says of retaining sunderland. it has been a council that has been in labour hands since the 1970s, but its support there has been whittled away in the last few years. in 2016 its majority was 59. last year that was cut to 11. so still quite some tension there. this is how things stand at the moment. ijust want tension there. this is how things stand at the moment. i just want to take you to another screen which shows you the share change since 2018. that is since the last time the seats were fought. labour has slipped back a little bit. the independents have slipped back in sunderland as well and the party benefiting have been mainly the liberal democrats, but also the greens and the conservatives a bit. reeta, many thanks. what you make of labour s performance there? let s labour s performance there? let s wait to see labour s performance there? let s wait to see where labour s performance there? let s
when we talk performance in 2019. interestingly when we talk about performance in 2019. interestingly when we talk about labour s i when we talk about labour s performance, labour s performance in london has been traditionally very strong and the challenge seems to be outside london. would it not be more fairfor us to be outside london. would it not be more fair for us to be saying to viewers tonight we need to be focusing probably on labour s performance outside in those areas where you lost traditional areas to the conservatives, certainly at the last general election? those are the real test areas for you, not the big london councils were londoners seem to see it as a labour city anyway. the lion s share of the seats tonight are up in london but of course we have to look at the picture across the country and that is notjust in the traditional, so called red wall areas, it is also in the south and the south east, and i will be looking to see what those results look like in places