:00:00. > :00:14.Another celebration for Nigel Farage as UKIP win the European elections
:00:15. > :00:17.in Britain. They top the polls and nearly double their number of MEPs,
:00:18. > :00:23.winning seats in England, Wales and one in Scotland. This party has done
:00:24. > :00:28.something that hasn't been done for one in Scotland. This party has done
:00:29. > :00:30.over 100 years, we have won a national election in this country
:00:31. > :00:41.and I am immensely proud of pro-Europe Liberal Democrats lose
:00:42. > :00:41.all but one seat. Nick Clegg resists calls to
:00:42. > :00:44.all but one seat. Nick Clegg resists anything would really be
:00:45. > :00:47.all but one seat. Nick Clegg resists any of our real
:00:48. > :00:48.all but one seat. Nick Clegg resists changing strategy, changing
:00:49. > :00:52.approaches, bailing out now, changing direction, then I wouldn't
:00:53. > :00:55.hesitate advocating it. Across Europe there are votes against the
:00:56. > :01:02.established parties - Marine Le Pen and the National Front triumph in
:01:03. > :01:05.France. We'll be looking at how the political map of Europe has been
:01:06. > :01:07.redrawn. Also tonight: Fierce fighting in
:01:08. > :01:09.eastern Ukraine as Petro Also tonight: Fierce fighting in
:01:10. > :01:12.claims victory in the Presidential election - he promises
:01:13. > :01:16.claims victory in the Presidential with Russia about his country's
:01:17. > :01:18.future. And Pope Francis closes his tour of
:01:19. > :01:30.the Middle East and visits And Pope Francis closes his tour of
:01:31. > :01:33.Jerusalem's most sacred sites. Later on BBC London,
:01:34. > :01:37.Jerusalem's most sacred sites. Later Lib Dems in the capital? And a
:01:38. > :01:40.chance to walk under the river as the Thames Tunnel opens as a
:01:41. > :02:00.one-off. Good evening. It's been another day
:02:01. > :02:02.of celebration for the UK Independence Party, after securing
:02:03. > :02:06.an historic success in the European elections. The party has almost
:02:07. > :02:10.doubled its members in the European Parliament. Its leader, Nigel
:02:11. > :02:15.Farage, said the "people's army of UKIP" had spoken and is now looking
:02:16. > :02:20.to Westminster. The results saw gains for Labour, and losses for the
:02:21. > :02:28.Conservatives. But the big losers were the Liberal Democrats. These
:02:29. > :02:32.are the results. Overall UKIP achieved a 27% share of the vote,
:02:33. > :02:37.resulting in 24 MEPs being elected. Labour attracted a 25% share, and 20
:02:38. > :02:52.MEPs, up on last time. But the Conservatives suffered a hit, with
:02:53. > :03:00.24% and 19 MEPs. The Greens have three MEPs. The SNP got a 2% share,
:03:01. > :03:03.with two members of the European Parliament. But the Liberal Democrat
:03:04. > :03:07.vote was reduced to just 7% and they lost all but one of their MEPs.
:03:08. > :03:10.We'll be hearing from Nick Clegg in a moment, but first our Deputy
:03:11. > :03:17.Political Editor, James Landale, on UKIP'S victory. His report contains
:03:18. > :03:22.some flash photography. This is the smile of a man who knows he has just
:03:23. > :03:27.made history, a man whose party is turning British politics upside
:03:28. > :03:32.down. These are the men and women helping him doing it, the 24 MEPs
:03:33. > :03:42.elected by more than 4 million people. The voters that Nigel Farage
:03:43. > :03:48.calls people's army. They looked like goldfish tipped out of the
:03:49. > :03:53.goldfish bowl onto the floor, gasping for air and clinging onto
:03:54. > :03:59.the comfort blanket which is, this is a process vote -- protest vote
:04:00. > :04:05.but it is looking like a permanent protest. UKIP could even hold the
:04:06. > :04:11.balance of power in another coalition. If you think you have
:04:12. > :04:17.seen the high watermark of UKIP, you have not seen nothing yet. Across
:04:18. > :04:21.the country, UKIP won MEPs in England, Wales and Scotland, gaining
:04:22. > :04:28.more votes and seats than any other party, the first time in a century
:04:29. > :04:32.that any other party then Labour and Tories has won a UK wide election.
:04:33. > :04:37.But these faces told a different story, the price of UKIP's success
:04:38. > :04:48.was paid in part by Liberal Democrat failure, the party losing all but
:04:49. > :04:54.one of its MPs -- MEPs. If you carry on doing the same thing... Look at
:04:55. > :04:59.the expression of Danny Alexander, as a leading Lib Dem called on Nick
:05:00. > :05:03.Clegg to resign. One of the fundamental problems is a section of
:05:04. > :05:08.the electorate are not listening to Nick Clegg at the moment. It is
:05:09. > :05:13.sad, undeserved, and maybe the media are partly responsible but we have
:05:14. > :05:18.got to deal with the world as we have got it. Labour won more votes
:05:19. > :05:22.and seats than last time, adding another seven MEPs to their number
:05:23. > :05:34.but they came second just ahead of the Tories, and some MEPs were
:05:35. > :05:39.worried. We beat the Tories in the European elections, we were making
:05:40. > :05:43.gains in some of the key seats we need to win the general election so
:05:44. > :05:51.Labour is making process. Some Labour prompted clarity from their
:05:52. > :05:55.leader. He will have to be much clearer in what a Labour government
:05:56. > :06:02.will do, spell it out in precise detail, and have a much more easily
:06:03. > :06:05.accessible narrative. Despite promising an in-out EU referendum,
:06:06. > :06:10.the Conservatives lost votes and seats across the board, coming third
:06:11. > :06:15.in a UK wide election to the first time in their history. It is nice to
:06:16. > :06:20.know our vote held up. This is that that is keeping some Tory rebels
:06:21. > :06:29.quiet, at least for now. Many had expected worse, they hope to win
:06:30. > :06:31.UKIP votes back at the next election. It is a clear message that
:06:32. > :06:34.people are deeply disillusioned with the European Union and the weight is
:06:35. > :06:37.working for Britain, and they want change. The challenge is for my
:06:38. > :06:42.party to demonstrate that we have a plan to deliver that. The Green
:06:43. > :06:47.party might have had time on its hands but the waiting was worth it,
:06:48. > :06:53.coming forth with an extra MEP to its name. The BNP caused the usual
:06:54. > :06:58.force at Viscount and bear MEPs were soundly defeated. The election
:06:59. > :07:04.belonged to only one party, and the shock waves will be felt for some
:07:05. > :07:08.time. UKIP is a party on the ascendance, tonight they are
:07:09. > :07:12.celebrating their success. The question is how many people who
:07:13. > :07:15.voted for them this time we'll do the same next year for the general
:07:16. > :07:18.election? Well, as we've been hearing, voters
:07:19. > :07:21.deserted the Liberal Democrats in large numbers. Some MPs and
:07:22. > :07:25.activists have questioned whether Nick Clegg should now lead them into
:07:26. > :07:29.the General Election less than a year away. He was the last of the
:07:30. > :07:33.main party leaders to respond to the result, but this afternoon he came
:07:34. > :07:43.out fighting. He's been speaking to our Political Correspondent, Vicki
:07:44. > :07:49.Young. As political strategies go, this one was high risk and four Nick
:07:50. > :07:54.Clegg the gamble has not paid off. He went head-to-head with the UKIP
:07:55. > :07:59.leader laying out his pro-European views, the result was humiliating
:08:00. > :08:04.defeat. Today the agony was etched on his face, exhausted and pale, he
:08:05. > :08:09.looks like a man who had been up all night considering his future but he
:08:10. > :08:14.said it hadn't crossed his mind to resign. I am never going to put
:08:15. > :08:19.myself ahead of the Liberal Democrats and the interests of the
:08:20. > :08:25.country. If I thought that anything would be really solved, any of our
:08:26. > :08:30.real dilemmas would be addressed, by changing leadership, changing
:08:31. > :08:35.strategy, changing approach, bailing out now, then I wouldn't hesitate
:08:36. > :08:39.advocating it. For the man with a Dutch mother and Spanish wife who
:08:40. > :08:44.speaks five languages, the European project is personal. He began his
:08:45. > :08:49.career as an MEP, many of those who lost their seats last night were
:08:50. > :08:54.long-standing colleagues. It is heartbreaking, frankly, to see
:08:55. > :08:58.Liberal Democrat candidates, councillors, members of the European
:08:59. > :09:04.Parliament, many of whom are old colleagues and friends of mine,
:09:05. > :09:09.losing their seats in this way. I am asking you to vote for the
:09:10. > :09:13.Liberal Democrats, the party of in. His appeal for an open-minded
:09:14. > :09:16.Britain has largely fallen on deaf ears.
:09:17. > :09:18.You have lost thousands of councillors, do you think it could
:09:19. > :09:25.get worse to know that what goes up goes down,
:09:26. > :09:31.and what goes down goes up. to know that what goes up goes down,
:09:32. > :09:35.really difficult time. We didn't win the argument but we have got to
:09:36. > :09:39.stick to the values that brought me into politics. Some Lib Dems have
:09:40. > :09:42.openly called for the Business Secretary Vince Cable
:09:43. > :09:44.openly called for the Business In a statement he said there was no
:09:45. > :09:49.leadership issue of In a statement he said there was no
:09:50. > :10:00.hold its nerve. So far no senior figures have
:10:01. > :10:03.hold its nerve. So far no senior Clegg to resign but several Lib Dems
:10:04. > :10:06.I have spoken to want a change of direction. One MP said
:10:07. > :10:07.I have spoken to want a change of had to do more to get his message
:10:08. > :10:10.across. Another former minister said Nick Clegg had adopted a bunker
:10:11. > :10:12.mentality, but so far at least they don't agree a new leader would make
:10:13. > :10:19.much difference. Let's speak to our Political Editor,
:10:20. > :10:24.Nick Robinson, who's at Westminster. An historic night, but does it
:10:25. > :10:28.really change things for British politics? Listen to UKIP and they
:10:29. > :10:36.would have you believe it does. They style themselves as the people's
:10:37. > :10:40.army, they talk of mounting a coup against the political establishment.
:10:41. > :10:43.Nigel Farage's deputy today said this was the most exciting
:10:44. > :10:44.Nigel Farage's deputy today said British politics since the creation
:10:45. > :10:51.of the Labour Party more years ago. Moving in on Westminster
:10:52. > :10:56.will prove harder than moving in on Strasbourg and Brussels. That is
:10:57. > :10:58.because more people vote in a general election and they take their
:10:59. > :11:03.vote more seriously. The voting general election and they take their
:11:04. > :11:09.system is a tougher nut to crack for smaller parties and he will
:11:10. > :11:09.system is a tougher nut to crack for able to simply bang on about Europe
:11:10. > :11:10.and immigration. They able to simply bang on about Europe
:11:11. > :11:18.talk about issues like the NHS, in able to simply bang on about Europe
:11:19. > :11:21.which the deputy leader says he is in favour of privatising large
:11:22. > :11:31.which the deputy leader says he is of the national health service. You
:11:32. > :11:34.saw in Nick Clegg's eyes in the previous report the sign of a
:11:35. > :11:36.saw in Nick Clegg's eyes in the and a party leader that is
:11:37. > :11:43.desperate, that doesn't know what to do next. You can hear the fear that
:11:44. > :11:48.people are moving in on their traditional heartlands, and you
:11:49. > :11:53.sense among Tory MPs, what do we do now to try to woo those people back?
:11:54. > :11:58.UKIP may never get power, but they have sure got the power to disrupt.
:11:59. > :12:02.Thank you for now. UKIP's success wasn't universal.
:12:03. > :12:06.Although it did gain one MEP in Scotland, the party won a far
:12:07. > :12:08.smaller share of the vote. Let's speak to our correspondent Allan
:12:09. > :12:16.Little, who's in Edinburgh. Allan, who is claiming the most comfort
:12:17. > :12:20.from the voting in Scotland? UKIP are absolutely delighted of course.
:12:21. > :12:24.They were not on the political map here until today. Alex Salmond said
:12:25. > :12:29.they would not win, they were not welcome and they would be squeezed
:12:30. > :12:36.out, he was proved wrong. Scotland is very different to the rest of the
:12:37. > :12:42.UK. UKIP came forth here, they did not get close to 30%, they got 10%,
:12:43. > :12:46.so Nigel Farage has not done to the mainstream parties in Scotland what
:12:47. > :12:52.he has done to them in England and Wales. Scotland's result looks more
:12:53. > :12:57.like that of Germany, it was the governing party, the SNP, strongly
:12:58. > :13:02.pro-EU that came the top of the polls and this will enable the
:13:03. > :13:06.Nationalists to argue that they are not the real separatists, they are
:13:07. > :13:12.not the real isolationists, and if you want to make sure of staying in
:13:13. > :13:14.the EU you had better think about voting for independence in
:13:15. > :13:18.September. Thank you. So, with UKIP gaining a 27% share of
:13:19. > :13:21.the vote, where did the party pick up most of their support? Jeremy
:13:22. > :13:24.Vine looks in more detail at how these results compare to previous
:13:25. > :13:31.European elections in the UK, and further afield in Europe. A huge
:13:32. > :13:38.election across 28 countries but let's look at the dramatic events in
:13:39. > :13:43.the UK. This is the map last time in 2009. Labour under Gordon Brown
:13:44. > :13:51.pinned back to the north-east. The Scottish Nationalists painting
:13:52. > :14:01.Scotland yellow, elsewhere it is Conservative blue. Let's look at the
:14:02. > :14:07.map after the 2014 election, and how dramatic change is this? UKIP
:14:08. > :14:12.purple, Scottish Nationalists yellow in Scotland and laboured also doing
:14:13. > :14:17.very well in London but the UKIP advance is extraordinary. If I
:14:18. > :14:21.narrowed down the map and show areas where parties came first in the
:14:22. > :14:27.local council you can see there is a lot of blue here, but where it
:14:28. > :14:33.flashes to show which parties came first this time but not last time,
:14:34. > :14:37.there is so much flashing purple where UKIP has advanced, a truly
:14:38. > :14:45.brilliant night for Nigel Farage's party. Let's see how many MEPs each
:14:46. > :14:51.party is left with. UKIP now have 24 members of the European Parliament,
:14:52. > :14:57.second-place Labour with 20, the Conservatives had 26 last time, down
:14:58. > :15:01.to 19. The Greens have three, a good night for them, and a catastrophic
:15:02. > :15:05.evening for the Liberal Democrats, down to just one, then we have the
:15:06. > :15:11.others, the nationalists among them. All over Europe voters were
:15:12. > :15:18.standing up trying to make a point of the establishment. In France, the
:15:19. > :15:23.grey shows the National Front coming first, and in the south-east of
:15:24. > :15:28.Europe, here we have Greece where the deep red represents a hard left
:15:29. > :15:36.party which suddenly surged. Across Europe, we saw traditional parties
:15:37. > :15:39.being punished by outsiders. As we've just seen, across the rest
:15:40. > :15:42.of Europe, there was also a reaction against the major parties. In
:15:43. > :15:46.France, the far-right National Front topped the polls. And in Greece,
:15:47. > :15:50.voters sent an anti-austerity message to Brussels, as a Socialist
:15:51. > :15:53.Party won there. Our Europe editor Gavin Hewitt reports on a night that
:15:54. > :15:59.saw people protest against the established European order.
:16:00. > :16:05.For the far-right Front Nationale, it was a night of clinking glasses.
:16:06. > :16:10.And celebrations. Afterwards, party leader Marine Le Pen went to a bar
:16:11. > :16:16.with family and friends. But her victory left France and much of
:16:17. > :16:22.Europe in shock. This morning, President Hollande summoned
:16:23. > :16:24.ministers to a crisis meeting. Afterwards, the French Prime
:16:25. > :16:31.Minister declared, Europe remains a magnificent project. The election
:16:32. > :16:35.has left France divided. TRANSLATION: If she's pulled 25%,
:16:36. > :16:39.that means there is a need, so let's give her a chance. Everything which
:16:40. > :16:50.is unpleasant is attributed to Europe so it's necessarily leading
:16:51. > :16:52.the people to vote for the extremes. It wasn't just here in France that
:16:53. > :16:56.anti-establishment parties topped the poll. It happened also in
:16:57. > :17:02.Greece, but there, the party came from the radical left, and the
:17:03. > :17:07.issue, five years of austerity. In Greece, the victory belonged to
:17:08. > :17:13.the radical left. To a party which opposed cuts in exchange for
:17:14. > :17:18.bailouts. Its leader said, the whole of Europe was watching Greece
:17:19. > :17:23.because it had resisted austerity. And he called for fresh elections.
:17:24. > :17:30.The party's success may make it harder to implement unpopular
:17:31. > :17:36.reforms. In Spain, the two mainstream parties each lost a third
:17:37. > :17:39.of their European seats. A new left-wing party borne out of street
:17:40. > :17:50.protest against cuts and inequality unexpectedly won five seats.
:17:51. > :17:54.TRANSLATION: The main message I want to send to Europe is that we don't
:17:55. > :17:59.want to be a German colony. We don't want to be a colony of the European
:18:00. > :18:03.troika. We don't want our young to serve beers and tapas to the rich of
:18:04. > :18:06.Northern Europe. We don't want to provide cheap labour, we don't want
:18:07. > :18:09.to simply hand over our country's industry. We want a sovereign
:18:10. > :18:12.country with dignity and a future. Across Europe, it is mainly the
:18:13. > :18:15.anti-establishment and Eurosceptic parties that have made the big
:18:16. > :18:22.gains, a result that the German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, regrets.
:18:23. > :18:25.I think that the rise of right-wing populist parties is remarkable and
:18:26. > :18:29.regrettable, said the German Chancellor. Now it is up to us to
:18:30. > :18:35.win back voters here and especially in France. Marine Le Pen has shaken
:18:36. > :18:38.French and European politics but still a majority of members of the
:18:39. > :18:51.European Parliament will come from mainstream parties. But back further
:18:52. > :18:54.European integration. And just a reminder that you can
:18:55. > :18:55.find out about those results in more detail by visiting
:18:56. > :18:59.bbc.co.uk/vote2014. Our top story this evening:
:19:00. > :19:02.UKIP has won the European elections in Britain, almost doubling the
:19:03. > :19:05.number of its MEPs. And still to come, after today's
:19:06. > :19:13.results, just what is our attitude to our European neighbours across
:19:14. > :19:16.the water? Later on BBC London:
:19:17. > :19:19.Full coverage of the European and local elections, as the Lib Dems
:19:20. > :19:21.lose out in the capital. And a full weather forecast for the
:19:22. > :19:33.week to come. In Ukraine, the billionaire Petro
:19:34. > :19:36.Poroshenko, who made his fortune from chocolate, has claimed victory
:19:37. > :19:42.in the presidential election, and promised to restore peace and unity
:19:43. > :19:45.to the country. Within hours of that pledge, fierce fighting broke out
:19:46. > :19:50.for the control of Donetsk Airport in the East, after armed pro-Russia
:19:51. > :19:51.separatists raided the building. Mark Lowen has sent this report from
:19:52. > :19:57.Donetsk. Mark Lowen has sent this report from
:19:58. > :20:00.An assault from the air met by gunfire from below. Ukrainian jets
:20:01. > :20:06.sent into Donetsk Airport, seized by rebels this morning. A surprise
:20:07. > :20:09.attack prompting a long battle for control. Machine guns roaring, as we
:20:10. > :20:14.were forced back. There has been control. Machine guns roaring, as we
:20:15. > :20:16.sustained gunfire here, as jets and helicopters have flown into Donetsk
:20:17. > :20:19.Airport, and it seems as though they've been hit by anti-aircraft
:20:20. > :20:29.fire, bursts, successively in the last few minutes.
:20:30. > :20:33.Soon, the impact of the firefight became clear, smoke consuming the
:20:34. > :20:36.airport. Kiev calls it an anti-terror operation against those
:20:37. > :20:41.carving out an independent state in the East. The airport had been
:20:42. > :20:43.blocked off since pro-Russian separatists arrived overnight
:20:44. > :20:48.demanding Ukrainian forces leave the terminal. The stand-off inside was
:20:49. > :20:55.peaceful, negotiations under way, when it seemed lost patience.
:20:56. > :20:57.peaceful, negotiations under way, Kiev lost patience. Soon, the
:20:58. > :21:02.separatists turned up, heavily armed reinforcements taking up position.
:21:03. > :21:08.They had to be quick to dodge the bullets. It seems that a
:21:09. > :21:11.counteroffensive by the rebels may be under way. That truckload of
:21:12. > :21:17.troops has just arrived, the gunfire has started again. Potentially the
:21:18. > :21:22.separatist groups have come together again and are trying to head back up
:21:23. > :21:24.to the airport. For the man who appears to have won yesterday's
:21:25. > :21:28.presidential election, a stark reminder of what he faces. But
:21:29. > :21:31.presidential election, a stark Poroshenko vowed a tough line on the
:21:32. > :21:37.insurgents. The terrorists also don't have any interest to
:21:38. > :21:39.insurgents. The terrorists also with Ukraine. The Ukrainian
:21:40. > :21:46.authorities. They don't have any interest to speak with nobody. The
:21:47. > :21:49.same way like Somalian pirates. In no civilised country of the world,
:21:50. > :21:54.nobody has a negotiating with terrorists. We are a civilised
:21:55. > :21:58.country. As the rebels regroup, Kiev stands firm. Ukraine's new leader
:21:59. > :22:04.says peace must prevail here. How far away it still seems.
:22:05. > :22:08.The Pope has visited the most important holy sites for Muslims and
:22:09. > :22:12.Jews in Jerusalem's Old City. On the final day of his tour of the Middle
:22:13. > :22:14.East, Pope Francis went to the al-Aqsa mosque compound, where he
:22:15. > :22:20.urged people of all religions to work together for justice and peace.
:22:21. > :22:27.He then prayed at the Western Wall. Here's our Middle East editor Jeremy
:22:28. > :22:30.Bowen. Taking shoes on and off when you
:22:31. > :22:33.visit an Islamic building is a conventional sign of respect, but
:22:34. > :22:38.when a Pope does it at the Dome of the Rock, the great Muslim shrine
:22:39. > :22:43.injuries and, it is more than that. And every day of this trip, he has
:22:44. > :22:48.made carefully calibrated justice to deliver messages. At the Western
:22:49. > :22:53.Wall, the holiest place in the world where Jews can pray, he touched the
:22:54. > :22:59.stones and then follow tradition by placing his own prayer between them.
:23:00. > :23:06.24 hours earlier, the Pope chose the same symbolic gesture at the barrier
:23:07. > :23:14.Israel has built to separate Bethlehem from drizzle. The
:23:15. > :23:19.Palestinians took that as his silent condemnation of the apartheid. Next,
:23:20. > :23:24.the memorial to Jews who died in an attack in Argentina, the Pope's own
:23:25. > :23:30.country. Binyamin Netanyahu, is well's Prime Minister, delivered his
:23:31. > :23:39.comment of why this was essential as a barrier. We have saved thousands
:23:40. > :23:45.because we have this. TRANSLATION: Please, no terrorism
:23:46. > :23:49.any more. And then the probe reached out with the same gesture he had
:23:50. > :23:55.used at the walls and is slim and Bethlehem. Next up, is raw's
:23:56. > :24:00.memorial to the 6 million Jews killed by the Nazis, often after
:24:01. > :24:07.they had been transported to death camps in cattle trucks. -- Israel's
:24:08. > :24:10.memorial. The Pope said he was ashamed of what man was capable of
:24:11. > :24:14.doing as he paid respect to those who died in the column was. This is
:24:15. > :24:21.radio leg is as important to his Middle East peace initiative as his
:24:22. > :24:28.time with Palestinians. -- this Israeli leg. Now he has got to show
:24:29. > :24:35.the Israelis that he takes their concerns equally seriously as he has
:24:36. > :24:44.shown his support for the Palestinian independence. Or his
:24:45. > :24:48.attempt will have no support at all. Gestures will not end the conflict
:24:49. > :24:51.here. But they can change the atmosphere, which, at the moment,
:24:52. > :24:59.would be more than anyone else has managed.
:25:00. > :25:06.Now we return to our main story, the European election results. What has
:25:07. > :25:08.UKIP's success told us about our relationship with our neighbours
:25:09. > :25:12.across the channel? Have we had enough of Europe, and are we now
:25:13. > :25:14.looking to retreat back to our British Isles? As part of a
:25:15. > :25:17.continuing series about the nature of Britain, our home editor Mark
:25:18. > :25:20.Easton has travelled to Hastings in East Sussex and asks, who do we
:25:21. > :25:25.think we are? We are country shaped by waves.
:25:26. > :25:29.Waves of European migrants landing on our shores over thousands of
:25:30. > :25:33.years. But relations with our continental cousins have always been
:25:34. > :25:37.strained. When William conquered near Hastings, like every foreign
:25:38. > :25:41.force before and after, he could never win the battle for hearts and
:25:42. > :25:45.minds. If they had had clipboards and those pens you hang around your
:25:46. > :25:49.neck, the Normans would probably have the Gaucher today bulk
:25:50. > :25:52.purchase. The Domesday book allowed them to impose foreign thinking on
:25:53. > :25:56.the governance of these islands, and ever since, the British have
:25:57. > :26:03.maintained a profound distrust of Eurocrats. Anxieties about the EU
:26:04. > :26:09.and what some see as a new wave of European invaders partly explain the
:26:10. > :26:12.UKIP surge. But does our ambivalent attitude to Brussels disguise the
:26:13. > :26:19.country becoming more European in its culture and daily life? We used
:26:20. > :26:23.to think Europe was better, it has better food, better football, but we
:26:24. > :26:29.have managed would opt all that and we think, people can come to us. As
:26:30. > :26:35.part of the BBC's Who Do We Think We Are project, do we feel more or less
:26:36. > :26:41.connected with our European neighbours? A net score of plus 3%
:26:42. > :26:53.in terms of feeling connected. But it hides a divided nation. The
:26:54. > :26:58.connection seems to be weaker among the poor, tabloid newspaper readers
:26:59. > :27:02.and those without qualifications. You enjoy a bit of French pate and
:27:03. > :27:06.all that sort of thing. Your attitude will be different than if
:27:07. > :27:09.you don't, if you aren't educated and you don't travel or work in a
:27:10. > :27:16.more traditional industry. And that is a gulf now clear in Britain. Four
:27:17. > :27:19.decades ago, when we belatedly and rather reluctantly joined the
:27:20. > :27:23.European Common market, many saw Great Britain as the poor relation
:27:24. > :27:29.of the sophisticated continentals, with their fancy cheese, flash cars
:27:30. > :27:34.and fine wines. Now, the UK is the destination of choice for Europeans
:27:35. > :27:39.seeking a better life. Personally I am more European. Are you?
:27:40. > :27:44.Absolutely! As in I go and visit Europe a lot, I spend a lot of time
:27:45. > :27:49.there. I love Europe. I think we are drifting away from Europe. We have
:27:50. > :27:52.to be now, don't we? We have all being hypocrites when it came to
:27:53. > :27:57.Europe anyway. We would withdraw when things get a bit tough. We are
:27:58. > :28:03.more continental than we would like to let on, but whether we welcome or
:28:04. > :28:07.resent the consequences of that will depend on how we view globalisation.
:28:08. > :28:10.As an opportunity or a threat. Let's go back to our political
:28:11. > :28:16.editor Nick Robinson, on a momentous day for British politics. Today has
:28:17. > :28:22.felt like a rejection of Europe, both here and on the continent.
:28:23. > :28:27.Gas, for decades, there was a simple rule in British politics. -- yes.
:28:28. > :28:34.Stand up for Brussels and you were doomed for failure. Yet it feels
:28:35. > :28:40.here in the UK and across Europe, that change with these results
:28:41. > :28:44.today. -- that changed. Tonight, leaders meet in Brussels to talk
:28:45. > :28:48.about how to respond, and the Prime Minister has a relief in calling his
:28:49. > :28:53.colleagues to say, you do message of the ballot box. And the question
:28:54. > :28:58.here and there is, what exactly does that mean? Europe's leaders willing
:28:59. > :29:06.to change? Will they? Can they? Thank you. That is all from us for
:29:07. > :29:07.this evening. It is good night from