issued with emergency flood warnings. and a jury in new york clears the actor, kevin spacey of making unwanted sexual advances towards a m year old. hellpfind welcome leadership contest in four months after liz truss resigned saying she couldn t implement the policies on which she was elected as leader. under a new system, candidates will need the support of at least 100 mps by monday, with a view to having a new prime minister by next friday at the latest. the bookies favourites are liz truss s predecessor borisjohnson and the man she beat to the job, rishi sunak. here s our political correspondent, ione wells. the shortest serving prime minister in british history. her position unsalvageable. we set out a vision for a low tax, high growth economy that would take advantage of the freedoms of brexit. i recognise, though, given the situation, i cannot deliver the mandate on which i was elected by the conservative party. i therefore have spoken to his majesty the king to
These by elections were billed as nail biters. Close, tense. In the end, they delivered two significant victories to labour. First in tamworth the 57th Safest Conservative seat in the country before last night. Edwards, sarah siena, labour party 11,719 votes. Cheering. The new mp was elated. It is certainly feeling very historic. I think one of the things we can take is a lot of comfort from the fact that people have seen labour are offering a positive vision, that they want a fresh start, and they are not seeing that the Conservatives have anything to offer. The defeated conservative candidate chose not to stick around. In a statement the tories described it as a difficult result on a much reduced turnout. But it was about to get even more difficult for them. Over in Mid Bedfordshire, when the ballot boxes started arriving, it had still been too close to call, in a rare three way fight between the Conservatives, labour and the lib dems. The liberal democrats doubled their share of the
Proud that we answered Fear Mongering with facts. Hate with hope. And attempts to divide with efforts to unite. We ran a campaign that was in keeping with the spirit and values of this great city. Lets get some analysis on the results that have come throughout the day. 0ur political correspondent, nick eardley, is in the newsroom. Ican explain i can explain a bit more about what has happened in london. This was a big win. It was notjust a win for sadiq khan, it would have been a big upset if he had not won. But it was the extent of the wind that will really study calm and labour party. These the numbers. 270,000 votes more than susan hall of the Conservatives. A few months ago, the Conservatives. A few months ago, the Conservatives thought they were in with a chance of taking this. They got nowhere near it in the end. Let me show you how the vote has changed since last time. It has gone in labour s favour. The gap has got bigger. What the tories were hoping was that they could start to
South tyneside has been held by the labour party, 28 seats, the number needed for a majority but 15 have been taken by independent candidates and the 11 seats to the green party. We knew the greens were doing well, but look at that, labour losing ten and the independent party is gaining nine and the tories losing one and we will try to get to the bottom of what has gone on for quite a dramatic shift, so thatll be interesting and we will try to get to the bottom of that in the next a while after the news and i will say welcome to mark harper, the Transport Secretary who has just joined us and Jonathan Reynolds is still here and sarah olney from the Liberal Democrats and we will talk to you in a while. Lets tell you where things have got to in the total tally. Where things have got to in the totaltally. Labour where things have got to in the total tally. Labour have a9, gaining one and the Conservatives 19, losing 15. The lib dems 16. One and the Conservatives 19, losing 15. The lib dems