Original guestimate that the conservatives will get an overall majority with Boris Johnson a little bit of figure on that im guessing a majority of 40 at the time you out of these these famous words are i think just once and was 5 to one against her to lose a seat so the 1st question was did you get money on the demise of the liberal democrat leader i didnt put anything on and i think that would have jinxed my predictions but i had one very good reason to think shed lose i did the same thing and i could sense the same things happening to her as happened to me in my seat in 2010 but nobody listened including the liberal democrats despite my repeated warnings that i thought shed lose by a small margin but as you say i was right and was just once an open. My eyes a liberal democrat problems or were the people difficulties for the liberals in the sky she was half the problem i said here in this very studio that she wasnt cutting it in the general election as she just didnt come across as c
Desks theyve been pretty to work by their new taskmasters returning m. P. s come back to a very different place the boarding is the same but inside it has changed and changed utterly instead of a truculent Minority Parliament we have a step for to simply with a huge majority of 80 super loyalist m. P. s or is johnson is a master of all that he surveys no longer will little known m. P. s be asked with breathless excitement by the media how they are shaping up for the next knife age for it they wont be any such words household names like on the superman Dominic Grieve will disappear from our t. V. Screens perhaps forever but is it all plain sailing for the Prime Minister sometimes in politics nothing feels like success alex ross our panel how events are likely to unfold. I know im trying to read the ruins of the general election by a prestigious spinal of political pundits but im no column the rebel musketeer bitter or bottom a rebel tory who ended up voting for jeremy called the Chris W
To go with the sports as International Test cricket returns to pakistan for the 1st time in more than a decade ill have the latest from the match against sri lanka. Thank you very much for joining us myanmars leader santucci is at the International Court of justice in the hague to defend her country against allegations of genocide she called the accusations misleading suchi insists the military has been conducting operations against goods and that action has been taken against the use of Excessive Force on tuesday on tonsil she sat through a graphic accounts of mass murder and rape detailed against the military the allegations stem from a 20 7000. 00 crackdown which forced more than. 100000. 00 mostly were muslims to feed to neighboring bangladesh. Can there be genocidal intent on the part of the state that actively investigates prosecutes and punishes soldiers and officers who are accused of wrongdoing although the focus here is on members of the military i can assure you that appropr
The latest. Dani definitely a mixed session. The stoxx 600 down. It is a macro heavy trading day between the u. K. Election, Central Bank Decisions and that the tariff deadline, we have traders on the sideline. Expandedy has really for sterling. Cable down about 0. 1 , but still trading at that 1. 31 handle. This is a conservative government priced in. Upside is really limited. We have seen sterling fall after the poll showed the conservatively it cut by about half and the concern is the Hung Parliament that would throw into concern the outcome of brexit. Some strategists have said that sterling may fall as low as 1. 22 if we do get a Hung Parliament. Brent down about 0. 5 tonight. We are seeing brent trade just under 64 a barrel. The aramco ipo hitting the 10 limit with shares surging so far today. Looking at some of the individual movers we have seen in the market. Jd sports is one of the biggest lacquers in the stoxx 600 laggers in the stoxx 600. Its biggest shareholder sold 2. 4 of
A military base to. A meeting between president of france and 5 west African Leaders on the deteriorating security situation in the region has been postponed. Hello and good morning from moscow minings colum bray it just turned 8 am friday the 13th of december its 5 am in the u. K. Which is waking up to the results of a dramatic and general election exit polls released within minutes of polls closing at 10 pm last night so yes that Boris Johnsons conservative party will have a majority in parliament after a strong showing in britains historic general election that means he could keep his Campaign Pledge and bring home which is what hes been trying to promise all along as for labor a very difficult night for them having suffered. Series of humiliating defeat and its leader Jeremy Coleman says he will not lead labor into the next election lets go straight to the u. K. For special coverage of the results live from westminster they are the moments yes and to break it all down for us were j