and how can our politicians play their part? with us now to talk about what might come next is immigration minister robert jenrick. after labour s big by election wins, lisa nandy could soon be representing you all over the world the shadow international development minister joins me from salford. as the un calls conditions inside gaza catastrophic, we ll speak to dr hanan ashrawi a woman who has spent decades at the heart of palestinian politics. and we ll speak to israel s former prime minister naftali bennett. good morning. you might have seen that we were going to speak to israeli president isaac herzog. he has had to postpone, but we hope he ll be with us on a future programme. in the meantime, welcome to my panel. jasmine el gamal, a middle east expert who advised the obama administration, also best selling historian and tv presenter simon sebag montefiore, and lucy fisher, the financial times whitehall editor and host of its political fix podcast. let s have a lok
what was a marginal seat, with the victorious labour candidate notching up a majority of more than 9,000 votes, his party describing it as a seismic and historic win . they said that we couldn t change the labour party, and we did it. they said that we couldn t win in the south of england and the north of england, and we did it. they said, you ll never beat the snp in scotland, and, rutherglen, you did it. from the party s leader to activists working the streets, labour poured resources into this constituency and their win was much, much bigger than many had expected. michael shanks, scottish labour party, 17,841. labour winning double the votes cast for the snp. the party of power at holyrood faced challenges going into the vote and had been managing expectations of a win, but even so, this was a bruising result for them. i do recognise that we have a big challenge on our hands and as a party, we need to come together collectively to right the wrongs that have happened in t
Big by election defeats. they have large majorities wiped out as they lose somerton and frome to the lib dems and selby and ainsty to labour. for too long, conservatives up here and in westminster have failed us. and today that changes. tonight has been a stunning and historic victory for the liberal democrats. good morning from uxbridge. the result here softens the blow for the conservatives. but a thumping elsewhere raises big questions for the prime minister. also this morning. judges in cyprus are due to deliver their verdict in the murder trial of david hunter, a british pensioner accused of murdering his wife. the family of olivia pratt korbel, the nine year old murdered in liverpool last year calls for a change in the law to force offenders
Yes, the conservatives managed to stem the outgoing tide from which they are seemingly suffering in uxbridge, but it seems to me there is little gainsaying the fact that the tide is still a long way out for the conservatives and they still have an awful long way to go before they look as though they might have a chance of being able to retain power. the campaigns ahead of these by elections were hard fought. the results give each party a victory, but leave some big questions, too, about who is really on the path to power ahead of the next general election. alex forsyth, bbc news. we will take you to all of those key by election areas. and we will speak to our chief political correspondent in london. but first to selby.