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Their share of the vote was down, reflecting the swing

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Good morning and welcome to an East Midlands Today Election Special.

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We'll have the key results for you, and analysis of how this momentous

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Our guests will deliver the political reaction and expert

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insight into what happened and what it means.

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First, from our Leicester studio, welcome to Nicky Morgan,

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the returning Conservative MP for Loughborough -

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and congratulations to you this morning on being re-elected.

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And in the studio here, we have Mark Stuart,

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assistant professor in politics from the University of Nottingham

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and also Alan Simpson, formerly a Labour MP in Nottingham

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and now an economic advisor to Jeremy Corbyn.

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And keeping us up to date with the results, Sarah Teale.

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First of all, Sarah, give us the big picture.

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Well let's take a look at what's changed from 2015.

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This is the map of how it looked after the last general election.

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Let's mix through now to the picture we have this morning -

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Some very interesting and intense battles fought out overnight

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One of the most surprising results is in Mansfield which has gone blue

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North East Derbyshire has also seen a Conservative gain while Labour has

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Only a few changes to to the East Midlands but fundamental

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We'll look in detail at some of those results in a moment.

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First though, some brief impressions of the night.

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Nicky Morgan, not much of a Conservative campaign was it?

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It was definitely a campaign. They will have to be a postmortem about

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what happened, why we didn't get the result as a party that we set out to

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achieve. The Prime Minister set out to achieve her mandate and a larger

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majority in order to get the necessary legislation through

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Parliament. That is not where we have ended up will stop people did

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have a chance to see more of her and they appear not to have liked what

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they saw. On the doorsteps, she was a tremendous asset. From my

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conversations and like all other candidates and successful MPs, I

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have spent talking to people and many felt that

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she was going to offer the clarity and certainty and the Brexit

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negotiations. Alan Simpson and Mark Stuart

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are voters now simply hooked Dot-macro Labour won very well,

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didn't they? At a personal level, and Labour at an organisational

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level, Labour have come out of this remarkably. The only party to come

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out of this with a sense of dignity and connecting to a set of political

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proposals that weren't otherwise on the agenda and that's what the

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public went for. Mark Stuart, again, a surprise. We always seem to be

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surprised? Yes, everything I ever learned is no longer true. One of

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the themes of this election is that younger people... This was the

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revenge of the young people who are really annoyed about Brexit and

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registered to vote and came out. The key was turnout, wasn't it? Yes, the

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turnout was up 5% in some seats and that was mainly the 18 to

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21-year-olds. Let's see what some

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of the region's voters made of it. Disaster. Totally and utterly

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surprised. It was not what I expected at all. What you make of

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that prospect? Another election? Please, not. A hung parliament now

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so what you think of that? I thought it was supposed to be a landslide,

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wasn't it? But it's a hung parliament so the Conservatives will

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not have the majority. Crazy. We've had a local election and this

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election which wasn't even necessary. The cost of this, it's

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just ridiculous. Very happy that there will be changed. There is not

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just one party's agenda. It's good. I think it was a waste of

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everybody's time. Let's just have a closer look

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at the most dramatic change of the night -

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the night that Mansfield went Tory. So, when that happens you know

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something's going on. Sir Alan Meale was one

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of the longest serving Labour MPs 27-year-old Conservative Ben Bradley

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has swooped in taken the seat This was the scene as

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the results came in. Mansfield was a constituency

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which in 2015 saw one of the biggest Those all but disappeared

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and have been hoovered up Sir Alan Meale losing the seat

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he's held since 1987. Labour got nearly 22,000, one of the

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largest votes we've ever had and almost enough to win. Always was in

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my time. A campaign being fixed around Brexit on a national basis

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lays better in the is big constituencies that voted for Leave.

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People are ready for a change. And a change came, too,

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in North East Derbyshire, They've held the seat

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since the 1930s but this was the moment milkman's son

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Lee Rowley delivered The 36-year-old saw a 12% increase

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in the Conservative vote to beat Labour's Natascha Engel

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a Deputy Speaker in the Commons. For the first time in 87 years, a

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conservative member of Parliament has been elected here and I am

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hugely honoured and privileged to be able to serve as your member of

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Parliament. The number of Tory votes in our labour areas and Labour votes

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in not Tory areas was confusing. That's a pattern that has come out

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in the country as well. When Mansfield goes Conservative,

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you know politics has entered Mark Stuart, how did a place

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like Mansfield go Tory? Partly Brexit and most of those

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voters looked to have gone to the Conservatives and Ben Bradley is a

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cracking campaigner and knows about canvassing. The main other reason is

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demographics, people who move away from their parents and commute to

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work ten to vote Conservative and that's what's happened. The seat has

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changed stop it used to be a mining seat but it's now eight commuting

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seat. Alan Simpson, what do you think

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of the idea that in places like Mansfield that clamoured

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for Brexit, the Conservatives might have done pretty well

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with the working class because they're seen

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as tougher on Europe? One of the patterns for me is that

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if you look at the performance of Labour candidates who were closer to

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Jeremy Corbyn's view of political change, they have tended to do much

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better than those who kept their distance. At the start, lots of

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people were making no mention of Jeremy or campaigning around the

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country, it was very much on the personal reputation. But, actually,

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those who were closer to the social momentum that seems to be ringing

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across the country tended to do much better and Mansfield and North East

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Derbyshire just didn't. That would be an important factor for me. It's

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not just about voting. We are at a moment in time where young people

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who have played a huge part in this election actually want a say in

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shaping what follows. Nicky Morgan, where does this leave us in times of

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the Brexit negotiations? I heard someone say will be bullies seen as

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a laughing stock going back to Europe to negotiate. It creates

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great uncertainty. I do think it's very important and I'm sure this

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will be uppermost in the Prime Minister's mind in Downing Street at

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the moment with her advisers... How do we make sure we have a strong

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team to start the negotiations. But do we need to delay the start of the

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negotiations now? I would hope not. Frankly, it's almost a year says the

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referendum and I say this is a remain -- I say this as a Remain

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campaigner and it came across loud and clear on the doorsteps. We had

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to start. In David Davis we have a Brexit secretary who is across the

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briefing can get on with it whilst the Prime Minister is discussing

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with other parties and putting a coalition together. We are still

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waiting to hear from the Prime Minister what she intends to do.

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More on trend as far as this election goes was Derby North.

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The Conservatives snatched it in 2015.

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Yes, Amanda Solloway won in 2015 with a majority of just 41 over

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He saw a 7% increase in share to take his majority to over 2,000.

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Christopher Williamson, Labour Party, 23,000...

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So, a jubilant Chris Williamson taking back that seat who says it's

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The agenda of hope Labour put forward and the manifesto of not the

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many for the few -- not the few, is the best Labour has produced since

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1945 and it has reached out and inspired people in a way I never

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thought was possible. If you look, and I haven't done the calculations,

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but I got 5000 more than last time. It's an increased labour and the

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Conservatives and we didn't have the Green vote which would have made the

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difference. Well, one of the most tightly

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contested seats was in Ashfield. A tense night for Labour's Gloria de

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Piero who did manage to win the seat, but with a much reduced

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majority of just 441. There were two recounts to get

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here there before the result was finally announced

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at 5.45 this morning. She's previously enjoyed a majority

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of nearly 9,000 so a much There were 10 ,000 votes for UKIP

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in 2015 and all of those went And that seem to be the case

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in Mansfield, to,o where as we know Here's one of their candidates last

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night, in Nottingham East. I'm disappointed. People have jumped

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back into their political trenches. I think it's a shame. I would have

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liked to see more support for us. Sadly we haven't. The good news is

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more people came out to vote. Nicky Morgan, is the vacuum created

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by the disappearance of Ukip the thing that's creating

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these political rip-tides? Yes. Looking at the results across

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the country and we are playing catch up with that, in places the Ukip

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vote almost split in heart and went to the Conservatives and the Labour

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candidates. It does seem we have a return to 2-party politics just when

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everyone was saying it was the end of it. So that is something that was

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unexpected. Alan Simpson, some of the Ukip supporters came back to

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Labour. Do you welcome them? I am really pleased Chris Williamson got

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elected because it he did a lot of work. He's right. Given the choice,

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large numbers of people went for the politics of hope and they were

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offered a specific set of policy proposals around which to pin that

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hope. So there is a real lesson for Labour in that, that, faced with a

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choice in uncertain times, you can either see a retrenchment and eight

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shift of Ukip type support or, if you want to move to the left, you

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have to offer specific policies that give them ground to move.

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Let's bring in Mark Stuart on this - where do you think,

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here in the Midlands, most of those Ukip votes went?

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And the centre ground? The Tony Blair centre ground is dead. This is

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the same across Europe. The evidence from this election is that there is

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a place for an anti-austerity, leftist party and that is what has

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changed. OK. Thank you. OK, we can now go live to one

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of Jeremy Corbyn's shadow cabinet - the shadow health Secretary John

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Ashworth. Good morning and congratulations

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on your re-election. The Labour Party offered hope and

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hard work. I certainly found in my Leicester constituency where I have

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the good fortune to be returned with a substantial increase, I found

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people telling me that they weren't switching with their views Yaz to

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Jeremy Corbyn's Labour Party over policies like the abolition of

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tuition fees and the investment in the NHS, the investment into

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childcare. I also find quite a lot of conservative voters telling me

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they couldn't vote for the Tories this time because of the dementia

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tax and plans to snatch away the winter view all payment. Many of

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those transferred from conservative to me. I can't speak for the rest of

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the East Midlands but I found that in my constituency. Can I ask you

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about, what would be positioned be within the Parliamentary Labour

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Party now? You stuck with Jeremy Corbyn and lots of prominent Labour

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MPs could not support him. Will that not cause difficulties in the future

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for the Labour Party? I don't think so. We have seen what

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we can achieve when we are a united force. The real party coming out of

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this election with problems as the Conservative Party. You will have

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seen Anna Soubry sticking the boot in and Theresa May's position is

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untenable. She gave the electorate an opportunity to back her but we

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are getting at chaos. I don't think she can carry on. I know in her

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heart Nicky Morgan agrees with that as well. Politically, I think we

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will very soon see we have an unstable government which cannot

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sustain itself and we will probably have a new Tory leader soon. Thank

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you for joining us. Well, they say it's lonely

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at the top and never more Nobody can deny now that

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Theresa May's gamble failed to pay off and in fact it's left

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the country facing huge uncertainty. The Prime Minister put a brave face

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on it as she went to her own count last night but appeared to concede

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in her speech that The Prime Minister's

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fate remains to be seen. She now has two obviously consider

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her position. We need to see where we are.

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But Tories did put her mark on this campaign and she takes

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responsibility, as I know she will, for the running of this campaign. I

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think she will still be Prime Minister next week, yes. Despite

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what happened this morning? We will see what happens but I think she

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will still be Prime Minister next week. He seems reasonably sanguine.

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In fact, Anna Soubry appeared to go a bit further

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on BBC Radio Nottingham this morning.

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It is up to her but she put her mark on it so she must decide what she

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does next. What do you feel? I would go. Without question? You have two

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because you said, this is about me and a man date, about strengthening

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my hand. Should the Prime Minister resign

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after a disastrous gamble Perhaps politically you haven't seen

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eye to eye with her anyway. I do think she should resign. There are

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two things and one is government. We have talked about the Brexit

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negotiations and Getty ready for them. The Prime Minister is entitled

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to be given the chance to form a government as the largest party.

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There is potential there with the DUP. Also the Conservative Party and

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the campaign and the postmortem to look at all of that. We shouldn't

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forget, and sometimes the campaign was too focused on one person, but

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there is a team around the Prime Minister, the Cabinet, and they are

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capable of getting on with their jobs and supporting her in making

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sure we have a government. Strength and said -- stability. I'm sure

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that's what the Conservative Party would like but you haven't got it.

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If there was a leadership contest would you be tempted to throw your

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act in the ring? I went through that last summer and, I had to say,

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someone said it's lonely at the top and it's an extremely difficult job

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made harder by the results. So, I think it's probably for others. I

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have plenty of things to be getting on with in Loughborough. Thank you.

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A very interesting battle in Gedling - Vernon Coaker held

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Yes, Vernon Coaker increased his majority for Labour in Gedling

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He was one of those to resign from Jeremy Corbyn's shadow cabinet

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But he told us that Labour had gained from the way

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It allowed us to highlight that we were opposed, whilst we accepted the

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result, we were opposed to a hard Brexit and put forward an

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alternative of jobs and investment in schools and hospitals. That

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resonated with local people who wanted a change. Therefore, they

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voted for me as the local person who could bring that about.

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Earlier we heard from John Ashworth. Like the rest of the county there

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were no changes in Leicester with its three Labour MPs returned with

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increased majorities. APPLAUSE

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And despite a police investigation, Keith as achieved a record majority.

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This is the largest number of votes I have ever been given by the people

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of Leicester East and the largest majority in 30 years. In three days'

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time I celebrate my 30th anniversary in Parliament so I am very humble

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and honoured. We've had a huge increase in the less -- Labour vote

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here. The Conservatives thought they would take Leicester West and the

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city of Leicester but they have been sent packing. Theresa May's Verity

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is shot and I don't think her position as leader of the Tory party

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and Prime Minister is tenable. Liz Kendall defended the smallest

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majority in Leicester West but the former Labour leadership contender

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saw it increased by almost 4000 votes. Nottingham's three seats all

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remained firmly held by Labour. And with a comfortable increased share

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of the vote. The Conservatives had hopes of snatching Nottingham South

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but were comprehensively seen. I Morgan doubled my majority. I

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haven't worked out the percentages but 30,000 votes feels like quite a

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big show of... I don't know... Something good. This was a night for

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cheers the labour and tears for Tories. Friends... Amanda Solloway

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has been a friend for two years and before that when she was a

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candidate. I have a lot of friends in parliament and don't like losing

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them. There is a personal side of politics that you sometimes forget.

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I just want to briefly ask all three of you... How, Nicky Morgan, would

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you describe what happened last night from a conservative point of

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view? It has been... It was stunning and a shock. It has been a bit of a

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political earthquake. It shows that the days of being able to know

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what's going to happen... We had unexpected results in all sorts of

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contests over the last two years. Someone described it as a sort of

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"None of the above" result. Alan Simpson? I think it will be

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remembered as the night of Theresa May's car crash. It was a vanity

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election in which the more the public saw the less they liked and

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the consequences will ripple through the entirety of this Parliament.

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Mark Stuart, gave studied many elections. Has this one been as

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weird as it feels to me? Alan is right that it is a disastrous night

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for the Conservative Party. Europe has a custom -- capacity to turn in

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on themselves on afraid. They will fight over what type of Brexit...

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Theresa May Weatherby -- big failure as she is Gordon Brown without the

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joie de vivre. Thanks to all of you for taking part. Sorry we haven't

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been able to discuss every seat but all the results are available on the

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BBC Election 27 website and you can see the whole picture or search for

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your own constituency. That is it from us for now. Our next bulletin

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is at 1:30 p.m.. Good morning. at a crucial moment in the Brexit

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negotiations, I think duty calls and she will stay. Viewers are joining

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