Are we now . Its been a busy few hours. Where are we now . Yes, The Big Story so far this afternoon are we now . Yes, The Big Story so far this afternoon is are we now . Yes, The Big Story so far this afternoon is from are we now . Yes, The Big Story so far this afternoon is from the far this afternoon is from the capital, london, where sadiq khan is in a really good place. Let me show you the latest up to date numbers, which show that the incumbent is on 560,000 votes, just about. Susan hall, the conservative, is on 386,000, thats about half the constituencies having counted. That is a big lead. I should say that the areas weve had in, some of them are very proud labour. But the thing that really matters here, that makes us think it is a slam dunk for sadiq khan is this. The swing that we are seeing across london from the conservatives to labour. Its been slightly different in different parts of the city, but overall, the average at the moment, 3. 7 swing from conservative to labour.
Demands for rishi sunak to call a general election. However, the a general election. However, the party failed to win back control of oxford after nine councillors there defected to independent last year over the labour leaders stance on gaza. Well, leaders stance on gaza. Well, the liberal democrats have also made some gains , with party made some gains, with Party Leader Sir Ed Davey pledging to make the conservative government. He says history people from around our great country have had enough of this out of touch conservative government. Government. Theyve had enough of being taken for granted and being let down. Its time for change. Anas sarwar. And across this country , sarwar. And across this country, from cheltenham to dorset, from west oxfordshire to here in winchester, so many people , winchester, so many people, including lifelong conservatives, are switching to the liberal democrats to make that change happen. That change happen. Meanwhile, the Prime Minister insists hes
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
The conservative Party Conference introducing her husband. Rishi sunak will be speaking to the political spouse of all time, Christine Hamilton , about whether that was a good idea or. Not , about whether that was a good idea or. Not and of course we want to hear what your views are on all of these issues. Let us know, join in the conversation. Tell us what you think, and well read out as many as we can throughout show. But before throughout the show. But before we get stuck into all of that, heres the latest headlines with the marvellous. Tamsin the marvellous. Tamsin phil, thanks very much. And good morning from the gb newsroom. Its 10 01. Thousands of rockets have been fired into israel from the gaza strip in a surprise attack by the Hamas Militant Group on saturday morning. Large plumes of black smoke could be seen rising from a number of israeli towns. Israeli defence minister said. Hamas has launched a war and its troops were fighting against the enemy at every location. One enem