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That, our correspondent in uxbridge and south ruislip. sean, the counting has begun in earnest? tt counting has begun in earnest? tit certainly has. good morning to you and your guests in the studio. we are at a sports centre in hillingdon. we are on the very edge of london, to the west, close to the chiltern hills, this is the old better than that sirjohn betjeman wrote so eloquently about, that error that was developed thanks to the coming of the london underground, the metropolitan line, which stretches out into the constituency of uxbridge and south ruislip, which is part of the london borough of hillingdon. the constituency is a bit younger than it used to be, a reflection of the fact that many workers have moved out here, particularly after the covid pandemic, the opportunity to work from home. it is made up of really more leafy villages, small towns and then uxbridge itself, not really tower block territory. tory territory, borisjohnson s majority ....
In the results tonight. but we take it on the chin. labour have made steady, if not overwhelming, gains but enough they claim to put them on course to win a general election. right through this evening, you have seen the two words, the two phrases, a bad night for the tories, a good night for labour, whether in stoke, up in hartlepool, whether that s in teesside, or right down through to plymouth. tomorrow we re going to get down through to dover and see what s happening in brighton and hove and crawley and the rest of the south east. the reason is that we have a credible alternative. essex in the early hours and the liberal democrats were cheering the loudest. gains there and further afield were ground breaking, the party claimed. predicting upsets in traditional tory territory. a fantastic result for the liberal democrats in one of the safest tory seats in the country. we ve gained three seats. we re now up to 17 seats and the council moves into no overall control. and it is a time ....
Labour have made steady, if not overwhelming, gains but enough they claim to put them on course to win a general election. right through this evening, you have seen the two words, the two phrases, a bad night for the tories, a good night for labour, whether in stoke, up in hartlepool, whether that s in teesside, or right down through to plymouth. tomorrow we re going to get down through to dover and see what s happening in brighton and hove and crawley and the rest of the south east. the reason is we have a credible alternative. essex in the early hours and the liberal democrats were cheering the loudest. gains there and further afield were ground breaking, the party claimed. predicting upsets in traditional tory territory. a fantastic result for the liberal democrats in one of the safest tory seats in the country. we ve gained three seats. we are now up to 17 seats and the council moves into no overall control. and it is a time of change in brentwood and we are really delighted. it ....
Clearly disappointing for the conservatives, they are not great for labour. on the pspehology. that is the pspehology. they are doing a similarjob to ed miliband in 2012, he was about 7 8 points ahead of us, they are in the same zone and being in ed miliband 2012 territory. i zone and being in ed miliband 2012 territo ~ ., . . ., territory. i know that you want to talk about labour territory. i know that you want to talk about labour but territory. i know that you want to talk about labour but i territory. i know that you want to talk about labour but i have - territory. i know that you want to talk about labour but i have the i talk about labour but i have the number in front of me, minus 1061 councillors. the worst case scenario was 1000 and you have managed to exceed that. was 1000 and you have managed to exceed that- was 1000 and you have managed to exceed that. those were estimates, and it turns exceed that. those were estimates, and it turns out exceed that. those w ....
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