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constituency, some of the votes have had to travel some distance to get here to the count. the last boxes arriving in the last 20 minutes, half an hour or so. counting is under way. those two factors combined, big rural constituency, lots of candidates could mean we are in for quite a long night of counting. thank you very much, david. we have coffee already stacked up in front of us. that is the scene at the three counts at this point of the night. they make it an opening thought from ourjournalists. thought from our journalists. natasha, thought from ourjournalists. natasha, what headline do you think we will be writing at the end? that we will be writing at the end? fat the moment is a very mixed picture with because we have three really different contest my constituencies that will be interesting, it will give everyone a chance to say we have one, we have lost apart from the conservatives if they don t hold onto any of them in with cases of bad night for rishi sunak. it s alread
parliament. boris johnson is going to stand down parliament. boris johnson is going to stand down as parliament. boris johnson is going to stand down as an parliament. boris johnson is going to stand down as an mp. - parliament. boris johnson is going to stand down as an mp. then, . parliament. boris johnson is going | to stand down as an mp. then, the next day- to stand down as an mp. then, the next day. another to stand down as an mp. then, the next day. another conservative l to stand down as an mp. then, the i next day. another conservative mp has announced next day. another conservative mp has announced that next day. another conservative mp has announced that he next day. another conservative mp has announced that he is next day. another conservative mp has announced that he is resigning. l has announced that he is resigning. nigel has announced that he is resigning. nigel adams quit after a row about whether he was going to be given a peerage. then a third.
over7000. somerton where borisjohnson was the mp, just over 7000. somerton and fromejust over 7000. somerton and fromejust over 19,000. over 7000. somerton and fromejust over19,000. in north over 7000. somerton and fromejust over 19,000. in north yorkshire, selby and ainsty, just over 20,000. make sense of that for us in context, john. 0ne one way is to remind ourselves that the 18 point lead labour have in the opinion polls is the equivalent of a 15% swing from conservative to labour. in uxbridge and south ruislip, the swing required for labour to win is only 7.5%, in other words, half the national swing. even allowing for local factors, this words, half the national swing. even allowing for localfactors, this is allowing for localfactors, this is a seat labour made relative progress in 2015, 2017, 2019, compared with national performance, the row about the low emissions zone. even so, it is frankly a constituency labour should win. a constituency on everybody s list of seats labour