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Good morning. reflecting | :00:00. | :00:17. | |
Welcome to a Look North Election results special here on BBC One. | :00:18. | :00:20. | |
We're also broadcasting live on Facebook. | :00:21. | :00:22. | |
Well - it's been a disappointing night for the Conservatives | :00:23. | :00:25. | |
and a better than expected one for Labour. | :00:26. | :00:28. | |
Two seats have changed hands in the North East and Cumbria. | :00:29. | :00:31. | |
Over the next 25 minutes, we'll bring you the key results | :00:32. | :00:34. | |
And I'll be discussing them with representatives | :00:35. | :00:38. | |
Our coverage, though, begins at Stockton South - | :00:39. | :00:44. | |
home to the biggest shock of the night regionally. | :00:45. | :00:46. | |
The Conservatives had a majority of more than 5,000 and had held | :00:47. | :00:50. | |
But Labour surprised many by taking back control by nearly 900 votes. | :00:51. | :00:57. | |
This was the moment James Wharton's worst fears were realised. | :00:58. | :01:04. | |
He always knew it was going to be close but in | :01:05. | :01:07. | |
A local doctor, he's only been in politics for five weeks. | :01:08. | :01:29. | |
Now he's the new MP for Stockton South. | :01:30. | :01:33. | |
I feel really privileged that people of Stockton | :01:34. | :01:36. | |
South have voted for me to become their Member of Parliament. | :01:37. | :01:39. | |
I intend to be a hard-working Member of Parliament, | :01:40. | :01:43. | |
visible throughout the whole constituency and I want to be a | :01:44. | :01:46. | |
Member of Parliament for every person in Stockton South. | :01:47. | :01:50. | |
James Wharton actually received more votes | :01:51. | :01:52. | |
this time than when he won the seat in 2015. | :01:53. | :01:55. | |
The people of Stockton South have spoken, the people of Teesside have | :01:56. | :02:02. | |
spoken, indeed the country, I don't know how long | :02:03. | :02:05. | |
here again but for this evening, this polling day, Stockton South's | :02:06. | :02:10. | |
Well, the Conservatives managed to overturn a Labour seat | :02:11. | :02:21. | |
in Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland. | :02:22. | :02:23. | |
says his top priority is ensuring Brexit goes through. | :02:24. | :02:35. | |
After a night of mainly grim news for the Conservatives, finally | :02:36. | :02:38. | |
The Tories taking Middlesbrough South at East Cleveland, | :02:39. | :02:44. | |
People here wanted Brexit delivered, they want | :02:45. | :02:51. | |
to see us leave the European Union, get the right deal and I'm | :02:52. | :02:55. | |
delighted they've put their trust in me and I promise I will deliver. | :02:56. | :02:58. | |
The previous Labour MP said he had irreconcilable differences with | :02:59. | :03:02. | |
For Tracy Harvey, who did, losing out was just too much. | :03:03. | :03:11. | |
She left the count without doing interviews. | :03:12. | :03:17. | |
The Lib Dems came third, losing their deposit. | :03:18. | :03:20. | |
We were subject to a squeeze where the two other parties | :03:21. | :03:25. | |
Lots of people had to decide whether to vote | :03:26. | :03:31. | |
On what's undoubtedly been a very difficult | :03:32. | :03:35. | |
night for the Conservative Party nationally, Middlesbrough South and | :03:36. | :03:39. | |
East Cleveland has been a bright spot, taking one of a target seats | :03:40. | :03:44. | |
One of the Conservative's biggest disappointments of the night came | :03:45. | :03:56. | |
as they narrowly missed taking the Labour marginal | :03:57. | :03:58. | |
Labour's Helen Goodman clung on with a reduced majority of 502 | :03:59. | :04:04. | |
after a determined Tory campaign in the constituency that included | :04:05. | :04:08. | |
a visit by foreign secretary Boris Johnson on Tuesday. | :04:09. | :04:12. | |
Labour also successfully defended seats elsewhere in County Durham, | :04:13. | :04:16. | |
as our political correspondent Luke Walton reports. | :04:17. | :04:20. | |
Helen Goodman's seat, a top Conservative target, and when her | :04:21. | :04:26. | |
3,000 Labour majority was slashed to just 500, eventually | :04:27. | :04:31. | |
So did this critic of Jeremy Corbyn acknowledge that he | :04:32. | :04:37. | |
I wouldn't say that Jeremy has been vindicated by | :04:38. | :04:41. | |
I think it was Labour values that ran much more deeply in | :04:42. | :04:45. | |
In neighbouring Sedgefield, a more comfortable 6,000 | :04:46. | :04:50. | |
He too is no fan of Mr Corbyn but said his leader | :04:51. | :04:56. | |
It was about her and about her mandate to | :04:57. | :05:03. | |
I think people knew that there was something not quite right here, | :05:04. | :05:09. | |
considering the same person said on more than one occasion that there | :05:10. | :05:12. | |
Here, like so many places, a dramatic fall in the Ukip vote. | :05:13. | :05:18. | |
But also a failure by the Conservatives to | :05:19. | :05:21. | |
It has not been the night we expected shall I say. | :05:22. | :05:26. | |
I think there will be some rethinking to be done. | :05:27. | :05:29. | |
For Labour, the good news kept coming. | :05:30. | :05:31. | |
City of Durham delivering an increased | :05:32. | :05:34. | |
12,000 majority on a night when they defied so many | :05:35. | :05:37. | |
In Darlington, Labour's Jenny Chapman held onto her seat. | :05:38. | :05:48. | |
It was one of the Conservatives main targets. | :05:49. | :05:51. | |
She beat the Conservative candidate into second place | :05:52. | :05:54. | |
and increased her majority in what turned out to be a very | :05:55. | :05:58. | |
Darlington was a top Conservative target. | :05:59. | :06:05. | |
Even Labour were gloomy about their prospects. | :06:06. | :06:08. | |
Both candidates were left making speeches they hadn't prepared for. | :06:09. | :06:19. | |
I just want to thank everybody who took | :06:20. | :06:28. | |
part in this election, everybody who voted and many | :06:29. | :06:31. | |
I guess the exit poll is proving increasingly true here. | :06:32. | :06:37. | |
We've got such a massive increase in the Conservative vote. | :06:38. | :06:44. | |
Sadly, the Labour vote also went up by a good amount. | :06:45. | :06:49. | |
Neither candidate would be interviewed on a night of | :06:50. | :06:54. | |
For one losing candidate at least, he welcomed the | :06:55. | :06:57. | |
The number of people who talked to me and said they loved Green | :06:58. | :07:01. | |
Party policies but on this occasion they had to vote anything but Tory | :07:02. | :07:05. | |
Five weeks ago when the Conservatives won | :07:06. | :07:09. | |
the Teesvalley race, seats | :07:10. | :07:11. | |
like this one looked there for the taking for the Tories but | :07:12. | :07:14. | |
tonight, Darlington has joined a list of disappointing results for | :07:15. | :07:17. | |
Richard joins us now from Darlington. | :07:18. | :07:25. | |
In Workington in West Cumbria, Labour's Sue Hayman held | :07:26. | :07:28. | |
on to her seat, albeit with a slightly reduced majority. | :07:29. | :07:30. | |
She put her victory down to a number of factors. | :07:31. | :07:34. | |
I've only been the MP for two years but I've worked very hard. | :07:35. | :07:37. | |
People tell me I've achieved plenty in that | :07:38. | :07:39. | |
time, saving the courts for example, fighting for our health services, | :07:40. | :07:42. | |
supporting people through the floods. | :07:43. | :07:45. | |
Also we had a good manifesto and that did come up on the | :07:46. | :07:48. | |
doorstep, people wanted to talk about health and education for | :07:49. | :07:50. | |
Labour held on in Hartlepool, with a new MP being elected | :07:51. | :07:56. | |
to replace Iain Wright who stood down. | :07:57. | :07:57. | |
Mike Hill was elected with an increased majority for Labour. | :07:58. | :08:02. | |
The Conservatives came second, and UKIP's share | :08:03. | :08:05. | |
In the end, a comfortable win in Hartlepool for Labour. | :08:06. | :08:15. | |
A seat in which Ukip and the Conservatives entertained | :08:16. | :08:19. | |
So how did Labour poll nearly 22,000 votes, | :08:20. | :08:24. | |
more than 7,000 ahead of the Conservatives in second place? | :08:25. | :08:29. | |
It was about normal issues so Brexit and Corbyn were not dominant | :08:30. | :08:33. | |
The Conservative candidate, more than 14,000 votes, but didn't | :08:34. | :08:41. | |
Even though he increased the party vote from the | :08:42. | :08:46. | |
You said you would talk to us, why won't you talk to ask us? | :08:47. | :08:52. | |
The Ukip's man in third with over 4,000 votes, about 6,500 | :08:53. | :08:58. | |
For the Lib Dems, it was another lost deposit, | :08:59. | :09:11. | |
Labour's win means Hartlepool hasn't seen Conservative | :09:12. | :09:17. | |
For them, it wasn't meant to be like this. | :09:18. | :09:30. | |
Well, with me now to discuss the political picture | :09:31. | :09:32. | |
here in the North and nationally, Ian Mearns, re-elected MP | :09:33. | :09:35. | |
for Gateshead, Melanie Hurst for UKIP, Guy Opperman, | :09:36. | :09:40. | |
also re-elected for the Conservatives in Hexham | :09:41. | :09:42. | |
and Jonathan Wallace for the Liberal Democrats. | :09:43. | :09:57. | |
There has been no change. Sadly we lost my good friend and colleague | :09:58. | :10:04. | |
James Wharton but gained a seat in Middlesbrough South. We would have | :10:05. | :10:08. | |
loved to one Bishop Auckland but the same stage, I look at the seats and | :10:09. | :10:12. | |
the numbers are pretty much the same. I was delighted with the | :10:13. | :10:18. | |
result in Copeland where Trudy Harrison has again been re-elected | :10:19. | :10:21. | |
after her by-election win but we have not made the games we would | :10:22. | :10:25. | |
have liked to have made, whether it be in Darlington or elsewhere. | :10:26. | :10:30. | |
Turnout was good but no landslide, you didn't scoop up those Labour | :10:31. | :10:35. | |
votes. What was pleasing for me was that allied the way democracy united | :10:36. | :10:39. | |
us. We had been through a turbulent month with two terrorist attacks and | :10:40. | :10:46. | |
it was fantastic to see the voter turnout going up in circumstances | :10:47. | :10:51. | |
where we all join together and got behind democracy and the election | :10:52. | :10:53. | |
went off without a hitch on the day and that is the best thing that has | :10:54. | :10:57. | |
happened before. You may be right there. You have pretty much always | :10:58. | :11:06. | |
been behind Jerry Corbin? Yes and in the second leadership election, I | :11:07. | :11:10. | |
backed Jeromy because the membership had backed him overwhelmingly and I | :11:11. | :11:13. | |
believe in the democracy within our party. Therefore there was no need | :11:14. | :11:19. | |
for that second leadership because he had the backing of the member | :11:20. | :11:23. | |
ship. You must be very delighted? I don't think it is about Jeremy | :11:24. | :11:29. | |
Corbyn but the basket he represents. That has had an overwhelming measure | :11:30. | :11:32. | |
of support from the people of the North East and Cumbria. Our messages | :11:33. | :11:36. | |
on health and education, on jobs for the future. Is it about that or the | :11:37. | :11:42. | |
crumbling Ukip thought which has tumbled to massacre in our region? I | :11:43. | :11:46. | |
wouldn't say the increased majorities we have seen for Labour | :11:47. | :11:51. | |
MPs in the region has a tremendous amount to do with the crumbling Ukip | :11:52. | :11:55. | |
thought. We have seen a burgeoning and support the policy basket but we | :11:56. | :11:59. | |
thought that the increased turnout as well as increased majorities. Tim | :12:00. | :12:07. | |
Farron didn't even visit the site of the region during the campaign, did | :12:08. | :12:12. | |
he write off Berwick? Nil. Disappointed that we didn't when it | :12:13. | :12:18. | |
but the party went through such a hammering two years ago that we are | :12:19. | :12:25. | |
into a recovery stage and had the election being in three years rather | :12:26. | :12:31. | |
than now, we would be looking at taking back Berwick. It was 11.2% | :12:32. | :12:37. | |
down? Yes, two years was too short a time to be able to go through the | :12:38. | :12:41. | |
recovery we needed to do so. That said, nationally, we have increased | :12:42. | :12:49. | |
the number of seats but we have got. By four, nationally. Our share of | :12:50. | :12:52. | |
the vote was down a fraction but we held our ground. Look at the top, | :12:53. | :12:59. | |
Tim Farron barely hung on to his old constituency. Yes and the fact that | :13:00. | :13:06. | |
the Ukip thought was going to the Conservatives there was not helping | :13:07. | :13:10. | |
us but you have to remember that was until 2005, a seat, Conservative | :13:11. | :13:14. | |
seat and we have held it in three elections. Them did well in the | :13:15. | :13:18. | |
circumstances but we held it, we won. Ukip, really, what is the point | :13:19. | :13:26. | |
of Ukip right now? From now on in, Ukip is more relevant than ever | :13:27. | :13:30. | |
because of the results. That is not what the voters see full stop | :13:31. | :13:35. | |
Hartlepool, strong support down there initially, 16.5% down. | :13:36. | :13:40. | |
Sunderland, 14.3, you cannot discount those figures. I appreciate | :13:41. | :13:48. | |
that our board has gone down. They have been tactical voting. We did | :13:49. | :13:52. | |
not expect to do well and we didn't do nearly as well as we had hoped | :13:53. | :13:56. | |
for but the result that we have ended up with for Ukip were quite | :13:57. | :14:00. | |
positive. They do give Ukip that bans are believed to get back into | :14:01. | :14:03. | |
the arena. We were maybe Explorer this later. | :14:04. | :14:06. | |
More results around the region and in Cumbria - | :14:07. | :14:08. | |
the Liberal Democrat leader, Tim Farron, faced a recount | :14:09. | :14:10. | |
in his Cumbrian seat of Westmorland and Lonsdale. | :14:11. | :14:12. | |
His majority of almost 9,000 two years ago, | :14:13. | :14:15. | |
was reduced by the Conservatives, to just under 800. | :14:16. | :14:20. | |
I dedicate my win tonight to the thousands and | :14:21. | :14:22. | |
thousands of people of | :14:23. | :14:24. | |
Lonsdale who I am honoured to represent in Parliament. | :14:25. | :14:27. | |
I always said from day one 12 years ago, I will | :14:28. | :14:30. | |
be and will always be Westmorland's man in Westminster, never | :14:31. | :14:34. | |
I am astonishingly proud tonight to continue to represent you. | :14:35. | :14:40. | |
It is an absolute dream to do that and an | :14:41. | :14:42. | |
Also in Cumbria, Copeland has voted to stick with a Conservative MP. | :14:43. | :14:50. | |
She took the seat in a by-election just under four months ago. | :14:51. | :14:55. | |
Before that, it had been a safe Labour seat for 80 years. | :14:56. | :14:59. | |
She was elected with a reduced majority of just over 1,600 votes, | :15:00. | :15:04. | |
Counters in Copeland could be forgiven for feeling fatigued. | :15:05. | :15:12. | |
This was the third Parliamentary count | :15:13. | :15:14. | |
This time round, voters in the once Labour stronghold | :15:15. | :15:19. | |
reinforce the Conservatives by-election win. | :15:20. | :15:22. | |
I do hereby declare that Trudy Harrison is duly elected | :15:23. | :15:27. | |
as member of Parliament for the Copeland constituency. | :15:28. | :15:34. | |
It was frustrating for me on the 18th of April to learn of | :15:35. | :15:39. | |
another General Election because I had just spent the last few weeks | :15:40. | :15:42. | |
Down to Westminster on Monday morning. | :15:43. | :15:45. | |
The new build will be my number one priority, making sure | :15:46. | :15:49. | |
If the government needs to step in and that is what I | :15:50. | :15:54. | |
It was doubt over Labour's nuclear policy which was blamed for the seat | :15:55. | :15:59. | |
loss as glum resignation once again set in. | :16:00. | :16:02. | |
The voters unfortunately have been scared into | :16:03. | :16:06. | |
thinking that their jobs and their prosperity | :16:07. | :16:09. | |
For the Lib Dems, with 3% of the vote, | :16:10. | :16:13. | |
I knew what to expect so my expectation was | :16:14. | :16:18. | |
disappointed with the loss of Nick Clegg. | :16:19. | :16:21. | |
For the constituency with a red history, the focus now turns | :16:22. | :16:24. | |
to what the blue future will look like. | :16:25. | :16:31. | |
In Northumberland, Labour's campaign co-ordinator Ian Lavery | :16:32. | :16:39. | |
We mentioned Darlington before, this was the night -- not the night | :16:40. | :16:46. | |
Conservatives have expected? If you lived a couple of years ago and told | :16:47. | :16:51. | |
the Conservatives they would win in Copeland, they would be first or | :16:52. | :16:57. | |
second in every single seat in the North, they would have bitten your | :16:58. | :17:01. | |
hands off but of course expectations were so high going into this | :17:02. | :17:07. | |
campaign. Their poll ratings were stratospheric and they did have high | :17:08. | :17:11. | |
hopes of targeting more than just that Middlesbrough South seat in | :17:12. | :17:13. | |
this part of the world. That may have been part of the problem | :17:14. | :17:18. | |
because I understand resources were diverted from Stockton South into | :17:19. | :17:21. | |
Stockton North in the hope they could overturn the 8,000 majority | :17:22. | :17:25. | |
there. They didn't do it and they lost in Stockton South. About | :17:26. | :17:29. | |
labour, where does this leave the party? There are candidates here | :17:30. | :17:34. | |
like Jenny Chapman and Phil Wilson who were declared independence so | :17:35. | :17:39. | |
they did not want Jeremy Corbyn anywhere near their campaign. I | :17:40. | :17:47. | |
think all will admit that Labour did have a good campaign with Jeremy | :17:48. | :17:50. | |
Corbyn. It is his leadership and he got young people to vote in | :17:51. | :17:55. | |
particular. Look at Newcastle East, City of Durham, high student votes, | :17:56. | :18:00. | |
a big surge in labour but. It is his authority and not Theresa May's that | :18:01. | :18:01. | |
has been enhanced today. In Northumberland, Labour's campaign | :18:02. | :18:03. | |
co-ordinator Ian Lavery increased his support in Wansbeck | :18:04. | :18:06. | |
and after 30 years as Blyth MP, Ronnie Campbell wins again - | :18:07. | :18:09. | |
both delighted at Labour's result, The Conservatives gained | :18:10. | :18:13. | |
as they kept votes too. Anne-Marie Trevelyan in Berwick, | :18:14. | :18:16. | |
and Guy Opperman in Hexham. It was political | :18:17. | :18:21. | |
history in the making. For the first time, all four counts | :18:22. | :18:24. | |
would take place here in Blyth and it was Blyth Valley | :18:25. | :18:28. | |
who declared first. Ronnie Campbell had | :18:29. | :18:31. | |
planned to step down. I'm glad I didn't retire | :18:32. | :18:35. | |
in many ways because I thought I might have had to retire | :18:36. | :18:37. | |
but I fought that argument and won. Then to Wansbeck and for Labour's | :18:38. | :18:42. | |
campaign coordinator, it was a new dawn, a new day and | :18:43. | :18:46. | |
he was feeling good. Six or seven weeks ago, | :18:47. | :18:51. | |
the party were called out to have a General | :18:52. | :18:55. | |
Election by a government who basically called it to try and | :18:56. | :18:59. | |
destroy the Labour Party. It looks very good | :19:00. | :19:03. | |
nationally tonight and I'm delighted that I've been | :19:04. | :19:07. | |
elected for the third time. To the Conservatives, | :19:08. | :19:10. | |
Guy Opperman celebrated his I'm delighted that the people | :19:11. | :19:13. | |
of Hexham have put their trust in me again and at this | :19:14. | :19:17. | |
difficult time, I believe it is As Ukip voters turned | :19:18. | :19:20. | |
away from that party, all four winners welcomed an | :19:21. | :19:26. | |
increase in support with Ann-Marie Trevelyan holding Berwick | :19:27. | :19:30. | |
on a promise to see Brexit through. People of all political colours are | :19:31. | :19:35. | |
vesting their trust in me in large numbers because they wanted to make | :19:36. | :19:40. | |
sure the Brexit referendum result was respected | :19:41. | :19:43. | |
and driven through. Sunderland's been the first | :19:44. | :19:49. | |
to declare in the General Election But last night, Newcastle | :19:50. | :19:52. | |
Central took the crown. Overall turnout in Sunderland's | :19:53. | :19:56. | |
three seats was up on 2015, but the Labour stronghold remained | :19:57. | :20:01. | |
true to the party. 80 sixth form students ran | :20:02. | :20:06. | |
the ballot boxes in for the count but for the first time since | :20:07. | :20:12. | |
1992, Sunderland lost the race to be the country's first declarer with | :20:13. | :20:17. | |
Newcastle Central pipping them to Around ten minutes later, | :20:18. | :20:20. | |
it was announced that Bridget People here have | :20:21. | :20:25. | |
continued to see the living standards fall, wages fall | :20:26. | :20:32. | |
and a real squeeze on local services and it's clear | :20:33. | :20:35. | |
from the result here tonight in Sunderland | :20:36. | :20:38. | |
the people want change. Sunderland's overall | :20:39. | :20:40. | |
turnout rose to 61%. No surprises in the results though, | :20:41. | :20:44. | |
Labour retained all seats. Julie Elliott for | :20:45. | :20:48. | |
Sunderland Central and Sharon Hodgson for Washington | :20:49. | :20:51. | |
and Sunderland West. There was a lot of anger | :20:52. | :20:54. | |
on the doorstep about Theresa May calling the election when she | :20:55. | :20:57. | |
had said so many times that she Scrapping universal free school | :20:58. | :21:01. | |
meals for infants, the winter fuel allowance was met by a lot of anger | :21:02. | :21:05. | |
amongst constituencies across The rate of increase | :21:06. | :21:09. | |
for the Conservative vote was substantially more | :21:10. | :21:13. | |
than the Labour vote and that shows there | :21:14. | :21:15. | |
is an increased trend towards the | :21:16. | :21:17. | |
Conservatives and away from Labour What now is like a more unstable and | :21:18. | :21:40. | |
uncertain future with a hung parliament, something no business | :21:41. | :21:49. | |
here once? Sadly, Theresa May's Campbell has failed abysmally. She | :21:50. | :21:54. | |
has brought this about by her own ears and therefore, I think the | :21:55. | :21:58. | |
campaign we have fought, because we knew that it would be very difficult | :21:59. | :22:01. | |
for Theresa May and the Conservatives to maintain a single | :22:02. | :22:05. | |
issue election but a six-week period and of course the health service, | :22:06. | :22:10. | |
education, tuition fees, jobs and the future. Is this more about the | :22:11. | :22:13. | |
angry remainders who just wanted to be heard? , it was a very diverse | :22:14. | :22:18. | |
set of issues on the doorstep and people were genuinely concerned | :22:19. | :22:20. | |
about what the Conservatives would do with a large majority on things | :22:21. | :22:28. | |
like jobs and the health service and investment and education. Therefore, | :22:29. | :22:32. | |
that all came up but I think also, the Conservatives did shoot | :22:33. | :22:36. | |
themselves in the foot with the dementia attacks. Your reaction on | :22:37. | :22:43. | |
that? Job numbers have been better than they are before. The National | :22:44. | :22:46. | |
Health Service has had more money but into it repeatedly under the | :22:47. | :22:50. | |
Conservatives and the education budget is larger than ever so I | :22:51. | :22:54. | |
reviewed what he is saying. The voters did not buy that, strong and | :22:55. | :23:00. | |
stable must be ringing in your ears today? It is not the result we would | :23:01. | :23:06. | |
have liked to have had but we're still the largest party. When all | :23:07. | :23:10. | |
the results are in, we will be able to maintain a majority, we will have | :23:11. | :23:16. | |
to see where we are. What about Theresa May? I am utterly behind the | :23:17. | :23:19. | |
Prime Minister, getting she has the right person to take us forward. | :23:20. | :23:24. | |
Utterly? Not without a shadow of a doubt. I have worked for her and she | :23:25. | :23:29. | |
is a very strong woman and a good woman. Many of your colleagues are | :23:30. | :23:34. | |
saying she is not up to it. I only can think of one colleague and you | :23:35. | :23:38. | |
know that as well as I do. You mentioned earlier Ukip, you think | :23:39. | :23:48. | |
have a spring in their step? I don't believe this election was about | :23:49. | :23:51. | |
Brexit, it was about domestic issues. People have never been so | :23:52. | :23:55. | |
hard up, they have never been so worried about job security, food | :23:56. | :23:59. | |
banks are at record levels. It was about domestic issues and people | :24:00. | :24:03. | |
feeling lighter in the pocket and having less money to spend on things | :24:04. | :24:06. | |
they need. That is where the Conservatives gambolled and got it | :24:07. | :24:11. | |
wrong. Theresa May has now put the whole Brexit process, timescale and | :24:12. | :24:17. | |
outcome, at risk. That gives Ukip and in road. You don't release have | :24:18. | :24:26. | |
any influence, it is a return to party politics but no influence from | :24:27. | :24:29. | |
the Lib Dems? That is what worries me, that the UK is going down that | :24:30. | :24:33. | |
path, the returning the 2-party politics. That is bad for our region | :24:34. | :24:39. | |
and in many ways, the region is very much a 1-party state because we are | :24:40. | :24:47. | |
being squeezed heavily by a Labour Party which, although represents the | :24:48. | :24:49. | |
majority of people, doesn't represent everybody and we need a | :24:50. | :24:54. | |
change to the voting system to ensure that minority voices are | :24:55. | :24:55. | |
heard. There's more analysis | :24:56. | :24:58. | |
on the BBC News website. | :24:59. | :25:04. |