Were expecting to hear from the Prime Minister shortly outside number ten. Labour performed poorly, losing 59 seats, many of them in places theyve held for decades. Jeremy corbyn says hell stand down as leader early next year. I think the responsible thing to do is not to walk away from the whole thing, and i wont do that. I will stay here until there has been somebody elected to succeed me and then i will step down at that point. A strong result for the snp, who now hold 48 seats out of 59 in scotland. Leader Nicola Sturgeon says it sends a clear message for a second independence referendum. Liberal democrat leaderjo swinson quits, after she loses her own seat to the snp and the party fails to improve its position at westminster. Iam i am proud to have been the first woman to lead the liberal democrats. Iam even woman to lead the liberal democrats. I am even more proud that i will not be the last. We will go original this hour, looking at the West Midlands, where the tories had a good
The week in parliament. Hello and welcome to the last week in parliament before decembers general election. Coming up. The new speaker takes his seat in the commons biggest chair. I hope this house will be once a great respected house, notjust in here but across the world. In the final days of the session mps push through a bill to compensate Abuse Victims in Northern Ireland. And a former conservative demands a report into alleged russian interference in uk democracy is published. The Prime Minister does not have Carte Blanche to alter our reports or remove material from them. And we talk to three of the 70 mps who are standing down about what prompted them to go. I thought somebody is trying to tell me something, i think i better pop off while i can still make it out on my own. But first. In the dying days of whats been a most turbulent parliament, mps elected a new speaker. John bercow, whod done the job for ten years had decided to stand down from parliament. 7 mps put themselves f
I cannot wait to ask why you are on shut your eyes and imagine that it is several weeks from now. Ten theres got to be a good reason. Its the day after the election and weve got politicians in our green room you wake up and you put on bbc news, watching the focus group, well get their reaction at the end. Wherever you are in the country, obviously. And you hear the you can get involved too. Following result. Tell me how you use the hashtage victoria live feel. So you switch on and you hear and send us an email victoria bbc. Co. Uk and text 61124. That the labour party have won an overall majority. How do you feel . First the news with annita. Two despair. Anxious. Sick. Ready for change. Exactly. Iagree. Ifeel like its quite hopeful. That labour will promise today to spend comment about who can do the least £6 billion a year more on the nhs in england than the conservatives damage, for me, what i have said if it wins the general election. About students and things like that, its propo
Got it precisely wrong. Group might suggest are your partys weaknesses, lucy powell . Iwas knocking on doors in a marginal seat more Service Personnel are drafted in to help in parts of northern yesterday, and most people are fed england and the east midlands up yesterday, and most people are fed up of all of us, if im honest. It hit by flooding. Isa meanwhile, venice has been up of all of us, if im honest. It is a bit ofa hit by the highest tide up of all of us, if im honest. It is a bit of a plague on all your houses. They feel that we have not in more than 50 years, done what they asked us to do and flooding the streets. They are not sure what we stand for. And coming up in sport, england manager Gareth Southgate so the challenge for all of us is to says his squad are like a family following the bust up between Raheem Sterling get that across make this election and joe gomez this week. About the issues that we think the country are facing and engage people on that. You have is where