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Thank you. That is all from us for this evening. It is | :00:00. | :00:18. | |
In the European Elections, it was another good night | :00:19. | :00:20. | |
In the East, they got more votes than any other | :00:21. | :00:24. | |
Of the seven MEPs, UKIP now has three, up from two. | :00:25. | :00:28. | |
The Conservatives are still on three. | :00:29. | :00:30. | |
The Liberal Democrats lost their only seat. | :00:31. | :00:41. | |
This confirms that UKIP is now a major player | :00:42. | :00:44. | |
In the last Euro elections, they came second, with 19% of the vote. | :00:45. | :00:48. | |
Last night they were first, with 34%. | :00:49. | :00:50. | |
When I joined the party 15 years ago, winning here | :00:51. | :00:52. | |
There will be two new faces representing the East in Brussels. | :00:53. | :01:02. | |
Patrick O'Flynn of UKIP is a former political journalist. | :01:03. | :01:05. | |
He is colleague, Tim Aker, used to work for the Taxpayers Alliance. | :01:06. | :01:11. | |
For the Conservatives, a sense of relief as they defied expectations | :01:12. | :01:14. | |
and held onto all three of their seats, their share of the vote | :01:15. | :01:18. | |
The people of the East of England have spoken. | :01:19. | :01:24. | |
They have as majority said, we need a new relationship with Europe. | :01:25. | :01:28. | |
That is exactly what I've been saying. | :01:29. | :01:30. | |
I have been saying Europe needs to change. | :01:31. | :01:32. | |
Our relationship with it need to change. | :01:33. | :01:34. | |
The big loser, Andrew Duff of the Liberal Democrats. | :01:35. | :01:37. | |
After 15 years in Brussels, no longer an MEP. | :01:38. | :01:41. | |
I think the country is experiencing a wave of nationalism which, | :01:42. | :01:45. | |
as you know, I don't like, I can't explain it, and I can't justify it. | :01:46. | :01:53. | |
While Labour failed to win a second seat, the surge from UKIP | :01:54. | :01:56. | |
They have had one good night tonight, that they're celebrating, | :01:57. | :02:02. | |
and people voting for them will be pleased about that, but for five | :02:03. | :02:05. | |
years, our region will be less well represented, the work will be harder | :02:06. | :02:08. | |
for me as a Labour MEP to represent this | :02:09. | :02:10. | |
region. In the East Midlands, which covers Northamptonshire, both UKIP | :02:11. | :02:15. | |
In the South East, which covers Milton Keynes, | :02:16. | :02:21. | |
there were four wins for UKIP, three for the Tories and one each for | :02:22. | :02:25. | |
The other parties still believe this is just | :02:26. | :02:29. | |
a protest vote that will go away at next year's General Election, | :02:30. | :02:39. | |
Our newest Euro MP is Patrick O'Flynn from UKIP. | :02:40. | :02:42. | |
When I spoke to him late this afternoon, | :02:43. | :02:44. | |
I asked him if UKIP had done well ` which party had performed badly? | :02:45. | :02:48. | |
I think we took votes off all our rivals. | :02:49. | :02:50. | |
I would say, though, that of the two biggest parties, the Tory | :02:51. | :02:53. | |
vote probably held up a bit better than expected and the Labour vote | :02:54. | :02:58. | |
Your main plank is that you are against being in Europe | :02:59. | :03:04. | |
What can you do, though, from the European Parliament? | :03:05. | :03:09. | |
Our number one priority is to bring back British sovereignty by getting | :03:10. | :03:14. | |
Nonetheless, while we're there, we need to be vigilant about Brussels' | :03:15. | :03:20. | |
power grabs and try to block them and make sure they do not happen. | :03:21. | :03:23. | |
We want to be there for the important votes. | :03:24. | :03:27. | |
And still less, go native, which would be the worst fate of all. | :03:28. | :03:32. | |
Mr Farage was talking about where you might put people up | :03:33. | :03:35. | |
for the General Election next year and he has highlighted | :03:36. | :03:39. | |
Great Yarmouth and parts of Cambridge. | :03:40. | :03:41. | |
Well, if you look at the council results, if you look | :03:42. | :03:46. | |
at the breakdown of who actually won the vote for the European elections | :03:47. | :03:50. | |
in those areas, those are clearly very good areas for us. | :03:51. | :03:54. | |
They are areas where we have local government base. | :03:55. | :03:58. | |
They are areas where the UKIP brand is well known and well liked. | :03:59. | :04:02. | |
There are extra areas in the East, too. | :04:03. | :04:04. | |
The South Essex corridor, looking at looking at Thurrock, looking at | :04:05. | :04:07. | |
And why do you think UKIP has so much support? | :04:08. | :04:14. | |
I think people in the eastern counties... | :04:15. | :04:17. | |
They have always approached politics from a common`sense perceptive | :04:18. | :04:21. | |
so there's not too much of the metropolitan sensibility going on. | :04:22. | :04:25. | |
I think they're very much aware of open`door immigration | :04:26. | :04:29. | |
compressing wages and perhaps making job opportunities | :04:30. | :04:33. | |
more difficult for young people as they move into adulthood. | :04:34. | :04:37. | |
I think particularly in the south of the region, there is heightened | :04:38. | :04:41. | |
concern about pressure on greenbelt and greenfield land due to | :04:42. | :04:44. | |
development in part necessitated by enormous levels of immigration. | :04:45. | :04:48. | |
So what has been the reaction to the results? | :04:49. | :04:56. | |
In Essex, UKIP made big gains in both | :04:57. | :04:58. | |
Our reporter Gareth George has been finding out what people think | :04:59. | :05:03. | |
The bank holiday bargain hunters were out early | :05:04. | :05:09. | |
in Essex this morning, and many weren't | :05:10. | :05:11. | |
I voted UKIP this time. You would normally vote Conservative. | :05:12. | :05:40. | |
Yes. Because I felt they could do more. | :05:41. | :05:42. | |
It has been Labour for ten years, then I went on to Conservative, | :05:43. | :05:46. | |
Will you be voting for UKIP in the General Election as well? | :05:47. | :05:52. | |
To be honest, I wasn't really surprised. I didn't vote UKIP. | :05:53. | :05:55. | |
Were you tempted to vote UKIP? A little bit, yes. | :05:56. | :05:58. | |
There are lots people who aren't happy about what is going on | :05:59. | :06:02. | |
Are you worried they are getting so many votes? | :06:03. | :06:04. | |
I think you have to be very careful and see what all | :06:05. | :06:08. | |
the parties are going to be doing over the next year. | :06:09. | :06:10. | |
Because unless we've got a few facts, you can't make | :06:11. | :06:13. | |
Essex is sometimes seen as a political barometer | :06:14. | :06:18. | |
for the whole country, and at least for the moment, UKIP seems | :06:19. | :06:23. | |
Are political correspondent is here. What does this tell us about our | :06:24. | :06:42. | |
region? We are a Eurosceptic region. It also tells us UKIP is a | :06:43. | :06:47. | |
major political player now in this region, mainly I think because of | :06:48. | :06:51. | |
fears about immigration, but there are also a lot of people who have | :06:52. | :06:55. | |
just had enough with the main parties and in some parts of our | :06:56. | :06:58. | |
region, Northamptonshire, Cambridge, Essex, the main battle is | :06:59. | :07:04. | |
between UKIP and the Tories. UKIP have driven out the Lib Dems and are | :07:05. | :07:15. | |
now squeezing out Labour. How bad is it for Labour? They do not know what | :07:16. | :07:18. | |
to make of it. They had a mixed picture in the local elections on | :07:19. | :07:21. | |
Thursday. A lot of their increased vote in last night came from Liberal | :07:22. | :07:26. | |
Democrat voters but I am hearing stories that a lot of Labour voters | :07:27. | :07:31. | |
stayed at home this week and did not vote. That is worrying for Labour if | :07:32. | :07:33. | |
it is true. Thank you. The drugs company Pfizer has | :07:34. | :07:42. | |
officially pulled out of an attempted takeover of | :07:43. | :07:44. | |
Astra`Zeneca, which employs hundreds of people in Cambridge. | :07:45. | :07:46. | |
There had been fears that if the takeover had gone ahead, it could | :07:47. | :07:49. | |
have threatened plans already in place to move the company | :07:50. | :07:52. | |
headquarters to Cambridge. A fire in the centre of Fakenham has | :07:53. | :07:54. | |
been described as the worst of The former Aldiss department store | :07:55. | :07:57. | |
was destroyed, It looks like something | :07:58. | :08:01. | |
from the Blitz, now no more than twisted | :08:02. | :08:05. | |
metal, smouldering bricks and There are pockets | :08:06. | :08:08. | |
of fire is still under the debris. We want to make sure none | :08:09. | :08:16. | |
of them spread, certainly not into any of the | :08:17. | :08:18. | |
buildings we have managed to save. Yesterday morning 100 | :08:19. | :08:23. | |
firefighters tackled the blaze. For the moment, | :08:24. | :08:26. | |
Norfolk Fire and Rescue do not know One reason why no one was killed or | :08:27. | :08:47. | |
injured. The weather. | :08:48. | :08:54. | |
The radar picture shows rain heading our way from the continent. Tonight | :08:55. | :09:00. | |
the rain could be heavy at times and possibly thundery, too. Temperatures | :09:01. | :09:05. | |
should not drop down to double figures for most of us. `` out of | :09:06. | :09:12. | |
double figures for most of us. Torrential downpours at times | :09:13. | :09:15. | |
tomorrow. With the cloud and rain, it will feel on the cool side. As we | :09:16. | :09:22. | |
head into the evening, some further heavy downpours just about anywhere | :09:23. | :09:27. | |
possible, so the Met Office have issued a yellow warning from | :09:28. | :09:30. | |
midnight tonight until midnight tomorrow for the heavy rain. Perhaps | :09:31. | :09:36. | |
even 40 millimetres expected in sunspots. That would be over an inch | :09:37. | :09:40. | |
and a half. So definitely the chance of some localised flooding. Possibly | :09:41. | :09:45. | |
some heavy rain on Wednesday. Hopefully lighter rain if we get any | :09:46. | :09:49. | |
on Thursday. And then a brighter day on Friday, probably just one or two | :09:50. | :09:51. | |
showers. The late bulletin is at 10:30pm. | :09:52. | :09:57. | |
Good evening. Good evening. If I were to conduct a | :09:58. | :10:13. | |
straw poll about the weather events today, I suspect we would get a | :10:14. | :10:18. | |
split decision. There were significant differences around, we | :10:19. | :10:23. | |
have sunshine and some warmth, but also this cloud and rain coming up | :10:24. | :10:27. | |
through the Channel into the north of England. On top of that, some | :10:28. | :10:33. | |
showers in the north-west, some of them thundery from Northern Ireland | :10:34. | :10:37. | |
and Scotland, so a real eclectic mix. This will drift away over the | :10:38. | :10:43. | |
next few hours, we will keep the cloud overnight, and we will see | :10:44. | :10:48. | |
more significant rain pushing in off the north sea. There is a level of | :10:49. | :10:52. | |
uncertainty just where this rain will | :10:53. | :10:53. |