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  • let the healing begin, Boris Johnson declared today in a victory speech on the steps of number 10 aimed at bringing a fractured country back together.

  • He insisted the focus would be on the N hs, but his landslide victory puts Brexit right back on the immediate agenda.

  • The withdraw bill likely to go before MPs next week and it will put Scottish independence front and center too, thanks to a resurgent S M P.

  • As for Labor, with their worst results since the thirties, the political recrimination Sze begin on the search for a new leader.

  • Let's take a look at the result by numbers.

  • With all suits declared, the Conservatives have 365.

  • M P's Labor has 203 fewer than Michael Foot one in none.

  • In the 1983 election, the SNP will have 48 seats on the Lib Dems just 11.

  • All that means Boris Johnson would enjoy a majority of 80.

  • The Tories have gained 47 seats on the 2017 results.

  • Labor have lost 59 the SNP picked up 13 and the Lib Dems are down one, Boris Johnson, one, just over 43% of the vote only a slight improvement on Theresa May's performance, but Labour took just 32%.

  • With the Lib Dems on 11.

  • The big story Labour's vote share is down by nearly 8% points on especially in his northern Heartlands.

  • The Lib Dem vote did rise significantly, but not enough to win seats.

  • Our political editor, Gary Given, is with me again.

  • Gary.

  • The big significance of last night is that Brexit is now happening.

  • If you have a pro second referendum banner of blueberry with stars on it, put it away in the cupboard, that is not goingto happen.

  • What is gonna happen is Brexit on Boris Johnson is going to move as fast as he possibly can to make sure that the first phase of that the delivery of the divorce bill into law us.

  • Actually technically leaving you happens very quickly, potentially with the second reading of that bill a week today.

  • What he does actually, in terms of the new relationship is an interesting open question because an awful lot of people are wondering where exactly he will take that.

  • Everybody's wondering whether he can remotely keep to the timetable has set.

  • But all of that, getting over the timetable blurring that may be attacking slightly closer to Europe than people might expect.

  • All of that becomes possible because he's a man with a great, big, hefty majority now something we haven't seen, of course, in Downing Street for some time.

  • But the other massive thing about last night is what it does for the realignment of British politics.

  • You've been talking there about what's happened toe Labor's hard plans.

  • The most obvious comparison that we keep going back to to understand last night is what happened under Michael Foot in 1983 when the party reduced to what we thought Waas.

  • It's irreducible Corps Labor now controls only half of the seats that were in that irreducible core.

  • It is an extraordinary transformation of our politics on the seats that they are left with are potentially more vulnerable to other sort of sweets and changes or new political movements that could crop up.

  • We have, of course, a different kind of general election in Scotland.

  • It looks as their constitutional crisis is coming towards us in Northern Ireland, as you said some very interesting changes with the first time unionist not holding the majority of seats.

  • There are occasionally general elections.

  • We have seen them in the past.

  • Where not march actually changes.

  • This is most emphatically not one of those he's back on with the majority bigger, the many and his team had ever dared to dream off.

  • Boris Johnson, now the most powerful prime minister since Tony Blair, and after the queen formally asked him to form a government, he spoke to those voters in the old labour Heartlands who'd given him their votes to all those who voted for us for the first time are those whose pencils may have wavered over the ballot.

  • You heard the voices of their parents and their grand parents whispering anxiously in their ears.

  • I say Thank you for the trust you have placed in us and in me, and we will work round the clock to repay your trust and to deliver on your priorities with a parliament that works for you.

  • Watched by his team, including advisor Dominic Cummings, he called on the nation to come together.

  • I frankly urge everyone on either side of what are after three years, three and 1/2 years after all, an increasingly arid argument I urge everyone to find closure on DDE.

  • Let the healing begin.

  • Ian Levy, the Conservative Party candidate.

  • 17.

  • It was a night of Tory winds in seats.

  • Labor thought it could not lose like live facet law to the drawn out saga of Brexit driving leaves supporting labor backers into the arms of the Tories.

  • But you couldn't some said, sparkle the blame on Brexit.

  • It wasn't just about Brexit.

  • It was so Spider about perceptions of the party and the leadership.

  • Has Jeremy Corbyn cost you your job tonight?

  • Absolutely completely.

  • But I shouldn't be surprised in that, because Jeremy Corbyn and I have very, very little in common.

  • We just happen to be members of Corbin was a disaster on the doorstep.

  • Everyone knew that he couldn't leave the working class out of a paper bag.

  • Now John's developed this momentum group, this party within a party aiming to keep the purity the culture of betrayal goes on.

  • You'll hear it now more and more over the next couple of days, as these this look, cults get their act together.

  • I want him out of the party.

  • I want the mental gone.

  • I think that would be a disaster for the Labour Party on a disaster for the politics wheeled out of Labour campaign headquarters, a whiteboard of Tory games?

  • Was it wiped clean?

  • What did they give up?

  • Writing them down?

  • There were 54 story gains from labor.

  • Jeremy Corbyn announced he'd stand down when a new leader was in place.

  • Process aide said that could take a minimum of three months.

  • He insisted his manifesto was the right one, but the media had been hostile.

  • Brexit was at the heart of labor's disastrous result.

  • I think the issue that dominated this election ultimately was Brexit.

  • Our policies have named some.

  • There are many.

  • Many others I could name were actually all of them individually, very popular.

  • There was no there was no huge debate or disagreement in the party about any of the policies in our manifesto.

  • Theo labor targets that slipped from the party's grasp tonight unites general secretary Land.

  • McCloskey described a manifesto, is an incontinent mess of unbelievable promises.

  • While labor argues about where next back in number 10 Dominic Cummings has been leading the planning for domestic policy.

  • Some in Whitehall worry what he might have in store this morning.

  • cameras caught him offering his hand to the Cabinet secretary.

  • Sir Mark said.

  • Well, no.

  • Well, one thing.

  • Definitely in store.

  • The fast track progress of the Brexit divorce bill after another queen speech next Thursday.

  • The second reading is expected a week today, majority now guaranteed Just as a strengthened Boris Johnson implements a plan more than Islands Gup lows, the party's lost its deputy leader, Nigel Dogs and unionists for the first time no longer hold the majority of Northern Ireland.

  • Westminster seats the lid EMS Jo Swinson had called for this early election and was its biggest casualty, losing her seat to the SNP five months into her leadership.

  • Whether people attacked my vision or my voice, my ideas or my earrings one off the realities off smashing glass ceilings is that a lot of broken glass comes down on your head.

  • On a personal level, I do feel for Jo Swinson it's no easy to lead a campaign on dhe.

  • You have to lose.

  • Her seat is a really, really crew blue.

  • So, yes, I do have a lot of sympathy.

  • All that was well hidden when Nicholas Sturgeon actually heard the news.

  • There was a lot for the SNP to celebrate back up to 48 of the 59 seats in Scotland.

  • The SNP leader says Boris Johnson must now give Scotland a second referendum on independence cools.

  • She believes Brexit will greatly strengthen.

  • Getting Brexit done is now the irrefutable, irresistible, unarguable decision of the British people on dhe.

  • With this election, I think we put an end to all those middle, miserable threats.

  • Of a second reference, Hey insists he wants to meld one nation.

  • But looking at how leave and remain seats voted differently.

  • You see how difficult that might be if you look at the seats that voted strongly for leave 60% plus was much bigger swing to the Tories here if it was up to them.

  • If all the seats behave like these, the Tories would have 118 majority.

  • Now, look at seats that voted strongly for remain in the referendum, and the swings are different.

  • If it was down to them, the Tories would be clinging on with the majority of six.

  • As it is, he's back with 18.

  • A whole new voter base.

  • He must please a timetable for you.

  • Trade negotiations, many think unachievable, massive majority that gives a leader authority toe act not seen in this place some years.

  • Well, earlier, I spoke to the conservative MP Gillian Keegan, and I began by asking her how Boris Johnson can unite the country when the election results suggest it is still bitterly divided.

  • I don't think the votes do suggest it's bitterly divided.

  • I mean, you know, we've been talking about one nation conservatism.

  • We actually represent every nation.

  • We have more seats in Wales.

  • Now.

  • We have six seats still in Scotland.

  • We got seats in the Northeast, the Northwest.

  • We've got seats in the middle and we got seats all over the country.

  • So we represent every part of the country, represent every different type of people in the country as well from every city, different socio demographic.

  • So that's the start.

  • If you're talking about, leave on remain how you unite those people who still may feel they want to remain in.

  • The answer there is to do a sensible Brexit a good deal with the you.

  • Andi, make sure the voices off the four nations, and particularly young people, are heard in the next stage of the negotiation Do you see any problem with Boris Johnson claiming and mandates for leaving the EU when in fact more people voted for parties that wants a second referendum will to revoke than parties that have committed to leave it in our system?

  • If this doesn't give a mandate, nothing ever will.

  • Of course it does, you know, Look, the Parliament has been stark.

  • The British people have basically cleared the way through and said, Here you go, get on with it.

  • We want to leave with a deal.

  • And so what kind of government do you think this is going to be?

  • I mean, because we've heard this before.

  • We heard this from Theresa May, talking about wanting to tackle the great injustices on nothing very much happened.

  • Do you think he will deliver when he says, you know, he wants to address the concerns of those people who lent him their votes, that that is what we all want to do?

  • The Labour Party, another party is trying to pretend or sores, tried to proclaim that they've got superior value sets.

  • Every single person in politics wants to tackle the same issues we have in our country.

  • We just think we've got a better, more credible plan to do it.

  • Do you have any concerns about the other agendas that go along with this, though I mean those sort of rather oblique references in the Conservative Party manifesto to looking at the Constitution, the Supreme Court, their approach to the media, all of those source of things could change at the same time.

  • I don't because honestly, I think what is what defines the conservative heart in the reason I'm a conservative is sensible, pragmatic policies.

  • So the Conservative Party is never going to be extreme.

  • People try to paint us as extreme, but we're not.

  • We're actually a centrist by nature, very centrist.

  • This majority means we will have the ability to be a true one nation conservative government, unlike that way haven't seen for decades.

  • And I'm very excited about that.

  • Do you think that goes for the people around Boris Johnson as well?

  • I don't know that.

  • I guess you're talking about Dominic Cummings and some of those people.

  • I don't know that, but you know, there's a lot of extreme talk in this.

  • In this conversation, it was all really around Brexit on, you know you have very extreme positions like the Lib Dems.

  • Andi, you had very extreme positions like the Brexit party on.

  • You know, they paint Dominic Cummings out to be, you know, somewhere somewhere, you know, extreme as well.

  • I don't see that what he's delivered is a a, you know, a conservative he's helped deliver conservative majority on for people all over the country.

  • You know, his strategy on the strategy that the prime minister had with many other people is has been successful.

  • I mean, you've always wanted to moderate the party's position on Brexit.

  • Do you think there is any problem with the Brexit that is sensible in your terms when there are lots of people who have voted conservative who might otherwise have voted for the Brexit party on one something a bit harder?

  • Can you actually satisfy everybody?

  • Actually, if you look it with three and 1/2 years worth of work that's being done with civil servants with everybody else, it is clear that what you need to do to solve the problem of Brexit is you need to get something that unpick ce a 45 year old relationship without damaging everything on dhe give us the opportunity to build a future collaborative, arrange it with you.

  • That's what we'll do.

  • It's a simple as that, Keegan.

  • Thank you very much, Thank you Well, while Boris Johnson has been talking about unity, hundreds of protesters descended outside Downing Street tonight.

  • Theo Whitehall was briefly closed to traffic in both directions as the crowds waving placards declaring Defy Torrey Rule, began heading northwards towards London's busy Piccadilly.

  • Well, we'll be back here in Westminster later in the program.

  • But now over to Kathy, who's in Wakefield?

  • Thanks, Chris.

  • Welcome to the red Shed, the Labour Club in Wakefield, a constituency wants the cornerstone of the party's so called Red Wall.

  • Now that's a swathe of the country which marks out from coast to coast huge areas of solid labor seeds.

  • But now that read, war has crumbled, with the conservatives picking up our host of those seats Instead, many of the 60 Labour MPs who lost their jobs last night turned angrily on Jeremy Corbyn, saying he was simply unelectable.

  • But for plenty of voters across the north, it was the party's ambiguity over Brexit, which was to blame, like here in Wakefield, where Labour's Mary Kray was a prominent remain voice on suffered the consequences as the Conservatives won for the first time since 1931.

  • Our political correspondent Liz Bates, is here.

  • Well, is this was a historic night here, make it wasa and the thing that really stood out for May actually was the political shift that's happened in this area.

  • I grew up just down the road from here in Rob's room and to see those seats last night going conservative.

  • That just wouldn't have happened a few years ago.

  • So big change over a really short period of time.

  • The second thing that I really noticed is that among Labour MPs and activists, there was a lot of shock, actually at the level of losses that they were enduring.

  • But when we went out into the streets and spoke to vote to voters, they were actually not that surprised.

  • Which suggests that actually, that relationship between Labor on its post industrial Heartlands has been breaking down maybe quite a long time longer than this general election period, certainly on.

  • Of course, this was a really difficult night for the Labour Party, but this also offers a big opportunity to the Conservatives, and they understand that.

  • I think I was speaking to number 10 last night even before the results were coming in, and they were saying they understand that they have to adapt their program for government to reflect the political needs of these huge sways sways of new voters that they have across the country.

  • So that is the political challenge that Boris Johnson will face during his premiership.

  • But of course, a really tough night for labor last night on This is how it all played out in bolts over Darvish.

  • Rehearsals for the Christmas production are in full swing, but it's in the room next door that the real drama is unfolding.

  • Voters here and across the North are turning out, but this time they're painting these labour Heartland towns blue.

  • First time ever that you've changed.

  • You switched corbin.

  • The Poles had narrowed.

  • But on the doorstep, labor activists had heard that Brexit, on their party leader, were driving voters away as voting closed box loads of ballot papers swiftly turned those fears into devastating reality.

  • When I do hereby declare that Mark Peter Fletcher is elected, deserve as member of parliament for the constituency of balls, and as Labor's Redwall began to collapse, there were more casualties down the road in Doncaster.

  • Calendar has just lost her Don Valley seat here tonight, amid a labor comes in, it's Hartmann's senior figures are blaming Brexit.

  • But there are much more fundamental questions for the party to answer.

  • What happened tonight for labor?

  • I just want to have a bit of time.

  • Can I just ask you?

  • Is it time to Jeremy Corbyn to step down now?

  • Yes, Who is to blame for what's happened too late?

  • It's not.

  • I think it's a combination of factors.

  • Play one is, I think Jeremy Corbyn is a leader.

  • Time and time again on the doorstep, people said, I like you, I'm a labor through and through.

  • My dad was a miner.

  • My granddad was minor, be turning in his grave if I didn't vote labour.

  • But I just can't vote labour whilst that man is your leader.

  • And what was most cut me the last couple of years is the disrespect that has been meted out to my voters, you know, buy, you know, because I voted leave.

  • The current labour leader has said he won't fight another election, but a former Labour leader wasn't in the mood to talk.

  • Mr Miliband, this is a terrible, terrible night for your party.

  • Do you really have nothing to say at all?

  • Across Yorkshire, nine Labour seats went conservative, including Wakefield.

  • Mary Cray lost her Wakefield seat here last night.

  • She was one of dozens of Labour MPs to lose out as the party's over its biggest defeat since 1935.

  • And as one senior insider pointed out, to me, it could have been so much worse with many more seats seeing huge majorities slashed to just one or 2000 creating a sea of marginals in what used to be a labor dominated landscape.

  • This morning the party, rather than uniting to face up to this defeat, is more divided than ever over who or what is to blame.

  • I'm absolutely elated, really.

  • Why therapy carbon?

  • I'll do it.

  • Gun, We go nice, You guys he voted for Sorry.

  • Yes.

  • Have you ever Normally I'm labor?

  • Will people ever go back to labor?

  • Do you think I think so?

  • I think it was a bit of a protest vote.

  • We'll wait and see.

  • So the voters have spoken The question now is.

  • Can labor rebuild the Red Wall or have the Tories tourney it down for good?

  • Well, I'm joined now by Labour's shadow minister for women and equalities now sharp Nashar.

  • Should the leadership take responsibility for this historic defeat?

  • I think there's a lot of responsibility to be had by lots of people.

  • And but one of the leadership is take responsibility because what, what?

  • Jeremy has said that he will not be taking this in to a next general election.

  • I mean, that's the right thing to do.

  • He's given me the media.

  • He's blamed Brexit.

  • He hasn't started playing myself well, very.

  • Brexit has played a role Catholic, and we know that we've seen that by the results, the kind of results that we had, you know, in those largely leaves Seat Mary's here in Wakefield.

  • You know, she was a heavy remain.

  • Er she was very clear about her position on that.

  • The price that imagine it's really, really sad party, particularly for the colleagues.

  • But shouldn't there have been a little bit more humility from the leadership in apology, even to those 60 colleagues of yours who lost their seats?

  • I'm very very sorry and I understand that Jeremy did say he was very sorry this morning for the 60 people that have lost their seats.

  • That's my understanding of it.

  • Andi, I'm very sorry that we've lost so many colleagues.

  • Very, very, very good people up and down the country.

  • It really, really is heartbreaking.

  • And I'm sorry for our constituents of my constituents who returned me to Parliament to be their voice into three idea of a Tory the next five years continued austerity that will impact on places like where I completed Bradford West.

  • It really is heartbroken mentioned Brexit, you've said you're sorry for the losses of your colleagues.

  • Was Jeremy Corbyn ultimately just unelectable out policies?

  • If you look at 2017 camp, so what we had way had a manifesto.

  • That money faster we went out on was gave us the results that we had in 2017.

  • In fairness to 2017 when we had the idea that we put this manifesto, they were also very popular.

  • But the manifesto did not cut through Brexit because of the leadership time again, on the doorstep of Labour MPs, your colleagues have not sexy and those that kept them, said Jeremy Corbyn, kept coming up was an opinion poll, which said 43% of people said that the reason they didn't vote Labour was because of Jeremy Corbyn.

  • I think this is a competition.

  • I think this is the conversation that the leadership and anything you need to be having the shadow Cabinet need to be having once we get back to London on one's people have way need to be having those conversations and really, really died.

  • Dressing on thinking what did go wrong.

  • Union boss Len McCluskey said that one of the key reasons for Labor losing was the allegations of antisemitism, which just didn't knock on the head.

  • Now you apologize for an anti Semitic Facebook post that you should Leader seemed to find it a lot harder to apologize.

  • Yes, there was a German did apologize.

  • He apologized when closed.

  • Yes, so he has apologized.

  • I'm very, very clear that we have changed the system, what we did have with the system.

  • But that wasn't fit for purpose.

  • Dealing with the level of complaints about an increase in membership we've now addressed without have we dimension.

  • Jeremy has set himself.

  • He would look, he would have done things differently on apologized.

  • I think absolutely, that's a fair point, that we could have done things differently.

  • Otherwise we wouldn't have been in that position just quickly.

  • I mean, the next Labour leader.

  • Should it be a woman in your view?

  • Well, I think that conversation haven't started until the NEC's decision.

  • But yes, I would like to see a woman leading Labour Party and that would be amazing right along.

  • We've got amazing talent way really have got some amazing women in the Labour Party, So yeah, it's we'll see when we get back now.

  • Shell.

  • Thanks very much for joining me.

  • So now?

  • Well, at one end of the all important Red Wall is Tony Blair's former seat of Sedgefield.

  • It was always considered rock solid labor, but now has a new conservative MP are north of England correspondent Claire Fallon.

  • Is there Claire?

  • When you think Sedgefield, chances are you think Tony Blair, 1997 Labour landslide and in the last 24 hours way have had another huge shift in British politics.

  • The Red Wall, as it's been described, is now frankly, more of a collection of Red Islands across the north in the Midlands.

  • But this is Sedgefield.

  • It's Tony Bless Old constituency.

  • It's been labor since the 19 thirties is an old mining area and it had a majority of 6000.

  • So few seriously thought that Sedgefield would go blue.

  • And yet it did.

  • Earlier today I spoke to now ex Labour MP for this area.

  • He told me All of this is about more.

  • Brexit will have him in a moment.

  • But first, let's hear from the new conservative MP.

  • I don't want to be just the Brexit decision, but it's up to me to me to prove that, you know, conservatives can look after this part of the world.

  • That's what we'll do.

  • You're saying that the Tory party needs to now be a party off the north.

  • By inference, it hasn't been up until this point.

  • Well, if you actually come around and knock a few doors with me, what you find is actually comment goes further back than that when I get is 20.

  • Blow was Our Prime Minister is our MP.

  • And he didn't do anything for Rose here.

  • He was too busy.

  • Do we know the things when you've got people who live of orders all their lives sent you on the doorstep.

  • Phil, I can't vote labour at this time.

  • That money's stopping may for importantly, ever needs of people in the seventies.

  • And the readies are being labor all the lives.

  • And it's just heartbreaking, really.

  • You know, you actually put you actually put your own supporters through that to make a choice of one not being able to devote lever anymore.

  • Put the vote Ori to make sure that the leader of the Labour Party doesn't become prime minister.

  • That's tragic, you know.

  • It's also worth saying.

  • I think that there is really a brutal reality of politics because last night 60 people who were the sitting N P in their constituency you were hoping to carry on representing their area went to account and found out that they were out off a job.

  • But it's not just the end piece because they're in minds.

  • There are also members of staff who work for members of parliament, and they also many of them will be out of a job.

  • I'm no Claire.

  • Thanks very much.

  • Well, joining us now from wakefulness, newly elected conservative MP Imran Khan.

  • Congratulations.

  • What do you think was the biggest factor in that demolition of the Red Wall?

  • I think of course, Brexit was a big matter.

  • But what does it mean?

  • What does it mean to the people?

  • Wakefield, I think, tired off politicians telling them what to think.

  • There are lots of daughters, husbands, wives, Children of coal miners that were very, very annoyed that they had been told by Islington Remainders and others that have come up to get them to vote for remain in the referendum turned 16.

  • I did, I did.

  • They were told when they didn't agree with those people that they were either stupid, uneducated, racist or wrong.

  • And there's a massive rejection of this.

  • And it was if the party had left them behind also.

  • Well, how is the Conservative party under Boris Johnson gonna make sure that you keep those former Labour voters on board?

  • Well, I'm good.

  • I hope that the Conservative Party will reinstate itself entirely to the people, to the strivers and the aspirational.

  • There, the natural conservatives, they concerted.

  • What people of weak field want, I have found, is a party that's going to be with them every step of the way as they improve their lives.

  • Who could provide a first class service is both in education.

  • The health service hasn't been.

  • The case, has it.

  • In the former conservative governments have cut, cut, cut on health and education.

  • Well, you see, that narrative is often used by labor to be true.

  • That actually doesn't so in in week, for example, the people here are canny enough.

  • They don't need people talking down to them from from Islington.

  • Wells were.

  • So we have a P.

  • If I deal, that was done.

  • And Andy Burnham, the president, off Manchester.

  • And in fact, my predecessor, maybe Chri was a junior minister at the time.

  • It was a £201,000,000 investments costing billions, and it was basically one word dot com terms.

  • And the people realize they're not getting good service is because of a really bad privatization deal orchestrated by labor, not the doors.

  • But do you believe that Boris Johnson is the one nation torrey I actually do more important than even, I believe, conservative ethos off aspiration off enterprise, and also that the citizen is king and not the state smart schism and socialism is on.

  • The people of Wakefield have rejected isn't indeed across Yorkshire that the state should be master over the citizen and the citizen subject Now that the U the previous candidate, you're a bit of a Johnny come lately, actually, here in the previous candidate had to step down after some racist social media posts were found.

  • Do you think the conservatives do have a deep Islamophobia problem?

  • First of all, I take exception to being a Johnny come lately I was born in this constituency.

  • My father was the damage that my mother was dead.

  • Her nurse training him.

  • My grandmother was the night sister of local hospital.

  • I went to school here.

  • Show me come lately?

  • Certainly not.

  • I think somebody who has reason commentary and was a campaign office manager for Mary Queen could be good for their Islamophobia problem.

  • I don't find it.

  • I think you're the deal inquiry to a size that I believe all forms of racism prejudice of any sort is about religion or sexuality or gender should be rooted out.

  • It has no place in a decent society, and it was probably the Muslim women compares into letter boxes And did you take a visible but find that?

  • No, no, no.

  • Because we'd The context context was saying that women everywhere should be empowered to dress as they wish.

  • And, of course, in racist attacks after that, well, the seat do you call a civilisation, As you know very well that you ve ve separate things and you will also knows a journalist.

  • Sensationalism is a very good way to attract people to read your article, Mr Johnson, as a great journalist, was doing just that.

  • Now he's a statesman.

  • Now is a prime minister.

  • His language would be slightly more tempered.

  • Come.

  • Thank you very much for coming into the lion's den.

  • The labour club here.

  • Thank you very much.

  • After the break, we're in Wrexham in Wales, where voters deserted Jeremy Corbyn to elect the town's first conservative since the 19 thirties.

  • But before that will return to Krish first.

  • Cathy.

  • Well, that's the story in the north of England.

  • But what's the reaction being elsewhere in the United Kingdom and Europe?

  • In a moment, we'll hear from our correspondents in Belfast, Brussels Andan Wrexham.

  • But first, let's go to our Scotland correspondent Karen Jenkins, who's in Edinburgh, where Nicholas Sturgeon has been setting out her plans for another independence referendum.

  • That's Christian and the prime minister and Nicholas Sturgeon, and actually be speaking on the phone this evening, he told her.

  • Watching already knows that he's against a second independence referendum.

  • She told him to respect the mandate that she says the SNP now has.

  • Boris Johnson's Conservatives pummeled in Scotland.

  • Labor eviscerated the SNP swept the Westminster parties away.

  • Nicholas Sturgeon could have a formal request for an independence vote on Boris Johnson's desk within days.

  • In Scotland, the only landslide was hers.

  • Watershed moment, says Nicholas Sturgeon.

  • She will request a referendum on independence within days that Boris Johnson has long said, You flat out refuse the prime minister.

  • Let me be very clear.

  • This is not simply a demand that I or the SNP are making.

  • It is the rate off the people of Scotland?

  • Yes, MP message is evolving.

  • A campaign fought on the words Stop Brexit.

  • Today the podium reads.

  • Scotland's choice, Your bus.

  • What did it say?

  • Stop Brexit.

  • Now you're saying something else you're saying this endorsement off a second independent, Chrissy Aspects probably said them to you in interviews many times to the SNPs campaign at Stop.

  • Boris Johnson Stop Brexit and put Scotland's future into Scotland's hands.

  • But for the Tories in Scotland, this was an election on independence, stopping it their flagship pitch.

  • They lost more than half their seats.

  • Boris Johnson now talks of uniting the country.

  • Even a Scotland embraced MP seeking a vote on breaking away.

  • For how long?

  • Realistically can he keep saying no thief, Prime minister?

  • Maybe emboldened by Labour's gloomy prospects, they used to forge majorities with Scottish MPs.

  • Now there's one, and he's not happy.

  • This party must listen, and this party must respond or this party will die.

  • Boris Johnson has his mandate.

  • So do I, says Nicholas Sturgeon, scene set for the row of all rows over Scotland's future.

  • Well, in another sign of this new political landscape for the first time, Northern Ireland now has more nationalist and Republican MPs than unionists.

  • There was a major defeats for the Democratic Unionists, including their deputy leader, Nigel Dodds, who lost his seat to Shin Fain.

  • There were gains to for the SDLP and alliance parties, all three strongly opposed to Brexit.

  • Our chief correspondent, Alex Thompson, is in Belfast.

  • Yes, already, the prime minister been onto his Irish counterpart, saying his number one priority restoring the power sharing assembly here at Storm and after a night in which unionism fell to a new low in terms of power, reach voice influence.

  • A slough off nationalists on Republican pro remain parties, though, had a very strong knight.

  • So strong, some already openly campaigning to further that strategy in very much of all Ireland, not a UK context all.

  • It'll quite a night, the very essence of the story.

  • Republican John Kinnucan, his father murdered by loyalists leading the political shock of the night wiping D u P Westminster leader off the political map on a night that brought unionist power here to a new low commiserations.

  • But the DP is pivotal.

  • Days and the Commons are gone.

  • Action fain now working Brexit in an all island context, not a united Ireland.

  • Our protections will come from making sure that our voices hard and Feldman making our voices hard and bustles on.

  • I think that before that is a negotiating position that's hardwired in the Irish government.

  • European Union from very early doors, major gains to for the equally anti Brexit SDLP, winning in Belfast, Derry and attacking Shin faint for refusing to take Westminster seats or storm on one's.

  • At present, the people of dairy have just said an office in off their federal having their representative representative standing outside looking in the window.

  • They want people to be in there.

  • Whether that's in Westminster, fighting for us are storming, delivering for us because they can see the public's actor is crumbling.

  • Talks begin on Monday to attempt to get the power sharing assembly here at Storm aren't functioning again after three years.

  • Years which have seen public service is like the n hs fall into genuine crisis.

  • As all parties here agree, the D.

  • U P, down from 10 to 8 MPs and knowing they've lost in numbers but in influence to the Tories, conceivably ignore them to deliver a Brexit this party regards as a sellout with its border in the Irish Sea.

  • We will stand up for Northern Ireland as we always do.

  • We will use whatever influence we have on West will use the relationships that we have built up over the past two and 1/2 years to work for the good of Northern.

  • That's what we intend to do.

  • Brave rhetoric, of course, but their losses over here on the Tory landslide over there add up to a new low in unionist influence inside and outside Northern Ireland.

  • Alex Thompson, Channel four News Belfast Well over in Brussels, European leaders say they are expecting new the elected MP s so votes on Mr Johnson's withdrawal agreement as soon as possible.

  • While Chancellor Merkel of Germany questioned the prime minister's claim that he couldn't get a second agreement a trade deal with the you by the end of next year, our foreign affairs correspondent, Jonathan Rodman, is in Brussels.

  • There is relief here in Brussels that the UK is finally on course to leave the EU at the end of next month.

  • But what about the next battle over the trade agreement?

  • Well, Angela Merkel, who congratulated Boris Johnson tonight, has described the UK as an enemy a competitors, I should say on Europe's doorstep, reinforcing comments from President Macron off Frantz that the UK must agree to you rules and regulations as the price for any future free trade deal.

  • Boris Johnson's absence from today some it is a sign of things to come.

  • His overnight gift to the EU's chief negotiator yes, is that the British are leaving in 49 days time.

  • We have been waiting for one year for the UK to tell us what it wants.

  • Now we have clarity and obviously I want to telling my best wishes, which all the best to the prime minister of UK boys, Jensen, into the government of UK.

  • But how long will this Bonomy last given the prime minister's next deadline?

  • A trade deal with all 27 EU leaders in one year's time?

  • Does the clarity of the result in Westminster, in your view, make it easier to strike a trade deal next year?

  • I think it does.

  • Striking a trade deal by the end of 20 twenties.

  • Enormously ambitious, but we want it even if you don't try on were determined to try on.

  • I think the fact that Prime Minister Johnson has a clear majority on has been given a big personal mandate as well makes a big difference.

  • They're not a ll.

  • The U.

  • K's biggest trading partners are that confident.

  • Chancellor Merkel of Germany called a deal by next year very complicated, warning that it may take longer.

  • One of our biggest hurdle will be that we need to sort out these issues very quickly.

  • We need to conclude by the end of next year on decide by June whether we want to extend the negotiation period.

  • Still, the prime minister's critics here now admit that last night's election result does, for the moment, clear the air.

  • I still regret the outcome off the referendum, but I respect it, and I'm happy that it will be finally now over with this situation where we are able to agree here.

  • But in London they're not able to agree.

  • So finish this situation and Jonathan Rugman, Channel four News Brussels Well, those protests that were outside Downing Street earlier this evening have now made their way down here.

  • They're carrying defy Torrey Rule posters, but they're they're still moving and moving past.

  • Well, a year ago, Boris Johnson Waas a frustrated backbench up railing against Theresa May's leadership.

  • Today he has led his party to a triumphant victory, talking of healing and one nation conservatism.

  • But from a man who was often expressed contradictory police.

  • Just what do we know about the prime minister on what he really thinks joining me now.

  • Salma Shar, former special adviser to conservative government ministers and cool via Ranger, who worked with Boris Johnson, is director of transport policy when he was mayor of London.

  • Sam a shot.

  • I mean, a lot of people are suspicious of what is the real Boris Johnson?

  • Is it the, you know, that determined fighter who prorogued parliaments and did all those things when he didn't have a majority?

  • Or is he this magnanimous one nation Torrey who we see on the steps of Downing Street?

  • I think the ultimate Boris Johnson is someone who's very pragmatic, which is definitely something that you've seen from what he said on Downing Street today, just referencing this protest that's coming back.

  • You can see his absolute need to try and have a unifying one nation Torrey message.

  • So what we are seeing is the transition from campaigning Boris Johnson into statesman Boris Johnson, and I actually think it gives a lot of people some comfort that he's moving into that mold.

  • I'm calling range.

  • I mean, you work for obviously your fan, but I mean explain why you you believe that sort of the more liberal forest rooms.

  • I worked with him.

  • You're right.

  • And what I saw was Boris before he became mayor of London.

  • Then, in fact, if we rewind to late 2007 bushels of late replacement to be the mayoral candidate, when then candidate Iqbal's actually was on what became ill.

  • And at that point boys had to work out what he was going to stand for to be Marilyn and in fact, win this city over to tourism, reach out to non traditional Tory voters and where he doesn't what he's done best throughout his career is listen to people.

  • He spends a lot of time Mr Abroad specter of people, which is why people forces the Heineken politician.

  • So he gets his finger on the pulse of things.

  • That's his listening.

  • And then what he does is he makes his promises and commitments based on what he's hurt.

  • Then Selma's demonstrating and saying What he moves into is the statesmen who delivers on its delivery.

  • That then gets him that momentum to keep doing Maur and more.

  • So it's just what you're both saying is that by served quirk of fate, marshals has ended up in a similar position.

  • Now and whether he believes or not pragmatically, he's got to appeal to Labour voters because he wants to be reelected.

  • But he's just been elected by traditional labour voters and what he said last night, Woz, I trust May I?

  • Why we know that you've lent is your vote.

  • So he knows that he's got to consolidate this victory much further by changing tack slightly now that he is a prime minister sitting on you.

  • Please everyone tell you how can you please the right on the left?

  • You know this is true, but there will be ways won't he gets through Brexit, which is going to be an incredibly complicated process.

  • There are ways that you could do that.

  • Margaret Thatcher did it and Tony Blair did it both on opposing side of feeling to different people.

  • So there have been Everyman leaders previously.

  • I heated it before because the second election in London which we fought, he defied as it was set then the laws of political gravity.

  • I think the Conservative Party were 17 or 18 points behind in the polls in London.

  • He, with his personal mandate, won that election and that was by reaching across by demonstrating it was a one nation mayor or one city mayor of that point reaching out.

  • And that's what he's going to demonstrate, I think, as prime minister, and that's what he started right now.

  • How will he square Brexit on immigration controls with his old immigration amnesty positions?

  • And things like that is the fact that it's a practice, you know, it's a LL that view that says people want to see an element of control.

  • They don't want Draconian.

  • They don't want radicalism.

  • We've seen what's happened.

  • When a party presents radicalism to people, they run away from it.

  • He will find the answers that will reach that middle ground, and he will be exactly in the middle ground and retain that space.

  • Whether it comes to security when it comes to investment, he will have to make compromises undoubtedly and that those compromises will come at some kind of personal cost to him and his leadership.

  • But those the things that we will wait and see how they actually pan out, you know, the truth is, he's got this fantastic majority.

  • But he has a hell of a job to do with delivering Brexit.

  • I mean we're in the almost of it is absurd.

  • Almost absurd situation off.

  • No, no sooner are you elected, then minds turn 25 years down the road and how you're re elected on.

  • Do you know what?

  • There is no point in doing that because as a veteran of campaigns, as cold beers as well, I remember the elation after the 2015 campaign when the Tories came back with a small majority and pundits are saying Go, God, this is gonna be like the next tour a decade on DDE.

  • Look at what happened.

  • There is no predicting what's gonna happen in five years because a week is a long time, as we all know, was absolute right.

  • These are the moments where people all like to project forward the next election.

  • What will it mean for the Labour Party in the next election, where with the liberal Democrats?

  • Really?

  • It's about what's gonna happen next year on.

  • Boris there has to take this momentum, but he's got from this mandate yes, to progress the Brexit conversation, and he has to start delivering some of those promises that he's made.

let the healing begin, Boris Johnson declared today in a victory speech on the steps of number 10 aimed at bringing a fractured country back together.

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