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With me are the bbc s deputy Political Editor, vicki young, and shadow business secretary jonathan reynolds, Transport Secretary mark harper, and Liberal Democrat olly grender. Yes, we had that big, important result for the conservatives, ben houchen has held onto the Tees Valley Mayoralty for a third term. You will know if you have been following all the Election Results that labour have won with a pretty historic swing the Blackpool South by election. There are a lot of people, of course, still coming in, we are yet to hear from counts right across the country, in terms of those local councils. Lets just get a thought, first of all, fr ....
South tyneside has been held by the labour party, 28 seats, the number needed for a majority but 15 have been taken by independent candidates and the 11 seats to the green party. We knew the greens were doing well, but look at that, labour losing ten and the independent party is gaining nine and the tories losing one and we will try to get to the bottom of what has gone on for quite a dramatic shift, so thatll be interesting and we will try to get to the bottom of that in the next a while after the news and i will say welcome to mark harper, the Transport Secretary who has just joined us and Jonathan Reynolds is still here and sarah olney from the Liberal Democrats and we will talk to you in a while. Lets tell you where things have got to in the total tally. Where things have got to in the totaltally. Labour w ....
Democrats have also made some gains, with Party Leader Sir Ed Davey pledging to make the conservative government history. Conservative government history. People from around our great country have had enough of this out of touch conservative government theyve had enough of being taken for granted and being let down. Its time for. Taken for granted and being let down. Its time for. Change. And down. Its time for. Change. And across this country from cheltenham to dorset, from west oxfordshire to here in winchester, so many people, including lifelong conservatives, are switching to the liberal democrats to make that change happen. That change happen. Well, lets take a quick look at those council results from across england as counting continues tonight. So far you can see here if youre watching on television, hopefully we can get those results up for you. Of more than 90 of those 107 councils declared so far by the end of ....
Election , dont they . Well, election, dont they . Well, obviously its disappointing to lose good, hard working conservative councillors and im grateful to them for all their service in local government. Keeping council tax low and delivering services for local people. But weve still got lots of results to come as well. Just and there are also things that i would point to harlow, for example, where keir starmer held a rally just on wednesday saying that was a place that he had to win to be on track to win a general election. That hasnt happened, and indeed were still waiting for the result. In the tees valley mayoralty , just near tees valley mayoralty, just near to here, which is obviously a very important test as well. Very important test as well. Do you need to convince your party you can do better in a general election . Well, as i said, if keir starmer was in harlow on wednesday saying that was a place that he needed to win in order to win the next general election, that hasnt hap ....