thought to have been killed. translation: i ran towards my family but everything was under| you can see their homes and possessions scattered under the debris and their loved ones disappear in this single moment. and the heroic coach who saved a swimmer after she fainted and sank to the bottom of the pool at the world aquatics championships in budapest. i just swam as fast as i could to grab her and pull up to the surface, and once i pull her up, so i wasjust, my goal was only to make her breathe. counting is under way in two key uk by elections for the conservative party in west yorkshire and devon. in wakefield, the conservatives are defending a majority ofjust over 3000. and in tiverton and honiton, the tories have a much larger majority of more than 24,000. counting in wakefield hasjust been completed. both are being seen as a stern test of the conservative government s popularity in the light of partygate and the cost of living crisis. let s talk to bbc newsnight s polic
honiton, three on the trot rectangular by election gains by the lib dems from the conservatives. the swing was 25.2% but we don t know what the soon will be tonight but it will be over 22% because that is what is needed. that does not usually happen. this is remarkable consistency. something interesting is happening in the south of england and it s notjust the by elections, look at the local elections, the lib dems gaining some west 0xfordshire, tunbridge wells, places in historically dominated conservative south. if i was a conservative south. if i was a conservative mp on the south and had a majority of ten, 000, 20,000, i would and had a majority of ten, 000, 20,000, iwould be and had a majority of ten, 000, 20,000, i would be thinking and had a majority of ten, 000, 20,000, iwould be thinking is my seat safe? 20,000, i would be thinking is my seat safe? my seat safe? that is the underlying my seat safe? that is the underlying message, - my seat safe? that is the underlying messa
nuneaton, the 2015 general election, that was a seat to the labour party had to win in that election. it has been slipping further and further and further away into the conservative column. labour again just going back modestly but you would help if labour would be hoping in a situation where they would be on the precipice of power, to potentially be taking seats like nuneaton. it is notjust the conservative labour battle, we have also seen what is going on with the liberal democrats. not to bad. places like west 0xfordshire, david cameron s backyard. conservative since 2000 and conservative control since 2000 and conservative control since before that. lib dems have been doing well here for some years. they have gained seats, conservatives lost five. it has gone into no overall control. if we look at somewhere like cumberland, where the labour party conversely yeah delac at. this is a new council,
of control of the night, they took hull from labour. we can speak now to the party leader, sir ed davey. how are you feeling because i am really good, lots of results to come but it looks like it will be a historic night for the liberal democrats. we are making big gains from the conservatives in the heartland, places like wimbledon and west 0xfordshire, places in the north like a stopwatch, we took that seat from labour as you mentioned, in hull. a huge vote of confidence in hull. a huge vote of confidence in liberal democrat run councils like richmond, where there is a complete takeover. there is only one tory councillor left. this is very positive news. i said yesterday that the voters could use their ballots to send a message to borisjohnson that he failed to provide leadership on the cost of living emergency which was the issue voters were raising a sent that message and lots of lib dem councillors have been elected. ., ,,., of lib dem councillors have been elected. ., , ,, g ., ,