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display for the snp. labour party make a comeback as the second force in scotland, not much to argue about but they are back in second place which they argue which put them in a better position to potentially challenge the snp in their old heartlands at places like the central belt you can see that overtaking the conservatives to get back into second place. let s just have a quick look at some of the results there, scottish borders for example obviously the south of scotland, this is traditionally a conservative stronghold and as you can see, they still have the plurality of seats. you may think why all the scottish councils hung or in no overall control, it is because they use proportional representation system so it is harder to get a majority, but this is a sort of place that voted heavily for no independence referendum, very much gone behind the conservatives as the party of unionism in scotland as part of that realignment, but even here you can see a really strong ....
of a difficult situation if they want to change the protocol. that was a point want to change the protocol. that was a point that want to change the protocol. that was a point that we want to change the protocol. that was a point that we reflected on yesterday. it is interesting because there will be a majority of politicians elected who either support the protocol or, in the case of the party, they say they can work with those issues within the executive. if we talk about the middle too distant future, what about the immediate future and the prospect for getting a functioning executive it up and running again? maybe this is overoptimistic so i will caution what i m saying with that, but i generally think it s a case of when it comes back, not if. if you look at the unionists at the crossroads, first of all they have various factors making it difficult to get any changes to the protocol and the biggest obstacles are at the british government and part of the irish ....
sport and for a full round up, from the bbc sport centre, here s chetan. we start with chelsea, who have confirmed an agreement is now in place for the club to be sold, in a deal worthjust overfour billion pounds to an american consortium. the investor and businessman todd boehly, who is already part owner of baseball side the la dodgers, is the man leading the group. the club was put up for sale, before owner roman abramovich was sanctioned for his alleged links to russian president vladimir putin. the deal is worth, £2.5 billion, with a further 1.75 billion to be invested across the club. if it gets premier league and government approval, it s expected to be completed later this month. we are going to see a change of culture as far as chelsea football club is concerned. under roman abramovich, the club spent more money on wages and transfers and lost more money than any other club in the premier league. it is unlikely that an american owner, with an experience of spo ....
drakeford s labour government exceeded expectations, really, did much better. and i think we basically mirrored that, really, here in wales with the local elections. what we didn t expect, potentially, was such a big downfall for the tories here in wales. they ve done worse, losing all over the gains they made in 2017, losing the majority and the only councils they controlled, monmouthshire in wales. and, actually, now in monmouthshire, for the first time, labour is now the biggest party. that s the first time for labour there. labour, they took back control of two of the councils they lost last time around. they were unable to take the third. and they did actually lose one as well, due to a local issue in neath port talbot. some of the other stories of the day yesterday were plaid they ve gone from one council to controlling four. however, their overall vote share is down and they ve lost six seats. so i think the question for them will be, if they can t take seats a ....
i was working in the office, we stopped for something to eat. there was no party, there was no breach of the rules, i m confident about that. the police have obviously got to do theirjob. but, meanwhile, i m in scotland because we ve had a fantastic set of results, the best results for ten years, coming second in scotland. there s a smile on all of our faces and we ve taken this council. so labour is very clearly back on the pitch and we re turning the corner and now we re marching towards that general election. in terms of the uk results, it was a bit of a perfect storm with you, in terms of the tories at the moment, shouldn t you have done better? we did really well. we won in the north, i was in cumberland, in carlisle yesterday, where we won. we won in the south in southampton. we took seats in london that people said we d never take. we did really well in wales and here in scotland, best results for a decade. anas sarwar has been leader now for, what, 14 months and ....