my dad voted labour, me mum. those days are long gone. the labour party then in its day, was great. things have changed now. but what has changed? what's different this time? i think it's all around brexit, yeah. people have voted to leave, but jeremy corbyn wanted to hold another referendum. until last night, blyth was a brick in labour redwall, a block of supposedly safe seats, stretching for miles across the country. but not any more. we head under the tyne to sedgefield. this was tony blair's house, when he was the local mp. in the days of new labour, he had a majority of 20,000 here. now, all changed. this constituency went conservative. never. i don't believe it. we meet care worker andrea at the end of her night shift. she stuck with labour, and thought others would in this old mining community. how big a shift is this? that sedgefield is now conservative. it's unbelievable. it's just totally 100% mad. it's the biggest change i've everseen in my life. are you going to change the colour of your car? no. but derek has changed the way he votes. a retired pit worker, he's been la

the labour party? what you need is somebody the public look at and think, i can see them as prime minister. now, where they come from is less important. lisa mandy was talking yesterday. —— nandy. she was talking yesterday. —— nandy. she was talking yesterday. —— nandy. she was talking in the north, that may be in the end, what the country wa nts be in the end, what the country wants is a labour party that has leader, team, policies and we're not about people who spend the times is obsessing about politics, but people look at them and think, i can imagine you at number 10 butjeremy, iam imagine you at number 10 butjeremy, i am sorry, but they did not. let's look at the travails of left politics. in the us, a form of nationalism and populism propels trump possibly to a second wind. borisjohnson has what trump possibly to a second wind. boris johnson has what floor. trump possibly to a second wind. borisjohnson has what floor. across europe, left of centre progressive are struggling to connec

if you have the labour party, today's labour party, basically going around saying that new labour was some kind of aberration, that tony blair is a sort of swearword within the party, that we neglected the heartlands, where did we put the biggest investment in schools and hospitals? why did we do sure start? why did we do the minimal wage? why did we look after some of these former industrial communities in the way that we did...? why didn't you invest in the infrastructure of the north? why didn't you develop the railways, the road links...? sure, more we could have done. much more. much more, however, the idea that it was neglected compared with london and the south—east — and let me say something else... hang on, you are now making a speech. this is an interview not a speech, and we need to move it on, because where labour is today, and we both agree it is in crisis, is labour has phenomenal support amongst the 18—24, with young people — it far outstrips the conservative party, even in a disastrous defeat — it still has a major support in metropolitan areas, particularly

labour's vote dropping sharply. but both the main parties losing share of the vote in the strongly remain seats. but again, it's the difference between the two performances that's important here. the conservatives performed less badly than labour and, therefore, were able to pick up seats. well, you can find much more detail on all of this — including your own results in your own constituency — all on the bbc news website. in northern ireland, there's been political change too. nationalist mps, whose political goal is a united ireland, outnumber unionist mps for the first time. the big result of the night was the defeat of nigel dodds, the democratic unionist leader at westminster. but both the dup and sinn fein saw their vote significantly reduced, after three years of failure to restore power sharing at the northern ireland assembly. emma vardy‘s report on the result in northern ireland contains some flash photography. applause a major player leaving the stage. nigel dodds, so influential for the dup at west

a big collapse in the labour voce. and you see the swing, 10% -- labour voce. and you see the swing, 10% —— vote share. a lot of thinking to do for labour. christian fraser. labour's major defeat has already started major soul searching, but where does the labour party go from here. earlier, i spoke to labour peer lord falconer, friend of tony blair, and former cabinet minister. i asked him whetherjeremy corbyn had to take personal responsibility for the defeat. i think that he does. he has to take responsibility for what's happened. he says that he absolutely gave his all to it, and they completely accept that, but it has been an absolute catastrophe. both for the labour party and the country, because the country has completely repudiated the proposition that labour was making to them in this election. is it clear to you why? yes, i think we did not connect with large swathes of the country. we lost almost all of the traditional conservative labour marginals and, what's more, we lost in very many parts of the country, and your film just then referred to wa

labour's hurt won't heal quickly. remainers and leavers blaming each other, or the leader for pleasing no one. centrists raged at devoted corbyn followers for turning off traditional supporters. corbyn was a disaster on the doorstep. everyone knew that he couldn't lead the working class out of a paper bag. the party's splitting ahead of a new year leadership contest. those who embraced politics the corbyn way, and blame brexit for defeat, and those who say labour and its leader got it wrong. i feel sorry for all those constituents up and down the country in all four corners of this country. they need a labour government, and they've been badly let down by the labour party, and we've delivered a hard right conservative government with the most conservative prime minister in history, and i think we should all reflect on that. unfortunately, our labour heartlands, working—class heart lands in the north and the midlands, they voted leave. they, undoubtedly, felt that labour had let them down. so who could join the race

the new labour mpfor all be looking for. the new labour mp for putney. i'm joined by the political strategist john mcternan, who was tony blair's political secretary. who is going to replace, and who should replacejeremy corbyn, in your view? in my view, jess phillips, somebody who has not been associated with the current leadership around jeremy corbyn or the leadership around ed miliband. they have had their time and they've lost, we have now lost three elections in a row, four, if you catch 2010. i think it needs to be a new voice, a new face with new ideas, because we will need a lot of ideas, because we will need a lot of ideas in a post brexit britain. everybody is obsessed with brexit. housing challenge, social care for older people, pensions, there are all kinds of issues around us, climate change. we need new progressive ideas and a new person to be the figurehead. would jess phillips get through the party is constituted? don't the left have all the leaders, her plus the membership? that's a good question, and the member should have control of t

this had been labour for decades, labour since 1935. well, it has tonight gone conservative, and sarah atherton is the first female conservative mp in wales ever. she has done it with 45% share of the vote as compared to labour's 39%. and again, i want to show you the way in which the vote share has changed since 2017, and it is the same story is in peterbrough. the conservatives up a little bit, but they have been given the seat by the drop in the labour vote share. labour down by 10%, and that has allowed sarah atherton, as i said, to become the first female conservative mp in wales. discreetly you well, i never thought in all this time i'd see wrexham of all places turning conservative but that's what this night is about, parts of wales and across the uk, apart from scotland, are looking at gaining some areas which have been solidly labour for decades and decades. we have resulted from northern ireland which i'd like to go to

this is a likely labour hold. labour still getting half of the vote. look at the share of the vote again the conservatives and the brexit party picking up where labour have lost. 11% fm labour to conservative. looking at the actual result to seth if the exit poll matche actual result. in a remain seat and the leaves o the, accordinge exit poll, we are seeing this from labour conservative, which will call into real question jeremy corbyn's carefully calibrated position of neutrality on huw: many thanks. back with reeta and a short while. we are hoping for a declaration with minutes. you're giving a short i on northeast england and newcastle as well. ile you are watching us, you can get more detail on the exit poll, the way, on your mobile devices. bbc news h a seat-by-seat forecast. select a constituency see what the data suggests using the website or the bbc app it is a very useful thing for you to do for any seat you are interested iwh you will se the exit poll data ipulled have a look if you get aa chance because it i treasure trove of information. w

labour on 203. borisjohnson on 364. labour on 203. borisjohnson on 364. labour on 203. borisjohnson looking borisjohnson on 364. labour on 203. boris johnson looking at the majority of 80 in this new parliament. you are watching bbc election 2019. good morning. the prime minister boris johnson says he will work "night and day" to repay the trust of voters after the conservatives were confirmed as the winners of the general election by a large majority. the labour party has lost swathes of its traditional heartlands and has suffered its worst performance since before the second world war. mrjohnson says he will get brexit done by the end of january next year. there is some flash photography injessica parker's report. he knows it. the conservatives have won a decisive majority. earlier at his constituency count, and later to a rally. with this mandate and majority, we will at last be able to do what? get brexit done! you have been paying attention. because this election means getting brexit done is now the irrefutable, irresistible, unarguable decision of the british peop

they have moved into these labour strongholds, like wakefield, another labour seat that had been in labour hands since 1932 and it is now blue. and take a look at scotland. almost completely snp yellow and that has taken some casualties with it, like the leader of the liberal democrats, jo swinson. but when you look back across our map, with all the constituencies at the same size, you see just how dramatically it has changed. sophie ralph with with the national picture. —— sophie raworth with the national picture. it was a good night for the snp, taking 48 of the 59 seats in scotland, with labour and the tories suffering defeats. the country's first minister, nicola sturgeon, said she now has a fresh mandate for another referendum on scottish independence. alexandra mackenzie has more details. her report contains some flash photography. yes! cheering for the snp, it is a win beyond their own expectation. in glasgow, nicola sturgeon saw a clean sweep, with her party winning all seven seats. scotland's first minister was delighted the snp took the east dunbartonshire seat from the liber

from the labour movement, the equality and human rights movement condition. this did come out first thing this morning, the daily telegraph has chosen to give this so much prominence. how many months, was it years ago when these allegations of anti—semitism in the labour party were being made? and how has the leadership, the leaders office prepared, or not prepared, to deal with it in this election campaign? for some of us, thatis election campaign? for some of us, that is quite extraordinary and i'm speaking of it only this morning to a very senior figure from new labour, but very much the left wing of the old, new labour movement because it was known many years ago. he was astonished at how this election campaign from the labour party point of view has not been prepared for and things like this have been allowed, you might argue to run amok in a labour sympathetic paper. is there anything new in here, where the allegations come from i suppose. so that is the deeply damaging thing and here is in the last six days of the campaign. labour they are saying the

it's run by a welsh labour government and we've had a labour government and we've had a labour assembly member before. services have deteriorated and gone down, people can see that when they look out their windows. that's why i think they want change when they come to the conservative party. my role would be to try and influence and scrutinise the nhs as a social worker and a nurse. i have the skills to do that. in terms of the doorstep when you were campaigning, what were people saying to you? were you surprised at the fact labour did not take the seat? i wasn't, actually. from the thursday we were getting a positive response from the wards where we would not ordinarily have had that support and what they we re have had that support and what they were clearly saying is that they wa nt were clearly saying is that they want brexit delivered, 59% of wrexham voted to leave, it was not delivered. and secondly they wanted the democratic will of the people upheld. when you say they wanted brexit done, what are they expecting will improve in their daily lives as a result? they want to be able

2.2% from labour to the tories. labour hold, a rare bit of good news for labour tonight. let's talk about the position in sheffield because one of the sheffield seat, sheffield hallam where nick clegg used to be the mp. harry, tell us what happened. it was a dramatic end to what has been a significant day here and i have to say that the result was a very good one for the labour party. they needed it. olivia blake won this and disappointing for laura gordon from the liberal democrats, about 800 votes that separated the two of them and you are right in saying this was the nick clegg constituency up to a couple of years ago and thenjarrod o'mara took over. he had his problems as well so the liberal democrats were hoping they would have an opportunity to reclaim the seat that they feel is there is but it was a determined campaign and olivia blake has won this by over 800 votes and is absolutely delighted by that result. harry, many thanks. the latest in sheffield hallam, a labour hold and a bit of good news there. lord faulkner, charlie faulkner, a former cabinet minister and

leadership of the labour party. unfortunately, our labour heartlands, working—class heartlands in the north and the midlands that voted leave, they undoubtedly felt that labour had let them down. so who could join the race to lead labour? there is rebecca long—bailey, but does she want the job? angela rayner‘s been mentioned, perhaps as deputy leader though. kier starmer‘a a centre ground pro—european, which could put some off. emily thornberry is a strong performer and looks ambitious. then lisa nandy, young, left—leaning, looks like another contender. and jess phillips, outspoken, combative, may be the wild card of the contest. jeremy corbyn‘s heading for a quieter life — to his admirers, a heroic loser, to critics, the man who consigned labour to a fourth term out of office. they will all be fighting over labour's future before jeremy corbyn‘s even out of sight. john pienaar, bbc news. as the scottish national party swept to victory across scotland, taking 48 out of 59 seats, the future of the u

we will reach out to labour voters and labourmps and we will reach out to labour voters and labour mps and labour activists that we have completely lost. isn't that we have completely lost. isn't that what has to happen now?|j that we have completely lost. isn't that what has to happen now? i am a big admirer of ed miliband. when i was first elected in 2015i sent him a text saying i hope he would stay on as leader. i hope there will be a rid time of reflection now. jeremy has said he will stand down in the new year. it's right now that we have a period of reflection. we need to analyse the fact the distribution of votes was clearly a disaster for labour but we still got more votes than we did when we have won elections previously, so we need to have a cold, hard headed and objective analysis of what went wrong. if we rush to judgment we could get it wrong. do you want to offer an apology and so you are sorry? offer an apology and so you are i offer an apology and so you are sorry? i am deeply sorry and the labour party takes full responsibility for the fact we are not in government. th

for labour it will be very different. their mps will be sore, disappointed and looking for a new leader. one of those tipped to run declined to declare her interest this morning. we don't, we should have a period of mourning, we need to have a chance to stop and think, 0k? i've got nothing else to say. jeremy corbyn wants to mind the shop until a new leader is elected, leading through the reflection period but his critics reject that idea. i don't think you can have the proper, deep reflection that we need to have under the leadership of a person who thinks that the programme is all right, that he worked really hard, and that the only thing that was wrong was wrong was that the media didn't like him, and that the brexit message was wrong. these are happier times for the snp leader, here amongst her winners. 48 mps were elected on the scottish nationalist ticket — a mandate, says nicola sturgeon, for a second scottish independence referendum. this is a watershed election. it couldn't really be clearer now that the majori

labour voters, those heartland labour voters, those heartland labour voters, those heartland labour voters, who took a punt on borisjohnson to get brexit done, to use his mantra. for the first time, we heard to reach out to those who didn't vote for him, who didn't want to be prime minister, those who wa nted to be prime minister, those who wanted to remain in the eu, and that will be a difficultjob for him to bridge, but he has got time. he has time to think about this. so, to some extent, he can push towards that end of january date to take the uk out of the eu, as he pledged, no ifs, no buts. and then we will see what sort of government he does actually put forward. he will do a much bigger reshuffle then and no doubt he will shape it in the way he would like to take a domestic agenda forward , would like to take a domestic agenda forward, too. the only thing i would say is the clock will start ticking again, the famous eu clock, on the trade talks, as soon as the eu and uk part. then they have to get this trade deal, and again there could be a hard enter that at the end of next year if

a brick breaking a window of sunderland's labour hq. iain duncan smith's campaign building targeted. another death threat against labour's ruth smead. a tory candidate alleging he was assaulted. swastikas on an snp leaflet and a tory candidate confronting a voter alleged to have abused his campaigners. now, sod off! don't shout at young females who work for me. new figures seen by the bbc show online abuse has been rising throughout the campaign. in the first week, researchers found nearly 18,000 abusive replies to candidates. that's kept coming up and, in total, over the first month of the election, the team found candidates received nearly 93,000 abusive tweets. the escalation was mostly aimed at conservative candidates. police chiefs have been getting daily reports from across the country, after they issued advice to all candidates to protect themselves and not to canvass alone. luke pollard in plymouth has had to remove homophobic abuse from his campaign office for the first time. do you think the level of abuse directed at candidat

when it comes to labour, except brexit, extinguish anti—semitism from the labour party. and then produce a ma nifesto labour party. and then produce a manifesto that appeals to the public, not to party members. when you say just except public, not to party members. when you sayjust except brexit, and don't rerun the whole thing, but a lot of people in this country, you guys lot of people in this country, you guys won lot of people in this country, you guys won by a very narrow margin. there are a lot of people in this country who are not... it is four victories, it is the referendum, 2017, european elections, it is last night. in the same way that your side never ever quite accepted the result from the 1970s and kept questing for this moment, you can't just like well the desire in ardent europeans as well. and you've got a problem north of the border with scotland, were scotland is a majority remain country talking about the will of the people. if nicola sturgeon gets another clean sweep at the scottish parliamentary elections on a mandate that they wa nt elections on a

he bent on labour levers and many thought those people were more labour than they we re people were more labour than they were leave and they were wrong. did he bent on them or did labourjust get them wrong? a combination of both. i think something like a quarter of those labour levers did go tory so that did happen as well asjeremy corbyn's go tory so that did happen as well as jeremy corbyn's unpopularity. there is a clear collision between working—class people voting tory. it is not just working—class people voting tory. it is notjust that leavis voted tory it is not just is notjust that leavis voted tory it is notjust about brexit. it was a lot about those people turning against the labour party for reasons other than brexit. the labour party have yet to talk about the reasons and there is still disagreement. we will come to that in a moment. on the sunday times, a revolution, he is already talking about his plans for the country but closer to home. a prettyjuicy story. he is planning to sack up to a third of his cabinet. he is going to put the focus rather than being good media

within labour. this one quite extraordinary. 2005 sedgefield, the seat of tony blair, a majority of 18,000 with tony blair, after nine yea rs of 18,000 with tony blair, after nine years of labour opposition conservatives have taken it with a majority of 4500. an extraordinary picture we are going to be looking out across the country for the conservatives and we are going to look at scotland because the picture is very different in scotland. a very good night for the snp and that is going to bring up those questions about the union. yes, we will get onto that. with me is the tory minister helen whately. what that tells us is that you are going to be governing in the areas where there is heavy dependence or has been heavy dependence on public services. you are the party of the working class now and when you look at workington, the swathes of red thatis at workington, the swathes of red that is your mandate, you have to deliver something really important for those people. you are absolutely right. thou

but what will that mean for labour? how much does the party need to change after its disastrous election? this morning, mr corbyn said he took his share of responsibility. his right—hand man went further. it's on me, it's on me, let's take it on the chin. i own this disaster, so i apologise. i apologise to all those wonderful labour mps who have lost their seats who worked so hard. i apologise to all our campaigners. but that apology only goes so far. the outgoing leadership say they made mistakes but they blame brexit, believe they were demonised by the media, and insist their radical policy agenda was popular. if there was one criticism, this is a self—criticism, it is not having a narrative that convinced people about how this all fitted together. the battle for the labour leadership is likely to be bruising, because there are vastly different interpretations of what went wrong. some want a leader who will continue with mr corbyn‘s message, butjust find a better way of selling it. others want a leader who will

what were they saying when you were knocking on labour doors in labour areas? well, the overwhelming message was that the values of this labour party strayed a long way from working towns in the north and midlands. the labour party over the last few years has become a party for cities and students, and that was felt very acutely here. a ten minute drive away to the south of the constituency is the pit village of shirebrook, where, in september, we spoke to retired miner and staunch labour man, trevor toon. it was clear then that the party could be in trouble here. why are so many traditional labour supporters thinking of either voting for farage or borisjohnson? it's immigration. top and bottom on it, it's immigration. hiya, trev. nice to see you again. how you are you feeling after thursday? yeah? come on in. trev voted labour and still believes in the corbyn project. devastated. yeah? come on in. trev voted labour and still believes in the corbyn project. last time i was here, you didn't think enough people round here, former miners etc, would switch over to

but under survival of the labour party. but undeer survival of the labour party. but under mr corbyn, it has travelled so far away from electability, that if it carries arm on that trajectory, thenit it carries arm on that trajectory, then it will never be returned to government and it will be replaced by another force, another party, he doesn't identify you as the alternatives to the conservatives. so his analysis is a pretty dark one. either the party because back from the corbyn agenda or it is over. this is a moment in the labour party's history. it is not like any election defeat labour has ever had. this is a moment when it has got to re—engineer aggressive social democratic politics, and it can lead to that or over time, it will be replaced. because there is too much political energy that is not conservative. in a question and a nswer conservative. in a question and answer session, he was asked how he would characterise the current period of reflection in the labour party and he said his fear was it was like everyone are sitting around ina was like everyo

do you want to be labour leader? i am in a period of mourning and we need a chance to stop and think. i have nothing else to say. nicola sturgeon has welcomed the snp‘s new mps in dundee following what she described as a "watershed" general election. just a few hours after discussing a second independence referendum with the prime minister, the snp leader met for a photo call and celebrations with her 48 successful candidates. my my plan is the one i put before the scottish people on thursday and got an endorsement and a mandate for, so i will continue with that. the tories probably haven't yet come to terms with what happened on thursday first they were rejected in scotland. they put the issue of opposition to an independence referendum on the ballot paper, and they lost vote share, more than 50% of their seats. it was a catastrophic defeat for the tories. i think the danger for them catastrophic defeat for the tories. i think the dangerfor them is, the longer they trying to do that, the more contempt they show fo

it is a very bad night for the labour party. anna: very bad night for the labour party. jeremy corbyn stepping down as labour leader. the pound jumping. this is bloomberg. ♪ [ electrical buzzing ] [ dramatic music ] ahhhh! -ahhhh! elliott. you came back! beyond the routine checkups. beyond the not-so-routine cases. comcast business is helping doctors provide care in whole new ways. all working with a new generation of technologies powered by our gig-speed network. because beyond technology... there is human ingenuity. every day, comcast business is helping businesses go beyond the expected. to do the extraordinary. take your business beyond. anna: this is brexit and beyond. johnson heads for a decisive election victory, the conservative look set for their biggest majority since margaret thatcher. the pound is enjoying its best session in nearly three years. way for taking the u.k. out of the european next month. willremy corbyn says he step down as labor leader and not lead another election campaign. where does the party go from here? glob

is it uk labour or welsh labour? welsh labour took the reins last time, this time it seems more ofa last time, this time it seems more of a central plan but as i say the first time for a labour leader to be here. he has come here to back the welsh labour government but also to say that labour is the party that is pushing for small business success in wales. they have been meeting other small businesses across wales, also here in swansea. his supporters here today were also met with a group from the brexit party and there was some toing and froing here just earlier before we arrived between both sets of supporters. it got quite rowdy but has died down now. in the next half an hour the labour leader will appear here but at the moment this snaking queue here is going down so slowly i'm not sure there will be enough room inside for everyone. very interesting to see those people queueing up to get in. tell us, was there much interest in last night's debate from what you could see? and what is your sense of how labour feel

the whistle—blowers of the labour party right now. the whistle— blowers are of the labour party right now. the whistle—blowers are demonstrating the truest of values and it should be commended for their bravery. i am proud to have worked with and alongside them. we are in a position where the gmb union representing most labour party staff is writing to the general secretary in the strongest terms to state any intimidation and victimisation of whistle—blowers intimidation and victimisation of whistle— blowers who could intimidation and victimisation of whistle—blowers who could be identified in this document will not be tolerated and the union will stand up for its members. it is regrettable this document is in the public domain. it does however contain important disclosures about how deep the rot inside the labour party goes and all ican ask inside the labour party goes and all i can ask is you read it and come to your own conclusions. i cannot tell your own conclusions. i cannot tell you how sad i am... it may be that news

it was a labour idea. but in terms of campaigners, trying to pressure the government, we will see a lot from younger people but also from these campaign groups. the daily mirror, gift of life from nhs superhero. a heartwarming story, and nhs worker saved the life of a dying toddler after donating a kidney to her. they are quite light —— quite rightly branding her a superhero. the nhs becoming a huge battleground during the election, it was front and centre, traditionally a labour issue, you heard about or isjohnson talking about how the tories can own it going forward but clearly the top of the voters' mines and priorities, it is great to see a story like this —— minds. it is great to see a story like this -- minds. she heard about it on social media, didn't she? when people are looking for donors or particular organs all you need a match in terms of blood type. i think this is nice because also because it is inherently political, it is something after a very intense general election that is just a

what was happening after looking at it afterwards, labour we re looking at it afterwards, labour were piling on votes in london where they already had the votes and they we re they already had the votes and they were fine in london. the popular vote labour got in the selection is higher than ed miliband got. the population has increased. of course, but in terms of popular vote, it is about location and that is something which was underestimated by labour. what do you mean? it is about the fight we can pile up massive majorities in london seats and remain areas but if we are not getting a good geographical spread of labour voters, it is not viable under first past the post. you would need electoral reform for that to work for labour. the sunday telegraph and a revolution planned by the prime minister to guarantee a peoples brexit. what is he planning to do? he is planning an overhaul of whitehall. he thinks it is shocking how no one is ever fired in whitehall, the same civil servant stick around and it is impossible to get rid of them so he will change that. it is incredible, he has th

and, iain is with me now. would never go tory. mean, the labour party reall' still i mean, the labour party really still digesting thursday's body blow? absolutely. the numbered us easily won, it was the lowest since 1935, so there are mps questioning whyjeremy corbyn is still there as leader of the labour party, why he hasn't resigned. the argument made by margaret hodge there is that if you have a period of reflection, if you have a period of reflection, if you are not willing to reflect, then perhaps you need to step aside. i think that pressure will continue to grow from mps over the next few days, especially those who favour a quicker contest. others are happy to have a period of reflection, they wa nt have a period of reflection, they want him gone before the may council elections, certainly, he will have a few months to take a look at some of the big issues that labour has to address. i think we will see a battle over the reasons for it labour‘s's defeat. before we even get to the new candidates of leadership and debris to leadership, they will want to be able to say that the

then you have people in labour strongholds, traditionally labour supporters, who perhaps want brexit to happen, they think about voting for the conservatives for the first time in their lives all the brexit party. you have blurred lines which makes it really difficult to work out which way things are going to go. as well as looking at the result of the last election, as political journalists we are looking at how people voted in the european elections, what is happening in terms of polling locally and the referendum. all these things come into play when we look at which way a marginal seat could go. susanna, thank you. we are waiting to hearjo swinson speak. she is in sheffield today, we are awaiting that. throughout the election we've been travelling around the country to hear from voters. and tomorrow the last stop on our election roadtrip sees us roll into the sidings in crewe — historically a railway town at the heart of the uk's train travel infastructure. we'll hear from voters there about what matters to them in this election. let's go over to sheffield, jo swinson is arrivi

labour conservative and liberal democrat. historically a labour voter, but i have changed my vote, according to what they have said. i don't have much courage at the moment, because i don't believe anything that the main politicians are telling us. how do you know if you're hearing a politician not being truthful? 0r being truthful. i judge it on the person and i have been disappointed in our existing prime minister and the potential prime minister and the potential prime minister and the potential prime minister and the way that they have just bickered between themselves instead of stating what they're going to do for our country and our nhs and crime and social ca re and our nhs and crime and social care etc. to be fair they have stated quite a lot about what they wa nt to stated quite a lot about what they want to do, it is whether you have heard it or whether you believe it. i have heard many things in past few years, but i don't believe tell me show me and the conservatives haven't done that in the past few years. i'm ka

some people having been critical of labour's policy. of course, jeremy corbyn‘s stars is that he would remain neutral, should a labour government come to power —— stance. and put a labour deal remain versus the deal within six months of government. thanks. let's take a look at some of today's other election news. the green party has promised to deliver what it calls "justice" for students by scrapping tuition fees. in a speech in london, its deputy leader, amelia womack, said the party would write off existing student debt. she said education should be free for life for everyone. the brexit party leader, nigel farage, says he believes he can get some of his candidates "over the line" in thursday's election. he's urged leave—voters in some labour—held seats, which he claims will be very unlikely to vote conservative to "vote tactically" and back the brexit party. and back the brexit party. he also renewed his criticism of borisjohnson‘s brexit deal, saying it would lead to "years of agonising negotiations". tonight, leaders f

i think labour have been very complacent in areas like this. for me, they were given a clear message at the beginning, that we wanted out. and, because they've been messing around, we've again now given another clear message. we don't like corbyn and it's that one person who's ruined it. we need to kick corbyn out, and then we'll be all right. but make no mistake, labour is farfrom dead here. how are you feeling about what's ahead, sofina? sofina moved to leigh three years ago from dudley, where she was a labour councillor. but she agrees with boris johnson in two regards. many labour votes here have simply been gifted to him on loan. and now is the time for healing. we can all live together regardless of our political aspirations. i really pray and hope that borisjohnson does live up to his promises because i know jeremy corbyn definitely would. i'm joined by georgina wright from the institute for government, a nonpartisan think—tank. i want to mention the financial times, which has this story of a delayed transitional deadline, as pressure

the labour party we re is the first thing. the labour party were caught in an awful dilemma. we had a party which was largely supportive of remain but many of us represented leaf constituency. we went one way to leave we would have alienated a lot of art remain support. if we went remain we would have alienate a lot of art leave report. we tried to bring the country together and it failed. we have to accept that and then move on. the new leadership coming in i think will enable us to move forward on the key issues. getting a brexit deal that works for all of us. tackling the grotesque levels of inequality but the big one is climate change. five years of a fossil fuel backed government over borisjohnson fossil fuel backed government over boris johnson means we fossil fuel backed government over borisjohnson means we will miss the opportunity to save our planet. did you back the wrong person? do you think that he should resign? i didn't back the wrong person because i thinkjeremy was the right leader. we could have won in 2015 but things moved on and brexit dominated everything

labour was scott sitting on the fence which was pulled away. —— labour was caught. in some respects it was about the referendum prospect as well. a lot of voters outside of london and the big cities, they identified people who wanted brexit done and when they looked at jeremy corbyn, did not fit in with that. the economists have that picture borisjohnson in this churchillian mode... laughter inside they talk about the trump bifurcation of the tory party. i certainly think we saw it in the campaign. it would be very damaging if what they take away is putting out misinformation, made up figures, these fact cheques website saying these are not right. —— trumpification. you see a prime minister refusing to go before the liaison committee after becoming prime minister, avoided the big interviews for example with andrew neil, and it will be very damaging if the take away from this campaign is going down quite a populist read, trumpification cover there is still scepticism that we will be having a final deal... but in the end, jeremy corbyn on a one—to—one, he was

so, where, if no longer here, are labour's heartlands now? manchester is one surviving labour stronghold. this is prosperous metropolitan england. here, the labour vote held up, among the young, the college educated, the socially liberal, middle—class professionals, working in the health service and schools. when i saw the exit polls, my heart just sank. junaid alvi is 27, an accountant, and a labour party member. i think that idea that we can be that far left has been destroyed for a generation, probably. we tried, and we failed. labour has been complacent. and they took the working class communities for granted for too long. and now it's been clear that those communities are happy to vote for the conservatives. so they need to appeal to those heartlands once again. we've lost by so many that it's clear that labour can't just appeal to the middle class and the liberal elite, as it were. in scotland, this is the party of the old labour heartlands now. snp supporters in glasgow north—east, celebrating taking every seat in a city that was o

forget it was only in 2016 that labour mps by a huge margin voted no confidence in jeremy corbyn labour mps by a huge margin voted no confidence injeremy corbyn in labour mps by a huge margin voted no confidence in jeremy corbyn in the la st confidence in jeremy corbyn in the last few months, watching the convulsions going on as labour mps attempted to justify the man they clearly don't trust or support yet are still campaigning to get into number10. earlier in are still campaigning to get into number 10. earlier in the week we had a piece in the telegraph about how very small number proportion of labour leaflets actually feature jeremy corbyn in any way, shape or form so it's highly consistent with a wide swathe of opinion. jonathan is one of the few people who survived the shadow cabinet and has done so by being loyal tojeremy corbyn until now. he was advising those who decided to challenge jeremy corbyn that it was the wrong time to do it. what should the moderates in the labour party have done? some are standing as liberal democrats, it will be interesting to see if any of them when

labour partylj that scale, whyjeremy corbyn is the leader of the labour party. i was in whitefield on thursday night, which counted wakefield, pontefract. .. yvette cooper, was saying that she felt there was a growing gap for lay—by between the cities, but it still seems to be racking up big bouts, in west london, plenty of mps returning with increased majorities. but in the towns, labour? grapes seem to have really slipped, places like bolton, peter's buddha, bishop auckland, places where he would have thought labour would have a strong showing yet was kind of liked out on thursday. some of these places are astonishing because there are so—called traditional labour, not all, but most are traditional labour treasuries. some of them mining villages. perhaps industry has not come back. speaking to some people involved in the labour party, they felt they were suffering for incumbency, rather than the government getting the blame, people said that they were the establishment. picked it up a little bit ina establishment. picked it up a little bit in a john mcdonn

in birkenhead, he also has left the labour party. this is following the long—running row over anti—semitism and he claims that there's a left—wing campaign within the party that didn't want him there any more. so it will be interesting to see because i think people will have voted, could have voted for him for 40 years. are they going to stick with him or are they going to choose another party? you were saying a second ago, claire, about the whole business about new labour faces coming up, and obviously the battles you get within local parties about who their candidate is and the role of the national party. is it too simplistic to say it becomes a battle about how left wing a potential labour candidate or range of candidates could be? and how local they are? it's a bit of both, i think. i mean, i think this has been absolutely fascinating. because we've always had, with the labour party, these accusations of parachuting someone in — and that, in the past, when stephen twigg and luciana berger were selected in 2010, it was tha

in wales, run by labour, it was lower at 75.3%. in northern ireland, where the assembly has been suspended, just 65.3% were seen or assessed in september, way below the target. the debate is mainly around england. staffing is a challenge with more than one in eight nursing posts in england not filled. the parties have promised more doctors and nurses but training them takes time. there are deep problems to resolve for whoever moves into downing street. hugh pym, bbc news. we'll find out how the latest develop insight covered in the front pages at 11:30pm in the papers and oui’ pages at 11:30pm in the papers and our guests are political commentator and former labour party director of communications lance price and the assistant comment editor at the telegraph, madeleine grant. six people are now known to have died in new zealand, after yesterday's volcanic eruption, with eight people still missing, presumed dead. in all 30 were injured and are being treated in hospital for severe burns, among them, two british women. dozens of peo

and you have the local labour party leader, welsh labour. good afternoon. good afternoon, even. jeremy corbyn came here this morning and went to one of the target seats in the vale of glamorgan where he met the welsh first minister and has given a speech in swansea to around 1000 people and this is his first visit to wales during this election campaign andi visit to wales during this election campaign and i will turn to the first minister of wales, mark dra keford. first minister of wales, mark drakeford. your speech first minister of wales, mark dra keford. your speech reduced first minister of wales, mark drakeford. your speech reduced some members to tears. pundits and opinion polls suggest that labour is struggling in wales somewhat. could you have done withjeremy corbyn coming to visit a bit sooner rather than a few days before the election? it is fantastic to have jeremy here in the final weekend but it does not ta ke in the final weekend but it does not take a general election to bring jeremy corbyn to wales. he was here in the summerand jeremy corbyn to wales. he was her