Part 2

:00:00. > :00:00.comfortable with the campaign they were fighting. Theresa May went into

:00:00. > :00:00.reverse gear calling the election and moving away from her manifesto

:00:07. > :00:07.position, so it is an interesting divergence between Scotland and the

:00:08. > :00:17.rest of the UK. If you're losing your 15th safest

:00:18. > :00:24.seat in Scotland, perhaps the exit poll is right. If it is right and

:00:25. > :00:29.the SNP holds 54 seats, that's still a victory and it's still way more

:00:30. > :00:37.than... Losing their momentum? We more than the 12 seats we health

:00:38. > :00:42.before 2015. It could be the case that some pro-independence voters

:00:43. > :00:51.have gone to the Labour Party. We shared support in opinion polls for

:00:52. > :00:57.independence. Is it possible, Henry McLeish, that Labour has won back

:00:58. > :01:07.so-called Yes voters despite Kezia Dugdale writing a campaign based on

:01:08. > :01:15.their not being a second rent rent. The fact is we are winning back.

:01:16. > :01:26.There is a split. That is positive. There seems to be a Corbyn bounce in

:01:27. > :01:29.terms of the manifesto. In the other hand, looking at specific seats, the

:01:30. > :01:36.Tories have an impressive record of unionism in Scotland. Labour has

:01:37. > :01:42.often lost out, to the Conservatives, because they see them

:01:43. > :01:46.as the best unionist bed. I think that goblin has helped us to

:01:47. > :01:54.claw-back lots of the traditional labour votes. -- I think that Jeremy

:01:55. > :02:07.Corbyn has helped us to claw-back. Let's get the results from East

:02:08. > :02:18.Kilbride, Strathaven and Liz Meikle -- Lesmahagow. I hereby give the

:02:19. > :02:28.results. The electorate in this constituency was 80400 and 42. Total

:02:29. > :02:33.votes cast was 54,000 183. Percentage of the total votes cast

:02:34. > :02:41.was there 67.4%. The number of ballot papers rejected was 81. I

:02:42. > :02:45.hereby give notice that the total number of votes polled for each

:02:46. > :03:00.candidate at the election was as follows. Lisa Cameron SNP 21,000 23.

:03:01. > :03:12.APPLAUSE Janice MacKay Ukip 628. Monique

:03:13. > :03:25.McAdams Labour Party 17,157. APPLAUSE

:03:26. > :03:36.Paul McGarry Scottish Liberal Democrats 1590. Mark McGeever

:03:37. > :03:39.Scottish Conservative and Unionist. 13,704. Lisa Cameron is therefore

:03:40. > :03:52.elected to serve... CHEERING

:03:53. > :03:59.Lisa Cameron re-elected for the SNP in East Kilbride, Strathaven and

:04:00. > :04:13.Lesmahagow. The SNP's Lisa Cameron wins with -- 20 1020 votes. Down

:04:14. > :04:18.significantly on last time. Let's cross to Paisley for another

:04:19. > :04:27.declaration. Sandra Black returning officer for the Paisley and

:04:28. > :04:30.Renfrewshire North constituency. I declare that the total number of

:04:31. > :04:40.forts given to each candidate was as follows. John Robert Boyd Scottish

:04:41. > :04:51.Liberal Democrats 1476. David John Gardner Scottish Conservative and

:04:52. > :04:55.Unionist 12,842. APPLAUSE

:04:56. > :05:11.Gavin Andrew Stuart Newlands SNP 17,455.

:05:12. > :05:19.APPLAUSE Alison Suzanne watched Taylor

:05:20. > :05:26.Scottish Labour Party 14,842. The total number of ballot papers

:05:27. > :05:37.rejected was 51. The total number of votes was 46,006 and 66. I therefore

:05:38. > :05:41.declaring Gavin Andrew Stuart Newlands is duly elected as the

:05:42. > :05:47.member of Parliament for the Paisley and Renfrewshire North constituency.

:05:48. > :05:51.CHEERING Gavin Newlands re-elected for the

:05:52. > :05:57.SNP in Paisley and Renfrewshire North. Labour's Alison Taylor

:05:58. > :06:12.second. The swing between top two parties in

:06:13. > :08:40.Paisley and Renfrewshire North 6.2%. Labour. Certainly she's on a

:08:41. > :08:42.whopping 60% share of the vote now. It was number two

:08:43. > :08:51.There is Boris Johnson, the Foreign Secretary. There was a suggestion

:08:52. > :08:57.earlier that he would be on rivers, I think was the phrase. Seeing an

:08:58. > :08:58.opportunity to have another go at the leadership if the exit poll

:08:59. > :09:04.turns out to be right. massively towards Labour. A bit like

:09:05. > :09:08.that seat Putney, earlier, where turns out to be right. If Theresa

:09:09. > :09:14.May faced to make the games she had decided to do. Let's go to

:09:15. > :09:21.Battersea. Labour have gained Battersea from the Conservatives.

:09:22. > :10:16.an overall majority. Boris Johnson, who has a vested interest in

:10:17. > :10:18.Labour picking up an important constituency and beat a Government

:10:19. > :10:33.minister. Urban constituencies, Labour

:10:34. > :10:38.candidate better there, they tend to report better. -- labour tend to do

:10:39. > :10:50.better there. Let's look at the results from

:10:51. > :11:37.Falkirk. There is the leader of the Labour

:11:38. > :11:46.Party having a better night than many people expected are protected.

:11:47. > :11:50.Generally seemed to have had a good campaign. -- expected or predicted.

:11:51. > :11:59.These are his foot soldiers. In Glasgow. Anna Sarwar with the former

:12:00. > :12:04.leader of the Council Frank McAfee to. The new MP four of article and

:12:05. > :12:09.in the centre of that picture. We've moved on. Let's bring you a

:12:10. > :12:30.declaration from Stornoway. Ealasaid MacDonald Scottish Labour

:12:31. > :12:51.Party 5006. Angus Brendan McNeill SNP 6013. Daniel Stephen

:12:52. > :13:07.McCroskey Scottish Conservative and Unionist 2441.

:13:08. > :13:26.James Paterson Scottish Liberal Democrats 250. The turnout was

:13:27. > :13:44.69.7%. They are worth 35 rejected ballot papers. -- deal worth 35. And

:13:45. > :13:56.I declare that Angus Brendan McNeill is duly elected to serve as member

:13:57. > :14:02.of Parliament for the Na h-Eileanan Siar constituency. Na h-Eileanan

:14:03. > :14:13.Siar retains Angus MacNeil as their MP for the next few years. The

:14:14. > :14:20.Conservatives in third place, 2004 at 41 votes. The Christian party

:14:21. > :14:36.candidate John Cormack in third place. Liberal Democrat candidate to

:14:37. > :14:37.lunch and 50 votes. Turnout of 70%. A small electorate and a closely

:14:38. > :14:50.fought contest. The SNP vote is down in the Western

:14:51. > :15:01.Isles by 14%. The change is not enough to change

:15:02. > :15:19.the MP. Angus MacNeil is back. There is Jeremy Corbyn. He's got a

:15:20. > :15:28.smile on his face as he arrives at his count in London. Islington

:15:29. > :15:33.North, this constituency. Geographically the smallest seat in

:15:34. > :15:44.the country. People looking for pictures. Maybe a selfie or crew.

:15:45. > :15:50.Who knows how the night will end for him? The exit poll suggests that the

:15:51. > :15:58.Conservatives were finished as the largest party ahead of Labour. --

:15:59. > :16:04.will finish as the largest party. Under the exit poll predictions,

:16:05. > :16:08.they wouldn't be under scratch made be able to get any Kent of

:16:09. > :16:20.coalition. There are plenty more results to

:16:21. > :16:28.come. Ryan Taylor, Jeremy Corbyn has surprised a lot of people in the

:16:29. > :16:32.selection. Yes, he has had a good upbeat campaign projecting labour's

:16:33. > :16:37.arguments for taking power. The expectations of him were pretty low,

:16:38. > :16:42.frankly, one has to say, particularly among members of the

:16:43. > :16:52.Labour Party. But he has done relatively well and he's getting a

:16:53. > :16:57.lot of cheering in his constituency. Stockton South, Battersea, not

:16:58. > :17:05.picking up enough to take power, but it seems that the exit poll is borne

:17:06. > :17:13.out to some extent, the Tories are not doing as bad as the exit polls

:17:14. > :17:23.would suggest, but probably it would seem that there will not be that

:17:24. > :17:33.huge majority Theresa May was looking for. Let us go to Glenrothes

:17:34. > :17:41.for a declaration. The electorate is 66,378. 40,440 ballot papers were

:17:42. > :17:48.verified, giving a turnout of 68.92%. 41 ballot papers were

:17:49. > :17:56.rejected. I give notice that the total number of votes cast for each

:17:57. > :18:04.candidate was as follows. Rebecca Louise Bell, Scottish Liberal

:18:05. > :18:14.Democrats, 1208. Andrew Robert Brown, Scottish Conservative and

:18:15. > :18:28.Unionist, altimeter deal, Scottish Labour Party.

:18:29. > :18:44.-- alternate steel. Lek is head over to Marais. Angus Robertson, Scottish

:18:45. > :18:56.National Party, SNP, 18,478. Douglas Robertson -- Douglas Ross, Scottish

:18:57. > :19:03.Conservative and Unionist Party 22,000...

:19:04. > :19:14.CHEERING I will just finished the announcement. Douglas -- Douglas

:19:15. > :19:21.Ross, 22,637. Ballot papers rejected, 62, giving total votes of

:19:22. > :19:25.47,667. And I declare that Douglas Ross is elected to serve in the

:19:26. > :19:40.United Kingdom Parliament as the member of the Marais constituency.

:19:41. > :19:45.CHEERING -- Moray. The SNP's Westminster leader is out. Could I

:19:46. > :19:50.use my first words as the member of Parliament for Moray to offer my

:19:51. > :19:53.heartfelt thanks to the people of this constituency who have put their

:19:54. > :20:00.trust in me to be their member of Parliament. I gave a promise that my

:20:01. > :20:02.first and only priority will be to serve the people of this

:20:03. > :20:09.constituency to the best of my ability. Mark, today thank you for

:20:10. > :20:13.your duties as returning officer and your staff here in the hall tonight

:20:14. > :20:21.and at the polling stations throughout Moray today, and all the

:20:22. > :20:32.work done with postal votes. Mark, I know this is your final count as an

:20:33. > :20:36.employee of Moray Council, and I would like to see you will be sorely

:20:37. > :20:43.missed. Could I also thank the police who are with us here tonight,

:20:44. > :20:47.and have been throughout the polling stations in Moray today. Your

:20:48. > :20:53.presence here ensures we live in a democracy and we can carry out our

:20:54. > :20:59.duties in an efficient and calm manner. Just to confirm the

:21:00. > :21:05.result... A big story. The Conservatives have gained that seat,

:21:06. > :21:16.unseating Angus Robertson, the party's Deputy Leader for the SNP.

:21:17. > :21:27.Douglas Ross, currently a member of the Scottish Conservative Party, and

:21:28. > :21:34.an SFA referee. Labour's Jo Kirby is third, Lib Dems for. Another story

:21:35. > :21:43.breaking in Glasgow. Let us go there to Aileen Clarke. What can you tell

:21:44. > :21:46.us? We have yet to have the official declaration, I should make that

:21:47. > :21:53.clear, but if you were hear a few minutes ago you would have heard the

:21:54. > :21:55.cheering at this end of the room from Labour, who are very pleased

:21:56. > :22:02.indeed, and certainly believe they have won Glasgow North East. With me

:22:03. > :22:11.as Paul Sweeney. You're the man in the middle of that cheering. You

:22:12. > :22:25.were the believe you took yes, it is clear we have tonight -- believe you

:22:26. > :22:28.took the seat from the SNP. Yes, Glasgow is the city that created the

:22:29. > :22:39.labour movement and they have responded to a powerful Labour

:22:40. > :22:45.vision. I am sure we will hear more from you. But there are a lot of

:22:46. > :22:48.smiles here from the Labour camp. They believe Glasgow North East is

:22:49. > :22:51.the first seat they have managed to take back from the SNP here tonight,

:22:52. > :22:58.and hoping it will not be the only one. Of course, in Glasgow North

:22:59. > :23:06.East they had one of the biggest swings against Labour at the last

:23:07. > :23:14.election. Let us just update the forecast with you, Brian. Yes, the

:23:15. > :23:18.exit poll at the start said the Conservatives were the largest

:23:19. > :23:22.party. The new figures with results being seen suggests the

:23:23. > :23:26.Conservatives will take 322 seats, which is short of an overall

:23:27. > :23:35.majority which requires 326. Labour, 261 seats, 29 more than the present

:23:36. > :23:43.situation. The SNP would appear to have worsened, and there are

:23:44. > :23:46.suggestions they would take 32 seats, which is down 24 on the

:23:47. > :23:53.figure they started the night with. Liberal Democrats, the poll reckons

:23:54. > :23:58.13, plus five. And the others, 22, including Plaid Cymru and the Green

:23:59. > :24:02.Party. It is still possible the Conservatives win an overall

:24:03. > :24:05.majority, but it does not look possible way when the huge majority

:24:06. > :24:12.that was apparently the purpose of this entire exercise and seven-week

:24:13. > :24:25.campaign and drive to the polls. Theresa May would not appear to have

:24:26. > :24:28.secured a gain. In Moray, the referee has won and the team captain

:24:29. > :24:34.was sent off. Whatever happens to the SNP tonight, that result in

:24:35. > :24:36.Moray is bound to colour the verdict on them. They have lost their Deputy

:24:37. > :24:40.Leader, their Westminster leader, and they have lost by everyone's

:24:41. > :24:46.estimation is one of the best parliamentary performance at

:24:47. > :24:54.Westminster. Let us pick up with the panel, which has transformed in the

:24:55. > :24:59.last few minutes. We have Michael Matheson, the Justice Secretary for

:25:00. > :25:03.the SNP, the Lockhart, MSP for the Conservatives, Jackie Baillie per

:25:04. > :25:08.Scottish Labour run for the Scottish Liberal Democrats, Sheila Thompson,

:25:09. > :25:15.who is convener of the party. Let us pick up with you, an incredible

:25:16. > :25:24.result in Moray for the Labour Party. Yes, that will be one of the

:25:25. > :25:30.defining moments. It shows across Scotland we are gaining support. We

:25:31. > :25:36.are not necessarily winning, like in Paisley, we had a strong pick-up in

:25:37. > :25:38.support, but in areas like Moray and Angus, we are gaining from the SNP,

:25:39. > :25:45.so we're having a positive night, and the other trend this evening is

:25:46. > :25:50.a fault in the support for the SNP. And there is more good news for the

:25:51. > :25:57.Conservatives in Scotland, just hearing this latest declaration.

:25:58. > :26:15.Luke Graham has been elected. The SNP's Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh,

:26:16. > :26:20.second-place. High-profile figure in the SNP, a front bench spokesperson

:26:21. > :26:28.at Westminster, she is out. The Conservatives have taken it. Labour

:26:29. > :26:37.used to be in second place, but they have been pushed into third. A

:26:38. > :26:50.turnout of 71%. Here is the breakdown.

:26:51. > :27:02.Let us get the result from Aberdeen North. Kirsty Blackman Scottish

:27:03. > :27:12.National Party, 15,170. Isobel Davidson, Scottish Liberal

:27:13. > :27:15.Democrats, 1693. Richard John Turk and independent, 522. Grace

:27:16. > :27:39.O'Keeffe, Scottish Conservative and you are, Scottish Labour, 11,031.

:27:40. > :27:47.Ballot papers rejected, 55. Total votes, 36,812. I declare that Kirsty

:27:48. > :27:52.Blackman is elected to serve. The SNP hold Aberdeen North. Labour have

:27:53. > :27:57.just taken Midlothian from the SNP. We will get to that result in a

:27:58. > :28:17.moment. Let us confirm Aberdeen North, Kirsty Blackman.

:28:18. > :28:55.Labour have gained from the SNP the Midlothian constituency. Danielle

:28:56. > :29:39.Rowley, the new MP for Midlothian. This is fairly consistent with the

:29:40. > :30:22.results we are seeing for the SNP. Secretary Justine Greening in

:30:23. > :31:56.Putney. You only just The shoots in voting matters across

:31:57. > :32:37.Scotland. -- big shifts in voting patterns across Scotland.

:32:38. > :32:52.I think we can bring you a picture from across Scotland so far. The SNP

:32:53. > :33:00.at the moment on 13 seats. Conservatives have three and Labour

:33:01. > :33:07.on true. -- on two. On the results so far, the Conservatives, with

:33:08. > :33:11.three seats, have tripled their total. This is the first time that

:33:12. > :33:16.the Conservatives have had more than one MP in Scotland since 1992. Five

:33:17. > :33:23.years later, they were all wiped out. Labour picking up seats in this

:33:24. > :33:31.general election in Scotland. At the expense of the SNP, inevitable given

:33:32. > :33:38.that they had 56 out of 59 seats at the last election. Let's pick up

:33:39. > :33:49.with our guest Michael Matheson. Some bad news from your point of

:33:50. > :33:56.view. A defeat in Murray as well as in Ayrshire. Disappointed for Angus

:33:57. > :34:00.Robertson. Parliamentary leader at Westminster. An effective

:34:01. > :34:06.parliamentarian. Widely recognised across the political divide in

:34:07. > :34:11.Westminster as being effective, particularly at Prime Minister's

:34:12. > :34:18.Question Time. Disappointed about that. Congratulations to Douglas

:34:19. > :34:25.Ross. I've no doubt that losing Angus Robertson will be a huge loss

:34:26. > :34:32.to the party. A -- Amit Sheikh has also lost that. What has happened to

:34:33. > :34:39.the SNP in two short years from that enormous triumph in 2015 to a night

:34:40. > :34:47.where you are losing major figures in your party? What is clear is that

:34:48. > :34:53.to some degree a real learning taking place. In 2015, we took some

:34:54. > :35:05.seats with big massive swings. Some of which brought the swingometer.

:35:06. > :35:13.There is a realignment taking place. Some going to the labour and

:35:14. > :35:19.Conservative. But why? There could be many reasons. Different local

:35:20. > :35:22.circumstances. National issues. An element of realignment starting to

:35:23. > :35:30.take place within the Scottish political scene. In Scotland, we

:35:31. > :35:35.have a four party system. You turned it into almost a 1-party system. The

:35:36. > :35:42.idea that you can continue to hold 95% of the seats is just not

:35:43. > :35:49.possible. But the idea that you lose your partydeputy leader in what

:35:50. > :35:58.looked to be a safe SNP seat, that's an extraordinary change in fortunes.

:35:59. > :36:10.Yes, there is a significant increase in the Conservative. For example, in

:36:11. > :36:17.Ochil estate. What has happened, we have been outpolled by the Tory

:36:18. > :36:25.vote. That is overtaken us in the public areas such as Alloa. Let's

:36:26. > :36:29.take in Jackie Baillie. To comment on your victory in Midlothian but

:36:30. > :36:39.also the way in which the party has been squeezed out of the picture in

:36:40. > :36:42.Ochil and South Perthshire. There is tactical voting across the country.

:36:43. > :36:50.You will see different results in different areas. One thing is

:36:51. > :36:55.increasingly clear and consistent about tonight 's thoughts is that

:36:56. > :37:03.the SNP have done badly. There is a drop in their vote of 16-17%. It's

:37:04. > :37:11.becoming increasingly clear that not only have we passed peak Nicola, we

:37:12. > :37:20.passed peak SNP. When you look at Nicola Sturgeon's popularity ratings

:37:21. > :37:28.55% at the last general election and now -4. That is why the SNP on

:37:29. > :37:34.losing seats. Is it also clear to you, we may have to break off, from

:37:35. > :37:40.the results so far tonight that Jeremy Corbyn is two litre for time

:37:41. > :37:43.to come? I think Jeremy Corbyn has had a good campaign. Nobody would

:37:44. > :37:51.disagree with that. Does it pay new to say that? Not at all. Both Jeremy

:37:52. > :37:58.Corbyn and Kezia Dugdale should be pleased. It's been a good campaign.

:37:59. > :38:03.I'm delighted for Danielle Rowley. More results like that to come. We

:38:04. > :38:11.are waiting for results from Dunbartonshire East and also

:38:12. > :38:27.Renfrewshire East, both interesting results to listen in for. I want to

:38:28. > :38:33.bring any human. -- in Dean. Self brochure, you weren't expecting it.

:38:34. > :38:40.We were certainly not expecting. How far down was that? We thought it was

:38:41. > :38:45.achievable but to win it with a majority of 3500 is extraordinary.

:38:46. > :38:52.Two issues are driving this. We are going to East Renfrewshire. Paul

:38:53. > :39:12.Masterton, Scottish Conservative and Unionist. 21,496. Clear George

:39:13. > :39:24.McDougall Scottish Labour Party 14,346. -- Blair George McDougall.

:39:25. > :39:38.Aileen Morton Scottish Liberal Democrats 1,112. Kristin Francis

:39:39. > :39:38.Oswald Scottish National Party 16,000...

:39:39. > :39:55.CHEERING Therefore I give public notice that

:39:56. > :40:01.Paul Masterton is duly elected as the member of Parliament for the

:40:02. > :40:05.East Renfrewshire constituency. The total number of votes cast... Well,

:40:06. > :40:09.there was a time when this was the safest Conservative seat in the

:40:10. > :40:14.country. It's been a long time since it's been Conservative but the

:40:15. > :40:19.Tories are back in Renfrewshire East. Paul Masterton has been

:40:20. > :40:26.elected as the MP, defeating the SNP's Kirsten Oswald, despite the

:40:27. > :40:37.fact it was also a very high profile Labour candidate. -- Jason Oswald.

:40:38. > :40:44.Paul Masterton has been elected as the MP for Renfrewshire East. We are

:40:45. > :40:48.hearing that we may get a result shortly from another constituency on

:40:49. > :40:51.the edge of Glasgow. Dunbartonshire East. The Liberal Democrats are

:40:52. > :41:04.trying to regain the constituency from the SNP. Good morning. I can

:41:05. > :41:14.declare the results. The date of the election being Thursday the 8th of

:41:15. > :41:25.June 2017. The electorate was 66,300. Total votes cast where

:41:26. > :41:38.51,869. Percentage poll being 78.23%. I, returning officer for the

:41:39. > :41:43.UK Parliamentary election in the East Dunbartonshire constituency,

:41:44. > :41:46.hereby give notice that the total number of votes polled for each

:41:47. > :41:57.candidate at the election was as follows. Callum McNally Scottish

:41:58. > :42:10.Labour Party 7,531. APPLAUSE

:42:11. > :42:22.Sheila Mechan Conservative and Unionist 7,563. John Nicolson

:42:23. > :42:34.Scottish National Party 15,684. Jo Swinson Scottish Liberal Democrats

:42:35. > :42:48.21,000... CHEERING

:42:49. > :43:00.21,023. There were 68 rejected ballot papers. I declare that Jo

:43:01. > :43:08.Swinson is elected to serve as the member for East Dunbartonshire Kante

:43:09. > :43:10.constituency. That's a big winner for the Liberal Democrats. Jo

:43:11. > :43:18.Swinson returns to the House of Commons. A former Government

:43:19. > :43:27.minister was 21,023 votes. Defeating the SNP's John Nicolson. In second

:43:28. > :43:32.place, well behind. Sheila Mechan in third. Labour's Callum McNally in

:43:33. > :43:46.force. We can probably listen in to Jo

:43:47. > :43:51.Swinson says. As your MP, I will do my best to achieve that. In this

:43:52. > :43:56.victory, I want to recognise and thank all of those who put the usual

:43:57. > :44:01.party allegiance to one side to send a clear message that East

:44:02. > :44:07.Dunbartonshire does not want another divisive independence referendum.

:44:08. > :44:14.Nicola Sturgeon, I hope your listening. My agent campaign manager

:44:15. > :44:21.and my whole team of supporters have been fantastic. Through sunburn and

:44:22. > :44:26.downpours. I am humbled by house so many people have done so much to

:44:27. > :44:39.create at this result. -- by how so many people.

:44:40. > :45:01.Let's look at the result and a little bit more detail.

:45:02. > :45:07.Lib Dem vote isn't up by that much but the SNP vote is down ten. The

:45:08. > :45:12.Conservatives up six and Labour up to. -- up two. Everything from SNP

:45:13. > :45:30.to Lib Dems. -- a swing from SNP. But let's cross to Glasgow for the

:45:31. > :45:35.Glasgow East declaration. The total number of votes polled for each

:45:36. > :45:50.candidate was as follows. Matthew Clark Scottish Liberal Democrats

:45:51. > :45:58.576. John J Ferguson Ukip 504. Karin Finegan Independent 158. Thomas Kerr

:45:59. > :46:06.Scottish Conservative and Unionist party 6816. David Linden Scottish

:46:07. > :46:18.National Party 14000 and 24. CHEERING

:46:19. > :46:30.Steven Marshall, 148. Kate Watson, Scottish Labour Party, 13,949. I

:46:31. > :46:36.declare that David Linden is elected to serve in the United Kingdom

:46:37. > :46:45.Parliament as the Member for the Glasgow East constituency. Great

:46:46. > :46:48.excitement in the ranks of the SNP as they hold Glasgow East, but it is

:46:49. > :47:00.a new member of Parliament in David Linden that has been

:47:01. > :47:12.elected, Natalie McGarry has been replaced by David Linden, elected in

:47:13. > :47:15.Glasgow East. It was fought fairly close. Let us confirm this result.

:47:16. > :47:45.The SNP are holding Glasgow East. I.e., the returning officer, do

:47:46. > :47:49.hereby give notice the number of votes cast for each candidate at the

:47:50. > :47:53.election is as follows. Nick Clegg, Liberal Democrats, 19,756.

:47:54. > :48:12.CHEERING Jarrod O'Mara, Labour Party, 21,000

:48:13. > :48:33.881. -- 21,881. CHEERING Logan Robin, Green Party,

:48:34. > :48:40.823. John Thurley, UK Independence Party, 929, Ian Jeffrey Walker, the

:48:41. > :48:50.Conservative Party candidate, 13,561. Stephen Dominik Winston,

:48:51. > :48:56.social Democrat party, 70. Total spoiled papers, 89. I hereby declare

:48:57. > :49:05.that Jarrod O'Mara has been duly elected. Key is out, the former

:49:06. > :49:19.Liberal Democrat leader, Deputy Prime Minister, Nick Clegg, has lost

:49:20. > :49:25.the -- his seat. Some good news in Scotland for the Liberal Democrats

:49:26. > :49:28.picking up Dunbartonshire East. Let us get the result in Boris Johnson's

:49:29. > :49:35.constituency. Over the last few weeks, thank you for all the

:49:36. > :49:41.fantastic efforts for this borough. I do not think it would be possible

:49:42. > :49:48.from any of us to do it without you. And I want to pay a particular

:49:49. > :50:00.tribute to the voters, everyone in this city, the citizens of London,

:50:01. > :50:12.who refuse to be Bowood with the terrorist attacks. Of course, it is

:50:13. > :50:14.early to comment on the events unfolding tonight in this general

:50:15. > :50:20.election. But one thing is absolutely clear, I think, to all of

:50:21. > :50:27.us being elected as MPs tonight across our fantastic country, and

:50:28. > :50:33.that is we have got to listen to our constituents and listen to their

:50:34. > :50:39.concerns. Across Uxbridge in the last few weeks, I have heard all

:50:40. > :50:44.sorts of people raise all sorts of concerns, and they even said they

:50:45. > :50:49.were going to vote for me, they wanted me to deal with their

:50:50. > :50:55.problems. And I tell you, I will work flat-out on behalf of those who

:50:56. > :51:04.voted for me and of course all those who did not vote for me. With equal

:51:05. > :51:11.zeal, as I have done over the last couple of years. I am proud to have

:51:12. > :51:22.been re-elected as a member of Parliament for Oxbridge and South

:51:23. > :51:28.Ruislip. Boris Johnson re-elected in Oxbridge and South Ruislip. Let us

:51:29. > :51:36.have a bird's eye view with Jackie. OK, video drama seems to be taking

:51:37. > :51:38.place in Scotland. The SNP have lost their leader in Westminster, Angus

:51:39. > :51:42.Robertson. And high-profile casualty, who was beaten by the

:51:43. > :51:47.Conservatives in Moray, with a swing of more than 13%. Elsewhere the

:51:48. > :52:02.Conservatives have gained from the SNP in Angus, and Colonsay to pick

:52:03. > :52:10.-- Ochil. Labour have taken two seats from the SNP. Midlothian and

:52:11. > :52:18.Rutherglen and Hamilton West. And Nick Clegg is out. In UK terms it

:52:19. > :52:21.has been a good night for Labour, outperforming expectations, and in

:52:22. > :52:29.the last hour Jeremy Corbyn looked jubilant when he arrived for his

:52:30. > :52:34.count in Islington. A short time ago his deputy Tom Watson said that

:52:35. > :52:41.results so far validated Mr Corbyn's leadership. I think he was safe,

:52:42. > :52:51.whatever the result would have been. He has stood for two elections, and

:52:52. > :53:04.this was brought upon us. Labour Party, 13,829. Isabel Nelson,

:53:05. > :53:15.Scottish Liberal Democrats, 1045. Alison Kilis, Scottish National

:53:16. > :53:28.Party, 16,096. And I declare that Alison Thewliss has been elected to

:53:29. > :53:36.serve. That is the result from Glasgow Central. And Alison

:53:37. > :53:42.Thewliss, and campaigning MP over the last couple of years, has been

:53:43. > :53:45.re-elected in what is the only seat in the whole of the UK where all the

:53:46. > :53:55.candidates were female. Alison Thewliss re-elected, and her office

:53:56. > :53:57.worker, former member of her staff, has been elected for the

:53:58. > :54:06.neighbouring constituency, that was Glasgow East and David Linden a

:54:07. > :54:11.short time ago. We are also hearing that in another part of the city, in

:54:12. > :54:16.the south-west seat, the indications that Labour has come within 60 votes

:54:17. > :54:39.of unseating the SNP, but the SNP holding in Glasgow South West.

:54:40. > :54:48.Let us know speak to the leader of the Scottish Labour Party, Kezia

:54:49. > :54:52.Dugdale, joining us live from Haddington. Good evening to you. I

:54:53. > :54:57.wonder if we can take from the fact you are joining us from East Lothian

:54:58. > :55:06.tonight that things might be looking good for you and your party and your

:55:07. > :55:17.candidate Martin Whitfield in East Lothian. Will it be a Labour gain? I

:55:18. > :55:26.do not think Kezia Dugdale is hearing is at the moment. We will

:55:27. > :55:33.establish communications and speak to her as soon as we can. But there

:55:34. > :55:41.are pictures coming into us from Aberdeen. Alex Salmond, the former

:55:42. > :55:46.SNP leader and First Minister, arriving for his count. Let us hear

:55:47. > :55:51.what he is saying. There are swings in politics that even... Do you

:55:52. > :55:54.think the swing will affect you? He says he will have to wait and see

:55:55. > :55:56.how his own count goes. That is the constituency of Gordon, where the

:55:57. > :55:58.Conservatives would consider themselves probably strong

:55:59. > :56:00.challengers, albeit that in the past that has been a Liberal Democrat

:56:01. > :56:09.constituency, so a result due at some point from the north-east if

:56:10. > :56:22.Alex Salmond is now arriving at his constituency. We were talking about

:56:23. > :56:25.Labour's performance, and will be hopefully speaking to the Scottish

:56:26. > :56:34.Labour leader, Desi Dugdale, and ask why she is in East Lothian. Are you

:56:35. > :56:36.expecting good news? We are, just as we are experiencing some encouraging

:56:37. > :56:46.results across the whole of Scotland. I have new MPs going down

:56:47. > :56:54.to Westminster next week, going against the second independence

:56:55. > :56:59.referendum, and on the Jeremy Corbyn platform about raising money for

:57:00. > :57:01.public services. I am hugely encouraged. It is fair to say that

:57:02. > :57:06.Scottish Labour started this contest with fairly low expectations, and

:57:07. > :57:13.some people talked about it being a good result for you if you held onto

:57:14. > :57:22.one seat in Edinburgh South that you one in 2015. At what point do things

:57:23. > :57:27.change, and why? The campaign started in Rutherglen on the 8th of

:57:28. > :57:31.May, and I am delighted the first result in Scotland tonight was to

:57:32. > :57:38.see Ged Killen return as the Labour MP. There have been two clear

:57:39. > :57:42.reasons to vote, the first was opposition to a second independence

:57:43. > :57:50.referendum and the second was a positive progress of Blandford at

:57:51. > :57:53.?10 living wage. Money for schools, hospitals, the plan to build houses

:57:54. > :58:00.again. That Jeremy Corbyn message is focused on radically changing the

:58:01. > :58:07.country and who works for. We have a handful of MPs so far, but the

:58:08. > :58:10.reality is the SNP vote is crumbling. Look at what is happening

:58:11. > :58:15.in Glasgow and the West. A very bad night for the SNP. Do you think

:58:16. > :58:20.Jeremy Corbyn has done enough on the strength of the results we have seen

:58:21. > :58:26.so far and the exit poll, to stay on as Labour Leader? I cannot wait for

:58:27. > :58:30.the answer, we have confirmation from Glasgow North East. The results

:58:31. > :58:41.of the UK parliamentary general election in their Lanark and

:58:42. > :58:56.Hamilton East constituency. ... I -- I declare that Paul Sweeney is

:58:57. > :59:03.elected to serve as a member of Parliament for the Glasgow North

:59:04. > :59:07.East constituency. Labour is back in Glasgow North East. Paul Sweeney is

:59:08. > :59:12.confirmed as the new MP, defeating the SNP's Anne McLaughlin in the

:59:13. > :59:16.constituency that broke the swingometer a couple of years ago. I

:59:17. > :59:21.am fairly sure that was the case. One of the biggest swings, if not

:59:22. > :59:27.the biggest swing against the Labour Party, and two years later they have

:59:28. > :59:47.taken it back. The majority is slim. But Paul Sweeney is in.

:59:48. > :59:55.53% turnout. This is how the vote shares out. Let us get a reaction to

:59:56. > :59:58.that from the Scottish Labour leader, Kezia Dugdale. I am sure you

:59:59. > :00:05.did not mind me interrupting you for that result. Not at all! Paul

:00:06. > :00:09.Sweeney is a fantastic new generation Labour candidate, he is a

:00:10. > :00:13.shipyard worker, someone who has devoted his life to Labour values

:00:14. > :00:16.and he will be a wonderful MP for Glasgow North East. He will be there

:00:17. > :00:24.alongside a number of other next-generation candidates. This is

:00:25. > :00:29.utterly encouraging night. Prounion, anti-austerity message. I am

:00:30. > :00:31.delighted. We're seeing Jeremy Corbyn and Emily Thornberry in

:00:32. > :00:34.London. Perhaps finally to the question I asked you earlier and you

:00:35. > :00:36.did not get the chance to answer, does Jeremy Corbyn stay on as Labour

:00:37. > :00:45.Leader? Absolutely. The manifesto he stood

:00:46. > :00:49.on is going to transform this country. I have not seen the full

:00:50. > :00:55.details of results in England but it has cut across the whole of the UK,

:00:56. > :01:04.it is progressive politics and good for the union. You say you are

:01:05. > :01:12.expecting good news for Labour in East Lothian. We saw pictures of the

:01:13. > :01:19.Labour leader awaiting his declaration in Islington North. We

:01:20. > :01:24.have had further Scottish declarations within the last few

:01:25. > :01:27.moments. Following the Glasgow North East result, we had Dunfermline and

:01:28. > :01:42.West Fife held by the SNP. The majority for the SNP is only

:01:43. > :02:09.844. Aberdeen North we said was an SNP

:02:10. > :02:17.hold. Lanark and Hamilton East, the SNP have also held. Let's go to the

:02:18. > :02:26.talk to the new MP, also told MPs, talk to the new MP, also told MPs,

:02:27. > :02:37.-- also the old MP, Jo Swinson. How does it feel to be back? Great. Less

:02:38. > :02:44.of the old though! It is a resounding vote of confidence for me

:02:45. > :02:50.and it also sends a clear message on the views of Dunbartonshire East

:02:51. > :02:52.references about a second independence referendum, people do

:02:53. > :03:00.not want it and the SNP must think again. We are hearing that Vince

:03:01. > :03:07.Cable is back in Twickenham but Nick Clegg is out in Sheffield. That is a

:03:08. > :03:13.very sad result and I think it is sad not just for the Liberal

:03:14. > :03:18.Democrats but for the country, approaching Brexit negotiations,

:03:19. > :03:23.because his experience with have been valuable at the forefront of

:03:24. > :03:25.that debate. He has served not just his constituency but the whole

:03:26. > :03:32.country over many years and I think it is a real loss. I am delighted to

:03:33. > :03:38.hear about my old boss Vince Cable. Generally, the Lib Dem vote seems to

:03:39. > :03:46.be being squeezed in Scotland and other parts of the country as well.

:03:47. > :03:52.Why is that? Two years ago we had a catastrophic election result for the

:03:53. > :03:59.Lib Dems and building back from that takes time. The initial foundations

:04:00. > :04:04.are in place, we have more members than we ever had, more than 100,000

:04:05. > :04:11.members, and that has invigorated the party. But to translate that

:04:12. > :04:17.into gains in a snap general election is difficult. It looks like

:04:18. > :04:22.we could be set to make some modest games tonight which is good news.

:04:23. > :04:25.And to have people like Vince Cable back empowerment, who will make such

:04:26. > :04:33.an important contribution. Thank you very much. We are going to go to the

:04:34. > :04:44.declaration for Islington North, Jeremy Corbyn's see. The election

:04:45. > :05:04.for member of Parliament at Islington North.

:05:05. > :05:27.The number of votes it is as follows. Liberal Democrats, for 946

:05:28. > :05:46.-- 4946. Suzanne Cameron Blackett independent, 41. James Clark,

:05:47. > :05:55.conservatives, 6871. Jeremy Corbyn, Labour

:05:56. > :06:52.Ukip, 413. The monster raving loony party, 106. James Martin, socialist

:06:53. > :07:09.Party GP, 21. Communist league, seven. Caroline Russell Green Party,

:07:10. > :07:20.2229. The total number of ballot papers rejected is as follows.

:07:21. > :07:26.Voting for more candidates than the voter was entitled to, 14, being

:07:27. > :07:34.unmarked or avoid for uncertainty, 82. The turnout was 73.6%. I

:07:35. > :07:36.declared that Jeremy Corbyn is duly elected to serve as member of

:07:37. > :07:44.Parliament for the Islington North constituency. A smile from Jeremy

:07:45. > :07:47.Corbyn the Labour leader as he is re-elected in Islington North but I

:07:48. > :07:52.wonder if he might have something more to say about the national

:07:53. > :07:58.campaign and how the results are shaping up more generally for

:07:59. > :08:05.Labour. Thank you very much. I first of all want to thank Lesley and her

:08:06. > :08:09.staff for the way this election has been conducted and I know all the

:08:10. > :08:14.pressure on the staff to achieve this. Thank you to you and all the

:08:15. > :08:19.staff tonight and all that run our democratic services in this borough.

:08:20. > :08:24.I want to thank the police for their work today and their work last night

:08:25. > :08:27.in helping to ensure crowds were all safe and also all the work they did

:08:28. > :08:35.last weekend during the horrors of the attack on London Bridge and

:08:36. > :08:40.market borough. It chose the importance of a fully staffed police

:08:41. > :08:48.service. I thank them for their work last weekend and today. It is an

:08:49. > :08:52.enormous honour to be elected to represent Islington North for the

:08:53. > :08:58.ninth time in Parliament. I am honoured and humbled by the size of

:08:59. > :09:03.the vote cast for me tonight as the Labour candidate, and I pledge to

:09:04. > :09:07.represent the people of Islington North in the best way I possibly

:09:08. > :09:12.can, and to continue to learn from them as well as represent them at

:09:13. > :09:17.the same time, because I believe representation is as much about

:09:18. > :09:22.listening as telling people, so I thank the people for their support.

:09:23. > :09:26.I want to say thank you to the Islington North Labour Party, our

:09:27. > :09:30.agent Catherine Sloan and all the people who have worked so hard in

:09:31. > :09:34.this campaign. Unfortunately, or maybe from their point of view

:09:35. > :09:37.fortunately, I was out on the road for the last six weeks so they have

:09:38. > :09:41.been holding the fort at and working incredibly hard and I am very

:09:42. > :09:48.grateful to them for all they have done. I'm also very grateful to all

:09:49. > :09:52.of my family and my wife and two other people who have fought so hard

:09:53. > :09:56.in our team at Labour Party head office as well as in the

:09:57. > :10:01.constituency office here, for achieving this incredible result

:10:02. > :10:07.tonight in Islington, and the results coming in from all over the

:10:08. > :10:12.country. In terms of Islington, this is the highest turnout since 1951,

:10:13. > :10:16.the largest ever vote for a winning candidate ever in the history of

:10:17. > :10:20.this borough and I'm very proud of it and very humbled and grateful to

:10:21. > :10:31.the people of Islington for this result. This election was called in

:10:32. > :10:38.order for the Prime Minister to gain a large majority in order to assert

:10:39. > :10:42.her authority and the election campaign has gone on for the past

:10:43. > :10:45.six weeks, I have travelled the whole country, I have spoken at

:10:46. > :10:51.events and rallies all over the country and you know what? Politics

:10:52. > :10:55.has changed and it is not going back into the box where it was before it

:10:56. > :11:00.is what has happened as people have said they have had quite enough of

:11:01. > :11:08.austerity politics, quite enough of cuts in public expenditure,

:11:09. > :11:11.underfunding our health service, schools, education service, and not

:11:12. > :11:15.giving young people the chance they deserve in our society, and I am

:11:16. > :11:22.very proud of the campaign my party has run, our manifesto for the many

:11:23. > :11:26.not the few, and I am proud of the results coming in all over the

:11:27. > :11:34.country tonight of people voting for hope for the future and turning

:11:35. > :11:42.their backs on austerity. And so if there is... Jeremy Corbyn re-elected

:11:43. > :11:47.in Islington North and pleased with his party's performance across the

:11:48. > :11:51.country. While he was speaking, a number of results we can confirm in

:11:52. > :11:58.the next moment. That is the Prime Minister Theresa May, and she

:11:59. > :12:03.doesn't look very happy at all. She called this election to strengthen

:12:04. > :12:08.her grip on power and increase the majority of 12 that she had to a

:12:09. > :12:13.much bigger number, perhaps to many scores but it doesn't work like that

:12:14. > :12:21.is how this election is shaping up forever. Their exit poll updated on

:12:22. > :12:26.the basis of the results so far still suggests that the Tories will

:12:27. > :12:31.fall short of an overall majority. Many declarations to come. Let's

:12:32. > :12:36.confirm those from Scotland coming in in the last few minutes. East

:12:37. > :12:44.Lothian, Labour Party have gained from the SNP. Martin Whitfield,

:12:45. > :13:12.teacher from Prestonpans, defeated the SNP's George Kerevan.

:13:13. > :13:26.A swing in East Lothian from the SNP to Labour of 8.5%, unseating George

:13:27. > :13:42.Kerevan from the SNP and sending the Labour MP. The Conservatives have

:13:43. > :14:11.gained in error and -- in Ayr and Carrick.

:14:12. > :14:27.The Tory vote is up 20% on two years ago.

:14:28. > :14:38.It is a big win for the Conservatives. Aberdeen South, a

:14:39. > :14:47.conservative gain from the SNP. Ross Thomson, MSP, hopping parliaments to

:14:48. > :14:59.the House of Commons. The SNP's Callum McCaig is out.

:15:00. > :15:16.We are getting a declaration from Edinburgh East shortly.

:15:17. > :15:28.The Tory vote almost up as much as it was in Ayr.

:15:29. > :15:45.Let's go to Edinburgh. I declare that the total number of votes given

:15:46. > :15:54.to each candidate was as follows. Scottish Liberal Democrats, 1849.

:15:55. > :16:08.Patsy King, Scottish Labour Party, 15000 and 84. Katie Mackie, Scottish

:16:09. > :16:11.Conservative and Unionist, 8081. Tommy Sheppard, Scottish National

:16:12. > :16:41.Party, 18,000 509. Edinburgh East is retained for the

:16:42. > :16:46.SNP by Tommy Sheppard. Long ago, deputy or based general secretary of

:16:47. > :16:49.the Labour Party, but he threw the independence movement, shifted to

:16:50. > :16:53.the SNP and is back in the House of Commons. There is the Edinburgh East

:16:54. > :17:17.result. Holding the seat for his party.

:17:18. > :17:25.Compared to last thing... Now, let us move on. Labour have gained

:17:26. > :17:28.Kirkcaldy from the SNP. This used to be Gordon Brown's stomping ground.

:17:29. > :17:54.Lesley Laird is the Labour MP now. And the UK pleaded in Scotland,

:17:55. > :18:03.David Coburn, member of the European Parliament, miles away from power.

:18:04. > :18:06.There is the result from Perth and Perthshire North. How close was

:18:07. > :18:20.that! The majority for the SNP's Pete Wishart just 21.

:18:21. > :18:42.Ian Duncan is another member of the European Parliament.

:18:43. > :18:52.Let us get the declaration from Maidenhead, the Prime Minister's

:18:53. > :18:57.seat. I hereby give notice that the number of votes cast for each

:18:58. > :19:17.candidate at the election is as follows. Gerard Batten, UK

:19:18. > :19:34.Independence Party, 871. Independent, 16. John Harvey, known

:19:35. > :19:46.as Lord bucket head, 249. Anthony Hill, known as Tony Hill, Liberal

:19:47. > :20:02.Democrats, 6540. Alan Hope, known as howling Lord Hope, the monster

:20:03. > :20:17.raving loony party, 119. Andrew Knight, animal welfare party, 282.

:20:18. > :20:21.Theresa May, the Conservative Party candidate, 37,718.

:20:22. > :20:47.CHEERING Patrick McDonald, known as Pat

:20:48. > :21:00.McDonald, Labour Party, 11,261. Julian Read, they just political

:21:01. > :21:07.party, 52. Bobby Smith, known as Bobby Elmore Smith. Three. Grant

:21:08. > :21:25.Smith, independent, 152. Edmund Victor, People's Christian

:21:26. > :21:39.Alliance, 69. Derek Wall, Green Party, 907. The number of ballot

:21:40. > :21:48.papers rejected was as follows. Voting for more candidates than the

:21:49. > :21:55.voter was entitled to, 19. Writing or mark by which the voter could be

:21:56. > :22:05.identified, three. Being unmarked or avoid for uncertainty, 86. Rejected

:22:06. > :22:17.in part, zero. Total rejected votes, 180s. I hereby declare that Theresa

:22:18. > :22:23.May, the Conservative Party candidate, has been duly elected. I

:22:24. > :22:28.would like to ask the successful candidate to come up and make a few

:22:29. > :22:34.words. CHEERING

:22:35. > :22:44.Theresa May is re-elected. Thank you very much. First of all, on behalf

:22:45. > :22:48.of myself and all of the candidates, may I thank the returning officer

:22:49. > :22:52.and all her staff for the hard work they have put in today in running

:22:53. > :22:55.the selection here in the Maidenhead constituency. Can I also thank the

:22:56. > :23:03.police, who have had an extra job here tonight in ensuring the

:23:04. > :23:08.security of this event. And thank you to all those who have once again

:23:09. > :23:14.supported me as the member of Parliament for Maidenhead. It is a

:23:15. > :23:17.huge honour and privilege to be elected as a member of Parliament

:23:18. > :23:23.for this constituency, and I pledge that I will continue to work for all

:23:24. > :23:26.my constituents as I have done over the period of time I have been your

:23:27. > :23:30.member of Parliament. It is a huge honour, it is a wonderful

:23:31. > :23:34.constituency and I look forward to continuing to work with you to see

:23:35. > :23:41.improvements, further improvements, for the lives of those living here

:23:42. > :23:42.in Maidenhead. OK, that was the Prime Minister, Theresa May, and

:23:43. > :23:56.here she is. There is some break-up on the

:23:57. > :24:01.connection to Maidenhead. No surprise that Theresa May has been

:24:02. > :24:10.re-elected in that constituency with a thumping majority of more than

:24:11. > :24:28.26,000. Labour's Pat McDonald are well behind.

:24:29. > :24:36.Let us hear more from Theresa May. Get the Brexit deal right, showing

:24:37. > :24:41.we can identify and address the challenges facing our country, doing

:24:42. > :24:44.what is in the national interest. That is always what I have tried to

:24:45. > :24:51.do in my time as member of Parliament. And my resolve to do

:24:52. > :24:58.that is the same this morning as it always has been. As we look ahead

:24:59. > :25:04.and wait to see what the final results will be, I know that the

:25:05. > :25:08.country needs a period of stability, and whatever the results are, the

:25:09. > :25:16.Conservative Party will ensure we fulfil our duty in ensuring that

:25:17. > :25:19.stability, so we can all, as one country, go forward together. Thank

:25:20. > :25:26.you. APPLAUSE That was a very downbeat

:25:27. > :25:30.end to the Prime Minister's acceptance speech in Maidenhead.

:25:31. > :25:41.A quick word on that from you, Brian Taylor, that does not sound like

:25:42. > :25:46.someone who intends to stay in office for much longer. Using

:25:47. > :25:49.phrases like I have tried to do this, the past tense, she means

:25:50. > :25:56.during the campaign, but saying the country needs a period of stability

:25:57. > :25:59.is a plea to be allowed if possible to stay in office. We need to bring

:26:00. > :26:08.you the results from the constituency where Tim Farron is

:26:09. > :26:14.defending. Paul Ellis, commonly known as Mr Fish finger,

:26:15. > :26:23.independent, 309. The total number of valid votes cast at the UK

:26:24. > :26:30.parliamentary election on the 8th of June 2017 was 51,687. The total

:26:31. > :26:35.number of ballot papers rejected was 81. The ballot papers were rejected

:26:36. > :26:40.for the following reasons. One ballot paper was rejected because

:26:41. > :26:44.they did not bear the official Mark. 12 ballot papers were rejected

:26:45. > :26:47.because votes were given for more than one candidate, three ballot

:26:48. > :26:53.papers were rejected because there was something written or marked on

:26:54. > :26:56.the ballot paper by which the voter could be identified. And 65 ballot

:26:57. > :27:03.papers were rejected because they were not marked or avoid. I give

:27:04. > :27:08.public notice that Tim Farron is duly elected as the member of

:27:09. > :27:19.Parliament for the West and Lonsdale constituency. So, Tim Farron is

:27:20. > :27:26.re-elected in Westmorland and Lonsdale. The Conservative candidate

:27:27. > :27:37.running close. That is a majority of just 777. Mr Fish finger, he was in

:27:38. > :27:49.fourth place! 309 people voted for him. Remarkable. Let us go to

:27:50. > :27:52.Aberdeen and the SNP's former leader, the former First Minister

:27:53. > :27:59.Alex Salmond. Let me ask you first of all, over alternate, the SNP are

:28:00. > :28:01.obviously holding a number of seats, but you have had significant losses

:28:02. > :28:07.to the Conservatives and Labour Party. How do you read those

:28:08. > :28:11.results? As you rightly say, it now looks certain that the SNP will win

:28:12. > :28:15.the majority of Scottish seats, more seats than the other three parties

:28:16. > :28:21.put together. By any democratic terms, that means the SNP by winning

:28:22. > :28:29.more votes and seats, have won the selection in Scotland. -- have won

:28:30. > :28:33.this election in Scotland. One thing the polls did not detect at all was

:28:34. > :28:37.a late recovery of Labour Party forgings based on the admiration of

:28:38. > :28:42.a lot of people for the performance of Jeremy Corbyn during this general

:28:43. > :28:44.election campaign. There is the irony of course at the Scottish

:28:45. > :28:48.Labour Party leadership have been doing the best to sabotage Jeremy

:28:49. > :28:56.Corbyn. That is also another irony that I suspect has resulted in a

:28:57. > :28:59.number of SNP Tory contests that that was the margin the Tories

:29:00. > :29:04.managed to win the seat. I regret the loss of so many parliamentary

:29:05. > :29:11.colleagues, but nonetheless, in democratic and simple terms, in

:29:12. > :29:14.truth, the SNP won the election. If you have lost more than 20 seats,

:29:15. > :29:18.that is a serious setback for the SNP. What does it say about your

:29:19. > :29:22.efforts to secure a second independence referendum, given that

:29:23. > :29:28.the other parties made so much of the opposition to that in this

:29:29. > :29:32.campaign? I do not think it was the referendum opposition of the other

:29:33. > :29:36.parties which cost the SNP seats at the end of the day. I think it was a

:29:37. > :29:43.late recovery in Labour Party forgings, which was based on the

:29:44. > :29:48.assessment of Jeremy Corbyn's performance during the campaign.

:29:49. > :29:55.Many of these people would be yes supporters, incidentally. The other

:29:56. > :30:01.irony, there is always irony in politics, that group of SNP MPs may

:30:02. > :30:04.have lost in numbers, but will go in Westminster in a substantially more

:30:05. > :30:09.influential position, and will be a strong block in a parliament which

:30:10. > :30:15.looks like it is going to be hung, but if it is not, it is going to be

:30:16. > :30:17.a small majority indeed. That is right and proper because people in

:30:18. > :30:22.Scotland have the right to expect MPEG to be influential. White

:30:23. > :30:24.leaders a vacancy for a parliamentary group leader. I wonder

:30:25. > :30:34.whether that will be you, assuming you hold the Gordon seat. In the

:30:35. > :30:42.last moment or two, SNP has lost Corbridge Christ and Bellshill to

:30:43. > :30:47.the Labour Party. If it is a hung parliament, what role might the SNP

:30:48. > :30:50.group played in supporting a Jeremy Corbyn

:30:51. > :30:59.Nicola Sturgeon made it clear that we are interested in a Progressive

:31:00. > :31:04.Alliance or understanding to deny the Tories a majority. I think we

:31:05. > :31:09.will be facing a different Prime Minister because if we are in a

:31:10. > :31:15.situation where Theresa May, having cold and unnecessary election,

:31:16. > :31:19.having exposed her weaknesses and deficiencies as a Prime Minister, if

:31:20. > :31:26.she fails to get a majority, then she is not long for the chop, Boris

:31:27. > :31:30.Johnson is already on manoeuvres, which doesn't surprise me, both in

:31:31. > :31:37.my assessment of him and my assessment of Theresa May. The SNP

:31:38. > :31:43.group at Westminster will seek to build a Progressive Alliance for

:31:44. > :31:51.progressive policies to make sure we do not go off the Brexit cliff edge.

:31:52. > :31:57.Whoever is in the SNP group, it will be one that is made from a position

:31:58. > :32:02.of substantial influence. Thank you for joining us from Aberdeen. We

:32:03. > :32:08.will update you on the results. Court which Christ and Bellshill --

:32:09. > :32:40.Coatbridge Christ... The Conservatives gained Aberdeen

:32:41. > :32:50.South from the SNP. Ross Thomson, who we mentioned earlier, winning

:32:51. > :33:00.there. The turnout was 68%. We have an updated forecast based on results

:33:01. > :33:07.coming in, mix together with what we had from their exit poll. What is

:33:08. > :33:09.the picture now? The figures within the individual parties are changing

:33:10. > :33:24.and when you look at this forecast you can tell why Theresa May looked

:33:25. > :33:34.absolutely depressed. You can see the image there. Labour on 267, 35

:33:35. > :33:42.seats up on last time. The SNP we reckon are now on 32, down 24 seats

:33:43. > :33:49.on the 56 they gained. Liberal Democrats, 11, plus three. If it

:33:50. > :33:54.stands, the Conservatives will be the largest party but without an

:33:55. > :33:58.overall majority, a Progressive Alliance would not work, the numbers

:33:59. > :34:02.to not add up, but one that would work would be the Conservatives and

:34:03. > :34:10.the Lib Dems forming a majority, but Tim Farron has said Norway under any

:34:11. > :34:18.circumstances. He said there would be a red Moon over Westminster

:34:19. > :34:25.before he would do that. Theresa May there with her husband presumably

:34:26. > :34:28.leaving the count. She is heading out of the count, perhaps back to

:34:29. > :34:36.Downing Street or perhaps elsewhere. She certainly did not look happy

:34:37. > :34:41.giving her acceptance speech and she seemed far from confident of

:34:42. > :34:48.remaining as Prime Minister. She spoke about the need for stable

:34:49. > :34:52.leadership and she said the Conservative Party would offer that,

:34:53. > :34:58.not that she would offer that, in the period ahead. It depends on the

:34:59. > :35:03.final results and if the Conservatives are in a position, as

:35:04. > :35:10.the latest forecast indicates, to lead a government, albeit a minority

:35:11. > :35:15.government seeking support from others to get the business through

:35:16. > :35:24.the House of Commons. A worker with Professor Nicola McEwan about some

:35:25. > :35:29.of the results in Scotland. The SNP had an incredible result in 2015,

:35:30. > :35:33.they have been pushed back at this election, how do you read their

:35:34. > :35:39.performance? Clearly they will be disappointed tonight, it is the goal

:35:40. > :35:43.losses than forecast, but if we take a longer view, last time around, two

:35:44. > :35:51.years ago, the SNP throughout the country gained 30 percentage points

:35:52. > :35:56.share of the vote, incredible gains, so they have lost some of that back

:35:57. > :36:00.but in historic terms they are still sitting in a better position than

:36:01. > :36:08.they ever used to in UK general elections. Let's go to the SNP's

:36:09. > :36:13.Pete Wishart, re-elected by a very narrow margin in Perth and

:36:14. > :36:25.Perthshire North. Congratulations to you. It must have been nail-biting.

:36:26. > :36:28.You don't get nights more nerve jangling than tonight, two recounts

:36:29. > :36:35.and a majority of 21, but I will take it and I will see if I can find

:36:36. > :36:44.those 21 people and thank them! A tough night for the SNP but we have

:36:45. > :36:48.held on here. This was the number one target seat and they failed to

:36:49. > :36:53.take it and it says something about how we served our community and the

:36:54. > :36:58.dedication of my team. The Berwickshire seat as the number one

:36:59. > :37:07.target. It didn't feel like that here! I imagine not. It was very

:37:08. > :37:11.hard-fought. You blast colleagues in other parts of the country,

:37:12. > :37:14.including Europe Parliamentary leader, the party's deputy leader

:37:15. > :37:22.Angus Robertson. Losing seats to the Tories and Labour, why? This has

:37:23. > :37:26.been a tough night for the SNP, no getting away from it, but I am

:37:27. > :37:31.disappointed we have lost some very talented people. We are seeing

:37:32. > :37:37.pictures of your party leader, Nicola Sturgeon, arriving at the

:37:38. > :37:41.count in Glasgow with the new leader of Glasgow City Council Susan Aitken

:37:42. > :37:48.who has been in post since those elections last month. No doubt we

:37:49. > :37:50.will hear from them later. You were offering analysis of your party's

:37:51. > :37:55.performance and why you have been pushed back. Sorry, we will cross to

:37:56. > :38:15.the result from Caithness and Sutherland. Paul Monaghan, SNP,

:38:16. > :38:27.9017. Jamie Stone, Scottish Liberal Democrats, 11000 and 61.

:38:28. > :38:35.I give public notice that Jamie Stone is duly elected as a member of

:38:36. > :38:40.Parliament for the Caithness Sutherland and Easter Ross

:38:41. > :38:45.constituency and I invite him and the second placed candidate to

:38:46. > :38:49.speak. That is a big win for the Lib Dems, red gaining Caithness and

:38:50. > :38:54.Sutherland, Jamie Stone a former member of the Scottish Parliament

:38:55. > :39:06.elected there. Defeating the SNP's Paul Monaghan.

:39:07. > :39:13.Let's hear from Nicola Sturgeon speaking in Glasgow. This is our

:39:14. > :39:18.second best ever result in a Westminster election. We have won

:39:19. > :39:23.the election and I congratulate all of the SNP MPs who are re-elected.

:39:24. > :39:29.What does it mean for your mandate for the independence referendum? It

:39:30. > :39:33.is almost 4am so I am not come to take any rash decisions. Really have

:39:34. > :39:36.to reflect on the result of the election and I will take time to do

:39:37. > :39:41.that but I think it would be the wrong thing to do at this hour to

:39:42. > :39:46.take decisions before having had the opportunity to properly think about

:39:47. > :39:50.it but I will certainly do that. We are hearing Alex Salmond has lost

:39:51. > :39:55.her seat. We haven't heard confirmation of that. I hope it is

:39:56. > :40:02.not the case. I would be bitterly disappointed if it is. He is the

:40:03. > :40:07.person in politics and SNP that I am closest to and he is one of my close

:40:08. > :40:11.friends and he has been a mentor to me throughout my political career so

:40:12. > :40:16.I am hoping he will be really to do but we have to wait and see,

:40:17. > :40:21.hopefully not much longer. Could Jeremy Corbyn be your new closest

:40:22. > :40:26.friend? We have to wait and see. The thing that has to be said UK wide

:40:27. > :40:32.tonight is that it is a disaster for Theresa May, she very arrogantly

:40:33. > :40:37.called an election thinking she would cruise to a landslide

:40:38. > :40:43.majority. I think her position is very difficult now. We have to wait

:40:44. > :40:46.and see how things turn out will stop I have always said the SNP

:40:47. > :40:50.would want to be part of a progressive alternative to a Tory

:40:51. > :40:53.government but there are a number of seats still to be declared and we

:40:54. > :41:01.have to wait and see how the end result goes. I will not stand here

:41:02. > :41:06.and say I am not disappointed by SNP losses but before 2015 the maximum

:41:07. > :41:15.number of seats the SNP held at Westminster was 11, we had six going

:41:16. > :41:21.in, and now it looks like we will have more seats than the other

:41:22. > :41:27.parties combined in Scotland. I am disappointed at the SNP losses but I

:41:28. > :41:33.am pleased we have won the election. That is Nicola Sturgeon arriving at

:41:34. > :41:38.the count in Glasgow. Interesting remarks from her. She was asked if

:41:39. > :41:44.Jeremy Corbyn might be her new best friend, of course the possibility of

:41:45. > :41:48.parties working together to form an administration in the event of a

:41:49. > :41:51.properly hung parliament, but interesting remarks from Nicola

:41:52. > :41:56.Sturgeon herself when asked about what the losses mean tonight for her

:41:57. > :42:01.position on independence, she was very careful to say that she would

:42:02. > :42:05.reflect on the result of this election and she wanted to properly

:42:06. > :42:12.reflect before making any decisions. How did you read that, Brian Taylor?

:42:13. > :42:18.Intriguing. Able to say second best result ever. Relative to historic

:42:19. > :42:24.perspective the SNP have done well tonight. Relative to how they used

:42:25. > :42:32.to do in Westminster, they have done well. Relative to 2015, it is really

:42:33. > :42:38.poor, they have lost votes in every constituency they have contested.

:42:39. > :42:45.Nicola Sturgeon is able to let stress upon the second-best election

:42:46. > :42:49.ever but she is absolutely not saying that the position on a

:42:50. > :42:56.referendum might not change. She says she will need time to consider.

:42:57. > :43:00.She should have said it is not an election about independence but she

:43:01. > :43:06.did not. I think it is intriguing times ahead. If she looks vaguely

:43:07. > :43:14.disappointed, Theresa May looks heartsick. Let's bring in our

:43:15. > :43:17.politicians again. Let me ask you, Michael Matheson, about those

:43:18. > :43:23.remarks that the First Minister made. Should she seriously consider

:43:24. > :43:28.putting off the idea of a second independence referendum for a much

:43:29. > :43:34.longer period of time or will she be determined to push ahead on the

:43:35. > :43:38.timescale that she set out? One of the most potent things you do at any

:43:39. > :43:42.election if it has been a disappointing night for your party

:43:43. > :43:46.is you reflect on that result and look to understand the reasons for

:43:47. > :43:51.the result. I have no doubt that the First Minister will want to reflect

:43:52. > :43:58.on the result and the reasons behind it and to then consider what is the

:43:59. > :44:03.most appropriate approach. What advice would you give her on that

:44:04. > :44:13.particular issue is Mike it is -- issue? It is 4am but I think it is

:44:14. > :44:18.important to learn the lessons from any campaign where you have had poor

:44:19. > :44:24.results. You should reflect on them and then come to the decision of the

:44:25. > :44:27.best approach. The First Minister pointed out they are heading towards

:44:28. > :44:36.their second best ever result and a win is a win. They said of the one

:44:37. > :44:40.majority of seats they would take it as a triple lock on their plans for

:44:41. > :44:47.independence. We have to remind ourselves that independence was at

:44:48. > :44:53.the heart of this election. It looks like they are on course to lose 40%

:44:54. > :44:58.of their seats, and to lose that on the basis of a campaign for

:44:59. > :45:05.independence and then continue to see you have a mandate for a second

:45:06. > :45:10.referendum, I don't think it is there. What about the mandate that

:45:11. > :45:16.Theresa May was seeking to go into the Brexit negotiation in over a

:45:17. > :45:24.week? Will that timetable the possible to keep? Pillocks like the

:45:25. > :45:30.Conservatives will be the single largest party, led by the Prime

:45:31. > :45:39.Minister. She staying on? I think so. She wasn't particularly happy

:45:40. > :45:45.but I think we are going beyond their original exit poll and we

:45:46. > :45:51.might ever further small majority. There is still time and that is

:45:52. > :45:58.certainly still a possibility. From a Labour point of view, within the

:45:59. > :46:03.last little while, another game in Scotland, Coatbridge, once a

:46:04. > :46:09.stronghold and now back in the labour fold, we don't hear much

:46:10. > :46:15.about the possibility of Labour picking up these former heartlands

:46:16. > :46:21.at this election. Are you as surprised as perhaps I am sounding

:46:22. > :46:26.in this question about some of the seats you are regaining?

:46:27. > :46:36.I think we are enjoying the fact we are gaining those seats, but we're

:46:37. > :46:39.not surprised at Coatbridge, it was one of our target seats and we got

:46:40. > :46:43.feedback the vote was coming towards us. You never judge this until the

:46:44. > :46:48.day of the election itself, but increasingly some of the seats we

:46:49. > :46:55.were targeting are no turning back to Labour. But I think the story

:46:56. > :46:59.tonight is just how badly the SNP have done. No amount of spin can

:47:00. > :47:14.change that. They have gone from 50% of the seats down. And the

:47:15. > :47:17.majorities in the seats the have held have slashed. The biggest

:47:18. > :47:20.threat to the SNP, I think, is Nicola Sturgeon, because her

:47:21. > :47:28.popularity has fallen. She has been at the heart of this campaign. I

:47:29. > :47:32.think they have lost a lot of MPs this evening. I do not think they

:47:33. > :47:42.will be particularly happy. These are the Labour gains in Scotland at

:47:43. > :47:46.the moment. Half a dozen, and of course we still have to hear from

:47:47. > :47:53.Edinburgh South, the seat they are hoping to hold onto, the only seat

:47:54. > :47:57.they had from 2015. Sheila Thompson, sorry it has taken so long to get to

:47:58. > :48:07.you, the convener of the Scottish Liberal Democrats. So far, the

:48:08. > :48:16.Scottish Lib Dems have picked up two seats. Yes, it is really good to get

:48:17. > :48:21.back into Parliament, both of the seats we were targeting and working

:48:22. > :48:26.hard, certainly in Dunbartonshire East at the beginning of the

:48:27. > :48:32.campaign weakens -- we could see it going back to Jo. In all the other

:48:33. > :48:38.seats, although it is a small increase, it is an increased in the

:48:39. > :48:45.vote across Scotland. Those two constituencies, the Liberal Democrat

:48:46. > :48:50.party was targeting. That is Theresa May ' Conservative Party

:48:51. > :48:55.headquarters rather than Downing Street, as far as we understand. She

:48:56. > :49:02.has a lot to think about if the results are going in the way we

:49:03. > :49:08.expect and she falls short of a majority, given the stress she

:49:09. > :49:11.placed on increasing the conservative hold and increasing

:49:12. > :49:15.their majority and strengthening her hand. Sheila Thomson, there are

:49:16. > :49:21.other seats the Liberal Democrats are targeting, Edinburgh West, and

:49:22. > :49:24.Fife North East. We heard earlier there was a recount under way in

:49:25. > :49:29.Fife North East, and at one point it was suggested there might just be

:49:30. > :49:36.three volts in that. We will wait to hear what the declaration says. Are

:49:37. > :49:41.you confident in picking up others? Yes, we have been targeting

:49:42. > :49:46.Edinburgh West, and we seem to be doing well where we have worked hard

:49:47. > :49:51.to win seats. Disappointment, I am sure, losing Nick Clegg. We are just

:49:52. > :50:02.hearing from Edinburgh West. The Liberal Democrats have taken that

:50:03. > :50:08.seat from the SNP. They have gained Edinburgh West. We're just awaiting

:50:09. > :50:14.confirmation of that. But that is the election of Christine Jardine,

:50:15. > :50:20.and here comes the declaration which should confirm it. The constituency

:50:21. > :50:28.declaration for the Edinburgh West constituency. Eye, the returning

:50:29. > :50:34.officer, the clear that the total number of votes cast across

:50:35. > :50:40.Edinburgh West constituency was 52,724. Total number of ballot

:50:41. > :50:46.papers rejected was 71, and the turnout was 73.94%. Total number of

:50:47. > :51:01.votes given to each candidate was as follows. Sandy Batho, Conservative

:51:02. > :51:14.Party and Unionist, Toni Giugliano, Scottish National Party, 15,120.

:51:15. > :51:32.Christine Jardine, Scottish Liberal Democrats, 18,108. Mandy Telford,

:51:33. > :51:37.Scottish Labour Party, 7876. And Mark Whittet, Scottish independence

:51:38. > :51:44.referendum party, 132. Therefore I give public notice that Christine

:51:45. > :51:49.and Jardin is duly elected as member of Parliament for the Edinburgh West

:51:50. > :51:54.constituency. So the Liberal Democrats have taken Edinburgh West,

:51:55. > :52:01.trebling their score of constituencies to three, persistence

:52:02. > :52:04.paying off Christine Jardine, a serial parliamentary candidate, now

:52:05. > :52:10.an MBE for Edinburgh West, with 18,000 180s votes, beating the SNP's

:52:11. > :52:14.Toni Giugliano who tried for Holyrood Anfield, and tried for

:52:15. > :53:06.Edinburgh West and finished second. Let us go to David Henderson, who

:53:07. > :53:09.can give us more of an overview of the election, focusing this time on

:53:10. > :53:14.Conservative gains. Yes, here it is the map. We're getting results and

:53:15. > :53:20.fast, with the SNP winning more seats than everyone else, but we are

:53:21. > :53:25.seeing games for the other parties and an important trend. Look at

:53:26. > :53:29.those blue seats. The SNP still in front, but the Tories are very much

:53:30. > :53:33.making their presence felt. Let us look at the swing from the SNP to

:53:34. > :53:37.the Conservatives in different parts of the country. Moray first, Angus

:53:38. > :53:44.Robertson, such a prominent figure at Westminster for the SNP. He is

:53:45. > :53:49.out, losing his seat to Douglas Ross. That is a swing of 14%. Some

:53:50. > :53:56.had predicted it, but it is still a surprise. There are echoes of that

:53:57. > :54:00.result elsewhere. Let us head further south, to Angus, where

:54:01. > :54:01.Christine here has taken the seat for the Tories from the SNP's Mike

:54:02. > :54:30.Weir. -- Kirstene Hair. Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh was beaten as

:54:31. > :54:36.well, with a 15% swing. We're also seeing a swing where the SNP have

:54:37. > :54:41.held seats, you can see that in Paisley and Renfrewshire South.

:54:42. > :54:46.Mhairi Black winning again, the UK's youngest MP returns to Westminster,

:54:47. > :54:58.but it was not an easy victory. Her share of the vote was down over 10%.

:54:59. > :55:03.The Conservatives will be satisfied, but not enough to win. Have a look

:55:04. > :55:09.at Rutherglen and Hamilton West. Labour have taken this seat from the

:55:10. > :55:17.SNP, but they won fewer votes than in 2015. But they won anyway because

:55:18. > :55:23.the SNP lost more and 11,000 votes, 16% of their vote, to the Tories. So

:55:24. > :55:35.the game for the Conservative is also a game for Labour. -- a game.

:55:36. > :55:42.Let us bring in Brian Taylor man Professor Nicola McEwan. It looks

:55:43. > :55:48.like the Conservatives winning the most seats in volts across the UK,

:55:49. > :55:51.and Theresa May looks as if she has swallowed a wasp. Nicola Sturgeon's

:55:52. > :55:58.party look like winning the most votes and the most seats in

:55:59. > :56:03.Scotland, and she sounds cautious, constrained and understated. Isn't

:56:04. > :56:08.politics wonderful! A very interesting night. More interesting

:56:09. > :56:12.results to come. If Theresa May were to hand over power to a successor, I

:56:13. > :56:18.believe she would be the seventh shortest serving Prime Minister of

:56:19. > :56:20.all time. And has brought it upon herself by calling a completely

:56:21. > :56:28.unnecessary election, when she said repeatedly... People do not like

:56:29. > :56:32.that. I mean literally unnecessary, not unimportant, with but people do

:56:33. > :56:37.not like unnecessary elections, and they do not like it when the

:56:38. > :56:45.incumbent Prime Minister said, not once, not twice but repeatedly, that

:56:46. > :56:47.she would not do this. Here are helicopter victors of the Prime

:56:48. > :56:51.Minister heading back to Conservative headquarters. Nicola

:56:52. > :56:54.McEwan, if there was to be a leadership contest in the

:56:55. > :57:03.Conservative Party, who would be best placed to replace Theresa May?

:57:04. > :57:07.It is a very difficult -- it is very difficult to say, but the Brexit

:57:08. > :57:15.negotiations are supposed to start very soon, let us not forget. White

:57:16. > :57:17.will that happen? In 11 days. The clock is ticking, Article 50 has

:57:18. > :57:22.been triggered. And there will not be much sympathy within the EU if we

:57:23. > :57:26.postpone it to make way for yet another election inside the United

:57:27. > :57:33.Kingdom, whether it is a Conservative Party election. I

:57:34. > :57:40.wanted to mention that, and this may be Brexit related... Let us cross to

:57:41. > :57:49.Kelso. Adhered by the clear the total number of votes cast as

:57:50. > :57:57.52,463. Turnout of 71.7%. The total number of votes given to each

:57:58. > :58:02.candidate as follows. Caroline Burgess, Scottish Liberal Democrats,

:58:03. > :58:16.2482. Iain Davidson, Scottish Labour Party, 4519. Calum Kerr, Scottish

:58:17. > :58:32.National Party, 17,153. John Lamont, Scottish Conservative and Unionist

:58:33. > :58:45.Party, 28200 CHEERING The majority is 11,060. I

:58:46. > :58:47.hereby declare that John Lamont has been duly elected to serve the

:58:48. > :58:53.United Kingdom Parliament as a member for Berwickshire... Let us go

:58:54. > :59:02.to other Aberdeenshire West and Kincardine. Andrew Bowie, Scottish

:59:03. > :59:20.Conservative and Unionist Party 24,704.

:59:21. > :59:46.Stuart Donaldson, Scottish National Party, 16,754. John McConnachie,

:59:47. > :59:50.Scottish Liberal Democrats, 4061. There were 49 ballot papers

:59:51. > :59:56.rejected, giving the total votes of 51,674. I declare that Andrew Bowie

:59:57. > :00:13.is duly elected to serve in the UK Parliament for the West Abba changer

:00:14. > :00:18.and Kincardineshire constituency. Two wins back-to-back for the

:00:19. > :00:22.Tories. Aberdeenshire West and Kincardine has gone their way, so

:00:23. > :00:24.has Roxburgh and Selkirk. But these are the celebrations in the

:00:25. > :00:27.north-east. Some of the most jubilant scenes we have had all

:00:28. > :00:30.night in the selection. Two years ago I stood here... So, the new MP

:00:31. > :00:36.for Aberdeenshire West and Berwickshire Roxburgh and Selkirk.

:00:37. > :00:41.Here are the results. John Lamont was confident he would win -- so

:00:42. > :00:43.confident he would win, he stood down from his seat in parliament.

:00:44. > :01:01.And when he did. Labour's Iain Davidson, long serving

:01:02. > :01:14.Labour MP for Glasgow, you may remember him.

:01:15. > :01:20.Another reported to result from Stirling. The Conservatives in

:01:21. > :01:44.Berwickshire on 54%, SNP on 33... Here is that Aberdeen sure result in

:01:45. > :02:15.detail. Here is the newest declaration, the

:02:16. > :02:28.Conservatives had gained Stirling from the SNP. Our Conservative guest

:02:29. > :02:32.cheering in the background. A narrow majority of 148 for the Tories but

:02:33. > :02:50.they have defeated the SNP. Let's get some reaction from Brian

:02:51. > :02:57.Taylor and updated forecast. A remarkable series of results for the

:02:58. > :03:04.Conservatives. You would see it as Tory SNP but Labour and the Lib Dems

:03:05. > :03:09.are getting good results. Everywhere you look, SNP decline across

:03:10. > :03:19.Scotland, but they are holding onto some seats. Let's look at the new

:03:20. > :03:31.forecast. Conservatives still short of the result they require. Here is

:03:32. > :03:43.the declaration from Edinburgh North and Leith. 56,000 542. Total number

:03:44. > :03:50.of ballot papers rejected was 72 and the turnout was 71.2 point percent.

:03:51. > :03:55.The total votes for each candidate is as follows. Deidre Brock, SNP,

:03:56. > :04:19.19200 and 43. Iain McGill, Scottish Conservative

:04:20. > :04:31.and Unionist... Gordon Munro, labour and cooperative party,

:04:32. > :04:44.Lorna Slater, Green Party, 1727 stop mind there, Liberal Democrats, 2579.

:04:45. > :04:48.I give public notice that Deidre Brock is duly elected as the member

:04:49. > :04:55.of Parliament for Edinburgh North and life. The SNP finishing first in

:04:56. > :05:02.a 3-way fight for Edinburgh North and Leith. Deidre Brock re-elected.

:05:03. > :05:26.Labour's Gordon Munro second. The Greens, one of three places

:05:27. > :05:33.they're standing. Let's go to Jackie Bird for an overview of the election

:05:34. > :05:42.so far. Just after 4am and it is a tale of

:05:43. > :05:47.two Conservative parties. In UK terms, the election was called to

:05:48. > :05:50.enhance Theresa May's majority and seems to have backfired at this

:05:51. > :05:54.early stage. This is what she had to say at her Berkshire declaration. As

:05:55. > :06:01.we look ahead and wait to see what the final results will be, I know

:06:02. > :06:05.that, as I say, the country needs a period of stability and whatever the

:06:06. > :06:13.results are the Conservatives will insure that we fulfil our duty into

:06:14. > :06:19.filling that stability so we can all, as one country, go forward

:06:20. > :06:29.together. In Scotland the Conservatives not -- the

:06:30. > :06:33.Conservatives have nine MPs so far. The SNP landslide of the years ago

:06:34. > :06:38.has diminished. SNP are still the biggest party by far but they have

:06:39. > :06:52.lost 18. The Conservatives have gained nine. The SNP are still the

:06:53. > :06:59.biggest party, significant losses including Westminster leader Angus

:07:00. > :07:01.Robertson and Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh. The First Minister said she would

:07:02. > :07:06.make no decisions at this stage over another independence referendum. I

:07:07. > :07:11.will not take any rash decisions, I will reflect over the result and

:07:12. > :07:16.take time to do that but it would be the wrong thing to do at this hour

:07:17. > :07:20.to take decisions for having had the opportunity to properly think about

:07:21. > :07:26.it and I will certainly do that. A good night for Labour. They had

:07:27. > :07:32.taken Glasgow North East amongst other seats. A return to front line

:07:33. > :07:37.politics by the Lib Dems' Jo Swinson, and they also gained

:07:38. > :07:45.Caithness Sutherland and Easter Ross from the SNP. Some Twitter reaction.

:07:46. > :07:52.Paul Goodwin is demanding that Theresa May advisers go and that the

:07:53. > :07:58.Cabinet takes charge. The executive editor reports anger from the

:07:59. > :08:08.Conservative HQ over the misfiring campaign machine. Nigel Farage

:08:09. > :08:18.attributes Jeremy Corbyn's gains to his personality and sincerity.

:08:19. > :08:22.Let's go to Cardiff. I can't remember at a point in this campaign

:08:23. > :08:26.weather was great excitement that the Conservatives were going to

:08:27. > :08:35.sweep Wales but it isn't turning out that way.

:08:36. > :08:40.No, a few weeks ago there were polls saying the Conservatives could gain

:08:41. > :08:45.an extra nine seats. Two years ago there were an elephant, the high

:08:46. > :08:51.water mark in Wales had been 14 in 1883, but what a story we have here

:08:52. > :08:54.tonight, and one particularly from Cardiff were the counts have

:08:55. > :09:00.finished for all constituencies, and Cardiff North is a big story because

:09:01. > :09:05.the Conservative have lost it to Labour by a big majority. Labour

:09:06. > :09:14.have held on, defended well, increased their majority. Not only

:09:15. > :09:23.that, they have taken seats, Gower, Vale of Clwyd, Cardiff North. We

:09:24. > :09:28.have heard people saying that they have campaigned successfully in the

:09:29. > :09:33.Labour branch and also praising Jeremy Corbyn. We have heard from

:09:34. > :09:37.Welsh Conservatives this evening that perhaps they should have been

:09:38. > :09:42.campaigning more on a Welsh Conservative brand. Plaid Cymru, the

:09:43. > :09:46.Nationalists, we can't tell you what sort of night it has been for them

:09:47. > :09:52.yet because there is a complete recount in Ceredigion and we are

:09:53. > :09:57.hearing it is close between the Lib Dems and Plaid Cymru. It is a target

:09:58. > :10:06.seat of Plaid Cymru and if they are to take it it would mean there are

:10:07. > :10:25.no more Lib Dems in Wales. Some places are very close, Arfon. Labour

:10:26. > :10:29.had a slim majority in Ynys Mon and they have increased it to around

:10:30. > :10:34.5000. A very different story in Wales to what we thought we might

:10:35. > :10:40.get. Thank you for updating us live from

:10:41. > :10:44.Cardiff. Whilst we have been talking, results from Livingston

:10:45. > :10:51.Motherwell and Wishaw and Ayrshire Central, the SNP have held those

:10:52. > :11:11.constituencies. There is the Motherwell and Wishaw result.

:11:12. > :11:24.Let's get the result from Edinburgh South where we hear news of a

:11:25. > :11:46.Stephanie Smith, Scottish Conservative and Unionist, 9428. I

:11:47. > :11:50.give public notice that Ian Murray is duly elected as the member for

:11:51. > :11:58.Parliament for the Edinburgh South Borough constituency. Let's go to

:11:59. > :12:03.Dingwall for another declaration. Total number of ballot papers

:12:04. > :12:17.rejected 49. The total number of votes can teach candidate was as

:12:18. > :12:28.follows. Ian Blackford, SNP, 15,480. Ronnie the Crofter Campbell,

:12:29. > :12:36.independent, 499. Jean Davis, Lib Dems, 8042. Robert Mackenzie,

:12:37. > :13:00.Scottish Conservative and Unionist, 9561. Peter -- Peter Donald... Stick

:13:01. > :13:03.Sturrock, Something New, 1077. I give public notice that Ian

:13:04. > :13:15.Blackford is duly elected for the Ross, Skye Lochaber constituency.

:13:16. > :13:22.The SNP holding Ross, Skye Lochaber. Ian Blackford re-elected

:13:23. > :13:24.for the SNP in the constituency that used to be held by the former

:13:25. > :13:31.Liberal Democrat leader, Charles Kennedy. The Conservatives are

:13:32. > :14:01.second place. Let's go to Edinburgh now. There is

:14:02. > :14:05.Ruth Davidson, leader of the Scottish Conservative Party. At my

:14:06. > :14:11.account, at this stage in the evening, you have nine MPs having

:14:12. > :14:14.only had no more than one for the last 20 years. How do you think from

:14:15. > :14:21.your point of view the night has... your point of view the night has...

:14:22. > :14:27.? A historic night. You have nine MPs at the moment. What has allowed

:14:28. > :14:36.you to make the breakthrough is you have made in this election? We are

:14:37. > :14:43.building on last year where we more than doubled our number of MSP four

:14:44. > :14:47.and denied the SNP a majority. We more than doubled our number of

:14:48. > :14:51.words in the council elections and we have carried the momentum into

:14:52. > :14:54.tonight. There was one big issue in this campaign and that was Nicola

:14:55. > :14:59.Sturgeon trying to push through a second independence referendum and

:15:00. > :15:04.the country's reaction to that. We have seen the reaction in the number

:15:05. > :15:11.of SNP seats which have fallen. Independence referendum two is dead.

:15:12. > :15:18.Nicola Sturgeon said she would reflect on the results. How do you

:15:19. > :15:23.read the comments? I think that she is probably astute enough and she

:15:24. > :15:28.has was adequate political brain, very professional, she knows this is

:15:29. > :15:30.worse than they expected. She knows when she started the campaign she

:15:31. > :15:34.came out of the blocks saying she would do independence at the heart

:15:35. > :15:40.of it and by the final week you couldn't drag the word out of her

:15:41. > :15:47.mouth. People in Scotland understand SNP is for independence and they

:15:48. > :15:55.don't mind that but what they don't like is being told that a decision

:15:56. > :15:59.for a generation will be gone back on. She tried to push it through and

:16:00. > :16:03.Scotland said no. She has a lot to reflect on and the rest of us do as

:16:04. > :16:06.well because this wasn't just about not wanting to go back to the

:16:07. > :16:10.constitutional division in Scotland, it was also about what that stops

:16:11. > :16:16.and inhibits us from doing, about having debates about fixing our

:16:17. > :16:20.schools, helping public services and growing our economy. Since he became

:16:21. > :16:25.the main opposition we have tried to play our part in that policy debate

:16:26. > :16:30.but we found it difficult when the Titanic clash over the constitution

:16:31. > :16:34.was there every single day. Now we can get back to what matters to the

:16:35. > :16:35.people of Scotland, sorting out schools, growing the economy and

:16:36. > :16:47.looking at public services. Here are some pictures of the

:16:48. > :16:49.recount taking place in Amber Rudd's constituency, where the Home

:16:50. > :16:54.Secretary is hoping to hold on, but it appears to be a close fight. We

:16:55. > :17:02.reported earlier that she was confident but not complacent. We may

:17:03. > :17:03.get a result from their shortly full.

:17:04. > :17:07.get a result from their shortly On a UK wide basis, the picture is

:17:08. > :17:09.different. You are picking up seats in Scotland having your best result

:17:10. > :17:18.for years, but the gamble Theresa May took calling this snap election

:17:19. > :17:22.seems to have failed. I think we have got to wait a while, it is only

:17:23. > :17:27.4am, we have hundreds of seats still to come in, many in rural

:17:28. > :17:33.constituencies that are regularly blue, and we would hope to keep it

:17:34. > :17:39.that way. Some of them are also targets for us. Let us wait till we

:17:40. > :17:42.make decisions, shall we? It is still possible that the

:17:43. > :17:47.Conservatives could get the majority, but that is not the

:17:48. > :17:55.forecast. When the Prime Minister spoke earlier, she did not say much

:17:56. > :18:00.that made me certainly think she was determined to hang on in the event

:18:01. > :18:07.she does not have an overall majority. Would it be right for her

:18:08. > :18:12.in no circumstances to hand over? The United Kingdom has a Prime

:18:13. > :18:15.Minister and there is no vacancy. And that fall in the morning it is

:18:16. > :18:19.too early to discuss any of this. The forecasts did not suggest the

:18:20. > :18:22.Scottish Conservatives would have the night we're having. I have to

:18:23. > :18:34.cut you off with apologies, the declaration from Edinburgh South

:18:35. > :18:35.West. Scottish Conservative, 16,478. Joanna Cherry, Scottish National

:18:36. > :19:05.Party, 17,575. Scottish Labour Party, 13,213. Asia

:19:06. > :19:09.may, 2124, Scottish Liberal Democrats. So I give public notice

:19:10. > :19:16.that Joanna Cherry has been duly elected. Let us go to Aberdeen for

:19:17. > :19:22.the Gordon declaration. Total votes cast of 53,740. The percentage call

:19:23. > :19:37.at 68.43%. Colin Clark, Scottish Conservative and Unionist, 21,861.

:19:38. > :19:53.David Evans, Scottish Liberal Democrats, 6230. Kirsten Muat,

:19:54. > :20:02.Scottish Labour Party, 6340. Alex Hammond, Scottish National Party,

:20:03. > :20:16.19,400... CHEERING

:20:17. > :20:26.55 ballot papers were rejected. Total votes of 53,740, I declare

:20:27. > :20:38.that Colin James Clark is duly elected to serve in the UK

:20:39. > :20:43.Parliament for this constituency. Another massive result for the

:20:44. > :20:50.Conservatives. If you thought it was big news that the SNP's Westminster

:20:51. > :20:53.leader Angus Robertson had lost his seat, it is even bigger that Alex

:20:54. > :20:56.Salmond is out of the House of Commons, defeated by the

:20:57. > :20:59.Conservatives in the Gordon constituency, once a Liberal

:21:00. > :21:04.Democrat stronghold. It is the tenth parliamentary election that Alex

:21:05. > :21:11.Salmond has fought. He's very used to winning. Not this time around.

:21:12. > :21:25.Alex Salmond defeated in Gordon by the Conservatives' Colin Clark.

:21:26. > :21:31.Thank you for backing the. Heather Watson, we got there, eventually.

:21:32. > :21:38.Although local volunteers and my wife, Philippa, who is at home

:21:39. > :21:44.looking after my kids. To represent Gordon is just an amazing honour.

:21:45. > :21:46.The silent majority have spoken. We are proud to be part of the United

:21:47. > :22:00.Kingdom. CHEERING

:22:01. > :22:08.Gordon. Gordon.

:22:09. > :22:17.-- Gordon, the north-eastern Scotland. Whatever your vote was,

:22:18. > :22:25.thank you very much. Colin Clark, no, Alex Hammond. I thank the

:22:26. > :22:28.returning officer and his staff for the way they have conducted the

:22:29. > :22:31.count, and could I thank my fellow candidates for the way the

:22:32. > :22:36.constituency contest in Gordon was conducted and congratulate Colin

:22:37. > :22:37.Clark on his victory. Gordon is the most amazing and diverse

:22:38. > :22:47.constituency in the whole of Scotland. I wish you well in

:22:48. > :22:50.representing it, Colin. Colin said I had been 30 years of a

:22:51. > :22:56.parliamentarian in the north of Scotland, and that is true, the

:22:57. > :23:02.privilege of my life to do that. I am grateful for these times, for the

:23:03. > :23:09.activists in the SNP who have made the many electoral successes

:23:10. > :23:10.possible, and particularly to my long-standing election agent,

:23:11. > :23:30.Stewart Pratt, who guided me through nine I am sorry we could not

:23:31. > :23:35.make it ten together. APPLAUSE I would like to thank my

:23:36. > :23:37.wife Moira and the extended family for the forbearance over the last 30

:23:38. > :23:41.years, we have suffered some grievous blows recently that put the

:23:42. > :23:45.world of politics into perspective, but without the support of family

:23:46. > :23:50.members, no politician could possibly conduct their affairs.

:23:51. > :23:59.I would like to lastly reflect on the situation across Scotland and

:24:00. > :24:01.the United Kingdom. I have lost -- the Scottish National Party has lost

:24:02. > :24:08.many fine parliamentarians this evening, and that is a grievous blow

:24:09. > :24:13.to the SNP. But overall the results in Scotland show the SNP will have

:24:14. > :24:25.won a majority of the seats in this country and the majority of votes.

:24:26. > :24:33.Something which I suspect the Prime Minister would like to be able to

:24:34. > :24:42.claim in the early hours of this morning, but may not be able to do

:24:43. > :24:55.Some things do not change. The Conservative Party of civility is

:24:56. > :25:00.one of those things. So, the SNP might well find itself and reduce

:25:01. > :25:06.numbers in the House of Commons, but in a position of very substantial

:25:07. > :25:09.influence indeed. I know that my colleagues will seek to use that

:25:10. > :25:13.influence to keep the Conservative Party from power and to build a

:25:14. > :25:26.progressive Alliance to take this country forward and avoid the

:25:27. > :25:31.calamity of hard Brexit. And lastly, a word to all from all political

:25:32. > :25:41.parties. And a word in particular to my own campaign team. A phrase from

:25:42. > :25:52.an old Jacobite song, in the midst of your glee, you have not seen the

:25:53. > :25:57.last of my bonnets and me. He says we have not seen the last of him,

:25:58. > :26:00.but he has been defeated and is out of the House of Commons. Alex

:26:01. > :26:12.Hammond replaced as MP for Gordon by Colin Clark. -- Alex Salmond let us

:26:13. > :26:20.get some reaction to that result in Gordon. First of all from Jimmy

:26:21. > :26:24.Hepburn, the SNP minister. That was presumably one you were not

:26:25. > :26:28.expecting. Certainly not at the beginning of the evening. It is

:26:29. > :26:33.quite a moment to be brought in at this particular juncture. It is

:26:34. > :26:36.difficult to know what to see. He has been an ever present political

:26:37. > :26:43.force, certainly in my living memory. He is a colossus of the

:26:44. > :26:48.Scottish political scene, so it is a surprise that he has not been able

:26:49. > :26:54.to retain his seat. It has been a very difficult week for him

:26:55. > :27:00.personally. Presumably that was a reference to the loss of his father.

:27:01. > :27:13.Yes, a sad week for his family. But I thought he spoke with great Magna.

:27:14. > :27:19.-- magnanimity. Colin Clark is not someone I know. Alex Hammond is

:27:20. > :27:24.correct to make the point that the SNP will have the majority of seats

:27:25. > :27:27.with the most votes. Colin Clark studied at Edinburgh University and

:27:28. > :27:33.sold his Lincolnshire business selling produce to supermarkets, so

:27:34. > :27:40.now we know a bit more about him. Let us bring in Adam Tomkins, with

:27:41. > :27:45.us from the Scottish Conservative Party. You're having a better night

:27:46. > :27:50.the new dear talk for, maybe just a few hours ago, are you? We're having

:27:51. > :27:54.a great night, but what matters much more is the union of the United

:27:55. > :28:01.Kingdom is having a good night. The results of today's Scottish

:28:02. > :28:07.election, today's general election in Scotland have killed the idea of

:28:08. > :28:15.a second independence referendum. Indyref2 is dead, as Ruth Davidson

:28:16. > :28:18.said. But is it up to you? Absolutely not, it is up to the

:28:19. > :28:26.people of Scotland. The people of Scotland have said they want to

:28:27. > :28:29.vote, less than 40% of those voting are voting for the SNP, even in

:28:30. > :28:37.those who voted yes, like West Dunbartonshire, Dundee. But you know

:28:38. > :28:41.that it isn't not so long, you're old enough to remember that it is

:28:42. > :28:45.not so very long ago that the SNP said if they won a majority of seats

:28:46. > :28:51.in the House of Commons, that would be Scotland's after independence.

:28:52. > :28:55.That is a line that some SNP members are using tonight, but I do not

:28:56. > :29:00.think we will hear that said much over the weekend and into the coming

:29:01. > :29:04.week. I think they will drop the idea of independence, indyref2

:29:05. > :29:13.happening any time in the near future. It is not because of what

:29:14. > :29:19.Ruth are seeing, it is what the people of Scotland are saying, they

:29:20. > :29:26.have said no to the idea of indyref2, just as the said no to

:29:27. > :29:27.independence. So far, is that the number of seats or the projections?

:29:28. > :30:02.That is the number of seats. Moving towards a final total from a

:30:03. > :30:13.Scottish point of view. So the SNP have lost 18 seats already? Let us

:30:14. > :30:27.bring in an asylum from the Labour Party, obviously your party has been

:30:28. > :30:32.picking up seats in Scotland, perhaps that you might not have

:30:33. > :30:36.expected to win. How do you read the results over? Why have people moved

:30:37. > :30:38.away from the SNP in two years? There are two things. People are

:30:39. > :30:41.turning away because of constant arguing about independence, the call

:30:42. > :30:43.for indyref2, but I think that is something wider happening, people

:30:44. > :30:45.voting not just against a referendum but voting for the economy and

:30:46. > :30:48.society across the UK. Can we reflect on the Alex Salmond result,

:30:49. > :30:51.he has been a huge figure. When I have been involved in politics, he

:30:52. > :30:53.has been First Minister, and for him to lose his seat is a huge moment

:30:54. > :30:56.and has serious implications for the SNP. I think Nicola Sturgeon might

:30:57. > :31:01.be haunted by those last words of Alex Salmond in terms of not seen

:31:02. > :31:04.the last of him. Do you think he is coming back to Holyrood? She will be

:31:05. > :31:07.a bit frightened about the results she has seen and the backlash that

:31:08. > :31:12.will come from the independence movement. They have kept that yes

:31:13. > :31:14.movement together since 2014 over the dream of independence. That

:31:15. > :31:21.dream looks like it's coming to an end.

:31:22. > :31:34.The Nicola Sturgeon taking a selfie of, well, herself. In Edinburgh,

:31:35. > :31:40.more happy SNP scenes with MPs that were returned to there, John Cherry,

:31:41. > :31:49.Tommy Sheppard, Deidre Brock amongst them. More pictures of the First

:31:50. > :31:57.Minister and SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon arriving at the count

:31:58. > :32:00.earlier. Let's bring in our fourth panellist who has joined us, a

:32:01. > :32:08.Highland councillor for the Lib Dems. What do you make of regaining

:32:09. > :32:15.the Lib Dems of Caithness Sutherland and Easter Ross? I am thrilled for

:32:16. > :32:26.Jamie Stone. It is great to have the Lib Dems having an MP at Westminster

:32:27. > :32:32.for Caithness and Sutherland. I think the SNP MP last time and had

:32:33. > :32:39.quite a divisive effect on the area. Paul Monaghan. Yes. I am pleased to

:32:40. > :32:44.see that the Unionist parties didn't split the vote so much that it would

:32:45. > :32:50.have made it difficult for us. There has been increased vote across all

:32:51. > :32:57.the Unionist party. Was there independence issue bigger their?

:32:58. > :33:00.Three things, a move away from another independence referendum,

:33:01. > :33:06.people do not want that there, also local issues to do with health up

:33:07. > :33:12.there, and also Jamie's popularity, because he was there before. Lots of

:33:13. > :33:17.things. Thank you for your contribution. Let's go to the

:33:18. > :33:23.election cafe. It is daylight since we last spoke.

:33:24. > :33:28.New light has been shed on things this morning. I have dragged my

:33:29. > :33:34.panellists away from the television where they have been watching the

:33:35. > :33:38.results and Alex Salmond's speech. I have Paul Sinclair, former Labour

:33:39. > :33:44.adviser, also your birthday. I don't usually celebrated at this I might.

:33:45. > :33:52.What did you make of Alex Salmond's speech? I thought the line between

:33:53. > :33:58.defiant and graceless at the end was possibly crossed. It is not just him

:33:59. > :34:06.losing his seat but he built a generation of talented politicians

:34:07. > :34:10.like Nicola Sturgeon, Angus Robertson, he has gone, and it feels

:34:11. > :34:19.a little bit like the generation he built is coming to an end. So,

:34:20. > :34:21.formerly of the Tories, Tory supporter and independence

:34:22. > :34:26.supporter, what does this mean for the SNP? About gloss losing a former

:34:27. > :34:31.leader and someone like Alex Salmond. In some ways it makes a bit

:34:32. > :34:36.easier for Nicola Sturgeon to work out what is going to happen because

:34:37. > :34:40.Alex Salmond is not in the background but I think the SNP are

:34:41. > :34:43.in a strange position. Have actually won the election in a Scottish

:34:44. > :34:49.sense, the majority of seats, but it feels like a dismal night for them.

:34:50. > :34:53.You have to look long-term, two elections ago they had eight or nine

:34:54. > :35:00.seats in Scotland and now they're up at 33. In some ways it is a bit

:35:01. > :35:05.cruel to say it is a devastating loss but I'm not sure you can paint

:35:06. > :35:11.it any other way because the Tories have all these seats on the back of

:35:12. > :35:16.a campaign of Saint no to an independence referendum. It is good

:35:17. > :35:26.to be tough for Nicola to have a second referendum. Kirsty, where do

:35:27. > :35:31.you think this leaves indyref2? In context, yes, the SNP, the main part

:35:32. > :35:33.of the independence movement, the largest representation, they have

:35:34. > :35:41.lost a lot of seats and if you look at the average of polls supporting

:35:42. > :35:46.independence, 46, 40 7%, so the indyref2 question is not going away

:35:47. > :35:49.any time soon, it is not a mass of water independence, as in this

:35:50. > :35:55.election wasn't about independence. I think independence supporters will

:35:56. > :35:59.feel dejected and SNP may take a bit of time and let the dust settle

:36:00. > :36:05.before they race ahead with calls for indyref2. We can probably expect

:36:06. > :36:13.it to go on the back burner for the future, at least until we get

:36:14. > :36:21.underway with Brexit negotiations. Where does this leave the Lib Dems

:36:22. > :36:26.in a Westminster sense? They have potentially a lot of Lethbridge. A

:36:27. > :36:33.block of 30-something MPs with no overall majority could be hugely

:36:34. > :36:39.important. If they play their cards right. One of the problems will be

:36:40. > :36:44.as they had lost a lot of their heavy hitters, the SNP, and it will

:36:45. > :36:49.be hard to make impact. I think an interesting thing we have seen, we

:36:50. > :36:55.have not seen support for independence moving, it is quite

:36:56. > :37:00.steady at mid-40s but in the last election you saw the SNP has more

:37:01. > :37:08.popular than independence. This time independence is more popular than

:37:09. > :37:13.the SNP. There might be some sort of disassociation of the SNP and a

:37:14. > :37:18.desire for independence. I will let you continue that discussion. We

:37:19. > :37:26.still have a little while to go despite the fact it is daylight.

:37:27. > :37:31.What an astonishing night. Still a few to watch. The Tories still think

:37:32. > :37:40.they will take some in the Borders, Banff and Buchan, they think Argyll

:37:41. > :37:46.and Bute is a possibility as well, Labour will probably finish on

:37:47. > :37:56.seven, Lib Dems still have an eye on North East Fife. Banff and Buchan is

:37:57. > :38:17.about to declare. The percentage poll of 61.67%. David Duguid, 19,000

:38:18. > :38:36.976, Conservatives. Galen Milne, Liberal Democrats, 1448. Caitlin

:38:37. > :38:55.Stott, Labour Party, 3936. Ale Whiteford, 16,283, SNP.

:38:56. > :39:09.With 46 ballot papers rejected, the total votes of 41,689, I declared

:39:10. > :39:13.David Duguid is elected to serve in the UK Parliament as the member for

:39:14. > :39:20.Banff and Buchan constituencies. It has been SNP for 30 years since Alex

:39:21. > :39:28.Salmond first won Banff and Buchan. Two years ago, ale Whiteford was

:39:29. > :39:31.returned with 60% of the vote but the Conservatives have made a

:39:32. > :39:36.breakthrough in this election and David Duguid is on his way to

:39:37. > :39:41.Westminster as the newly elected MP for Banff and Buchan, defeating the

:39:42. > :39:46.SNP's ale Whiteford in a constituency where the fishing

:39:47. > :39:53.industry is strong, the indications are they voted for Brexit. They may

:39:54. > :39:54.be important factors I am sure we will discussed but let's confirm the

:39:55. > :40:26.result. SNP share of the vote is 39, down

:40:27. > :40:54.from 60 last time. Let's get more election headlines

:40:55. > :41:01.from Jackie Bird. Dawn breaks but it is good night

:41:02. > :41:04.from one of the biggest names in Scottish politics, former SNP leader

:41:05. > :41:09.Alex Salmond dramatically lost his Gordon constituency to the Tories.

:41:10. > :41:15.Also out is the current SNP leader at Westminster Angus Robertson. Alex

:41:16. > :41:18.Salmond says his party is still the winner in Scotland and is in a

:41:19. > :41:23.position of influence in Westminster. We have lost many fine

:41:24. > :41:29.parliamentarians this evening and that is a grievous blow to the SNP.

:41:30. > :41:34.Overall, the result in Scotland sure the SNP will have won a majority of

:41:35. > :41:45.seats in this country and the majority of votes.

:41:46. > :41:54.Something which I suspect the Prime Minister would like to be with the

:41:55. > :42:01.claim in the early hours of this morning but may not be able to do

:42:02. > :42:08.so. The Conservatives have made huge gains here. Their leader Ruth

:42:09. > :42:12.Davidson said the reason was clear. We are building on success last

:42:13. > :42:21.year, we more than doubled our number of MSPs, and denied SNP a

:42:22. > :42:25.majority, last month we doubled the number of words in the council

:42:26. > :42:30.elections, and we carried the momentum to tonight. And there was

:42:31. > :42:33.one big issue in the campaign, Nicola Sturgeon trying to push the

:42:34. > :42:37.second independence referendum and the reaction of the country to that.

:42:38. > :42:42.We have seen the reaction in the number of SNP seats which have

:42:43. > :42:47.followed. Indyref2 is dead. The Conservatives are on course to be

:42:48. > :42:51.the largest party in the UK but likely to fall short of a majority

:42:52. > :42:53.of the stop Jeremy Corbyn's future as leader of the Labour Party is

:42:54. > :42:59.looking secure after a good result for them. He said it was time for a

:43:00. > :43:03.Theresa May and to make way for a government truly representative of

:43:04. > :43:06.the people of the country. Let's see what people are saying on Twitter

:43:07. > :43:14.about the Tory resurgence in Scotland. Fraser Nelson of the

:43:15. > :43:23.Spectator says Theresa May should take a leaf from Ruth Davidson was

:43:24. > :43:28.back book. Alex Massey refers to the former Tory Defence Secretary,

:43:29. > :43:35.high-profile victim of the Labour landslide in 1997. And leader at

:43:36. > :43:45.Westminster Angus Robertson tweeted a few moments ago reflecting on his

:43:46. > :43:47.16 years as MP. Still five Scottish constituencies

:43:48. > :43:52.to declare and we will keep right across them. The Conservatives

:43:53. > :43:56.making significant gains. 11 seats in Scotland and the last time they

:43:57. > :44:01.did that was in the 1992 general election, at a time when there were

:44:02. > :44:05.far more constituencies available in Scotland. Big gains for the party in

:44:06. > :44:13.the north-east. Let's go to Aberdeen. The Conservatives hold to

:44:14. > :44:23.do well in the north-east and they have done that and some. We have had

:44:24. > :44:30.the declaration for Banff and Buchan were David Duguid turned over 14,000

:44:31. > :44:32.majority of the SNP. The Conservatives have for the five

:44:33. > :44:38.seats in the north-east of Scotland and I am joined by three of the new

:44:39. > :44:42.MPs. Ross Thomson, you won Aberdeen South stop what about the Banff and

:44:43. > :44:49.Buchan result? Huge majority. What has gone on in the north-east? It

:44:50. > :44:53.was phenomenal, a 14,000 majority overturned like that. That is down

:44:54. > :44:57.to the hard work of David and his team as well as the north-east in

:44:58. > :45:02.all of our seats making it twice heard. We are fed up with an SNP

:45:03. > :45:09.government focused on the central belt. Our businesses are being hit

:45:10. > :45:13.by rate rises, a downturn in oil and gas is biting, support from the

:45:14. > :45:18.government hasn't come forward, people in the north-east are fed up

:45:19. > :45:25.being forgotten. Nationally you're going to join a conservative group

:45:26. > :45:28.in Westminster in a mess. The decision by the Prime Minister to

:45:29. > :45:32.call this election was a disaster. We are joining a conservative group

:45:33. > :45:37.which will be the largest party in parliament and the Prime Minister

:45:38. > :45:40.will be leading that group. There is no vacancy. I look forward to being

:45:41. > :45:44.on those benches as we fight for a better deal for Britain out of

:45:45. > :45:48.Brexit negotiations but also to remain within the UK, that is what

:45:49. > :45:52.the people in our constituency said, they want to remain part of the UK

:45:53. > :45:57.and for Nicola Sturgeon to take indyref2 off the table. You have

:45:58. > :46:15.just ended Alex Salmond's 30-year parliamentary career. What are you

:46:16. > :46:18.going to be to do in Westminster? Tonight was a real David and Goliath

:46:19. > :46:21.competition and we have shown that we can beat the SNP unanimously over

:46:22. > :46:25.the wall of the north-east. What is important as we go down with a

:46:26. > :46:27.positive message for whole of Gordon, for their constituencies,

:46:28. > :46:32.the north-east of Scotland and all of Scotland, and we can represent a

:46:33. > :46:35.positive message for Scotland and a great future for Scotland. You're

:46:36. > :46:40.going to be joining a Conservative Party that is going to be in

:46:41. > :46:46.turmoil. You could end up with less MPs than you started up -- than you

:46:47. > :46:50.started with. That is incompetence, isn't it? I do not think so, we

:46:51. > :46:55.trust the democratic process to the country, and the three, four of us

:46:56. > :47:02.in the north-east are happy to be going to Westminster, and we will be

:47:03. > :47:05.the largest party at Westminster. Andrew Bowie, you now the MP for

:47:06. > :47:10.Aberdeenshire West and Kincardine. It is a seat you had been targeting

:47:11. > :47:15.a long time, overturning a reasonable majority. Yes, we have

:47:16. > :47:24.been trying to win it back from the Liberal Democrats over 20 years, and

:47:25. > :47:26.I'm delighted to have succeeded to make. You and your colleagues will

:47:27. > :47:29.have a big challenge in getting the Scottish voice heard at Westminster,

:47:30. > :47:32.that is going to be all about Brexit, internal friction of the

:47:33. > :47:36.Conservative Party. Knowing some of my colleagues as I do, we will not

:47:37. > :47:42.have trouble getting our voice heard in Westminster, and as was said, we

:47:43. > :47:46.are going down there as part of the largest party in Westminster, it is

:47:47. > :47:49.time that us to unite together and get the best deal possible from the

:47:50. > :48:00.Brexit the negotiations which start in I think just over a week. The SNP

:48:01. > :48:07.took one seat here tonight, Aberdeen North, with a reduced minority.

:48:08. > :48:13.Thank you. Let us bring in Brian Taylor with an updated forecast.

:48:14. > :48:19.Yes, the forecasters are now saying as follows. 316 for the

:48:20. > :48:22.Conservatives, which is down 15, and there is the figure under Theresa

:48:23. > :48:35.May. Ten short of an overall majority. One suspects Theresa May

:48:36. > :48:42.will not be long from that pantheon of leaders, especially the town she

:48:43. > :48:47.gave. The poll reckons 34 for the SNP, Lib Dems and 13, which is up

:48:48. > :48:51.five, reasonably good night for them, and 22 for the others,

:48:52. > :48:58.including Plaid Cymru, the Green party and the others. But the

:48:59. > :49:00.Conservatives are short by ten, not the scenario that Theresa May

:49:01. > :49:07.envisaged when she called this unnecessary election, and it may

:49:08. > :49:10.well have cost her a job. If the SNP finished in 34, as the forecast

:49:11. > :49:13.suggests, the party would need to hold at least one of the

:49:14. > :49:28.constituencies, Argyll and Bute, Dumfries Galloway, and in East

:49:29. > :49:35.Kilbride there are -- it is a third recount. Let us bring in Professor

:49:36. > :49:41.Michael McEwan, if the Tories finished ten short of an overall

:49:42. > :49:45.majority, who can they do a deal with, the DUP in Northern Ireland?

:49:46. > :49:47.It is extremely complex and difficult for them. The Liberal

:49:48. > :49:52.Democrats might have been the obvious choice a few years ago, but

:49:53. > :49:55.in a Brexit context I do not think that will happen, and the Lib Dems I

:49:56. > :50:01.believe have already ruled it out. Northern Ireland, it is a

:50:02. > :50:05.possibility. What we have seen tonight is a further polarisation of

:50:06. > :50:09.the vote, with Sinn Fein making games and the DUP making games. The

:50:10. > :50:21.take up their seat in Westminster. take up their seat in Westminster.

:50:22. > :50:33.-- games bid gains. So you do not need the ten. Brexit was already

:50:34. > :50:36.making Northern Ireland politics difficult. If they were to rely on

:50:37. > :50:41.the DUP to make a formal alliance, that would potentially inflame the

:50:42. > :50:48.situation even more. Thank you very much indeed. We have lots of the

:50:49. > :50:55.papers in at this stage. The Daily Record, Theresa May hung out to cry.

:50:56. > :51:00.Shock exit poll leads Britain hanging, the early edition of this.

:51:01. > :51:11.That is still the position at this in the morning. Made's big gamble

:51:12. > :51:17.fails in The Times. The Daily Telegraph rampage, shock for Theresa

:51:18. > :51:29.May as exit polls .2 hung parliament. A couple more for you.

:51:30. > :51:37.-- Daily Telegraph front-page. The Scotsman says the election gamble

:51:38. > :51:49.backfires. And the murderer, hanging by a thread, they say. Let us update

:51:50. > :51:57.you on amber road's Kent. The Home She is wearing the stripey jacket.

:51:58. > :51:59.The indications are that she may well have held

:52:00. > :52:06.on, but this kind has been going on, this weekend has been going on for

:52:07. > :52:11.quite some time, so it has been a very close result and we are moving

:52:12. > :52:20.towards a declaration and confirmation of whether or not she

:52:21. > :52:25.has held onto her seat. One of the key Cabinet ministers in the

:52:26. > :52:35.government, if she were to lose her seat, that would be a big blow. She

:52:36. > :52:48.has been talked about as a possible contender if Theresa May Stepstone.

:52:49. > :52:52.Adam Tomkins, how big a mistake was it for Theresa May to call the

:52:53. > :52:57.selection in the first place? Well, it is not looking like it was the

:52:58. > :53:02.best move of her premiership, but the conservative vote in Scotland

:53:03. > :53:08.has been absolutely magnificent. One of the winners of this election is

:53:09. > :53:18.Ruth Davidson. But the real winner of this election is the union, I

:53:19. > :53:22.mean, there are quite a lot... I am happy to doc about that, but just

:53:23. > :53:27.onto these are made's judgment because she said she was not going

:53:28. > :53:32.to call an election, then she did. During the course of the campaign,

:53:33. > :53:41.she was tested. How do you think she got on? It was a challenging

:53:42. > :53:45.election for a lot of parties, for the SNP and for Theresa May as Prime

:53:46. > :53:47.Minister. But she is still the Prime Minister, there is absolutely no

:53:48. > :53:54.question that the Conservative Party is going to be by far the biggest

:53:55. > :53:59.party in the House of Commons. But is it possible to remain the leader

:54:00. > :54:05.of the party, the Prime Minister, when you set yourself the target of

:54:06. > :54:15.strengthening your hand, increasing your mandate? Letters get the

:54:16. > :54:29.constituency. Labour Party, 25,322. constituency. Labour Party, 25,322.

:54:30. > :54:41.-- amber Rudd. Liberal Democrat, 1185. Michael Sheridan Phillips,

:54:42. > :54:43.Ukip, 1479. Amber Rudd, the Conservative Party candidate,

:54:44. > :54:55.25,668. CHEERING Nicholas Wilson,

:54:56. > :55:02.independent, 412. The total number of ballot papers rejected was 97.

:55:03. > :55:05.The turnout was 70%. Therefore aid of public notice that Amber Rudd is

:55:06. > :55:12.duly elected as the member of Parliament for the Hastings and Rye

:55:13. > :55:16.constituency. Amber Rudd is back, she retains her seat in the House of

:55:17. > :55:23.Commons for the constituency of Hastings and Rye. Let us hear from

:55:24. > :55:26.her. Thank you to the fantastic counting agents who have done the

:55:27. > :55:28.job twice this evening, we are all grateful to you for staying late and

:55:29. > :55:34.doing a professional job. APPLAUSE I would also like to thank

:55:35. > :55:38.my team on the right to have done such a fantastic job supporting me,

:55:39. > :55:48.working with me, making sure we had a good turnout on the day, and I

:55:49. > :55:50.would like to thank the Labour candidate, Peter Cheney, who I know

:55:51. > :55:52.well, and I'm sure he will continue his role as the leader of the

:55:53. > :55:59.council. I am deeply honoured to have been

:56:00. > :56:03.re-elected for the third time by the residents of Hastings and Rye. This

:56:04. > :56:08.is a fantastic place to live and work, and I am going to continue, I

:56:09. > :56:17.hope to build on the -- continue, I hope, to build on the opportunities

:56:18. > :56:19.and improve our schools and NHS and get the infrastructure investment

:56:20. > :56:28.that we need. This is what really matters to me, and... Here is the

:56:29. > :56:43.Argyll and Bute declaration. The elected it was 67,230, total courts

:56:44. > :56:51.cast, 71.6%. I hereby give notice that the total number of votes for

:56:52. > :56:59.each candidate at the election was as follows. Michael James Kelly,

:57:00. > :57:08.Scottish Labour Party, 6044. Gary Mulvaney, Scottish Conservative and

:57:09. > :57:16.Unionist, 15,976. APPLAUSE Brendan O'Hara, Scottish

:57:17. > :57:30.National Party, 17,304. CHEERING And Alan Reid, Scottish

:57:31. > :57:36.Liberal Democrats, 8745. There were 69 ballot papers rejected and the

:57:37. > :57:41.total votes cast, 40,138. I declare that Brendan O'Hara is elected to

:57:42. > :57:50.serve in the United Kingdom Parliament as the Member for the

:57:51. > :57:53.Argyll and Bute County constituency. The SNP's defence spokesman Brendan

:57:54. > :58:04.O'Hara holds Argyll and Bute, re-elected with 17,304 votes. The

:58:05. > :58:11.Conservatives second. The former MP for this seat, the Liberal

:58:12. > :58:27.Democrats' Alan Reid and third-place. A turnout of 71%. Here

:58:28. > :58:29.is the share of the vote. Compared to last in, the SNP vote is down 8%,

:58:30. > :58:49.the Tory vote up 18. Let us cross live to Aberdeen and

:58:50. > :58:56.speak with the former SNP leader former First Minister, the former MP

:58:57. > :58:58.for Gordon, Alex Salmond. Thank you for joining us. Commiserations on

:58:59. > :59:03.your results. You are used to winning. What does it feel like to

:59:04. > :59:11.be defeated? Congratulations to Brendan O'Hara for holding Argyll

:59:12. > :59:14.and Bute. You're right, I have for ten elections in the north-east of

:59:15. > :59:22.Scotland. I have won nine. That is not too bad a batting average, soap

:59:23. > :59:26.I have got no complaints whatsoever. Why do you think there was such a

:59:27. > :59:33.reaction, such a turnaround in support for you and the SNP in that

:59:34. > :59:38.constituency and across Scotland? Well, let us just paraphrase that by

:59:39. > :59:43.pointing out the SNP have won the election, more seats than any other

:59:44. > :59:49.party, that is how you win elections. As Theresa May is finding

:59:50. > :59:54.out right now. That is the background, but particularly I think

:59:55. > :00:00.two things are important in Horden. There was a late recovery in the

:00:01. > :00:05.Labour Party support, and people voted for the Labour Party due to

:00:06. > :00:13.the way Jeremy Corbyn conducted the campaign, and the second is the

:00:14. > :00:21.collapse of the Liberal vote, which was not forecast to the extent it

:00:22. > :00:29.collapsed. These were to local factors but politics has swings and

:00:30. > :00:31.roundabouts, and Gordon is a wonderful place and I have been

:00:32. > :00:40.privileged to represent it. I have no complaints. Is indyref2 dead, as

:00:41. > :00:44.Ruth Davidson says? Or should Nicola Sturgeon at the very least put it on

:00:45. > :00:49.hold? Nicola Sturgeon will decide the policy of the Scottish National

:00:50. > :00:54.Party but if I am right, what I think was a really strong part of

:00:55. > :00:59.the last two -- few days of the campaign, not picked up by any

:01:00. > :01:03.commentator, but nonetheless on the doorstep and the SNP should perhaps

:01:04. > :01:06.have seen it coming a bit more, less chance there not recover Labour

:01:07. > :01:12.Party. The people voting for Jeremy Corbyn and not no voters. These are

:01:13. > :01:16.yes voters, young people in the name, and that late recovery cost

:01:17. > :01:24.the SNP dear. Perhaps we should have seen it coming. Our only defence is

:01:25. > :01:30.nobody else ought coming either. These were yes voters attracted by

:01:31. > :01:31.the positivity and radicalism of the Jeremy Corbyn campaign. There is a

:01:32. > :01:42.lesson to be learned. In terms of defining the strategy of

:01:43. > :01:45.SNP, I think the political leader who has won the majority of seats in

:01:46. > :01:53.Scotland, Nicola Sturgeon, will be able to do that. Stuart Donaldson

:01:54. > :01:59.last West Aberdeen shire and Kincardine has tweeted an update to

:02:00. > :02:03.his CV and it says 25-year-old who took two years out to be an MP now

:02:04. > :02:10.ready to enter the real world, but you suggested making some kind of

:02:11. > :02:18.comeback. What did you mean? I was teasing the audience here. The

:02:19. > :02:25.Conservative Party in particular. With some lines from the old

:02:26. > :02:32.Jacobite song, you not seen the last of my bonnets and me. Whether that

:02:33. > :02:36.is me or the SNP collectively, it remains to be seen. If I was going

:02:37. > :02:39.to spell that out then I wouldn't have used the lines of a song. Let's

:02:40. > :02:47.see everything keep the mystery alive. Alex Salmond, former MP for

:02:48. > :02:54.Gordon, thank you for joining us. Let's go to Edinburgh and speak to

:02:55. > :03:05.the re-elected Labour MP for Edinburgh South Ian Murray. You won

:03:06. > :03:09.with 2500 votes last time but this time your majority is much bigger.

:03:10. > :03:17.What was it in this campaign that allowed you to deliver such a

:03:18. > :03:20.resounding result? I had three messages on the doorstep for the

:03:21. > :03:26.people of Edinburgh South and they responded to them. The first one was

:03:27. > :03:31.to say no to a second independence referendum, secondly to not give

:03:32. > :03:35.Theresa May a blank cheque on Brexit, and the third one was to

:03:36. > :03:45.stand on my local record of being against austerity and investing in

:03:46. > :03:54.the local community. You will have Scottish Labour parliamentary

:03:55. > :03:56.colleagues and it seems on the strength of these results that

:03:57. > :04:01.Jeremy Corbyn will be able to remain as leader of the Labour Party. You

:04:02. > :04:07.famously resigned live on television from his Shadow Cabinet. Would you

:04:08. > :04:17.consider returning to his top team? I didn't resign live on television,

:04:18. > :04:24.I had a chat with Jeremy before I appeared on a TV programme. It is

:04:25. > :04:28.fantastic to have my six colleagues, seven Scottish Labour MPs, taking

:04:29. > :04:31.the fight to Westminster. I would say we would be fighting the

:04:32. > :04:35.government but we don't know at this stage if there will be a

:04:36. > :04:39.Conservative government or indeed who the Prime Minister will be. It

:04:40. > :04:45.seems that the current Foreign Secretary is manoeuvring to displace

:04:46. > :04:49.Theresa May. But this is a fantastic election result for Scottish Labour,

:04:50. > :04:55.not just seven MPs but majorities slashed across the country. Places

:04:56. > :04:58.like Glasgow East and Inverclyde, very competitive, only losing by a

:04:59. > :05:02.few hundred. The Scottish public have spoken and said to both the

:05:03. > :05:05.First Minister and Prime Minister that what is on offer to the people

:05:06. > :05:10.of this country is unacceptable and they must change track. Would you be

:05:11. > :05:20.prepared to serve in the Shadow Cabinet under Jeremy Corbyn? Well,

:05:21. > :05:29.look, it is up to Jeremy Corbyn and the Labour Party... Would you be

:05:30. > :05:34.willing? If you contrast the energetic campaign Jeremy Corbyn has

:05:35. > :05:39.run with the arrogant campaign the Prime Minister has run, shutting

:05:40. > :05:42.herself away, the British public have said clearly to Theresa May

:05:43. > :05:45.that she should never have called the general election that she

:05:46. > :05:52.promised not to call, and the way she has run our campaign, contrasted

:05:53. > :05:56.to the way Jeremy Corbyn has run his, the public have spoken to that.

:05:57. > :06:02.High praise for Jeremy Corbyn's campaign. If asked, would you serve

:06:03. > :06:11.in Jeremy Corbyn's Shadow Cabinet team? Well, first and foremost, I

:06:12. > :06:14.will be going to Westminster to represent the constituents who have

:06:15. > :06:18.sent me there whether you voted for me or not, I have consistently done

:06:19. > :06:24.that over the last seven years and that is why they put their faith in

:06:25. > :06:27.me as member of Parliament again. But we will have a Scottish

:06:28. > :06:32.Parliamentary Labour Party meeting this week with seven MPs and lots of

:06:33. > :06:38.labour Lords taking the fight to whatever government we end up with.

:06:39. > :06:44.Congratulations on your real action. Let's catch up with David Henderson.

:06:45. > :06:49.What have you got for us? Let's look at where the election

:06:50. > :06:56.stands. Where do the rival parties stand? There is the scoreboard. It

:06:57. > :07:01.shows how close the parties are to winning this election. They need 326

:07:02. > :07:07.seats to have a majority in the House of Commons. The Tories are

:07:08. > :07:14.inching towards that. Labour are some way behind now. That is where

:07:15. > :07:25.they stand. You can also see the SNP on 34 seats. The Lib Dems on 11

:07:26. > :07:30.across the UK. 21 for the other parties. That is the parties of

:07:31. > :07:36.Northern Ireland, the Welsh nationalists and so on. Let's look

:07:37. > :07:42.at the UK share of the vote. Labour and the Tories are almost neck and

:07:43. > :07:50.neck. 42% of the vote for the Tories, 40 per Labour. 7% for the

:07:51. > :07:53.Lib Dems. We can see how the rival parties are faring. How the share of

:07:54. > :07:59.the vote has changed. This is interesting. The Tories have secured

:08:00. > :08:07.a greater share of the vote, 6% more, compared with 2015. Labour are

:08:08. > :08:15.up 10%. Lib Dems down a little bit. The SNP down two percent but the big

:08:16. > :08:22.loser is Ukip, their share of the vote is down 11%. For the party

:08:23. > :08:28.which played a key role in winning the Brexit campaign last year, that

:08:29. > :08:34.is a big blow. Let's look at the map of the UK. This shows the different

:08:35. > :08:40.constituencies all the same size and the same shape. You can see Labour

:08:41. > :08:44.have made inroads, taking seats in which they didn't win in the last

:08:45. > :08:50.Parliament, seats in England like Canterbury and Battersea. The

:08:51. > :08:56.Scottish hex map has also changed colour will stop it was almost

:08:57. > :09:02.completely yellow, a sign of almost complete SNP dominance in 2015. Now

:09:03. > :09:08.it is mostly yellow, the SNP still out in front but much more red per

:09:09. > :09:20.Labour in seats like East Lothian and Kirkcaldy and lots more blue for

:09:21. > :09:25.the Tories in Moray and Angus. Orkney and Shetland are still to

:09:26. > :09:32.declare, the Lib Dems are defending, Fife North East, the SNP are

:09:33. > :09:47.defending, the SNP defending and Friesen Galloway -- Dumfries and

:09:48. > :09:52.Galloway. If you think voting will not make a difference, you might not

:09:53. > :09:59.be in that category if you have stayed up this late, but if you hear

:10:00. > :10:06.someone saying that, tell them this, that there is one vote in Fife North

:10:07. > :10:10.East between the SNP holding on with Stephen Gethins re-elected, or their

:10:11. > :10:18.Lib Dems winning back territory which used to be the domain of

:10:19. > :10:24.minutes Campbell, Lord Campbell. We will get a bit more on what is

:10:25. > :10:28.happening there shortly. There was a second recount, it may have gone to

:10:29. > :10:35.a further recount. Let me bring in the Lib Dem member of our panel. Can

:10:36. > :10:39.you imagine what is going through the minds of the candidates in this

:10:40. > :10:45.contest with such a tight margin to decide? I know from personal

:10:46. > :10:49.experience when I was watered under the council, not in this sort of

:10:50. > :10:56.leak, but it was seven votes and we had a couple of recounts, so I know

:10:57. > :11:00.what they're. It is great that we are in the position to challenge the

:11:01. > :11:05.SNP. A lot of the problems the Lib Dems had not getting more purchase,

:11:06. > :11:11.we are doing well and improving, but I think there is polarisation

:11:12. > :11:15.between the SNP and Unionist parties and there is a lot of tactical

:11:16. > :11:20.voting and clearly in North East Fife we are benefiting from that but

:11:21. > :11:31.I have sympathy with them. Jamie Hepburn? Yes? As somebody who has

:11:32. > :11:39.fought and won elections, known as close as that. Not as close as that.

:11:40. > :11:44.I can only imagine what is going through the minds of the candidates

:11:45. > :11:57.right now. Very much hoping that we are on the head. Steven -- one

:11:58. > :12:04.ahead. Stephen Gethins are very important figure. We can go to

:12:05. > :12:14.Glenrothes where the count is taking place. Our reporter is there. What

:12:15. > :12:21.is happening? Good morning from Glenrothes. We have just had the

:12:22. > :12:25.second recount, a recount was announced earlier after the initial

:12:26. > :12:29.vote and then we understood there were about three votes between the

:12:30. > :12:33.top two candidates and then following the first recount, the

:12:34. > :12:38.candidates and agents were recalled and it was announced there would be

:12:39. > :12:43.a second recount, and recently we have learned it could just be one

:12:44. > :12:53.vote. Between the top two candidates, Stephen Gethins, SNP,

:12:54. > :12:59.and Liberal Democrats Elizabeth riches. Hopefully we will have the

:13:00. > :13:14.verdict One, too, or three, did you know at

:13:15. > :13:19.this stage which we it is leaning? I think it might be going towards the

:13:20. > :13:24.Lib Dems. We're just about a year from the returning officer. Let's go

:13:25. > :13:35.over your shoulder if we can and listen in. I think you can probably

:13:36. > :13:42.hear him better than we can. Perhaps you can really what he has said. It

:13:43. > :13:50.is a third recount for the North East Fife seat, at least another one

:13:51. > :13:54.hour and hopefully we will have some decisive news. I will try to speak

:13:55. > :13:59.to a few people and find out what is happening and which way it looks

:14:00. > :14:09.like it is leaning. I bet the candidates do not find it very

:14:10. > :14:13.funny! A third recount in Fife North East, very close, perhaps leaning

:14:14. > :14:18.towards the Lib Dems but who knows what will come out of this third

:14:19. > :14:23.recount? Another reason not to go to bed just yet because we have got

:14:24. > :14:26.that and another couple of declarations from Scotland and of

:14:27. > :14:30.course this exciting picture emerging across the whole of the UK

:14:31. > :14:36.where the Conservatives are headed towards being the largest party but

:14:37. > :14:44.not with enough seats to form a majority government in the next

:14:45. > :14:55.Parliament. Let's go two Amat free Parliament. Let's go two Amat free

:14:56. > :15:02.-- let's go to Lochgilphead. Brendan O'Hara was victorious further SNP

:15:03. > :15:09.despite a strong challenge. Congratulations on your re-election.

:15:10. > :15:17.Thank you. It feels very nice to be back. I am quite elated. It was very

:15:18. > :15:25.close. We had no idea. We couldn't tell how it was going but we are

:15:26. > :15:30.delighted. The main opposition party, the Conservatives, has

:15:31. > :15:37.changed since last time when it was the Lib Dems. While you think that

:15:38. > :15:42.is? I think, we could see from our work that it was going to be between

:15:43. > :15:47.ourselves and the Conservatives. The Lib Dem vote haemorrhaged and it

:15:48. > :15:52.went almost exclusively to the Conservatives. We were away from

:15:53. > :15:58.early on that this was between ourselves and the Tories and that is

:15:59. > :16:05.how we played it. We made the case for a strong, fairer, socially just

:16:06. > :16:12.society as opposed to what was being put on offer by the Conservatives. I

:16:13. > :16:13.think the people of Argyll and Bute recognised it and I am delighted

:16:14. > :16:25.that they backed the SNP. How gutted argue that your party

:16:26. > :16:29.leader at Westminster, Angus Robertson is out, Alex Salmond is

:16:30. > :16:38.out, and a good number of SNP MPs have been turfed? Yes, I am

:16:39. > :16:46.extremely sad that my colleagues, my friends, so many really good

:16:47. > :16:50.hard-working SNP MPs have lost their seats tonight, and it is

:16:51. > :16:54.heartbreaking. And although I am delighted and my team are

:16:55. > :17:01.cock-a-hoop, my thoughts are with those who did not quite make it. As

:17:02. > :17:06.I said in my acceptance speech, as far as I'm concerned, this a bump in

:17:07. > :17:09.the road. Nothing worth fighting for was that are easy, and the SNP is

:17:10. > :17:14.still the largest party in Scotland, still by far the biggest number of

:17:15. > :17:20.seats, I believe we will still be the third party at Westminster. So,

:17:21. > :17:24.there is a lot to look forward to, a lot to congratulate ourselves on,

:17:25. > :17:27.but my thoughts are with my friends and colleagues who did not make it

:17:28. > :17:38.tonight. But I am certain we will be back. Do you have questions,

:17:39. > :17:42.criticisms of the campaign the SNP fought, and the leadership of that

:17:43. > :17:51.campaign under Nicola Sturgeon? Absolutely not. Could not have been

:17:52. > :17:57.better? The Conservatives made this a referendum on a referendum, that

:17:58. > :18:03.is all they talked about. If anyone is ever obsessed about independence,

:18:04. > :18:07.it was the Conservative campaign. What I did in Argyll and Bute, which

:18:08. > :18:10.is why I think we won, is we made it absolutely clear that while the SNP

:18:11. > :18:13.will always stand in favour of Scottish independence, that this was

:18:14. > :18:20.about Brexit, the economic regeneration of Argyll and Bute, so

:18:21. > :18:28.we talked about what was important to this constituency and the people

:18:29. > :18:32.of it. If it was a referendum on another independence referendum,

:18:33. > :18:47.what do you read into the overall results where the SNP, as you see,

:18:48. > :18:50.will finish with the larger share of the votes and number of seats, but

:18:51. > :19:02.the pro-UK parties will have a bigger share of the vote? How do you

:19:03. > :19:10.read those results and what impact should they have will it have? We

:19:11. > :19:13.have got to take stock, consider what has happened, but let us not

:19:14. > :19:24.forget we won the largest share of the

:19:25. > :19:30.vote, and here there was an onslaught about the referendum, we

:19:31. > :19:33.won. Thank you for taking the time to join us at 18 minutes past five

:19:34. > :19:38.in the morning. Let us cross to Jackie Bird and get her overview of

:19:39. > :19:41.the general election so far. Let us look at the UK as a whole. The

:19:42. > :19:45.headlines are on course to be the biggest party but without an overall

:19:46. > :19:49.majority. There are about 40 seats left to declare. Labour has done far

:19:50. > :19:54.better than expected, with losses for the SNP. Let us take a look at

:19:55. > :20:03.the figures. The Conservatives sitting on 290. They have lost 13

:20:04. > :20:12.seats. The SNP, 34. They have lost 20 seats. The Lib Dems on 11, plus

:20:13. > :20:18.five. It has been another dramatic night in Scottish politics. My

:20:19. > :20:22.colleagues here, they have spent the evening collating the count around

:20:23. > :20:27.the country, which two years ago marked astonishing swings towards

:20:28. > :20:31.the SNP. But they have spent much of this made registering swings from

:20:32. > :20:35.the SNP mainly to the Conservatives and Labour. Let us look at the

:20:36. > :20:42.Scottish figures of the Scottish constituencies. It should be

:20:43. > :20:51.appearing. No, I'm sure someone will find it. There we are. The SNP and

:20:52. > :20:58.34, the Conservatives on 11. A spectacular night for them. The best

:20:59. > :21:06.for decades. Labour on seven, and the Lib Dems plus three. Now, there

:21:07. > :21:10.are questions over Theresa May's leadership. The former Conservative

:21:11. > :21:16.leader Iain Duncan Smith said it was too soon to make any decisions. We

:21:17. > :21:21.need to first of all find out what the final result is, whether it is

:21:22. > :21:27.feasible for us to put a government together, we do not know that yet.

:21:28. > :21:30.If it is feasible for us to put a government together, then it needs

:21:31. > :21:34.to govern, that changes the complexion of what we're dealing

:21:35. > :21:39.with, and then the party has to meet, they have to talk to her

:21:40. > :21:42.decide whether or not this is what she wants to do. The biggest scalp

:21:43. > :21:45.of the evening was taken by the Conservatives, and it was that of

:21:46. > :21:53.Alex Salmond, the former leader of the who lost his Gordon seat. Let us

:21:54. > :21:59.look at the newspaper headlines. The Scotsman sums it up, it says made a.

:22:00. > :22:08.And the FT says the Prime Minister's gamble to get a stronger mandate

:22:09. > :22:13.backfired. That is it from us, with four seats to declare. Let us go to

:22:14. > :22:18.Shetland. -- Orkney and Shetland. Percentage turnout was 68.2%. The

:22:19. > :22:23.total number of ballot papers rejected was 43. The total number of

:22:24. > :22:38.votes didn't each candidate was as follows. Robina Barton, Scottish

:22:39. > :22:57.Labour Party, 2664. Miriam Brett, Scottish National Party, 6749.

:22:58. > :23:47.Conservative and Stuart Hill, independent, 245. Robert Smith, UK

:23:48. > :23:49.Independence Party, Ukip, 283. Therefore, I give public notice that

:23:50. > :23:53.Alistair Carmichael is duly elected as the member of Parliament for the

:23:54. > :24:02.Orkney and Shetland constituency. Thank you. The former Secretary of

:24:03. > :24:05.State for Scotland, the Liberal Democrat Alistair Carmichael holding

:24:06. > :24:19.Orkney and Shetland. Let us confirm the results here.

:24:20. > :24:27.Let us have a listen to him. Yesterday at the polling stations

:24:28. > :24:31.and this evening at the count in such an efficient manner. The smooth

:24:32. > :24:35.running of the dead from -- democratic process is something that

:24:36. > :24:40.does not just happen but requires a lot of work and effort from those

:24:41. > :24:43.who are charged with that, and as candidates and citizens, we are all

:24:44. > :24:51.enormously grateful to you for what you do. Can I thank my agent Ruth

:24:52. > :24:56.Williams and her magnificent team for running a quite phenomenal

:24:57. > :25:04.campaign across the length and breadth of Orkney and Shetland over

:25:05. > :25:07.the last few weeks. Can I obviously thank the people of Orkney and

:25:08. > :25:12.Shetland for putting their faith and trust in me as their member of

:25:13. > :25:20.Parliament and for putting their faith and trust in the inclusive and

:25:21. > :25:26.warm values of liberalism, the outward looking values of liberalism

:25:27. > :25:32.yet again, values I think are more necessary in our nation's public

:25:33. > :25:37.discourse now than they have ever been. On a personal note, can I

:25:38. > :25:39.thank all those across those islands who have demonstrated such

:25:40. > :25:49.tremendous friendship and support, not just to me, but to my wife and

:25:50. > :25:54.family in recent years. The support we have had from these communities

:25:55. > :26:02.has been absolutely phenomenal, and as a family we will always be

:26:03. > :26:04.enormously grateful for it. Across the United Kingdom, I think it is

:26:05. > :26:08.fair to say that the people have spoken but it is not yet exactly

:26:09. > :26:17.clear what they have said. One thing I think is clear, as we see seats

:26:18. > :26:20.changing hands across Scotland, there is no appetite now for a

:26:21. > :26:26.second independence referendum, and that is an idea that should be taken

:26:27. > :26:32.off the table. We do not yet have all the results but it is likely, I

:26:33. > :26:35.believe, that there will be a Parliament where everyone is a

:26:36. > :26:42.minority, and no one will be able to get their own way in the years to

:26:43. > :26:43.come. That... Alistair Carmichael, re-elected MP for Orkney and

:26:44. > :27:27.Shetland. And 8% swing. Let us cross live to

:27:28. > :27:36.Dumfries, waiting for two declarations. An update from Reevel

:27:37. > :27:41.Alderson. What are you hearing? Well, we have had a number of

:27:42. > :27:48.estimates. People were excited because the Stranraer boxes came in

:27:49. > :27:51.early for the Dumfries and Galloway constituency, which meant we might

:27:52. > :27:56.get a declaration between half past 34 o'clock. They have just finished

:27:57. > :28:01.counting that seat behind me. We're expecting a declaration in the next

:28:02. > :28:07.few minutes. The counting for the other seat being looked at here,

:28:08. > :28:14.Dumfriesshire Clydesdale and Tweeddale, that is nearly completed.

:28:15. > :28:18.The hope is to have one declaration after another. Quite honestly I do

:28:19. > :28:21.not know why it has taken so long. I have asked officials here, I have

:28:22. > :28:29.said that they appear to have had an extra layer of counting from extra

:28:30. > :28:33.account -- any kind I have been to, they have agreed that is the case, I

:28:34. > :28:37.am not sure why that is. We will be getting a declaration very soon, and

:28:38. > :28:49.we will come back to you with that. In terms of which way the two seats

:28:50. > :28:54.might go,? Well, I think both of them are going to go to the

:28:55. > :28:58.Conservatives. That is certainly the indications. The Conservatives are

:28:59. > :29:03.going to have a majority of about 3000, I have been told, in Dumfries

:29:04. > :29:07.and Galloway, and it might be a massive majority of around 10,004

:29:08. > :29:21.David Mundell, who is defending the Dumfriesshire and Tweeddale seat. He

:29:22. > :29:24.had a majority of 820 15. -- Dumfriesshire Clydesdale and

:29:25. > :29:28.Tweeddale. Thank you, we will be back with you for those declarations

:29:29. > :29:34.when they come. Let us speak to Brian Taylor and pick up on the

:29:35. > :29:42.comings and goings. Good night, bad night. Let us go first to

:29:43. > :29:45.Maidenhead, the constituency of the Prime Minister to Theresa May. She

:29:46. > :29:51.won 65% of the vote in that constituency, which in terms of the

:29:52. > :30:00.individual seat is a terrific night. A great night for her. Just one

:30:01. > :30:11.snag, she has lost her majority as Prime Minister. She took the

:30:12. > :30:14.decision to call the selection on the Welsh hills, but perhaps she

:30:15. > :30:19.wishes she had not because it may cost her her job.

:30:20. > :30:31.Let's look at Uxbridge and Ruislip. Is Boris Johnson on manoeuvres as

:30:32. > :30:46.has been suggested? It could be home, Amber Rudd. -- it could be

:30:47. > :30:53.him. Amber Rudd held Hastings and Roy. Amber Rudd will be a key figure

:30:54. > :30:57.in whatever government the Conservatives conform. But they

:30:58. > :31:03.still have to hold those discussions. Islington North never

:31:04. > :31:12.in doubt for Jeremy Corbyn. You won the seat with a whopping majority.

:31:13. > :31:18.76% of the vote. He has had a good campaign, it but he isn't going to

:31:19. > :31:24.win, he will not be Prime Minister, he does not have the largest party

:31:25. > :31:28.in the Commons. Hackney North, Diane Abbott, she was ill towards the end

:31:29. > :31:41.of the campaign, difficult campaign, she has held power seat. A Labour

:31:42. > :31:49.game in Ipswich. The Lib Dems are gaining seats overall but in

:31:50. > :31:56.Sheffield Hallam, all Labour game, Nick Clegg losing his seat, and

:31:57. > :32:00.looking glum as the result came in. Better news in Twickenham for the

:32:01. > :32:16.Lib Dems. Vince Cable regained a seat. A good result for him. Let's

:32:17. > :32:22.collide to the election cafe. I notice some of your guests have been

:32:23. > :32:27.wearing badges and I have to take this opportunity to thank you for

:32:28. > :32:33.the badge you gave me. It says if I wasn't busy presenting the election

:32:34. > :32:39.I would have been in the BBC election cafe.

:32:40. > :32:43.You would have been. We have had a lot of visitors. There are still a

:32:44. > :32:50.hard-core element who have lasted through the night, chewing over some

:32:51. > :32:56.astonishing results. Our radio colleagues have been with us. Did

:32:57. > :33:01.you stay up all night? I have had a few hours of sleep. I saw the exit

:33:02. > :33:08.poll, wasn't sure what to make of it, I went to bed for about four

:33:09. > :33:12.hours. Raring to go. And you should be, because it is good to be

:33:13. > :33:21.fascinating. Incredible story. We sat here two years ago saying what a

:33:22. > :33:26.remarkable story it was. It is what makes politics fascinating. We will

:33:27. > :33:34.bring you the story of the night on Good Morning Scotland. What does it

:33:35. > :33:39.mean for Theresa May do not have a majority government at this stage?

:33:40. > :33:44.Can she stay in post-quiz-mac will there be agitation for her to go?

:33:45. > :33:49.What does it mean for Jeremy Corbyn? And the Scottish picture, we have

:33:50. > :33:53.heard from Nicola Sturgeon saying she needs to reflect on the result

:33:54. > :33:59.will stop the SNP have won the election in Scotland but last quite

:34:00. > :34:04.a few seats. What does it mean for the prospect of a second

:34:05. > :34:08.independence referendum. And you have about 26 minutes, so you better

:34:09. > :34:16.get going. Pick up a badge and mug on the way out but don't tell the

:34:17. > :34:21.others. Our hard-core election cafe customers are still with us. Jenny

:34:22. > :34:30.Davidson from Holyrood magazine, what happens next? It is going to be

:34:31. > :34:34.an incredibly difficult day for Nicola Sturgeon. As she has said she

:34:35. > :34:41.has to reflect on things. It is going to be probably the hardest

:34:42. > :34:45.decision she will have to make. I don't think she is likely to stand

:34:46. > :34:53.down but I think she may have to do a U-turn on indyref2. Although the

:34:54. > :34:57.SNP looks like, well, it has come out as the biggest party, obviously

:34:58. > :35:04.a substantial drop in the number of seats and we know that indyref2 has

:35:05. > :35:07.been one of the big issues of the campaign in Scotland, all the

:35:08. > :35:14.Unionist parties have campaigned on that issue. The fact they have all

:35:15. > :35:18.gained seats suggests there is a substantial number of people in

:35:19. > :35:24.Scotland that are strongly against it and they have moved their support

:35:25. > :35:29.from SNP to other parties, notably the Conservatives who really

:35:30. > :35:38.strongly campaigned on that. It was a difficult one for Nicola Sturgeon

:35:39. > :35:41.where she had bricked herself into a corner where she had to call it

:35:42. > :35:47.because after the Brexit referendum, she had made a strong statement, it

:35:48. > :35:55.probably wasn't ideal time anyway but how she goes about handling that

:35:56. > :35:58.kind of backing down while trying to save face, I would like to be heard

:35:59. > :36:02.doing that today or tomorrow or later this week. We have a

:36:03. > :36:10.declaration from Dumfries and Galloway. The total number of votes

:36:11. > :36:14.for each candidate was as follows. Richard Arkless, Scottish National

:36:15. > :36:42.Party, SNP, 16,701. Daniel Goodare, Labour Party,

:36:43. > :36:56.10,775. Yen Hongmei Jin, 538. Alister Jack, Scottish Conservative

:36:57. > :37:27.and Unionist, 22,324. Joan Mitchell, Scottish Liberal

:37:28. > :37:31.Democrats, 1241. I hereby declare that Alister Jack has been duly

:37:32. > :37:35.elected to serve as the member of Parliament for the Dumfries

:37:36. > :37:39.Galloway County constituency. The number of ballot papers rejected and

:37:40. > :37:49.not counted at this election was as follows. Voting for more than one

:37:50. > :37:56.candidate, 12, writing or Mark identifying voter, two, unmarked or

:37:57. > :38:05.avoid for uncertainty, one. Total votes was... Total electorate 74,000

:38:06. > :38:22.206, percentage poll, 69.6% and a majority of 5643.

:38:23. > :38:29.I'd like to thank the returning officer and his staff for their hard

:38:30. > :38:33.work this evening but here in the counting all and also in the polling

:38:34. > :38:38.stations today. My thanks also go to the police force for the safe

:38:39. > :38:42.custody of our election and also for moving the ballot boxes and I would

:38:43. > :38:47.like to thank my fellow candidates for a good-natured and clean fight

:38:48. > :38:51.and in particular I would like to wish Richard all the best for the

:38:52. > :39:01.future. APPLAUSE

:39:02. > :39:07.It is a great honour to have been elected member of Parliament for

:39:08. > :39:10.Dumfries Galloway however I am only too aware that this victory has

:39:11. > :39:14.been a team effort and in particular I would like to thank my wife for

:39:15. > :39:26.all her support and help over the last five weeks. Thanks and credit

:39:27. > :39:30.must also go to my campaign team who have been amazing, and it would be

:39:31. > :39:41.wrong of me not to single out for particular mention my agent, William

:39:42. > :39:47.Saunders. I would like to thank all of my constituents who placed their

:39:48. > :39:51.faith in me, however I promise to work just as hard and representing

:39:52. > :39:57.those who didn't vote for me as those who did. This election was

:39:58. > :40:02.called on the back of Brexit and that was the issue across the UK.

:40:03. > :40:06.But here in Scotland it was also about a second independence

:40:07. > :40:14.referendum. Tonight the SNP have seen their share of the vote

:40:15. > :40:16.decline, losing many seats. Nicola Sturgeon knows the people are

:40:17. > :40:22.turning their backs on her because they want her to respect the

:40:23. > :40:29.decision we took in 2014. I think the tide has turned, the high motor

:40:30. > :40:38.Mark -- high water mark... Making his acceptance speech, Alister Jack

:40:39. > :40:45.winning with 22,344 votes. The BBC predict is a hung parliament for the

:40:46. > :40:51.UK. The BBC now officially forecasting a hung parliament and

:40:52. > :41:01.that no one party will have control or a majority in the House of

:41:02. > :41:04.Commons. Alister Jack winning Dumfries and Galloway, defeating

:41:05. > :41:43.Richard Arkless from SNP who took the seat two years ago.

:41:44. > :42:01.Two Scottish constituencies still to declare, Dumfriesshire Clydesdale

:42:02. > :42:07.and Tweeddale and Fife North East has gone to a third recount and

:42:08. > :42:18.perhaps as few as may be just wonderful in it -- perhaps just one

:42:19. > :42:31.vote. Alistair Carmichael has been re-elected. Thanks for joining us at

:42:32. > :42:42.this hour of the morning. Thank you very much. Interested to hear your

:42:43. > :42:52.rosette envy. I am not sure it is envy. I have a badge for the BBC

:42:53. > :43:03.election cafe. Your big prize is winning, holding Orkney and

:43:04. > :43:08.Shetland. Was victory ever in doubt? I have been MP for 16 years and I

:43:09. > :43:14.have never taken a single election or a single vote for granted I have

:43:15. > :43:18.to say we have had a great campaign. We have done more and had more

:43:19. > :43:23.people out in the streets, knocking doors, than ever before. I think we

:43:24. > :43:30.have had a great result at the end of the day. An MP, one of very few

:43:31. > :43:36.to have faced an election court over the controversy following the last

:43:37. > :43:39.election and the leaking of the government document that suggested

:43:40. > :43:43.Nicola Sturgeon's conversation with the French ambassador meant that

:43:44. > :43:48.last time around she wanted the Conservatives to win, something she

:43:49. > :43:59.has flatly denied. Given all that controversy, how much pressure have

:44:00. > :44:04.you come under in that constituency? Well, the SNP put my record and my

:44:05. > :44:16.character front and centre of their campaign. You see the result, I

:44:17. > :44:21.think it speaks for itself. There was a time when Europe position was

:44:22. > :44:25.being heavily criticised as a result of all of that but are you saying

:44:26. > :44:39.that somehow the people of Orkney and Shetland discounted that? I

:44:40. > :44:44.mean, I have been an MP for 16 years, as I already said, people

:44:45. > :44:47.here know me and the things I have done for this constituency, they

:44:48. > :44:53.know the hundreds, maybe thousands of people I have helped over the

:44:54. > :44:57.year. To be in politics is to be judged and the people here are

:44:58. > :45:01.fair-minded, reasonable people, they have judged me and judged me not

:45:02. > :45:05.just on one incident but on my record as a hard-working and

:45:06. > :45:11.effective constituency MP and you can see the result for yourself

:45:12. > :45:17.tonight. You were a key figure in the Coalition Government between

:45:18. > :45:23.2010 and 2015. What an earth do you think is good to happen now that we

:45:24. > :45:35.are in a similar position with, it seems, a hung parliament for us?

:45:36. > :45:39.Well, I mean, there are similarities obviously because we are in a hung

:45:40. > :45:43.Parliament but are some very big differences as well. I do not see

:45:44. > :45:49.any of these coalition coming out of this. My party said and remain of

:45:50. > :45:53.the view that we would not be in coalition with the Conservatives or

:45:54. > :45:57.Labour. I do not know how we make this work but this is the hand the

:45:58. > :46:03.people of Britain have dealt us and it is up to us all as part of public

:46:04. > :46:09.life in this country to deal with it and go forward, promoting the

:46:10. > :46:14.national interest in all good faith. We shall see in the next few days,

:46:15. > :46:20.weeks, months, what that is actually going to mean but this is too

:46:21. > :46:30.important a time in our nation's life to let the sort of normal party

:46:31. > :46:34.squabbling take sway on some of the most important issues we will see in

:46:35. > :46:41.our lifetime. This is a Parliament on which the future prosperity and

:46:42. > :46:44.security of our country is going to depend.

:46:45. > :46:56.Let me ask you two questions in one go because there is a delay on the

:46:57. > :47:00.line. Can Theresa May remain as Prime Minister, and is it possible

:47:01. > :47:10.we might have to delay the start of Brexit negotiations to you to get

:47:11. > :47:24.way in 11 days? As for Theresa May, it is up to her as leader of the

:47:25. > :47:31.largest party to try to put together a government. Whether her party will

:47:32. > :47:37.still want her as leader, I didn't know, remains to be seen. She took a

:47:38. > :47:40.reckless gamble and it has not paid for her. Whatever view you take of

:47:41. > :47:42.it, Theresa May emerges from the selection is a much diminished

:47:43. > :47:47.figure. Whether we are able to delay the start of Brexit negotiations,

:47:48. > :47:50.that is perhaps possible, but frankly, as with everything to do

:47:51. > :47:54.with this negotiation, it is not something that is down to us, there

:47:55. > :48:00.are another 27 member states of the European Union and the commission

:48:01. > :48:07.who will have a view on this, so if there is any delay, I think it can

:48:08. > :48:09.be marginal at best. We have triggered Article 50, we have to get

:48:10. > :48:19.on with these discussions. The clock is ticking down for the two year

:48:20. > :48:24.deadline for these negotiations. Apologies for the slight delay on

:48:25. > :48:25.the line. Very good year from Mr Carmichael. Let us hear from the

:48:26. > :48:33.panel, which has changed once again. panel, which has changed once again.

:48:34. > :48:40.-- very good to hear from Alistair Carmichael. What do you make of the

:48:41. > :48:44.way this night has shaped up? It is a disappointing result in some

:48:45. > :48:50.constituencies for the SNP but I'm pleased to say we're coming back a

:48:51. > :48:56.majority of MPs, which means we are the largest party in the councils in

:48:57. > :49:03.the Scottish Parliament and Westminster. Clearly, a devastating

:49:04. > :49:07.result for the Tories and Theresa May, an election called at the time

:49:08. > :49:10.of her own choosing because she thought she would have a landslide.

:49:11. > :49:15.But she has lost the majority and I am pleased we have kept our majority

:49:16. > :49:21.in Scotland. You have kept your majority but lost more than 20

:49:22. > :49:25.seats. That is by any measure a major setback compared to where you

:49:26. > :49:32.wear after the 2015 election. What advice would you give to the First

:49:33. > :49:36.Minister Nicola Sturgeon as she reflects on this result and decides

:49:37. > :49:39.what the response should be. The First Minister will know that this

:49:40. > :49:46.is our second best result we have ever had that Westminster. Carry on

:49:47. > :49:50.regardless or do something need to change? Previously our maximum was

:49:51. > :49:53.11, and we are still doing far better than that tonight. But the

:49:54. > :50:01.First Minister herself has said we will reflect on the result and the

:50:02. > :50:04.campaign. Do you have any advice? I would not didn't give her advice on

:50:05. > :50:11.television that such an early start to the morning! Go on! Gau everyone

:50:12. > :50:20.in the SNP worked hard in the election. We did not take one vote

:50:21. > :50:26.for granted. I am pleased to see we still have a majority in Scotland,

:50:27. > :50:30.Westminster and the Scottish parliament. That is all true. And on

:50:31. > :50:37.that basis, Adam Tomkins, might it be possible for the SNP to stick

:50:38. > :50:39.with the proposals for a second independence referendum? If it is

:50:40. > :50:44.not a Conservative led administration might it be possible

:50:45. > :50:50.for a deal to be done to make that take place? The future of Scotland

:50:51. > :50:57.depends not on what Ruth Davidson or Nicola Sturgeon R us say. Is based

:50:58. > :51:04.on what the people say, and they say that they unambiguously reject

:51:05. > :51:08.Nicola Sturgeon's plans for a second independence referendum on the back

:51:09. > :51:15.of the Brexit vault. This has been an election in which the SNP have

:51:16. > :51:18.lost two fifths of the seat, the vote share is down in every part of

:51:19. > :51:22.the country, they are being challenged by the Conservatives and

:51:23. > :51:30.Labour Party, and in some parts by the Liberal Democrats. That is how

:51:31. > :51:33.weak they have become. Not to forget at a UK level the Conservatives have

:51:34. > :51:37.squandered a majority by calling an election we did not need to have. It

:51:38. > :51:43.looks like we did not get the result we wanted but we are still by far

:51:44. > :51:46.the largest party, Theresa May is still the leader of the Conservative

:51:47. > :51:53.Party under Prime Minister. She has to try to form an administration...

:51:54. > :51:58.What would you see to your colleagues in the Conservative Party

:51:59. > :52:08.who might be thinking we have got to move quickly to get a new leader in

:52:09. > :52:13.place? There is no vacancy. By 50 or more seats we are the largest party

:52:14. > :52:19.in the House of Commons. This has been a bad night for the SNP. It has

:52:20. > :52:28.not been a great night for a Labour, people are saying they did well but

:52:29. > :52:32.that is because the bar was set so low. It has been a good night for

:52:33. > :52:43.the union. Very good night for the United Kingdom.

:52:44. > :52:51.Indyref2 is dead. The people of Scotland fear that. We might have

:52:52. > :52:58.another declaration. Dumfriesshire Clydesdale and Tweeddale. The votes

:52:59. > :53:13.whereas for those. Douglas Beattie, Scottish Labour Party, 8102. John

:53:14. > :53:22.Ferry, the Scottish Liberal Democrats, 1949. Mairi McAllan,

:53:23. > :53:44.Scottish National Party, 14,736. David Mundell, the Scottish

:53:45. > :54:04.Conservative and Unionist, 24,177. CHEERING

:54:05. > :54:12.I hereby declare that David Mundell has been duly elected to serve as

:54:13. > :54:14.the member of Parliament for the Dumfriesshire Clydesdale and

:54:15. > :54:21.Tweeddale County constituency. The number of ballot papers... David

:54:22. > :54:25.Mundell re-elected with a much increased majority in Dumfriesshire

:54:26. > :54:30.Clydesdale and Tweeddale. The Scottish Secretary returning to the

:54:31. > :54:39.House of Commons not on his own this time, but with 11 parliamentary

:54:40. > :54:42.colleagues from Scotland. David Mundell defeating the nearest rival

:54:43. > :54:50.he had in the contest, the SNP's Mairi McAllan. The overall majority

:54:51. > :54:54.he has is roundabout the 10,000 mark, but we will confirm the

:54:55. > :55:03.details of that result for you in a few moments. In fact, let us just

:55:04. > :55:08.cross to Jackie Bird. Let us get more of the main headlines. Thank

:55:09. > :55:14.you. Theresa May's decision to call an early general election has

:55:15. > :55:23.spectacularly backfired. The BBC is forecasting a hung parliament. In

:55:24. > :55:32.Scotland, 13 MPs so far. Here, the SNP is still the biggest party but

:55:33. > :55:35.has lost 21 seats and some of its biggest names. Alex Salmond and

:55:36. > :55:40.Angus Robertson will not be making their way back to Westminster, both

:55:41. > :55:43.beaten by the Tories. Nicola Sturgeon would not be drawn on the

:55:44. > :55:50.prospects for a second independence referendum. I am not going to take

:55:51. > :55:55.any rash decisions. Clearly I have to reflect on the result of the

:55:56. > :56:01.election and it will take time to do that. It would be the wrong thing to

:56:02. > :56:06.do at this hour without having the opportunity to think about it, but

:56:07. > :56:14.properly think about it I will do. Labour also made gains in Scotland.

:56:15. > :56:20.Ian Murray outlined why he thought they had broken through. I had three

:56:21. > :56:25.messages on the doorstep from three people in Edinburgh South and they

:56:26. > :56:28.responded to this message is. The first one was to say no to a second

:56:29. > :56:32.referendum on independence, the second was to not give Theresa May a

:56:33. > :56:38.blank cheque on Brexit, and a third was to stand in my local record of

:56:39. > :56:42.being against austerity and investing in the local community.

:56:43. > :56:48.That is what my platform was, and I am delighted that the people have

:56:49. > :56:58.responded to that and returned me as member of Parliament. Let us look at

:56:59. > :57:04.this as it draws to a close. The SNP, a drop of 21, Conservatives

:57:05. > :57:09.down 11, and Labour up 28. A damning headline for the Scottish Daily

:57:10. > :57:16.Mail. The night of humiliation. We understand Theresa May has been to

:57:17. > :57:26.Conservative HQ to speak to staff and was described as calm and

:57:27. > :57:34.sombre. We saw her speaking in Maidenhead a short time ago, how

:57:35. > :57:39.would you describe her contribution? Som Burwood Summit up, she looked a

:57:40. > :57:42.bit worse than that, to be honest. The Conservatives would require the

:57:43. > :57:44.DUP to form a majority. Brexit is not the only thing that exists, they

:57:45. > :57:49.have to get results through the House of Commons and to do that they

:57:50. > :57:55.would have to get a majority and to some extent avoid a vote of no

:57:56. > :58:01.confidence of that were to be called by other parties, so they will have

:58:02. > :58:05.to do some sort of working deal with the DUP. It is not going to be as

:58:06. > :58:08.easy as it was 20 or 30 years ago when they could do a deal with the

:58:09. > :58:16.Ulster Unionist Party is who sat on the bench is. It also means the

:58:17. > :58:24.issue of Ireland North and South will go top of the agenda. -- top of

:58:25. > :58:30.the agenda in terms of Brexit discussions, if they get started,

:58:31. > :58:33.and the Guitoune it started in 11 days. This is an absolute stinker

:58:34. > :58:35.for Theresa May. Nobody has won the election so far. The Conservative

:58:36. > :58:43.Party have the most seats but Theresa May is absolutely a loser in

:58:44. > :58:47.personal terms as a result. The current forecast is a hung

:58:48. > :58:51.parliament for the UK general election, and if that is the final

:58:52. > :58:58.outcome, the DUP would not be enough, would they? They would not.

:58:59. > :59:08.If they are short by 17, it would just be enough. It is saying it is

:59:09. > :59:13.short by 17, therefore it is a hung parliament because they are only 16

:59:14. > :59:24.seats to declare. So that is not the final outcome. It is still looking

:59:25. > :59:27.necessary to have a deal with the DUP. A difficult deal to negotiate

:59:28. > :59:33.and sustain. I very much doubt a formal Coalition with the DUP. They

:59:34. > :59:40.do not tend to go down that line. But perhaps if they got something

:59:41. > :59:45.substantial on the Irish border question, in terms of Brexit, not in

:59:46. > :59:53.terms of a border poll, who might perhaps be willing to talk. Michael

:59:54. > :59:57.McCune, do you think Brexit talks might have to be put on hold or that

:59:58. > :00:09.the UK Government might be able to a request for those discussions to be

:00:10. > :00:15.delayed? -- Nicola McClane. They will probably not allowed the UK

:00:16. > :00:25.Government to put them on hold more than they have done. The clock is

:00:26. > :00:31.already on to the two year timetable for Brexit. It is a reliance on the

:00:32. > :00:37.DUP, which seems likely, then Adam may well be right that the union

:00:38. > :00:41.between Scotland and the rest of the UK is strengthened by a result. But

:00:42. > :00:46.it does pose challenges for the union between Northern Ireland and

:00:47. > :00:48.the rest of the United Kingdom. Northern Ireland politics is

:00:49. > :00:53.increasingly polarised which is amplified by the general election

:00:54. > :00:58.result tonight. Let us bring in a new member of our political