group, or to the right with the da. one other thing that should be beared in mind is the democratic alliance is fundamentally a white party. given the history of apartheid, that also adds a layer of complexity to the calculations. can you mention this mk party, a young party? it came in third place, a surprise? a huge surprise. this is the party set up byjacob zuma six month ago. he s the front man of it. it s light on policies, but essentially they are saying they are what they call black progressives, and they say what they want is a redistribution of wealth. they said more than anything, theyjust want to help the people. so i think it s fair if you call it essentially a populist party. and it s fronted by jacob zuma, who is a very charismatic performer in elections. he was ramaphosa s predecessor as president, and under him, he was.
of basic necessities, like water and electricity. results from wednesday s election show the anc winning around 40% of the vote, while former president jacob zuma s newly formed mk party exceeded expectations to finish third. but the party says it is considering challenging the results in court. and so begins a new era in south african politics as well as new challenges for president cyril ramaphosa, who himself helped negotiate the end of apartheid. the bbc s africa correspondent, barbara plett usher, reports. it had been a slow and steady day, and then, this. the former president, now the head of the upstart mk party, an unexpected challenge to the anc. ..already reeling from voter anger over economic mismanagement and corruption scandals. jacob zuma has created quite a stir here.
correspondent ione wells. what do we need to look out for? from labour that is the pledge from keir starmer to cut net migration and he says the way the party would do this would be by training more uk workers to by punishing employers and firms who don t pay workers very high wages and employ lots of cheap labourfrom abroad and if high wages and employ lots of cheap labour from abroad and if they don t pay people a proper wages they could be banned from hiring foreign workers. when yvette cooper was asked what numbers labour would look to bring that number down to she did not give a specific answer. we to bring that number down to she did not give a specific answer. not give a specific answer. we would exect to not give a specific answer. we would meet to see not give a specific answer. we would meet to see the not give a specific answer. we would expect to see the numbers - not give a specific answer. we would expect to see the numbers coming l expect to see the numbers coming d
show the anc at around a0%. it is still the largest party but will have to share power to continue governing. from johanesburg, the bbc s africa correspondent, barbara plett usher, reports. it had been a slow and steady day, and then, this. the former president, now the head of the upstart mk party, an unexpected challenge to the anc. ..already reeling from voter anger over economic mismanagement and corruption scandals. jacob zuma has created quite a stir here. he s made a rock star entrance. his party came third, with an unexpectedly strong showing, taking a lot of votes away from the anc. ..and still trying to take more. he announced he had evidence of election rigging,
15 the snp have been dominant at westminster in terms of scottish seats and from the last general election the snp won a8 seats, conservative six, liberal democrats four and labour conservative six, liberal democrats fourand labourare conservative six, liberal democrats four and labour arejust a single seat. we have boundary changes this time so we are not comparing like for like but the polls suggest, and of course they come with health warnings, the gap between the snp and labour has drastically narrowed and labour has drastically narrowed and recent polls suggest labour are ahead of the snp in scotland. for decades, labourwere ahead of the snp in scotland. for decades, labour were the biggest party here in scotland by some way, especially in the central belt, labour once again i dozens of seats across scotland, particularly in glasgow in the west of scotland. we have already seen keir starmer come to scotland since the campaign launch twice and we have seen rishi