Hours . Uncertainty we saw in the last 24 hours . , ,. , Uncertainty We Saw in the last 24 hours . ,. ,. , hours . There was some speculation that race would hours . There was some speculation that race would be hours . There was some speculation that race would be tighter hours . There was some speculation that race would be tighter than that race would be tighter than people thought but the figures were getting so far suggest thats not the case. Labour this lunchtime confidently saying they think they have won the london mayoralty again, sadiq khan will get that historic third term as mayor of london. I didnt have a result to go to now in South West London. The didnt have a result to go to now in southwest london. Didnt have a result to go to now in southwest london. The local council and ma or southwest london. The local council and mayor of southwest london. The local council and mayor of london southwest london. The local council and mayor of london election. Southwest london. The
No one should call this one too early. You wouldnt call a premier League Football match after about 30 minutes. And theres a lot more people whove got their view, too. Except you are at The End Of You are at the end of a government term. Thats fair. But people make a choice at the election, a very clear choice. Whos going to walk through the door of number ten the following morning. In dorset, the conservatives lost control of the council to the liberal democrats, who are second in terms of the number of seats won overall. But in some places, Labourface A Challenge from the greens. This is bristol, where they became the Biggest Party on the council, picking up every single seat in what will be one of their top target constituencies. These are huge steps forward for the green party. Theres now nine councils across the country where were the largest party. Large numbers of councils where greens are part of the ruling administration, often working with other parties, which were very happy
A reliable indication of the support of the parties that the candidates are representing but also they are affected by the personal support of those candidates in the metro Mayoral Elections so one of the things i will be looking at later on is notjust the Mayoral Election contest but also the pcc contest and if we discover that labour have won the pcc contest as in 2021 that will add to the doubts that the conservatives focus on the mayoral contests in the belief that this shows things are not so bad for the tories after all is perhaps somewhat misplaced. Tories after all is perhaps somewhat mislaced. ,. ,. ,. ,. , misplaced. John, we are going to brin misplaced. John, we are going to bring everyone misplaced. John, we are going to bring everyone the misplaced. John, we are going to bring everyone the liverpool misplaced. John, we are going to i bring everyone the liverpool count, we ll come back straight to you for your interpretation of we see. Well come back straight to you for you
Being elected to the very first time. Im detecting a lot of scepticism talking to voters in this part of the world about the idea of having another elected politician and that may well be borne out in the low turnout we get it eventually but that once people understand what a mayor does and we have seen that in Greater Manchester and the midlands, and those politicians tend to be very well known and they tend to be very well known and they tend to do and perform quite well and in many respects this is different was happening in the West Midlands and the tees valley where you have two conservative incumbents that have quite successfully managed to create a sense of them being apolitical, really, standing up for the region and not having to go along with the party is doing nationally. Thats not necessarily the case here is i dont think the conservative candidate will do that in quite the same way here as they dont have a track record to speak of. The expectation is that labour are in a v
he has managed to track down the smuggler across europe to luxembourg. here s his story. excuse me, sir. andrew harding from bbc news. we ve come to luxembourg to confront a man we ve been chasing across europe. we know who you are, you re a smuggler. no. he s responsible for putting hundreds of people in small boats heading from france to england. and responsible for one boat in particular. this one. we came across it back in april on a beach in northern france. police, battling with a group of smugglers. chaos as people clambered onto the boat. we saw a girl here in a pink coat. she was one of five to die at the scene. her name was sara, seven years old, born in belgium, raised in sweden. a few days later, we found her father, ahmed, an iraqi man consumed by grief and also by guilt. but what of the smugglers? multiple sources tell us the man paid to arrange sara s journey is still active and working from a distant city. so we ve come now to antwerp, a city in northern bel