their candidate, neil shastri hurst, fighting a losing battle. we do need to reflect upon the result and i am sure, as a party, we will do that, but, i repeat it again, i m sure you ll understand if we all go and get a bit of shuteye and i go and give my eight week old a bit of a cuddle. the winner was jubilant as she celebrated with the lib dem leader on the telephone, ed davey isolating at home with covid. and then the departure. lots of questions now for the prime minister. well the liberal democrat leader, sir ed davey, is isolating at home with coronavirus but was stilljubilant when he spoke to the bbc earlier. it was a spectacular result. i think this is a watershed moment in british politics. i am so delighted for helen morgan, our new liberal democrat mp for north shropshire. i am so proud of our party and ourcampaigners, and i think we brought new hope to the whole nation who have been so worried and fed