:00:11. > :00:16.Welcome to our election studio on a bright morning.
:00:17. > :00:20.The sun has risen on a new political landscape here, one that few -
:00:21. > :00:23.We're saying goodbye to a few familiar faces,
:00:24. > :00:33.For the first time in 16 years, Bristol is 100% Labour,
:00:34. > :00:35.and the majorities are eyewatering - 30,000 in Bristol West.
:00:36. > :00:39.Whatever the reason, people in Bristol West
:00:40. > :00:42.voted for progressive politics and for hope.
:00:43. > :00:48.The Conservatives are still the biggest party,
:00:49. > :00:51.but they're wounded with losses in Bath, Stroud and
:00:52. > :00:59.I think people wanted a change, obviously, and I would say good luck
:01:00. > :01:06.The Lib Dem resurgence didn't happen, but there was some
:01:07. > :01:20.Over the next 30 minutes, we'll have the full West Country
:01:21. > :01:25.You will ask what it means and we will be speaking to our guests in
:01:26. > :01:25.the studio. This is how the West
:01:26. > :01:29.Country looked last night And now, the political
:01:30. > :01:31.geography has changed. Labour hold all four Bristol seats
:01:32. > :01:34.for the first time in 16 years, the sitting MPs all increasing
:01:35. > :01:38.their majorities in some style. And in Bath, a seat we had been
:01:39. > :01:45.keeping a close eye on throughout the campaign, has turned
:01:46. > :01:52.back to the Lib Dems. The Conservatives are still by far
:01:53. > :01:56.the biggest party here. 25 of our 31 constituencies will be
:01:57. > :02:09.sending Tory MPs When the election was called, there
:02:10. > :02:11.was talk of every seat in the West are being conservative, so it has
:02:12. > :02:12.been quite a surprising night. So let's go straight to one
:02:13. > :02:15.of the big winners of the night. David Drew first won Stroud
:02:16. > :02:18.for Labour when Tony Blair swept to power in '97,
:02:19. > :02:24.but lost his seat an So when Theresa May called
:02:25. > :02:30.the snap election, Mr Drew, He joins us first, though,
:02:31. > :02:43.from his home in Stonehouse. I have come back. I have no voice,
:02:44. > :02:48.so you will have to accept that. Your majority is fairly slim. Were
:02:49. > :02:55.you expecting to win? I never expect to win at Stroud, anything can
:02:56. > :03:00.happen. It is a small majority, but the two of us had just shy of 30,000
:03:01. > :03:08.votes, so it was quite exciting last night. What do you think swung it
:03:09. > :03:12.for you? There was a mood on the doorstep that people did not want
:03:13. > :03:19.the snap election. That was the main thing. Brexit did not play much. All
:03:20. > :03:26.the normal factors that come into play in an election, the economy,
:03:27. > :03:30.NHS, education, particularly the education cuts, they all played, but
:03:31. > :03:37.I think there was a slight mood for a change. I don't think people
:03:38. > :03:41.wanted this election and they have ... The Prime Minister will decide
:03:42. > :03:47.what to do right now, the do think there is a case for Mr Corbyn
:03:48. > :03:50.leading a minority Government? We will have two C. It depends on
:03:51. > :03:56.numbers. I have not seen the latest figure. The Conservatives are
:03:57. > :04:01.clearly the largest party, but the do not have a majority. They must
:04:02. > :04:06.have a chance to see if they can form a Government. We could be into
:04:07. > :04:12.a very interesting time of a hung parliament and MPs doing their job.
:04:13. > :04:15.Thank you, David. That was David Drew, the MP for Stroud.
:04:16. > :04:18.In case you missed it, here's our political reporter
:04:19. > :04:23.Robin Markwell with the story of the night.
:04:24. > :04:31.The morning after the night before. Good morning Doctor Reza may's
:04:32. > :04:37.decision to hold a snap election has backfired. A night that saw the
:04:38. > :04:49.Tories held back whilst Labour hopes are bloomed. Is that a promise
:04:50. > :04:52.promisingly for the Tories. CHEERING
:04:53. > :04:58.Justin Tomlinson held the north of Swindon. Robert booklet and held on
:04:59. > :05:02.to the south. Swindon leads, so goes the country for. I hope I win is a
:05:03. > :05:08.signal that the Conservatives will have a successful election and a
:05:09. > :05:16.successful parliament. But the Corbyn surge was beginning to show.
:05:17. > :05:19.Labour's vote up by around 10%. In Bristol, the swing was even bigger.
:05:20. > :05:24.Experts had suggested Bristol East might fall to the Tories, but what
:05:25. > :05:28.do experts know any more? Labour won in the east, they soared in the
:05:29. > :05:38.south, and how about this for a majority in Bristol West? 47,000...
:05:39. > :05:43.She received over 47,000 votes. More than Jeremy Corbyn. She also crushed
:05:44. > :05:47.green hopes of winning their second MP here. Quite emotional, because it
:05:48. > :05:53.is a great honour to be given that amount of trust by the people here.
:05:54. > :06:01.Labour took from the Tories here, at the candidate admitting he never
:06:02. > :06:07.expected to win. To my constituents and the country of a whole, I say
:06:08. > :06:13.good luck. The Labour bandwagon rolled on, to Stroud, with an MP
:06:14. > :06:21.that bout never to run again. This is the seventh time I have done
:06:22. > :06:24.this. I should retire more often. The Lib Dems were also fighting
:06:25. > :06:30.back. They had thrown all their results that winning Bath, a seat
:06:31. > :06:35.they held two years ago. And it's paid off. Exciting, a little bit
:06:36. > :06:42.unreal, but it is a big responsibility. Equipped comment for
:06:43. > :06:45.us? I'm heading off. If the Conservatives left disappointed
:06:46. > :06:50.here, their vote held up elsewhere against their old rivals. You will
:06:51. > :06:56.use to be a Lib Dem fortress, but now it is solidly blue. Wales and
:06:57. > :07:06.solidly and fruit also went the same way. It is really quite
:07:07. > :07:08.overwhelming. Things were closer in Cheltenham, but the conservative
:07:09. > :07:17.Alex Chalk held on with a reduced majority. Liberal Democrats, 24000
:07:18. > :07:20.and 46. For the election as a whole, Theresa May has scored the biggest
:07:21. > :07:23.own goal in British political history. She called an election in
:07:24. > :07:29.order to get a landslide majority, and she has not got a landslide all
:07:30. > :07:33.lost her majority altogether. She has deluded instability where she
:07:34. > :07:38.wanted to strengthen the Brexit negotiations, she has cast doubt
:07:39. > :07:52.over them. Most of the West by black mark is still blue, but the big...
:07:53. > :08:00.We sat down to watch the exit poll, and I think once we were, no one had
:08:01. > :08:04.spoken about it, we thought that by 5am it would look like a great night
:08:05. > :08:10.for the Conservative Party. It is not being there. The hopes of a
:08:11. > :08:15.landslide proved to be a. For Theresa May, but her position as PM
:08:16. > :08:23.is anything but strong, her grip on Government, anything but stable. It
:08:24. > :08:24.was quite a night. Lovely to see Swindon declaring so early and being
:08:25. > :08:38.on the national news. Highlights for you? An extraordinary
:08:39. > :08:43.election. Across the West Country, it is a mixed fixture. We are seeing
:08:44. > :08:47.Labour picking up votes in places where they may be did not expect to.
:08:48. > :08:54.Weston-Super-Mare doing well. That is a seat doing conservative. Labour
:08:55. > :08:57.have done well where they did not make a great deal of effort, and
:08:58. > :09:04.they have done extremely well in places like Stroud, Bristol moth
:09:05. > :09:08.West. Then we see the Lib Dems, who will be disappointed overall,
:09:09. > :09:12.because they wanted to come back. They have got Bath, but they have
:09:13. > :09:17.fallen so far short, they went backwards in some constituencies.
:09:18. > :09:24.Your bill now has a bigger majority than Paddy Ashdown had. The
:09:25. > :09:31.Conservatives can draw some solace. 25 out of our 31 seats our scratch
:09:32. > :09:33.by our blue. Overall, they are disappointed, MPs have seen
:09:34. > :09:37.majorities clipped a little bit. Swindon was close for comfort, but
:09:38. > :09:40.they're still the dominant party in the West Country. Thank you, Paul.
:09:41. > :09:42.We will talk later on. So what's been the reaction
:09:43. > :09:44.to the Labour success in Bristol? This has been the most stressful
:09:45. > :09:50.election I can remember. I did not know which way to vote,
:09:51. > :09:53.and it is very interesting Theresa May is not going
:09:54. > :09:58.to be very pleased. Hopefully it will make her realise,
:09:59. > :10:03.because she is still leading, I think, what she needs to do to be
:10:04. > :10:08.a leader that more represents A bit disheartened that
:10:09. > :10:20.Corbyn didn't just get It is quite hard for him
:10:21. > :10:25.to persuade the other parties to try and join forces,
:10:26. > :10:27.but it is what it is. I had about an hour's sleep
:10:28. > :10:30.between four and five. Not realy sure what
:10:31. > :10:34.is going to happen. I'm gutted that I have got to go
:10:35. > :10:38.to work and I cannot watch the news. Well, let's catch up with another
:10:39. > :10:44.of the night's winners, Alex Chalk held onto Cheltenham
:10:45. > :10:58.for the Conservatives. What was the experience like? It was
:10:59. > :11:02.extraordinary. It was so dependent, I do not think anyone in Cheltenham
:11:03. > :11:06.knew what was going to happen until the end. It was all taking place in
:11:07. > :11:13.the context of extraordinary results nationwide, so a dramatic evening.
:11:14. > :11:17.When did you sense that the mood was changing, because we had this huge
:11:18. > :11:23.lead expected for Mrs Meg, and then something changed, didn't it? I
:11:24. > :11:28.think it did. On the doors, it seemed like there wasn't any
:11:29. > :11:32.particular problem, then I think in the last 48 hours, something did
:11:33. > :11:37.seem to change, and I think this is an election that will be picked over
:11:38. > :11:45.for many weeks and months and people will try to work out what happened.
:11:46. > :11:51.Something shifted late in the day. Here, in 20s team, it was very
:11:52. > :11:55.different. You must have been aware as he went round that Mrs May was
:11:56. > :12:05.offering the voters and very little compared to the Labour and Lib Dem
:12:06. > :12:10.offers? In fact, I thought what was offered was the sensible and was
:12:11. > :12:13.focusing on what was the key issue, because when Theresa May was saying
:12:14. > :12:18.Brexit is going to affect everything, the economy, health and
:12:19. > :12:24.education and those things, I think she right, and we will see soon that
:12:25. > :12:28.that is the case. But it is right to say that the message that Labour was
:12:29. > :12:30.coming out with did have an appeal, and that is something the
:12:31. > :12:33.Conservatives are going to have do reflect on.
:12:34. > :12:37.Thank you. Congratulations on your win in Cheltenham.
:12:38. > :12:40.I'm delighted to be joined by a few bleary-eyed politicians.
:12:41. > :12:47.former Bristol MP, of course, and now a Baroness.
:12:48. > :12:53.Stephen Williams, a Lib Dem who lost his seat in 2015, and James Heappey,
:12:54. > :12:58.the Conservative MP for Wells who held onto his seat last night
:12:59. > :13:17.Don, where you a fan of Mr Corbyn? Has he come through for you? What we
:13:18. > :13:21.can see from the campaign is backed Jeremy ran a brilliant campaign. He
:13:22. > :13:28.offered hope against Theresa May saying vote for me, on a big
:13:29. > :13:31.majority, and get a hard Brexit. The electorate responded by saying to
:13:32. > :13:36.Jamie that the election is not about had Brexit, we do not like that.
:13:37. > :13:43.That is now been damaged. Such a huge number of people across the
:13:44. > :13:50.country have actually voted for a future Britain which is about public
:13:51. > :13:53.services, investment and a different route to austerity and a different
:13:54. > :13:59.style of politics. What the Labour Party has to do is build on that to
:14:00. > :14:07.give us the majority. Talking to Alex Chalk, Jeremy Corbyn was
:14:08. > :14:12.offering many free stuff, more bank holidays, no cap on public sector
:14:13. > :14:18.pay, more money for the NHS, free tuition fees, it is not surprising
:14:19. > :14:21.that it was a popular manifesto. The electorate has spoken. They looked
:14:22. > :14:27.at what the Conservatives were offering and said, this is an
:14:28. > :14:31.election we did not need, the prime ministers said, give me a bigger
:14:32. > :14:34.majority because that will strengthen my negotiating for
:14:35. > :14:39.Brexit, and the electorate has said no. Jeremy said, this election is
:14:40. > :14:46.about our future, our future Britain, what are our basic values
:14:47. > :14:49.and principles? And that is what people voted for, investment in
:14:50. > :14:56.public services, a different style of politics and against had Brexit.
:14:57. > :15:02.Now we have got to go through what seemed like a very difficult period,
:15:03. > :15:08.because Theresa May has blown it and her position is now untenable. You
:15:09. > :15:14.are talking as if Labour won. No, I have not said that. I said to reason
:15:15. > :15:21.has blown it. She said, if I lost six seats, I would have to go. Give
:15:22. > :15:25.me a bigger majority. I need the strong negotiating hand. The country
:15:26. > :15:30.said no. James is itching to come in. Before we come to you, let's go
:15:31. > :15:34.to Stephen Williams. You have had a rough night. Used to be the MP for
:15:35. > :15:43.Bristol West. Used it again this time and it was... Yes, it is quite
:15:44. > :15:48.extraordinary. The Labour Party, Conservative Party and Lib Dems have
:15:49. > :15:53.gone for a second and third in the elections, and now a former MP has
:15:54. > :15:58.come for. Extraordinary. I do not think people foresaw this. You kept
:15:59. > :16:02.on and on about Brexit during the campaign. You are anti-Brexit commie
:16:03. > :16:08.want to thwart it if you can, what will happen now? I think what is
:16:09. > :16:13.frustrating about this election was that every time we tried to raise
:16:14. > :16:18.Brexit, and I raised it with people on the doorsteps, they said, well,
:16:19. > :16:23.it has happened, it is a done deal, we have to move on. I think what
:16:24. > :16:27.will happen now over the next 12 months, it will be more difficult
:16:28. > :16:35.for the Government to negotiate the future with Europe, giving that BP
:16:36. > :16:40.-- Theresa has a weakened hand. There is a lot at stake. Maybe
:16:41. > :16:48.Theresa May does not have the mandate to go for it. Labour was
:16:49. > :16:53.expecting we would leave the single market as well, so they may amend
:16:54. > :16:57.their position on that, but we said we should stay in the single market
:16:58. > :17:02.and the customs union and we should have a final referendum on the deal
:17:03. > :17:08.itself. That did not resonate in this election. In eight years' time,
:17:09. > :17:21.people will be open to that message, -- in a year's time. Mrs May blew
:17:22. > :17:26.it, as Don said. I think that is a reasonable assumption. There was a
:17:27. > :17:30.life-saver called to the campaign. When we stepped out in the first
:17:31. > :17:33.week from Parliament, people were infused about the need for a
:17:34. > :17:38.referendum, particularly those that voted for Brexit. They saw it as she
:17:39. > :17:44.was picturing it, the opportunity to give her a stronger hand in
:17:45. > :17:49.Brussels. I think we, our campaign lacked a human touch. We were not
:17:50. > :17:54.engaging in the debate nationally and when it got to the stage in the
:17:55. > :17:59.to week where our key squeeze message of votes for us or it is
:18:00. > :18:07.Corbyn, people were saying, probably would not be that bad. We fought a
:18:08. > :18:12.campaign that managed to very nearly snatched defeat from the jaws of
:18:13. > :18:18.victory. Due think she should go? I do not think that is in the national
:18:19. > :18:22.interest right now. We look at what is going on in the markets this
:18:23. > :18:26.morning, it is pretty apparent that she is the Prime Minister, needs to
:18:27. > :18:30.try and form a Government and we need to get the Brexit negotiations
:18:31. > :18:39.underway. What comes in the future will be a discussion in the next few
:18:40. > :18:45.months. My view is to May needs to do in the days ahead is seek to form
:18:46. > :18:52.a Government, probably with the DUP. We need to bring... And hang on? In
:18:53. > :18:58.the short term, that is the right thing to do. Her aim is for the
:18:59. > :19:05.election were twofold. First, have a mandate of her own, which she has
:19:06. > :19:11.got, she is the largest party, she has won the election. Second, she
:19:12. > :19:14.needed a commanding majority in the House of Commons to take to the
:19:15. > :19:23.Brexit agenda. She has not achieved that. She said we have do have an
:19:24. > :19:29.election so we can have strong and stable Government. She is not a
:19:30. > :19:33.strong Prime Minister. She is weakened, and her credibility is
:19:34. > :19:38.shredded and we have no prospect of a stable Government because,
:19:39. > :19:43.already, the Conservatives are talking about coalitions. Should she
:19:44. > :19:51.go? I think she has to consider her position. Should Mr Cobb in step up?
:19:52. > :19:55.I think if he is asked to form a minority Government on a confident
:19:56. > :19:59.basis, he is making it clear that if EE is asked to do that, we will try.
:20:00. > :20:03.Do think he would make a good Prime Minister? I think he would, and I
:20:04. > :20:08.think the people of this country believe it. It is all well to laugh,
:20:09. > :20:16.but everyone thoughts to reason may was a good PM, and the electorates
:20:17. > :20:22.resounded Lee said she is not. Three out of four of the Bristol MPs,
:20:23. > :20:29.three resigned and would not work with him. Jeremy Hunt is shown in
:20:30. > :20:34.the campaign that he is an excellent campaign, the manifesto was popular,
:20:35. > :20:39.and I think against the odds, through the campaign, he improved,
:20:40. > :20:45.developed and developed a method which millions of people voted for.
:20:46. > :20:51.I think Theresa May's division is untenable. She did not have to call
:20:52. > :20:54.this election, she was in a powerful position of Prime Minister to go
:20:55. > :20:58.ahead with negotiations, so this is her fault that she is in this
:20:59. > :21:03.situation, so she should take some responsibility. Due think you should
:21:04. > :21:08.perhaps going into coalition again? We said we would not do that. She
:21:09. > :21:17.might be on the phone to Mr Farren now. It would be a very short
:21:18. > :21:21.conversation. What is Theresa May said, the flip side of being strong
:21:22. > :21:27.and stable was a coalition of chaos. Yet she is probably going to lead a
:21:28. > :21:30.coalition of chaos with the DUP. What are the Lib Dems for if they do
:21:31. > :21:39.not want to go in coalition with anybody? Tim Farron said his
:21:40. > :21:43.manifesto was not a programme for Government, they wanted it
:21:44. > :21:49.themselves in some sort of perpetual opposition. That is because we are a
:21:50. > :21:54.very large party and we just missed the majority. James, would you like
:21:55. > :22:02.a coalition with the Lib Dems? That is down to the Lib Dems. I'm not
:22:03. > :22:07.convinced that many in the Wells constituency would like that.
:22:08. > :22:09.Appreciate you all coming in this morning. Thank you.
:22:10. > :22:11.Throughout the campaign, there's been talk of a Lib Dem revival,
:22:12. > :22:14.particularly in those areas which voted to remain in the EU.
:22:15. > :22:17.In reality, though, they only managed to claw back a single seat,
:22:18. > :22:22.The victorious Wera Hobhouse was positive about the party's
:22:23. > :22:24.performance when Madeleine Ware spoke to her soon after three
:22:25. > :22:30.It shows that we are on the up again, and that makes me more
:22:31. > :22:34.happy than anything, than possibly my own election win,
:22:35. > :22:41.And Britain would be the poorer without the Liberal Democrats.
:22:42. > :22:44.So I am pleased that we are on the up again, we will fight
:22:45. > :22:48.Do you think Brexit played a big part in your win here?
:22:49. > :22:58.I think probably it made a difference, but I think
:22:59. > :23:03.the biggest difference was, or the weakest issue was,
:23:04. > :23:06.the anger of the people about the cuts that the Tories have
:23:07. > :23:08.been proposing, and I think I will respond to that
:23:09. > :23:10.and understand very much it is about making sure
:23:11. > :23:12.that our public services are properly funded,
:23:13. > :23:15.our education is properly funded, and those other things that really
:23:16. > :23:18.Underlying is, of course, the Brexit issue.
:23:19. > :23:23.If we don't have a prosperous economy, our public office would be
:23:24. > :23:26.empty and I am worried that a bad Brexit deal might make our
:23:27. > :23:33.So, yes, fighting for a good Brexit deal and being a vociferous
:23:34. > :23:36.opposition against anything that looks like a bad deal
:23:37. > :23:48.The new MP for Bath talking to us earlier.
:23:49. > :23:51.Paul, it's a time of great uncertainty for the West
:23:52. > :24:01.I honestly do not know. It looks as though it will have to be a
:24:02. > :24:05.conservative run a Government, but how they will pull that together,
:24:06. > :24:14.who they will work with, the DUP professionally. -- potentially.
:24:15. > :24:20.University places, Bristol, Bath, where young voters are, for the
:24:21. > :24:26.cinemas act cynicism of young voters. The generational difference
:24:27. > :24:29.is showing through. Younger people showing they are not getting a good
:24:30. > :24:32.deal and the old people have maybe had it a bit too much their own way.
:24:33. > :24:35.Now if Brenda "What another one?!" from Bristol is watching,
:24:36. > :24:46.There's talk of another election later in the year.
:24:47. > :24:50.The Prime Minister, we understand, is due to speak in around
:24:51. > :24:54.And Alex and I will be back with you for a special programme
:24:55. > :24:58.Until then, have a lovely morning, and thank you for joining us.
:24:59. > :25:03.at a crucial moment in the Brexit negotiations, I think duty calls and
:25:04. > :25:04.she will stay. Viewers are joining us from around the