today have said that they are done. they ve been looking into this since january. and so we have the figures for the final count. after a bit of back and forth, it s a bit confusing. where they confuse fines and people. but we now know that they issued 126 fines to 83 people. so most of those fined got one fine. and we know that the prime minister was one of those, as was the chancellor and the prime minister s wife. we know that 28 people got between two and five, so at least one person got five! yeah. so who is the party animal? i ve no idea. but, yeah, at least one person getting five. and, yeah, when you speak to ministers, you can hear the relief in their voice because there was a lot of talk, wasn t there, at westminster about does the prime minister get more than one? does he wallpaper an entire wall with them by the end of it? and what does that mean, after that boiling anger from conservative mps for a couple of months ago? that anger has long since dissipated. i don
reported across 11 countries. there will be a full roundup of the day s news at ten o clock. first, it s newscast. welcome to the newscast studio this week. and we re going to bejoined by all sorts of interesting people who will be popping in and out throughout this episode. but first, chris, you ve had a busy old day covering what you could describe as maybe the beginning of the end of the downing street party story. yeah. so the metropolitan police today have said that they are done. they ve been looking into this since january. and so we have the figures for the final count. after a bit of back and forth, it s a bit confusing. where they confuse fines and people. but we now know that they issued 126 fines to 83 people. so most of those fined got one fine. and we know that the prime minister was one of those, as was the chancellor and the prime minister s wife. we know that 28 people got between two and five, so at least one person got five! so who is the party animal? i ve
What was a marginal seat, with the victorious labour candidate notching up a majority of more than 9,000 votes, his party describing it as a seismic and historic win. They said that we couldnt change the labour party, and we did it. They said that we couldnt win in the south of england and the north of england, and we did it. They said, youll never beat the snp in scotland, and, rutherglen, you did it. From the partys leader to activists working the streets, labour poured resources into this constituency and their win was much, much bigger than many had expected. Michael shanks, Scottish Labour party, 17,841. Labour winning double the votes cast for the snp. The party of power at holyrood faced challenges going into the vote and had been managing expectations of a win, but even so, this was a bruising result for them. I do recognise that we have a big challenge on our hands and as a party, we need to come together collectively to right the wrongs that have happened in the last few mont
I dont know how you follow the double act of ian murray and jackie baillie. Thank you for everything you brought to the campaign. Delighted to be here. Ijust want to echo some of what we said last night. This is a remarkable result. I want to talk a bit about the thousands of people we lead during this campaign. We have spent six months on every single story in this constituency, talking to voters at every single door about their hopes, their aspirations, their dreams, their aspirations, their dreams, their fears, their aspirations, their dreams, theirfears, their their aspirations, their dreams, their fears, their concerns for this community. It has been the honour of my life to talk to all those people, to get to know them. To find out from them what they want their mp to fight for an hour to be their mp, to have their chance to represent them is incredible. This result shows not only that people are fed up with the two governments that are distracted, out of touch, but also that the