11/06/2017 London News

I'm Asad Ahmad. with us on BBC One -

So in London, like the rest of the country, there's no shortage

of analysis when it comes to reasons for Friday's

Chelsea and Fulham's Conservative MP Greg Hands believes his party

didn't focus enough on what it can do for London, whereas Labour -

The mood on the street in Kensington this weekend,

where Labour has taken over, a seat where the average salary

But the new MP says money wasn't everything in this election.

They vote for social value, and their morals, values,

whatever you want to say, and it's community.

This was home to David Cameron's so-called Notting Hill set,

which dominated Government for much of the past seven years.

David Cameron still comes down this street for coffee.

He is not necessarily warmly welcomed, actually,

because of the mess that he brought with his vanity project of saying

This is now the political map of London.

In 90% of Labour's wins, they secured a majority

Jeremy Corbyn appealed to young voters, and picked up support

in a city which voted to remain in the EU.

In London, people were furious that Theresa May's approach wasn't

to say, "I'm going to reach across now to Remainers and bring

It was, "Remain people, you need to sit back and be silent,

and in fact, the only patriotic thing you can do is to give me

a mandate to do whatever it is I choose to do."

But one senior London Tory says it wasn't really about voters turning

against Theresa May's particular brand of Brexit.

I'm not in the business of blaming individuals.

What I'm saying is that we do need to look at our message

for London as a whole, we do need to have a good

offer on the economy, we do need to be thinking about some

of the issues that are very particular to London,

like the private rented sector, housing, where I think

And as the Conservatives try to claw back support,

could a proven vote winner in London come forward to lead from the front?

Is it a matter of time before we see Boris Johnson start a leadership

campaign? We have had to wait three days for him to say anything after

the election, tonight backing the Prime Minister, but how long will

the support last? He remains the bookies favourite to take over from

her. Sunday newspapers speculate he is ready to launch a leadership

campaign and he describes the claims as tripe, and this is a man who said

his chances of becoming Prime Minister but the same as being

reincarnated as an olive before he did try to get the keys to ten

Downing St last year. That went wrong for him. You can be sure if he

tries to launch a second offensive, he will make sure, want to make

sure, the timing is right. Thanks. A family with young children

are among dozens of people evacuated from flats in Golders Green,

after a fire broke out At one point over 70 firefighters

tackled the blaze as people were taken to hospital

with minor injuries. An investigation into its cause

is now under way and surrounding roads are expected to remain closed

until tomorrow afternoon. An EasyJet flight to London

was diverted when the pilot was alerted to what was thought

to be a "suspicious conversation" All 151 passengers on the flight

from Slovenia were evacuated A backpack was also

blown up as a precaution. The cabin crew told us later that

most of them have worked for easyJet for many years and have never

evacuated a plane before, and then the police came

and arrested a third man. Three were arrested but all were

released without charge. A look at the weather,

and we had a warm day today. As for tomorrow - it

will be bright again, but expect the odd passing shower

in places throughout the day. The temperature, slightly cooler

than today at 20 Celsius. BBC London is back from 6.30

tomorrow morning with all the latest Good evening, the week ahead will

not be as wet as the week gone and in some of the South largely dry,

warmest conditions in the middle part of the week, but at times

windy, particularly