And will gain around 50 seats that poll shows the conservatives securing the biggest majority since 1987 in the general election the poll shows that it was on course to take $368.00 seats 50 more than at the last election whereas they were projects to end the night with $191.00 seats down $71.00 from $27.00 saying is I'm secretary pretty puts out we need to break the gridlock and that's move the country forward to end the process to get back sit down and get on and do all the things that we've been speaking about of conservatives in this general election campaign we need a functioning conservative majority the Labor side a chance for John McDonnell not surprisingly saying it looks extremely disappointing for them to be tough because Bret's at all night of this election has dominated everything looks what we thought the issues could cut through and there be a wider debate from this evidence that clearly wasn't well we'll have all the latest on the national picture we also have reporters every counts across Sussex only a ne time so close in the studio to monitor all over through the night with me professor of media Hadfield was head of politics at the University of sorry. The 29 teams General Election Day Yes he's b.b.c. Sussex with my concept. So here we have in a very good morning see you it's going to 6 minutes after midnight with Mark here through the night right through until 5 am this morning when our breakfast things will take over extended breakfast this morning forms 5 am with no Pringle on b.b.c. Sussex and with James Caan on unless you McCabe on b.b.c. Sorry as I mention Professor media Hadfield is a good morning to you good morning how are you are excited but 1st things 1st we have loads of cake we have biscuits thank goodness we have I mean this for you know what I was offered when I walked in there were you offer something I've never seen before going Brussels sprouts flavored Christmas is not crisp I was intrigued and horrified at once you see I love crisps but I mean is nothing's going to take me to . I made a terrible mistake by looking interested and then having a bite never again well all the things we will get through with plenty of food between now and 5 o'clock this morning but I'm going to be much sticks because then for the election program and it's been an honor to present this show for the last few elections it's a fascinating trip into what's going on in this country at the moment and would anyone have predicted if this exit poll is true would anyone have predicted as big a conservative majority as we're now looking potentially to get here I don't think so with the polls we have been looking at for the last 2 weeks showed really possible majorities but every one of them was covering their back saying oh I'm so I'm sorry you know the margin of error looks like it could be a hung parliament so the Hugo poll that came out 2 days ago was saying yeah maybe 43 percent seed estimates around 339 a at the most and others were saying no that even that's too high but 368 That's a landmark victory that's that's. Generally speaking how often of these exit polls corrects they they they tend to be fairly accurate and they do they they really are they're probably more more accurate even than the composite polls that we've seen used by the newspapers and media in the last 2 weeks so probably we can trust it I was going wanted to the national results that were already in so I wanted to declare very early Sunderland and Newcastle declaring both labor holds but interesting the those majorities are coming down and actually in one of those examples the bricks for example gaining quite a few 1000 votes here I think we don't just look at the number of seats I think we're looking at that the number of votes behind the seats as well to get a sense of the overall critical mass if you like and particularly in the northern seats the question is going to be these are typical Labor seats but will the red wall fall and do you think for the conservatives the overriding message is has been this get bricks it done thing from Boris Johnson has that been the the winning slogan as it were I think by now we have to agree. I think there's there's 2 things there's the presidential recently presidential style of the election I saw some interesting reports earlier suggesting that Corban and Johnson themselves dominated roughly about 30 percent of the entire media coverage which is huge and then 3 or 4 people behind them dominated not the 45 percent so it's a single face it's a single message and the conservative simply seem to have crystallized on the let's get breaks it down let's get it done now let's get it done quickly the sort of oven ready images that Boris Johnson was was being able to put out there and I think Corbin who really struggled in many many ways on the backs that message I think it was much clearer with more domestic messages like the n.h.s. And health and education really struggled to articulate as a leader in that presidential style what he really meant by that did you get a sense even amongst the remaining as and of course we know how close that vote was back in 26 saying that even amongst many remain as it is literally a desire to see the end of this continuous discussion about bricks it and how we exit and when it will happen and some people just want to move on I think remain just don't necessarily have the monopoly on patience I think they too are understandably ause as frustrated as well I think they're frustrated because the direction of the country now seems to be travelling in a way you know opposite to what they had originally intended but I think they too feel we need to cross a line and try to move on in some direction and a word on the Lib Dems before we take a tune any thoughts really on what might have been going on there because one point early on in the campaign we seem to have this conversation of just Winston saying I could be your next prime minister I think it's going to happen she came in with a huge amount of bounce and verve and the idea that the Lib Dems you know were going to be the recreated party and they were going to you know take back the center ground but I think they were overplayed their hand by suggesting you know completely that they're going to revoke Article 50 that upset a lot of people she found it very difficult I think on the stump to say why that's necessarily democratic And I think it's. As a result we've seen her lose her seat now so the entire party as a whole it's going to have to be remade from ground up Ok if you were to get involved in the program through the night you can do so in a number of ways you can text this on one trip or 3 sending a message with the word radio you can e-mail me at b.b.c. Dockets u.k. And of course you can pick up the phone and give us a go. To see Sussex Oh wait I'm trying to 3 you want to find. The time now is 11 minutes after midnight Let's go to the 1st of our local council edition of course our thanks to Ben vise for doing a brilliant job with politics until insisted that if I was going to do this the 1st reporter we would go to would be Fiona McCarthy Good morning Fiona paints a picture. Good morning aren't you a child what's happened to you face I'm always in China come on get on with it I would if we got back. Welcome to Lewis Well the sampling is under way of the ballot boxes that's where they go through and check how many are in there that is what they expect they haven't actually started counting here at Lewis and there's only one candidate so far here and that's the Green candidate Johnny to me and the previous m.p. Who is a Conservative me re a coal fields real challenger there is expected to be the liberal Democrat only Henman and then there's 2 other candidates is a labor cans it's called Kate Chappell an independent Paul Krag so usually the Liberal Democrats in the Conservatives are the main challenges here but Maria coalfield has won the last 2 general elections and she increased her majority in 2017 by about 5000 She's got her majority or she did have a majority so she's quite someone to beat but I have been speaking to one of the Greens party members here he's here early tools basically trying to see what's going on and they've been going along and watching as they're just checking these ballot boxes before the counting takes place and he's told me he thinks it's actually rather close between the Liberal Democrats and the conservatives which isn't what we were being told. In the national picture as in you know what's the chances they see changing but he thinks actually having seen various seeds he thinks it's at various parts whether this constituency that he thinks it could be quite a tight run in and I seem to recall from $27.00 Cmon we were last in together Fiona yours was one of the last declare wasn't. And that was the time before was I was 2015 through central when I was when Norman Baker Yes Generally I call failure and yes I remember Norman Baker who was a very well known figure it being part of the coalition government and he turned up it was actually getting light he turned up just called the declaration and it was getting light and everyone was there taking pictures he walked into the school so here and yes he lost that yes so that was a very late result last time it wasn't so much Actually we got a feeling very early on in the night that it was looking like it was Maria's night again but this time they're not quite so sure the greens you know and I will say they having looked at a few of the ballot boxes being sorted through and shuffled through they think that it might be tighter than we expect quite interesting actually 2070 Maria Caulfield to increase her majority to 5000 but there's only 3 candidates you see last time when she beat Norman Baker I think it was 5 because they've been this electoral pact in 2017 so basically the Greens agreed not to stand to give the liberal Democrats more of a chance this time they hasn't They don't seem to work that out for some He's in the what's gone wrong they both decided to stand Plus there's an independence of this 5 so I think it's going to be war interesting I guess with more candidates so last time I recall field got 49 percent of the vote which is pretty incredible really nearly half of people that voted for her where is this time I think she won't get such a big proportion of the vote because it's more candidates who will say see what happens as the hours go by Ok I'm very very likely by the way and you've got a long time I have a lot of other part of your life going you mean the puns are you know it's going Ok I saw some thoughts on the lights on m I even go insane I think I know I have really lost over my top off but it all went very well early on but I'm gradually concern for my welfare as of the animal reporting live for us in the us will have very soon. Hastings and goats are board Steve Bell there and also of course will keep you up to date right through the night here on b.b.c. Sound 6 and b.b.c. Sorry with the national picture Talking of which then let's go to London let's concert with our man Paul Rowley who is there for us to give us the very latest that we have so far in the general election results poll. And after all that is that ambled to make this the Bracks it election looks to have paid off the prediction in the traditional exit poll is a Conservatives will win with a majority of $86.00 that would be their best result since Margaret Thatcher's days in 1987 for labor it will be there for successive election defeat and the worst result in more than 80 years the 1st shock of the night coming in Bligh's Valley in Northumberland form a mining constituency always been rock solid Labor won for the 1st time by the Tories Labor though average and the other seats declared so far all of them in the Northeast in Newcastle central and the 2 Sunderland seats many Labor figures so blaming Jeremy Corbyn and the left wing agenda under his stewardship those close to the leaders saying it's down to breaks it looks like a disappointing night do for the Liberal Democrats and their new leader Joe Swinson no seats for the Nytol Fargas Bracks it Party according to the exit poll and the Scottish nationalists wrong course to take virtually all the seats north of the border so for results in so far only $646.00 to go this is Paul really out Westminster thank you very much indeed 60 minutes after midnight is a professor of media Hadfield Brive valley somewhere like that sudden be conservative so it's no it shouldn't I think this is what's going to indicate a trend we're going to see throughout the evening and into the more it's morning already this morning already you know I mean one of the one of the sort of architectures bits if you like of the of the of the campaign of the with this image of a. Wall that Labor were you know determined to try to prevent the conservatives from knocking holes in and I think that's not just a sort of north west description it's something that actually extends east east east west as well and typifies some of the major parts of Wales which are you know for years and years and historically and culturally and economically you know have been very proud Labor supporters and the fact that they're beginning to change not just from the last election but change in tandem with their Bracks that decision in 2016 I think does show not just that the conservatives have been utterly dedicated and focused almost ruthless the few like in preparing and presenting a sustained package but knowing that they're going to be able to get people to vote possibly against their economic interests but in support of a political message still they feel that can get them across the line let's go to another very interesting seat locally that is Hastings on the Sussex coast Steve down good morning to you. Yeah this is a very fascinating count because of course firstly you have the incumbent's Tory m.p. Amber Rudd who announced a while ago that she would not be standing she lost the whip because she didn't vote in line with Boris Johnson's policy but of course she only won a majority of 346 the last last election there in 27 saying I'm a rival then is the main rival for the Conservatives a guy he's a charity the Barak council leader he of course is standing against the new candidate for the conservative Sally Ann Hart's who of course has been mired in controversy over some comments she made recently the high Sting's voted 55 percent so leave in the e.u. Referendum and the b.b.c. Exit poll puts a 94 percent chance of this being a high stings hold for the story now the samplings finished the final ballot box arrived about 50 minutes ago the Indicative turnout Mark is 68 percent which is pretty much on par with last time it was just under 70 percent so the council will start on the basketball courts in the whole. Lot of activity a lot of a station and chatter in the background but we'll hopefully get a stair on this maybe within an hour and a half 2 hours I would guess good stuff Steve down reports there for us in Hastings thank you Steve we'll come back to you later on in the program so is fascinating isn't it who can declare the quickest and some of them seem to drag it out forever and then we've already had these results thousands gumming I was at the go for count myself I had the opportunity to go down there I was being interviewed by the . Dragon Yeah other broadcasters are available and they were they were counting at a rate of knots I've seen other counts before I was in Margate in Canton in 2015 where they were much more deliberate much more sort of sedately pace but Guilford they seem to be wanting to do it very very quickly so I would say an hour let me ask you this and. All these questions because the. Pretty speculative what will go with the oversight if there was so much emphasis placed on the Get Briggs it done slogan and maybe just maybe that is the thing that is not boys Johnson into power assuming this exit poll is correct so there's lots of ifs in here but could we say then in 5 years time the next general election a complete move back yes I think that could happen I think a good question is you know are we looking at a guaranteed Breck's a deal now for for January I Mark I feel like I really want a question mark over that it does rely so much on every conservative candidate continuing the hand on heart promise that they made in order to become a parliamentary prospective candidate yes I'll vote breaks it through but what if they have misgivings and what if now I get the tenor of the house given this thumping you know victory is going to be very very difficult I mean that the mathematics now work very much and you know in his favor it well one thing it does do is it gets Johnson off the hook for having to do with a the do you pay and and number $2.00 the m.p. The e r g The European Research Group which of course is militating for a very hard to exit so one of 2 things could happen one he you know he continues the quite zealous hardbacks that increased you know divergence from the European Union or actually given the enormous majority he looks like on course to have he might just be able to go for a softer Bracks and say well actually I've got enough support in the house to be able to slightly soften it up and try to bring labor what's left of them you know on board so that it doesn't continue the ructions if you like in the House of Commons which much of which actually you know happened before the election was and it is the reason for the selection innocence wants a reason my was asking for when she wanted that kind of confirmation that she was heading in the right direction she was saying very much similar things in many respects to what Boris Johnson has done so what's been the difference this time so many tried you know very very hard laboriously really I think and brought. Back from Brussels a deal that many people thought was probably just just enough Ok but it fell apart pretty quickly simply because what looked like a deal with Ireland and a deal with the European Union was was quickly sort of narrated as a bit of a sell out and actually wasn't going to work for any side in for either side so I think what has happened with the idea that there will be a border down the Irish Sea is a suggestion I think that northern northern Ireland is going to have to have a sort of split personality disorder it's going to economically remain with the European Union but politically part of the United Kingdom and although may you know she she flirted with that idea she wasn't ultimately able to sell it Johnson comes to it and says you know I managed to talk the European Union into it when actually this that well actually was you know we talked you into it to begin with so he's a better salesman I think he's simply put a package that's possibly less adequate and less materially good for Britain but he's managed to say look it's either this or we continue the the horrid impasse and people can't disagree with with the ongoing impasse even if they don't like the deal we've been sort of Sussex Council going to go to one in salary right now and b.b.c. . Reports and they'll Monday where are you this evening good evening to you good morning Mark Yes I mean that sorry East constituency which is being counted now at Oxted we're not school is wonderful school full with rows of owner adorning the walls here and the glitterball giving a rather strictly feel above the Count's area which is a lot I am bustling at the moment I think resting seat if I may say Mark because Sam gamer was elected as a conservative m.p. At the last 3 elections but he's now gone across and joined the Liberal Democrats and standing for a party in Kensington so the sorry East is a quintessential Conservative Home Counties can stitch but who knows we just wait and see we've had a few issues. Tonight because the there's been a next an absolutely a 25 is delayed some of the boxes are actually reaching us and the actual declaration time is being pushed back as we speak but I've actually joined very briefly here by Helena Windsor who started off life with Ukip and is now going to paint Good evening or good morning good morning they will know just what you were speaking to me a little earlier on and muted that whatever happens tonight if it goes in the while you're seeing Brits it happen you will be happy absolutely very very happy. Absolutely fantastic just to sort of see what goes on there and how that works yeah yeah I mean looking at the moment going back to a very traditional conservative family that's terrific that's the situation here East sorry or sorry says I should say Mark thank you much and they will go back to New York later on in the program and it's been interesting we haven't a Windsor there an independent standing in. It's been interesting how many of these PACs that we've seen around the country and whether or not but would pay dividends again it doesn't seem like that has been the case for those who wanted to kind of stop the bricks it's you know this is the Stop the bricks direction happening you know we've had expletive packed and sort of implicit pacts I guess the implicit one is the Conservative Party one where they were swearing blind it wasn't a pact and then. Curiously wound up kind of Paki and then there was the much more explicit one where Labor said you know very very very firmly that there they are they were just going to you know basically go out and go their own way which is you know a pact in and of itself and then I think the one that probably hasn't worked sadly is the attempt to try to get a critical mass out of the Lib Dems and and the Greens and Clyde Comrie and I just don't just don't feel perhaps there was enough clarity in the overall message enough critical mass in terms of the numbers and it they are. They kind of came unstuck and it will be interesting to see how Canterbury does areas where there's there's going to be a bit of a fight between Labor and lived to see how how well some of the the pacts fare is interesting actually because as you know Helena Windsor was saying there she you know she's a former Bracks it can Bracks a party candidate she's now an Independent I think how many of the M.P.'s have gone independent Sam himself Asli from from me sorry got him going independent or and then going over to switch to the pact so interesting that sort of collective decision to morph the look of your party from one thing to another and then having the whip withdraw as that is another sort of change in people's identity going independent and remaining in dependable have to see how and Milton those here and Guilford So there's a lot of different sort of colors and morphing if you like so if that's that's something rather unusual in this election and all the previous ones you've seen you know you're in year you fly your flag you're in the party there aren't any pacts and you know you just get it all comes out of the wash but in this one there's been an awful lot of morphing if you like John and some to say thank you you can get in touch with us a number of ways to do so you can tax one triple 3 starting your message with the word radio in the letter snitching then what you're making of it all join in Somerset says Mark I think what's a potential voters may have been affected by the weather it's been a really does move Diana Krall one as well and what do you think in terms of turnout not only because it's days whether specifically but it is winter it's the depths of winter it's cold you know dark by 4 o'clock in the afternoon without affecting things I think so if you've got the sort of long term weather of having to campaign in December it hasn't been an enormously long campaign but it's been it did the dismal end of the year to do it and I think there have been genuine concerns for many perspective parliamentary candidates not just because it's cold and wet but they you know they feel perhaps on safe because they're out and they're out in the dark so I think there's been limited hours to campaign and also today we had a tiny little bit of sunshine in the morning but it's become progressively you know rainy or traffic. Difficult People are tired Christmas shopping to be done it's the end of the week and there's any number of very real reasons why you might not might not feel or actually can't vote now this is from the Somali human to the bands and I'm going to answer now I want to hear more about you know leaving clear enough yet I don't say too much other than she says constantly after our 1st day of listening to Mark on the election so we will be here all the way through the night you can stay right to fight I'm going to take my taxi at 434 for. Me Down in the college College Green notes there I I have lots more exciting product casting to do yes well we're not your 1st. Minutes past midnight with Mark and 1st media here as well and over in summer heat is our pointed him down sites him you should be here this December election is called carefully think it's in mid pantomime season it's Robin Hood this year so we've got 2 trees at the back of the stage watching currently in silence they come out of course is Michael go since 2005 with his majority 2 years ago almost 25000 he's a breakfast as were the majority of voters at the referendum Govan bars of course go way back over helping Doris become president of the Oxford Union He then ended Burris's leadership hopes a call suddenly in 2016 standing against him on deadline day they had clearly kissed and made up by 2019 with Doris bring him back into the cabinet since then he's been in charge of planning for a new deal and I imagine Mr we more than happy to see all the planning made redundant if indeed the Tories do get a healthy majority later today so it sounds like is it already quite busy there's a bit of hustle and bustle behind you that's in. They are all working like dervishes this fantastic always volunteers below me and as I say you've got the set or your pantomime is one week away they've had 7 performances here already we've got 2 trees back banners around the top here really age and all arrests and all in the middle all very weird 789 counting tables all of them just completely disregarding pantomime season just getting on with democracy in action as you say a lovely How about what we started as when it was good fun so it's Office 12 you listen to b.b.c. Sussex and b.b.c. Sorry it's election 29 scene we've got as you've heard reporters are all of those counts wherever you live across Sussex area north east Hampshire and the latest through the night on the national picture as well right now though Christmas on b.b.c. 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Sussex. 1231 the headlines this morning around the sport Good morning it's looking like a happy Christmas for Boris Johnson the conservatives are forecast for a big win in the general election they look certain 3 tiny all the seats across sorry east of West Sussex with a single rifle cast as a possible Tory hold the party's also hoping to wipe out the only liberal Democrat in East Sussex e-sports predicted to be too close to call the Greens and Labor are forecast to retain their seats in Brighton and Hove and other news is thought that the 1st result locally. Is June about an hour from sorry East the polling expert Professor John Curtis says the early results appear to bear out the broad thrust of the exit poll but there will be variations across the country Downing Street says if the exit poll numbers are correct there will be a minor reshuffle of necessary appointments on Monday the Cabinet minister Michael Gove his stunning and sorry Heath told of the as told us that if the Conservatives do get a majority then the government would push through the brakes at legislation over the Christmas period. Here's a look then at the weather forecast through the nights we can expect those showers and intermittent clears spell so Woman It's raining the next minute it's not overnight lows of 3 Celsius 37 am found I provided a time of partly cloudy and breezy day with some sunny spawns but also a few showers crossing from the northwest at times and a high of 9 Celsius $48.00 am found light our sun rises one will be at 753 and sets the south in a 355 the 3 day check for the weekend of the start of next week Saturday will see dry conditions with a good deal of sunshine throughout the day very windy with candles at times on Sunday any early rain or eastwards leaving it mainly dry and sunny for most of the day of the odd shower may be possible in places a Monday another dry day with spells of sunshine but signing cloudy in the afternoon the 2019 general election with my concept Good morning see if you've just found us this is b.b.c. Sussex and b.b.c. Sorry it is 27 minutes to one with Mark and I it seem of reporters right across the whole of the South Sussex and north east I'm sorry but on this show and we've got the latest on the national patrons Well do stay with us if you want to Texas so you can one triple 3 stand in your message with the word radio and you can tweet us as well at b.b.c. Sussex at b.b.c. Sorry election special with Mark Karr vs ti's b.b.c. Sussex. Let's go to another Sorry see now paints a picture of what you can see pieces Jews in Epsom in your forest Hi Peter. And Mark good morning I'm somewhere and I've been told not to tell you where I am at the Epsom count for security reasons they don't want people turning up to work to watch and also for as I say for other reasons as well mainly to do with security but it is somewhere in the bar of Epsom in New York and it's a rather bizarre because where I am is one of those kind of locations where you can come for a works Christmas party and you can have lots of different tables from lots of different companies all in the same room and it is bedecked with Christmas trees and Christmas lights and red white to drapes on the walls and also coming down from the ceiling as well so it's even got a dance floor in the middle of the floor as well those colors likely to be no indication of the likely outcome Suman your as you know is a conservative stronghold majority of 34 percent and despite residents here voting 4852 yes that number again but to stay in Europe in the referendum is undoubtedly going to stay in the hands of one time justice and Transport Minister Chris Grayling come the anticipated declaration of around about 430 this morning Mr Grayling yet to arrive here at this particular council by his representatives letting out various whoops of joy when the results come in from other counts around the u.k. On the b.b.c. T.v. Monitors here how the Christmas lights in apps and pizza. No. Static they're not twinkling but there is a massive tree about 15 foot tall in the room at this top secret location where I've been told I can't tell you where it is and I'm not allowed to take any photographs what I'm saying is I've been to several counts here in the past and security seems to be much more stringent than it has been previously so whatever the reason for that I would have thought some of you would be a bit of targets for in the any particular group but there you go I can't tell you where it is although frankly I think you would be pretty easy to find out Peter thank you very much indeed Peter somewhere in Epsom and your advice I mean it's bizarre isn't it voting when Christmas decorations are out it's just doesn't feel right it's slightly in Congress Yeah the idea of twinkling lights and tensile and I wasn't going to make a remark about Panta because I know you're very sort of close to that but well you know the sort of dramatic person if you like of politics as a whole it's strange I mean for us in Britain elections are in May Yes You know it's a sort of end of spring early summer warm up and the whole campaign seems to be sort of stretched sort of usually from Easter on words now that's been crammed into the end of November early December quick quick get it done all these jokes about you know having to have the baby Jesus being given. Election presents and all the rest of it so it's difficult I think perhaps people are finding it not just strange time wise but you know strange point wise as well what is this election about is that party preferences is it a sort of traditional heartlands as it is a ologies or is it as seems to be absolutely the Bracks it fault lines from from left to right from from top to bottom economically regionally socially the dividing lines I think are not just going to be set this evening they're set to make a mark on Britain that's going to stay I think for decades to come that accent isn't a sense exhaust sorry x. It's. It's not it's the East Coast of Canada so in the on the East Coast of Canada when do you tense is there a typical time of year to go and vote Well the Canadians have just had a national election they had it in October so I think they tend to favor an exciting sort of just when the leaves are turning you think maybe will turn the government to do so and there they they they voted back in Justin Trudeau who was a liberal but with a reduced minority and he too was up against conservative challengers but to Canada where the other way but under this fixed term 5 year parliament thing that we now have in this country does this mean then that assuming we don't get an early election for some particular reason what we have this time and actions will always be in December is there are no they should probably now they will be the restart that I think they can yeah I think this is just the odd one out to be honest what what's more likely is they'll just continue for it for the 5 year plan but the thing is we've had we've had enough sort of. Disruptions to this attempted rule and just for the last 2 really so it's not it's not it's not sticking perhaps the way it should be I've also seen a huge amount of criticism against it by people who are constitutional lawyers and constitutional scientists as well saying actually it doesn't help it cos it's parliament it frustrates M.P.'s and it militates exactly in times like this against emergencies and contingencies when something that is bigger and broader so big you know it really outranks the national interest something like a fix to Parliament Act actually just winds up making everybody's life difficult or let's visit a couple more the summary counts with our reporters right now let's head 1st of all to Woking and Gary Smith good morning to you good morning Mark how are you doing what we are fine here we've got plenty of time for our friends we could use to more say that's just a hint But overnight we are absolutely fine what have you got there for us. Well we've got lots of party representatives with their rosettes on running around stupidly trying to find exactly how their party have done we're still in the verification stage here working counting is hoping to start on the actual ballot within the next half an hour or so 6 names on the ballot paper they seat currently held by Jonathan Wald of the Conservative Party rumor is going to hold on to that with a fairly strong majority I picture with will force the early one who's the Liberal Democrat party and he said that a successful not for them would be to keep the Tory majority under $10000.00 counting hoping to start in about half an hour's time marking the result hopefully sometimes when 3 and 4 o'clock this morning Ok Now Gary we normally hear you doing the football I'm just wondering is there a preference football or politics. Well this is my 1st time traveling in politics Mark to be honest I'm thoroughly enjoying myself at the moment so maybe my career would take a different turn from here on in or maybe a stick to the 1st or who knows I don't know Gary Smith in working there for us and just down the road in go for somebody does politics for a living I mean can you imagine my professor media working in politics every day thrilling it really makes me sound like a total geek to to say it but I mean I can't think of a more exciting time to learn it so much I mean my students feel this way but to teach it it's it's been annoying sometimes I'm ripping out my lecture as I'm walking into the classroom and students can be here because and I want you to know it's wonderful. We can go to Jack for you know who's over and go for now Jack is a new daddy as well and so I'm wondering for him what's been the most stressful thing over the last few months politics all fatherhood. Fatherhood by some. Massive leap forward and a father with a shadow of a down but this is your seat there in go for that's an interesting one isn't it Oh it's fascinating Mark and it is just as fascinating as the wider world of politics is but yes this is this is this is been such a fascinating count because it has so many stories in just one area you have the conservatives who held the seat for look most of history and who will be expecting to hoping to hold on to it but then you also have the fact the Liberal Democrats think they're in with a real chance of of gaining this seat partly because of the you know they remain. In the referendum a few years ago and they haven't had more people voting remain than it did leave so there's that an attempt by them to capitalize on that and then trying that you all of that into the mix was was and Milton who who has been the m.p. And until now the conservative m.p. But lost the whip when she voted against the possibility of she was one of the 21 considered conservative M.P.'s who are essentially broke down. To the party for want of a better word and at that point she decided to stand as an Independent to try and win here is as an independent but I should say more I've spoken to her this evening and she won't concede defeat and she says she won't do that to the last vote but she says it's not very likely that she will win which means that this does look like now a straight fight between the Lib Dems in the conservative Yeah I mean it's interesting Guilford because we've been talking about this typically blue map that we have after every election across sorry burn at the go for voters have go form it wasn't that long ago the Lib Dems were in for a while Absolutely I mean there was a point in 20012005 when this was a marginal seat and as you say. That was a deliberate emigrate here between 20012005 then last very tight race with Milton and since then of course it hasn't been marginal it's all women and as I was to tell me the majority the last election was was 17000 which again just shows you how you know the tectonic plates of politics the changing that this seat is now back in play and of course down the road nation is that potentially in play as well as we wait to see through the night but yes I mean the sit the feeling is here is that it is it is very close All right Jack thank you we'll come back to you later on and go for the quick word Professor media on the situation with Dominick Rob There has been a real targeting of that Dominick Rob c. Ters and gets an upset in the initial Morton I certainly think you might actually are getting very close to it it's one of the keys areas in the country where it wasn't just tactical It was really really deliberate there there is a concerted community effort to try to I was to me even if it's just down to one seat or 2 so I could really happen Ok let's go we've been sorry for fasten on our so we need to go to Sussex Let's go to point now Sam Gray is one of our younger newer members of the. Normally at this time of night he'd be out clubbing or probably slant in a night club car in the like car door somewhere let's find out though if he's sober and able to tell us what's going on in Brighton about completely assassinated and. Still time for that. Is Still you've got 3 counts going on there I doubt it will happen in your bright. Right amongst the action so we've got brought into villian we've got Brighton camped on a piece haven and Hove 3 cows they're going on here now counting isn't under way yet they're still verifying the votes and really the big story here tonight could be the result in Brighton Kemp Town of peace Haven Lloyd Russell Mo the incumbent for Labor is predicted as far as the exit polls showing on the b.b.c. Website to maintain the sea However the mood here is tense and they're certainly not counting their chickens yet Mark Ok so we will come back to you later on presumably this 3 counts going on some it's quite a large operation there it's a big operation yet there's many fingers flicking through ballot papers I'm just having a pair for you now to the counting floor people. Awaiting really to start being outed to count these votes that are still verifying we don't know how long this counting process will go on for overseas a large account than so many other places in the county so really check back in we mark and bring you some bring you some of the action in Iran I guess is this your 1st election can you would send it yes this is my 1st ever election calendar and it's a it's a long long time since I actually went to accounts but my my memory like you know I have probably early ninety's I was lost an election can but when I was there I just remember to find my place to sit then I copious amounts of chocolate and the night dry. Gone over some There's an absolute frenzy and then it's over so for goodness sake don't be by the vending machine when the actions happening while actually packed a very nice packed lunch with me so full of tears I don't know what I thought yeah make sure the equipment is working make sure I'm stuck stocked up on food and coffee and sit tight don't worry about me Mom sorted there on the way home maybe maybe if she keeps pushing the chips with some gravy. Once then was gravy of a chips well and the night is young made it fairly crowded I wonder if that's really good ships walks in here I'm all over it. Ok then Britain can sound is an interesting one isn't. So it's interesting it hadn't realised there are 3 counts going on there so it's salmon the packed lunch I think you're going to definitely enter into usage. It's a difficult area to sort of predict where this where this is going to to go I mean obviously we've got solid green votes there there's some good lead and Lib Dems support as well labor very popular too I'm not entirely sure which which way the splits going to going to happen but I think probably the green support will continue as a generally has in that area Oh I stay with this election special with me Mark Katz a professor of media have filled right the way through the early hours and so 5 o'clock today then the breakfast things will take over with me I'm on b.b.c. Sussex and James and I see across b.b.c. Sorry great music and celebrity guests on your laidback Sunday this week our special guest is the t.v. Presenter and actress no audio it's just my favorite thing in the world to rock for hanging out in the kitchen I've never heard of you know food from all around the world I'm just having the best time waitressing 20 years of loose women cooking and why we should all be nicer to each other this Christmas we all have the power to take the tiniest of steps and maybe make a huge difference to. Somebody else your laid back Sunday no idea with me Stephen Cranford this Sunday from 3 on b.b.c. Sussex he's good he's back on Sunday afternoon it's not me actually this weekend it's Stephen confident for me it is Mark here for the early hours of a Friday morning we've been supply in this move along just and they'll be along the coast and one of Labor's hopes in Sussex was a swerving and so on but that now seen as a likely conservative hold for labor it's Becky Cooper there was another piece on the ground I think the campaign when really really well I think we did as much as the kids and see what happens tonight what was the thing that you came up most doorstep. In terms of positive because I'm a local councillor there was a lot of recognition for the work that we've done in the local council and a lot of the things that we talked tried to achieve in terms of improving housing man and the environment etc and actually people were really interested in labor policies. We did have conversations about rights on the doorstep and we did have conversations about it on the doorstep and in general they were positive but we did have conversations about it so yeah they came up I mean nationally is a coming across. The cauldron factor is a calling it probably didn't help. You know you're a nurse a Tory I don't care. I knew that you know you know how do you feel if the polls are right and we get a conservative ministration Are you concerned you know I feel massively disappointed I really you know we've had 10 years of Tory austerity if the exit polls are correct and I am I can sense the country the next guy could be credibly disappointed and I think we're in some tough times particularly for those people they know he's pretty tough already actually so I sincerely hope the exit polls are wrong but I guess again time will tell. Becky Cooper there for the Labor Party in Worthing speaking to our reporter Simon Jenkins It is 10 minutes now to 1 am it is mark overnight election special Let's hop back over to Saeed. Southwest sorry west that counts taking place Judy Abbott Let's find out Good morning Julia this morning lucky I mean the age leisure center in the haze away this morning where the Celt is taking place in a side room we've had a look at the cows they've done the verification all the votes have been checked and they do match up with the trolley numbers taken at the polling stations where they're about to start counting people Cory follows both to Paul's just right there just a very happy photo taken together and no sign of Jeremy Hunt the current and yet I'm sure he'll be along for the the results are not rich expected about 4 philosophy this morning I'm presumably Judea we Jeremy Hunt with a majority at the moment we're not expecting any upsets. It's predicted to be another win for the conservatives the turnout looking to be quite high and about the fictional figure but it sounds like it might be in the suburbs but if they go roughly that that what I'm hearing possibly are good. Thanks Judy nice to have you on this morning Julia Abbott there taking a break from doing travel news it's funny isn't it we think of the election everybody turns out and gives up the day job and comes does some else really doesn't travel news and today she's reporting on the election from sorry Southwest I mean Jeremy Hunt must be pretty likely to stay in that seat I think it would be unlikely to see him fall out Dominic Robinson is another contender altogether but Jeremy Hunt I think is fairly short so so why is that though because jamming homes over the years has been quite a divisive character on the national scene he has I think particularly as foreign secretary and even before that his health minister had I think a few unfortunate run ins with particularly the junior doctors if you can think back that far I think perhaps he consolidated his identity to some extent though because in terms of the conservative leadership race and maybe sort of burnish his credentials to some respect and I think people he made he didn't come off as the mo . Likable or sort of imaginative can candidate that's that's for sure but I think you know you really he said he stuck it out and had a clearer message I think to some extent basically I'm not Boris and you think do you think it was a wise move then so when we had the leadership campaign in here last night I mean he did pretty well I suppose and I believe that he lost and then he said once again to step back on I'm a going to construct my constituency his constituency issues really events and it's always been on the wall for a general election sooner rather than later we've heard that and that maybe has helped him locally it's interesting I mean sorry boasts a lot of M.P.'s who also ran up against Boris Johnson and they've gone one of 2 ways either Jeremy Hunt the direction in which they think I'm going to step back and you have a sort of semi retirement until the general election or the opposite Michael Gove and say no actually I'm going to step up to it so I think that the explanation for that is basically the affection and with which their head they're held by Boris Johnson so it goes as the fixer he's the you know Mr No Deal planning hunt probably got just a little bit too close for Boris Johnson's liking and perhaps also having both held the position in the very exalted position of Foreign Secretary I think he wanted just to dispense with his services at this point will be really interesting in terms of potential cabinet shuffles and reshuffles it will be to see if we see some old faces popping up going what's going on for briefly with the Milton situation there and her standing as an independent and again I don't suppose there's one hard fast rule for this but the people who vote for a person or for a policy that is really interesting Now some people have a very diecast idio logical affiliation they voted that way their whole life or even because their parents have so there's a sort of a Family Association so even if the candidate changes it for them it doesn't matter conservative as a conservative it is a conservative for others and I think in the last 2 years the very idea of the Conservative Party itself has fundamentally changed either as a result of the management or the mismanagement of the party. The way in which the Conservative Party has translated what they think is the national interest visibly Brecht's it and I think for those people particularly after the whip with with withdrawn from the 21 there is serious upset serious decide you know dissatisfaction for those people actually that's just not good enough and an independent is somebody who has conservative credentials but also the benefit of being kind of a new fresh advocate if you like and so for them that's that's good that's a very nice mix and if that's the case then and Milton will probably have more support than she's currently expecting although I think she made it actually tipped the balance this evening and of the very few results are coming in and if you just tuned in one of our local counts of the crime they probably wants at least 2 am 3 am this morning going on previous previous form but all of those counts are coming we talked earlier about Dr Valley an area that I don't know very well but I do know that it's an old mining area and I am always interested in that phrase of holding your nose when you voted there would be people presumably who voted Conservative but will never have ever done that before I think so I think it goes back to your 1st very good question I mean why do people vote the way they do if Bracks that has led them to vote conservative they're voting for an issue they're not voting idiology they're voting what they think is a solution you know rather than for a party policy so they will absolutely be you know voter with their holding their nose Ok We'll have more from you very soon indeed but let's head to east Bourne for another of our local councillor Mike Buxton is in force morning Mike. Good morning Mark I'm in the town hall where counting is now underway and of course a very interesting seat one of the marshals held by Stephen Lloyd for the Liberal Democrats who of c 12017 prior to that and so for the conservative then it was Stephen Lloyd prior to that and of course not you will since want to get ahead is it's kind of swung between the Democrats and the conservatives for a few years now so accounting is under way. That it's likely to be a hold however talking to Tony for a body who is the leader of the can surface and he's been Bar Council just a few minutes ago he says that despite the Tory quietly confident of maybe securing a win the see even as he says figuring on the doorstep in 2019 compared to 2 years ago in 2017 he says it's a completely different field people know who their candidate is cow and so he says people are pumped up really sit here and. Supposed to be the sunniest place in the country it's been pretty miserable there and everywhere else and. It most certainly has which might potentially explain why there has been a slight downturn in the voter turnout this time around a few people said actually that the bad weather this day could have affected that the turnout is 69.7 percent. Down around about 3 percent on the thicket for 2017. To 2050 a few people here from both the Conservatives and the Democrats are sort of finger pointing out the wealthiest things saying that's probably. A little bit to do with the low voter turnout for me spawn and Stephen Moore has been I think quite a popular figure locally but he's on his own problems within within the party as well. Stephen Lloyd is actually a really interesting character in terms of his policy because if you go back to the start of the whole proxy debate Stephen Lloyd was very much a brick sitting at the time basically saying he was going to represent the will of the school which had a majority too to leave the e.u. But it was only a matter of weeks ago when the election. Was announced Stephen Lloyd effectively had a change of heart and he said he was listening to his own heart to his own thoughts to quote Mr Lloyd he said that basically the general election of 2019 in his view has wiped the slate clean over breaks allowing him to change he's a few bricks so it's gone from being a brick city to remain Oh well that works in his favor tonight well we'll probably find some point around about 4 o'clock this morning I take my Bankston thank you so much Mike is in East Point throughout the night with the result coming in later on through Vianney I was presumably on this show before 5 am today we were hearing there the turnout any spawn down slightly so 69.7 percent down on the sevens to point 9 percent of 27 seen interesting Oh I was fascinating because ever since I could vote I have turned out and done that but still you know as a sponsor only one town but still a 3rd of the town doesn't bother to go and vote and that this is the question I guess is it because they just can't find it in themselves to vote in this particular election because it's a Bracks the election is it the weather is it the time is it the date is it other other other issues as well I'm surprised I think it's that low I think one question we can ask ourselves as as the morning wears on is are we going to see particular trends in voter turnout across the country will they be higher in the South tends to be higher in the south and lower in the north tower. They're going to be a little bit on even I'd suggest probably be down about 10 percent maybe in some and possibly as high as 20 percent in others for the 1st time ever because I've been working here and in doing the pants one stuff actually the post of I've never done one before oh no I mean if you don't use it. Again our conversation for another day really but whether or not there is some other way of organizing our electoral system given that in the 21st century whether what we do in every other in every other sphere of life where everything is done online and you of course with this you're required to turn out and going to go there or at least be organized enough to get the postal vote and one wonders of entry whether there was some way of making it simple and logical error that were aim for people to vote I was asked to write a blog a little while ago on postal votes and proxy votes and in doing the research for it I was really shocked to find that Brits abroad British ex-pats really dread a general election because many of them are not sure whether they're going to be able to vote and they struggled either to find a proxy in time or struggle whether to as to whether they can actually get the postal vote returned in time and many of them are particular the local elections this year thousands and thousands of them that you know the voting the poll card itself just arrived too late or they simply weren't able to find somebody who was prepared to vote on their behalf and they felt you know very angry about many of them wrote to the Electoral Commission and said this is this this is very poor and I think what has happened in response is that local councils actually tried to be much quicker off the bat this time around and said Ok there's a general election coming and in fact even before the general election was called many councils in England in were were contacting people they knew to be abroad registered with them as early as September and October saying look at your act together now but even then there is a serious question as to whether the current electoral system is actively disenfranchising Brits abroad interesting more from. Yes I media and from the right the way through the night the time is just after 1 am late in Sussex for Sussex on f.m. Online digital radio and smart speakers this is b.b.c. Sussex. The body of the early general election results appear to back up the exit poll predictions suggesting the Conservatives could win a majority of 86 with the brightest poll Rolly Boris Johnson's gamble to make this the BRICs election looks to have paid off with the conservatives on course for the best election victory in more than 30 years for the labor it will be there for successive defeat and their worst election result in more than 80 years losing one of their Redwall seats as they're called BLITH Valley in Northumberland a former mining constituency where they've always voted Labor It's now a Conservative seat for the 1st time many Labor figures are blaming Jeremy Corbin for the imminent defeat looks like a disappointing night 2 for the Liberal Democrats who are saying the Tories 1st came was blind folly and the 4 conservative m.p. From it's a 6 a Nicholas Soames is saying his party now is going to look very different it is a political warship and it will be a different ballot it is no bad thing for being that these this could build a new conservative majority across Britain for another generation Labor had seen East Worthing unsure of as a possible chance but their candidate Verbeck says the leadership of the party was an issue on the doorsteps but we did have conversations about rights on the doorstep and we did have conversations about it on the doorstep and in general they were positive but we did have conversations about it so yeah they came up another distant labor talk it was Crawley live reporting from verge. I guess I'm here at the Katie leisure center in Crawley where votes are still being verified just a reminder we got 4 candidates here Mr Smith a conservative. From Labor clearly Usef the Lib Dems and indexing for the Greens we are expecting a result before 3 am But the big.