but i also recognise, as someone who has been a member of parliament for 20 years, that the people i represent also want to see their politicians dealing daily with the bread and butter issues. is it a danger, as the question suggests, that this is seen as a referendum? i think it is notjust a danger, i think it is a wasted opportunity because people are voting in the election this thursday to choose people who can then go and represent them in westminster, be an effective voice their concerns but also people who will support the re establishment of the institutions at stormont which is hugely important and that is the issue that people focus on, and not the issue of the border question but it is fed by lazy politicians, not by the public. jeffrey is right, when you ask people what worries them, what is keeping them awake at night, it is not the border question, it is the fact they can t get an appointment to see their gp, the fact the hospital waiting list is longer than it
the general election. about to find out the results of the exit poll. good evening and welcome to the election centre. tonight, the third time into yours that we have come here to the result in a major unity kingdom wide poll.. in 2015, david cameron s election resulted in the vote for brexit see a promise. and theresa may has guaranteed certainty for the years ahead. three act drama. indications of what she has got what she wanted orjeremy corbyn has dashed hopes will come with exit polls at ten. who gets to number ten? welcome to the virtual downing street. we have watched as in 2015 conservative constituencies pathed the path. labour left behind. what is going to happen tonight? will the conservatives get the 326 seed is that they need, or can labour close the gap? earlier today, the party leaders casted votes. just as 47 million of us had the right to do. and the first actual result will help cast results. newcastle and sunderland going head to head. sophie is in sunderla
follows. . . chris coghlan, independent, 1234. ido hereby i do hereby declare that marsha de cordova. .. so, jane allison, the financial secretary to the treasury, a former public health minister, is defeated in battersea. labour takes battersea. and the swing in battersea, let s just see what that is, 46%. a swing of io% battersea, let s just see what that is, 46%. a swing of 10% from conservative to labour in an area thatis conservative to labour in an area that is almost 80% in favour of remain. just under 80% in favour of remain. i want to get back to nigel farage, whom we interrupted for that result. mr farage, thank you for waiting. the last thing you said was very tantalising. you said you would have to come back into active politics. it is not what i plan on 04 taiwan. i was thrilled to leave ukip to pressure cameron into offering the referendum and to winning. we triggered article 50. i thought it was all done. mrs may went for the big majority. she was found out, i
form. dup are the king makers, and you can t have a coalition without them. you can put labour and the greens and the snp and the lib dems together and it would not be enough. the dup will be ruthless. aaaa a a a a redacted. maybe theresa may manages to get some kind of coalition together but it is fragile and it does not last long. the walk out or something happens. they do not necessarily go to the country because they would need 66% of the parliament to vote. so you could have ajeremy parliament to vote. so you could have a jeremy corbyn government. that fixed term parliament act is the tory‘s friend. the dup will never countenance talking tojeremy corbyn because of his issue that did not hunt for the tories in the election campaign, his attitude to the ira. the tories can be confident that whatever price is extracted from them, they will never put jeremy corbyn into downing street. they will trigger another election. they will trigger another election. they will trigger
through the general election to all political parties is actually, people have had enough of the austerity measures. 11 days on from the start of negotiations, there s still no deal with the dup to prop up theresa may s government, amid claims of in downing street. chaos in downing street. also this morning, a special report from dame sarah storey on whether high profile athletes who have babies get enough support once they return. resources available to elite sports people is better than ever. but what is the best way of using this funding to support athlete mums? hello, welcome to the programme, we re live until 11 this morning. we re also talking about uk holiday makers who make bogus food poisoning claims against foreign hotels. the problem is getting so bad apparently that some resorts say they could ban brits. travel companies says it s one of the biggest issues that has hit the industry for many years . if you ve made a claim or you work in the industry then we d l