:01:13. > :01:23.the only two counties won by Labour. The new leaders of Nottinghamshire
:01:23. > :01:23.
:01:23. > :38:36.Apology for the loss of subtitles for 2232 seconds
:38:36. > :38:39.and Derbyshire are with us, and the the trend? UKIP have made advances
:38:39. > :38:42.in Lincolnshire, but they have lost seats everywhere else in the
:38:42. > :38:50.region. Instead, Labour are celebrating.
:38:50. > :38:54.CHEERING And I am in Leicestershire at the
:38:54. > :39:03.Battle of Bosworth Field bank holiday reenactment, from the days
:39:03. > :39:07.when a swing in the polls could be a rather eye watering experience.
:39:07. > :39:13.We have the leaders from Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire and
:39:13. > :39:18.Derbyshire County Councils life in the studio. Labour's Anne Western
:39:18. > :39:24.and the Conservatives Nick Rushton have both come in to talk to us. Has
:39:24. > :39:28.its own in yet? It is starting to sink in. It is fabulous that the
:39:28. > :39:34.people of Derbyshire have put their trust back in Labour by such a wide
:39:34. > :39:39.margin. It gives us a clear mandate. We need to look at
:39:39. > :39:42.Derbyshire because we have been a bit of an outlier and we have had a
:39:42. > :39:47.fantastic result which has not reflected the rest of the country.
:39:47. > :39:51.We have run a really positive campaign. There has also been
:39:51. > :39:53.dissatisfaction with the previous Conservative council. Nick, everyone
:39:53. > :40:02.was predicting a UKIP surgeon Leicestershire, but you have fought
:40:02. > :40:05.them off. It was a tough campaign for us. Where UKIP stood, they did
:40:05. > :40:12.get 24% of the vote. We need to respect that people voted for UKIP
:40:12. > :40:16.and seek to get them back voting for We will be hearing more about both
:40:16. > :40:26.of your plans for Leicestershire and Derbyshire in a moment. First,
:40:26. > :40:26.
:40:26. > :40:31.let's look at the political map across the East Midlands.
:40:31. > :40:36.Labour took control of Derbyshire from the Conservatives, winning 43
:40:36. > :40:43.seats, an increase of 20. The Conservatives win 18, down by 13.
:40:43. > :40:47.The Lib Dems took three seats, a fall of four. UKIP and independents
:40:47. > :40:54.were left without any seats. Labour were Nottinghamshire two, but
:40:54. > :40:58.it was close. They win 34 seats, the Mint -- million -- minimum number
:40:59. > :41:06.required for a majority. The Conservatives had a drop of 14. The
:41:06. > :41:08.Lib Dems lost one. UKIP lost their only seat on the council. The
:41:08. > :41:13.Conservatives retained control of Leicestershire.
:41:13. > :41:17.They now have 30 seats, a fall of three. The Liberal Democrats came
:41:17. > :41:22.second with 13, one less than last time. Lady came third with ten
:41:22. > :41:26.councillors. UKIP when two seats on the council.
:41:26. > :41:30.There was a shock for the Conservatives in Lincolnshire, where
:41:30. > :41:40.they lost overall control. They are still the largest party with 36
:41:40. > :41:41.
:41:41. > :41:46.seats, but that is a fall of 24. UK may advantage -- made advances. The
:41:46. > :41:55.Lib Dems came fifth, with three seats, a drop of two.
:41:56. > :41:59.And, you -- Anne what are your priorities now? We have always said
:41:59. > :42:02.that the priorities of any council is to serve the people we
:42:02. > :42:06.represent, not the needs of the organisation. We have been looking
:42:06. > :42:10.at the pressures that are falling on families in particular. We want to
:42:10. > :42:14.support people through these difficult times. We are looking at
:42:14. > :42:18.growing jobs in the county, bringing in new investment and helping young
:42:18. > :42:22.people into work. We are looking at defending the health service within
:42:22. > :42:25.the county. There is a lot of work to be done on adult social care,
:42:26. > :42:30.especially for older people and those with learning disabilities.
:42:30. > :42:37.And we want to reconnect the county council with communities. Derbyshire
:42:37. > :42:40.is a large county, and the seat at Matlock feels quite remote. Nick
:42:40. > :42:45.Rushton, you have similar priorities, but you have talked
:42:45. > :42:51.about introducing big tent politics. What does that mean? We all know
:42:51. > :42:54.that, whoever wins, there is no more money. The set-up a committee before
:42:54. > :42:58.the election which will involve the Liberal opposition and the Labour
:42:58. > :43:04.Party. We will meet and continue this straightaway as soon as we get
:43:04. > :43:07.back to work, and we will decide to make savings or do things in a
:43:07. > :43:09.different way, to deliver the frontline services for the least
:43:09. > :43:17.possible money. And you think you can work together on that? I hope
:43:17. > :43:20.so. I think many of the areas where we have to make savings are above
:43:20. > :43:27.and beyond politics. We just have to get in there and get on with the
:43:27. > :43:31.job. How are you going to deliver those promises, Anne? You are
:43:31. > :43:36.talking about �1 million for potholes, for example. How can you
:43:36. > :43:40.deliver that when you will be spending money like that? It is
:43:40. > :43:43.about shifting the focus of whether money is spent. I take issue with
:43:43. > :43:47.what Nick said about there being no more money. That is a choice that
:43:47. > :43:50.the government has made. Money is not fairly distributed across the
:43:50. > :43:55.country. Money goes to the South East at the expense of the Midlands
:43:55. > :44:00.the North. We are still in one of the most wealthy countries in the
:44:00. > :44:04.world, and it is not about there not being enough money, it is about the
:44:04. > :44:08.distribution of money. All of us, regardless of politics, should be
:44:08. > :44:12.taking those are to the government. Money is the most important thing at
:44:12. > :44:17.the moment, because there is not enough of it. You have got to find
:44:17. > :44:22.another �30 million of cuts. Where will those cuts fall? This is the
:44:22. > :44:26.job that we start on as soon as we get back on Wednesday. It is going
:44:26. > :44:31.to be very tough. We are a poorly funded local authority, the worst
:44:31. > :44:34.funded education authority bar one in the whole country. We still pride
:44:35. > :44:39.ourselves on being able to deliver excellent services for a low cost.
:44:39. > :44:43.We will have to change. We will be speaking to the NHS and other
:44:43. > :44:46.spenders, and even with Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire, if they want to
:44:46. > :44:50.do business with us, I want to do business with them on backroom
:44:50. > :44:55.services where we can save money and deliver frontline services.
:44:55. > :44:59.On this banker, Day weekend, our Political Editor John Hess is at the
:44:59. > :45:01.Battle of Bosworth Field in Leicestershire, where he has been
:45:01. > :45:05.gathering results from the political battlefield.
:45:05. > :45:11.Yes, I have got to county council is from Leicestershire here, Michael
:45:11. > :45:20.Mullaney, Lib Dem, and newly elected UKIP county council for
:45:21. > :45:25.Leicestershire, David Sprason. Michael, congratulations. If UKIP is
:45:25. > :45:28.now the party of protest, what is the point of the Lib Dems? UKIP did
:45:28. > :45:36.get a good vote across Leicestershire and the rest of the
:45:37. > :45:46.East Midlands. But we defended all of our seeds in Bosworth and
:45:47. > :45:49.
:45:50. > :45:55.Hinckley. But that is not an overall trend. It is a localised effect.
:45:55. > :45:58.Leicestershire as a whole, we held all but one of our seeds, and we
:45:58. > :46:01.still be main opposition to the Conservatives in Leicestershire. If
:46:01. > :46:08.Labour were making any kind of recovery, they would have overtaken
:46:08. > :46:12.us. They have not. What happens to the coalition is David Cameron has
:46:12. > :46:17.to shift further to a Euro-sceptic line? Will that put unacceptable
:46:17. > :46:24.strains on the coalition? The Lib Dems are fighting in government for
:46:24. > :46:28.the things we believe in, like raising the income tax threshold. We
:46:28. > :46:33.will continue to campaign and fight for our policies, and the Tories try
:46:33. > :46:38.to push their way, we will try to stop them. David, you have had an
:46:38. > :46:42.interesting journey. You were a senior Conservative and defected to
:46:42. > :46:46.UKIP. Congratulations on your result. What do you think it tells
:46:46. > :46:52.us about politics in this country, and in this corner of the Midlands?
:46:52. > :46:55.I think it sends a clear message about the three main parties. They
:46:55. > :47:02.have lost it. They have lost the working class man and woman, and
:47:02. > :47:07.they are turning to UKIP, who actually represent their views. That
:47:07. > :47:15.is the big picture that is emerging. What does UKIP policy say on adult
:47:15. > :47:20.social care on fixing potholes? They are the bread and butter issues.
:47:20. > :47:25.Like everybody else, absolutely. It is wrong that older people have to
:47:26. > :47:30.sell their own homes to pay for their care. Why are we sending �54
:47:30. > :47:34.million every day to Brussels when we have got pressure on adult social
:47:34. > :47:39.care? It needs proper funding. I have been fighting for that for
:47:39. > :47:42.years. Talking to ministers, you need to fund social care properly.
:47:42. > :47:47.It is interesting what you are saying earlier. Do you think that
:47:47. > :47:53.UKIP's appeal is to Labour voters in a region like this? Or is it the
:47:53. > :47:56.Tories that are looking at the national polls, are more attracted
:47:56. > :48:02.to the UKIP message? It was across the board. In my election, people
:48:02. > :48:06.were talking to me he was saying they had not voted for eight or ten
:48:06. > :48:11.years, who voted for UKIP, because the three main parties have let them
:48:11. > :48:15.down. As you know, Nick Rushton is sitting in the studio. Is there any
:48:15. > :48:21.particular message that you have for him, and for the Conservative
:48:21. > :48:29.Party? Yes. One, can he apologised to the 24,000 people who voted UKIP
:48:29. > :48:34.in Leicestershire, that he called them fruit loops? And secondly, what
:48:34. > :48:42.is his vision for Leicestershire? Why is he going to increase council
:48:42. > :48:45.tax and cut services? Is he going to actually look at the infrastructure
:48:45. > :48:52.within County Hall and cut that instead? OK, let's see what he has
:48:52. > :48:58.to say. Well, the fruit loops expression, in
:48:58. > :49:02.my view, was electoral banter at the time. I am not -- I am big enough to
:49:02. > :49:09.apologise for using it. I respect that a vast percentage of
:49:09. > :49:16.Leicestershire did vote for UKIP and I will respect their views. What you
:49:16. > :49:20.have to say to David, back to him? He was your former deputy wants.
:49:20. > :49:24.When he was my deputy, we had a good working relationship, and he was an
:49:25. > :49:28.excellent adult social care cabinet member. He is back there as the
:49:28. > :49:31.leader of UKIP in the area, and I want to have a meaningful and
:49:31. > :49:34.friendly relationship with him. He worked hard and he has been elected
:49:34. > :49:43.by the people of his division. A meaningful relationship? Can it
:49:43. > :49:49.work? I don't think so. They are totally different. We want to freeze
:49:49. > :49:53.council tax. He wants to increase it by 6%. We want to stick up for the
:49:53. > :49:59.working class people in Leicestershire and those
:49:59. > :50:02.hard-pressed families. OK, David Sprason, thank you very much. Anne
:50:02. > :50:06.Western has made way for another victorious Labour councillor here in
:50:06. > :50:10.the studio. Alan Rhodes, you took Nottinghamshire from the
:50:10. > :50:16.Conservatives, but it was close run. One seat involved. But I've
:50:16. > :50:20.good as you had hoped for expected? It was a close. We kept it
:50:20. > :50:24.interesting. It was a cliffhanger until the end. We got a mandate. We
:50:24. > :50:32.are the Administration. We win the election, and we will now be rolling
:50:32. > :50:40.out the programme that we promised the electorate. But he only won
:50:40. > :50:47.because UKIP hit the Tory vote. UKIP had an impact... We won two
:50:47. > :50:57.seeds in Westbridge food. To lay the seeds came to us from Westbridge fit
:50:57. > :50:57.
:50:57. > :51:04.-- to Labour seats. Our priorities will be jobs and schools training.
:51:04. > :51:09.Youth unemployment as well is of great concern. We want to create a
:51:09. > :51:13.county that attracts inward investment, and we want to make sure
:51:13. > :51:17.that Nottinghamshire people are able to access those opportunities. There
:51:17. > :51:24.are other things that people on the doorstep told us they wanted. We are
:51:24. > :51:27.going to introduce 20 Mph St -- speed limits outside schools. We are
:51:27. > :51:30.going to keep street lights on, because committee safety is very
:51:30. > :51:36.important. We're going to invest in our libraries and youth centres.
:51:36. > :51:42.lands. Can you work together? Nick, you would like to open the door and
:51:42. > :51:47.work with others, you were saying. am perfectly happy to work with
:51:47. > :51:51.Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire and save money on back office services.
:51:51. > :51:54.It would be a missed opportunity if we didn't. This is about delivering
:51:54. > :51:58.affordable services to the people of Nottinghamshire, and I am happy to
:51:58. > :52:02.work with Leicestershire and any other local authority, or the
:52:02. > :52:06.business sector or any other organisation, to help us to do that,
:52:06. > :52:11.to deliver. That is what we have been elected to do. We need to
:52:11. > :52:15.deliver quality, affordable services. But you still have to make
:52:15. > :52:20.huge cuts. Where will they fall? have always said it will not be
:52:20. > :52:23.easy. We knew that we would, if we were elected into power in
:52:23. > :52:29.Nottinghamshire, that we would have big decisions to make. We will be
:52:29. > :52:35.sitting down in the coming weeks. We will open the Bucks and we will see
:52:35. > :52:39.where the commitments are. -- open the books. We will decide from there
:52:39. > :52:44.on in where we need to change. you have a reduced majority. Where
:52:45. > :52:48.the heart for you to get any cuts packages through? I don't think so.
:52:48. > :52:51.Some of the savings we have already identified. I said to you earlier
:52:51. > :52:56.that we want to set up a new committee to work with opposition
:52:56. > :53:02.members to identify where we can make savings. It will be difficult.
:53:02. > :53:04.We have got to save around �100 billion over the next four years.
:53:04. > :53:09.Will you close Snibston Discovery Park? Labour said they wanted to
:53:09. > :53:13.save it. If they look in our manifesto, they will see that there
:53:13. > :53:17.are no plans to shut it. So it will stay open? For all those people who
:53:17. > :53:22.work there, they will be relieved to get that. There are no plans to shut
:53:23. > :53:27.Snibston Discovery Park. Thank you very much.
:53:28. > :53:31.Let's go back to John at the Battle of Bosworth Field site.
:53:31. > :53:40.We are in the cafe area now. We have been joined by some very
:53:40. > :53:48.well-dressed gentleman. -- gentle man. Tell us what you are doing here
:53:48. > :53:58.this weekend. We are father and son. You said we were father and husband.
:53:58. > :54:02.
:54:02. > :54:05.You misspoke expat I answer -- you misspoke! I and the Duke of Norfolk.
:54:05. > :54:12.Why was it important to you to vote in the election? It is important
:54:12. > :54:19.because I care about the community. I voted Conservative. What made you
:54:19. > :54:24.the Conservative, and not UKIP? the Conservative Party, they are an
:54:24. > :54:28.established party, and like everything else, they make
:54:28. > :54:33.mistakes, but they have got the framework to put their mistakes
:54:33. > :54:39.right. The others, to me, they were an unknown quantity. So you still
:54:39. > :54:47.have confidence in David Cameron? Yes. Have a fantastic weekend.
:54:47. > :54:53.Let's deputy of some of the visitors who have come here. -- let's get the
:54:53. > :54:58.view of some of the visitors who have come here. Did you vote on
:54:58. > :55:05.Thursday? Yes. If you don't vote, you don't qualify for any say in
:55:05. > :55:10.what happens to you and who governs you. How did you vote?I am not
:55:10. > :55:14.telling you. What is your take on where we are politically at the
:55:14. > :55:20.moment? We are two years away from the general election. What went
:55:20. > :55:30.through your mind before you voted? I always have had the same ideology
:55:30. > :55:34.since I could vote, and the only thing that went through my mind was,
:55:34. > :55:38.the way I would normally have voted... So you are not going to
:55:38. > :55:44.change your mind? I have already changed my mind. You're a classic
:55:45. > :55:53.swing voter. Your vote is up for grabs? No. It will only be changed
:55:53. > :55:59.once. And that is only once in the last 25 years. OK, thank you very
:55:59. > :56:04.much. The visitors have started to gather
:56:04. > :56:07.here for this bank holiday event. I will speak to you shortly.
:56:07. > :56:11.Interesting to hear what people have to say. They have already made their
:56:11. > :56:18.minds as to how they may vote in the next general election. I thought
:56:18. > :56:21.this was all about local. Obviously not? We are proud of our record, and
:56:21. > :56:25.you're outside broadcast comes from one of our best visitor attractions
:56:25. > :56:30.in the whole of Leicestershire, Bosworth battlefield. It is a good
:56:30. > :56:40.example of how I want to work with the Labour authority. We want to
:56:40. > :56:43.develop a whole Richard III weekend out. We are going to develop a
:56:43. > :56:47.fantastic attraction on the site where the body was found. We look
:56:47. > :56:52.forward to it. What do you think about what they were saying their?
:56:52. > :57:02.They are making their minds up now about 2015. Elections are always
:57:02. > :57:05.fought on a combination of national and local issues. That happened this
:57:06. > :57:10.time, with dissatisfaction with the coalition government and the
:57:10. > :57:18.Conservatives locally. Time for a round-up of the other
:57:18. > :57:22.political stories in the East Midlands this week.
:57:22. > :57:24.Voters are being asked to hold onto election leaflets they were given in
:57:24. > :57:28.the run-up to the county council elections. The unlocked democracy
:57:28. > :57:32.group wants them for a survey on what information is available to
:57:32. > :57:38.people during an election. The Labour East Midlands NEP Glenis
:57:38. > :57:43.Willmott is supporting a campaign to increase the awareness of strokes.
:57:43. > :57:46.She is Labour's spokesperson in Europe. She is steering new laws on
:57:46. > :57:49.clinical trials through the European Parliament which she says will help
:57:49. > :57:54.research into medical emergencies. Knotting in MP Chris Leslie has
:57:54. > :57:58.spoken out about their street's parliamentary break. Parliament will
:57:58. > :58:01.be back on Tuesday, but the MP says that given the scale of the problems
:58:01. > :58:03.facing the country, it is unbelievable that MPs have had
:58:03. > :58:08.another break. Annie Battle of Bosworth Field be
:58:08. > :58:13.long over, but the battle of the bonus rattles on. Distant relatives
:58:13. > :58:16.of Richard III I going to the High Court to fight a decision to bury
:58:16. > :58:22.him in Leicester. They want his remains taken to his home city of
:58:22. > :58:29.York. The battle rumbles on. Richard III
:58:29. > :58:33.met his end at Bosworth, John, so you better be careful! How do you
:58:33. > :58:37.see the results now, a couple of days later?
:58:37. > :58:47.I have got the ideal political metaphor for you come and four Nick
:58:47. > :58:51.Rushton as well. There are some big tents in the background. Looking at
:58:51. > :58:58.the outcome of the results, none of the main parties have got anything
:58:58. > :59:03.to crow about. The other fact is that the turnout was abysmally low.
:59:03. > :59:07.Even in a place like Rushcliffe in Nottinghamshire, or here in South
:59:07. > :59:10.Leicestershire, where there is a tradition of a good turnout, barely
:59:10. > :59:16.one third of people bothered to vote. That is a caveat that I would
:59:16. > :59:23.add to these results. The question, I suppose, is UKIP. They have done
:59:23. > :59:28.very well. That has had an effect. It could well be that the Labour
:59:28. > :59:33.Party in some areas benefited from that. It may well be that in other
:59:33. > :59:38.areas the Tories saw off the UKIP challenge. I think we will see this
:59:38. > :59:48.time next year, with the European elections, UKIP doing well again.
:59:48. > :59:48.
:59:48. > :59:53.But will the surge start their? Or will it end their? -- there?
:59:53. > :59:57.What you think these results mean for the general election in 2015?
:59:57. > :00:03.Not an awful lot. The real politics kicks off on Wednesday with the
:00:03. > :00:06.Queens speech. Then we get back to bread and butter issues. The new
:00:06. > :00:12.rail service will sweep not far from this whole battleground.
:00:12. > :00:16.Thank you very much. Alan Rhodes, what is the first thing on your hit
:00:16. > :00:19.list when you hit the ground running on Tuesday? What is up there, the
:00:20. > :00:24.big thing you need to deal with first? We will be back in the office
:00:24. > :00:28.on Tuesday, and the first thing I am going to do his name might even of
:00:28. > :00:32.committee chairs and vice chairs who are going to take responsibility for
:00:32. > :00:36.the various directorates and budget headings that we have at County
:00:36. > :00:39.Hall. Then I am going to sit down with the most senior officers in the
:00:39. > :00:45.county council, the chief executive, we will open the looks at -- open
:00:45. > :00:49.the books and decide how to go forward. What is the big issue,
:00:49. > :00:53.briefly? The big issue is how to find out how to put plans in place
:00:53. > :01:00.to create new jobs and employment opportunities. And deliver the
:01:00. > :01:04.promises that you made. What about you, Nick? On Tuesday, I am going to
:01:04. > :01:08.spend a day at Melton Mowbray market, another institution we are
:01:08. > :01:12.proud of. I am meeting with the chief executive on Wednesday, and I
:01:13. > :01:17.will be getting my senior team. Our priorities are always the same.