Name: What Johnson's election win means for the UK | The Road to Brexit (s1 ep 8):
Uploaded: 2020-03-07T16:42:24.000Z
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Right, so Robert, you've got a festive frog in your throat.

So I'm going to let you offload the talking.

And you can have light felt pen duties today

And a new blue dawn has broken, has it not?

It's a bigger win than I think either of us expected.

I think, as we showed at the end of the last talk,

we both sort of thought the Tories were going to make it.

going to be anything like as big as that.

In fact, I happen to know that people refer

So I'm going to root around in the shed, where

People have also criticised us for using paper,

So I hope they notice that we are recycling...

So essentially, everything the Tories tried to do worked.

And everything the other sides tried to do to stop them

So the Tories managed to break through this so-called red wall

of Labour heartland seats, not just right across the north

of England but into Wales, where large chunks of Wales are now

It's true that the Labour party hung on in a lot of London,

which stays red, and in other urban seats.

But the Tories also held on in the south of England

The Tories' biggest losses were in Scotland, where they

Other than that, I think they lost about four seats

The Liberals took Richmond Park in London.

But a lot of their big targets they didn't make.

And the Lib Dems didn't manage their scalp

of the night, which was supposed to be the foreign secretary

But instead of Dominic Raab being the Portillo moment,

the Portillo moment was Jo Swinson, the Lib Dem

leader in Dunbartonshire, decapitated by the SNP.

And Nicola Sturgeon barely able to contain her joy.

It's been a tough fight between the Lib Dems

and the SNP in that seat for the last three elections.

It's been an awful election for the Liberal Democrats

and for poor old Jo Swinson in particular.

Look, I'm going to do one of my absolutely

That looks like something I put on my dresser, I think.

because even though the Tories did way better than

we were all expecting in England and Wales.

Actually, we'd begun to expect that the Tories would hold

They basically chased the Labour party out of Scotland.

They played the grievances of Scottish voters

at being forced into a Brexit they didn't vote for.

And it has paid off for them in, and it has paid off for them

On top of which, Nicola Sturgeon was easily

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