:00:00. > :00:11.Their share of the vote was down, reflecting the swing
:00:12. > :00:13.Welcome to a special election edition of BBC South East Today.
:00:14. > :00:16.Shock defeat as 100 years of history is overturned in Canterbury
:00:17. > :00:19.with Labour taking the seat from the Conservatives.
:00:20. > :00:27.It has been a disappointing result and a disappointing result overall.
:00:28. > :00:28.I was hoping for a large Conservative majority.
:00:29. > :00:31.We're live in Canterbury as the city wakes up to the shock result.
:00:32. > :00:32.A nervous night for the Home Secretary,
:00:33. > :00:46.And the Lib Dem return, Stephen Lloyd wins back Eastbourne.
:00:47. > :00:51.I'm back doing what I love most, which is serving Eastbourne, so I
:00:52. > :00:52.would like to thank all the people from the bottom of my heart. I won't
:00:53. > :01:00.let them down. The political map of the South East
:01:01. > :01:05.is a little less blue today after Labour made huge
:01:06. > :01:07.and unexpected gains Jeremy Corbyn's party made history
:01:08. > :01:12.in Canterbury where they took a seat the Conservatives have held
:01:13. > :01:14.for 100 years. On the Sussex coast,
:01:15. > :01:18.Labour made a big gain in Brighton Kemptown from the Tories
:01:19. > :01:21.and the Hove MP Peter Kyle who was in a marginal seat now has
:01:22. > :01:24.a massive majority - 18,000. Caroline Lucas the Green MP also
:01:25. > :01:27.increased her share of the vote. In Eastbourne there was
:01:28. > :01:30.a win for the Lib Dems - And it was touch and go for the Home
:01:31. > :01:38.Secretary Amber Rudd in Hastings - There was relief in South Thanet for
:01:39. > :01:43.the Conservative Craig Mackinley. In this special programme we're
:01:44. > :01:48.going to have a round up of the results and analysis
:01:49. > :01:50.of all the parties' fortunes but first our political editor
:01:51. > :02:03.Helen Catt is in Brighton - Yes, quite, what a night, indeed.
:02:04. > :02:07.Not the night we were expecting when this election was called. Not the
:02:08. > :02:11.night we were expecting when many of us went to bed last night and I'm
:02:12. > :02:15.sure it was not the one Theresa May had been hoping for. This morning
:02:16. > :02:18.but we have is a south-east that looks quite different in many ways.
:02:19. > :02:25.For the first time in a long time we have a sitting MP from four
:02:26. > :02:28.different political parties. Here in Brighton and Hove, no trace of blue,
:02:29. > :02:33.Labour and green across the city. That would make for a different
:02:34. > :02:38.environment. We will talk to you again in a moment but we can cross
:02:39. > :02:46.the Canterbury now. You watched the results come in, Lucinda, this was
:02:47. > :02:51.the shock of the night. Yes, a huge shock here. The Labour candidate
:02:52. > :02:55.herself very surprised why the win. Julian Brazier, the MP here for 30
:02:56. > :03:01.years shocked and disappointed. This constituency has been represented by
:03:02. > :03:07.a Conservative in Parliament since 1841, so this is a major upset. Just
:03:08. > :03:15.hundred 87 vote in it, the count was incredibly close. In the strongest
:03:16. > :03:21.Conservative strongholds, suddenly the vote was close. So close that
:03:22. > :03:29.they counted, then recanted and then... APPLAUSE
:03:30. > :03:34.Not since 1841 has anyone other than a Conservative represented this city
:03:35. > :03:39.in Parliament. Thank you so much, Canterbury district. We have made
:03:40. > :03:41.history. 160 years of the Conservative Party in this
:03:42. > :03:48.constituency and we have just broken that record. Rosie Duffield's
:03:49. > :03:52.campaign has been about local issues, the transfer of doctors away
:03:53. > :03:55.from the Kent and Canterbury Hospital, housing and homelessness.
:03:56. > :04:00.It in a constituency that voted to Remain in the EU it is the momentum
:04:01. > :04:03.of young voters, some of whom he stayed on to vote passed the end of
:04:04. > :04:07.the university year, the has made the difference. The biggest factor
:04:08. > :04:12.was we had the largest concentration of students in the country here and
:04:13. > :04:21.very strong feeling among them about the referendum issue and we were a
:04:22. > :04:25.budge constituency in the referendum -- we were a Remain constituency in
:04:26. > :04:29.the referendum. A huge number of constituents have registered since
:04:30. > :04:33.then. Shadow Foreign Secretary Emily Thornberry wasn't Canterbury last
:04:34. > :04:37.week. No Conservative ministers had visited. With just 187 votes giving
:04:38. > :04:42.Labour one of the biggest wins in the country, they may regret
:04:43. > :04:45.complacency and Canterbury. People I have spoken to here this morning
:04:46. > :04:49.have welcomed the news change and they all agree that Labour's success
:04:50. > :04:52.is down to the fact they have engaged youth voters. This is a
:04:53. > :04:56.student city, heavily populated with young people. 8000 people have
:04:57. > :05:01.recently registered to vote in recent months. There have been a
:05:02. > :05:04.social medium chilly media campaign that has stirred up momentum. We saw
:05:05. > :05:06.a group of students at 3am watching through the window as Labour won the
:05:07. > :05:08.seat. I'm joined now in the studio
:05:09. > :05:11.by Professor Richard Whitman This wasn't in the Conservative
:05:12. > :05:14.script - this election was all about getting
:05:15. > :05:23.a mandate for Brexit. This is still a solidly blue region
:05:24. > :05:27.this morning, isn't it? This is a Tory heartland. This is where the
:05:28. > :05:32.Tories look to pick up a significant number of seats and see it as their
:05:33. > :05:40.base. There was an interesting mix, I mentioned Amber Rudd who only just
:05:41. > :05:42.held on in the Hastings and Rye. But the Conservatives actually increased
:05:43. > :05:48.their majority substantially in some other areas. What is interesting is
:05:49. > :05:52.the Ukip vote has collapsed for Ukip but it has split, it has gone to the
:05:53. > :05:54.Tories and Labour as well, so what you are seeing is on the one hand
:05:55. > :05:59.the Tories increasing their majorities in some seats but loosely
:06:00. > :06:05.as we have heard in other places we have had upsets. Does this show that
:06:06. > :06:08.in some parts of the south-east people feel taken for granted by the
:06:09. > :06:13.Conservatives, school funding has already come up as an issue in
:06:14. > :06:16.Sussex, Southern commuters, older voters. Have things backfired
:06:17. > :06:20.slightly for the party? I think they have. One of the problems the Tories
:06:21. > :06:26.have got is in terms of fighting the campaign on the ground they have
:06:27. > :06:29.shrinking membership so the nuts and bolts of politics and campaigning,
:06:30. > :06:33.that is one of the areas where they have failed. It is where Labour is
:06:34. > :06:34.very good. We will hear from you again before the end of the
:06:35. > :06:35.programme. Now to Brighton and Hove where three
:06:36. > :06:50.seats were contested. I am humbled that the people of
:06:51. > :06:55.Brighton have given me their trust and I hope over the next few years I
:06:56. > :06:58.will be able to repay that. The challenges facing the country,
:06:59. > :07:02.everything from the extreme Brexit which I hope will be put into
:07:03. > :07:06.question as a result of Theresa May failing to get that mandate right
:07:07. > :07:10.through to giving more money to our schools. This was an election like
:07:11. > :07:14.no other. The circumstances were different anything that have been
:07:15. > :07:19.experienced before. The normal allegiances because of Brexit and
:07:20. > :07:25.other issues were thrown up in the air. Let's go back to our political
:07:26. > :07:28.editor who's in Brighton. Labour have enjoyed three huge victories
:07:29. > :07:35.over night but there is nowhere near what they had under Tony Blair in
:07:36. > :07:40.1997. No comment isn't. Not even close to what they held in 2005,
:07:41. > :07:43.which is the last time Labour went on to form a government after a
:07:44. > :07:48.general election. Across the number of seats they held on the south-east
:07:49. > :07:52.them. As you mentioned, most people this morning in the south-east will
:07:53. > :07:55.be waking up to a returned Conservative MP had an increased
:07:56. > :08:00.majority. That's the context. That is not to take away from the scale
:08:01. > :08:06.of these wins webby have one. Maybe not a broad-based win but certainly
:08:07. > :08:13.depth -- scale of these wins where they have one. For example, a 10,000
:08:14. > :08:18.majority in Brighton Kemptown taken from a Conservative minister, an
:08:19. > :08:22.impressive achievement. Down in Hove, Peter Kyle increasing his
:08:23. > :08:26.majority to 18,000. That is huge. The thought of majority we expect to
:08:27. > :08:34.see in safe seats like Sevenoaks or Ashford. So now, he will claim
:08:35. > :08:39.victory in Hove? Peter Kyle is a well-known critic of his leader,
:08:40. > :08:45.Jeremy Corbyn, who has won this, Peter Kyle or Corbyn? Well, both
:08:46. > :08:48.will claim it to some degree. Certainly in his acceptance speech
:08:49. > :08:53.Peter Kyle was talking about how people voted locally for their local
:08:54. > :08:56.MP but if you talk to Lloyd Russell-Moyle, the new MP for
:08:57. > :09:01.Brighton Kemptown, his acceptance speech was much more focusing on the
:09:02. > :09:05.socialist policies, the policies not personalities as he said to me when
:09:06. > :09:09.I spoke to him after his win. I am delighted that we have managed to
:09:10. > :09:13.sell a message of hope over fear, we have managed to sell a message of
:09:14. > :09:19.policies over personality and we have managed to show to the public
:09:20. > :09:24.that we have a party that is united and a leadership that has vision to
:09:25. > :09:28.take our country forward. A lot of talk about unity on the south coast
:09:29. > :09:33.this morning with Labour but we know that divisions in the party,
:09:34. > :09:38.particularly in Brighton and Hove, run deep. They are not going away,
:09:39. > :09:41.are they? No, they aren't and it will be really interesting to see
:09:42. > :09:48.how the party here runs along after this because you have had emphatic
:09:49. > :09:54.wins for both aspects of the party. In Hove Peter Kyle has been running
:09:55. > :10:03.a campaign with old new Labour figures and has produced a emphatic
:10:04. > :10:06.win for him whereas the momentum group for Jeremy Corbyn has produced
:10:07. > :10:09.an emphatic win for Lloyd Russell-Moyle, so the two arms of
:10:10. > :10:13.the party are going to have to learn to get along and work with Caroline
:10:14. > :10:16.Lucas, the Green who is back with an increased majority so I think
:10:17. > :10:17.politics in Brighton is going to be very interesting. What you are going
:10:18. > :10:20.to be busy! It was a nervous night
:10:21. > :10:23.for the Conservatives in Hastings - the Home Secretary Amber Rudd had
:10:24. > :10:37.to wait for a recount before It was staggeringly close. Just a
:10:38. > :10:42.few hundred votes in it. You have two remember that Amber Rudd is the
:10:43. > :10:44.Home Secretary and she has been dealing with the government's
:10:45. > :10:52.response to the recent terror attacks. Last night, she very nearly
:10:53. > :10:59.came very close to losing her job as an MP.
:11:00. > :11:06.Amber Rudd had so much to lose here and early on in last night's count,
:11:07. > :11:14.there were signs that losing was a real possibility. I'm just hopeful
:11:15. > :11:19.but not complacent. As it happened, it was too close to call. As the
:11:20. > :11:24.difference is minimal I have agreed that we will conduct a full recount.
:11:25. > :11:31.The tired fingers set to work once more with the result finally
:11:32. > :11:41.declared an hour later. Labour Party, 25,000 322. -- 20 5322.
:11:42. > :11:45.Labour's candidate record of the party's biggest ever voted that it
:11:46. > :11:52.was not enough. Amber Rudd one 346 votes. This is a fantastic place to
:11:53. > :11:57.live and work and I am going to continue, I hope, to build on the
:11:58. > :12:02.great opportunities and the great regeneration that is taking place in
:12:03. > :12:07.this area. Home Secretary left without wanting to give interviews.
:12:08. > :12:13.The 4800 strong majority slashed to a few hundred. It is frustrating to
:12:14. > :12:16.come that close but a far better result than we expected at the
:12:17. > :12:21.beginning of the campaign. Why do you think Amber Rudd did not do so
:12:22. > :12:25.well? Because she was Home Secretary, she was tied up,
:12:26. > :12:31.therefore a lot of her personal canvassing was not done like the
:12:32. > :12:34.year before. I thought Peter was going to beat her so I am
:12:35. > :12:37.disappointed that she got in. She isn't very popular around here to be
:12:38. > :12:48.honest so I don't suppose I was surprised. The Labour vote has
:12:49. > :12:52.surged here. Yes, that surprised me. Ukip lost its deposit. As Amber Rudd
:12:53. > :12:54.left, her Labour opponent said he would stand again, predicting
:12:55. > :13:02.another general election before too long. Amber Rudd had been at the
:13:03. > :13:05.forefront of Theresa May's General election campaign. She had even
:13:06. > :13:10.deputised for the Prime Minister on the BBC's TV leaders debate. Some
:13:11. > :13:14.had tipped her to become the next Conservative Party leader. But with
:13:15. > :13:17.her majority so slim now. How likely is that?
:13:18. > :13:19.Over in Thanet, where in 2015 the battle was being fought
:13:20. > :13:22.between the Conservatives and Ukip, arriving at the count
:13:23. > :13:30.Craig Mackinlay voiced Conservative concerns.
:13:31. > :13:36.I would never have believed that things would be so tight after where
:13:37. > :13:38.we were just four five weeks ago but that is nature of the game.
:13:39. > :13:40.Well, I'm joined now by our reporter Amanda Akass.
:13:41. > :13:43.Amanda, it turned out that Craig Mackinlay didn't need to worry
:13:44. > :13:45.about his vote and the main challengers last year,
:13:46. > :13:54.Well, yes, Craig Mackinley actually increases majority, more than 6000
:13:55. > :13:57.votes, as the result of a complete collapse of the Ukip vote share
:13:58. > :14:01.which is all the more remarkable given that last time how very close
:14:02. > :14:05.Nigel Farage came to winning the seat here. In the end Craig
:14:06. > :14:10.Mackinley defeated him by just under 3000 votes. Last week we saw Craig
:14:11. > :14:12.Mackinley charged with electoral fraud offences in relation to some
:14:13. > :14:17.of his spending in that 2015 campaign. He denies any wrongdoing
:14:18. > :14:21.but was obviously concerned about the impact that would have on his
:14:22. > :14:27.voters. It seems it has had absolutely no effect at all. The big
:14:28. > :14:31.thanks to the voters of Thanet for continuing to put their trust in me.
:14:32. > :14:37.I have done my best to serve for the last two years. And there was
:14:38. > :14:44.another count in Margate overnight. Yes, Sir Roger Gale won in North
:14:45. > :14:49.Thanet. His ninth election, the was voted in back in 1983. He increased
:14:50. > :14:52.his majority as well to more than 11,000. Again, the Ukip vote
:14:53. > :14:58.collapsed into third place after Labour. Sir Roger Gale said he
:14:59. > :15:02.defended Theresa May's decision to call this election but said he is
:15:03. > :15:06.concerned about the impact it will have on the Brexit negotiations.
:15:07. > :15:11.The Prime Minister hoped for a more resounding majority than she is
:15:12. > :15:16.likely to get and the worrying thing about this is it up and strengthen
:15:17. > :15:23.our position going into Brexit, which was the object of the
:15:24. > :15:28.exercise. Roger Gale defends Theresa May has a courageous moment and says
:15:29. > :15:30.she is the right woman for the job -- a courageous woman.
:15:31. > :15:33.The Lib Dems had a mixed night in the south east.
:15:34. > :15:36.Their offer of a new referendum on the EU failed to sway enough
:15:37. > :15:39.voters in Lewes which had voted to remain, but over in Eastbourne
:15:40. > :15:48.which voted leave where the former Lib Dem MP Stephen Lloyd.
:15:49. > :16:01.He was standing on a ticket of supporting Brexit. Stephen Lloyd,
:16:02. > :16:05.Liberal Democrats, 26,924 he promised one day he would return and
:16:06. > :16:11.fight the seat and today Stephen Lloyd fought and won. It's good to
:16:12. > :16:15.be back. I love this town, the reaction I have had over the last
:16:16. > :16:21.few weeks has been absolutely fantastic, so it's a privilege and a
:16:22. > :16:23.delight to be back. Two years ago, Caroline Ansell one hit with a slim
:16:24. > :16:31.majority but today she was the one accepting defeat losing out by more
:16:32. > :16:35.than 1600 votes. One thing has not changed tonight and that is the
:16:36. > :16:43.great love I have for my hometown and everyone in it. So although it's
:16:44. > :16:48.goodbye and good night I hope that maybe my day will come again. But in
:16:49. > :16:52.neighbouring Lewes it was a different story with Maria Corfield
:16:53. > :16:59.holding onto her seat for the Conservatives. She is duly elected
:17:00. > :17:05.as the member of Parliament for the Lewes constituency. We have had
:17:06. > :17:10.challenging times with Brexit, the Southern Rail strike, so I'm
:17:11. > :17:13.delighted to be re-elected. Brexit could prove challenging for Stephen
:17:14. > :17:17.Lloyd in the coming months as he has pledged to go against party policy
:17:18. > :17:24.and not campaign for a second EU referendum.
:17:25. > :17:27.Stephen Lloyd the re-elected Lib Dem MP joins us now.
:17:28. > :17:30.Welcome back to parliament - did you win this because you went
:17:31. > :17:32.against your party's main policy - to hold a second referendum
:17:33. > :17:45.Good morning, good to be back, good to be back with you and back in
:17:46. > :17:51.Eastbourne. I believe I won because the people of this town know me well
:17:52. > :17:55.and they know either Eastbourne above party politics. That is what I
:17:56. > :18:07.did before and is what I will do again. Is a bit windy! I believe
:18:08. > :18:10.people realise that they know my priorities, they are convinced of
:18:11. > :18:16.that and that is what I was looking up all day yesterday as I was going
:18:17. > :18:19.across Eastbourne listening and talking to people. A good night and
:18:20. > :18:24.I'm thrilled to be back. Your neighbour in Lewes did not win,
:18:25. > :18:31.Kelly Marie Blondel, that is a Remain voting area, so does that not
:18:32. > :18:36.show that this was not an election to do with Brexit? No, I think
:18:37. > :18:40.Brexit counts but I think those people recognise that it is settled.
:18:41. > :18:46.I had always been straight with my town, I voted Remain but I also gave
:18:47. > :18:51.my word that I would respect the result of the referendum and the
:18:52. > :18:56.people of Eastbourne know I keep my word. I told Tim Farron that many
:18:57. > :18:59.months ago and to give him his due he came straight back to me within
:19:00. > :19:03.30 minutes saying I know you and I know that if you gave your word
:19:04. > :19:07.leaked to Eastbourne you will keep it and I respect that so I think
:19:08. > :19:10.Brexit was important but this campaign was much bigger than that.
:19:11. > :19:15.A shocking night for the Tories across the country and to be fair, a
:19:16. > :19:20.heck of an endorsement for Jeremy Corbyn. Politics is a funny old
:19:21. > :19:23.business. It is. Once again, welcome back Stephen Lloyd.
:19:24. > :19:29.Whether it was a prize winners, steady holds, snaffling it by the
:19:30. > :19:32.narrow margins, this morning in the south-east you are waking up to a
:19:33. > :19:38.change little landscape. Here's a round-up of the night's action. This
:19:39. > :19:42.corner of England, Tory heartland. Just a little less blue this
:19:43. > :19:47.morning. APPLAUSE In Canterbury, the story of the
:19:48. > :19:51.night. In numbers hundreds 87 votes ending more than a hundred years of
:19:52. > :19:56.Conservatives in the seat. And three decades in the job for Julian
:19:57. > :20:00.Brazier. Thank you so much to everyone who has come out and voted.
:20:01. > :20:05.We have made history, made a change at last. And Brighton, that rainbow
:20:06. > :20:09.city, showing a bit more colour this morning. In the small hours in
:20:10. > :20:19.Brighton Kemptown, Labour's Lloyd Russell-Moyle. Labour Party,
:20:20. > :20:24.36,000... The Green cars macro Brighton Pavilion. A cluster of
:20:25. > :20:27.colour. In Eastbourne for the Liberal Democrats is all forgiven?
:20:28. > :20:33.Two years ago they booted him out but now the change their mind.
:20:34. > :20:40.Recounts then relief for Amber Rudd. She holds Hastings and Rye but by
:20:41. > :20:45.the narrowest of margins. Tonight was also a story of loyalty. In
:20:46. > :20:50.Thanet a week ago he was charged with election fraud. This morning,
:20:51. > :20:53.he doubled his majority. Despite the best efforts of various
:20:54. > :20:58.organisations to break my legs for this election just a few days ago,
:20:59. > :21:04.we did it here in South Thanet. Loyalty to the Conservatives in the
:21:05. > :21:07.Medway towns and in Crawley. It is a great and I have had over the last
:21:08. > :21:11.seven years and I'm a convert to getting back to work in Westminster
:21:12. > :21:15.on behalf of this fantastic town. A bad night for the Tories nationally
:21:16. > :21:19.but they still hold swathes of the South East. But maybe their grip has
:21:20. > :21:31.loosened just a little. Let's get some more analysis from
:21:32. > :21:35.Richard Whitman. Richard, does this put Brexit in doubt at all? This
:21:36. > :21:40.wasn't really a Brexit election do you think Rose and offer us in the
:21:41. > :21:43.south-east, clearly it was a part of the country that voted heavily for
:21:44. > :21:47.leaving the European Union but it does not seem to have had much of an
:21:48. > :21:50.impact in the way that people turned out to those. Can we conclude people
:21:51. > :21:56.don't want a hard Brexit even though they voted to leave's can we
:21:57. > :21:59.conclude anything this morning? There will be a great postmortem
:22:00. > :22:01.because the result is a shock but the Conservative Party is going to
:22:02. > :22:06.be looking at the campaign and saying it ran the wrong campaign.
:22:07. > :22:18.For the Tories the election was about Brexit. One word about Ukip.
:22:19. > :22:20.Is that the end of them now? Nigel Farage has been on the airwaves this
:22:21. > :22:24.morning talking about a comeback. What do you think? Bus in the
:22:25. > :22:28.south-east Ukip has been the big story over the last decade or so and
:22:29. > :22:33.it now looks as if Ukip is in retreat. Interestingly you are
:22:34. > :22:39.seeing voters switching from Ukip to Labour. That must give Labour some
:22:40. > :22:43.heart that those voters are not lost. Thank you very much. I may
:22:44. > :22:47.have had a long night, thank you for joining us in the studio. Let's go
:22:48. > :22:53.back to our physical editor in Brighton for us this morning. Have
:22:54. > :22:57.two big wins -- our political editor. Two big wins for Labour. Do
:22:58. > :23:00.you think it would have made a difference it Jeremy Corbyn had come
:23:01. > :23:06.to the south-east during the election campaign, he could have
:23:07. > :23:09.done even better possibly? It's difficult to say but certainly there
:23:10. > :23:13.did not seem to be any kind of strategy to target areas of Kent in
:23:14. > :23:17.particular in the south-east where Labour has done well before. Emily
:23:18. > :23:19.Thornberry was the only big visitor. She came to Canterbury, look what
:23:20. > :23:24.happened there, so perhaps an argument for it. It is worth
:23:25. > :23:27.pointing out that Labour did not make inroads in places they have
:23:28. > :23:33.before like Medway towns like Dover, not much change there, so maybe this
:23:34. > :23:39.Labour is appealing to different voters, not the ones they used to.
:23:40. > :23:42.And you can get all the election results, news and analysis
:23:43. > :23:50.by following us on Twitter using #SEVote, on our Facebook page
:23:51. > :23:54.Before we go we are going to leave you with highlights of the night.
:23:55. > :24:00.There are flashing images in our last look at some of the result from
:24:01. > :24:02.the south-east on election night. APPLAUSE
:24:03. > :24:19.Cheering and # I want something just like this
:24:20. > :25:02.# I want something just like this. negotiations, I think duty calls and
:25:03. > :25:04.she will stay. Viewers are joining us from around the