:00:00. > :00:12.European election results after the news where
:00:13. > :00:17.Good evening. Welcome to BBC London News.
:00:18. > :00:21.So, as the parties in London wait to see how they've fared in the
:00:22. > :00:25.European elections, Labour claim their local election gains in London
:00:26. > :00:29.show they are on track to win back key Parliamentary seats next year.
:00:30. > :00:33.The Conservatives say they'll not prove that significant as the agenda
:00:34. > :00:39.returns to issues like the economy and leadership.
:00:40. > :00:42.Having lost councils like Croydon and Hammersmith and Fulham, the
:00:43. > :00:45.Conservatives are stressing that in the one that really counts next
:00:46. > :00:49.year, voters will have different priorities.
:00:50. > :00:53.What we have is a position where whereby the Lib Dem vote went away
:00:54. > :01:00.in large parts of London. Then it was a straight vote? Between us and
:01:01. > :01:05.the Labour Party. The choice is simple, do you want Ed Miliband or
:01:06. > :01:08.David Cameron? Number Ten. With five Labour gains, the capital eats Town
:01:09. > :01:12.Hall map may have changed significantly. Labour was drawing
:01:13. > :01:16.further encouragement from polling on what this would mean in marginal
:01:17. > :01:19.seats next year. In the marginal constituencies which are currently
:01:20. > :01:23.held by the Tories or the Lib Demes that we want to win, our sense is
:01:24. > :01:27.that we are making progress there, and we are getting more councillors.
:01:28. > :01:30.Little consolation anywhere for the Lib Dems who lost more than half
:01:31. > :01:35.their 330 Communications Workers' Union sillors. Could bit a make or
:01:36. > :01:38.break year ahead? The two big issues people in London feel angry about
:01:39. > :01:42.are the widening gap between the rich and the rest and the fact that
:01:43. > :01:46.most people on normal incomes can't afford housing in London. If we
:01:47. > :01:51.could address those issues better as a Government over the next year,
:01:52. > :01:54.we'll do much better. UKIP hoped to start following that script for
:01:55. > :01:58.smaller parties previously written by the Lib Dems, get. A foothold in
:01:59. > :02:01.Local Government and build from there, that happened just outside
:02:02. > :02:05.London. But no platform to speak of
:02:06. > :02:09.materialised inside. In 2010, we put up less than 100
:02:10. > :02:14.candidate, more than 450 this time. If you look at the results in the
:02:15. > :02:19.key areas, we have often come as the runner`up. These elections have made
:02:20. > :02:23.London once again a predominantly straight two`party fight. But as the
:02:24. > :02:27.re`election of an independent mayor in Tower Hamlets showed, there's
:02:28. > :02:31.always scope for more. Tim Donovan is at City Hall tonight
:02:32. > :02:35.where we are awaiting the European election results. Tim, what is the
:02:36. > :02:40.late snes Chris, we are close a result, a declaration we think, and
:02:41. > :02:43.they have started to come in over the rest of the country. It could
:02:44. > :02:47.have happened already but for the Tower Hamlets effect, if you like.
:02:48. > :02:51.You saw the evocative passionate scenes, there's been a knock`on
:02:52. > :02:57.effect from a delay in the count for the mayoral race there, we there are
:02:58. > :03:03.also recounts in the council elections, and now there are 32
:03:04. > :03:06.boroughs, and including the city corporation, who've sent their
:03:07. > :03:11.results in, who're collating them before declaring them. Tower Hamlets
:03:12. > :03:17.hasn't sent theirs yet through. When they come through, a for the result,
:03:18. > :03:20.I can tell you the Greens and the Liberal Democrats are feeling a
:03:21. > :03:24.little uncertain about what's going to happen tonight. The Conservatives
:03:25. > :03:28.at the moment have three seats, Labour have two, UKIP, the Greens
:03:29. > :03:31.and Liberal Democrats have one each. I think the Liberal Democrats are
:03:32. > :03:35.very negative about the likelihood of keeping hold of that,
:03:36. > :03:40.particularly after we look at the results they have got in the local
:03:41. > :03:44.elections. The Greens, the candidate when I saw her earlier was not
:03:45. > :03:47.confident but they may pull through, the Greenst have traditionally
:03:48. > :03:52.scored better in a pro`European city. It leaves UKIP, the question
:03:53. > :03:57.about UKIP, they look as though they'll get an extra seat here, so
:03:58. > :04:00.while they have not picked up that many council seats in local
:04:01. > :04:04.elections, it looks as though streeters have made a clear
:04:05. > :04:07.distinction and will have voted in reasonable numbers on BBC One even
:04:08. > :04:12.here in London. Thank you. The link to the full
:04:13. > :04:16.results of the European elections can be found on our website, the
:04:17. > :04:23.address is there for you now on your screen. Www.bbc.co.uk/london. Click
:04:24. > :04:26.on the vote 2014 link. Or you can watch the results
:04:27. > :04:30.programme straight after our bulletin here on BBC One.
:04:31. > :04:35.Just time to tell you what the weather has in store for the rest of
:04:36. > :04:39.the Bank Holiday: Patchy showers will break out
:04:40. > :04:43.tonight with lows of ten with a breeze from the south.
:04:44. > :04:48.Rain will start to fall on Monday morning. Spreading across the
:04:49. > :04:54.capital by the afternoon, with highs of around 20 degrees. Not great Bank
:04:55. > :04:59.Holiday weather. That is it for now. We are back tomorrow during broke
:05:00. > :05:06.Flatts. A very good night from all of us `` during breakfast.
:05:07. > :05:14.Good evening to you. Tomorrow the weather will be a little like a box
:05:15. > :05:18.of chocolate, you don't know what you are going to get until you head
:05:19. > :05:19.out. The weather was