Part Two Election 2017

people around him I think organisationally, pretty weak. What

is going to happen to Brexit now? Theresa May called this election in

order to pursue the kind of Brexit you wanted and it doesn't look as

though she'll get the majority she wanted? What a huge error, to pick a

remainor to lead a Brexit negotiation. Massive mistake. I

think if we do get a Corbyn coalition, then Brexit is in some

trouble. And if Brexit is in some trouble,

will you come back into active politics and fight for what was

voted for only last summer? I would have absolutely no choice but to do

exactly that. That is interesting. We have to go.

We may be able to come back to you. But we have a result.

I here by give notice that the total number of votes given for each

candidate at the election is as follows:

Independent, 1,234. Green Party, 866. Liberal Democrats, 4,401.

Labour Party, 25... APPLAUSE

25,292. Conservative Party, 22... CHEERING

22,876. The Socialist Party of Great Britain, 32. UK Independence Party,

357. So Jane Ellison is defeated in Battersea. Labour takes Battersea.

And the swing in Battersea, let's see what that is. 46% and a swing of

10% from Conservative to Labour in an area that's almost 80% in favour

of Remain. Just under 80% in favour of Remain. I want to go back to

Nigel Farage, who we interrupted for that result. The last thing you said

was tantalising. You said you'd have to come back into active politics,

that's what you plan, is it? It's not what I plan. It's not what I

want. I was thrilled to lead Ukip to pressure Cameron into offering the

referendum, into working in that referendum campaign and into

winning. We've triggered Article 50. I thought it was all done. Mrs May

went for the big majority. She was found out, I think in this campaign.

What's remarkable about Corbyn's achievement is he's getting

Remainers in London voters for him. But he's getting Ukip voters around

the rest of the country voting for him too. Of course, he's not going

to be able to form a Government on his own, if it works out that way.

If we get a coalition with him and the SNP and whoever else, then we

may well be looking down the barrel of a second referendum. Is the whole

Brexit campaign, the Brexit decision, is it all in jeopardy now,

is the time table - does it mean anything any more? Well, let's see.

There's a long way to go. But I do think this: Let's say the other

result happens. Let's say May scrapes through with a small

majority or forms a minority government I don't know, I'm not

sure her credibility will be strong in Brussels. I think yes, the time

table, whatever happens here, is likely to get pushed back. How

confident are you that there'll still be what's called a hard Brexit

thaw wanted and that you think you won a year ago? I was always a bit

suspicious with Mrs May as to whether we get. It she was asked in

the campaign repeatedly, having backed Remain did she now believe in

Brexit, not once did she say yes. She just said she was carrying out

the will of the people. This may prove to be unfinished business.

Vicar of bray you think she is. I do, very much so. Yes, and in the

end, I think, when Corbyn said that they would end free movement, when

Corbyn said that under Labour we would leave, I think he kind of

boxed off Brexit as an issue for Ukip voters, many of whom did not

see the party as being relevant in this campaign. And ultimately the

shock we're seeing here tonight is all about personality. Ukip voters

want somebody they think is speaking for them. They want somebody who is

for change and what Theresa May tried to do is try to be the

establishment figure. Corbyn I thought through the campaign looked

comfortable in his skin. He appeared to be enjoying trchlt the Prime

Minister came -- the Prime Minister came across as insincere and Frankly

robotic. An Dumar has a question for you -- Andrew Marr has a question

for you. Do you think those very pro-Brexit, strong Brexit MPs in the

Tory Party will try to remove Theresa May as Prime Minister? Yes.

I also think - actually Andrew, I think on both sides of the debate

within the Conservative Party the Prime Minister's credibility as

leader of that party is fatally damaged. Thank you very much. Let's

rejoin Emily. We have got another result. Another gain for Labour.

From the Conservatives. This is their fourth gain of the night.

Labour have yet to lose a seat but it's early days. You can see

Stockton south puts Paul Williams in as the new MP for Labour here on 48%

share of the vote. You can see what has helped that along, as Mr Farage

was saying, Labour has picked up a lot of their vote. The Conservative

share hasn't moved at all. The swing here It's pretty solid from

Conservative to Labour. This was number 47 on the Labour target list.

They were hoping it would be competitive here. An outside chance

and they've picked tup. What I want to show you, because I've been

referring to this at intervals through the night so far is how our

exit poll compares to the results in so far. At one point it looked as if

we might have to recalibrate because the Conservatives were much lower

down on the exit poll than they were in real results. Now you can see

based on the results so far, just under 50 results so far, you can

actually see what's happened. The exit poll and the results so far are

showing much more similar pictures now. Ukip down in both 12%. The SNP

down 11 here. A bit further in real life and you can see what's happened

more or less the Conservative and Labour votes evening out and proving

the exit poll right so far. This is the result we've had in the last few

moments. Ealing central and Acton held by Labour. An important seat

this. The Greens stood aside to help Labour. Certainly she's on a

whopping 60% share of the vote now. It was number two on the

Conservative target list. But it looks as if Labour's having quite a

good night in London, so far. Conservatives down eight. Labour up

16%. They didn't need a very big swing to take this one. But you can

see what's happened. It's gone massively towards Labour. A bit like

that seat Putney, earlier, where Justine Greening held on. You're

seeing big swings to Labour. The direction of travel certainly

favours Labour in London so far tonight.

If the exit poll is proving right, that has the Conservatives short of

an overall majority. Boris Johnson, who has a vested interest in all

this, of course, the Foreign Secretary, talking about the odds of

his becoming Prime Minister have fall ton 5-1. He is -- fallen to

5-1. Whether he's being asked questions or not I do not know. ...

Contain themselves until they see - hello, how are you? Do you still

want to be leader of your party, Boris? Yeah well, quite sensibly not

answering any of that. Kirsty bring us up to date on what's going on in

Scotland. Well, we are about to get our first Glasgow seat. The SNP

seems to have held on by their finger nails, possibly with a

majority of less than 100. Glasgow central, a swing to the SNP two

years ago, that too may be in jeopardy. That's extraordinary

because the council has just lost, the Labour council, has just lost to

the SNP just a matter of months ago. Big change in Glasgow. Swings to

Labour. We don't know yet whether or not Glasgow central will go to

Labour. There's no doubt the SNP majority are going to be smashed.

After that Angus vote, that result, there is this tantalising result,

that if the exit poll was a little out, it could be the new

Conservative MPs in Scotland which give Theresa May a slender majority.

That would be extraordinary. Very much indeed. Well now we are at

2. 10am. Our exit poll which we gave at 10pm has not been changed yet in

the results we've had in. We've had 100 declared. We haven't yet gone

from the exit poll to what we call a forecast, which is when the results

that come in modify the exit poll. We're still saying Conservatives the

largest party on 314. Labour on 266. The SNP on 34. The Liberal Democrats

on 14. And Plaid Cymru on 3. The Greens on one. That's what we're

holding for the moment. We're ten minutes late with our news on the

hour, because so much is happening here in the election centre at the

BBC. But let's now have our news. With more than 90 seats counted in

the general election, Labour have gained three seats, one from the

SNP? Scotland and three from the Tories.

Labour have gained two seats - one from the SNP in Scotland and one

An exit poll for the BBC, ITV, and Sky has predicted the Tories

will be the biggest party - but that they won't win

It says they will have lost 17 seats, while Labour

The night began with a big projection, the exit poll.

But remember, it's still just a forecast.

It has the Conservatives as the largest party but short

Labour have held Wrexham, an area Theresa May visited several times

during the campaign. They held on in Darlington too, where only a

marginal swing to the Tories was nothing like the kind of shift they

need to fulfil Mrs May's hope of a big majority.

The SNP could be on course to lose a number of seats. Just look at the

mood in Hastings, hardly beaming confidence where the Home Secretary

is defending her seat. I'm just quietly waiting and keeping on eye

on everybody and everything. For some in Labour it's already a much

better night than they'd hoped. Theresa May's authority has been

undermined by this election. She is a damaged Prime Minister whose

reputation may never recover. The exit poll suggests the Tories would

have 314 seats, These exit polls have

been wrong in the past. I think in 2015 they

underestimated our vote. In a couple of elections before

that, they overestimated our vote. It's the real votes that count

though. There's the traditional race to see which constituency could

declare first. But two other seats won by Labour in north-east England

show the Tories have done better than the exit poll might have

suggested. The festival of democracy has been on full show. Watch out for

some upsets through the night. At least one minister's seat could be

in question and Ukip's vote appears to be collapsing in places. Jeremy

Corbyn arrived home in his North London constituency. If the exit

poll is correct, a big if, he will have confounded the expectations of

even some of his own MPs. While Theresa May's gamble to win big in a

snap election will have failed. The truth, inside those ballot

boxes, is still to be fully revealed.

With the news of the exit poll, the pound has been falling

against other currencies - including the dollar and the euro.

Let's get the latest reaction now from Sharanjit Leyl in Singapore.

That's right. The most immediate reaction in the markets as you say

has been from the British pound falling nearly 2% against the US

dollar after the exit poll suggested the Conservative Party could lose

its Parliamentary majority. It had recovered a little bit on some

evidence that the exit poll may not have been entirely accurate when we

saw the first results come in. I've been speaking to analysts and they

say it's likely the pound will continue falling through the day. A

hung Parliament being the worst case scenario for the pound, given the

political uncertainty it brings, because it complicates Brexit talks

even further. Uncertainty is something markets and investors

don't like. Having said all that, though, most Asian markets that have

opened are higher but only just. Welcome back to our Election Centre.

We are not yet doing it, but we are about I think to slightly increase

but not by very much, the forecast for the Conservative seats. It's

still going to be short of an overall majority. We'll get the

figures in a moment. Laura? This seems to be being borne out in Tory

headquarters. Ministers now do not expect to outperform the exit poll.

That means privately, as we speak, there is acceptance and discussion

of the fact that senior Tories do not now expect to have an overall

majority. That means if of course by the morning that remains the same,

Theresa May's roll of the dice looks to be one to have biggest political

mistakes we may have seen for some time. Jeremy Corbyn smiling in his

constituency. Like a Cheshire cat. He was elected by Labour Micks to

the -- Labour members to the establishment. The Labour ministers

tried to get rid of him, he was re-elected twice and now he looks to

have achieved one of the biggest political upsets in many, many

years. He's relished this campaign. You have seen day-by-day he's looked

more confident as if he's enjoyed it more and more, and he has, from the

time when he took on the Labour Leadership, believed that if given

the chance, he could begin to put together a sort of coalition of

young people of former Greens, people who'd moved away from the

Labour Party in the late 2000s and that might possibly be some way

towards getting Labour into power. Even 24 hours ago, even today,

nobody in the Labour Party would predict this kind of result. Both

the main parties got their numbers wrong if this is right. So what

happens in your experience, at Westminster if Theresa May goes back

without an overall majority in the House of Commons? I think the idea

that the Tories would somehow give up on trying to hold on to power is

for the birds. I think if she manages internally to stay on,

she'll try to put together a Government with, the technical

process is they'd put forward a Queen's Speech and get the others to

vote them down. Here is another result.

Angus Robertson, Scottish National Party, SNP, 18,478. Douglas Ross,

Scottish Conservative and unionist, 22,

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE. The Conservatives take that seat.

Angus Robertson asking two questions on behalf of the SNP is out of the

House and Douglases have there for the Conservatives. This is

significant because the SNP have been the third biggest party in

Westminster. So this is the equivalent of the Westminster leader

of the Lib Dems losing at a different kind of election. The

Tories pour huge resources into this, it seems to have paid off.

There's the result. A majority for the Conservatives of just over

4,000, taken from the SNP, the share of the vote 48% for the

Conservatives, 39% for the SNP, 11% for Labour. We can see those figures

there. Apparently we can't... I was going to show you them. 48%

Conservative, 39 SNP, 11% Labour, 2% Lib Dems. There is the change. It's

a swing from the SNP to the Conservatives of 14%.

Angus Robertson, leader of the SNP in Westminster is out. The

Conservatives take the seat. We have now had 122 declarations in and so

far Labour are up 5, Conservatives down 2, the SNP are down 3. That is

how we stand at the moment. We were talking about what is going

to happen and perhaps we should just talk about that. We have just been

rejoined by Peter Kellner, our election expert. Everybody around

this table ought to be an expert by now, but what do you think? Plenty

of practise recently. The SNP are down almost everywhere. We have had

a result from Scotland, by about 15 or 16, they'll end up on the current

form with about 35% of the vote, they'll be the largest party. They

may have a majority of seats but Fuad together the votes from the

Unionist Parties, Conservative, Labour, Liberal Democrats, they will

be almost outnumber votes of the SNP by almost 2-1. What do you deduce

from that? This skills Scottish independence. Do you think voters

were voting on the independence referendum? I think the SNP mandate

to have a referendum, they still have a majority in the Scottish

Parliament. They'll be the biggest party at Westminster of Scotland.

The votes tell a story that I think independence... I'm hearing that

Labour are also expecting to take Glasgow North East and wit question,

the metaphorical question on the ballot paper in Scotland was about

whether or not people wanted a second referendum, it was a

different question being asked to in other parts of the country. We have

a declaration coming from Greatkm Grimsby. Let us hear this. Liberal

Democrat, 954. The Conservative Party candidate, 14,980. Ukip,

1,648. Independent, 394. Labour Party, 17,545.

APPLAUSE. So, there is the result from Great

glimpse biwhich was nearly 50th in the Conservative hoped for. Labour

held on to it. Majority of 2,565. Let us see what the change and swing

was, 49% for Labour, it was up 1%, Conservative vote up 16%. Ukip vote

down 20%. The swing, Labour to Conservative, just over 3%. This is

another kind of the seats where the Tory state was they hoped to

replicate everywhere, that the Ukip vote they expected was swinging

across to them. That hasn't happened here. The numbers showed a huge drop

in the Ukip vote. Clearly, lots of those voters went back to Labour

rather than going across to the Tories. We mentioned it briefly

earlier that perhaps it was a strategic mistake for the Tories to

go very aggressively after that kind of vote rather than trying to... Why

do you think that is? You have been travelling around listening to all

of the constituents? I think there are a variety of reasons. Partly a

misinterpretation of who Ukip voters were, it wasn't Allwright wing,

there were plenty of traditional voters but also the Tory campaign's

been full of missteps. Theresa May you turning over one of her policies

which caused anxiety among older voters, people who are seen as small

C Conservative, olders voters were worried about this and we saw the

Labour Party cut through over police cuts. The awful terror attacks that

have froze the campaign at two different moments, the Labour Party

allowed to put together two issues, if you like, they were already

campaigning hard on austerity, they put together with the issue of

security and we heard that on the doorstep, that coming back, people

were concerned about police cuts. I think that's probably one of the

issues we have seen here that will have cut through, that took the

shine off the Tories at early stages and the early confidence that people

had in Theresa May. I said we were going to turn our exit poll into a

forecast on the basis of the results we have had in, 137 now. We have

still got 500 or so to go. Let us just see here on the facade of the

House of Commons what we are now saying. Conservatives on 322, 396

would give them an overall majority. Labour on 261, the Conservatives

still the largest party. We have a result, Emily? Another

Conservative gain in Scotland. A handsome majority of 3,359. This was

128 on the target list, it wasn't within any of our sights, so they've

done extraordinarily well. Interesting to see not just the SNP

falling here but also Labour as well, maybe there's been a tactical

vote, a unionist vote towards the Conservatives, they're up 21%. I

said earlier we probably wouldn't be a bigger swing than the one we had

in Angus, this is another 16% swing from the SNP to the Conservatives

which land this one in safe Conservative territory. Tasmina act

head-Sheikh in second place, she took it from Labour last time. The

North West of England, this is Labour's fifth gain of the night,

54% share of the vote, David Nuttall is pushed out, that rebellious

Conservative MP is out and James Frith takes his place. 13% increase

in the share of the vote there. You can see how handsome that is from

the Conservative to Labour. One more that's just come in. Labour having a

very good night in Scotland. As are the Conservatives, to be fair. A

Labour gain from the SNP there in Midlothian on 36% to 34% share of

the vote. Owen Thompson out, Danielle Rowley is in and you can

see the drop in the SNP share of the vote, both those parties up. Lib

Dems not making much movement here. And the swing there is also of 11%.

We saw those ginormous swings of up to 40% towards the SNP last time

around and it looks as though Labour and the Conservatives are starting

to make some waves of their own north of the border in Scotland with

the gains back, suggesting that they are trying to push into the long

grass any talk of a second independence referendum. We'll come

back to you when we have some more. Thank you very much, Emily. Some

more comments from people. We are in an extraordinary situation where

Lord Ashcroft, the former Conservative chairman's just put out

a message saying: Kevin Maguire has tweeted a similar

thing. Ruth Davidson, has sent a message out saying fantastic in

Moray. So many, many Tories feeling that what they are doing in Scotland

could be the difference between them being in Government and not.

And interestingly, the Tories sofar tonight gained three in Scotland and

have lost four in England. Exactly. The new forecast, 322 Conservative

seats, still short of a majority, but politically, there's a big

depinks between the original forecast of 314 on those numbers the

Conservatives might well have failed to get a Queen's Speech through

Parliament. With 322 if that is the final figure, and it could move

either way, then it will be a Conservative Queen's Speech. They

may need to butter up the Democratic Unionists in Northern Ireland but

there's not an anti-Tory coalition of left and centre-left parties and

Scottish Nationals and so on that could combine to defeat the Tories.

So humiliated but they would carry on? Yes. Be but humiliated? Yes, but

if it moves another few seats up, they could have a majority, another

few seats down they may be out. We are in the area of small

differences, we'll be up well into the morning because the final few

results may determine the politics. I think that's absolutely right on

that forecasting. We can be relatively confident that the

unionist MPs in Northern Ireland would prop Theresa May up if the

numbers are in that kind of zone. The big flaw in that argument is

that her own authority would have been so damaged from chucking a ball

into the roulette wheel and making such a strategic error. All right,

thank you very much. We are going to go to Putney, then I want to talk to

Margaret Beckett in Derby about Labour. Let's go to the Education

Secretary Justine Greening in Putney. You only just scraped back

in Putney, didn't you? Well, I'm delighted to have been

re-elected as the MP for Putney, Roehampton and Southfield. It's

always a tough battle here in London, that's what we have seen

tonight. I think the other factor behind this is very much young

people really for the first time in many years finally choosing to use

the vote that they've got in the ballot box but yes, I'm delighted to

be able to continue to serve my local community. What is it about

the Conservative Party that doesn't appeal to young people? I think

Labour very much offered young people something that was appealing

to them in terms of the obvious policy around tuition fees, the fact

that it's unaffordable, the IFS said it had a black hole in a way was not

something that particularly necessarily dissuaded them from

thinking it was a policy they wanted to vote for. It's early on in the

evening and a lot of the seats that declare early now are more urban

seats. I think it's worth pointing out that Battersea and Putney are

the two seats in our country with the very youngest demographics, so

we have particularly seen that perhaps coming through in the votes

here. There is a very long way to go in this election through the course

of the night. We have made the forecast of 322,

short a majority. What's the future of the Tory Party and of Theresa May

and the Brexit negotiations if that is the final result? Well, I don't

think at this point it's particularly worthwhile getting into

speculation. There are huge numbers of results to still come through. As

I said at the beginning of this, London is always an incredibly hard

fought political environment. Everybody knows that down here who's

been out on the doorstep. I'm just delighted that I've been re-elected

to represent my own community. It's one that I've represented for 12

years. I think it's fantastic that I get the chance to continue to do

that. Due expect a majority of 60, 70, 100, for the Conservatives? I

think it was very difficult to tell exactly how the election would play

out, not least because actually when you look at the polls, national

polls, but in practice we all know that perhaps results have never been

more regionally driven. Therefore the days that we can really look at

a global picture of somehow was going on across the UK and rely on

it to give us any kind of an accurate sense of what's really

happening on the ground, I think are gone. We saw that in some of the

poll that's were reported in the papers, this morning. I've often

thought that in 2005, if you'd interviewed a thousand people in my

constituency of Putney would you really see the swing that I was

about to get to get elected, I don't know. It shows it's exceptionally

hard in these political climates to see what's going on on the ground.

That's what we're seeing tonight. Does it make sense in those

circumstances to say I've concluded the only way to guarantee certainty

and stability for the years ahead is to hold this election which I've

said over and over again I won't hold. Words of the Prime Minister. I

think the Prime Minister was right to recognise that Britain was in a

very different place now than we were in 2015 and it was right to go

to the country and to ask them the question about what their views

were, what people's views were about the direction that they wanted for

the future. It may be, what we're seeing in this vote, is that people

are still in a debate about what that future direction should be. But

it is very, very early days. So I think it's easy to pick on some

results in some parts of the country and say that they are going to be

massively representative. I suspect you'll continue to see some very

locally driven results that will, on occasion, contrast, as we've seen

the Conservatives doing very well in Scotland, less well in London and I

think we'll have to see how this plays out through the night. Thank

you very much. As I said we're joined from Derby now by Margaret

Beckett. Good evening. If I'm not mistaken, you were one of the people

who gave Jeremy Corbyn your support in the leadership for the Labour

Party on the grounds there should be a fair contest and afterwards said

you were a complete moron for having done it. Are you still a moron?

Somebody else said that, I didn't think it was right to dissent. But

yes, I agree that it was a good thing to widen the debate. Then I

realised that it might be thought that I was suggesting that people

should vote for someone who as Jeremy was, had no experience at all

on the frontbench and so I made haste to say I think he should be

part of the debate, I don't think he should necessarily be the leader.

There you go. What do you make of what's happening? Well, there's no

question that I think the two things that I don't think you can dispute

about this election campaign, is that Jeremy has performed infinitily

better than anybody, probably including Jeremy, ever expected he

could. And that Theresa May has performed infinitily worse than

anybody expected she could. It's the conventional wisdom but why is it

conventional, because sometimes it's also wise, the British people don't

tend to like having an election they didn't have to have. What is the

consequence going to be if we're seeing a much weakened Prime

Minister, a much damaged Conservative Party? At this stage,

are you thinking there might be a Jeremy Corbyn Premiership? To be

honest, what I'm principally thinking is I'm wondering, fearing I

might say, whether I was pressient when we put our stuff away in the

garage tonight, I said let's do it carefully, because you never know we

might need it again soon. I missed what you said then, I had another

voice in my ear. When we put aware our equipment from the car -- away

the equipment from the car tonight, I said we better do it carefully

because you never know we might need it again soon. It was a joke. I hope

it will remain a joke. As far as the future of the Labour Party goes,

clearly the people you would recognise as on the left of the

party, the part of the party thaw don't occupy, are making the running

now. Whether it's Jeremy Corbyn or somebody else, do you think this is

the new direction Labour's going to go in? Listen, I have always

regarded myself as being either soft left or centre left depending on how

you define these terms. Then other people, if I may say so, usually in

your profession have moved the goal posts around me. It seems to me I've

stayed where I am nearly e all the time -- nearly all the time. How

have we moved the goal posts? You say you're not on the left. Yes, I

think I am on the left. I still think I am. Margaret Beckett, thank

you very much for joining us. We've got two more results in. I just want

to show you this one. There's so much churn overnight it seems that

the Conservatives are taking seats in Scotland from the SNP and it

seems now from the Lib Dems in England. This one is Southport where

John Pugh stood down and maybe that helped the Conservatives. We don't

know. Damian Moore has taken it. Not only have they taken it, but they

have pushed the Lib Dems into third place here. They had this seat

before. The Lib Dems are now in third place. Conservatives on 39%

share of the vote. I can show you what that change looks like. Gains

then for Labour and for the Conservatives. That's at the expense

it seems of Ukip and the Lib Dems. This wasn't a particularly high

Leave area. The Lib Dems would have hoped to do well here. Yet, both

those parties, parties of Leave we now say, seem to have done better.

The swing is 7. 6% towards the Conservatives. So a bit of a ray of

light in England. Can I interrupt you for a result. We'll come back to

you. A result from Renfrewshire east. SNP held. ... Returning

officer for the east Renfrewshire constituency declare that the total

number of votes given to each candidate was as follows: Scottish

Conservative and Unionist, 21,496. Bloody hell. Scottish Labour Party,

14,346. The total number of votes cast was 53,805. The total number of

ballot papers rejected was 67. The ballot papers were rejected for the

following reasons: For want... Something's a little bit awry with

our system here. You should be able to see the SNP. The Conservatives

have leapt two places to top the ballot here. SNP were on 23

thousand. The Conservatives with 21,000 have taken the seat. I'm not

sure what's happened to our figures. No doubt we can sort it out in a

moment. Shall we go back to where we were, Emily. This was number one on

the Plaid Cymru target list, and you can see what's happened here. They

haven't gained it. Labour has held it on 42% share of the vote. Plaid

Cymru has slipped down behind the Conservatives into third place. When

we look at the swing, what might have been on a good night a swing

towards Plaid Cymru, away from Labour, actually becomes a swing as

you can see from the Conservatives to Labour. 2. 1%. We will hand back

now. I think we have Renfrewshire east. We might even have

Dunbartonshire east. ... 869. I, returning officer for the UK

Parliamentary election, in the East Dunbartonshire county constituency

here by give notice that the total notice of votes polled each

candidate - He had a majority of just over 2,000 two years ago.

Scottish Labour Party, 7,531. APPLAUSE

Conservative and Unionist, 7,563. APPLAUSE

Scottish National Party, 15,684. Scottish Liberal Democrats, 21...

CHEERING 21,023. Joe Swinson, former minister

in the coalition for the Liberal Democrats recovers Dunbartonshire

east from John Nichol son, there on the right. Jo Swinson may make a

speech, we don't know. The Lib Dems will be thrilled by that result.

Because she was, when part of the coalition, seen as one of the more

talented of the next generation. For the SNP, John Nicholson another big

name for them gone. A prominent member of the SNP frontbench in

Westminster, somebody who was very often put forward by the party. He

loses his seat... Theresa May arriving at her count at Maidenhead

with her husband there. She'll have heard all this news. She's safe in

her seat in Maidenhead. Will anybody try to question her as she comes to

the count? I'm sure they'll try. Whether she will answer is another

question. She is looking pretty grim faced. Philip May smiling for the

cameras. The only new thing that we've discovered by the Prime

Minister is the naughtiest thing she ever did was walk through a wheat

field as a child. Running through wheat fields was maybe the

naughtiness of it. It seems this is a political disaster for her, this

night. Back no Jo Swinson, who was a feisty performer when she was in the

House of Commons, and could be a leader, potential leader. She's

talked of that sometimes in Lib Dem circles. She is talked of in that

way. Now she's back in Westminster. We'll see there's another former

leader of the Liberal Democrats, Nick Clegg arriving at his count. As

I was saying, Labour sources have told me they expect to take Hallam

from Nick Clegg. He's looking quite uneasy. She is looking very uneasy.

He had a good campaign. A lot of people thought he spoke well on

Brexit and all the rest of it, wanting the second referendum. I

wonder if he'd be relieved though to perhaps not remain in the House of

Commons having been leader of a small Liberal Democrat party. Since

2015 there was speculation about whether or not he would actually

stand again. I wonder, had this Parliament run to 2020, whether he

would have stood again. The earlier election that was called meant he

did stand again. You suspect that perhaps he will find other things to

do. If your information is correct that he's lost, we need just to make

sure that it is correct. We do. Labour sources have told me they're

confident of taking it. Of course, until we hear it from the returning

officer we can never be quite sure. Certainly his body language would

suggest that. We're also hearing the result on a knife edge for Tim

Farron, the Lib Dem leader too, potentially a recount there. Glasgow

east. Held by the SNP. With a majority of 10,000.

Thank you. The declaration will be made. Gone back to Sheffield.

I am the returning officer at the election held on Thursday, June 2017

do here by give notice the number of votes cast for each candidate at the

election is as follows: Nick Clegg, Liberal Democrats, 19,756.

APPLAUSE. Jarrad Omar radio, Labour Party,

21,888... CHEERING AND APPLAUSE.

Logan Robin, Green Party, 823. Ukip, 929. The Conservative Party

candidate, 13,561. The Social Democrats party, 70. Spoilt papers

89 and I here bideclare that Mr O'Mara has the seat. He looks quite

saddened, Nick Clegg, by that. He was the man responsible for the

great experiment in politics in going into the coalition with the

Conservatives and paid a terrible price, his party did, and now

tonight he's paid the price and does look what you might call almost

visibly upset at having lost Sheffield Hallam. He does. He's been

the candidate there for years. He took on the brutal wound from being

part of the coalition. But to lose his seat, rather than being able to

curtail his career at a time of his own choosing, is of course not what

anyone would choose. All political careers end in failure don't they,

but I wonder too for the Liberal Democrats, their USP at this

election was that promise of a second referendum, but the most

prominent exponent of that of all, Nick Clegg, has lost his seat, so

we'll see through the night how that strategy of offering a second

referendum's played out in different places. We have seen Jo Swinson, but

it seems as though there's almost a different election taking place in

Scotland. Lord Ashcroft was saying earlier that Scotland could have

saved the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats have now lost two

seats in England but are picking up seats in Scotland. They expect to

lose needs North West. We expect that to be a Labour gain too. This

two tribes election playing out in extraordinarily different ways...

How many Liberal Democrat seats do we have in so far? Our score board

there is showing just one Liberal Democrat seat and no change, is that

correct? I think that is right. Net one? Yes. I hope that is right. But

they may well pick up Vince Cable's old seat, Twickenham, maybe one or

two others in London. Ed Davey. The results we have had in from the

south-west, the Liberal Democrats have gone further back. I don't

think they'll pick anything up. As we said earlier, the Liberal

Democrats would be happy to hold on to what they had and make a couple

of gains. They weren't expecting much else. The victor there in

Sheffield Hallam, Jarrad O'Mara speaking and we'll just hang on for

a moment to see if we can hear Nick Clegg's speech. Let us just remind

you of the figures here in Sheffield.

The swing was from Liberal Democrat to Labour, 4%. Certainly a long

speech being made there but I think he may be coming to the end. I hope

Nick Clegg will be next to speak. I think it's worth hanging on for

that. Voters tell polsters they want politicians to put nation before

party, Nick Clegg did that massively after the 2010 election and it looks

as if voters don't reward politicians who voters before party.

I would like to invite Nick Clegg to say a few words, thank you.

APPLAUSE. Thank you very much for this

opportunity to say a few words and I would obviously like to start by

congratulating see ya Jarrad on his spectacular victory. It's been the

greatest privilege of my life to represent Sheffield Hallam for the

last 12 years and I wish Jarrad O'Mara the best of luck in

representing the families of communities in Sheffield Hallam with

the dedication that they deserve. I also obviously want to fully endorse

what Jarrad said about you as chief returning officer and all of you

staff in once again conducting the elections across our great city so

professionally. So thank you very much indeed. A huge special thanks

from me to Penny Baker, my agent, Andy Sanger and to the whole team

who not only supported me as ever so unflaggingly in this snap general

election, but also in the 12 years in which I have served as an MP in

Sheffield Hallam and prior to that my Liberal Democrat predecessor

Richard Allan as well. Thank you, thank you from the bottom of my

heart for everything that you have done. Thank you very much indeed. I

in my time in Parliament, I've never shirked from a political battle,

I've never retreated from the political battlefield, I've always

sought to stand by the liberal values I believe in, but I of course

have encountered this evening something that many people have

encountered before tonight and I suspect many people will encounter

after tonight which is in politics, you live by the sword and you die by

the sword. But I would like if I may to say a couple of words about what

faces the Parliament that is going to be a constitute in a few days'

time in Westminster. It is a Parliament which, in my judgment,

will not only face the excruciating task of trying to assemble a

sensible Government for this country, will not only need to deal

with the agonising decisions we face as a country as we navigate our way

towards Brexit, but as a Parliament that is presiding over a deeply,

deeply divided and polarised nation. We saw that in the Brexit referendum

last year and we see it here again tonight. Polarised between left and

right, between different regions and nations and areas of the country,

but most gravely of all, this huge gulf now between young and old and,

my only plea would be to all MPs, including Jarrad from all parties is

this, that we will not pick our way through the very difficult times

that our country faces if in the next Parliament MPs of all parties

simply seek to amplify what divides them. We must try and reach out to

each other to try and find common ground if we are to heal the

profound divisions. If we do not, it's my judgment that our country

will endure unprecedented hardship and difficulty in the years ahead

and whatever party you are from... Commonly known as Vince Cable,

Liberal Democrats, 34, CHEERING AND APPLAUSE.

The Twickenham result. 34,969. Labour Party, 6,114.

Conservative 25,207. APPLAUSE.

So one goes down and, as one goes down, the other one comes up. Vince

Cable, who was defeated at the last election for Twickenham, the Liberal

Democrat, Business Secretary in the coalition, has retaken Twickenham.

He will have heard of what has happened to Nick Clegg, he may not

have heard what Nick Clegg was saying, a rather moving speech about

the future of young people in the political system and the future that

the new House of Commons faces and the problems. Vince Cable is back. I

suppose... The electorate gives with one hand and takes away with the

other within moments of each other. Let's also remember a very, very

knife edge result in Westmoreland where Tim Farron, the current party

leader, is facing potential defeat. There is chatter about a recount. If

that were to happen, lo and behold, prominent Liberal Democrat Vince

Cable's just walked back into Westminster. With a huge majority.

Let us go to Lucy Manning. Hello from Tim Farron's count where

it's pretty much on a knife edge. We have a recount here. It's a bundle

recount so they are not going through every single vote, but

they're looking at the bundles, there seems to be some votes that

haven't been counted. It seems a bit of a mess down there, but what it

tells us is that this vote is tight. I was told initially perhaps a few

hundred votes in it, that's Tim Farron, the Liberal Democrat leader

who had a majority of nearly 9,000. I think whatberg seeing as the night

develops is that potentially it's a bit dicey for the Liberal Democrats,

not as good as it looked originally. Nick Clegg's lost his seat. -- I

think what we are seeing. They need to get more in Scotland for this to

be a good night for Tim Farron. If he doesn't do well, there'll be

questions about his leadership for the Liberal Democrats.

Thank you very much. We'll come back to you when I can. I was watching

Theresa May's face as she went into her count. I wonder if on the basis

of these results she might actually voluntarily stand down as leader of

the Conservative Party? I think at this stage that's quite a leap. She

didn't make it public ever but it was plain she had ambitions to take

office to be Prime Minister for quite some time. I think if she ends

up at the stage where the forecast is with support from the DUP where

the Tories look significantly more viable and there could be an

alliance, I think the chances of her rescinding the opportunity to put

together a Government are very slim. How long she could stay on doing

that though without making big changes is a different question and

I expect, if the result ends up in this territory by the morning,

she'll have to make changes and broaden out. We have had a result

from Glasgow North East. Let us take that. Scottish Liberal Democrats

637. Scottish National Party, 13,395.

Scottish Labour Party, 13,637. Scottish Conservative and Unionist

Party, 4,106. I declare that Glasgow North East

constituency is in Labour's hands. We'll have the figures there in a

moment. A Labour gain at the expense of the

SNP in north-east Glasgow. Now I'm determined to go and join Mishaal

Hussain who has an extremely appropriate guest, considering what

we have been talking about, with the Liberal Democrats.

Thank you, I'm sitting here with Sir Menzies Campbell and Lord pickles.

Let's talk about your thoughts on seeing Nick Clegg lose his seat in

that way? With great dignity and pointing up in a very sharp way the

fact that these elections with producing, not the kind of unity

which the Prime Minister hoped for, but division north and south, young

and old. Nick Clegg's served his country and his party with great

distinction. He took a bold step in 2010 in the public interest, he got

very little credit for that. Even after the quite tumultuous events of

2015, he buckled down and did, as was pointed out, spear headed the

campaign in relation to the European Union. Your party is in the position

today of having lost his seat, the seat of your current leader Tim

Farron is looking doubtful but you have had Vince Cable re-elected, Jo

Swinson also re-elected. What do you think the future holds, if the party

is in a position of looking for a new leader? Who will it turn to? I'm

not going to get into that speculation, but one can point to

the fact that after I resigned and before Nick Clegg was elected, Vince

Cable was the interim leader. So he has some understanding of leadership

and what the responsibilities are. But it's very good for the party to

have a genuinely heavy hitter back in the Parliamentary party. Let's

not forget Jo Swinson, one to have most talented of the younger

generation of MPs of any party. Back in the House of Commons? And the

fact she's back in the House of Commons is a great advantage.

I worked a lot with Nick Clegg and government. I always found him to be

a thoroughly decent man. I remember talking to a couple of years out

from the election, and he recognised that the Liberal Democrats would pay

a price for being in coalition. He worked hard with us. We know that

ministers are no longer expecting an overall majority. The latest

forecast we have seized the Conservatives ending the night on

322 seats, short of a majority. That means a deal will have to be done.

You said of Theresa May that she is the worst person in the world to do

a deal with. Finish the quote. And the quote is, if you make a

reasonable request, she will generally back it. What that means

in terms of Brexit and putting together a government, if people

come with outlandish ideas, she won't play. She'll will always go

for the national interest. If it is a reasonable process, we are in for

an interesting few days. What went wrong for you? We lost seats. That

is what went wrong. Wide? We have seen a bigger increased in the youth

vote. -- increase. Mr Corbyn managed to get the excitement of that. It

was straightforward pork barrel politics. We will pay for your fees

and write off your debt. That will prove to be extraordinarily

expensive would he attempt to do so. I suspect we may have another

general election. I would like to say a word about Scotland. It is

quite remarkable. The SNP losing to Labour and the Lib Dems, and losing

to the Conservatives. Both of your parties have been saved to some

extent by Scotland. Yes. When you think of the dominance after 2015,

it is quite extraordinary. There is a reason for it. That is the fact

that simply people don't want a rerun of the Independence

Referendum. Thank you both. We are keeping an eye and Jeremy

Corbyn in Islington. We have another important result.

This is a shock result. It is a game for Labour from the Conservatives in

Ipswich. In Suffolk. There is no other red territory around for

miles. Trueblue Tory country. It is the seat of Ben Gummer, who just

five days ago was rumoured to be the new Brexit secretary. Ben Gummer,

not only a cabinet office minister, but who has been instrumental in

writing some of the Conservative Party manifesto, in planning some of

this election campaign, he is now out. I was on the campaign trail

with him a couple of years ago, when he almost expected to lose them. He

held on in 2015. He has now lost to Sandy Martin. Islington North

declaration. It is a very, very safe seat for Jeremy Corbyn. We will

listen to it. And then hopefully hear from Mr Corbyn.

The election of the member of Parliament for Islington North on

Thursday June the 8th 2015. I been the acting returning officer the

election of a member of Parliament to the Islington North constituency

do hereby give notice that the number of votes recorded for each

candidate at the said election is as follows. Keith Angus, Liberal

Democrats, 4946. Suzanne Nandy, Independent, 41. James Toby Clark,

Conservatives, 6871. Jeremy Bernard Corbin, Labour party, 4000 -- 40000

and 86. Michael Adam Foster, 208. Keith

Graham Fraser, UK Independence Party, 413.

Nigel Barrow, the official monster raving loony party, 106.

James William Martin, known as Bill Martin, the Socialist party GB, 21.

Andrew is Mendoza, the commonest league, seven. Caroline Russell,

Green Party, two to nine. -- 2229. The total number of ballot papers

rejected is as follows. Voting for more candidates than the voter was

entitled to, 40. Being on Marker Hotel devoid, 82. The turnout was

73.6%. I do hereby declare that Jeremy Bernard Corbin is duly

elected to serve as member of Parliament for the Islington North

constituency. -- Jeremy Corbyn. Thank you very much. I first of all

want to thank Lesley and her staff for the way this election has been

conducted. I know all the pressures that are put under the staff to

achieve this. Thank you very much to you and all the staff here tonight.

And all those that run our democratic services in this borough.

I also want to particularly thank the police further work today. And

their work last night in helping to ensure that the crowds were all

safe, but also, all the work they did last weekend during the horrors

of the attack that took place on London Bridge and the borrower. It

shows the importance of fully staffed police service. I do thank

the police further work last night -- last weekend and today. It is an

enormous honour to be elected to represent Islington North for the

ninth time in Parliament. And I'm very, very honoured and humbled by

the size of the vote that has been cast for me tonight as the Labour

candidate. And I pledge to represent the people of Islington North in the

best weather I possibly can. And to continue to learn from them as well

as represent them at the same time, because I believe representation is

as much about listening as about telling other people. And so I do

thank the people their support. I also want to say a huge thank you to

Islington North Labour party, two our agent Catherine Sloan, and all

the other people who've worked so hard in this campaign. And

unfortunately, are maybe fortunately for them, I have been on the road

for the last six weeks, so they have been holding the fort. I am very

grateful to them for all they have done. I am also very grateful to all

of my family, and to my wife, and to all the people that have worked so

hard in our team at Labour Party head office, as well as in the

constituency office here, for achieving this incredible result

tonight in Islington, and the results that are coming in from all

over the country. In terms of Islington, this is the highest

turnout at any election is in Islington since 1951. It is the

largest ever vote received for a winning candidate ever in the

history of this borrower. I of it, very humble and grateful to the

people of Islington for this great result. This election was called in

order for the Prime Minister to gain a large majority in order to assert

her authority. And the election campaign has gone on for the past

six weeks. I have travelled the whole country. I have spoken at

events and rallies all over the country. And you know what? Politics

has changed. And politics is not going back into the box where it was

before. What has happened is people have said they have had quite enough

of austerity politics. They have had quite enough of cuts in public

expenditure, underfunding the health service, schools, the education

service, and not giving our young people the chance they deserve in

our society. And I'm very, very proud of the campaign that my party

has run, our manifesto for the many not the few. And I'm very proud of

the results coming in all over the country tonight, of people voting

for hope, voting for hope for the future, and turning their backs on

austerity. CHEERING.

And so if there is a message from tonight's result, it is this. The

Prime Minister called the election because she wanted a mandate. When

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

support and lost confidence. I would've that Tsenov to go,

actually, and make way for a government that will be truly

representative of all the people of this country.

And so, we await the rest of the results. But I can assure you of

this. In the new parliament we will do everything we can to ensure that

everything we have said in this campaign, and everything that is

included in our manifesto, is put before Parliament, so that this

country can be a different and, I believe, fundamentally better place.

The participation in this election by many who have not participated in

elections before shows the determination to do something very

differently in this country. And take a different stance towards the

rest of the world. And I'm very proud of what we have achieved here

in Islington. I'm very proud of the campaign our party as waste in this

election campaign. And I'm very confident of the future of the

future that we will grow even faster and further, and that we will be

able to carry out those pledges in our manifesto. To properly fund

health, education, social care, and give all of our young people a real

chance for a future, free from debt and full of opportunity. To the

people of Islington, I say thank you very much indeed. To the people of

this country, I say thank you to all those who have given such support

and such confidence in the Labour Party, and thank you to all those

all over the country who fought so hard for this day. We will carry on

because we believe in a better future for all. Thank you all very

much indeed. CHEERING.

Jeremy Corbyn says it is time for Theresa May to go and make way for

them. We have not had the count from Maidenhead. We will stay with

Maidenhead. When we get the count at least we will be there for the

count. No doubt Theresa May will have some words to say about the

outcome of the election as a whole. Or maybe she will just stick to

thank you. It will be interesting to see if she does. She has been

criticised for not being fulsome in the campaign, giving very little

detail of what she plans to do. She is not the kind of politician, one

of the criticisms levelled at her, who is nimble. That has caused such

trouble. This is a fascinating night. I am

going to take you to Scotland. We have 15 Labour gains. This one from

the SNP in East Lothian. Once again we are seeing it is turning out to

be a tough night for the SNP. Gains for the Conservatives. Not quite as

dramatic swing as we saw in those earlier Tory gains. 8.5%. This is

much more than they needed. This was gained in the Scottish parliament by

Labour. They will be very pleased to have this. Gordon Brown's old seat

of Kirkcaldy. We thought it was safe. It was taken last time round.

Roger Morlan is out and Lesley Laird takes his place. Very tightly

fought. The 23,000 majority under Gordon Brown. The SNP toggled on

9000. This is a slim majority. 259. They got this on more than a 9%

swing. 9.7%. Two more games for the Conservatives. This time it is

Aberdeen South. It has been taken from Callum McCaig of the SNP. This

was number 97 on their target list. 15%, the swing. We have seen the

Conservatives in the region. 15 to 16% when they are taking those seats

from the SNP. Labour were in second place. It was thought to be a Tory

target. And Eire and Carrick. We thought it was safe SNP. You can see

what has happened. The Conservatives on 40%. The SNP moving backwards,

down 15%. This was gained from Labour in 2015. That kind of

churning going from Labour to the SNP to the Conservatives shows that

Scotland is up in the air. And also Peterborough and Bedford.

Am told that Labour is expecting to win Canterbury in Kent. That has

been held by the Conservatives since 1918. If that is confirmed, that

would be the most dramatic example yet of a seat that looked impossible

for Labour, unless we saw significant youth turnout. The big

question was that we didn't know how the electorate would answer it, the

younger part of the electorate who traditionally have stayed at home,

seem to have turned out in droves. What have you got there? Bath is an

interesting one. Chris Patten famously lost here in 1952. This is

an up moment for the Lib Dems on a night which has brought gains and

losses for them and some sad faces in Sheffield Hallam when Nick Clegg

lost. But the Lib Dems have gained this one, the seat of Bath, from the

Conservatives. They needed a 4.1% swing. They have got it on a 9.8%

swing to the Lib Dems. Ukip got 7% of the vote here and that has gone

now. You were just talking about Peterborough. This was number 16 on

the Labour target list, very tightly fought. Just a percentage point

between them. Ukip stood down here again, which the Tories might have

thought would help them retain the seat, but it has gone on a swing

towards Labour of 2.7%. Nobody would forget Chris Patten's face when he

was chairman of the Conservative Party and fought the campaign but

lost his own seat. That was in 1992. Here is Maidenhead. There is the

Prime Minister on the left. We will hear the result of the Maidenhead

vote. No risk of losing the seat. But there is a risk to her political

future. Look at the array of candidates. Stay with us why we hear

how each of them has done. UK Independence Party, 871.

Independent, 16. Lord bucket head, 249. Hill, Anthony

Charles, known as Tony Hill, Liberal Democrats, 6540. Hope, Alan, the

official Monster Raving Loony Party, 119. Andrew Knight, animal welfare

party, 282. Me, Theresa May, the Conservative Party candidate, 37,000

718. -- 37,718. Patrick Meek Donald,

Labour Party, 11200 and 61. -- 11261. The just political party,

52. Bobby Smith, three. Grant Smith, independent, 152. Victor Edmonds,

Christian peoples Alliance, 69. Green Party, 907. The number of

ballot papers rejected was as follows. Want of official Mark,

zero. Voting for more candidates than the vote was entitled to, 19.

Writing or mark by which the voter could be identified, three. Being

unmarked or wholly void for uncertainty, 86. Rejected in part,

zero. Total rejected votes, 108. I hereby declare that Theresa May, the

Conservative Party candidate, has been elected. That is a good example

of what English democracy throws up in these seats where the Prime

Minister is. You get every Tom, Dick and Harry coming in on standing. I

reckon they made ?5,000 in lost deposits. But here is Theresa May to

speak. Thank you very much. First of all, on behalf of myself and all of

the candidates, may I thank the returning officer and all her staff

for the hard work they have put in today in running this election in

the Maidenhead constituency. Can I also thank the police, who have had

an extra job here tonight in ensuring the security of this event.

And thank you to all those who have once again supported me as the

member of Parliament for Maidenhead. It is a huge honour and a privilege

to be elected as the member of Parliament for this constituency,

and I pledge that I will continue to work for all my constituents, as I

have done over the period that I have been your member of Parliament.

This is a wonderful constituency and I look forward to continuing to work

with you and to see further improvements for the lives of those

living in the Maidenhead constituency. As we look more widely

across the country, returns are of course still coming in. We have yet

to see the full picture emerging. Votes are still being counted. But

at this time, more than anything else, this country needs a period of

stability. If, as the indications have shown, the Conservative Party

has won the most seats and probably the most votes, it will be incumbent

on us to ensure that we have a period of stability and that is what

we will do. I would like to thank all of those across the country who

have voted for the Conservative Party today. As we ran this

campaign, we set out to consider the issues that are the key priorities

for the British people - getting the Brexit deal right, ensuring that we

both identify and show how we can address the big challenges facing

our country, doing what is in the national interest. That is always

what I have tried to do in my time as a member of Parliament. And my

resolve to do that is the same this morning as it always has been. As we

look ahead and we wait to see what the final results will be, I know

the country needs a period of stability. Whatever the results are,

the Conservative Party will ensure that we will fulfil our duty in

ensuring that stability so that we can all go forward together. Thank

you. A curious choice of words. The country needs a period of stability,

suggesting that it is not a full parliament she is thinking of. I

think that is true. Ministers privately now say that clearly, they

do not expect to outperform the exit poll. We saw a very shaky Theresa

May there, who does not expect to be walking back into Downing Street

with a majority. Of course, it will only be in the hours to come that we

can confirm whether that is the case. But I think her wording

certainly implied that very heavily. She said there are still votes to be

counted, but if we are the largest party with the largest number of

votes, she said very carefully, it would be incumbent upon us to form a

government. So in the Prime Minister's own words, she chose to

mention the formulation that suggests a hung parliament - the

largest number of votes and the largest number of seats. But that is

half the story. She inherited a lead of 100 seats over Labour. She will

probably end up with a lead of 50 seats over Labour. She inherited a

seven percentage point lead over Labour in the last popular vote. So

yes, she is factually correct, the Conservatives are ahead on votes and

seats, but by only about half the Amanda David Cameron achieved two

years ago. She now has to contend with the horror of her Parliamentary

party. James Forsyth, the political editor of the Spectator, tweeted, do

not underestimate the fury of the Parliament drew party. They are

spitting. So Theresa May now has to try and find a way of communicating

that she is the right leader, if she believes she is. Tim Farron has

retained his seat, the leader of the Liberal Democrats. What has happened

over the last hour is that we have revised our forecast down a bit from

the Conservatives' point of view. Jeremy, you have those figures.

Let's look inside our virtual House of Commons. It is revised in the

Conservatives' they've very slightly. We started the night by

saying the exit poll had them on 314. It is now tempered by some of

the results we have had in. We have now got them on 318, down 13 seats

from the last general election two years ago but up from where we

started. Crucially, it is not crossed the line of three to six,

which is just above half the number of MPs in the House of Commons --

326. So it looks like the Conservatives will not have their

majority in the House of Commons. We have slightly adjusted the Labour

figure, up one. The SNP are on 32, a bad night for them. The Liberal

Democrats, notwithstanding the Tim Farron news we just had, not doing

as well as we thought at the start of evening. Plaid Cymru are still

there with their three seats on the greens with their once it. -- the

greens with their once it. All kinds of other mathematics start to come

in. Sinn Fein MPs could be six by the end of the night. Take those six

away because they don't attend the House of Commons. The Conservatives

are still not quite there, but it brings it a tiny bit closer. The DUP

may have nine MPs by the end of the night. There are natural allies for

the Conservatives in this situation. So if you add the nine to the

Conservatives' 318, you get 327. But take a whirl around the House of

Commons with me now. Yes, there is a lot of blue. But a strengthened

Labour Party, a diminished SNP, a few more Lib Dems. It is really

going to be very complicated politics in here with many more

hours of conversation to come. It did go up to 322 at one point, so

the Conservative figure is moving around. Eastbourne has been taken by

the Liberal Democrats. Nick Robinson is in Islington. Let's join him

before he has to do the today show. It is extraordinary being here at my

local leisure centre and Jeremy Corbyn's local national centre, a

place where he has come for election after election. The result has

always been predictable and just as predictable has been the fact that

no one beyond these walls would listen to a single word he said. And

yet that figure, the maverick, stood on a stage here and effectively

called on the Prime Minister to quit and make him Prime Minister instead

and suddenly, that doesn't sound absurd. Contrast that with the face

of Theresa May, the look of a woman defeated, heavily made up as if she

had been in tears earlier, her voice cracking at times, I thought,

declaring that she would provide the stability the country needed. But

nothing like what she said she wanted to do, which was to have that

big majority which would deliver the country a strong mandate to

negotiate and deliver Brexit. We're going to Boston and Skegness.

Paul Nuttall, the leader of Ukip, fighting that seat.

Matthew Warman, 27,000 271. The number of ballot papers rejected was

as follows. Voting for more candidates than the vote was

entitled to, 11. A pretty humiliating defeat for Paul

Nuttall. 3308 only. Boston and Skegness. The highest area of Vote

Leave macro. Nearly three quarters voted to leave. Not giving him any

traction for Ukip. Let's go back to Nick Robinson. It will be no

surprise to you that Paul Nuttall did not do very well in Boston. Only

got 3000 votes. Just finish the point you were making. Sorry to have

interrupted you. Even a few hours ago when I was outside Jeremy

Corbyn's house, they were looking at those results to see just how much

will we have managed to cut Theresa May's majority. When they arrived

for the count, people were seriously asking questions about whether they

might be the largest party. About whether Jeremy Corbyn might in

certain circumstances be our next Prime Minister. I don't think that

is their central expectation but I know they have left this building to

give that proper and serious thought. They know that he is now in

play. That's the decisions he makes will matter not just for the future

direction of the Labour Party, but the future direction of the country.

Just a few weeks ago that would have seemed completely implausible not

just to most commentators but to Mr Corbyn himself. He has been placed

in a position of power ahead of perhaps the most difficult political

negotiations this country has seen since the Second World War. A

position of power he never, ever dreamt of. You were hearing Theresa

May. What do you think she will actually do know? Clearly she is

severely damaged by this result, particularly when she called an

election after she said she wouldn't. She has an election that

batters her reputation in the course of the campaign and the result.

Where does that leave her in the Tory party and in Parliament? There

are two answers. Where does it leave her in her mind? Probably doing her

duty. In other words, forming a government. If she has the most

seats and the most votes. The second question is, where does it leave her

in the minds of her own Cabinet, her own party? Will they take the view

that she has gambled and lost big-time, and therefore has to be

punished for it? The difficulty with that scenario is wondering who would

replace. If the Tory party were looking for a charismatic figure who

could give hope to the public at a future election, they would turn to

Boris Johnson, no doubt. If instead the job is not about winning the

election but the job is about doing a deal in Europe about those

negotiations, Boris Johnson would be regarded as deeply implausible, not

just in Brussels but by many others Cabinet colleagues. And that is the

place the Tories now find themselves. Do they focus on the

talks in Europe or do they focus on the possibility of another election

sometime soon, which Theresa May, it looks impossible for her to run

again. And if she did, she would surely lose.

There is never any lack of ambition on the Tory backbenches. Let's be

clear about that. But exactly as Nick points out, this is a very

curious position the Tories find themselves in. They ran on

competence, and being a safe pair of hands. Theresa May became Prime

Minister because she was the last grown-up left standing after the

Tory bloodbath over the referendum. But what do they do know? How can

they try in another general election to cling back that message of hope?

Ishii in a position to change her government? Is she in a position to

get rid of the Exchequer, which everybody said she would want to do,

after screwing up the budget? It will be much more pressed upon her

to take the Council of other people. There will be speculation about

whether or not she can cling on as the party leader. One senior Tory

has just said to me in terms of asking her if she can stay on, the

point is with Brexit looming over everything, it is a pretty bad time

to mock about. And I think our first instinct would be to try to convey

that message and stay on. Let's have the latest games. Pretty dramatic

gains for Labour. Warwick and Leamington, the kind of seat you

would expect Labour to take if there were winning the election. This is a

bellwether. Labour won it under Tony Blair is three times. David Cameron

won twice. A close share of the vote. A Labour game. They needed a

6-point 5% swing. They have done it on 7.6. Astonishing to have taken

this. Number 68 on their target list. Canterbury the same. This has

been Conservatives since World War I. It had a majority of 9700. Not

only that, Julian Brazier, the Conservative MP, has been here since

1987. Rosie Duffield has just outed him in the seat of Canterbury in

Kent. Not where you would expect a lot of Labour to appear. An extra

ordinary surge in their share, up 20%. And you can see the

Conservatives have made a tiny gains. That swing has been quite

dramatic. 9.3. You can see further down my list a lot of the Lib Dem

holes. Tom Brake thought he might be in danger. It is a very Leave part

of south London. But he stays in there. He once said it could be the

hardest election he has ever fought. It may well have been. You can see

what kind of a swing it has been. Just towards the Conservatives of

2.2. -- 0.2. Kingston has been taken by Ed Davy for the Lib Dems. Some of

these old faces, Vince cable, Ed Davey, coming back in. 4124

majority. Ed Davy will be very pleased to take this. A rather

bittersweet night for the Lib Dems. They are seeing a former leader like

Nick Clegg loses seat but some of the former MPs from last time around

gained their seats. The Lib Dems have been making gains. Tim Farron

we talked about. Not only has he held on in Westmoreland, but the

9000 majority cut to 777. A massive swing in this part of the world away

from the Lib Dems towards the Conservatives. He has held on. One

more I just want to bring you. Norfolk North, Norman Lamb thought

he might be in danger. But he has, pop -- probably on a personal

popular vote, stays. The Green Party did not stand. That may have helped

the Lib Dems. A 0.7% swing towards the Conservatives but he did well to

hang on. One more. Case in -- Caithness Sutherland and Easter

Ross. The Lib Dems lost that seat in 2015. The SNP came in. The SNP

gained it from third place. It is now Jamie Stone who replaces the Lib

Dem John Thurso. He takes the seat back for the Lib Dems in Scotland.

They are having a pretty good night. All the Unionist parties having a

pretty good night against the SNP in Scotland. Let's have a look at that

swing and see what has happened. Again, a pretty sturdy swing towards

the Lib Dems from the SNP in Scotland. You can see all the Lib

Dem gains here. Some of them are holes and some of them have been

taken. Holds. Amber to extraordinary results for Labour. We are joined by

Alex Salmond. First of all, your own result. Do you think you have held

on? We will just have to wait and see. I feel we are sometime away

from a result yet. It is a very large rural constituency as very --

as well as a varied and rule one. Ballot boxes have to travel a long

way in these parts. What you make of the net loss of 14 seats so far for

the SNP? Yeah, but that is off the tsunami of 2015. I don't think I

expected that to be repeated. I'm an old-fashioned type of politician and

you are an old-fashioned type of interview. I reckon you win

elections by winning more seats and more votes than any of the other

parties. It looks like the SNP will have more seats in Scotland than the

Unionist parties combined. On that measure the SNP will win the

election. You call them the Unionist parties. They have made huge inroads

into the SNP position. What were you, 56 in the last house of

Commons? Yeah. There are two things. But the opinion polls didn't see was

a late recovery in the Labour Party's fortunes. Ironically that

was based on people impressed by Jeremy Corbyn. Many Yes supporters.

Ironically again, that has cost the SNP some seats. Winning more seats

than any other party is important in politics. Theresa May would love to

be in a position now where she could say she is going to win a majority

of seats across the UK. Given that the SNP looked like we might just

have done it again in Scotland, you have to accord the SNP some credit

despite losing some important colleagues. Does it make a second

referendum on independence more likely are less likely? I think

there will be a second Independence Referendum. It is a question of

timing. A third irony of politics is that this -- SNP group will be going

into a parliament where it looks as if it will be very influential

indeed. That influence will be used on behalf of Scotland and on behalf

of Scottish democracy to defend the Scottish Parliament. People in

Scotland have the right to expect, if they elect SNP MPs in large

numbers, they will turn out to be influential in the next Parliament.

That looks at what is gone to happen. You don't yet know what is

going to happen over Brexit. You wanted to remain in the EU. That may

still be possible, I suppose, if Parliament is in total confusion. Do

you think there is a chance of the SNP... Yeah, on a balanced

parliament we would be in a position of great influence. We would seek a

progressive alternative to Tory rule. Let's talk plainly. If there

is no Conservative majority, Theresa May will not be Prime Minister

within the next 48 hours. You couldn't possibly survive having

called an election unnecessarily, failed to win a majority in

continuous Prime Minister. Boris Johnson is already on manoeuvres. It

doesn't surprise me. It certainly doesn't surprise me giving the --

given the glaring deficiencies of Theresa May which have been exposed

on this election campaign. The SNP will use their position of

substantial influence to get the best deal they can for Scotland and

make sure we don't fall off that Brexit cliff edge which Theresa May

was careering the country towards. What do you make of what she said in

Maidenhead? If they have the largest number of seats and the largest

popular vote, their responsibility, their duty, is to restore stability.

That doesn't sound as if she is quitting any time soon. It sounded

like bravado to me. Consistency has not been one of the hallmarks of Mrs

May over recent weeks. This declaration, I shall continue

regardless of the verdict of the people, is total nonsense. It isn't

clear, David, who has won this election. That is certainly true.

But it is very, very clear who has lost the election. That is the Prime

Minister. She should face the consequences. Thank you. As we were

talking, you could see Nicola Sturgeon, the Beaver of the SNP in

Scotland at her account. We are going to go to Twickenham. And

joined Vince Cable. He took this seat. Vince Cable: -- good evening,

congratulations on your victory. You said it would be a tough fight and

you pulled it off. What do you make of the position of the Liberal

Democrats now and their role in the new parliament? Within the last few

minutes we have heard we have held Carshalton in Kingston, I believe

Richmond is hanging by a thread. We're down to three figures. We are

doing well in London. We are doing extremely well in Scotland. Norman

Lamb has held on in very difficult circumstances. Tim Farron. We are

going to get a significant increase in our Parliamentary party. We are

still mid teens. We have made very clear in terms of the big picture

that we are not going into coalition are packeds with other parties.

Obviously we want to be constructive. Be an opposition party

that gives constructive criticism. Clearly, the whole Brexit approach

is going to have to be rethought, and we will contribute to that.

Personal care also became a big issue. It is now clear that parties

will have to work together rather than shout at each other in this

different political landscape. How do you think Brexit can be

rethought? The mantra has been that Brexit means Brexit, meaning you

can't be in the single market. You are saying that can be turned on its

head? Well, the phrase Brexit means Brexit was always nonsense. It was

always possible to pursue a form of Brexit that means keeping the

customs union and keeping a lot of the collaborative arrangements that

have been very good for the UK. That is the kind of approach we will have

to rethink. The hard Ukip style Brexit that Theresa May had adopted

is no longer a viable option. But are you saying it will not be

politically possible for her to pursue that if she doesn't have a

majority in the House of Commons? Well, we don't know the arithmetic,

but to take an obvious point, the Government were proposing to

introduce a Great Repeal Bill that would have got rid of a lot of

regulatory aspects of the European Union around a single market. I

doubt that in the current House of Commons that has been elected

tonight, that that will be feasible. They will have to compromise. They

will have to find a way of accommodating the concerns of the

48% who voted to remain. Well just watching pictures of the Prime

Minister returning to London from Maidenhead. Vince Cable, what is

your reaction to Nick Clegg's defeat in Sheffield? I am very sad for him.

I had a defeat two years ago and it is painful. He will be looked upon

by historians as a major figure. With hindsight, the period of

coalition government was a period of stability and competent, successful

government. He was one of the main architects of that and deserves

credit for it. He will be a big loss to us and to Parliament because of

his expertise and understanding of European issues. Thank you for

joining us. We have now had 439 seats in and we have 211 to go.

Labour have gained 20. The Conservatives are down nine. The

Liberal Democrats are up four and the SNP are down 14. Ukip down one.

It looks as if the Conservatives will have 44% of the vote at the end

of the night across Great Britain. That is what Tony Blair got in his

landslide in 1997. 44% was what Margaret Thatcher got in her

landslide in 1983. Remember the Conservative vote is up, so why are

they doing so badly? Because we are back to party politics in England.

When you had three parties, 40% gave you a landslide. Into party

politics, 44% looks grim. But in terms of the actual share of the

vote, Theresa May can look Tony Blair and Margaret Thatcher in the

face and say, I matched what you did. I am trying to think when I

party got over 50% in the two party system. I think it is only about

once since the war. Yes, but the two-party politics is crucifying the

Conservative hopes of getting a majority. Their absolute vote is not

that bad. Let's find out what is happening in Hastings. John Hunt is

in Hastings. Is it true that there is a recap of what was Amber Rudd's

seat? -- a recount? Can you hear me? This is Hastings, David. There is a

recount going on. I am so sorry. Basically, the difference between

votes is a few hundred. This is the constituency of the Home Secretary,

Amber Rudd. She had a majority of over 4700 and it looks like at best,

that has been diminished to something in the hundreds, if at

all. So there is going to be a recount. It looks like there will

not be a result for another hour or two here. It was 1955 that the

Conservatives got 49.3% of the vote. Now we can go to Nicola Sturgeon,

with a bit of luck. The First Minister of Scotland. You are

currently down I don't know how many seats, it has just disappeared from

my screen for some extraordinary reason. How many seats do you reckon

you have lost? We are still waiting for the final tally. But we will

have won more seats than the other parties combined. The SNP has won

this election in Scotland. It will be our second best ever result in a

Westminster election. That said, yes, we are disappointed to have a

number of losses, not least the loss of Angus Robertson, who has been an

outstanding MP for Murray and an exceptional leader of the SNP group

in the House of Commons. So we have won this election, but we have some

reflection to do on the reasons why we also suffered some losses. Is it

right to say you have won the election? It is a UK election we are

talking about. You got more seats in Scotland. But it is pretty damaging

for you to have lost seats both to the Conservatives and the Liberal

Democrats and to Labour, who were thought to have been wiped out in

Scotland before this election. I am not trying to downplay the losses.

But I do think it is legitimate to say the SNP has won the election in

Scotland. We will have more seats in Scotland than all of the other

parties combined and more votes than any other party. So by any

definition, that is a winning of the election in Scotland. There have

been a number of factors at play. There has been a late surge to

Jeremy Corbyn across the UK, including in Scotland, which was not

necessarily detected in the polls in the same way that it was elsewhere

in the UK. Clearly, there is a post-Brexit uncertainty and

independence is a factor in that. I will reflect on that in the days to

come. Tonight is also a disaster for Theresa May. She called this

election voluntarily. She didn't need to. She thought she could

steam-roll the opposition and cruised to a landslide victory and

she has left tonight facing a disastrous election results. We will

need to wait and see how the final results look in terms of what that

means for the government of the UK. I hope the SNP can play a part in a

progressive alternative to a Tory government, but we will have to see

how the final results tally. You want both independent and you want

to remain in the EU. Both those aims, have they been improved by

this result and if so, how? Well, I will take time to reflect on this.

It is four o'clock in the morning and like all politicians, I have not

had any sleep in quite some time. So I am not going to rush to hasty

judgments. But clearly, there is thinking for me to do about the SNP

result. I am not going to lose sight of the fact that the SNP has won

this election, but I am going to gloss over the fact that we have

suffered some losses. Once we know the final result tomorrow, it is

likely that the SNP will be the third largest party in Westminster,

as we were in the last Parliament, if we can, we will want to be part

of a progressive alliance that is an alternative to the Tories. But that

will depend on how the arithmetic looks when the final results are in.

And I use slightly chastened when you say you have won the election

when you don't have over 50% of the popular vote in Scotland? It is only

the electoral system that allows you to say you are the largest party. Is

anybody listening to me right now is not going to hear someone try to

overplay the SNP results. But when we have emerged with more votes and

more seats than the other parties, it is OK to point to the fact that

the SNP has won the election here. Before 2015, the largest number of

seats the SNP had ever had was 11. Going into the 2015 election, we had

six. We are likely to end up with about 30 when the final results are

counted. So I am trying to be straight with you. I am not trying

to gloss over some disappointing losses. But I think I am and have a

point of the fact that we have won the election. I will reflect on the

losses when we have analysed the reasons for that. No one could

accuse you of being anything other than straight with us, Nicola

Sturgeon. Thanks for talking to us. Let's go to Northern Ireland now.

First of all, shots of the Prime Minister, coming back from

Maidenhead and presumably going to Number Ten Downing Street. The

Northern Ireland story is interesting. We have the four main

parties, five in all. Chris Payne is there. Fill us in on what has

happened and what you think will happen in Northern Ireland? It has

been an extraordinarily good night for the biggest two parties in

Northern Ireland. The Democratic Unionist Party and Sinn Fein. Their

vote has surged. It has been a disastrous night for the nationalist

SDLP. They went into this election with three seats. They have lost all

three, their entire representation in the House of Commons. Not all of

the results from Northern Ireland are in yet, but on the basis of what

we have, I reckon the DUP are looking at ten seats, their best

ever result in a Westminster election. Sinn Fein could be on for

at least six, probably seven. Another seat has been won by an

independent lady, Sylvia Hermon. The DUP are in a strong position. Their

leader said the DUP would make their presence felt in the next

Parliament. He referenced a number of issues such as counterterrorism,

security, Brexit, the DUP in a strong pro-Brexit platform in this

election, but also the future in Northern Ireland. The DUP think it

has increased their hand when it comes to negotiations to restore the

Stormont government which has not operated since January. The DUP will

be in a strong position as a Brexit party and with Sinn Fein not taking

their seats in the House of Commons. Yes, they have made that clear. No

matter how tight things get in the House of Commons, Sinn Fein said

that candidate stood on an abstention is ticket, therefore

there is no way Sinn Fein will be taking their seats. With an increase

in Sinn Fein's representation on six seats, it looks like they are likely

to take a seventh in Fermanagh South, currently run by the Ulster

Unionist Party. Ulster Unionist sources tell me they are worried

about that seat. They have already lost their other seat to the DUP. So

with Sinn Fein not taking their seats in the House of Commons and

the SDLP losing their seats, it means there will no longer be any

nationalist MPs from Northern Ireland sitting in the House of

Commons and the vast majority, ten out of 11 MPs from Northern Ireland

sitting in the House of Commons will be pro-Brexit. And you say they will

play a hard game with the Prime Minister. They will be in a strong

position with the Tory party not having an overall majority, to get

what they want. That's right. Speaking to senior members of the

DUP, they are emphasising that they realised they might be in an

important position with regards to the stability of the country going

into Brexit negotiations, and they will go into discussions in that

spirit. However, the DUP are used to negotiations. Politics in Northern

Ireland operates on negotiations a lot of the time. In the last

election in 2015, a big part of their platform was that they

expected there to be a hung parliament and that they would be

best placed if they maximised their representation to get the best deal

for Northern Ireland. This time, they were not expecting a hung

parliament at all, didn't make it a big part of their campaign. But

tonight, they have realised that they are in a strong position. Thank

you. A word. Quick one person who is

enjoying this evening more than his former colleagues is George Osborne.

Now editor of the Evening Standard. He said today the worst thing she

has done is no longer running through a wheat field. We have got a

Dutch MEP who said Cameron gambled and lost, may gambled and lost, the

Tory party beginning to look like a casino. This is one of the running

themes of the night. We have got the front page of The Times newspaper.

It is pretty brutal. Theresa May's big gamble fails. That will be the

theme of all the headlines tomorrow. She has taken a massive gamble and

it has backfired. Let's go to Wales. Sian Lloyd. All of the Cardiff

Castles have finished and the results are in. They are all now

Labour MPs. Cardiff North has been regained by Labour. It is a huge

scalp. It was seen more as a safe Tory seat coming into this election.

What we have seen in Wales is that Labour have held onto their seats

and they have increased their majority, and they have taken seats

from the Conservatives. They have taken the veil of clue it, they have

taken Gower and Cardiff North. They have exceeded expectations that exit

poll. Opinion polls said the Conservatives would do very well.

There was still a suggestion of that in the exit poll. Labour has

defended well. They haven't just defended, they have made games. We