:00:00. > :00:19.Their share of the vote was down, reflecting the swing
:00:20. > :00:22.Good morning and welcome to an East Midlands Today Election Special.
:00:23. > :00:25.We'll have the key results for you, and analysis of how this momentous
:00:26. > :00:29.Our guests will deliver the political reaction and expert
:00:30. > :00:36.insight into what happened and what it means.
:00:37. > :00:39.First, from our Leicester studio, welcome to Nicky Morgan,
:00:40. > :00:44.the returning Conservative MP for Loughborough -
:00:45. > :00:46.and congratulations to you this morning on being re-elected.
:00:47. > :00:48.And in the studio here, we have Mark Stuart,
:00:49. > :00:51.assistant professor in politics from the University of Nottingham
:00:52. > :00:53.and also Alan Simpson, formerly a Labour MP in Nottingham
:00:54. > :00:55.and now an economic advisor to Jeremy Corbyn.
:00:56. > :01:08.And keeping us up to date with the results, Sarah Teale.
:01:09. > :01:10.First of all, Sarah, give us the big picture.
:01:11. > :01:19.Well let's take a look at what's changed from 2015.
:01:20. > :01:22.This is the map of how it looked after the last general election.
:01:23. > :01:25.Let's mix through now to the picture we have this morning -
:01:26. > :01:30.Some very interesting and intense battles fought out overnight
:01:31. > :01:34.One of the most surprising results is in Mansfield which has gone blue
:01:35. > :01:38.North East Derbyshire has also seen a Conservative gain while Labour has
:01:39. > :01:42.Only a few changes to to the East Midlands but fundamental
:01:43. > :01:53.We'll look in detail at some of those results in a moment.
:01:54. > :01:55.First though, some brief impressions of the night.
:01:56. > :02:07.Nicky Morgan, not much of a Conservative campaign was it?
:02:08. > :02:14.It was definitely a campaign. They will have to be a postmortem about
:02:15. > :02:21.what happened, why we didn't get the result as a party that we set out to
:02:22. > :02:26.achieve. The Prime Minister set out to achieve her mandate and a larger
:02:27. > :02:28.majority in order to get the necessary legislation through
:02:29. > :02:34.Parliament. That is not where we have ended up will stop people did
:02:35. > :02:41.have a chance to see more of her and they appear not to have liked what
:02:42. > :02:49.they saw. On the doorsteps, she was a tremendous asset. From my
:02:50. > :02:50.conversations and like all other candidates and successful MPs, I
:02:51. > :03:00.have spent talking to people and many felt that
:03:01. > :03:02.she was going to offer the clarity and certainty and the Brexit
:03:03. > :03:07.negotiations. Alan Simpson and Mark Stuart
:03:08. > :03:27.are voters now simply hooked Dot-macro Labour won very well,
:03:28. > :03:31.didn't they? At a personal level, and Labour at an organisational
:03:32. > :03:35.level, Labour have come out of this remarkably. The only party to come
:03:36. > :03:40.out of this with a sense of dignity and connecting to a set of political
:03:41. > :03:46.proposals that weren't otherwise on the agenda and that's what the
:03:47. > :03:55.public went for. Mark Stuart, again, a surprise. We always seem to be
:03:56. > :04:02.surprised? Yes, everything I ever learned is no longer true. One of
:04:03. > :04:06.the themes of this election is that younger people... This was the
:04:07. > :04:11.revenge of the young people who are really annoyed about Brexit and
:04:12. > :04:17.registered to vote and came out. The key was turnout, wasn't it? Yes, the
:04:18. > :04:21.turnout was up 5% in some seats and that was mainly the 18 to
:04:22. > :04:23.21-year-olds. Let's see what some
:04:24. > :04:38.of the region's voters made of it. Disaster. Totally and utterly
:04:39. > :04:44.surprised. It was not what I expected at all. What you make of
:04:45. > :04:51.that prospect? Another election? Please, not. A hung parliament now
:04:52. > :04:57.so what you think of that? I thought it was supposed to be a landslide,
:04:58. > :05:04.wasn't it? But it's a hung parliament so the Conservatives will
:05:05. > :05:08.not have the majority. Crazy. We've had a local election and this
:05:09. > :05:17.election which wasn't even necessary. The cost of this, it's
:05:18. > :05:22.just ridiculous. Very happy that there will be changed. There is not
:05:23. > :05:25.just one party's agenda. It's good. I think it was a waste of
:05:26. > :05:27.everybody's time. Let's just have a closer look
:05:28. > :05:30.at the most dramatic change of the night -
:05:31. > :05:33.the night that Mansfield went Tory. So, when that happens you know
:05:34. > :05:36.something's going on. Sir Alan Meale was one
:05:37. > :05:50.of the longest serving Labour MPs 27-year-old Conservative Ben Bradley
:05:51. > :05:57.has swooped in taken the seat This was the scene as
:05:58. > :06:00.the results came in. Mansfield was a constituency
:06:01. > :06:03.which in 2015 saw one of the biggest Those all but disappeared
:06:04. > :06:06.and have been hoovered up Sir Alan Meale losing the seat
:06:07. > :06:24.he's held since 1987. Labour got nearly 22,000, one of the
:06:25. > :06:32.largest votes we've ever had and almost enough to win. Always was in
:06:33. > :06:38.my time. A campaign being fixed around Brexit on a national basis
:06:39. > :06:40.lays better in the is big constituencies that voted for Leave.
:06:41. > :06:43.People are ready for a change. And a change came, too,
:06:44. > :06:45.in North East Derbyshire, They've held the seat
:06:46. > :06:48.since the 1930s but this was the moment milkman's son
:06:49. > :06:50.Lee Rowley delivered The 36-year-old saw a 12% increase
:06:51. > :07:01.in the Conservative vote to beat Labour's Natascha Engel
:07:02. > :07:14.a Deputy Speaker in the Commons. For the first time in 87 years, a
:07:15. > :07:17.conservative member of Parliament has been elected here and I am
:07:18. > :07:24.hugely honoured and privileged to be able to serve as your member of
:07:25. > :07:29.Parliament. The number of Tory votes in our labour areas and Labour votes
:07:30. > :07:30.in not Tory areas was confusing. That's a pattern that has come out
:07:31. > :07:34.in the country as well. When Mansfield goes Conservative,
:07:35. > :07:37.you know politics has entered Mark Stuart, how did a place
:07:38. > :07:50.like Mansfield go Tory? Partly Brexit and most of those
:07:51. > :07:54.voters looked to have gone to the Conservatives and Ben Bradley is a
:07:55. > :08:00.cracking campaigner and knows about canvassing. The main other reason is
:08:01. > :08:04.demographics, people who move away from their parents and commute to
:08:05. > :08:10.work ten to vote Conservative and that's what's happened. The seat has
:08:11. > :08:11.changed stop it used to be a mining seat but it's now eight commuting
:08:12. > :08:14.seat. Alan Simpson, what do you think
:08:15. > :08:16.of the idea that in places like Mansfield that clamoured
:08:17. > :08:19.for Brexit, the Conservatives might have done pretty well
:08:20. > :08:21.with the working class because they're seen
:08:22. > :08:33.as tougher on Europe? One of the patterns for me is that
:08:34. > :08:38.if you look at the performance of Labour candidates who were closer to
:08:39. > :08:41.Jeremy Corbyn's view of political change, they have tended to do much
:08:42. > :08:49.better than those who kept their distance. At the start, lots of
:08:50. > :08:53.people were making no mention of Jeremy or campaigning around the
:08:54. > :08:59.country, it was very much on the personal reputation. But, actually,
:09:00. > :09:04.those who were closer to the social momentum that seems to be ringing
:09:05. > :09:09.across the country tended to do much better and Mansfield and North East
:09:10. > :09:15.Derbyshire just didn't. That would be an important factor for me. It's
:09:16. > :09:20.not just about voting. We are at a moment in time where young people
:09:21. > :09:28.who have played a huge part in this election actually want a say in
:09:29. > :09:34.shaping what follows. Nicky Morgan, where does this leave us in times of
:09:35. > :09:37.the Brexit negotiations? I heard someone say will be bullies seen as
:09:38. > :09:48.a laughing stock going back to Europe to negotiate. It creates
:09:49. > :09:53.great uncertainty. I do think it's very important and I'm sure this
:09:54. > :09:58.will be uppermost in the Prime Minister's mind in Downing Street at
:09:59. > :10:03.the moment with her advisers... How do we make sure we have a strong
:10:04. > :10:10.team to start the negotiations. But do we need to delay the start of the
:10:11. > :10:15.negotiations now? I would hope not. Frankly, it's almost a year says the
:10:16. > :10:19.referendum and I say this is a remain -- I say this as a Remain
:10:20. > :10:27.campaigner and it came across loud and clear on the doorsteps. We had
:10:28. > :10:31.to start. In David Davis we have a Brexit secretary who is across the
:10:32. > :10:33.briefing can get on with it whilst the Prime Minister is discussing
:10:34. > :10:38.with other parties and putting a coalition together. We are still
:10:39. > :10:41.waiting to hear from the Prime Minister what she intends to do.
:10:42. > :10:43.More on trend as far as this election goes was Derby North.
:10:44. > :10:45.The Conservatives snatched it in 2015.
:10:46. > :10:51.Yes, Amanda Solloway won in 2015 with a majority of just 41 over
:10:52. > :10:59.He saw a 7% increase in share to take his majority to over 2,000.
:11:00. > :11:12.Christopher Williamson, Labour Party, 23,000...
:11:13. > :11:15.So, a jubilant Chris Williamson taking back that seat who says it's
:11:16. > :11:27.The agenda of hope Labour put forward and the manifesto of not the
:11:28. > :11:32.many for the few -- not the few, is the best Labour has produced since
:11:33. > :11:37.1945 and it has reached out and inspired people in a way I never
:11:38. > :11:42.thought was possible. If you look, and I haven't done the calculations,
:11:43. > :11:46.but I got 5000 more than last time. It's an increased labour and the
:11:47. > :11:47.Conservatives and we didn't have the Green vote which would have made the
:11:48. > :11:48.difference. Well, one of the most tightly
:11:49. > :11:51.contested seats was in Ashfield. A tense night for Labour's Gloria de
:11:52. > :11:54.Piero who did manage to win the seat, but with a much reduced
:11:55. > :11:59.majority of just 441. There were two recounts to get
:12:00. > :12:02.here there before the result was finally announced
:12:03. > :12:04.at 5.45 this morning. She's previously enjoyed a majority
:12:05. > :12:06.of nearly 9,000 so a much There were 10 ,000 votes for UKIP
:12:07. > :12:13.in 2015 and all of those went And that seem to be the case
:12:14. > :12:19.in Mansfield, to,o where as we know Here's one of their candidates last
:12:20. > :12:41.night, in Nottingham East. I'm disappointed. People have jumped
:12:42. > :12:48.back into their political trenches. I think it's a shame. I would have
:12:49. > :12:51.liked to see more support for us. Sadly we haven't. The good news is
:12:52. > :12:54.more people came out to vote. Nicky Morgan, is the vacuum created
:12:55. > :12:58.by the disappearance of Ukip the thing that's creating
:12:59. > :13:12.these political rip-tides? Yes. Looking at the results across
:13:13. > :13:18.the country and we are playing catch up with that, in places the Ukip
:13:19. > :13:24.vote almost split in heart and went to the Conservatives and the Labour
:13:25. > :13:27.candidates. It does seem we have a return to 2-party politics just when
:13:28. > :13:37.everyone was saying it was the end of it. So that is something that was
:13:38. > :13:42.unexpected. Alan Simpson, some of the Ukip supporters came back to
:13:43. > :13:48.Labour. Do you welcome them? I am really pleased Chris Williamson got
:13:49. > :13:54.elected because it he did a lot of work. He's right. Given the choice,
:13:55. > :13:59.large numbers of people went for the politics of hope and they were
:14:00. > :14:04.offered a specific set of policy proposals around which to pin that
:14:05. > :14:10.hope. So there is a real lesson for Labour in that, that, faced with a
:14:11. > :14:15.choice in uncertain times, you can either see a retrenchment and eight
:14:16. > :14:20.shift of Ukip type support or, if you want to move to the left, you
:14:21. > :14:22.have to offer specific policies that give them ground to move.
:14:23. > :14:24.Let's bring in Mark Stuart on this - where do you think,
:14:25. > :14:28.here in the Midlands, most of those Ukip votes went?
:14:29. > :14:39.And the centre ground? The Tony Blair centre ground is dead. This is
:14:40. > :14:45.the same across Europe. The evidence from this election is that there is
:14:46. > :14:46.a place for an anti-austerity, leftist party and that is what has
:14:47. > :14:51.changed. OK. Thank you. OK, we can now go live to one
:14:52. > :14:54.of Jeremy Corbyn's shadow cabinet - the shadow health Secretary John
:14:55. > :14:55.Ashworth. Good morning and congratulations
:14:56. > :15:11.on your re-election. The Labour Party offered hope and
:15:12. > :15:15.hard work. I certainly found in my Leicester constituency where I have
:15:16. > :15:19.the good fortune to be returned with a substantial increase, I found
:15:20. > :15:24.people telling me that they weren't switching with their views Yaz to
:15:25. > :15:29.Jeremy Corbyn's Labour Party over policies like the abolition of
:15:30. > :15:34.tuition fees and the investment in the NHS, the investment into
:15:35. > :15:37.childcare. I also find quite a lot of conservative voters telling me
:15:38. > :15:41.they couldn't vote for the Tories this time because of the dementia
:15:42. > :15:45.tax and plans to snatch away the winter view all payment. Many of
:15:46. > :15:51.those transferred from conservative to me. I can't speak for the rest of
:15:52. > :15:59.the East Midlands but I found that in my constituency. Can I ask you
:16:00. > :16:04.about, what would be positioned be within the Parliamentary Labour
:16:05. > :16:08.Party now? You stuck with Jeremy Corbyn and lots of prominent Labour
:16:09. > :16:10.MPs could not support him. Will that not cause difficulties in the future
:16:11. > :16:20.for the Labour Party? I don't think so. We have seen what
:16:21. > :16:25.we can achieve when we are a united force. The real party coming out of
:16:26. > :16:31.this election with problems as the Conservative Party. You will have
:16:32. > :16:38.seen Anna Soubry sticking the boot in and Theresa May's position is
:16:39. > :16:46.untenable. She gave the electorate an opportunity to back her but we
:16:47. > :16:50.are getting at chaos. I don't think she can carry on. I know in her
:16:51. > :16:56.heart Nicky Morgan agrees with that as well. Politically, I think we
:16:57. > :16:59.will very soon see we have an unstable government which cannot
:17:00. > :17:01.sustain itself and we will probably have a new Tory leader soon. Thank
:17:02. > :17:04.you for joining us. Well, they say it's lonely
:17:05. > :17:06.at the top and never more Nobody can deny now that
:17:07. > :17:11.Theresa May's gamble failed to pay off and in fact it's left
:17:12. > :17:13.the country facing huge uncertainty. The Prime Minister put a brave face
:17:14. > :17:17.on it as she went to her own count last night but appeared to concede
:17:18. > :17:19.in her speech that The Prime Minister's
:17:20. > :17:40.fate remains to be seen. She now has two obviously consider
:17:41. > :17:44.her position. We need to see where we are.
:17:45. > :17:51.But Tories did put her mark on this campaign and she takes
:17:52. > :17:55.responsibility, as I know she will, for the running of this campaign. I
:17:56. > :18:04.think she will still be Prime Minister next week, yes. Despite
:18:05. > :18:06.what happened this morning? We will see what happens but I think she
:18:07. > :18:11.will still be Prime Minister next week. He seems reasonably sanguine.
:18:12. > :18:14.In fact, Anna Soubry appeared to go a bit further
:18:15. > :18:19.on BBC Radio Nottingham this morning.
:18:20. > :18:27.It is up to her but she put her mark on it so she must decide what she
:18:28. > :18:36.does next. What do you feel? I would go. Without question? You have two
:18:37. > :18:37.because you said, this is about me and a man date, about strengthening
:18:38. > :18:39.my hand. Should the Prime Minister resign
:18:40. > :18:53.after a disastrous gamble Perhaps politically you haven't seen
:18:54. > :18:59.eye to eye with her anyway. I do think she should resign. There are
:19:00. > :19:03.two things and one is government. We have talked about the Brexit
:19:04. > :19:07.negotiations and Getty ready for them. The Prime Minister is entitled
:19:08. > :19:13.to be given the chance to form a government as the largest party.
:19:14. > :19:18.There is potential there with the DUP. Also the Conservative Party and
:19:19. > :19:22.the campaign and the postmortem to look at all of that. We shouldn't
:19:23. > :19:28.forget, and sometimes the campaign was too focused on one person, but
:19:29. > :19:32.there is a team around the Prime Minister, the Cabinet, and they are
:19:33. > :19:38.capable of getting on with their jobs and supporting her in making
:19:39. > :19:44.sure we have a government. Strength and said -- stability. I'm sure
:19:45. > :19:47.that's what the Conservative Party would like but you haven't got it.
:19:48. > :19:52.If there was a leadership contest would you be tempted to throw your
:19:53. > :19:56.act in the ring? I went through that last summer and, I had to say,
:19:57. > :20:02.someone said it's lonely at the top and it's an extremely difficult job
:20:03. > :20:06.made harder by the results. So, I think it's probably for others. I
:20:07. > :20:09.have plenty of things to be getting on with in Loughborough. Thank you.
:20:10. > :20:12.A very interesting battle in Gedling - Vernon Coaker held
:20:13. > :20:16.Yes, Vernon Coaker increased his majority for Labour in Gedling
:20:17. > :20:20.He was one of those to resign from Jeremy Corbyn's shadow cabinet
:20:21. > :20:25.But he told us that Labour had gained from the way
:20:26. > :20:41.It allowed us to highlight that we were opposed, whilst we accepted the
:20:42. > :20:45.result, we were opposed to a hard Brexit and put forward an
:20:46. > :20:49.alternative of jobs and investment in schools and hospitals. That
:20:50. > :20:52.resonated with local people who wanted a change. Therefore, they
:20:53. > :21:01.voted for me as the local person who could bring that about.
:21:02. > :21:12.Earlier we heard from John Ashworth. Like the rest of the county there
:21:13. > :21:14.were no changes in Leicester with its three Labour MPs returned with
:21:15. > :21:30.increased majorities. APPLAUSE
:21:31. > :21:34.And despite a police investigation, Keith as achieved a record majority.
:21:35. > :21:39.This is the largest number of votes I have ever been given by the people
:21:40. > :21:47.of Leicester East and the largest majority in 30 years. In three days'
:21:48. > :21:51.time I celebrate my 30th anniversary in Parliament so I am very humble
:21:52. > :21:57.and honoured. We've had a huge increase in the less -- Labour vote
:21:58. > :22:00.here. The Conservatives thought they would take Leicester West and the
:22:01. > :22:06.city of Leicester but they have been sent packing. Theresa May's Verity
:22:07. > :22:11.is shot and I don't think her position as leader of the Tory party
:22:12. > :22:16.and Prime Minister is tenable. Liz Kendall defended the smallest
:22:17. > :22:20.majority in Leicester West but the former Labour leadership contender
:22:21. > :22:26.saw it increased by almost 4000 votes. Nottingham's three seats all
:22:27. > :22:31.remained firmly held by Labour. And with a comfortable increased share
:22:32. > :22:35.of the vote. The Conservatives had hopes of snatching Nottingham South
:22:36. > :22:41.but were comprehensively seen. I Morgan doubled my majority. I
:22:42. > :22:47.haven't worked out the percentages but 30,000 votes feels like quite a
:22:48. > :22:52.big show of... I don't know... Something good. This was a night for
:22:53. > :22:59.cheers the labour and tears for Tories. Friends... Amanda Solloway
:23:00. > :23:03.has been a friend for two years and before that when she was a
:23:04. > :23:08.candidate. I have a lot of friends in parliament and don't like losing
:23:09. > :23:12.them. There is a personal side of politics that you sometimes forget.
:23:13. > :23:18.I just want to briefly ask all three of you... How, Nicky Morgan, would
:23:19. > :23:26.you describe what happened last night from a conservative point of
:23:27. > :23:30.view? It has been... It was stunning and a shock. It has been a bit of a
:23:31. > :23:34.political earthquake. It shows that the days of being able to know
:23:35. > :23:40.what's going to happen... We had unexpected results in all sorts of
:23:41. > :23:48.contests over the last two years. Someone described it as a sort of
:23:49. > :23:53."None of the above" result. Alan Simpson? I think it will be
:23:54. > :23:57.remembered as the night of Theresa May's car crash. It was a vanity
:23:58. > :24:01.election in which the more the public saw the less they liked and
:24:02. > :24:07.the consequences will ripple through the entirety of this Parliament.
:24:08. > :24:12.Mark Stuart, gave studied many elections. Has this one been as
:24:13. > :24:16.weird as it feels to me? Alan is right that it is a disastrous night
:24:17. > :24:23.for the Conservative Party. Europe has a custom -- capacity to turn in
:24:24. > :24:28.on themselves on afraid. They will fight over what type of Brexit...
:24:29. > :24:34.Theresa May Weatherby -- big failure as she is Gordon Brown without the
:24:35. > :24:40.joie de vivre. Thanks to all of you for taking part. Sorry we haven't
:24:41. > :24:46.been able to discuss every seat but all the results are available on the
:24:47. > :24:50.BBC Election 27 website and you can see the whole picture or search for
:24:51. > :24:52.your own constituency. That is it from us for now. Our next bulletin
:24:53. > :25:00.is at 1:30 p.m.. Good morning. at a crucial moment in the Brexit
:25:01. > :25:02.negotiations, I think duty calls and she will stay. Viewers are joining
:25:03. > :25:04.us from around the