The big message from the local ballot boxes so far is that The Conservatives remain in deep electoral trouble. Hi, good evening, its friday night, and we have a top Newsnight Panel for you tonight. Polling guru professor sirjohn curtice. Our own Political Editor nick watt. Emma barr, former conservative special advisor. And stephen bush from the financial times, who is an expert on labour. Now four of the five biggest vote swings in by elections from conservatives to labour have happened in the last year under sir keir starmer including Blackpool South yesterday. However not one further conservative mp has publicly called for rishi sunak to go, despite his party being, according to the experts, in deep electoral trouble. It was a very good night for labour, but theres an acknowledgement that some voters have deserted the party over its stance on gaza. All that and more to come. First, nick, pollsters say these results are bad for The Conservatives. Where does it leave rishi sunak . fi
Jeremy hunt or the current Prime Minister. I imagine rishi sunak will not react directly to his predecessor. But he will probably think being behind in the Opinion Polls to the Labour Opposition that this would be a brave or bold time to tell people they would have to work longer and potentially have Public Services to some extent reduced in terms of the cash available. Its quite a difficult political sell but what liz truss said she took personal responsibility for trying to rush through her agenda. She had a rather strange metaphor, not one to think about of your lunch, she did not just try to fatten a pig on market day, she tried to rear end and slaughter it all on the same day so she did rush her agenda but she said change had been urgent and what happened in the end wasnt so much the policies she was pursuing, they were not wrong, she argued the political and Economic Establishment including part of the Conservative Party turned against her and there was not enough consensus on co
six means biological six. now, labour like to talk the country down. they want to pretend that everything would be great if they have never left office and pretend that somehow we have not achieved anything, but that is just simply not right. remember the note that said there is no money left, when labour left office in 2010, unemployment was higher than when they came into government. public and private debt was accumulating, the banking system is broken, the deficit was ballooning, and even labour accepted that after years of spending, significant cuts in expenditure were required. they went into the 2010 election admitting they would have to make cuts. labour left britain on the brink of bankruptcy. and worse, the money that labour had put into public service had not been accompanied by sufficient reform. labour s welfare system was more about disguising how many people are out of work than actually getting people back into employment, and for all the money that labour had
to supporting our armed forces. there are difficult battles to fight, and then there are campaigns that are going so badly your are going so badly, your own ministers are being asked whether you might resign. has that crossed your mind? i m energised about the vision we re putting forward for the country. this campaign is only.not even halfway through yet. for the last few weeks now, the party leaders have been dashing around the country. now, they don t go to places by accident or on a whim in election campaigns. most of the time, they are going to places that they think are on the front line, where a visit from them might just make a difference. here is a look at the geography of rishi sunak s scampering around the uk. now, nearly all of these places on the map here are places that elected a conservative mp last time in other words, he is on the defensive. now, that isn t that much of a surprise given the tories won big time last time. but he s also been popping up in a f