conservative party is just bedding down in and it is falling away from the labour party, it is getting harder to imagine places like newcastle under lyme and staffordshire that they will make a comeback. as we know, this is not just an election in england, there were lots of other contests. let s look at scotland, a torrid night for the conservatives. high baseline to defend in scotland for the conservative party, they did very well in 2017 with ruth davidson in charge then, of course not had now. it is douglas ross now. every party pretty much apart from the independents benefiting that, and all of the conservative party is at their expense. yet another election victory for the snp, they extend their grip over scottish politics yet again full up their 11th election victory in scotland since 2007, 15 years in office, conceptus talk about mid term blues but they do not seem to be on particular
here in cumbria and beyond tainted by sir keir starmer facing a police investigation for an event during covid restrictions. well, as i have explained a number of times, we were working in the office. we stopped for something to eat. no party, no breach of the rules. the police obviously have got theirjob to do, and we should let them get on with it, but i m confident that no rules were broken. labour needed a stronger showing to prove government could be within their reach. we re not saying that we would win the general election tomorrow, but what we re saying is that we re on our way. but it gives us great hope, and we re really encouraged. and i ll be honest with you in the shadow cabinet, when we were having presentations about how well we might do and what we could expect, this is most definitely at the top end. some races are just too close to call, heads or tails deciding one ward in monmouthshire in wales, where labour gained from conservative losses and nationalists plaid cy
very much trying to appeal to a wideraudience. its very much trying to appeal to a wider audience. its manifesto emphasises an awful lot of other things than irish unification, for example talking about housing, economy, the cost of living crisis and it is worth bearing that in mind that northern ireland faces acute crises particularly in relation to the health service and therefore we really do see a situation in which people came to the polls largely hoping the assembly would be functioning, however against the background to all this we do have concerns from unionism and the unionist vote it seems has been convalescing around anti protocol stance, which means this is no simple election. it is also about the pressure of what might happen in the pressure of what might happen in the eu uk relationship. 50 the pressure of what might happen in the eu uk relationship. the eu uk relationship. so many strands to it. the eu uk relationship. so many strands to it. just the eu uk relations
bedding conservative party is just bedding down in and it is falling away from the labour party, it is getting harder to imagine places like newcastle under lyme and staffordshire that they will make a comeback. as we know, this is not just an election in england, there were lots of other contests. let s look at scotland, a torrid night for the conservatives. high baseline to defend in scotland for the conservative party, they did very well in 2017 with ruth davidson in charge then, of course not had now. it is douglas ross now. every party pretty much apart from the independents benefiting that, and all of the conservative party is at their expense. yet another election victory for the snp, they extend their grip over scottish politics yet again full up their 11th election victory in scotland since 2007, 15 years in office, conceptus talk about mid term blues but they do not seem to be on particular
nationalist to take the position. obviously i feel very positive. i mean, we fought a very positive campaign. we told people about what we were for. we said this was an election about the future. it s going to be potentially a historic election for many reasons, but i think it s because people wanted us to talk about how we wanted to work together in partnership with others. that s the only way we ll achieve much, much more for people here. another big sign of change came with the success of the cross community alliance party. it is neither unionist nor nationalist. alliance is set to move up from fifth place to third. its leader believes that shows how northern ireland is moving on from its years of conflict. i think itjust reflects the changed place that northern ireland is. i mean, in 1998 when we had the good friday agreement, it was about trying to manage our divisions. but what i think the vote for alliance shows is that people have bigger aspirations than that. they want to move