Councillors for the conservatives who were in different seats tonight as well so that's quite interesting here and yes so far the snack sort of snack game hasn't been great I'm not seeing too many snacks all of that in front of me is too easy so far so I'm hoping that improves as the night goes on when the exit poll came out. Everybody was looking for it and watching it was there any sort of instant reaction yet and what's interesting actually is that there is more media here than there has been previously and I can you know I've been here a few times so I know that there's always local media we always have the b.b.c. Regional news we always have certain of the bits of the national media but there is a there are loads of people in this press balcony here tonight and as that exit poll came out there was a bit over a gas you know as there is I mean everyone's waiting for that I did his and it really interesting that maybe this exit poll will be you know potentially be as accurate as previously because so many things are in play in this general election but whether or not that's true who knows but yeah there was a bit of a gasp I'm not sure everyone here was expecting it to be quite so much but yeah it's a it's a there's a long way to go there's a long way to go but if Birmingham if any of the Birmingham seats change from labor you know that is an indication of a really good night for the conservatives for the moment thank you we'll be back with cash at the i.c.c. At regular intervals just to clarify this exit poll means a conservative majority if it's right and there's a long night ahead and a dramatic night as well it would mean a Conservative majority of $86.00 because they are predicted on the b.b.c. Exit poll to have 368 seats Labor dropping to 191 the s.n.p. Effectively to win all but 4 seats in Scotland the Lib Dems. So that means the conservative gains likely to be maybe one or 2 on a patch maybe more than one or 2. Quite a few in the Northeast think yeah it looks like some of that red wall must have gone because if the conservatives have lost most of their seats in Scotland which of the poll is right they have they've made up that ground i'm lot more in England and Wales so some of the key target seats the ones in dog lay the Northfield in Birmingham to Wolverhampton streets to Wolverhampton Saints these and got to be ones that were more likely to fall now there are going to be individual stories Northfield is an interesting case because although the conservatives are strong there there is a Ukip candidate there's a Brecht party candidate and Richard Burton has a very strong record as a local m.p. So that's going to be very interesting case to watch it won't necessarily as cover saying go exactly as the polls suggest because their individual constituency stories with individual outside Labor and Conservative M.P.'s people being thrown out of their party just standing against their own party's candidate so there will be odd individual isolated stories but to chip away at that $368.00 predict prediction is going to be after all have to be a lot of exceptional stories yes the is the end of the line for a number of big names politically in Appalachia in Austin is one who's still down resigned from the party so a godly ne a big one if it's correct by the way the b.b.c. Exit poll tonight it'll be the highest number of conservative states since back in 1983 which is Margaret Thatcher's 2nd win and it will be the largest majority any party's had since 2001 Tony Blair 2nd big landslide election victory so this is not to be underestimated if it has really happened it puts Boris Johnson in absolutely secure position he's got complete control of his party there are there are no remain a M.P.'s who are going to cause him trouble his main trouble if it came would come from the other end of the party but with a majority like that he can withstand quite a big rebellion a long way to go this is just the indication from the b.b.c. Exit poll which has been right in the last 2 elections by the way the. Sterling is already shot up against the dollar on the basis of the b.b.c. Exit poll as your race for the exchange is now under their closed let's head to the stab region Dudley count. Manager at the Crystal Ledger center into the average leaving. Evening Frank Samson under the golden glow of the lights here at the Crystal leisure center you've just been talking about Dudley north and there are 4 counts here Dudley North Dudley South Wales 0 in and around the Regis and Stamford Bridge as well and we're guaranteed 2 new M.P.'s tonight and that's because in 2 of those seats. The incumbent isn't standing there bang out so let's start with Dudley north so it takes in the the center of Dudly up towards says Julie places like gone all would set in areas like that now what an interesting story here the last time just 22 votes in it the 4th most marginal seat in the country was won for labor by in Austen but in February live on b.b.c. Wm he quit the Labor Party to say he's not a fan of Jeremy Corbin is putting it mildly but to be fair every even really isn't keen on him at all he's not happy with the way in his eyes there's been a lack of action on anti semitism allegations and after he resigned he went even further he told people here to vote conservative and there this is an area that voted heavily to leave the European Union as well and on the back of the exit poll you have to say things look a bit grim here for labor just 22 votes last time the Labor candidate is Melanie Dudley perhaps the most appropriately named candidate in this general election and the conservative candidate Marco long a councillor in what was Saul no sign of either of those here at the camp yet tonight the Liberal Democrats in the Green Party not standing. As well. Perhaps the key is that the Bracks it Party decided to pull out of the race here they didn't want to get in the way of the conservatives so the conservatives have 22 votes to make up on last time and on the basis of the exit poll if it's correct you'd think they'd be likely to do that the other place will get a new m.p. Is in Tower Bridge and that's because Margot James the conservative isn't standing in this election you remember Boris Johnson had the whip removed from her when she voted against a no deal Bragg's it she since said she thinks her party's let down business over the Bracks it issue in a place we have Suzanne Webb sort of fairly well known in Conservative Party circles and challenging for labor Pete low former leader of Dudley council wants to be West Midlands Mary's Well next man he's standing for the Labor Party the Lib Dems the Green Party in one independent check their hat into the ring on that one I don't think we're really expecting any surprises in Dudley south where we've got Mike word conservative he's been in place for quite a while now and we're not really expecting any shocks there but you know you never know d. There will be individual stories and also in hell so in and around the Regis James Morris m.p. They 1st won the seat back in 28 and he's got a pretty healthy majority of just over 5000 so again on the back of that polling it's quite a night for Labor if they were to manage to make up any ground there in hell so in and rally Regis So you asked if you were asking Kath about the reaction to the poll there frankly I heard one solitary cheer here at the Crystal measure center. From a conservative perhaps someone else who knows something we all don't but that was what the reaction was when those numbers came up on the big screen here are the moments like you don't lead. As Rob was talking about 22 votes was the difference in the last election so he's not standing 71 percent leave was the vote in the e.u. Referendum a quick word with McCullum I mean that's got to be now you would have thought turning blue wasn't Well the key thing is that last time there was you could candidate who took 5 percent of the vote now all of those votes are up for grabs a couple of 1000 votes that could make the difference in a seat that was won by 22 votes last time and there's been the disruption within the Labor Party in the introduction of a new candidate having to nurse a constituency short notice and the old the old Labor m.p. And Austin declaring his support of the conservative party that can help either this is going to be a very very hard one for the labor to hold looking at the exit poll let's head out to Walsall Rob trick is our man there it's they were Hampton University the but the Walsall Sports Campus evening Mr trick Hello Frank See I think I might be called Rob as well but I think I can better Rob's 71 percent on a break sit vote because I'm here to cover in free constituencies a war society also northen Aldrich brown hills in Warsaw North had a leave vote of 74 percent which is one of the highest in England if not be highest and blocks which East which is within that had had a leave of 76.6 percent and so yet 3 constituencies here up on the balcony overlooking a sports center it's broken up 3 distinct ways you can see exactly where these camps will be all eyes are on the door underneath me waiting for those ballot boxes to come through No In fact some of these ballot boxes have just arrived I can see a couple of the counters and empty now and they look like a college tied in the piles at the moment but yeah they're waiting for those ballot boxes in all the bulk of the ballot box to arrive but some have started to arrive already so why. Again with Walsall Saxon out this historically well from the seventy's on boards has been a labor see. Bruce George had this from 1974 he was a labor m.p. Then Valerie valves took this on in 2010 in 2017 she won the seat with 57 percent of the vote that was an increase of 10 percent so you expect that she might hold on to that she is standing so well the conservatives the Liberal Democrats the bricks that Party the Greens and the independents. Also North which as I say had to leave vote of 74 percent this was a Labor seat until 2017 when Eddie Hughes took this for the Tories and this was the only seat in the patch which changed hands at the last election previously and it was held by David Winnick who had this from 1979 for labor and he stood at the age of 83 said Eddie Hughes of the Tories taken a seat meant that he ended his parliamentary career but as you can imagine I mean that was a fairly shocking result Back then David when it was spoken to a few people already downstairs it was it was a popular m.p. Around here as I say as a leave of 74 percent so at Hugh's I imagine is fairly confident and he won with 49 point one percent in 27 seats I imagine he's fairly confident he's going to keep hold of this seat when we talk of war and also talk and will and hold Blake in whole. Blocks which in short he thought the last one Aldrich brown hills it's fair to say this is frankly one of the safest Tory seats in the West Midlands Wendy Morton won this in 2015 or so Richard Sheppard had this from 1979 to another really long serving m.p. For the West Midlands. So Wendy Morton can conservative she stand in again ways at labor the Liberal Democrats the Greens and Mark Beach from the official Monster Raving Loony Party so before those results come in I'm going to hunt down one of these press offices and see if we can get hold of Marc and find out if he's confident at all I mean you know he's a forked out 500 pounds to stand in this constituency say we'll have to find out if he's confident of winning this or not the thing is Rob Where would a general election be without the Monster Raving Loony Party exactly I think you need them you do and here they are I will be back with Rob trick shortly was pulled off by the way was the only street to change hands at the last general election in 2007 so you are going to get the national picture very shortly but I want to get to Mitchell our man who's in Santa well tonight and we're looking forward later on to the head to head between Matt and George Galloway who will be there at some stage because he's an independent for the West Bromwich East constituency. Even frankly yes George is in West Bromwich Ace made up some law of 3 constituencies of the West from it's as you've just mentioned west from West and also Wally old 3 of which famously read talking about the referendum is well over 60 percent in all 3 constituencies so we got 67 percent in west from East West Bromwich West 69 percent over in leave and 61 percent in Warley interleaved as well getting back to West Bromwich East obviously a stronghold for Tom Watson for many. Victories in toto but isn't stand in this year so in his place we have Abraham Douglas for labor also running his Nicholas Richards conservatives moving on and then we got West from West. Isn't standing also so you've got someone new in place of that is James Cunningham for labor and Sean Bailey running for conservatives and also a flow caucus for live there were Democrats and probably the strongest of all labor strongholds let's face it we're talking since 9097 since it was created it's been under John Spellar John spell of running again so you can't really say much of a change happening there alongside him. Is Chandra can we can let a finger matter and that is conservative and Brian manly going for liberal Democrats not expecting some surprises but definitely want to have a chat with George at some point in the evening. A match thank you will be back with Michel we got a call in the studio what does it know about politics Eason worth knowing there's a few quotes Laura political editor saying that Boris Johnson has redrawn the political map a quote from John McDonnell in the last few moments if this is anything near this is the b.b.c. Exit poll that we mentioned. The conservative majority being predicted of $86.00 the Conservatives $368.00 labor down to 191 so the approximate vote share the Conservatives 46 percent of the vote Labor at 32 percent which potentially How could Jeremy Corbin survive that if this plays out but John McDonogh saying that this is anywhere near it's extremely disappointing that would be putting it mildly McColl wouldn't that's that's a world class euphemism I think. This would be a terrible terrible performance of the Labor Party not their worst poll share actually as it happens I mean they got less Gordon Brown unless they got 29 percent they got less than a Michael Foot they got 2627 percent so actually 32 although it's not their worst performance in the post-war period it's an incredible drop from the 40 percent they got any 2 years ago and they looked like they were going to do better in the later polls they were up at 3536 percent that seems to have just evaporated and we're back where we were at the start of the campaign we'll be able to explore why the voters drugs it's the lowest potentially the lowest labor post war drop since we talked about $83.00 markets such as a 2nd term yeah in terms of the number of M.P.'s this predicted total would be the lowest in the post-war period it would. Be some of the 909093 so now it will be the lower than that you know in terms of vote share is not quite the worst but it's certainly that's no compensation to the Labor Party for what it looks like has happened to it and the look on John McDonald's face when being interviewed and what he's saying demonstrates to the layperson knows that there is a great there's there's very little comfort to be had in questioning this poll and many of the stories that were coming back from labor campaigners including the one that was recorded by his friend. That merely echoed what a Labor a lot of Labor M.P.'s were saying they knew the Johnson. Tack on the red wall have had a great effect now whether he'll keep that up if he's redrawn the map he may just of redrawn in pencil whether he's going to keep that going for the future whether the Tory Party will hold on to the seat when he's not abrupt election that's a whole other question that was his mantra to build a Southerner how everybody else felt but I was getting really fed up with it but it seems to have struck home that's all he kept saying it's over and ready ready to go or going to do a stick in the microwave ping and off we go but it seems to of registered with me that's right I mean if anything gets done was said more times than strong and stable was last time I think I've heard that phrase more often than I've heard say not a whole to say Merry Christmas everybody. But it has turned out to be it looks like a brick still action not a public expenditure austerity social justice election which is what Jeremy called and wanted it to be Yeah I mean to be in so many issues to obviously labor we're trying to focus on because services were majoring on it and it looks like it's certain key areas of the country breaks it has been the number one and maybe the only thing that people have been focusing on. You know I think the focus of the election for a lot of people has been to sort it out some way or other and they believe the only way to do that the only party with clarity on the issue that could actually resolve the problem was the conservatives 1st official results should come in Sunderland like to declare 1st Newcastle one of the 6 in Newcastle always like to have a bit of a race with Sunderland their rivals in football and politics as well pitfall is a resident expert one of our experts based in the nerve center in Westminster So Peter what's everybody saying down there at the moment well we just heard from the shadow chancellor John McDonnell actually who says that if this exit poll is true that is obviously extremely disappointing for the Labor Party I mean this would be then if you already said this the 1st Labor worst labor result in modern times then lowest in 7 overseas and 135 a major victory really for Bush and since conservatives obviously it is early in the night and exit polls have got it wrong in the past but certainly not so wrong that they've you know there are dozens of seats out so I don't think we're looking at a hung parliament or certainly not a Labor majority governments come this come tomorrow morning pretty Patel The home secretary has also been on the main program just downstairs from where I am at the moment she says this is a projection it's too early to say I suppose she would say that wouldn't she and she was asked whether the government would bring back the Braggs a bill before Christmas she wouldn't really go there but she said they would move quickly and if indeed this exit poll is correct then obviously it has a major impact doesn't it does mean that we will finally be leaving with the European Union on January the 31st Boris Johnson will have easily the numbers behind him on the green branches to to get Bragg's it done as the slogan goes so obviously we're still waiting on official confirmation of declarations around the country do we believe it is the the view down there that most of these gains for the conservatives are going to be in the north of England it sounds like an odd. Course in the West Midlands as well you know you looking at Dudley north and I think judging by this exit poll you'd be suppressed surprise if Labor held on there were perhaps in South West West Bromwich West probably in play as well in terms of conservative gains you looking at the northeast of England as well would be interesting to see what the result is in Sunderland watching pictures actually of the but ballot boxes coming in there they obviously have that rivalry down there with the with Newcastle in terms of who can be the 1st to declare But again we may well see some very very different results depending on the parts of the country anecdotally here in London people are saying there's been quite a high turnout lots of young people turning out to vote Labor feel that they're doing quite well around here and you know the s.n.p. In Scotland as well 55 seats according to the exit poll a very very good day for them indeed So the Tories on the back foot in London in Scotland elsewhere doing very very well indeed it seems Peter Saul in London for the moment Peter thank you coal is with me in the studio just so you know something flashed on the screen it says they're predicting a 12 percent swing to the conservatives in Godley north which would give them the seat quite comfortably Michael Gove with a quote in the last few minutes Scottish referendum not inevitable quite the opposite because also the s.n.p. Based on the exit poll moving up by 20 seats to 55 getting all but 4 in Scotland so in terms of Dickless sturgeon wanting another referendum for Scottish independence and hoping that Jeremy Corbin does his bit and maybe an alliance between the 2 Well he's going to herbut if you like with the s.n.p. But it doesn't look at the moment as though Jeremy called things come to the wicket with with his now the s.n.p. Are now back in the position they were in 2015 when they when they got over 50 of the of the Scottish seats there are only $59.00 Scotty seats and they on this poll have all but 4 of them which is bad news for the Liberal Democrats who hold the receipts there it's bad news for the conservatives in Scotland because they held 10 seats in Scotland. And they seem to have lost most of those and of course is bad news for the Labor Party who used to have a 50 seat in Scotland it means that the Labor party will not be in a position to offer to make any sort of deal with the s.n.p. The s.n.p. Will therefore have to pursue their argument for a 2nd referendum with this apparently and large mandate against a conservative government that is completely opposed to even considering the idea so this drop in the labor vote is is is almost certainly going to produce a change in Dublin North of if it's anything like it is true if you look at somewhere like Burma Northfield you've got a 10 percent drop in the labor vote Richard burdens majority was 10 percent at the last election he's looking like he might need the British person you get to say from if this is been the kind of fall in the Labor Party support Well in terms of seats in our patch now based on the exit poll that will be a lot of very worried labor potential employees candidates activists because you look at doubly Norse Wolverhampton north east will have to Southwest West Bromwich West where Adrian Bayley is a retired Birmingham States I mean Birmingham totally right dominated by labor potential you mention Northfield Richard Burton Jack drop me an Irving turn 7000 majority might be just a little bit concerned with that exit poll edge Bastien pretty kill Yes I mean an edge Boston has the protection that it was not as strongly Bracks it as the rest of them was and that you know it's been an embedded Labor seat since $997.00 partly because of the you know it's got a large public sector votes as well so if someone that would be really bad news the Labor Party Erdington of course very solid Labor seat but very strongly breaks it so we have to consider the possibility and the same goes for North will there could be 3 maybe even 4 Labor seats in them that are there now in jeopardy your attorney called his future by the way of John McDonnell quoted as well as saying we'll make the appropriate. Decisions will it's going to be a long and interesting dramatic night Sally Hall American Harriman is our reporter looking after the sleeps there at the North Sally hold sports center in the war town of Charlotte Oh yes welcome. Center I've got a great view up here I'm upon the balcony at the Sports Center looking down on the whole flurry of activity counting well underway here now as you say 2 seats up for grabs here we got married in and Sally her so little is seen as a traditionally Tooley seat but the Lib Dems does hold it at one point she had it but she lost the seat back in 2015 now Julian Knight currently has the majority for The Blaze and he's standing again now for marriage in Caroline Spelman held the seat for many years 22 years in power for the conservatives she's now recently sat down and the new guy that seat is Saqib Betty he's standing alongside labor and the Greens now 1 point one candidate I'm very interested in trying to at find. Later on this evening frenzy is the candidate for the Green party raise me sextant now she is a former cage fighter which I believe it so I just want to know how she made the journey from cage fighting in to politics so I want to watch later on. That's when she want to talk to Rosemarie Sexton counselor doctor of math practicing osteopath a dodgy back the former professional cage fighter as well now prospective politician. Looking after things it's all a whole and Meriden and explain more is our reporter. At the council house I think is in the ball room maybe a quick foxtrot or watch over the next few hours on x. . Frankly I don't think I've got the legs to be doing the fix of tricks. Yeah I am in the ball room I'm going to put a smile for the occasion frenzy just to give it may have glamour to reside in it's probably here the p.a. System is in full swing people are just taking seats now for a fresh face which they probably weren't going to am when the result was due to be announced here. Ready to get out of those ballot boxes which is just a measure of the door as I speak now here in Canada this is only the one c. And it's a fairly small field actually the smallest of. Constituencies and that was reduced even more to just 3 candidates when this is the only scene in our area there is the Unites remain agreement which is that agreements made by the Liberal Democrats on the greens to not stand against each other in certain seats in order to maximize votes for and peace who host Grex in now the 3 candidates that are standing is Amanda milling She's the conservative candidate here and she won that kind of chase for the 2nd time in 2017 so he's hoping to make it a 30 day she took over from aid in Burnley when he served as one term as and pay the Labor candidate today is on the hob so she will be hoping that she can not command off her seat day and Paul would head is the green as a say he's got no liberal Democrat candidate against him today because of that agreements he's hoping to be the the wants are going to push away from that thoughts of Brecht's it and try and move away from that one in terms of the majority here the conservative majority was over 8000 back in 2017 amounts with that one so it's just about to go the way I can see the ballot boxes being emptied now Frank say so hopefully Clark there won't be too much coffee and people will have a have a result for you will you be the 1st to declare that in our patch you think. I'm hype and so do I get a medal if ice is the case we'll find something for you. Probably one of those I scrape is in the bottom drawer. You've guessed it already it's because they're already these are in Canada. Dr met coal is with me in the studio of the b.b.c. Exit poll of the everybody still talking about that and debating that and it's been a lot of people said it would be a Brix election that the labor stance on break seats. It was it was wishy washy and it has paid and now obviously they now said Well 2nd referendum we'll negotiate a deal over the next few months and that deal what he closed staying in the Customs Union a single market and then it's either that deal or remain Boris has been saying this is the deal it's ready to go we're out of the single market out of the Customs Union but obviously the negotiations are only just starting if we leave it's the withdrawal agreement then there's a lot more negotiation to be done McColl Yes Getting back to don't actually refer to getting the process of leaving done didn't refer to establishing another agreement now so it's not really going to be done is it now this was a question of Brecht's it will not be over now and will roll on for even by the government's predictions by another year from now it seems relatively unlikely that all of the questions of forming a new trade agreement will be resolved by the end of December 2020 so if we're hoping I mean what it appears is that a large number of people are going to support the conservatives on the basis of please stop the noise stop the stop the question of being discussed a different question of Brecht's it will be discussed it will be discussed with a clear majority in Parliament if this poll is correct those 2 things will have changed the issue of bricks it won't entirely go away and the the leadership of Boris Johnson will have a mandate to get on with Bracks it and to continue with this plan there's no doubt about that whether he will have a mandate for much else and whether that will be a basis for 5 years government even if he gets the breaks it process completed at the end of next year is something that further down the line may present him with some problems I mean there are so many issues it was so unpredictable this election and again we should really emphasize that this is the b.b.c. Exit poll so no result to be declared yet but they're predicting a conservative majority. $86.00 with the conservatives having $368.00 seats which would be a pretty incredible result for Boris Johnson. And obviously he's been just banging on focusing on. And the majority leave and that's what they've been focusing on the public by the looks of it over the last couple of years maybe now they thinking. It didn't happen it's been 3 years we didn't get the leave it policy is promising it that's the way they've gone nothing else has mattered Yes this is effectively a confirmation of the referendum result in in large measure and that means that the question of remain the question of a 2nd referendum if this poll proves to be correct it will be a dead letter though it will not be credibly possible to argue for revisiting the issue if the outcome is clearly supportive of the Conservative party is this bear in mind this means that in a field of several parties fighting on several issues the conservatives have done better the at the ballot box in the national poll rating since the days of Margaret Thatcher this is are a higher poll rating than the Conservative Party could reasonably have expected without the issue of Breck's it they have been the vehicle of the Brecht vote the Bracks vote has again clearly won against a party some of whom were still keen to. Retain the possibility of leaving the European Union the Labor Party after all was was going to renegotiate another deal and put it to the public so I think this is the the the point of no return for the actual question of Breck's it the implementation will still give rise to argument. The situation of Scotland and of Northern Ireland is going to have renewed difficulty for the government but the government will at least have a clear majority with which to deal with those questions the political map in the West Midlands is going to be really interesting to see whether the conservatives can crack Wolverhampton and break into any of the constituencies in the Birmingham area Canada time with by the way which we talked about the last 5 or 10 minutes examples of a gradual move towards the Tories because both 2 thirds leave but both Labor seats between 19072010 let's just head to Tamworth and the role of school in time with a. Our reporter would be good with the name Frank c. M. course just looking at some of the other candidates going back to Andrew Tilly he is a former sniper constructor so someone who knows Tomlinson has been in the area for more than 10 years 1st snowboard instructor and now he works at school so yeah as a say it's expected that the Tories will take the seat and again this time around of course we'll have to wait and see. Thank you. Candidates potential candidates who've had or got crazy jobs whether it's low ballers I mean Dr Rose we checked and we were talking about who's standing in Sollie hole the Green candidate Council a doctor of match but professional or former professional cage fighter not to anybody's going to be able to beat that. Let's let's head out to were literally hold out a pin to Smith at the burnt wood leisure center evidently going to be frank saying no nothing not exciting here I'm afraid so I hope it's starting to creep into life now I can see a few ballot boxes starting to make a long track out of the vehicles and into That's great like a great big marquee that's been erected here but leisure center for the sort everything to be sought is there be taken to the sports hall because it's it's not the biggest site here compared to some of the other ones that we are covering tonight across the West Midlands It's very strange being here in the evening this is actually the gym I come to and use the pool and that sort of thing so to be here at night fully clothed and not in any sort of swimming trunks and a little bit strange but to give us sort of a good view of the political landscape in this part of the world. Michael Farber can't who's held the seat since 1997 he is of course a conservative in obviously this. The cathedral city of Litchfield also neighboring burnt wood where we are so nice and some of the villages on the out like to the north of the city as well so places such as York so. Going out fruit. Or come under constituent say. One of the seats that the conservatives are going to be looking to hold that's for sure there was a massive majority of over 18 and a half $1027.00 saints of the Tories will definitely be having this one stamp to remain low but there are it's been a really hard fought election indeed on Monday nights I was at the hustings in which failed in a white Street Church and it was a very feisty affair in fact I've just been speaking to a couple of people from local websites and also the local paper in this part of the world. And I can't remember a hustings like in all the years that I've been covering elections in this part of the world but there are 5 candidates in total that have been once in a cross next to their name in valid papers across which failed today obviously once again Michael factor can't the conservatives David Robinson just a righty just walking past me now who's the Labor candidates who are right for the Liberal Democrats at the Greens have got Andrea Marc Klee and John Madden who's standing as an Independent so it's a few ballot boxes swerving past me as I speak but I think it's going to be a while yet before we get anything concrete coming out of this part of Staffordshire I don't for the moment thank you in terms of voting today I noticed reports of a lot of queues want to disturbances down in Bristol and you probably knew this might call that you can if you go and vote you can tell people on social media of whatever who you voted for but if you tell somebody. Who somebody else you know voted for you could get fined and potentially 6 months in prison you know that he doesn't surprise me I mean you're entitle to tell people. Vote you can't take a photograph you know vote no contact take any of the photographs in the polling station but. You can tell people how you voted but it not how somebody else you know vote well because you can you can be you could be accused of putting them in danger or of misrepresenting them because you don't know that they're in target cell of the people themselves but it's to speculate about that I suppose it will be argued they misrepresented how they voted I can't believe you can vote if you're drunk apparently or under the influence of drugs as long as your not disruptive Anyway let's head to were Walsall Rob trick is there apparently with Mike Byrd who's the council leader of course he was a yes frankly I've got Mike with me now Mike we're looking at the exit poll toward majority of $368.00 and pains had you feel Well Christmas is coming early if that's the case far as I'm concerned exit polls are normally too far out all they are only an estimate but when you see 368 against 191 for the Labor Party you have to start wrapping your Christmas present and say thank you Jamie did you did you predict that we predicted we would win but having said that you know the figures that are becoming at the moment do seem to be as the press and the media have been reporting but you know obviously at the end of the day it's all in the books now we have to wait and see that it comes out in in real terms and what you expect in here in Warsaw at the moment to conservative one labor Well let's hope by the end of the night it'll be 3 conservative because the people on the street do not like the Labor candidate going to reverse She is not supported by many of her past followers and quite honestly I believe that we can win that seat and hopefully we'll see that will come through and a huge one in 2017 from it was a lady say new to the conservatives he won we have almost 50 percent had to think he'll do this time and I think without a shadow of a doubt we'll see a real Georgia ready towards 8 or 10000 from the 2000 we had in 2017 William and we will not see for the 1st. Time for 38 years and you've been a councillor for 40 years comes a leader 6 times have you known an election like this no no I've seen many elections over the years but this just got to be the most exciting one and obviously if the results of the actually polls are correct in probably the most rewarding want specially with the weather. And Boris Johnson and new prime minister. Cameron this you think has been about the leaders I know people don't go into the polling booths in tick bars Johnson or general Corbin but how much of this do you think has been about the personalities of Jeremy Corbyn abortions I think it's all about the personalities of those 2 people can cry borish but at the end of the day he's far more credible than a dinner the Labor Party leader which he Jeremy Corbett here's got a history which people don't like and to be honest you know I mean nice is situation is untenable in my view but you think people around here have got slightly desperate hence the reason why they've come to the conservatives I mean this is traditionally a Labor area. Where you just an alternative party because they feel like that the Labor Party might not be where they wanted to be at the moment really surprised if you look back over the last 20 years in Warsaw leaders be mainly conservative and I put that down to the fact we've got good quality policies and the people out there trust us and I think that's what matters people are going to trust in the local council and the local councils came to my company didn't say much. Thank you thanks Mark clearly stating there that Gerry because position is untenable if this plays out with the b.b.c. Exit poll over the labor down to 1900 seats I don't think that is the case I don't see you can argue too much with. A lot of wrangling within the Labor Party Jess Phillips tweeting very few words for how are broken I am for the community I represent who've been through enough Dominic Rob in the last few minutes saying. Indication of the conservative message this is based on the b.b.c. Exit poll with a Conservative majority of 86 Valerie Val's Mike there was talk about that particular seat was all South where Valerie versus got a majority of not far off 9000 and he thinks that could go because that he's listening well on the basis of the swing that we're being told is there is the. Underpinning of the. Of the exit poll then that could happen he's talking about both West Brom you see it's going to the conservatives in the Black Country it looks very realistic that a number of seats could go to the conservatives if this poll is correct that there are individual M.P.'s records that will protect them Richard Byrne Valerie virus those sorts of seeds you might find a purse or personal vote providing a kind of buffer zone but where there's been a change of candidate or there's been a controversy in the local party then the Labor Party is going to be very vulnerable Well the 2000 Wasil south side defending close to 9000 majority looking for a 4th general election win there but the conservative challenger is currently called brains a 28 year old counselor from Kent So he's hoping to take that seat let's go to South Staffordshire consul leisure center is the venue Chris Craddick is the man who's. Not bad what's happening there. Just down the corridor or as they are counting the ballots now the 1st few boxes have arrived here and there's quite a bit of a shock reaction when that exit poll was announced here the Lib Dems candidate actually sort of sucked off a little bit he's called Bush Johnson the most morally deficient prime minister of the Democratic errors I don't think that results left him feeling particularly happy there but South suffragette as a whole is generally a well known conservative seat it's been a Conservative seat from its establishment 983 and last time out government witness and held this place by a majority of 29223000 votes so it's safe to say South Staffordshire was also remain a blue this time around by the looks of it I would have thought so based on what we're hearing for the moment Chris thank you it's election night on b.b.c. w M just to go back to the b.b.c. Exit poll that came out a bang on 10 o'clock showing a Conservative majority of 86 conservatives 368 the predicted number of seats Labor 191 and there's an exit poll predicting what Hamilton ne a 93 percent chance of a conservative when it was the Hamilton north east so you can see why there's a number of seats that could be going blue that happen in red for quite a while Michel. Yes What we're looking at the possibility of Erdington changing hands the possibility of Northfield changing hands that's been Labor since our 92 I think. We're looking at the the possibility of both wars all seats all that will be remarkable really even on the current predicted swing the West Brom it seems going. We'll look at Dudley north being very likely to fall into conservative hands there could be a sway the blue seek to cross the West Midlands that have been labor for a long time and the Conservative Party might actually starting to eat into the territory of Birmingham where where but the with the exception of something called the old They've they've been unable to make any progress for a rare for some decades now so this is going to be a a sea change in seat in the West Midlands if it turns out the way that the exit poll suggested yet just go to Wolverhampton north east where Emma Reynolds is defending close to 5000 majority against change the Woodson for the conservatives and that the predictions was that it might be too close to call but Emma Reynolds has won 3 times in Wolverhampton ne But the Conservatives 2 years ago it was their pressure when for 25 years so they're predicting a 93 percent chance well that ends in southwest by the way 61 percent chance of a good serve the win and was a south 51 percent chance of good serve the win let's go to my aunt who's in stab Richard Dudley for the council there at the Crystal leisure center in Star bridges with the Dudley council leader cut us out of the faces of our bags Impala we've just seen this is going to be a pretty bad night here isn't it yeah I mean my Personally I don't listen to polls are more interested in the results and I want to usually right I mean I have seen polls that are right and I've seen polls that are wrong so we were told in 2017 the Labor Party was going to get annihilated that wasn't the case what I will say though is that this is a unique election. It is a unique election on the basis that most people of voting on either their position on breaks it rather than their position on the wider set of policies and on that basis we will probably see a result here rather than the policies are seen the policies of all of the bodies and I am actually really pleased that what the labor offer was going to do you think on that basis then here you're driving north in particular very close and you know your best chance of winning here presumably is if that the one you hold of the moment is probably probably gone. Well you know I don't think any party should be a you know County chickens before they've been laid so I'd like to wait and see and make my judgement when the result comes in obviously both parties always dissect the result after after the occasion and that's what we will be doing but what I will say is that this election is based on a national break city issues it's not your typical election that most people have been considering about the wider policies and I know that because I've not hundreds of those and actually that issue seems to come up time and time again and I've heard anecdotally that Jeremy Corbin has been an issue for you here on the doorstep and if this poll is right and I hear that you're being skeptical about that start expect you to be at the moment believe it is right and this is the biggest conservative win since Margaret Thatcher's 2nd election back in the 1980 s. Germy Corbin's got to go has me look again I think you can only make a judgement on elections based on when the results come out what I will say is always not thousands of dollars in my in my time in politics and there are always people that like a leader and there are always people that don't like a leader and you can't say that generally cool Binny's unpopular when I have seen thousands of people queuing up to see him do it and you know listen to. When he's come to Dudley we were inundated with people wanting to come and talk to him but I've also recognize that in every single party in every single election that I've for everybody's got an opinion on the Linda. Is generally called his rice run we'll look at the other parties as well because the bricks of party with Nigel Farage obviously quite a few of the candidates I was stood down but they being wiped out cold based on what we say well both of the minor parties seemed like they might play a big part in this election by voters for from the other parts yes both of them seem to lose credibility about halfway through the campaign and the breaks the party pulled out of all the Tory seats and thereby seemed to say the importance we might have is in a handful of seats where the Tories are challenging labor but labor is currently holding the seat they seem to be saying well we're not really a national force anymore and we don't really object to the conservatives anymore so why then would you or why would you vote for them against the conservatives in a seat where the Conservatives could beat labor the Lib Dems by taking quite strident positions on revoking Article 50 if if they won an overall majority and by saying that they would. They would refuse to work with Jeremy Corbyn and they were utterly opposed oppose the conservatives these kind of positions and their record in the coalition of course which was thrown back at them seemed to have again stopped them putting on a surge in this campaign in the way they did in 2010 so both of those parties seem now to be less likely to take seats off either of the other parties by draining their votes and and in their own targets in the case of the Liberal Democrats might have great difficulties in making progress it's still possible that take a hung full of conservative seats but it looks like now they're sort of going to be static in terms of the number of seats they got they got 12 in 2017 they added a couple on during the campaign in the parliament but it now seems that they'll be there or thereabouts in terms of their their their parliamentary party. They won't they won't die out they won't go back into a position like they were in 2015 but they they won't make any progress compared to 2017. Predicted to get 12 seats which is what they've had previously I would talk about other seats in the West Midlands because there are some potential big swings and some of the the red Labor seats in Birmingham could well be going blue over the next few hours but as a busy boy we're going back to Rob with the Tory council leader in Dublin Yeah hi Frank See here at the Crystal leisure center in stone bridge have just a little word on turnout that the postal votes here it's about 78 percent which I understand it is about normal fare it's not it's not high or low and it's about where they expect it to be on joined by the Conservative leader of Dudley Council Patrick Harley the big smile on his face You obviously believe that exit polling Well I think it's early days yet obviously the last exit poll 2070 which are out on Parliament so we'll take that at the moment but as I said it's early days we'll keep. Feet on the ground in white as they have the knowledge involved but at the moment is extremely promising for our hard working candidates are speaking to one of your colleagues early you said they'd be amazed if it was right so you know does it tally with your experience knocking doors doing leaflets street you know town centers in the last 5 weeks I didn't believe the news of the last couple days or it showed at the polls will not remain in light of a catalyst of. Our experience on the doorstep it's been that we've always had a clear leader at the campaign and that leaves not narrowed so. Much that scenery but if it's in now figures fantastic will be the greatest we've had in over 30 years but even if it's slightly lower of it will still sell for and you would expect cycle for seats here so doubly North-South stabber h. L. Zone around the reactors Absolutely we expected at the start of the campaign to take awful she is particularly in Austin and she was standing down we came very close to a years ago believe now with a candidate like Mark along a who's now local councillor has hit the ground running in this campaign not had a lot of chance to really interact with the little community because of the Toyman's of the election but the charming Chinese made the most of our particular deals with and it's because of Bragg's it rather than your You'll recall it in government because you know I've been Chante you about issues in Dudley over the last 567 years and every time we've talked about cuts we've talked about reducing services you getting more money from the government you think in the new year you have in 10 years but still 20 percent less than you got in 2010 so it's it just about breaks it rather than your your record which people don't think is that great I think it's a combination of quite a few things One is obviously Boris is a charismatic carrots are probably the most cabbage Matic politician of regeneration he's a politician who delivers he delivered when he was on demand he delivered a new deal with the e.u. When everybody said it was impossible. I believe he'll deliver a broader future for our country if least it acknowledged correctly we get a you know a really good healthy majority believe is a combination of the policies of the last few years people have been through some really choked Tongil austerity but it was it was something that had to be done to get the nation's finances a contract that's been done now you've seen the pledges from Boris' more police more money for the n.h.s. More money for local councils like Dudley So know we can really start to invest in national launch services under a prime minister that actually believes in Britain and I think the other thing is well yes it is about. We've also got the corporate factor here a lot of decent hard working labor voters throughout this borough that would never have dreamed they could vote Conservative but the sort of quality of a call we did McDonnell and Co absolutely puts the fear of God into them they are decent hardworking patriotic people that's one of the things that McDonnell and called we simply aren't they are not patriotic they are not the 2nd day of decent people know that cause decent people do not small be the enemies of this country and that's the position they take in all of their political lives and their decent lives of just released Barbara that find that strange and sickening and I can't support him so yes he's a combination of our own record combination of charisma and it's a combination of riches but also the corporate factor and I think that has been a perfect storm but we've had a complete meltdown in labor support not just in the Burra but it actually calls roll it right across the country Ok Patrick I thank you save some smiling for later when you say grinning at me and she might expect to be believed those numbers and the conservatives will if they're replicated here that sort of swing they'll be in for a very good night here Rob Thank you Rob with Patrick Harley there just after 11 o'clock on b.b.c. The leg. 2020 on b.b.c. $95.00 we're just over an hour in it's already paid a dramatic 62 minutes thereabouts will have to Wolverhampton shortly because a couple of those slates could be going from red to blue election night on b.b.c. In the exit poll suggesting the conservatives will have a majority of $86.00 seats $368.00 the predicted outcome for the conservatives Labor dropping to $191.00 which would be an absolute disaster for Jeremy Corbyn John McDonald and the Labor Party and would seriously bring into question the future Jeremy called me as leader of the Labor Party lot of people saying he would have to go on the basis of the exit poll that we are seeing tonight Stay with us through the night all of our results still to be declared 31 seats across the West Midlands and some of them by the looks of it will be going from red to blue. 90 point point 6 the general election. As an exit polls like 95 percent predicted Joe Swinson the Lib Dem leader to lose sleet tonight chose Winston hasn't really connected with the electorate obviously people are just getting to know the Lib Dems leader she hasn't been in position that long but what went wrong for Joe Swinton this time around do you think well I think on the music that. She may not lose his seat I mean let's wait and see what happens there but the s.n.p. Clearly.