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we speak. and in wales they ve lost overall control of bridgend and merthyr tydfil, two councils in their south wales heartland. although they have held on to the capital city, cardiff. also newport and swansea. and it has been a bad night for ukip overnight they lost every seat they were defending. and the party has been wiped out on councils like lincolnshire, hampshire and essex. their vote share is down dramatically, most of it going straight to the conservatives. coming up, we ll be live in glasgow. the snp are trying to take the city council from labour. the scottish counting has onlyjust started, so those results are all to come. labour have had decades of controlling glasgow city council. we ll be covering the results from scotland as they come in. to say the least, there is plenty to talk about! here in the studio we re joined by our political editor laura kuenssberg. the home office minister brandon lewis for the conservatives. the shadow foreign secretary l ....
bollywood film of all time? and coming up in the sport on bbc news, england s cricketing summer has started. they re in bristol, playing a one day international against ireland. good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. the conservatives have made big gains in the local elections, recording their best results since 2008. many of the votes cast yesterday across england, scotland and wales are still being counted, but labour has fared badly in many areas, including losing control of its former stronghold of glasgow. ukip has seen its vote collapse, only winning a single seat so far. the liberal democrats have had a mixed result, and haven t found the breakthrough they had been hoping for. just a few moments ago, this is how things looked. it means the conservatives have so far gained 240 seats, labour have lost 177, the liberal democrats of lost 177, the liberal democrats of lost 31 and ukip have lost 68. when it comes to councils. the tories have picked up five ....
details on that. labour having a turbulent time in england, scotland and wales, parts thereof. strong challenge from the snp. in wales they ve lost bridgend and merthyr tydfil, keeping hold of cardiff, swa nsea tydfil, keeping hold of cardiff, swansea and newport. in england they ve lost more than 100 councillors, many to the tories. they ve won the male role contest in the liverpool city region. lost the liverpool city region. lost the mayoral contest. and it has been a terrible night for ukip, overnight they lost every seat they were defending. and the party has been wiped out on councils like lincolnshire, hampshire and essex. their vote share is down dramatically, most of it going straight to the conservatives. in scotland the snp have managed to deprive labour of an overall majority in glasgow but we are not yet sure if they have won overall control of scotland s biggest city for themselves. we re still waiting for most of the results in scotland. we ll kee ....
said the results were good news. increasing our vote share by 7%, our best vote share in any election nationally for seven years. double the increase in the tories have experienced in terms of vote share the country. around the country. the results have been disappointing for ukip, with the party only managing to win one of the seats it has contested losing 145 previously held council seats. and the snp has finished as the biggest party in the scottish council elections, with the tories replacing labour as the second biggest. there is no way that this result can be spinned as anything other than a clear and very emphatic win for the snp. i m martine croxall, in other news this evening. diesel scrappage schemes and clean air zones. the government publishes its draft plan to tackle dirty air but critics say it s toothless. two men are charged with the murder of businessman guy hedger, who was shot at his home in dorset last weekend. and marine le pen is heckled at a ....
further south and west the temperatures will not be far away from 20. similar temperatures into next week, west is best, little or no rain around and some sunshine at times. hello, this is bbc news. our latest headlines. theresa may says she is taking nothing for granted after the tories‘ success in the local elections. campaigning in the west midlands, she urged voters to give her a strong mandate to negotiate brexit. jeremy corbyn who s been visiting the east midlands says his party faces a huge challenge to win the general election. but he insisted the gap between labour and the tories isn t as great as the pundits have been saying. the liberal democrats say they would put a penny in the pound on income tax to go towards the nhs and social care. party leader tim farron said politicians needed to be honest about financing the health service. the ukip leader paul nuttall urges his supporters to stay on the pitch despite suffering heavy losses on thursday. he sa ....