Of reflection on this result and on the policies that the party will take going forward and I will lead the party during that period to ensure that discussion takes place and we move on into the future. Several party members have called for Mr Corbin's immediate resignation some accused pro e.u. Labor politicians in London of alienating breaks in supporters in the north others blamed momentum the hard left faction within the party he called on labor to reroute policies back to where people lead their lives the pro independence Scottish National Party has made significant gains winning 48 of the country's 59 seats in the u.k. Parliament the party's leader Scotland's 1st Minister Nicolas Sturgeon said the vote represented a renewed and strengthened mandate for another independence referendum the leader of Britain's 4th biggest party Joe Swinson of the Liberal Democrats now really lost her own Scottish seats on what has been a disappointing night for the party leaving it with just 11 M.P.'s The Lib Dems stood on a platform of revoking breaks it well the news from the b.b.c. . For the 1st time in Northern Ireland parties that favor a United Ireland looks set for a majority over those who want the province to stay British the Democratic Unionist Party that the u.p.a. Lost at least 2 of its 10 seats more from Chris page the most devastating result for the d.p. Was the defeat of the politician who led it in the Commons for almost a decade she feared succeeded in unseating Nigel dogs in north Belfast overall Pru remaining candidates performed strongly and pointed to the Democratic Unionist support for Bracks that was the main reason for the party 6 percent drop in the vote share the last constituency to declare in this part of the u.k. Was from Ireland so as to room where Sinn Fein beat the Ulster Unionist Party by just 57 votes the result means there are 9 nationalist M.P.'s and it's unionists nationalism has never before been ahead in the Westminster contest President Trump has welcomed Boris Johnson's victory in a tweet he said Britain and the United States would now be free to strike what he called a massive new trade deal after a break said the president of the European Council Sharni Shell said it was it now important to have clarity on BRICs it law is in Pakistan are holding a nationwide strike today angry about police action against dozens of lawyers who stormed a cardiac hospital in Lahore on Wednesday images of the lawyers apparently assaulting medical staff and damaging hospital property sparks angry condemnation on social media legal associations are now demanding that lawyers who've been arrested should be released 3 patients died while the hospital was being ransoms and New Zealand's military has airlifted 6 bodies from White Island after Monday's volcanic eruption there the police commissioner said the operation went to plan but was not over yet to dive teams will be deployed on Saturday to search for a body believed to be in the waters off the volcanic island and that's the latest b.b.c. News. Hello this is Dan Damon and thanks for listening to World update from the b.b.c. World Service and we're here on college green across the road from the Houses of Parliament the House of Commons that will be a very different body than the one that stood down just a few weeks ago because the United Kingdom general election result has reshaped the political map of Britain made it almost inevitable next month let's say inevitable and at the same time set up another constitutional crisis that could lead to the breakup of the United Kingdom in this special program will look at what Prime Minister Barak's Johnson could do with his substantial majority in the House of Commons we're predicting a commencement or 2 of $78.00 how will he move forward then a negotiation with the European Union for the comprehensive trade deal that he says he wants by the end of next year and how will he react to the very predictable demands by the Scottish National party for another referendum on Scottish independence the s.n.p. Increased its share of common seats to at least 48 an increase of 13 Well the big story of the night was traditional Labor seats in industrial working class areas as they described voting for the Conservative Party once led by Margaret Thatcher putting their trust in her successor Boris Johnson the 1st sign of that came when the Tories took the former mining seat of blither Valley from labor which had held it since 1950. Letting the concept of party candidate 17 time was on was. And in his own constituency Mr Johnson said the results would give him a mandate to get Bracks it done and take the u.k. Out of the e.u. Next month I want to thank the people of this country. For turning out to vote in a December election that we didn't want to call it which I think has turned out to be a historic election the Gives us now in this new government the chance to respect the democratic will of the British people to change this country for the better and to unleash the potential of the entire people of this country and that is what we will not do and if we are lucky enough to be returned as the polls as the exit polls seem to suggest then that work will begin tomorrow thank you all very much all right I should say don't do more of today. Thank you Bill. Boris Johnson Well the former Conservative prime minister to resign may whose own campaign went so badly wrong 2 years ago welcomed her party's performance this time I'm very pleased that the majority. Of workers this does the essential thing which I think many people lead how they voted at this election which is enabling us to have a parliament that is going to have with a majority government the ability to take decisions and crucially the ability to get the next legislation through so we can get it sorted get it done and move the country on and then focus on those many other priorities that people want government to focus on to day basis and for the day but this was the worst performance since 1935 they had lost a string of former strongholds in the north of England and Wales these are areas that voted to leave the e.u. In the referendum in 2016 many former Labor M.P.'s blamed the parties breaks it policy others called for the leader to go Labor has lost touch with its working class decent supporters in areas of the country who voted by huge majority to leave this disastrous. Catastrophe in the Labor Party and this is one of the worst result. Of imaginings I think should leave immediately and have nothing further surgery with the Labor Party. Almost a quarter himself said Labor had a very disappointing night which some might class as an understatement he said he wouldn't fight a future election on also make it clear that I will not lead the party in any future general election campaign I will discuss with our party to ensure there is a process now of reflection on this result and on the policies that the party will take going forward and I will lead the party during that period to ensure that discussion takes place and we move on into the future. And a number of high profile candidates lost their seats in Northern Ireland the Democratic Unionist Party as deputy leader Nigel dogs was defeated by Shin Fein in Belfast north there are now more nationalist M.P.'s representing northern Ireland than unionists although Shin Fein do not take their seats in the House of Commons the Liberal Democrat leader Jo Swinson lost her seat after a campaign that began with her claiming she was a contender contender for prime minister she told her supporters not to be disheartened for millions of people in our country. These results will bring dread and dismay and people are looking for hope. I still believe that we as a country can be warm and generous inclusive and open and that by working together with our nearest neighbors we can achieve so much more. Liberal Democrats will continue to stand up for these values that are liberal movement openness fairness inclusive if. We will stand up for hope. Well the Scottish National Party has won most Scottish seats and its leader Nicholas Sturgeon said after her party's strong showing the government in Westminster was obliged to offer a 2nd referendum on Scottish independence that independence referendum that was very much at the heart of the same piece campaign that is I mean huge recession strengthened Monday for that and just as I reluctantly said because it's a direction I did great Johnson has a mandate no to take England out of the e.u. He must accept that I have a mandate to offer Scotland the choice of an alternative future. Nicholas sturgeon from the Scottish National Party but this is Prime Minister Barak Johnson's morning so let's hear what he said just a short while ago the Conservative Party headquarters. Well I think somebody everyone and I think the only date we date we're told nothing we pulled it off we break the deadlock we did not we smash the roadblock and in these glorious glorious pre-breakfast moment. Rises on a new day and a new government I will 1st of all to pay tribute to good colleagues who lost their seats through no fault of their own in that in the elections just gone by and I will of course want to congratulate absolutely everybody involved in securing the biggest conservative majority since the natives. I fixed the income for did she mean Thanks I got her eyes and then she gave the for many of you hold. And with this mandate and this majority we will at last be able to do what. Pay attention that is this this election means that getting Brits it done is not the irrefutable irresistible dog uble decision of the British people and with this election I think we put an end to all those middle miserable threats of a 2nd referendum. And I say. I say everything. I say respectfully to or to Austin Tory and friend in the Blue Star. That's. Trying to put a sock in the megaphone. A favorite of the 48 everybody thinks was Boris Johnson referring to the man who stands outside the broadcast compound here at Westminster shouting Stop Brooke said well we'll see whether he stop shouting with us our political correspondent Rob Watson who's pulled an all nighter thanks for staying up a lot more good in the world but I'm feeling a bit blurry eyed but it really was an astonishing it was an astonishing night and I'm going to give you another microphone really of I can hear myself you can't Ok. How is that that's not right well I'm perfectly all right thanks and it was Ok staying up because it was such an extraordinary night and I put it this way that what was a real stark contrast was that the campaign itself had been hopelessly underwhelming and a vent full scripted I mean positively tedious despite having been billed as the most or one of the most important election since 945 given that it was about Britain's not just its relationship with the e.u. But its entire place in the world so that was underwhelming but the result was stunning it was overwhelmingly interesting because number one is this big victory for Mr Johnson which means Britain is going to leave the European Union at the end of January Secondly as we were just saying and we've been hearing the opposition party is in total disarray the Romane cause if you like in disarray and then the 3rd thing of course the threat to the union because maybe the price of Brecht's it is going to be another push for independence and Scotland and clearly the potential for instability in Northern Ireland you analyze these things much more closely much more closely than me but I would say there was 3 dimensions to this breaks it the personality of the leaders you know people said they'd rather spend time with Boris Johnson and a problem with Jimmy Corbett ideology that the Labor Party was far to the left right so. Here's I mean I sort of agree with most of that I mean 1st of all I think this was election was one of the last on the vote being more united than the remain vote simple as that most of the vote got behind the conservatives the remain voters in this very polarized country was more scattered on the issue of you know of personality who would you mark rather spend time in the pub with it's actually much worse than that I mean it's what's known in America as the Ugly Baby contest so. Jeremy Coleman is spectacularly unpopular he's more unpopular than any leader of the opposition since this kind of polling was done in the 1970 s. Mr Johnson is also unpopular but just not quite as unpopular as Mr Korb and I think that Labor's offer of a much larger states a more sort of socialist Britain certainly when I went around places like like Birmingham and sort of Labor voters they said I was a lot going to be paid for I mean they didn't they didn't believe it Rob Stay with us I know that you've done sterling duty to stay for a little longer to for the program is Matty Thurman Jack who's senior researcher on the Bracks it team at the Institute for government I could say actually more people voted for parties that wanted a 2nd referendum that actually voted for parties that want it but that doesn't matter because the way the election system works here is those parties have the power and that is the Conservative Party the Bracks it pro Bracks it Party so what happens next what's the timetable Yes So so now. And has already said that he's going to bring back his withdrawal agreement Bill this is the bill to implement the deal he negotiated with even but again he's going to bring it back next week so Friday so we're going to see if you read very big majority in favor of passing that legislation because he's now got the numbers in parliament and then he'll be passing that through parliament in January so that the u.k. Will leave the at the end of January next year when the next step is he's still got to negotiate the future relationship with the e.u. Now he said that he wants to do all within 11 months so that the u.k. Can actually be the transition period where basically nothing really changes for the u.k. By the end of next year and what we don't really know although he said he wants sort of you know you know sort of ambitious free trade agreement with the e.u. We're not quite sure exactly what that will end up looking like presumably if he's going to try and do it in 11 months then essentially the u.k. Will have to do it on the east terms because they won't be talking to Nick. Well those terms be because you talk about the transition period ending this time next year but in order to agree that if there were to be an extension if you must watch for an extension he has to do that by the end of June and that's 6 months away and I mean basically everything has to be at least agreed or agreed to leave some things to the to the side Exactly so what we'll see is we're going to where we'll see what the. Mandate at the beginning of next year as well as what the u.k. Government actually wants to negotiate I mean in terms of whether we'll actually know what direction the heading in by next year we probably will know where they're going to try and land but as I say it's not going to involve a lot of compromise from the u.k. So it's quite a collective chip in a quick points on that I mean look we have discussed this many times than since the referendum in 2016 it seems to be the dynamic now is the same as it was then the European Union is not going to allow the u.k. To have as good or a better deal outside the club than in it so the question is you know can some sort of happy medium be somehow reached now of course on the u.k. Side pro Bracks politicians have never leveled with the British people that some of these very difficult decisions are going to be to be made but on on there there's talk that because Boris Johnson now has a large majority he might negotiate a softer break said I don't see why he would bother. No I mean I think it depends on your view of Mr Bracks Mr Johnson I mean and I think the view of him as as the you know as a pragmatist that he will do what's needed you know to further staying in power and to the advance of the Conservative Party perfect cue for the chairman of the Conservative party Jane I was I mean yes. His seat in Braintree with an increased vote I think 8 percent thank you very much for joining us on the b.b.c. World Service So we're talking about the European Union let me just ask you because for our global audience that's what's most interesting about this result that clear . The prime minister can carry forward get breakfast but what's next and what will he ask for from the European Union Well the. Very conscious this is a global audience but a little bit of introspection just if you'll indulge me for a few seconds. The the British people voted to leave the European Union and 3 and a half years later there were there were still arguments about whether or not that was even going to happen and vats had to be resolved 1st so the macro. Instruction had to be delivered and we are going to do that now we have a working majority by the end of January having done that having discharged our g.t. The next stage of course is to try and negotiate a trade agreement that works both for the European Union and also the u.k. We have a big advantage in that unlike almost any other in the negotiation we start from a pivot we start from a preexisting relationship and so we have a lot of course what your former ambassador to the e.u. Says so I would rather someone who really knows about this that it's quite the opposite the fact they are trying to go from having a really close relationship to one where you in a way trying to have one that's more distant as is unique in trait or history yeah absolutely but but as a Save The There are certain there are certain there are certain things which are very very well established trending towards international norms and standards anyway so you know we could we could move on from there I don't pretend to be you know experienced trade negotiator myself but there was a I think one of the principles is that the European Union will want a more competitive Britain next door will they I mean I think they want to say that it's going to have employment standards of food hygiene and so on they won't want not to be looser than now and so are we heading for a situation where the prime minister with his big majorities. Says Well tough we're going to have what we want or we're leaving anyway in other words with no deal by the end of next year well the whole point of a negotiation is that is that people you know flex their positions and make concessions and of course the e.u. . Woods they've already said in the ideal world they'd like us to remain in all respects the same as they are but of course that is not what's going to happen but you except the general principle that the e.u. As a sense to advance them and then put it quite in the sort of plain language but that that the u.k. Is not going to get as good a deal outside the e.u. As it had when it was I mean I would say that wouldn't. You don't except well obviously that's that's the easy opening position but opening positions in the geisha ition all there to evolve and that's how the geisha Asians work let me turn to another trade deal because Donald Trump just tweeted congratulations and said Now Britain the United States can do this great trade deal what does that look like well again this is going to be. This is going to be something that involves the president to United States America is very much an optimist and you know he he he paints in Primary Colors. And I think there is a fantastic opportunity for us to get. Trade relationships so we don't see us Sergeant Does It Mean Chlorine washed chicken does it mean to be full of hormone Now we've already said all animal welfare standards are incredibly important to us in the u.k. We are a nation of animal lovers and we look to in home. We have got certain things which are sacrosanct I mean the n.h.s. It came up a lot during the general election campaign that will not be on the table is not for sale that will not be able to go. About this is Robin's wrong thing again I mean Mr Trump seems to be more ambitious I mean more optimistic than your own government I mean you know the figures that. The government looks at some forecasting in the free trade deal with the u.s. In the Gulf states and as one of the record on which one of theirs would yield a north point 2 percent increase in g.d.p. I mean it's not exactly a transformational is. Going to do except that it's you know it's you know it's a government figures not ones that are made up. Yet But the point the point I've always found curious is on the one hand you know people say all this this this trade arrangement with the e.u. So incredibly incredibly important though the other hand when they start talking about trade arrangements I always was the most cautious end of the spectrum of these because you create a very much of a cautious end of the spectrum as government documents tend to be. And I do think there is an opportunity for us to do things differently ek we have always been a global player we've always looked not just be on the European sphere where we are physically located but into the Asian sphere and into the American sphere and as well as the Africans which I guess is why a lot of people voted for you who were previously really not interested in the Conservative Party at all from those on industrial areas. What caused that what led to people who come from areas where under Margaret Thatcher their traditional industries were more or less destroyed to believe that the Conservative party is for them now. I think there are 2 maybe 2 and a half things. The 1st is that they were made a promise these are areas that disproportionately voted to leave the European Union and they were made a promise by the Labor Party and that promise was that the Labor Party would would would would would help or do nothing to prevent Bracks it from happening and then the Labor Party spent 2 and a half years trying to prevent Bracks it from happening that's point one point to his personality they liked Boris they gauge with Boris he connected with people and they really did not want German cotton and that the kind of the the 3rd all the 2 and a half. It is that Labor have made promises to them about getting investments into their areas of fighting for them and protecting for them and yet had not really demonstrated any track record of success so for. Presents us with a child is going to be really under pressure for these working class folks. That are somehow going to transform their lives. Right now so. Yeah but a prime minister the prime minister made this point made this point in the speech this morning just across the Square he said a lot of people who never voted Conservative before have lent us their vote. And they have felt let down by the Labor Party and we must not let the so we do have a duty and we do have a responsibility we do have a challenge but we're up for it and we think we can deliver James Clyburn the chairman of the Conservative Party thanks for joining us here on the b.b.c. World Service You're listening to World updates. From the government for your area just very briefly just react to what Mr Cleverly said about trade talks Well I mean I think I think what's going to be quite interesting is is the timing on this also wall. With the e.u. There isn't that much time to negotiate here and the e.u. Will have certain conditions attached to the access the still want to have to so I think the point about whether or not the sort of the u.k. Will end up being the e.u. On its border I mean that is going to be a huge concern for the even if if the u.k. Government does want. To have tariff free access to goods then you know there are going to be conditions attached I think that's going to be that's going to be the big question next year Jack from the government will be with us on our special program here from outside the Houses of Parliament You're listening to World update from London. Distribution of the b.b.c. World Service in the u.s. Has made possible by American Public Media producer and distributor of award winning public radio content a.p.m. American Public Media with support from c 3. Addressing the world's most challenging problems with the convergence of artificial intelligence on Io t. And elastic cloud computing learn more at c 3. 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The opposition Labor Party lost swathes of its traditional heartlands suffering its worst performance since 1935 The Labor leader Jeremy Corbyn has made it clear he's not standing down straight away the liberal Democrats who campaigns to revoke Bracks it had a disappointing night the pro independence Scottish National Party has made significant gains its leader Nicholas Sturgeon said the vote represented a renewed mandate for another independence referendum and for the 1st time in Northern Ireland the parties that favor a United Ireland now outnumber unionists he won the province to stay British it's seen as a highly symbolic moment for politics there. European leaders cautiously congratulated Boris Johnson on his victory the president of the European Council Sharm Michel said the e.u. 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This is Dan Damon with world update and big changes in the building over the road from us here in the Houses of Parliament the House of Commons will provide a majority for Boris Johnson's conservative party after the general election held yesterday the conservatives won almost 40 seats more than they would need for a majority so in this part of our program we'll ask what that means for the future of the political left in Britain which becomes another one of those places where socialism or social democracy has been weakened added to France to the Netherlands Italy and many other places around Europe too also the Scottish National Party has done very well so will the United Kingdom remain united and will talk about Bret's it of course certainly at the 1st stage of Rex It will happen in January what about future relations with the European Union and the rest of the world well before that let's hear what the leaders of the main parties have been saying Prime Minister Barak's Johnson said he was humbled that so many have put their trust in the Conservative Party and he would never take their support for granted I will make it my mission to work night and day flat out to prove you right in voting for me this time and to earn your support in the future and I say to you that in this election your voice has been heard and about time too because we politicians have squandered the last 3 years 3 and a half years in squabbles about basically even been arguing about arguing about the tone of our arguments I will put an end to all that nonsense and we will get done on time by the 31st of January no ifs no buts no maybe he's leaving the European Union as one united kingdom taking back control of our laws border money our trade immigration system delivering on the democratic mandate. Of the people. In a speech after his reelection as the Member of Parliament for Islam to north in London the Labor leader Jeremy Corbyn reacted to his party's poor performance this is obviously a very disappointing night for the Labor Party with the result that we've got but I want to say this in the election campaign. We put forward a manifesto of hope a manifesto of unity and a manifesto that would help to rights the wrongs and the injustices and inequalities that exist in this country. And the leader of the other main party in England a liberal Democrat. Joe Swenson lost her seat and has to find a new leader to well we're joined by Chris Hawkins who's head of political research from the polling organization Congress Chris thanks for coming and joining us here in the modern college Greenwood. How did you analyze what was happening because I said and I think I'm right that actually more people voted for parties that had said they want to 2nd referendum than voted for breaks it because it doesn't matter no not so I think you know I think most polls that seems to show a narrowing of the lead over the last few days of the campaign and whether that's played out on all I think is going to be one of the questions that the industry has to ask itself having said that I think generally it was quite good night for all pollsters I think average era seemed to be about around the one percent mark Party pollster so that's not too bad and it definitely isn't anywhere near as troubling as it perhaps was in 2017 or 2015 to this about these traditional Labor voters as we would call them from industrial areas who have decided that no that conservatives No tell us about them I think I think we've seen a redrawing of the electoral map somewhat I think that the Labor Party no longer represents those people I think despite the fact that before the election we might thought that they may have found it so on palatable to vote conservative that they may have on the total they may have come back to Labor it pays what we've seen is that they have voted for the Conservative Party and I think very early last night we saw that happening I think in a few of the early seats we saw that the Labor vote shifted to the right the party which did allow the conservatives to win seats I think blood Valley was the 1st one to fall but we did see generally speaking particularly the north in Levy areas where every vote voted leaving 2016 that the traditional Labor voters were either voting for the Conservative Party or voting for the party and I long for conservatives to come forward and take a seat let's talk about the break the party because they came top. During the European Parliament elections and then nowhere now and it's not just they're nowhere because proportional representation isn't the way we elect people in Britain they just know we're Yeah I mean they have played a blinder frankly and I think that decision to not standing conservative healthy was I sensible one and a good one and it made sense but without really thinking to Main to me at least or I think you know the commentary out was that the Conservatives would hold some seats they were they weren't at risk of bleeding votes that brought the party maybe allowing labor through the middle but what seems to have happened I think knowledge of fraud probably didn't foresee this and others maybe didn't in these northern. In the traditional labor areas of which did vote to leave that that can express to Labor voters who might not vote for the conservatives but they would vote for the brigs a party number and allow the conservatives to come through the middle which would give knowledge of frogs the conservative majority in theory that he wanted to get back to come hold that thought because we're going to hear from the chairman of the Labor Party. Having won by more than 10000 votes 2 years ago in they very just hung on to his seat this time. And was backed by 814 votes again another one is back I mean you know that that traditional Labor heartland but not any more my colleague Nick Robinson asked him what went wrong Well listen I have travelled to lots of the believe areas of trouble like $5152.00 seats in the last 5 weeks and must be a lot of hostility towards the party because of its stance on Bret's it. Must be a lot of steam ish a lot of hostility a lot of resentment I think a lot of trust because a party did see in 2017 in the manifesto that we would accept the result and respect the result of the 2016 referendum a lot of people in the you know the white working class community. He said communities that have been left behind in many ways including that of me urine and blood value me nearing constancy a lot of people just feel as if the the party and have been trying to block bricks it not only block bricks it but then try and it's dumb the stuff of a 2nd referendum of peoples virtual whatever when indeed they were promised at the time in 2016 not. This was the vote this was a chance in a lifetime though encouraging people to vote many people voted for the fish tie and so on and that was 78400000 people voted to Fulbright's it that people feel that don't make That's the reality of it but you have known to have this position you are known locally and you are well known locally for fighting on this issue but you lost 15 percent of your support it was the Tories not the breaks in party that went up by 7 percent in your constituency yet so even you doing that was not enough I think the the reality is we lost trust money and we counted as a Pawnee continue to promise one thing and then and do in the other hand what we did see in 2070 and this is a difference in 2017 we had a radical mana fest and we had Jeremy cauldron at the helm and we promised that we would respect the result of the 2016 referendum but here in 2019 only $24.00 knows it the only difference is we've got Jeremy called honestly you know we've got a radical manifesto but we see it that we would port any future of wood in the hands of the people understood people's food you know that's the huge difference any difference between just to be clear that old and 70 in a 2000 and just to be clear hell saying the area is all you say clearly breaks it was a fact and only does that but you appear to be saying that Jeremy call Bin was not a fact is that what you're saying I'm saying that the the really this is a real room of the 2006 just don't really know if you would Mr Lavery Oh you saying that there was a Jeremy call Been problem on the doorstep or not what I would see it boat problems on the doorstep when we knock on people's doors you know brush it wasn't the minister too when we not on people's doors and we have the best ground operation this country has ever been a problem. We had well I'm coming to the we had like hundreds and hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of people in constant she's just at times thousands of people not of people's doors and like any other election whether it be a council election whether it be a little election whether it be the general election people mention the leaders of the party of cut off campaign is what I deliver I've got to quit other Labor M.P.'s are you Phil Wilson was the m.p. For Sedgefield Tony Blair's old seat he lost that seat he says for the u.k. Labor leadership to blame breaks it for the result he's talking about you is quotes mendacious nonsense a lie in other words Jeremy Corby goes on was a bigger problem to say otherwise is delusional you are trying to put the finger of blame on you on the logs of the likes of Emily Thornberry because you're trying to preserve the coal bin I hold on the Labor policy Well that's that's just not true I mean we look at the facts on Nick the reality is and when we speak you know about the likes of Mr Wilson you know I'm really sorry not anybody and he labor in pay has lost a seat I'm really sorry that any prospective parliamentary candidate who you know knocked on doors and truly committed to the party hasn't been able to get in the seat I'm terribly sorry for the the hundreds of thousands of people who would be active within this camp in but the reality the reality is as I've mentioned if you have a look at the facts the facts are quite clear that Jeremy cauldron in 2070 when. We had the biggest sway American labor in all of that was joined on $45.00 and the only thing that's changed since then is a party is change from a party which give a guarantee that all of them is like the we were goes out of the referendum and now we see it we'll have a people's will say which Mr Wilson and a lot of these people who were criticised and generally fall by the with will be high. Jane they're wonderful people as food against the wishes of the National Conference on a man you don't want to have to give you 2 more words to say Jeremy Goban survives days weeks months is going to be very very few would think it'll be up to Jeremy Jeremy Alyssa situation. In the next couple of years I should a margin and we'll take it for what we have from there this is going to say I'm a big leader next summer for example you could go on for a few months I think what Jeremy is Amman of real integrity and I think he'd be looking at the situation the same as we all hear the small and on the radio sure thing Jeremy it will be look when it it did best and rest of the live a party funny a come up with a decision in the very near future in Lavery chairman of the Labor Party Chris Hopkins from the polling organization Congress is still with us Chris what did the polling say about the leaders and the recording is how historically negative leadership ratings. Yeah it's a tricky one because I think I think some of the points that Miss Levering made in ones if you are probably very true but unfortunately. I think I think he hits on. He is right to say that one that one thing that has changed his position. But what I think he's wrong to say is that the only change over the last 2 and a half years I think comparing things to 2017 and being selective about what you compared to back to 2017 is. Not going to be the Intel discussion that the Labor Party now have who is to blame and I think you know I think ultimately one thing that we've picked up on you know when we're doing polls and looking at data and looking at leadership ratings is the fact that Coburn was very new in 2017 he was a shiny new leader. Exactly I think I think I think he had an impact but he was also running against a very deeply unpopular promise or you know wonder whose only shot raising throughout the course of that campaign really plummeted as well so I think people had 2 and a half years to get used to John Corbin irrespective of policies and they found out that they took time out of the lock in the hole so that's really posed a problem this election and I think that those that don't apportion any blame to the leader are those inevitably going to be his strongest cheerleaders and have been so for the last year since he was elected in our political correspondent you know talk to people I mean the result in 1903 was bad enough but there was another Labor Party if you like the Social Democratic Party then there's only one Labor Party standing this time yes that's right and it is a catastrophic result for the Labor Party there's no 2 ways about it and briefly picking up on Chris's voice I mean it seems to me also the amazing that anyone be surprised that a person who has got absolutely historically I mean nobody has ever got worse poll ratings than Jeremy Colvin that you would lead your party and not be somehow surprised that you get beaten but I think that's not this big problem obviously that the opposition parties face it's not just labor it's the Liberal Democrats with Britain leaving the e.u. What are they for I mean are they for rejoining the e.u. For a different kind of bricks I mean who are they trying to reach a bipartisan the working classes of people I mean what on earth are they for I mean someone like the socialist or so. Democratic Party to be in that position are they I mentioned Italy and from. Greece Germany and all of those parties are less important than Italy and it's worth remembering I was on the set on the radio all night last night that was so incredibly it was environmentally clever fellows and women on with many of them pointed out that you have to remember that the socialist party in France just disappeared I mean no party has a right to exist right. Jack from the Institute for government we're not going to get a change in actual system because that would give the kind of parties Rove talking about is something of an influence but that won't happen now I think that that's the thing is the only the only sort of possibility that electoral reform might come back on the agenda was if he did end up with this to be led coalition in Downing Street so that that would potentially be the price of support from the smaller parties but given that the conservatives have bought it just as you know delivered a huge majority that they're not going to be changing the electoral system anytime soon and I just think why do you think it's quite interesting on the press that point I mean I don't disagree that obviously Corbin's popularity ratings have completely factored into this this election but Rex has remained important I think what's going to be quite interesting is how those Conservative M.P.'s elected to some of these seats where people actually would you know depending on you know whether jobs law and actually what happens with. An impact what happens in 5 years whether they can continue to fund the different Conservative Party because they are going to represent people who have seen their libraries closed and youth schemes closed and they don't get their bins emptied as often and so I mean all is going to make a difference you're listening to World update from the b.b.c. We're here opposite the Houses of Parliament the House of Commons will see a conservative majority much more powerful than before and that will mean that Boris Johnson will be able to carry forward his plan to get it done next month. Means for the European Union and for our neighbors We'll talk about here in just a moment this is the b.b.c. . Well this is Dan Damon and we've just opposite the Houses of Parliament but I want to now talk to somebody across the Irish Sea because that's Fintan O'Toole who is a commentator for The Irish Times newspaper and who's helped us understand what breaks it means to the Irish over the past few months Fintan thanks for being with us on the world update you pointed out on several occasions that this kind of imperialist dream and this tendency to ignore the effect on island was going to be a real problem well BRICs it's coming so what now Yes Well what now I think is is that the question sort of being. On the one side but not really talked about which are the questions of the Union so the key question for are the courses the fact that Northern Ireland is part of the United Kingdom but that many people in Northern Ireland don't want to be part of the kingdom that's been the cold cause of the troubles and the union has now become really very very obvious existential question what's happened in this election is that for the 1st time in the history of Northern Ireland a majority of the M.P.'s elected from Northern Ireland are not such never happened before. And you have to put that in the context of course of the sweeping victory for the Scottish National Party in Scotland so you really have 2 elections here you have an English election in which in a way the Conservative Party has triumphed as the English national party and then you have the election in Scotland and Northern Ireland where forces that are pretty much opposed to the union in a really fundamental way have had huge victories as well so you've got these 2 different elections and the Koreans I think to the fact that we may be looking at a real crisis in the existence of the United Kingdom over the next 5 years. There's been quite a subtle discussion in the Republic of Ireland about what happens not a border patrol but some other way of entice seeing the Unionists of Northern Ireland to accept some form of unification whatever that turns out to be. Yes you know. I think left to our south I think most people in both parts of our election would say look let's not talk about this stuff it's it's it's toxic it led to a really horrendous conflict we need a long period of time in which we just let things settle down to how things are that's that's the great triumph of this process but drugs it really has has taken away that luxury so it has become necessary to discuss these things now with some urgency because nobody can really say with any confidence where the political architecture of the archipelago as a whole is likely to be in 510 years so there is a need for a discussion one of the real worries now is that unionism in Northern Ireland is reeling you know it's the last. Democratic Unionist Party leader in Westminster not . Major experienced politician who's lost his seat that I was you know are searching percent which means that you know almost 70 percent of people in Northern Ireland voted for and he brags of parks. And that has really huge implications. And of course all of this has to be tied into the fact that Johnson has accepted. In his withdrawal agreement with European Union affectively order in the Irish Sea which is a massive tax on most unionists So all of these questions of identity these questions of a longing are really being stirred up in a very very profound way and particularly difficult for unionists So somebody has to be talking to the interest of unity in Northern Ireland reassuring them the fact that. You know they have rights that their identity is recognized but also saying look this this stuff is shifting that we just as we have to actually try to think about how do we share the island what kind of arrangements might actually allow us to how. A living here are going to know to thank you The Times commentator Will it stay with that idea of the threat to the union the Scottish National Party has taken 47 out of Scotland's 59 seats. Thank you. First Minister Nicolas sturgeon claims is a clear mandate for a 2nd independence referendum the s.n.p. Leader at Westminster is Ian Black but he says this mandate is something Boris Johnson must recognise this simply is not a great look for Boris Johnson to turn around to people in Scotland and see you can vote for the s.n.p. They can have a manifesto commitment of a referendum i'm are going to ignore you that's not democracy that's treating people treating the people of Scotland with contempt and all that's going to do is inflame people the see that our parliament the people that are sent from Scotland to represent our country Westminster or been ignored. Robinson our political correspondent is here as is Mary Thurman Jack from the Institute for government and let's finish this part of our program by talking about the potential for the United Kingdom to cease to be united I mean just a sort of risky question which will go 1st Northern Ireland or Scotland because potentially both of them are under a lot of tension aren't they. Who's going to go for money yeah sure and I can jump in I mean I think I mean that's exactly right and I think that next year there's going to be a show. Is going to end up being a big big issue is the future of the Union and. Have obviously done extremely well in Scotland they would now say they've got a mandate to hold a another independence referendum the Conservative Party. And you would need to get . Order from Westminster to be able to hold on but I think that it will be very challenging for the Conservative government to just completely ignore the results in Scotland and continue to deny that particularly when we get to say for example elections even if we don't see that 202021 I'm. The leader of Scottish National Party is saying we want our referendum next year 2020 I mean exactly and I think the I think it's going to be difficult for the Conservative party just to completely ignore that but there is a question about you know they can't do it without permission from Westminster so we're going to I think that relationship is just going to completely away in particular given that the. Significance to remain in the e.u. That's also if you will to fuel this problem that Mr Johnson is going to have 3 big challenges one we've already discussed that's getting a deal with the European Union and a yeah I mean that's going to be really tough the 2nd one is. Keeping let's remember that the country would prefer if we were mining in the European Union the 3rd thing is keeping the Union together and it really is going to be a challenge both with Scotland and with normal none of them in and in the case of Scotland I mean there is of course the sort of issue that well maybe having seen how complicated the people who want an independent Scotland but it seems to me that Mr Johnson can't just keep saying we're going to deal with Scotland by saying they can't have a referendum you have to actually persuade Scottish people why you want to stay in the union as to the issue of Northern Ireland the thing that sticks in my mind as one of my b.b.c. Colleagues in Northern Ireland. He pointed out to me you know Northern Ireland is going to be celebrating next year the year after next it's 100th anniversary it was born in $1021.00. Making its 150. When he was leader of the Polish National Party he threatened legal referendum and sort of do it. I mean that's why David Cameron gave him that you can have your legal what do you say Article 50. Section. I mean I guess that is that is an option. And she could she could do that and at the same thing and hope that that would persuade the conservative government to actually hold an independence referendum I mean I think is exactly right that actually it's not really good enough to just keep saying no there is something about the case for staying in the u.k. What is the you know what is the vision that the conservatives don't really have to get some encouragement from the European Union and they've had absolutely no so far I mean the question of whether or not Scotland can leave the u.k. And join the e.u. Because presumably they you know there wouldn't be a referendum for. Even the e.u. Next year they would have to apply to rejoin the at this point that they were all going to be concerned the member states about what it means for their own. Movements in their own country so for example Spain we've talked about that could end up deterring the e.u. From encouraging Scotland to consider doing that I'm going to look at the but pretty things remember it's just you know yes this is Mr Mr Johnson's triumphant night but he's going to have an awful. Row has it changed anything settled anything it's changed a lot I was thinking about this I mean you know people who listen to us on a regular basis for saying that Britain is a has been in its most profound political crisis since $945.00 you know it's just another phase of it or the end I mean I just don't know I mean I genuinely don't know if there's anybody it's not the end. Probably the end of the beginning. Thank you for being with us here on the b.b.c. World Service You've been listening to World update coming from outside the Houses of Parliament the next House of Commons will provide a majority for Boris Johnson who will take the European Union this is the b.b.c. . It was $970.00 and a pregnant Air Force captain found herself if you're pregnant. If you have. Active duty. This week on the media. For women's reproductive rights. On this week's On the Media. This evening at 6. Thank you for listening to. San Francisco 1.7 f.m. In the Bay Area. 10 am in London 5 am in Washington 1 pm in Nairobi this is Dan Damon at the b.b.c. . The gamble paid off Boris Johnson returns to power with the biggest conservative majority in nearly 30 years it doesn't look as though this One Nation Conservative government has been given a powerful new mandate. To break down. The Labor Party had a disastrous night losing many seats Jeremy Corbyn says he'll stand down but not yet I will not lead the party in any future general election campaign I will discuss with our party to ensure there is a process now of reflection on this result Brix it may be heading for the endgame but another constitutional crisis is looming as the anti breaks it's got its national party gets more seats and demands another independence referendum 1st the news. On Chris Spero with the b.b.c. Knees the British prime minister Boris Johnson has hailed his conservative party's landslide election victory as irrefutable irresistible and an arguable proof of the British people's decision to get Bracks it down with just one seat left to be declared the party has a majority of nearly 80 seats Mr Johnson said he was humbled by the support from voters who'd never backed his party before saying he'd repaid their trust I will make it my mission to work night and day flat out to prove you right in voting for me this time and to your support in the future and I say to you that in this election your voice has being about talking to the opposition Labor Party lost swathes of its traditional heartlands suffering its worst performance since 1935 The Labor leader Jeremy Corbyn has made it clear he's not standing down straight away he said he'd stay on during a period of reflection but would not leave the party. Into a future general election the pro independence Scottish National Party has made significant gains winning 48 of the country's 59 seats in the u.k. Parliament the leader of Britain's 4th biggest party Jo Swinson of the Liberal Democrats narrowly lost her own Scottish seat on what has been a disappointing night for the party. For the 1st time in Northern Ireland the parties that favor a United Ireland now outnumber unionists it want the province to stay British correspondent say it's highly symbolic in politics there the B.B.C.'s Andrew Marr has this is segment of the night's events this is a really big turning point for the country now we have a period again of a single dominant leader in Westminster and we have quite significantly of their.