colleagues across the nations and regions and the news where you are but from the ten o clock team, good night. one of the last big electoral tests before a general election is over. will the results determine keir starmer s chances of entering downing street? dirty polls closed polls closed 30 minutes ago. nick and election guru john curtice are here to game the outcome. and a cabinet minister, a shadow cabinet minister and the deputy leader of the lib dems will all be spinning their narratives. also tonight, an exclusive newsnight investigation into misogny and a boys culture in police scotland. four female former employees, three of them longstanding officers, banding together as whistle blowers, speak out. it was like a russian roulette. i either put the grievance in, lose my career, or i don t put the grievance in and i lose my career because i m getting accused of throwing weapons, which didn t happen. ultimately it didn t just take my career. it took my mental healt
points ahead of the conservatives. i don t want to put words in john s don t want to put words injohn s mouth, but i think we will hear that they need to be ten points ahead. their view is that that does not take account of their remarkable progress they think they are making in scotland, which means that they don t need to do quite so well in the rest of great britain. for the conservatives, they are saying this is a tough night for the conservatives, having been in power for 13 years. they are talking about 1000 seat losses, and what they are trying to say is to put it on to labour and say, you need to sort of result that you had in the local elections in 1995. there were 2000 tory losses there. labour got a8% of the vote, and the reason why they say that is that if keir starmer gets the swing that tony blair got in 1997, he onlyjust squeaked in to downing street. then interestingly, the conservatives think that labour is going after some marquee winds that will look good but is not
is us losing fantastic councillors who have done wonderful things in their communities over the last two years. do you think you have let them down? it is very difficult to say we have let them down, but we want to make sure we want let them down, but we want to make sure we want to let them down, but we want to make sure we want to fight let them down, but we want to make sure we want to fight for let them down, but we want to make sure we want to fight for all - let them down, but we want to make sure we want to fight for all the seats, sure we want to fight for all the seats, and sure we want to fight for all the seats, and every vote we win, with a positive seats, and every vote we win, with a positive message, and deliver on what positive message, and deliver on what we positive message, and deliver on what we say we will do. line what we say we will do. line iei what we say we will do. line let me turn to you, daisy cooper. you say the liberal democrats are
demonstrate we are on the right path. if i can turn to you, chris, you are looking at a 1000 seat loss, and you deem that to be acceptable? no, i mean, we know we will have a tough no, i mean, we know we will have a tough night, no, i mean, we know we will have a tough night, and we are going to lose very tough night, and we are going to lose very good councillors up and down lose very good councillors up and down the lose very good councillors up and down the country. we do recognise we are 13 down the country. we do recognise we are 13 years down the country. we do recognise we are 13 years into government, and we have two. are 13 years into government, and we have two, and with rishi sunak as prime have two, and with rishi sunak as prime minister, our fortunes are changing prime minister, our fortunes are changing in prime minister, our fortunes are changing in a positive direction, and we changing in a positive direction, and we have been very positive on the