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Their share of the vote was down, reflecting the swing | :00:00. | :00:19. | |
Good morning and welcome to an East Midlands Today Election Special. | :00:20. | :00:22. | |
We'll have the key results for you, and analysis of how this momentous | :00:23. | :00:25. | |
Our guests will deliver the political reaction and expert | :00:26. | :00:29. | |
insight into what happened and what it means. | :00:30. | :00:36. | |
First, from our Leicester studio, welcome to Nicky Morgan, | :00:37. | :00:39. | |
the returning Conservative MP for Loughborough - | :00:40. | :00:44. | |
and congratulations to you this morning on being re-elected. | :00:45. | :00:46. | |
And in the studio here, we have Mark Stuart, | :00:47. | :00:48. | |
assistant professor in politics from the University of Nottingham | :00:49. | :00:51. | |
and also Alan Simpson, formerly a Labour MP in Nottingham | :00:52. | :00:53. | |
and now an economic advisor to Jeremy Corbyn. | :00:54. | :00:55. | |
And keeping us up to date with the results, Sarah Teale. | :00:56. | :01:08. | |
First of all, Sarah, give us the big picture. | :01:09. | :01:10. | |
Well let's take a look at what's changed from 2015. | :01:11. | :01:19. | |
This is the map of how it looked after the last general election. | :01:20. | :01:22. | |
Let's mix through now to the picture we have this morning - | :01:23. | :01:25. | |
Some very interesting and intense battles fought out overnight | :01:26. | :01:30. | |
One of the most surprising results is in Mansfield which has gone blue | :01:31. | :01:34. | |
North East Derbyshire has also seen a Conservative gain while Labour has | :01:35. | :01:38. | |
Only a few changes to to the East Midlands but fundamental | :01:39. | :01:42. | |
We'll look in detail at some of those results in a moment. | :01:43. | :01:53. | |
First though, some brief impressions of the night. | :01:54. | :01:55. | |
Nicky Morgan, not much of a Conservative campaign was it? | :01:56. | :02:07. | |
It was definitely a campaign. They will have to be a postmortem about | :02:08. | :02:14. | |
what happened, why we didn't get the result as a party that we set out to | :02:15. | :02:21. | |
achieve. The Prime Minister set out to achieve her mandate and a larger | :02:22. | :02:26. | |
majority in order to get the necessary legislation through | :02:27. | :02:28. | |
Parliament. That is not where we have ended up will stop people did | :02:29. | :02:34. | |
have a chance to see more of her and they appear not to have liked what | :02:35. | :02:41. | |
they saw. On the doorsteps, she was a tremendous asset. From my | :02:42. | :02:49. | |
conversations and like all other candidates and successful MPs, I | :02:50. | :02:50. | |
have spent talking to people and many felt that | :02:51. | :03:00. | |
she was going to offer the clarity and certainty and the Brexit | :03:01. | :03:02. | |
negotiations. Alan Simpson and Mark Stuart | :03:03. | :03:07. | |
are voters now simply hooked Dot-macro Labour won very well, | :03:08. | :03:27. | |
didn't they? At a personal level, and Labour at an organisational | :03:28. | :03:31. | |
level, Labour have come out of this remarkably. The only party to come | :03:32. | :03:35. | |
out of this with a sense of dignity and connecting to a set of political | :03:36. | :03:40. | |
proposals that weren't otherwise on the agenda and that's what the | :03:41. | :03:46. | |
public went for. Mark Stuart, again, a surprise. We always seem to be | :03:47. | :03:55. | |
surprised? Yes, everything I ever learned is no longer true. One of | :03:56. | :04:02. | |
the themes of this election is that younger people... This was the | :04:03. | :04:06. | |
revenge of the young people who are really annoyed about Brexit and | :04:07. | :04:11. | |
registered to vote and came out. The key was turnout, wasn't it? Yes, the | :04:12. | :04:17. | |
turnout was up 5% in some seats and that was mainly the 18 to | :04:18. | :04:21. | |
21-year-olds. Let's see what some | :04:22. | :04:23. | |
of the region's voters made of it. Disaster. Totally and utterly | :04:24. | :04:38. | |
surprised. It was not what I expected at all. What you make of | :04:39. | :04:44. | |
that prospect? Another election? Please, not. A hung parliament now | :04:45. | :04:51. | |
so what you think of that? I thought it was supposed to be a landslide, | :04:52. | :04:57. | |
wasn't it? But it's a hung parliament so the Conservatives will | :04:58. | :05:04. | |
not have the majority. Crazy. We've had a local election and this | :05:05. | :05:08. | |
election which wasn't even necessary. The cost of this, it's | :05:09. | :05:17. | |
just ridiculous. Very happy that there will be changed. There is not | :05:18. | :05:22. | |
just one party's agenda. It's good. I think it was a waste of | :05:23. | :05:25. | |
everybody's time. Let's just have a closer look | :05:26. | :05:27. | |
at the most dramatic change of the night - | :05:28. | :05:30. | |
the night that Mansfield went Tory. So, when that happens you know | :05:31. | :05:33. | |
something's going on. Sir Alan Meale was one | :05:34. | :05:36. | |
of the longest serving Labour MPs 27-year-old Conservative Ben Bradley | :05:37. | :05:50. | |
has swooped in taken the seat This was the scene as | :05:51. | :05:57. | |
the results came in. Mansfield was a constituency | :05:58. | :06:00. | |
which in 2015 saw one of the biggest Those all but disappeared | :06:01. | :06:03. | |
and have been hoovered up Sir Alan Meale losing the seat | :06:04. | :06:06. | |
he's held since 1987. Labour got nearly 22,000, one of the | :06:07. | :06:24. | |
largest votes we've ever had and almost enough to win. Always was in | :06:25. | :06:32. | |
my time. A campaign being fixed around Brexit on a national basis | :06:33. | :06:38. | |
lays better in the is big constituencies that voted for Leave. | :06:39. | :06:40. | |
People are ready for a change. And a change came, too, | :06:41. | :06:43. | |
in North East Derbyshire, They've held the seat | :06:44. | :06:45. | |
since the 1930s but this was the moment milkman's son | :06:46. | :06:48. | |
Lee Rowley delivered The 36-year-old saw a 12% increase | :06:49. | :06:50. | |
in the Conservative vote to beat Labour's Natascha Engel | :06:51. | :07:01. | |
a Deputy Speaker in the Commons. For the first time in 87 years, a | :07:02. | :07:14. | |
conservative member of Parliament has been elected here and I am | :07:15. | :07:17. | |
hugely honoured and privileged to be able to serve as your member of | :07:18. | :07:24. | |
Parliament. The number of Tory votes in our labour areas and Labour votes | :07:25. | :07:29. | |
in not Tory areas was confusing. That's a pattern that has come out | :07:30. | :07:30. | |
in the country as well. When Mansfield goes Conservative, | :07:31. | :07:34. | |
you know politics has entered Mark Stuart, how did a place | :07:35. | :07:37. | |
like Mansfield go Tory? Partly Brexit and most of those | :07:38. | :07:50. | |
voters looked to have gone to the Conservatives and Ben Bradley is a | :07:51. | :07:54. | |
cracking campaigner and knows about canvassing. The main other reason is | :07:55. | :08:00. | |
demographics, people who move away from their parents and commute to | :08:01. | :08:04. | |
work ten to vote Conservative and that's what's happened. The seat has | :08:05. | :08:10. | |
changed stop it used to be a mining seat but it's now eight commuting | :08:11. | :08:11. | |
seat. Alan Simpson, what do you think | :08:12. | :08:14. | |
of the idea that in places like Mansfield that clamoured | :08:15. | :08:16. | |
for Brexit, the Conservatives might have done pretty well | :08:17. | :08:19. | |
with the working class because they're seen | :08:20. | :08:21. | |
as tougher on Europe? One of the patterns for me is that | :08:22. | :08:33. | |
if you look at the performance of Labour candidates who were closer to | :08:34. | :08:38. | |
Jeremy Corbyn's view of political change, they have tended to do much | :08:39. | :08:41. | |
better than those who kept their distance. At the start, lots of | :08:42. | :08:49. | |
people were making no mention of Jeremy or campaigning around the | :08:50. | :08:53. | |
country, it was very much on the personal reputation. But, actually, | :08:54. | :08:59. | |
those who were closer to the social momentum that seems to be ringing | :09:00. | :09:04. | |
across the country tended to do much better and Mansfield and North East | :09:05. | :09:09. | |
Derbyshire just didn't. That would be an important factor for me. It's | :09:10. | :09:15. | |
not just about voting. We are at a moment in time where young people | :09:16. | :09:20. | |
who have played a huge part in this election actually want a say in | :09:21. | :09:28. | |
shaping what follows. Nicky Morgan, where does this leave us in times of | :09:29. | :09:34. | |
the Brexit negotiations? I heard someone say will be bullies seen as | :09:35. | :09:37. | |
a laughing stock going back to Europe to negotiate. It creates | :09:38. | :09:48. | |
great uncertainty. I do think it's very important and I'm sure this | :09:49. | :09:53. | |
will be uppermost in the Prime Minister's mind in Downing Street at | :09:54. | :09:58. | |
the moment with her advisers... How do we make sure we have a strong | :09:59. | :10:03. | |
team to start the negotiations. But do we need to delay the start of the | :10:04. | :10:10. | |
negotiations now? I would hope not. Frankly, it's almost a year says the | :10:11. | :10:15. | |
referendum and I say this is a remain -- I say this as a Remain | :10:16. | :10:19. | |
campaigner and it came across loud and clear on the doorsteps. We had | :10:20. | :10:27. | |
to start. In David Davis we have a Brexit secretary who is across the | :10:28. | :10:31. | |
briefing can get on with it whilst the Prime Minister is discussing | :10:32. | :10:33. | |
with other parties and putting a coalition together. We are still | :10:34. | :10:38. | |
waiting to hear from the Prime Minister what she intends to do. | :10:39. | :10:41. | |
More on trend as far as this election goes was Derby North. | :10:42. | :10:43. | |
The Conservatives snatched it in 2015. | :10:44. | :10:45. | |
Yes, Amanda Solloway won in 2015 with a majority of just 41 over | :10:46. | :10:51. | |
He saw a 7% increase in share to take his majority to over 2,000. | :10:52. | :10:59. | |
Christopher Williamson, Labour Party, 23,000... | :11:00. | :11:12. | |
So, a jubilant Chris Williamson taking back that seat who says it's | :11:13. | :11:15. | |
The agenda of hope Labour put forward and the manifesto of not the | :11:16. | :11:27. | |
many for the few -- not the few, is the best Labour has produced since | :11:28. | :11:32. | |
1945 and it has reached out and inspired people in a way I never | :11:33. | :11:37. | |
thought was possible. If you look, and I haven't done the calculations, | :11:38. | :11:42. | |
but I got 5000 more than last time. It's an increased labour and the | :11:43. | :11:46. | |
Conservatives and we didn't have the Green vote which would have made the | :11:47. | :11:47. | |
difference. Well, one of the most tightly | :11:48. | :11:48. | |
contested seats was in Ashfield. A tense night for Labour's Gloria de | :11:49. | :11:51. | |
Piero who did manage to win the seat, but with a much reduced | :11:52. | :11:54. | |
majority of just 441. There were two recounts to get | :11:55. | :11:59. | |
here there before the result was finally announced | :12:00. | :12:02. | |
at 5.45 this morning. She's previously enjoyed a majority | :12:03. | :12:04. | |
of nearly 9,000 so a much There were 10 ,000 votes for UKIP | :12:05. | :12:06. | |
in 2015 and all of those went And that seem to be the case | :12:07. | :12:13. | |
in Mansfield, to,o where as we know Here's one of their candidates last | :12:14. | :12:19. | |
night, in Nottingham East. I'm disappointed. People have jumped | :12:20. | :12:41. | |
back into their political trenches. I think it's a shame. I would have | :12:42. | :12:48. | |
liked to see more support for us. Sadly we haven't. The good news is | :12:49. | :12:51. | |
more people came out to vote. Nicky Morgan, is the vacuum created | :12:52. | :12:54. | |
by the disappearance of Ukip the thing that's creating | :12:55. | :12:58. | |
these political rip-tides? Yes. Looking at the results across | :12:59. | :13:12. | |
the country and we are playing catch up with that, in places the Ukip | :13:13. | :13:18. | |
vote almost split in heart and went to the Conservatives and the Labour | :13:19. | :13:24. | |
candidates. It does seem we have a return to 2-party politics just when | :13:25. | :13:27. | |
everyone was saying it was the end of it. So that is something that was | :13:28. | :13:37. | |
unexpected. Alan Simpson, some of the Ukip supporters came back to | :13:38. | :13:42. | |
Labour. Do you welcome them? I am really pleased Chris Williamson got | :13:43. | :13:48. | |
elected because it he did a lot of work. He's right. Given the choice, | :13:49. | :13:54. | |
large numbers of people went for the politics of hope and they were | :13:55. | :13:59. | |
offered a specific set of policy proposals around which to pin that | :14:00. | :14:04. | |
hope. So there is a real lesson for Labour in that, that, faced with a | :14:05. | :14:10. | |
choice in uncertain times, you can either see a retrenchment and eight | :14:11. | :14:15. | |
shift of Ukip type support or, if you want to move to the left, you | :14:16. | :14:20. | |
have to offer specific policies that give them ground to move. | :14:21. | :14:22. | |
Let's bring in Mark Stuart on this - where do you think, | :14:23. | :14:24. | |
here in the Midlands, most of those Ukip votes went? | :14:25. | :14:28. | |
And the centre ground? The Tony Blair centre ground is dead. This is | :14:29. | :14:39. | |
the same across Europe. The evidence from this election is that there is | :14:40. | :14:45. | |
a place for an anti-austerity, leftist party and that is what has | :14:46. | :14:46. | |
changed. OK. Thank you. OK, we can now go live to one | :14:47. | :14:51. | |
of Jeremy Corbyn's shadow cabinet - the shadow health Secretary John | :14:52. | :14:54. | |
Ashworth. Good morning and congratulations | :14:55. | :14:55. | |
on your re-election. The Labour Party offered hope and | :14:56. | :15:11. | |
hard work. I certainly found in my Leicester constituency where I have | :15:12. | :15:15. | |
the good fortune to be returned with a substantial increase, I found | :15:16. | :15:19. | |
people telling me that they weren't switching with their views Yaz to | :15:20. | :15:24. | |
Jeremy Corbyn's Labour Party over policies like the abolition of | :15:25. | :15:29. | |
tuition fees and the investment in the NHS, the investment into | :15:30. | :15:34. | |
childcare. I also find quite a lot of conservative voters telling me | :15:35. | :15:37. | |
they couldn't vote for the Tories this time because of the dementia | :15:38. | :15:41. | |
tax and plans to snatch away the winter view all payment. Many of | :15:42. | :15:45. | |
those transferred from conservative to me. I can't speak for the rest of | :15:46. | :15:51. | |
the East Midlands but I found that in my constituency. Can I ask you | :15:52. | :15:59. | |
about, what would be positioned be within the Parliamentary Labour | :16:00. | :16:04. | |
Party now? You stuck with Jeremy Corbyn and lots of prominent Labour | :16:05. | :16:08. | |
MPs could not support him. Will that not cause difficulties in the future | :16:09. | :16:10. | |
for the Labour Party? I don't think so. We have seen what | :16:11. | :16:20. | |
we can achieve when we are a united force. The real party coming out of | :16:21. | :16:25. | |
this election with problems as the Conservative Party. You will have | :16:26. | :16:31. | |
seen Anna Soubry sticking the boot in and Theresa May's position is | :16:32. | :16:38. | |
untenable. She gave the electorate an opportunity to back her but we | :16:39. | :16:46. | |
are getting at chaos. I don't think she can carry on. I know in her | :16:47. | :16:50. | |
heart Nicky Morgan agrees with that as well. Politically, I think we | :16:51. | :16:56. | |
will very soon see we have an unstable government which cannot | :16:57. | :16:59. | |
sustain itself and we will probably have a new Tory leader soon. Thank | :17:00. | :17:01. | |
you for joining us. Well, they say it's lonely | :17:02. | :17:04. | |
at the top and never more Nobody can deny now that | :17:05. | :17:06. | |
Theresa May's gamble failed to pay off and in fact it's left | :17:07. | :17:11. | |
the country facing huge uncertainty. The Prime Minister put a brave face | :17:12. | :17:13. | |
on it as she went to her own count last night but appeared to concede | :17:14. | :17:17. | |
in her speech that The Prime Minister's | :17:18. | :17:19. | |
fate remains to be seen. She now has two obviously consider | :17:20. | :17:40. | |
her position. We need to see where we are. | :17:41. | :17:44. | |
But Tories did put her mark on this campaign and she takes | :17:45. | :17:51. | |
responsibility, as I know she will, for the running of this campaign. I | :17:52. | :17:55. | |
think she will still be Prime Minister next week, yes. Despite | :17:56. | :18:04. | |
what happened this morning? We will see what happens but I think she | :18:05. | :18:06. | |
will still be Prime Minister next week. He seems reasonably sanguine. | :18:07. | :18:11. | |
In fact, Anna Soubry appeared to go a bit further | :18:12. | :18:14. | |
on BBC Radio Nottingham this morning. | :18:15. | :18:19. | |
It is up to her but she put her mark on it so she must decide what she | :18:20. | :18:27. | |
does next. What do you feel? I would go. Without question? You have two | :18:28. | :18:36. | |
because you said, this is about me and a man date, about strengthening | :18:37. | :18:37. | |
my hand. Should the Prime Minister resign | :18:38. | :18:39. | |
after a disastrous gamble Perhaps politically you haven't seen | :18:40. | :18:53. | |
eye to eye with her anyway. I do think she should resign. There are | :18:54. | :18:59. | |
two things and one is government. We have talked about the Brexit | :19:00. | :19:03. | |
negotiations and Getty ready for them. The Prime Minister is entitled | :19:04. | :19:07. | |
to be given the chance to form a government as the largest party. | :19:08. | :19:13. | |
There is potential there with the DUP. Also the Conservative Party and | :19:14. | :19:18. | |
the campaign and the postmortem to look at all of that. We shouldn't | :19:19. | :19:22. | |
forget, and sometimes the campaign was too focused on one person, but | :19:23. | :19:28. | |
there is a team around the Prime Minister, the Cabinet, and they are | :19:29. | :19:32. | |
capable of getting on with their jobs and supporting her in making | :19:33. | :19:38. | |
sure we have a government. Strength and said -- stability. I'm sure | :19:39. | :19:44. | |
that's what the Conservative Party would like but you haven't got it. | :19:45. | :19:47. | |
If there was a leadership contest would you be tempted to throw your | :19:48. | :19:52. | |
act in the ring? I went through that last summer and, I had to say, | :19:53. | :19:56. | |
someone said it's lonely at the top and it's an extremely difficult job | :19:57. | :20:02. | |
made harder by the results. So, I think it's probably for others. I | :20:03. | :20:06. | |
have plenty of things to be getting on with in Loughborough. Thank you. | :20:07. | :20:09. | |
A very interesting battle in Gedling - Vernon Coaker held | :20:10. | :20:12. | |
Yes, Vernon Coaker increased his majority for Labour in Gedling | :20:13. | :20:16. | |
He was one of those to resign from Jeremy Corbyn's shadow cabinet | :20:17. | :20:20. | |
But he told us that Labour had gained from the way | :20:21. | :20:25. | |
It allowed us to highlight that we were opposed, whilst we accepted the | :20:26. | :20:41. | |
result, we were opposed to a hard Brexit and put forward an | :20:42. | :20:45. | |
alternative of jobs and investment in schools and hospitals. That | :20:46. | :20:49. | |
resonated with local people who wanted a change. Therefore, they | :20:50. | :20:52. | |
voted for me as the local person who could bring that about. | :20:53. | :21:01. | |
Earlier we heard from John Ashworth. Like the rest of the county there | :21:02. | :21:12. | |
were no changes in Leicester with its three Labour MPs returned with | :21:13. | :21:14. | |
increased majorities. APPLAUSE | :21:15. | :21:30. | |
And despite a police investigation, Keith as achieved a record majority. | :21:31. | :21:34. | |
This is the largest number of votes I have ever been given by the people | :21:35. | :21:39. | |
of Leicester East and the largest majority in 30 years. In three days' | :21:40. | :21:47. | |
time I celebrate my 30th anniversary in Parliament so I am very humble | :21:48. | :21:51. | |
and honoured. We've had a huge increase in the less -- Labour vote | :21:52. | :21:57. | |
here. The Conservatives thought they would take Leicester West and the | :21:58. | :22:00. | |
city of Leicester but they have been sent packing. Theresa May's Verity | :22:01. | :22:06. | |
is shot and I don't think her position as leader of the Tory party | :22:07. | :22:11. | |
and Prime Minister is tenable. Liz Kendall defended the smallest | :22:12. | :22:16. | |
majority in Leicester West but the former Labour leadership contender | :22:17. | :22:20. | |
saw it increased by almost 4000 votes. Nottingham's three seats all | :22:21. | :22:26. | |
remained firmly held by Labour. And with a comfortable increased share | :22:27. | :22:31. | |
of the vote. The Conservatives had hopes of snatching Nottingham South | :22:32. | :22:35. | |
but were comprehensively seen. I Morgan doubled my majority. I | :22:36. | :22:41. | |
haven't worked out the percentages but 30,000 votes feels like quite a | :22:42. | :22:47. | |
big show of... I don't know... Something good. This was a night for | :22:48. | :22:52. | |
cheers the labour and tears for Tories. Friends... Amanda Solloway | :22:53. | :22:59. | |
has been a friend for two years and before that when she was a | :23:00. | :23:03. | |
candidate. I have a lot of friends in parliament and don't like losing | :23:04. | :23:08. | |
them. There is a personal side of politics that you sometimes forget. | :23:09. | :23:12. | |
I just want to briefly ask all three of you... How, Nicky Morgan, would | :23:13. | :23:18. | |
you describe what happened last night from a conservative point of | :23:19. | :23:26. | |
view? It has been... It was stunning and a shock. It has been a bit of a | :23:27. | :23:30. | |
political earthquake. It shows that the days of being able to know | :23:31. | :23:34. | |
what's going to happen... We had unexpected results in all sorts of | :23:35. | :23:40. | |
contests over the last two years. Someone described it as a sort of | :23:41. | :23:48. | |
"None of the above" result. Alan Simpson? I think it will be | :23:49. | :23:53. | |
remembered as the night of Theresa May's car crash. It was a vanity | :23:54. | :23:57. | |
election in which the more the public saw the less they liked and | :23:58. | :24:01. | |
the consequences will ripple through the entirety of this Parliament. | :24:02. | :24:07. | |
Mark Stuart, gave studied many elections. Has this one been as | :24:08. | :24:12. | |
weird as it feels to me? Alan is right that it is a disastrous night | :24:13. | :24:16. | |
for the Conservative Party. Europe has a custom -- capacity to turn in | :24:17. | :24:23. | |
on themselves on afraid. They will fight over what type of Brexit... | :24:24. | :24:28. | |
Theresa May Weatherby -- big failure as she is Gordon Brown without the | :24:29. | :24:34. | |
joie de vivre. Thanks to all of you for taking part. Sorry we haven't | :24:35. | :24:40. | |
been able to discuss every seat but all the results are available on the | :24:41. | :24:46. | |
BBC Election 27 website and you can see the whole picture or search for | :24:47. | :24:50. | |
your own constituency. That is it from us for now. Our next bulletin | :24:51. | :24:52. | |
is at 1:30 p.m.. Good morning. at a crucial moment in the Brexit | :24:53. | :25:00. | |
negotiations, I think duty calls and she will stay. Viewers are joining | :25:01. | :25:02. | |
us from around the | :25:03. | :25:04. |