated towards the larger unionist party. Because they

believed it could deliver for them. They believed they were potentially

a stronger force against the rise of Sinn Fein. That doesn't mean, with

respect to anybody, and end in my view to the Ulster Unionist Party.

We are still a significant presence in the Assembly where we are

potentially entitled to ministerial seats. We have considerable

representation in local councils and we will have to look again for a

better day but we have been squeezed and unbelievably in this election

and I congratulate the DUP. Alex Maskey, 24,355 people voted for Tom

Elliott in Fermanagh South Karen. They wanted someone to represent

them in discussions in Westminster to do with Brexit and other things,

how does Michelle Gildernew represent them? Michelle has done

effectively for a number of years, as an MP and MLA. She is part of

what we would call team Sinn Fein. We have 30 members of the Doyle and

seven senators. We are members of a state which the British Government

will have to negotiate their Brexit deal with, so I would rather have

representation in Dublin than in London, where the voices of MPs have

been ignored, so the lesson is that people in the nationalist community

and perhaps beyond have recognised the work Sinn Fein has been doing on

the ground, we have been an effective party giving leadership,

working with governments of all hues, whether Tory or British Labour

or Irish. You could be more effective if you took your seats in

Westminster. They just finished the last count of 18 seats and Sinn Fein

took another seat and Michelle Gildernew brought the last seat, all

our votes went up so the nationalist community have had a big debate in

this election, abstention probably featured more in this campaign than

others and Nationalists are not prepared to be treated as

second-class in the Assembly which is why we collapsed it and they are

not to sit in Westminster and be ignored, so Nationalists have turned

their back on Westminster and that is something people will have to

come to terms with. We have been joined now by the successful

candidate in Fermanagh South Tyrone, Michelle Gildernew, MP for Fermanagh

South Tyrone, so congratulations. You have tasted success before and

feet. How does it feel tonight or this morning? It's all very surreal.

The whole Westminster experience here at Omagh Leisure Centre is like

an out of body experience happening to somewhere else, so whether it's a

defeat for success, yet surreal and I am so proud and humbled to be part

of Sinn Fein and return to the Westminster seat, this historic seat

in Fermanagh South Tyrone with another six colleagues who are there

to fly the flag for Fermanagh South Tyrone and it is a huge honour. Some

people will say you were only half their because you don't properly

take your seat and those who voted for Tom Elliott, 24,355, I've just

been talking to Alex Maskey about this in the studio and I asked them

how you would represent those people who voted for Tom Elliott and to do

want someone to work to killing their views and their needs on the

floor of the chamber? What is your message to them? I want to welcome

Alex's comments, I got the tail end of it, he had no small part to play

in the 2010 election. I think we have to look at the 25,000 plus

people who voted Sinn Fein, the thousands of people who like Alex

said rejected the floor of the House politics. It is highly relevant and

very little of the business bike goes on at Westminster is relevance

to us. We need a strong voice for everyone and nobody has a better

track record of representing everyone in Fermanagh South Tyrone

than I have, so I will represent the people who voted for Tom and also

for the SDLP and Alliance, but we have to send a strong message not

just to London to Belfast, Dublin and Brussels that we have a voice

that needs to be listened to and the people have spoken in their

thousands, they have rejected the idea Brexit and the notion of what

it means to people here. There are almost 300 water crossings, many in

Fermanagh South Tyrone and I cannot comprehend what it would mean if

they read four to five border were to pop-up around my constituency and

the untold damage it would do to people's lives so we have a strong

mandate. Congratulations, good to talk to you, I imagine there will be

a party in Omagh so I don't want to keep you back. A lot of people

waiting to shake your hand. I will come to the panel again in the

moment but before I do, one declaration we haven't seen his

Newry and Armagh, Mickey Brady held onto the seat for Sinn Fein. It was

happening while a rush of other seats were being declared so let's

look at the figures as they were announced for the Newry and Armagh

seek a short time ago. I is deputy returning officer for Newry and

Armagh I hereby declare that at the election the number of votes for

each candidate was as followed. Mickey Brady, Sinn Fein, 25,000 666.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE. Jackie Coade, Alliance Party, 1256.

William Irwin, DUP, 13100 and 77. CHEERING AND APPLAUSE. Justin

McNulty, SDLP, 9055. Sam Nicholson, UUP, 4425. I declare that Mickey

Brady is returned to serve in Parliament for the Newry and South

Armagh constituency. Thank you. Success is therefore a Mickey Brady

and a warm embrace from Conor Murphy, who served as the attempt he

there be for Mr Brady took over. We say congratulations to Mickey Brady,

all 18 seats down declared in Northern Ireland. A couple of bits

of news, Nick Clegg, the former Lib Dem leader has lost his seat, Home

Secretary Amber Rudd is currently engaged in a recount and we have

just had a notification in the last couple of seconds that Alex Salmond,

Ford dealer of the SNP, has lost his seat, he is out so something names

are losing their seats in Westminster tonight. We will pick up

on a bit of that with my panel shortly but before we do any more of

that, let's get another look at the picture here and across the water

from Mark Simpson. Thank you. It's been a long night,

just look at that time, 4:30am but here in our virtual Westminster, how

interesting will it be easier in the next couple of weeks? If we look at

England, there is a lot of blue but not the sea of blue that Theresa May

expected. Let's look at the scores on the doors. The Conservatives are

ahead but they are well short as things stand, of 326, the Magic

number where they would be sure of an overall majority, the latest

forecast is that they will be short so we could have a hung parliament,

which brings the DUP into play. Let's look at Northern Ireland. If

anything tells the story of the night, it's what you were looking

at, a sea of Green west of the band, Sinn Fein, a sea of red East of the

river ban for DUP and North towel being held by Sylvia Hermon. There

is the DUP on top, tempted, they only got eight last time, Sinn Fein

with seven seats, they only got four last time and Sylvia Hermon holding

on in North Down. Five new faces in Westminster, not all of them taking

their seats but one new face will be in Foyle, Elisha McCallion in Foyle.

Sinn Fein have taken the seat of the SDLP, only a small majority but it

was enough to take the seat of the former SDLP leader Mark Durkan.

Moving over, we can see another new face who will take place in

Westminster, Emma Little Pengelly in South Belfast, again lost by the

SDLP but this time it was the DUP taking advantage. A real pattern has

emerged to night, a real 2-party Northern Ireland with the DUP

dominating one side of the river ban, Sinn Fein dominating the other,

that's the story of the night and well done to the counters, we have

all 18 seats counted and it's not even five a.m..

They have had a busy night, as have we. It is flashed up that Kate how

we, from Belfast, the MP for Vauxhall, has held her seat. She was

in our fight for that and it looked like she may be in difficulty, I

don't know what happened in the current but in the run-up there was

speculation she might lose it but she has held her seat. I will come

back to my panel for proper discussion and we will bring things

to a close in the next ten minutes or thereabouts, but let's hear more

analysis and number crunching from Mark Davenport and Nicholas Whyte in

our results hub. During this campaign we had talked

about whether there should be our border poll in the future. To some

extent it that like we had a mini border poll with voters rushing to

the two big parties, there we have what Mark has been telling us, the

DUP with ten, Sinn Fein with seven and only Sylvia Hermon surviving but

let's look at the vote share and the percentages and talk me through

this. This is the best result ever in

terms of vote share. . It is the worst result ever for both the SDLP

and the Ulster Unionists. Do you see this as the endgame for them? They

will have to think about their future strategy. The SDLP 20 years

ago was getting the same number of votes as Sinn Fein. Look at the

change here. This is a remarkable result for both of the big parties

but in raw numbers, the DUP outdid the E in Paisley results of many

years ago when he was standing as an MEP. In every seat with the DUP were

standing, Sinn Fein added more voters who have never voted before.

These columns do not tell the entire story. We are seeing votes, people

who voted in the Assembly election, and it has come out at least as much

for the DUP as Sinn Fein. Let us look at the swings on both side.

Unionism first, a whopping eight percentage swing for the Ulster

Unionist to the DUP. There are a couple of cases that contributed to

this including Newry and Armagh. We can do the same again, as similar

story, Leicester Matic in percentage terms but more dramatic in terms of

seats. Part of the problem here is that the SDLP has been squeezed

pretty tightly and remained strong in south Belfast and South down.

They have been wiped out. Looking again at the graph of how these

major parties are standing, just finally, we will look at who is Top

of the Pops across Northern Ireland, our five poll toppers, there are

from the DUP and Sinn Fein. Ian Paisley taking the number one. There

is some change, there is the top five. Thank you very much. I

mentioned that Kate wholewheat has held onto her seat in Vauxhall and

then all of a sudden, Kate has popped up and I can talk to her. She

is at the Cannes centre in Lambeth. Good evening and congratulations. I

was talking about your couple of minutes ago. There was a lot of chat

about you been under pressure but I think you will be pleased with those

numbers. Completely got a huge big increase

in my majority that was good. We fought a positive campaign, one

party fought and nasty campaign. The people of Vauxhall came out in their

thousands, particularly a lot of young people and I got a really good

majority and I am delighted because it was a positive message that we

were putting forward. Both locally and with the Labour manifesto. Just

to be clear, I do not want to pick through the details, but just for

the benefit of people who do not know, you were supportive of Brexit

and the Liberal Democrats were mounting a campaign to try and

unseat you because they disagreed with you. You saw them off. Did you

feel vulnerable? No, what I found sad this time is I have always had

good campaigns were people get on well and we have differences on

policies, but this time the Liberal Democrats did have a personalised

target. They felt that everyone who voted Remain in Lambeth, that

somehow they would all want a second referendum and vote Liberal Democrat

and that did not happen. They are spent us by about six times what we

spent and they brought in all sorts of people. They brought in Nick

Clegg and I thought if he had spent more time in his own constituency,

he might not have lost his seat. They also brought in Bob Geldof and

all these Remain star is and the people in my area, Labour voters and

supporters and people who never voted Labour before came out and

voted for me and I was delighted. It shows that most people want to get

on with just getting a good deal now and do not want a second referendum.

Many congratulations, good to talk to you. I did not realise you were

counting your votes, I thought you always did at the next day. We have

moved with the times. I am out of date. We stay up all night, just

like you. You're looking very well, a lot better than some of the people

around my table. Danny Kennedy, congratulations. I will have to miss

the Azerbaijan match. That was a pity. I will let you go and

celebrate. Thank you very much. Lovely to talk to you. We are

bringing the programme to a close in about five minutes. Very quickly,

Simon, you have an increased mandate and so do Sinn Fein, does that give

you a mandate now to do a deal as far as Northern Ireland are

concerned? We went into this election and said to the people of

Northern Ireland that we wanted them to vote for us not just to return a

strong team to Westminster, or register their support for the union

but to strengthen our hand to enter negotiations commencing next week.

We still want to have devolution up and running, and the message coming

back on the doors, they wanted to see us get back onto the right track

after disappointing result in March but they did want to see devolution

up and running. Alex, quick thought? I think it is important that we try

to knuckle down and get the institutions re-establish. Whatever

result there is at Westminster, it will be constrained to work within

the Good Friday Agreement and that is something that is immovable. The

question of who would be First Minister has not arisen, there was a

possibility that Sinn Fein could take it, but would the DUP have been

prepared for second place? That map shows that Sinn Fein hold every

border seat. The importance of Brexit on their national psyche is

clearly underscored by that. I think the outcome of this election is less

likely to get a deal at Stormont because of the uncertainty in the

national budget. Thank you all very much for your forbearance. A

fascinating few hours. It has been a roller-coaster six hours, the SDLP

and the UUP have lost all their MPs, the DUP have ten seats, to more than

last time, seven Seas for Sinn Fein, to more than last time with big wins

in Foyle and South Down and the retaking of Fermanagh and South

Tyrone. Theresa May faces some big questions over the next few hours

and it looks as if she has failed to secure any sort of useful majority

in the Commons. Who would have thought that when she called this

election on Easter Tuesday? Plenty to talk about in the days and weeks

ahead, from all of us, thank you for your company and have a very good

morning. From all of us, goodbye. To the DUP candidate, Alex Easton,

you have done terrifically well, but I have one. To be called po-faced by

Northern Aaron's answer to Jerry Mita and... Unionism has at wake up

-- Northern Ireland's answer to Jeremy Paxman. When you lose, you

find out a lot about yourself. Keep counting the votes.

We are certainly witnessing history. Thinking about how people like John

and Patsy taken the sort of results. -- like John and Pat Hume. Martin,

we did this for you. seat for Labour. One more which

again suggests what we were saying about Ruth Davidson in Scotland, who

is emerging as the real bright spark of the Conservatives tonight. 48% to

is emerging as the real bright spark 39%, Conservative gain in the Cedar

Banff and Buchan. Alex Salmond held this EP Fourie became leader and

went on to hold the seat of Gordon. We have seen all the drama of the

swing in the Tory gains. This is the biggest one we have seen tonight.

20% from the SNP to the Conservatives. You can see why

Nicola Sturgeon were starting to sound less sure about the position

of independence for Scotland. We have a result coming in. Laura, you

want to say something. Iain Duncan Smith is waiting with Michelle

Hossain. After that very clear call from the former minister, Anna

Soubry, ... Let's interrupt you. This is held by Simon Kirby, the

Conservatives. Doktor Haze, independent, 212. Simon

Kirby, Conservative Party, 18,000 -- 18 835. Lloyd Russell-Moyle, Labour

party, 28,000 703. Emily Louise tester, Liberal Democrat, 1457. A

pretty sensational victory for Labour in Brighton Kemptown. Simon

Kirby defeated by something like a majority of nearly 10,000. That is

another minister gone. We have seen ministers go to night. I was just

saying before we went to the result, there is clearly turmoil inside the

Tory ranks. We heard Anna Soubry essentially calling Theresa May to

go. Consider your position. That is cold for summary should leave.

Another Tory source has just told me that Theresa May is 50-50 to go

tomorrow. One source, I stress, but a good source. Another minister has

just messaged me saying, as William Hague said, the Tory party is

absolute monarchy registered by regicide. That is the territory we

are now in. They are ruthless. The thing with Theresa May is, if

somebody looks like a loser, it even though she is on course to be the

biggest party, the Tories are ruthless if a leader looks like they

can't deliver. There is clearly a lot of turmoil. I will not make any

firm predictions about what she may do. She is meeting with her advisers

right now. Michelle Hossain is upstairs.

Iain Duncan Smith this year. As is a former Labour Party adviser. Should

you consider her position? It would be a grave error to suddenly going

into the turmoil after the result. We need some stability right now. We

have to figure out what the final result is and then, can we lead a

government, that is the critical question to ask. These things have

to be decided. You can't say you are going to have a leadership election.

That would plunge everything into turmoil. Are you saying she should

have a period of time and then she could step down? No. I am saying

that we need to make that might find it for the result is. Whether it is

feasible to put the government together. We don't know that yet. We

don't know the final result. If that is feasible, then that changes the

complexion of what we are dealing with. And then the party has to

meet, they have to talk to her and decide whether this is what she

wants to do. And if she does, frankly, we need that stability. I

am not in favour of launching these kind of off the cuff vendettas. I

think the truth is we need to stay calm and stable. It can't be

business as usual, can it? People must be annoyed you have ended up in

this position. It is clearly not going to be business as usual. The

irony is this result is full of peculiar things. Poll rating has

gone up but we have got the worst result. People like me have had

higher vote shares but a smaller majority. We have lost colleagues

around the country. Of course there is turmoil. But the key point here

is the next 24-hour is we need stability. But we don't want is any

kind of rush to say change, leave, let's see with the results are and

whether we can form the Gutman. Ayesha Hazarika, in 2015 the Labour

vote share was 30%. Jeremy Corbyn has achieved over 40%. It has been

an extraordinary night for Labour. I think there were Labour MPs up and

down the country wondering if they would survive the night. Jeremy

Corbyn ran the opposite of the Theresa May campaign. It was open

and full of hope and popular, and he was visible. It is incredible that

we are in this situation. Theresa May called this election and was 20

points ahead in the polls. She called it on leadership and now we

are having conversations about whether she will still be around in

the morning. In February, you said the only way Jeremy Corbyn could

save the Labour Party was by stepping down. I completely got it

wrong, along with a lot of people. But what he has done brilliantly is

for people hope. This country has been sick of seven years of

austerity rule, and they wanted a change. They wanted somebody to

offer them hope. Credit where credit is due, I hold my hands up and say I

was one of the people who got it wrong. The Labour manifesto as well,

particularly in contrasts of the Tory manifesto, which didn't offer

anything and was a shambolic U-turn on the dementia tax. Was it a

dreadful campaign? It clearly wasn't the greatest campaign, or we would

be in a different position now. The key element is that there will be

time for my party to have a look through what didn't go right and

what went wrong. Theresa May, having gone into the election, found her

position diminished. Right now, all my colleagues need to just take a

deep breath and not go on the media. They need to keep quiet until we

have figured out where we are. The oldest rule in the book is, no way

your starting point is. I want Theresa May to stay for that reason.

Do you fear that Brexit may not be delivered, or not the sort of Brexit

you would like? I just want Brexit. We will see what that means. The

Labour Party has already said they were signed up to Brexit. The Labour

Party position has been good on Brexit, but it is extraordinary to

think that she started this whole campaign saying "My leadership will

be strong and stable", and she is the one now facing leadership

challenges. She has had a stinker of a campaign. It happens. Nothing is

perfect, but I do want stability and I want her to stay. You want

something strong and stable. I will just settle for stability right now.

She remains Prime Minister and the country has to come first. For

anyone watching, if you are Prime Minister, stay put and then we can

figure out what our position is. Iain Duncan Smith and Ayesha

Hazarika, thank you. We are joined now from stricken by

Chuka Umunna, one of those who were rather critical of the leadership of

Jeremy Corbyn and indeed voted him out. Congratulations on your

victory, first of all. Your vote went up by 12,000 or something. But

let's cut to the chase. What do you make of what has happened? You and

many others misjudged Jeremy Corbyn, didn't you? First of all, the Prime

Minister held this election for naked party political reasons. It

was opportunism writ large, and she wanted a personal mandate to pursue

an extremely job destroying Brexit. And she has been denied that. I am

delighted about that. Let's be frank about the reason she has been denied

that. It isn't just that she ran a terrible campaign and clearly is not

up to campaigning by being with people and talking to them about the

issues, whereas Jeremy is absolutely at home campaigning, talking to

people, getting involved in the debate. But the reason why many

people will have changed their minds, the reason I voted no

confidence last year was that I was angry because I felt we could have

done more to ensure that we got a Remain vote in that referendum. But

the effect of Jeremy running this kind of campaign, positive,

optimistic, dynamic, engaging young people, putting forward policies, we

saw looked loved that from the Tories and as ie she just said, the

one big thing people will remember about the Tory manifesto is the

dementia tax. But the effect of actually putting forward this agenda

has thwarted Theresa May's attempts to pursue a hard Brexit. I give

Jeremy and the entire Labour team full credit for that, because it was

a solid, good national campaign and we have amazing local operations. I

temper this just by making this observation, which is that the

Labour Party was founded 117 years ago by Keir Hardie and others, not

only to be the representative of workers in parliament, but to govern

in their interests too. We don't know what will happen because we

don't know the final numbers or whether Labour will be part of

whatever comes out of this. But it is a positive step forward to

government today. Ultimately, we must get into government in the

future to make our values real. If you were now offered a position back

in the Shadow Cabinet, assuming it is still a Shadow Cabinet, would you

accept it? I have never been asked to serve in the Shadow Cabinet under

Jeremy before. But I want to get Labour back into government. I can

work in any way to make that happen. I would not rule out being part of a

Shadow Cabinet if I was asked. I don't presume that I will be asked,

but I intend to play a full role in making sure we do what we need to do

to deliver on our values. My guess is that you began this campaign

thinking that at the end of it, there might be a vacancy for the

leadership of the Labour Party, and that has now been postponed. I

wouldn't describe it as my dream. I did not dream of having the majority

that Labour activists have just secured here in Streatham. My wife

was here with me earlier and she asked me at the beginning of the

campaign not to make any predictions, because she said before

the last general election, you thought Labour would end up in

government and you didn't. You thought the Remain side would win

the EU referendum campaign, and then you assured me we wouldn't see a

president Donald Trump and we do. She said, I am not going to believe

predictions from you and I don't think you make any. For the start of

this campaign, I went on the Daily Politics and other programmes and

people ask, do you think Labour will win? And I have said, anything is

possible. What this illustrates is... Chuka Umunna, thank you much.

I want to hear the result from Hastings and see whether Amber Rudd

has held on. Liberal Democrats, 1885. Michael Sheridan Phillips,

Ukip, 1479. Amber Rudd, the Conservative Party candidate, 25668.

Nicholas John Wilson, independent, 412. The total number of ballot

papers rejected was 97. The turnout was 70%. Therefore, I give public

notice that Amber Rudd is duly elected as the member of Parliament

for the Hastings and write constituency. So the Home Secretary

holds onto her seat. There was talk that it would be difficult for her,

but she holds on. I would like to thank the returning officer and the

fantastic counting agents who have done the job twice this evening. We

are grateful to you for staying late and doing a professional job. I

would also like to thank my team who have done a fantastic job supporting

me and making sure we had a good turnout on the day. I would

particularly like to thank the Labour candidate, who I know well

and I am sure will continue in his role as leader of the council. Thank

you for a fair fight. I am deeply honoured to have been re-elected for

now for the third time by the residents of Hastings and Rye. This

is a fantastic place to live and work and I hope I will continue to

build on the great opportunities and the great regeneration that has been

taking place in this area, improving our schools, improving our NHS and

getting the infrastructure investment that we need. This is

what matters to me and this is what I hope to continue to deliver for

the fantastic constituency of Hastings and Rye. So Amber Rudd,

with the seagulls behind her. She was generally seen to have had a

good campaign. Is there a possibility that she might be in the

line for becoming leader of the Conservative Party? She has been

talked about. But having had such a narrow result and having been a big

part of a campaign that is judged to be a disaster, it looks harder for

her now than it would have done a couple of weeks ago. At that time,

she would have been top of the list. She was widely tipped to be Theresa

May's next Chancellor if Theresa May ends up staying on. She was

certainly considered as a potential leadership candidate in the future.

But I wonder whether her judgment on this campaign and her role in it

makes that less likely. She was the Prime Minister's understudy and she

is a formidable character. She is a Remainer, but widely respected.

Let's see what Nigel Farage has been up to in the last couple of hours.

He has stormed back into the political conversation. In a sense,

he never went away, but with Paul Nuttall as the leader of Ukip having

a bad result, Nigel Farage has been vocal. He said tonight that Article

50 had been triggered and we were on our way. May has put this in

jeopardy. Even David Davis is now making Brexit concessions. There is

a clear mood developing from lots of people who were fervent Brexiteers,

including Iain Duncan Smith, that they are annoyed at what is

happening. That is Nigel Farage's quote. Paddy Ashdown has also

weighed in on the issue of Brexit. The former Lib Dem leader says if

this election was about Brexit, must we not conclude that Britain has

rejected Mrs May's hard Brexit? So there are lots of people on inside

of the Brexit camp trying to use this result is a way of casting

judgment on the Brexit referendum of 2016. Chris Evans, editor of the

Daily Telegraph, is also talking about the softening of Brexit. He

says the DUP are already outlining terms for a soft Brexit as the price

for propping up the Tories. And the Financial Times says it is almost as

if Theresa May looked at Hillary's campaign and said, let's do that.

That is as cruel as you can get. Here is the latest Daily Mail front

page. Theresa May of course had huge support from most of the British

press. One of her main spin doctors is a former Daily Mail political

editor. They are very disappointed at the result. And they say there

are fears of Brexit chaos. Emily, another result? Look at Enfield

Southgate. This was where we had the Portillo moment in 1997 and you can

see what has happened. It has been a Labour gain from the Conservatives

again. In Portillo's day, there was a 15,000 majority. Labour has taken

it on a 4000 majority. Come back to me! Have a glass of water. That is a

fascinating seat. It is outer London, not in London, where you

have lots of students and very trendy left. Enfield Southgate is

not the home of the trendy Islington left. Enfield Southgate is a sort of

Middle Britain seat that happens to be in the south-east. And there we

see a big Labour gain. At the beginning of the night, we never

would have thought we would see that kind of swing. Let me pick up here.

Don't choke to death this time. Sangakkara it is the excitement of

the night, or maybe a stray blueberry. 9.7% swing from the

Conservatives to Labour in this seat, which really was a moment in

1997. We are looking at places that Blair

won for the first time. Some of these are on the chart for the first

time since then. It is extraordinary to think of these different

characters, Tony Blair and Jeremy Corbyn, but to see the same kind of

places cropping up. The next one is Keighley. Again, quite far down the

Labour targets. It is a neck and neck vote between the Labour Party

and the Conservatives, but enough for a Labour to gain it. A big drop

in the Ukip vote. They needed a 3.1% swing. You can see what has

happened. They have taken it, just, on a 3.3% swing. Some quite

interesting ones. Derbyshire Northeast has been a gain for the

Conservatives. It was 18 on their list. Lee Rowley pushing out

Natascha Engel, quite a well-known name for Labour. You can see a 4.8%

swing from Labour to the Conservatives. That is the seat just

outside Chesterfield. Broadly the kind of seats we are seeing turned

red to are ones that very few people would have had on any kind of

rational target list at the beginning of the night. They are

places taking a lot of us by surprise.

John Woodcock is the Labour MP for Barrow and Furness. His majority,

squeaking in at 209. A special adviser to Gordon Brown. Everybody

is having their words thrown back at them tonight. Words I want to throw

baguette you are, Labour is on course for an historic and

catastrophic defeat. So what went right for Labour?!

Well, David I have no idea! And I'm not sure anyone who you will have on

this programme actually genuinely has an idea either. And if they say

that they do, I think they are probably winging it. There have been

utterly extraordinary results. In places where Labour has struggled,

we have gained ground. In Canterbury we have produced an incredible

victory out of nowhere. I don't know what is going on in British

politics. I think the one thing which is clear is that this is wide

open. There is a space and there is a need for a progressive force to

take the country forward and give them more hope than that which has

been said over these last couple of years by the Conservative

government. And that force we have shown overnight can be the Labour

Party. I am deeply, deeply proud. Unexpectedly, I have to say. But I

am deeply proud to be returned as one of their MPs. Can you sign up to

the kind of policies that Jeremy Corbyn has been promoting, when you

actually clearly thought they were completely wrong, wrong for the

Labour Party, but much more importantly, wrong for the country?

Well, the Labour Party has always been a Broadchurch. And probably

never broader than it has been at the moment. One of the things which

gave me so much heart locally was the way that local party members who

were deeply aggrieved by what I said about the leader, they all came

together in this campaign to get us over the line and to keep a Labour

MP, to keep me here. And that shows, actually, that we can unite and

there will be a huge question, of course, for the party as to what

direction we take. What vision we put forward. But this result shows

that we can do it. Actually, there is not the appetite in this country

for the paucity of vision, the lack of hope, the doing down of our

country, that we have seen from this Conservative government over the

last couple of years. People want change. And we have an opportunity

to provide that. And that is brilliant. Thank you bring much

indeed. It is time for another update on the news. Let's have that

with the forecast of the moment showing... We can show it? We can't.

I don't know if we can or not. Can we show the forecast, they are

asking? I don't know. They haven't got it. We haven't got the forecast.

We have the news. Good morning. With less than 50

seats still to be declared, the outcome of the general election is

still uncertain. Labour has done better-than-expected. Although the

Conservatives looked like being the biggest party, they are not likely

to get a majority. Jeremy Corbyn has called for Theresa May to resign.

The Prime Minister says the country needs stability. The night saw Alex

Salmond and Nick Clegg lose their seats. Tom Bateman's port contains

flash photography. -- report. She called this election early, a

political gamble, the hope that she would transform the Tories' fragile

majority with a huge win. Forecasts suggest the Conservatives may end up

even worse off without even a majority. If, as the indications

have shown, if this is correct, that the Conservative Party won the most

seats and probably the most votes, then it would be incumbent on us to

make sure we have that period of stability, and that is exactly what

we will do. You can see what the Labour leader makes of these results

so far. A man whose campaign confounded expectations, beaming

smiles, with Labour on course for a far better night than many thought.

The Prime Minister call the election because she wanted a mandate. Will a

mandate she has got is lost Conservative seats, lost votes, lost

votes and lost confidence. I would have thought that's enough to go,

actually. In Battersea, Labour had ousted a government Minister on a

swing of 10%. There have been Labour gains elsewhere. In Stockton South

from the Conservatives and in Scotland, Rutherglen from the SNP.

It is not just the Tories suffering. In Sheffield, former Lib Dem leader

Nick Clegg lost his seat. I have encountered this evening something

that many people have encountered before tonight and I suspect many

people encounter after tonight, which is that you live by the sword

and by thy -- die by the sword in politics. The night began with a

projection, the exit poll. It had the Conservatives as the largest

party but short of an overall majority. It put the Tories on three

other than 14 seats, down 17. Labour would be up 34 seats. The SNP down

to 34 MPs. The Lib Dems on 14. The SNP have lost big names on a

disappointing night compared with their Scottish landslide two years

ago. Deputy leader Angus Robertson was ousted by the Conservatives.

Former leader Alex Salmond lost his seat as well. Now one of Theresa

May's on MPs is laying the blame on her. She is in a difficult place.

She is a very talented woman and she doesn't shy from difficult

positions. But she now obviously has to consider your position. V

Festival of democracy has been on is full show, as have the upsets.

Theresa May has left her constituency count. The election

campaign has been an unpredictable journey. Already some Labour

opponents are saying tonight it should bring the end of the road for

her premiership. But there is still a way to go and more votes still to

be counted. The pound's position on currency markets has weakened

following early results. Overnight sterling suffered one of its biggest

falls since January, sinking to a low of almost 2% against the dollar

as the euro. A clearer picture of the markets will emerge when trading

opens across Europe. And the final results of the election coming. Time

for the weather. Good morning. This is how we ended

the day in Highland Scotland. For much of Scotland and Northern

Ireland it was a wet day on Thursday. Today we saw the rain in

Scotland petering out. Showers heading eastwards. Much prior across

Northern Ireland. Some sharp showers across western England and Wales.

They will become heavily for the released this afternoon, as they

will in parts of Scotland. We are talking hail and risk of thunder.

Much drier and brighter with some sunshine for the West. It will feel

warmer well. It doesn't last. As we go through the evening, more rain of

the Atlantic. Wetter for Northern Ireland. As we move into Saturday,

for Scotland. The South and east probably not seeing that much rain.

Still quite muggy and one. The rain clears further north to reveal

sunshine and showers. Eventually that weather front clears all parts

going from Saturday to Sunday. Sunday day of sunny spells and

showers. That is a look of the weather.

Let's return to David Dimbleby. Dawn has broken over Westminster.

And a cruel dawn for the Tory party. After the results that have come in,

we have still got 44 to come in. A lot of talk from sources within the

Tory party about Theresa May's future. We have had the call for her

to go. Pretty much a call for her to go from Anna Soubry, a backbencher,

famously outspoken. People Laura Kuenssberg have been speaking to

have said something needs to be done fairly dramatically and swiftly.

There is another interesting aspect. The votes have gone back to the two

main parties, Conservative and Labour. Not since 1970 have both

parties had over 12 million people voting for them. The current rate is

Labour on 12 million and 100,000, the Conservatives on 12 million and

6000. The smaller parties, the Liberals, and all the other parties,

had given way to a 2-party vote, which in a way is like that campaign

was. There were two very clearly distinct messages being given from

the Conservatives on the one hand with Theresa May saying strong and

stable and all that, and Jeremy Corbyn on the other hand saying,

there is another way. Less austerity, more spending,, the

government should do this and that. There was a poor rises and on the

parties and it seems the voters have been attracted to the polarisation.

They are getting two very clear and distinct messages. We will now look

at how the parties stand. Let's do that. We started many hours

ago in our virtual Downing Street and we give you our exit poll. A lot

of people were saying on social media it can't be right. The

forecast, with only about 44 seats to go, is very close to what we were

saying at five minutes to ten. The Conservatives falling short. 318 we

think now. Let's look at Labour. Quite a long way back but exceeding

all expectations. That is the point about the Labour performance. They

have done better than even they thought as we have heard from some

of the extraordinary interviews we have heard. 318 for the

Conservatives. You will see where these individual paving stones,

which are all individual constituencies, where they are

darker blue we have not got a result. Back here we have got those

results in. It is just the darker blue. Most are solid blue. Not many

more results. The ones we're waiting for, places like Kensington,

Richmond Park, Crawley, Dumfries, Winchester, Thirsk, Truro, St Ives

etc, still waiting for them. The exit polls stabilised with these

results. 318, the Conservatives short of an overall majority. 650

MPs in the House of Commons, so you need just over half to be in

control. Theresa May will not be. She will have to find friends in the

House of Commons. It will be the Liberal Democrats this time. Have a

look at the Labour line. You could say the Labour result is no better

than Gordon Brown did when he lost the 2010 election. They have got a

handsome share of the vote. Part of that is rather surprising numbers of

Ukip voters going to Labour, which commentators did not predict. Also,

younger voters. I'm sure we will find out many of them have been

involved in the election. Labour 262, that's what we are now

forecasting, just down four from what we said at 10pm. These early

seats that we are still waiting for. Hendon, Ilford North, Dudley... Most

of these lines are solid red, solid blue. This is the situation. What a

blow for Theresa May, to call an election when she was 16 points

clear in the polls, thinking about the landslide of 100 and she didn't

even get an overall majority. It is politically devastating for her.

That is why we just saw Jeremy Corbyn giving the thumbs up.

Amazing. John Curtice, you are being a bit cautious about your exit poll,

not your exit poll, the BBC, sky, ITV exit poll, I have to say that

for copyright reasons... This combined exit poll. You were being

courses at the beginning, saying maybe it is not quite as bad as that

for the Tories. -- cautious. It now looks like you were spot on? One

always has to be cautious because the truth is one knows the

fragility. Two years ago we underestimated the Tory target by 18

seats. It looks as though this time we might be possibly three seats

out, but that is about it. It looks as though our forecast is going to

prove remarkably accurate. Maybe in the end of the most accurate exit

poll yet. We will wait to see. Is there any possibility of it not

being a hung parliament now? There is no way the Conservatives can get

to the 326 mark. There is going to be a hung parliament. Plus some of

the questions Laura was raising about Theresa May's future. It is

worth remembering that the international academic extra says

that calling snap elections often doesn't work, because voters ask

themselves, hang on, what is it that is coming around the corner that

they are trying to hide from us? If you think about the snap elections

we have had in the UK in the past, 1970, Harold Wilson suddenly went to

the country when he thought the June tweet polls had turned in his

favour. He lost. In February in 1974, Edward Heath went to the

country suddenly because of the miners strike. He lost. Now very

suddenly and unexpectedly indeed, Theresa May has gone to the country.

Her party has not managed to lose, but maybe we will find that she has

ended up the loser of this election. She should have talked to you before

she decided to do it! If she had read the international literature,

it shows that although being able to call an election when you think it

is a good idea might seem an advantage, if you try to call an

election very early in a parliament, it can rebound on you. Laura, we

know that she has a tight circle of political advisers ma Fiona Hill and

Nick Timothy in particular. She must have consulted them. They are the

ones who must take the blame for this. I understand she is currently

closeted with them in Tory HQ, discussing their next moves. One

minister has said to me, I don't think she has to go, but things will

have to change. There will be demands from inside the 1922

committee and among ministers that she must change her style of

working. She must expand beyond that tiny group of people. That is where

the discussion is. But is she capable of changing her way of

working? She doesn't seem to move an inch without Nick Timothy and Fiona

Hill telling her what to do. She's famed for her stubbornness. She

could try to cast that as being resolute. That is what she tried to

do in this election, boasting that she could be a bloody difficult

woman. But if you will not change your mind and you have made the

wrong decision, it is not great. We are joined by Simon Hamilton from

the Democratic Unionist Party in Northern Ireland and the member of

the Northern Ireland Assembly. I think you now have eight for the

DUP? We increased our seats from eight in the last parliament to ten.

You are clearly going to be a potentially attractive partner to a

Tory Prime Minister who doesn't have an overall majority. What are you

going to be asking for? Well, the results are still coming in and we

will soon know what the final shape of the parliament is. Let's see what

the final result is. The impact of Northern Ireland will be not just in

respect of the Democratic Unionist Party, but also Sinn Fein, who don't

take their seats in Westminster, which will have an impact on the

overall working majority in parliament. First and foremost, the

DUP will be looking to achieve our goals in respect of the best deal

for Northern Ireland. We are also mindful of our responsibilities in

terms of the national political scene. This is a difficult time for

the UK. There are a lot of challenges, particularly with

respect to terrorism and a attack on democracy in the last few weeks, but

also the challenges and opportunities that Brexit presents

and the need to get not just a good deal for Northern Ireland, but a

good deal for the UK. Laura, you watch Westminster closely. Can you

interpret for me what the DUP position would actually mean in

terms of votes in the House? What kind of pressure will they be able

to bring? Significant pressure. In the last Parliament, the DUP were

able to do privately call shots on some issues. But if there were to be

any sort of backsliding on Brexit, what would you consider to be

something unacceptable? We have already heard that there may be Tory

MPs calling for a reconsideration of the idea of staying in the single

market. Would that be something you would consider as acceptable in the

Brexit negotiations? Northern Ireland has particular circumstances

in respect of Brexit, because we have a border with Ireland which

will be the UK's border with the European Union after Brexit. The UK

will be leaving the EU, but there are particular circumstances shaped

by our history, geography and economy that we want to see

reflected in any deal. That is something we would be talking very

early to a new government about. Is it clear to you that you would only

do a kind of vote by vote understanding or would you consider

something more formal with the Conservatives? Let's see what

happens over the next few hours. Clearly, our votes will be

important. In the last Parliament, our votes were not needed in the way

they may be in the new parliament. On a range of issues, we were able

to take a position which was consistent with our policies as a

party but were also in the best interests of the people of Northern

Ireland, and we will continue to do that. You are in favour of leaving

the EU. What kind of border do you want with the South? We want to see

a frictionless border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of

Ireland. There are a lot of movements on a daily basis between

people who work on both sides of the border and a lot of movements in

respect of the economy and trade. The rest of the UK remains our

biggest seller 's market. So you think people who worry about that

border and think that for instance, in terms of immigration into the UK,

it is an open door from the Republic into the north, they are wrong? The

Common travel area has existed between Northern Ireland and the

Republic of Ireland since the 1920s. There has been a lot of talk in the

last year about the creation of a hard border. That is not something

we want. Sorry to interrupt, but were talking about Polish workers

and Romanian workers coming from the EU who have open access at the

moment to the mainland of Britain. They will surely be able to come

into the Republic through Northern Ireland and into Britain. I know you

have had a common border with the South, but that is going to allow

anyone to come from anywhere in Europe into the mainland of Britain,

isn't it? The detail of how it would work in practice would have to be

worked out through the course of the next number of years as we go

through the Article 50 process. We want a good deal for Northern

Ireland as we exit the European Union. We were reassured by what the

Prime Minister, David Davis and other Cabinet members said about

their desire not to see a hard border. That is something we don't

want on the Dublin government don't want to see that either. Brussels

officials have also said that, so there is a recognition of the

circumstances of Northern Ireland. That is something we will want to be

dealt with early in the new parliament. Mr Hamilton, thank you.

You mentioned David Davis. We have been trying to get Boris Johnson to

talk to us. No. David Davis? No. Philip Hammond? No. Senior figures

in the Tory party stumm, unlike Mishal's guests. Were ordered by

Alistair Campbell, former director of Downing Street implications and

the Guardian journalist Paul Mason. Paul, did you dare to hope for these

sorts of games for Labour? Yes. I knew as soon as we did the left-wing

manifesto that we could get back to 35%. I'm not sure what the final

percentage will be, but it looks like we are on 12 million votes for

Labour, which is pushing close to what the first two Tony Blair

results were. What has then it is the severe deprivation across the

areas of Britain that are voting for us. 12 million people picked up the

Daily Mail and the # And read these headlines about Corbyn and McDonnell

being Marxist terror supporters and threw them mentally in the bin.

So for you, it was the anti-austerity election? Absolutely.

I was campaigning in Plymouth, the home of the Trident submarine, or

where they refurbish them. It looks like Labour will win both Plymouth

seats. Even to that military community, home of the Royal Marine

commandos, it is desperate out there in many working class communities,

and nobody in politics has noticed. You are making it sound like a win,

which it isn't. Alastair Campbell, what do you think? It has been an

extraordinary night. I do think that an election that Theresa May called

to strengthen her position, because she looked at the numbers on Jeremy

Corbyn and thought it was unlosable, and she has lost. She cannot survive

for long in the position she has got. I think Jeremy Corbyn is onto

something in relation to how deep the austerity is going and the

public saying they want something better. As you mentioned, Mishal, it

is important to emphasise that she has lost and Labour hasn't won. The

country is essentially still saying, we don't really want either of you.

But they are doing it at a time when a government has to go into the most

difficult negotiations that any government has had since the war.

For your party, it means that Blairism is even more firmly part of

the past. Jeremy Corbyn's wing of the party will lead it for the

foreseeable future. Well, I want and hope that the Labour Party can

encapsulate and encompass all of that space. The only way the Labour

Party will get back into winning and having a Labour Prime Minister is if

you have that coalition that has the left, but also has the centre

ground. I want to get over this new, old, Blair, Brown macro thing.

History has put us in an amazing edition. Of course we haven't won

and we have to facilitate a stable conservative/ DUP government forming

itself, because this country is under attack from terror. So what

Jeremy Corbyn and Emily Thornberry are signalling about looking... We

don't know what the final arithmetic is. But in the next 12 hours, Amber

Rudd has to carry on being Home Secretary. You are right that Labour

now needs to learn from this. I would like to see some of those big

hitters from the brown and Blair era come into the Shadow Cabinet, reset

the balance within Labour, re-look at what our offer on Brexit is. We

have won this is committed to Brexit. That is how you win in

places like Manchester and Bolton. But the kind of Brexit now has to be

one that embraces an engagement with Europe. One of her big mistakes was

that since the referendum, she has governed for the 40% with two

fingers up to the 52%. You cannot govern for the country with such a

big decision to be pursued like that. So no matter what

configuration, there will have to be a much more consensual approach to

what Britain's relationship with Europe becomes.

Let's join Yvette Cooper in Wakefield. Thank you for joining us

at this early hour of the morning. You are safely back in your seat.

You were one of those who wanted to leave the Labour Party. What do you

make of what has happened and what lessons does it contain for people

like you on the right or the centre of Labour? I think it is great that

we're winning back constituencies for and we are seeing hard work

across the country. I applaud the work Jeremy, Tom, members and

activists have been doing across the country to win back those

constituencies. We have also had a small number of losses, that is very

sad. People like Natascha Engel have been fantastic MPs in Parliament.

But overall we have seen some great results. But of course what it means

now is it looks like this is a hung parliament. I think that Theresa May

called this as a referendum on herself and she has lost that. I do

not see how she can carry on because I don't see she has a mandate for

the manifesto she set out. That means it will be quite complicated

in terms of what happens now. We have to keep up the pressure in

terms of what we should be doing. We need to stand up for people to get a

Labour government. And you are no happy with Jeremy Corbyn's

leadership where you were not before? We had leadership elections

in the party. That is how we do things. Jeremy Corbyn won twice. And

that is why we had the whole party come together as part of this

campaign, the all party campaigning across the country. I have been to

about 20 constituencies across the country campaigning for those Labour

candidates. It is great to see many of them elected this morning. What

is happening behind you? Who is being applauded? Jon Trickett was

just making his speech. He has been re-elected as the MP for Handsworth.

-- Hemsworth. You were wrong about the leadership of Jeremy Corbyn. It

turns out he is a better leader than anybody else you could have

produced. I you happy to serve in a shadow cabinet with him, indeed if

he becomes Prime Minister serving cabinet with him? You back onside? I

think we have all been working together in this election. We have

been fighting for every vote, every single member of the party, every

single candidate. We have been doing so together. That has been really

important. That is why we have won support right across the country, a

broad range of support. I think you would certainly agree it would be

very presumptuous of me or anybody else to talk about what happens

next. That is for the party. The one thing that should happen next is

that Theresa May, I do think, cannot carry on as Prime Minister when she

has lost what was a referendum she called on herself. We haven't seen

the strong and stable claims that she made. We have seen the complete

opposite happened. We have this really important Brexit

negotiations? To start in about 11 days. -- due to start. There will

have to be more transparency. There will have to be more negotiations

and discussions in Parliament itself. There will have to be a

proper, wide-open debate about what kind of Brexit Britain and the

British government is pursuing. They can't do things the old ways and

think they can get away with it after this election result. Thank

you. We have now got a 29 seats still to declare. And we are now

able, officially, so to speak, to say there is going to be, at the end

when everything is in, there is going to be a hung parliament. No

surprise there. With the Conservatives as the larger party.

The largest party. Labour on 262. But remember, the Conservatives need

326. So far from guaranteeing certainty and stability for the

years ahead, Theresa May called this election and she has lost 17

majority in favour of a hung parliament that has her on 318 only.

Yes, we are just contemplating that inside our virtual parliament.

Remember in 2010 when the Conservatives got 306 seats and they

needed friends. They looked to the Liberal Democrats and you got the

coalition. What may happen this time? Let me just show you the

numbers here. Remarkably similar to the numbers we give you at the start

of the night. 318, Conservative, 262 Labour. I'm going to show you how it

would work if the Conservatives say to the DUP, the Democratic Unionist

Party, help us. They haven't got the crucial 326 seats. How does it work?

We take out, first of all, how do you get this to line up again? It

doesn't matter if we see you. While you do that, let me explain. Here

are the parties. The Conservatives, 308. We are looking for 326. It is

pretty simple now. We undertake the DUP and we have got them down as

ten. Add them to it. They are there. It is pretty, pretty close. It is

very painful for Theresa May. It is that simple thing of saying to the

DUP, will you help us? For Theresa May to reach out and ask them to at

least get the Queen's speeds through. That arrangement involves

all kinds of trade having to be made. Yvette Cooper saying there

will be more focus on what is said and done in and around the chamber

of the House of Commons. It could be done. A pretty simple calculation.

They got close enough to the line to only need the support of the DUP.

Let's see what this looks like inside the house of Commons. We had

the Conservatives short. You can see the finishing line. Three than 26

seats needed. They haven't made it. It is a hung parliament. They use

the DUP to get across the line. Take a look at the opposition benches.

Labour on 262. The SNP on 35. The Lib Dems recovering a bit. You can

see the other parties. We have filled out the Northern Ireland

parties. Labour exceeding all expectations. If you have a whirl

around the House of Commons, you will see it is dominated, as before,

by blue. But of course the crucial thing, the action around this line,

this 327 line danger is the problem for Mrs May. That is why she will

need help to pass laws and govern, if indeed she stays in power. And if

she doesn't stay in power, those who like a little bit of history at 20

to six in the morning, she will be the shortest term Prime Minister 's

since Andrew Bonar Law, the Conservative Prime Minister, who

served 210 days from 1922 to 1923. She has done 230 days. Nothing to be

proud of. And the absolutely upside-down version of what he

thought was kind to happen. She was expecting to be the first

Conservative leader for 30 years to have a proper Conservative majority.

Don't forget, David Cameron only made coalition in 2010. In 2015 he

had a puny majority. This is the upside-down version of what Theresa

May was anticipating. At the beginning of the campaign I remember

there were a lot of opinion polls saying that people infinitely

preferred her to Jeremy Corbyn. By quite big margins. Even if they

didn't like the Conservative Party. People assumed it was her style,

they liked are not being flashy, the light are not being as flashy as

David Cameron, showing his toes off on an Instagram with his wife on

holiday. She wasn't that kind of woman. A very private. She went on

television and revealed nothing except that her husband put at the

dustbins. People like that rectitude. Absolutely. We heard on

the doorstep that people thought she wasn't like the other Tories, she

was in the past boy. She was like during child's head teacher. She was

calm, she had authority. I think one of the things that really hurt was

not just the social care policy and the manifesto that frankly panicked

a lot of elderly Conservative voters, it was probably largely due

to the presentation not the actual policy. It panicked her. And then

she changed her mind. That idea that she was stable, that she was

resolute, but she had authority, was hugely undermined by the fact she

did a U-turn on manifesto within days. That had never happened

before. Secondly, the issue of police cuts in the wake of the

terror attacks came up the rails in the closing days of the campaign.

Just as you would normally expect the Conservatives to respond, the

electorate to respond more positively to the Conservatives on

security, traditionally a plus for them, in reverse, it appears to have

gone the other way. So again, on the result and on the reaction of the

campaign, a topsy-turvy election in that sense. It was weird, the

turnabout on the care for people in their homes. It was absolutely clear

reading the manifesto that what she was saying was, you can keep your

last ?100,000, but you will pay for the rest of your care. There was no

mention that you wouldn't have to pay more than 70 5000. Yet when they

suddenly said, we will put that in so you can keep 100, and you won't

have to pay more than 75, she just couldn't bring herself to say it was

a change. You say the old people may not have been too worried but it was

the fact that clearly everybody knew she had changed her position. The

public are much more forgiving than Westminster. The concept of a

U-turn. If you front up to it. In human life, everybody makes

mistakes, finally you put your hands up and say, that is what happened.

Theresa May stood there at repeated press conferences, answering

question after question, saying nothing has changed, nothing has

changed. We'll knew something had changed. We reported it. The public

completely knew something had changed. That undermined her brand

of not being like the rest. What is it with this nick, Timothy and Fiona

Hill, that they can take on one side and say, don't give way, which is

presumably what they were doing? Presumably she will have felt that.

They are a core trio that I worked together for years. But to present

her as not being able to make a wrong mind up is not fair. In our

last couple of years at the Home Office, the to -- two of them had

already left. The story is too tempting to imagine as a politician

having strings pulled by people behind the scenes. The thing about

Theresa May is she is extremely self-contained. She doesn't trust

people easily. Since she moved into Number 10 people have been saying,

she will have to broaden her circle. You can run that kind of tight ship

if you are in a department. At Number 10, you have to be nimble.

What we saw in this campaign, that was the one thing Theresa May seemed

not capable of doing, was being nimble. The next 24-hour is she

needs to survive. She is gone to need to be nimble. I understand she

has been talking the Tory staff. Apparently her mood was calm,

sombre. She didn't directly address the issue of her future. She didn't

say she was going to stay, we will carry on together. The application

of course not mentioning it is that she hasn't made of her mind. -- made

up her mind. I will come back to you in a minute. This is a list of seats

still to declare. Have a look at this. The Tories have to win all of

these bar one. All of these bar one. There is the less. These are all

being counted at the moment. They have taken Devon West and torrid.

They have to take all of them bar one. If they lose two, it is a hung

parliament. That is why we are forecasting a hung parliament.

What reaction have you got? Not just social media.

I am text on relentlessly. I text it a former Tory minister, can she

survived? I will not telling the utilities. The response was, I doubt

it. As Laura has been reporting and discussing, this election was called

about the single issue of Brexit. Theresa May wanted a mandate to

connect -- to negotiate with conviction. It is clear looking at

what we are seeing on social media that people who backed Remain, they

are very much emboldened. We have a declaration from Ashfield.

Gloria Del Piero, 21,000 285. Tony Harper, Conservative Party, 20800

and 44. Green Party candidate, 398. Putting people before politics,

4612. Ray Young, Ukip, for the number of ballot papers rejected...

Gloria Del Piera has been there since 2010. A former political

correspondent for television. Once described as Tony Blair's favourite

broadcaster. She has held onto Ashfield. The previous majority was

8000. This is down in the hundreds. But anywhere, Ashfield has been

held. Ashfield in Nottinghamshire. The Remainers, people like Ed

Miliband, were meant to be vanquished by this election. The

idea was that by getting a big mandate, Theresa merguez cover their

ambitions. But actually, these guys are massively happy about this

result. Ed Miliband has put out a message in the last hour saying, we

know Theresa May can't now negotiate Brexit for Britain because she told

us losing a majority would destroy her authority, and it has. Pretty

brutal stuff from Ed Miliband. There are lots of people who are almost

celebrity opponents of Brexit. Simon Schama, the historian, is one of

them. He has put out a message saying hard Brexit is dead ma May on

life support. Democracy is alive and kicking, a great thing. We are going

to have lots of complex battles inside the Conservative Party and

the House of Commons over the next few weeks, but that is not the only

battle. The other 27 members of the European Union will be looking at

this result. I think they agreed with Theresa May's analysis. Had she

got a big increase in her majority, she would have had a stronger

bargaining position. Now it is much weaker. Whoever runs the government

over the next few weeks and months will find it much harder to get any

deal out of the other 27 members. But if their mandate is weaker here,

the strongest contingent in the Conservative Party is the

Eurosceptics. So with a weaker mandate, there are potentially more

likely to push her around and therefore a hard Brexit could be

back on the table. Let's hear from the Conservative Party, a man who

contended for the Conservative Party leadership until he dropped out,

Stephen Crabb, who has held his Welsh seat by just over 300, down

from 5000 or so. Thank you for joining us. Tell us what you think

of the state of affairs for your party and which direction it should

now go in? I have not been able to follow the full unfolding results or

what the current state of the arithmetic is of what the new

parliament will be but clearly, something has gone awry here. We set

out on this election campaign wanting to provide the country with

more stability and more unity ahead of the Brexit negotiations, and we

are emerging with a situation in parliament where there are more

divisions and less stability. So we clearly need to take stock of what

has gone on and think about what these big overarching challenges

with the Brexit negotiations, and take time to rethink what the

correct approach is in the national interest. Can the Prime Minister

hang on? Is absolutely she can. I don't know what the current state of

affairs is with the number of seats being won, but if she is the leader

of the largest party, there is a duty upon her as Prime Minister to

seek to form a viable government. The last thing we should be doing

right now while the election results are still coming in, is called for

more political turbulence and knee jerk decisions. We need to be calm

about this. Theresa May clearly understands the seriousness of the

situation. But we should avoid hasty decisions that add to the

instability. Leaving aside the leadership, in terms of policy, you

are stored Remainer -- a staunch Remainer. You don't want to see

Britain leave the EU in difficult circumstances and go into the World

Trade Organisation. Do you think this election will have a salutary

effect on the decisions that are made about Brexit as a Remainer?

Well, I voted for Remain, but I understood the result of the

referendum last year and recognised the need to strike a pragmatic and

realistic Brexit position. I think it is important to avoid falling

back on this hard edge Brexit relying on World Trade Organisation

rules. And yes, one of the messages from the results tonight will be

that the government needs to seek a balanced, pragmatic approach, strike

that deal with the European Union if we can. Ideally, given that it is

unlikely that there will be one party with an overall majority, we

need to be trying to forge as much cross-party consensus on this as

possible. Stephen Crabb, thank you. While you were talking, we were

watching Zac Goldsmith at Richmond Park, where there appear to have

been two recounts. He is looking very chirpy. That is him, the blond

fellow in the background, who is fighting the Conservative cause

against the Liberal Democrats, who took over his seat in a by-election.

Let's hear from our reporter there if we can. We can't. So we will

leave him there, mulling over whatever it is that has happened,

and go to North East Fife. It is difficult to interpret people's

faces. And we have lost North East Fife as well. But I'm sure everyone

will come back in time. So we have a hung parliament, we think. 20 seats

to go now and the Tories are on 306. We think they will end up at 318. Is

it time to remind ourselves of what happens with a hung parliament? I am

sure it is. The technical rules. Who governs while it is resolved? The

incumbent Prime Minister is still in office. Whatever happens with the

Tory party, the government in power gets the first chance to form a

government. If they can't do that and they try to put something

forward to the Commons and it fails, then the Prime Minister has to

resign. We may not get to that territory. We will have to leave

your lecture. We are going to Southampton. The Conservative

candidate, 16006. If Labour hold this one, it is a hung parliament.

Independent, 680. Southampton independent, 716. Labour

Party, 27509. That is it. He has increased his agility, so it is a

hung parliament. The Tories had to take that one if they were to have

any chance of reaching 326. They now don't. We forecast a hung parliament

and it now is a hung parliament. This is the official moment where we

can say Theresa May's gamble has spectacularly backfired. She has

lost the majority she inherited from David Cameron. She herself is in a

vulnerable position at a time when whoever is in charge faces the most

competitive political task in decades. Astonishing. You can go

back to reading your rules. So the Prime Minister is still entitled.

Does she go to the palace? No. I think she still will go to the

palace. There still has to be a formal request after a general

election. Then she goes back to the House of Commons. A vote of

confidence then? That would be up to the 1922 committee. But what will

she do as Prime Minister? The first move would be to put forward what

she plans to do. Parliament State opening is on the 19th of June, so

she would try to put forward a Queen's Speech and essentially dare

the other parties to vote you down. It may be that things are moving so

fast that we might not get there but technically, the largest party is

entitled to put forward a Queen's Speech and see what the other

parties make of it. On these numbers, it may be that if Theresa

May makes it through the Tory grinder, her Queen's Speech would go

through and then she could carry on, albeit very much damaged but still

in charge. But it is too straightforward to say she has to

get it through Parliament, because the opposition parties might not

want to force another election now or form another government. So they

can call back or abstain. They can do all sorts of things. Let her stew

in her own juice for a bit. She has already voiced that up on her own

petard. There we go, two analogies! The rules create the backdrop of all

of this. But the political mood is more important. Where there is a

will, there's a way. If the party allows her to stay and she wants to

carry on when she's so damaged, then maybe she can. But somebody in 11

days' time has to go and speak to Mr Barnier about leaving. So who does

that? If Theresa May stays on, you would assume it would be David

Davis, if he doesn't get moved to another job. But it would be an

astonishing thing where whoever it is turned up opposing the other 27

countries around the table. Emily has more results for us. We know it

is now a hung parliament, but let's see what has come in. I wonder if we

are starting to feel the pace of the shy Remainer in these results. This

is Chipping Barnet, a north London suburb by showing that although

Theresa Villiers has kept the seat, look at the swing, again away from

her towards Labour of 6.9%. Same sort of direction as the one we saw

with Justine Greening in Putney. They are holding on here.

Dumfriesshire is the one that has been held for the Conservatives. It

does start to look like a rejection of independence, whether you are

talking about the Scottish referendum, or maybe a start of the

shy Remain vote in England. We have seen some extraordinary swings in

Scotland on a summer of 20%. This is not as big, but it is still pretty

hefty, and 11 point swing towards the Conservatives away from the SNP.

Even when you see the old, let's look at the change. The Ukip vote is

again deeply down, Labour making those gains which holds the seat for

the Conservatives. In Scotland, we are seeing a real rejection of

independence, with all the parties taking away from the SNP. Will we

start to interpret the same sort of movement in some of the gains that

Labour is making from the Conservatives? So it could be that

one of the effects of this election will be to give hope to the 48% who

voted Remain in the referendum last summer? They will think there is now

something to play for again. You have heard the Remainers saying the

48% felt forgotten. Perhaps over the course of this year, the Remainers

are the ones who have felt their voice was ignored and it is starting

to come through. This is the voice of the shy Remainers, but they have

not decamped en masse to the Lib Dems. It was the Lib Dem strategy to

relentless target the 40% in the hope that they would all come over

to the yellow column, but that has not happened, interestingly. Well,

the 326 seats that the Tories needed if they were to have a majority,

even a minuscule one, is now impossible. So it is a hung

parliament. The Conservatives have 309 seats. Labour 258. There is no

way the Conservatives can go to 326. That is how it is at the moment. We

have not shown the other parties. I don't think we have even mentioned

whether the Green Party won in Brighton. We are still waiting for

that result, Caroline Lucas. That is how things are. It is a hung

parliament, and that's the story. And it has taken us from ten

o'clock, when it was quite astonishing to get the exit poll, to

now, just before six o'clock, to be certain that that is how things are.

Peter. In the light of the referendum a year ago, Scotland was

doing one thing, London was doing one thing, and the rest of England

and Wales. It is like that tonight. These three quite different

operations. Scotland, a massive swing from SNP to Conservative. In a

huge swing to Labour, especially in the Tory marginals. The rest of

England and Wales, a small swing to Labour. So once again, the shadow of

Brexit and the referendum is telling in these results. A while ago,

Southgate went back to Labour. The remarkable thing is that it was

actually in line with all the other Conservative marginals in London.

The surprising thing is that it was not a surprise in terms of what was

happening in London tonight. Cordova it is six o'clock and some

of you will have had your alarm clocks winging in your ear. You will

be will wanting to know what happened. The news from the Election

Centre, it is a hung parliament. Theresa May, having gone to get what

she called certainty and stability for the years ahead, has totally

failed. She had a majority of 17 when this election was called a few

weeks back, she now doesn't have a majority at all. From her point of

view, it's a total disaster. It was a call she made and it fell flat.

That's how things are. For the next hour and the rest of the day, we

will discuss the ramifications. All sorts of ramifications, whether she

stays on this, what happens on policy. 11 days from now, we have to

start discussing with EU the terms of Brexit. If you are yawning and

about to do your morning exercises, that is the news for you.

Up here with me, two people whose job it is to decipher these messages

into newsprint and onto the airwaves.

Let's start with the point a moment ago, Andrew, do you think this was

the voice of the shy Remainer coming back? I said earlier I thought there

was an element of the angry Remainer who had been ignored for most of the

campaign, expressing itself in some of the results. There is a lot to

this result, but the big headline is this is the most stunning reversal

of fortunes. Just a month ago, the local elections, it now appears to

be the Jurassic in love. Labour was absolutely hammered at those

elections. -- the Jurassic era. Fast forward now, stunningly better

results for Jeremy Corbyn, when most expected, including me, and most of

his MPs... Some of that is obviously down to the dreadful Conservative

campaign, but credit where it is due, Labour has run a very effective

campaign, confounding so many expectations. Until a minute to ten

last night, many Labour MPs were waiting to come out anticipating a

dreadful drubbing. Some who have appeared on this programme over the

course of the evening, perhaps preparing to launch leadership

campaigns. All that is for the birds now. What do you think this was

about? I think we are all going to concentrate on Theresa May falling

short in her gamble, but we should not miss the big driver, that Jeremy

Corbyn did vastly better than people expected and had analysed. His idea

was Ed Miliband did not energise people beyond the ordinary people

who vote in elections, and we can do that with a new message. Everybody

outside their group thought that was an eccentric theory, it wouldn't

happen. They were right, we were wrong. That is one of the big

drivers of the election. People thought Labour would get 30%, it got

above 40%. No one saw that coming. That is a bigger feature of the

election. Why would that happen? One of the reasons is obviously Remain

versus Leave. When David Cameron had the election in 2015,

real income growth was going up. Now it is going down. Everything

political science tells you, you have to make the election about

something else. She tried to make it about the Brexit negotiations, but

it ended up being a lot about austerity. Not an election winning

number of voters for Labour. Mr Corbyn and his team were right, they

seem to have been proved correct in attaching onto the idea that after

seven years, a lot of the public is heartily sick of austerity. Even if

they did not think plausible the whole Labour programme... Is it a

campaign when not much could have been done? It is worth noting Labour

did not actually win the election. The really interesting question is,

is there a way of taking the excitement Jeremy Corbyn brings to

the campaign and linking it with feeling they could actually govern,

which would then produce the extra votes that would allow them to

actually win a majority themselves? Because it is important not to be

carried away by expectations and think that Labour won the election.

In circumstances where the economy was going backwards and there was a

Remain feeling, of course they fall short, so we need to analyse that

too. What are you hearing from within the party about Theresa May's

future? Because everyone is busy, I am not hearing one way or another,

but if you fight an election because you want a mandate and you don't get

a mandate, that puts your position in question. The problem for the

Conservative Party is there is no majority in the Conservative Party

that would then command a majority on Brexit in the Commons, and in the