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that Douglas Alexander is duly elected James this is a disaster for the S&P isn’t it it’s a total disaster for the Scottish national party Laura it’s not looking good for the SNP we’ve been swept aside by the the starmore tsunami Wales looks once again like a Tory free zone the first time in almost two decades that the Welsh conservatives have failed to win any seat whatsoever the labor party has won this general election and I have called sakir starm to congratulate him and I take responsibility for the loss yeah there we have it at 5 in the morning she saying it explicitly yeah that it is over we can now say with certainty that labor have won the 2024 general election we did it good morning from Westminster labor have won a landslide victory in the general election on a dramatic night in British politics we did it it is a spectacular turnaround for sakir st’s party less than 5 years after their worst result in almost a century the sunlight of Hope pale at first but getting stronger through the day shining once again on a country with the opportunity after 14 years to get its future back the Tories are set for the worst result in their history losing eight cabinet ministers including Grant chaps and Penny Morant more than 40 Tory ministers and whips have gone so far the British people have delivered a sobering verdict tonight there is much to learn and reflect on and I take responsibility for the loss and humiliation for the former prime minister Liz truss she has lost her seat in Southwest Norfolk narrowly defeated by labor by just over 600 votes we will be bringing you the very latest live from Westminster on a day of huge change with just nine seats left to declare [Music] celebrations for the liberal Democrats returning more than 70 seats and becoming the third largest Party in the House of Commons a difficult and damaging night for the SNP according to Scotland’s first Minister down to just eight MPS as labor regains dominance in Scotland Nigel farage becomes an MP on his eighth attempt as reform UK win four seats taking large numbers of votes from the conservatives and the greens now have four MPS with the party’s co-leader taking Bristol Central from a senior labor politician in Wales labor won a back a string of seats completely wiping out the conservatives with PL cry winning four and in Northern Ireland Shin Fay has won the most seats for the first time but significant losses for the Democratic unionist party including Ian Paisley in North ANM a seat held by his family for more than 50 years [Music] [Applause] [Music] good morning from Westminster on a day of History A labor Landslide after 14 years in opposition a spectacular turnaround in fortunes yes good morning it’s a day of huge change it’s a day of transition and there could well be more surpris Rises to come in the hours ahead and we’re going to be here all day with you right in the heart of the action the very wet action this morning as the new labor government is formed and as sakir starma heads to the Palace to become the new prime minister with a forecast majority now of 176 well we are here right by the houses of Parliament and this morning we’re going to be talking to politicians old and new experts and advisers who will be looking back at an extraordinary night and looking forward to what happens next overnight some of the most familiar faces in British politics have lost their seats the former prime minister Liz trust Jacob Reese mogs Grant shaps Penny Morant all gone there are so many stories to unpack for you this morning we have a team of BBC presenters in all the right places they are at Downing Street at Buckingham Palace they’re in Glasgow Belfast Cardiff and we’re going to hear from voters right across the UK wherever you live however you voted whatever you think of these results that we showing this morning we will guide you through everything as it all unfolds we certainly will now as we now know labor has won the general election by a landslide with sakir stama set to become the next prime minister the party has gained its biggest majority since saton Blair’s Victory back in 1997 at the expense of huge losses for the conservatives before we go forward let’s bring you all up to date and explain what has happened overnight [Applause] 500 a.m. and enter the winner a new prime minister elect in just four years he’s taken labor from historic low to Landslide now we can look forward again walk into the morning the sunlight of Hope pale at first but getting stronger through the day shining once again on a country with the opportunity after 14 years to get its future back earlier reelected but knowing he’d LED his party to its worst ever election result conceded the labor party has won this general election and I have called sakir starma to congratulate him on his victory today power will change hands in a peaceful and orderly manner with Good Will on all sides part’s reputation but far from sober this was humil Tim they slow hand clapping apparently there in kingslin if we can bring it up there we go and that must be for the candidate who is not on the stage and that would a slow hand clap from those waiting for Rishi Sak’s predecessor as prime minister Liz truss on the right of the screen she sidled in to hear that she’d been voted out losing to labor the issue we faced as conservatives is we haven’t delivered sufficiently on on the policies people want and that means keeping taxes low but also particularly on reducing immigration elected the first senior Tory to go was just after midnight Swindon South a labor gain Robert Buckland former Justice secretary a lonely walk to end a 14-year career as an MP angry he blamed infighting and incompetence for leaving his party so diminished I’m fed up of person agendas and jocking for position you know the truth is now with the conservatives facing this electoral Armageddon it’ll it’s going to be like a group of bald men arguing over a conb the liberal Democrats then asked that the current Justice secretary Alex chalk and the education secretary Jillian Keegan labor defeated Penny Morant one of the favorites to be a future Tory leader and another one too the defense secretary Grant shaps we’ve tried the patience of traditional conservative voters with a propensity to create an endless political soap opera out of internal rivalries and divisions which have become increasingly indulgent and entrenched Jacob William Rees MOG Jacob Reese MOG lost his seat to labor all the while the Tory party chairman Richard Holden looked nervous by just 20 votes he scraped through doing the damage to the conservatives in seat after seat was reformed form Lee Anderson won in Ashfield 21,25 and Nigel farage finally after so many failed attempts elected MP for claton believe me folks this is just the first step of something that is going to stun all of you thank you very much and already celebrating the liberal Democrats this was a record-breaking night for them too seizing dozens of seats from the conservatives to end with their highest tally ever in Scotland labor has scooped up seats from the SNP they had 45 now reduced to single digits in Northern Ireland a double shock Jim Alis of the traditional unionist defeated Ian Paisley Jr and shin Fain now have the most MPS here come out across the country and in monmouthshire another conservative loss to labor the Welsh secretary David TC Davies not a single Tory MP is left in Wales so this is Kia starmer’s moment to savor a time he said for the nation to start a new chapter Daman caticus BBC News well we’re going to go right to one of the big winners of the night s ed Davy the leader of the liberal Democrats joins us here in the studio what a night for you it has been fantastic it’s been a record-breaking night this is a historic step four for the liberal Democrats we will now be the largest third party force in Parliament for over 100 years and I think our positive campaign resonated with people particularly putting Health and Care right at the center uh and I’m very grateful for all the people who put their trust in us and we are going to campaign so hard on Health and Care to repay that trust 71 seats so far that wonderful pictures of you celebrating that some some a few hours ago did you expect that many seats uh I didn’t actually myself um during the campaign it looked like we were doing better and better and better so I thought there could be some momentum but this is this is historic and uh record-breaking to to be the largest third party Force for over a hundred years is quite something and I’m determined that we uh repay the trust the British people have put in so many liberal Democrat MPS with Health and Care is our top campaign of course campaign on the cost of living as well or ending the sewage Scandal all the things we talked about in that election we’re going to take them into Parliament and fight for those issues we should explain to people watching if they can’t remember what the old Parliament looked like that you will have 63 more MPS this time I suppose the fact of the matter though is that you’ve got a labor party with what more than 400 MPS so you you will be a bigger voice but but how do you make that voice heard how do you make your presence felt well we take the issues and our Manifesto into that Parliament campaign for them they are our marching orders um we have listened to people about their concerns and they told us Health and Care was the top they told us the cost living was a big issue their local environment particularly SE was a big issue so uh we had them in our Manifesto uh and we’re going to fight for the Fair Deal that’s what we called it the Fair Deal that we’ve campaigned on and won so many MPS on and every liberal Democrat MP will fight to be a local champion in their area on Health and Care but they’ll join a huge number now to make sure our voice is heard and the voice of carers and the voice of people who need a GP who need a dentist who want a Better Health service we’ll make sure their voice is heard too what does the libdem opposition look like now I mean you certain your voice will be heard you get questions now prime minister’s questions don’t you two questions because you’re the third largest party right that’s right oh well um we will put our case week in week out and we’re going to work so hard to get our voice heard and you know um we will make sure that this government is held to account but we’ll put our ideas forward we’re a positive force and I think one of the reasons we won so many MPS in this election this record number is because we campaigned positively we had ambitious ideas uh they were properly costed in our Manifesto I can take you through that if you want me too you probably heard enough of it already during the campaign but people really responded and I’ll be honest I also told my personal story um about being a carer uh for my mom when she was dying and then for my nana and now for my son and that seemed to resonate as well and I think millions of people who have that experience in their own lives uh responded to it and so I think I have respons responsibility now to represent those people your campaign was very striking because you were so open so about your own story it was also very striking because of the stunts uh that you took part in did you know you were going to be doing that kind of thing when when was that put to you well we started uh having good visual images let’s call them that during those uh paly byelection victories that we won with you know knocking down the blue wall which has proven to be the case we were prict it and it’s happened um all those sort of visual images and we took them into our campaign and what was key key for me was to show that you know we can have some fun uh you don’t have to take yourself too seriously as long as you take the voters concern seriously and every time we did one of those stuns we had a message you know falling off the paddle board that was about seage C to uh some of our campaigning when I came down that slide in Somerset with kids and their families enjoying a half term we were talking about the Mental Health crisis for children and young people and how we’ve got solutions for it getting a qualified mental health professional every primary and secondary school so I think that combination of you know showing that you could have a bit of fun as well as having very serious well thought through policies and we’ll take that into the next Parliament that’s that’s our job now we’ve been giving our marching orders by by the public you’ve changed the the way of campaigning haven’t you the next election every party leader is going to be going to every theme park in the country every opportunity well steady on now uh we’ll see I mean the key thing is connecting with people and making sure that they realize that you get it and I think actually just as much as the fun what was my personal story in talking to millions of carers cuz I think if people realize that actually politicians are sort of normal people you can relate to them they they know lead normal lives I mean I’ve shown my dad dancing just earlier in celebrating you know we’re we’re quite normal people and we want to fight for people we’re on their side we listen to them and we want to we want to fight for them you have always been after proportional representation haven’t you as a way as a different way of of voting not this two party first passed the post um system it’s worked for you this time though hasn’t it so is that what you still want or yeah I mean I think the British political system is still broken uh and I think electoral reform is a key part of that I think putting power back into communities I think capping the donations that political parties receive I think we need political reform and we’re the only party who want to change our political system and we’re not changing our views on electoral reform our Deputy political editor Vicki is here in the studio with us all day hi Vicki it’s interesting isn’t it looking at the lib dem’s results and how they’ve been very strategic in how they fought this campaign yeah and I think that has been a lesson is something that they’ve worked on for a long time building up with counselors and then you know really focusing but I’m quite interested to know this was a huge rejection of the conservatives when you very much placed the liberal Democrats as the party to get rid of the Tories and I don’t want to sound cherish on a night when you’ve done incredibly well but is this this is a one-off moment isn’t it and what can you really do uh with that power do you think well we’re going to take our marching orders from our platform which was Health and Care right at the center why should labor listen to you that’s the problem they maor because we’ve got the best arguments we’ve got the best policies I mean uh I think other parties were silent on social care we the ones talking about it they didn’t think about how you could fund it we showed how you could fund it they didn’t think about new reform ideas about uh supporting family carers we did so we’re going to win those arguments for the people who voted for us I want to transform our Health and Care System I think you can do that from your opposition ventes just as well so many people watching this morning are desperate to know what’s going to happen with social care is there now the possibility of an agreement between parties working together to come up with a solution for the future well since you say that we had in our Manifesto commitment to joining other parties across the whole political spectrum because although we’ve got lots of ideas beginning to fix the system I think that they would transform the system we also know that there’s some longer term decisions that have to be made and they’ll only work if you get everyone to agree to them and do you think the new labor government will work with you on that do do you get those sort of signals well uh we’ll have to see we’re going to push them hard U I think the people the people out there they want politicians to actually listen and reflect and take their big decisions you can’t walk away from the big decisions we haven’t uh we may be the third party the strongest third party for 100 years but I want us to set the agenda and we’re going in there confident with really good ideas and we’re going to make people listen to us you’re going very shortly to uh your liberal Democrat headquarters to celebrate a rally there just reflect though on what the houses of Parliament is going to be like you’ve been there quite some time I mean some of these really big names have gone it’s a huge shift isn’t it that we’ve seen overnight is huge and I think everyone can can see that remember I first got elected in 1997 when there was another big change when there was another Big labor majority and it was the liberal Democrats on so many issues who held uh the labor party to count on everything from the Iraq War if you remember that um to actually increasing spending in our schools and our hospitals so we have a treat record on the opposition benches of holding a labor government to account pushing them harder we’re going to keep doing that okay so Davy thank you very much for joining us this morning thank you and congratulations Vicki let’s uh reflect on the size the the scale of what has happened overnight yeah I mean it is hard to overestimate what’s happened and that’s partly because you know sakir starma is the only the second politician to win 400 seats in the House of Commons the first of course being Tony Blair but in some ways his achievement is even greater than that because he was coming from so far behind you know it really wasn’t that long ago uh that Jeremy Corbin LED labor to a terrible electoral defeat and he has managed to turn that around and then come out with a huge majority and then on the other side of it too this complete and utter rejection of the conservatives former cabinet minister today saying it was electoral Armageddon uh and they will be obviously looking at what went wrong there but most of them have said to me privately that they don’t feel that the rot set in with rishy sunak the rot set in a long time before that and it’s going to take an awful lot of soul searching for those that are left and there won’t be that many to decide which direction the party goes in after that Jeremy Hunt though surprised he didn’t a lot of people didn’t think he’d still be there liberal Democrats which was sort of on their list at the high end of it yeah they they didn’t quite get that one yeah he’s still going to be around I mean he stood to be leader a couple of times and hasn’t got it now whether he’s going to want to do that again but he is someone with experience we were talking earlier about all those politicians who have lost their seats and all those big figures some that are in the cabinet uh were in the cabinet and and some that were formerly in the cabinet they’ve all gone you know they’ve lost a huge amount of experience there and deciding what they do next this place is going to feel and look very different isn’t it and the smaller parties you know we talked you know the greens with more seats uh reform UK you know with seats those people with voices you know in Parliament um you know not a huge number of MPS but it does change the debate in that place Vicky for now thank you very much indeed don’t go anywhere you’re stay there you’re not allowed well we’re joined Now by The Shadow education secretary Bridget philipsson um will you be education secretary by the end of the day well that’s a matter for k i it would be the privilege of my life to serve as education secretary in a labor government and all will unfold in the hours to come what has the night been like for you it’s been an extraordinary night but most importantly an historic moment for our country where after 14 years of all of the chaos and division that we’ve experienced all of the turbulence it’s a chance for us uh to turn a corner and I am determined that we will Usher in a new era of Hope and optimism for our country and we know that means we’ve got to get on and deliver on what people have voted for they’ve put their trust in us that is a big responsibility and we’re determined to repay that trust and a huge job to do absolutely absolutely um I mean it’s clear kind of right across the country when we’ve been out campaigning the scale of the challenge um both in terms of what people see in their day-to-day lives whether that’s NHS waiting lists uh fewer police on our streets the fact that our schools are under enormous pressure but that’s why the commitments we’ve set out are areas where we’re confident that we can get to work on delivering from day one and we’ll be judged on our record and how we make those promises real CH change is what you promised absolutely how quickly can you deliver that change well the first steps that we set out during the course of that campaign will crack on and we’ll get to work on that straight away but I think people do recognize that our country is in a pretty difficult State at the moment that’s why ik Kia has talked about a decade of national renewal but we know that people have put their trust in us we’re determined to make sure that politics is once more about the service of our country and that’s the responsibility that has been entrusted to us uh over the last 24 hours talk about a decade less than 5 years ago we were sitting here and Boris Johnson was potentially looking at a decade in power and now look at the number of seats the conservatives have got and look at the size of your majority it shows how volatile the electorate is these days you might not have that long to to make people happy no uh that’s why we’re determined to get on with the job straight away and make a difference you worried about people’s impatience I think all of us should reflect on the volatility that is clearly there you know we we overturned thanks to K st’s leadership and a a big result for the conservatives in 2019 and I think it is Testament to Kia’s leadership that he’s put the labor party back in the service of working people once more and people have put their trust in us and I do think it is extraordinary that we have been able to win seats that we’d never previously held before they have never had labor mpes in all of their history whether that’s banur or Hexum that is an enormous and historic night for us an enormous number of seats a big increase in seats but when you look at the share of the vote it’s only up a little bit on four and a half years ago under Jeremy Corbin we’ve run a fantastic campaign and I’m really proud of everyone who’s been involved in delivering that and we know the system that we have how the electoral system in our country works and we’ve secured broad support right across our country yes here in England but also in Wales and Scotland too and I think that gives us that mandate that Coalition where we can bring our country together once more and put an end to all of the division that we’ve seen and focus on unifying our Nations but how much of a mandate that that figure there at the top of the list of Labor votes that turn out 35% of the electorate voted for you yesterday how much of a mandate is that well it’s on the basis of seats that we fight our elections and on how many MPS are sent here to westmin and we have secured an enormous mandate we do not take that for granted for one second we take absolutely nothing for granted and we know that in the weeks and months to come we’ve got a really big job in demonstrating that people’s trust uh is rewarded and that we have demonstrated the the real and tangible change right across our country a very fractured electorate now though isn’t it I think what you’ve seen in some parts of the country is a determination to get the conservatives out and there is a real rejection of the conservatives right across the country I do have to say and I’ve campaigned in lots and lots of seats a real enthusiasm for labor we’ve won in seats that we have never previously in hundreds of years they have never elected labor MPS and yesterday people there voted for the very first time to return labor mpes to Westminster do you think though with these numbers that you have the mandate to be radical I mean I think it’s fair to say you and a lot of your colleagues have been pretty Ki about some of the things you want to do you’ve talked there about the problems you think that the country is facing lots of people watching this will be looking at universities for an example something that’s going to be on in your int immediately if you become education secretary you know what are you going to do about that about tuition fees will there be Public Funding for universities who there are lots of people worried that some of them are about to go under so I don’t want to get ahead of myself um in let’s assume let’s assume you’re going to I mean I hope I have that privilege but um but these are all matters for our new prime minister um we need to understand exactly what’s going on the The Challenge from opposition is that you don’t have access to the same level of Treasury modeling it’s harder to get a sense of what we do know set you know from what the office for students for example have said is that there was a real issue around regulation that a number of our universities are facing serious challenge we will need to stabilize that sector but as we’ve made clear in throughout the campaign and in our manif Manifesto excuse me everything that we’ve set out will be has been fully funded and fully costed I think it is important for trust in politics that we deliver on those commitments that we have made and we are determined to stick to those whether that’s more police on our streets cut NHS waiting times more teachers in our classrooms big changes that would make a real difference to people’s lives one of the one of the things you have from is there 6 and a half thousand new teachers people watching now this morning parents who are worried about their children in school how quickly can they see those changes because obviously you’ve got to recruit new teachers that takes time they’ve got to be trained and they’ve got to be paid for well if I’m fortunate enough to be education secretary later today um I’ll begin that work and the first step that we will take in making sure we’ve got more teachers in our classrooms is to reset that relationship between government and schools and our brilliant teachers and support staff for far too long they have been treated with a lack of respect they haven’t been appreciated or valued for the work that they’re doing and they haven’t had a government that has acted on the very real concerns they are raising around workload Around The Wider pressures that too many of our children and families face and that’s why in our Manifesto we set out commitments around Universal free breakfast clubs for example around making sure we’re tackling the really big housing challenges that lots of families are facing because what teachers tell me and the many schools I visited across the country is that if you could deal with some of those wider pressures they could better focus on driving up standards in teaching and that’s what I would want the support teachers to do but do you think you just how quickly are you going to be able to do that we’ll start that immediately and that process of change and a reset of that relationship will begin this afternoon it’s interesting isn’t it looking at constituencies all over the country some of the seats You’ve Won you’ve won them but the majorities are very small there are a lot of very marginal seats right across the UK is that a bit unnerving despite the headline figure of the majority I mean part of that is because we’ve won seats Beyond even our Battleground seats we’ve won seats that even in our wildest imagination we thought maybe were a stretch too far what those seats we’ll now have is a labor MP every day fighting their Corner working hard raising concerns here and the responsibility that you have when you’re elected as a member of parliament is a really big one but it’s also an opportunity to demonstrate to the people that have sent you here that that trust um is to be rewarded and you know should our successful candidates be able to do that I’m sure they’ll be fighting a really strong campaign for re-election in four or five years time it is quite an extraordinary turnaround for the fortunes of your party isn’t it I mean four and a half years since saki stama became leader did you ever think he could achieve something like this I always believe that the labor party uh could be turned around even in the darkest moments when I stood on that St same stage I was on uh just yesterday in 201 19 I knew we could do it but it has taken K starma to achieve that it is a remarkable achievement it is Testament to his leadership that we’ve gone from one of our worst defeats to one of our best ever victories um but we we are aware of the enormity of that responsibility and we will work every single day to demonstrate to the British people that we respect that and we will make the change that happen that they have voted for how does it work for you at a personal level today I mean if you got your phone in your pocket is it on vibrate are you waiting for a call is that on vibrate well you know you just said there that you just said there that this is uh you know a big turnaround in our fortunes we’ve spent 14 years in opposition and I’ve spent I’ve had 14 years with the enormous privilege to represent my constituents but I’ve not had the chance to be part of a government where we can really make change happen and that’s that’s all I want to see I want a labor government that improves the lives and living standards of working people right across our country well Bridget Phillipson stay with us for now we’ve got the former conservative party chairman Brandon Lewis who has joined us what happened oh I mean it’s uh it’s a dreadful night for conservatives there’s no getting away from it this is a a the worst result we have seen in over a century so and I think possibly the worst result the modern conservative party has ever seen and we can’t shy away from that you know labor fought a strong campaign they’ve they’ve got a result um and we’re going to have a government now that needs to deliver for the country and I know that there’s a lot of good people in Parliament of all parties who will want to see that happen uh we’ve got to as a party now take some time I think and have a look at the results there’s some interesting and varied results across the country labor lost a few seats there’s been this this challenge for us around reform that’s been talked about very heavily but also against the livb Dems and their very different ideological battle so there’s a real conserv part has got to do some real thinking you glad you didn’t stand well no in the sense that you know I on a personal for colleagues who have lost their seat and there will be colleagues who have won tonight who will have a guilt complex about having won with so many colleagues and some very good people have lost their seats but that’s politics and you know we all know that when we get into the game I say for me having done you know between Council and Parliament 25 years elected 10 of them in government five and a half in cabinet I took a view some time ago that um it was time for me to go and remind my family a bit of what I look like your seat in Great Yarmouth has gone to reform yes yeah a big and and one of the things we’ve seen reform in just a few weeks has gone from nowhere to a result where in great yth they’ve come first we’ve come third uh my volunteers and and activists on the ground started to see this during the course of this morning they could see what was happening on the doorsteps how people react in greats an area where we bucked the trend in the local elections and held the council last year we campaign we know our elector and they could see it happening on the doorsteps even this morning actually in fact conservatives didn’t only lose your own seat they were in third place reform won it labor in second uh the Conservative candidate share of the vote uh down by 41% I mean how much of this was a bad campaign do you think as a former conservative chairman well I can’t pretend it was a good campaign it sort of started and ended in the rain and in between I I I’d run out of fingers listing things that you look at as an outsider almost to the campaign and think why are we doing why have you called why would you call an election when you’re 20 points is there I can’t think of it anybody in the western Democratic world who as a leader has been that far behind in the polls and called an election they don’t need to so the timing of the election the some of the decisions were made and a lot of negative campaign you I have a very basic view I think people you should be asking people to go and vote which is a positive thing and you got to give them a positive reason to do that I too much of this campaign we have spent too much time talking about why not to vote for somebody else rather than a positive reason to vote so I think there’s a whole range of things and some of which has been covered about mistakes that have been made D-Day things it all adds up and it builds up on after 14 years in government none of that helps do you have any advice for Bridget Phillipson now who is uh stepping into Power the one thing I would say look brid doesn’t need a advice from somebody who’s leaving Parliament obviously you want to beware of that the one thing I would say though is with a vote share such as labor have got and and that doesn’t take anything away from the victory that they have got they have won and they’ve won fair and square with the system we have with a vote share like that and the the discrepancies we’re seeing with some of the independent votes and the green vote the reform vote I think there’s a message for all politicians that the public and the low turnout overall in some seats it’s a message to politicians you need to deliver because the public is is is running out of patience with politicians rich is there any advice you’d like to give back to Brandon about how to rebuild the party after a bad loss I mean a lot of what um Brandon’s saying there in terms of the result tonight I remember reflecting on back in 2019 and the decision that we took in the labor party in 2019 was to look outwards to the country not inwards on ourselves and that’s the the change that K starma has delivered and that’s when parties win when they’re focused on the priorities of the people not looking inwards and you know throughout this campaign we’ve put uh we’ve put country ahead of party Brandon I suppose for the conservative party this morning it’s which conservative party which branch of the conservative party is the party overall going to become now it’s it’s divided massively isn’t it yeah look and I’m a conservative through and through and I I was an association chairman and volunteer before I was an MP and party chairman I had a huge honor of doing that and sector State roles what I would say to my colleagues who in Parliament and my my family in the conservative party is that there is a there is a thought process now around I think it’s risky to go chasing the reform vote because you can’t out reform reform but you’ve also got to be conscious that we’ve lost a lot of seats to Liberal Democrats as well and they’re very different ideologies my core message to conservative party is we best when we are united as one party the infighting we’ve seen for far too long is damaging and as labor saw themselves and over the last few years have rectified that we have got to come together as a party unite and focus on what we can do for the country rather than fighting each other it is extraordinary what has happened overnight isn’t it and you look at for example the all the prime ministers the Tory Prime Ministers from the last 14 years apart from riak all those seats have gone haven’t they overnight who do you blame for this we’ve all got culpability we’ve all played a part I mean I’ve been in government since 2010 so um well in government since 2012 but in Parliament since 2010 we all have some culpability but I think ultimately the I think there’s a whole range of things you go back to as I said I think when you look at how a polling has been affected sometimes bad decisions in terms of policies can have an impact on polls but nothing affects our poll rating as much as infighting in the conservative party there’s been far too much of that for far too long the party has to unite on we we’re looking at pictur is there of cchq and Downing Street we’re going to see rishy sunak shortly uh leave he will go back to Downing Street um and then obviously go to the Palace where he will tender his resignation your your thoughts for him today well a human level it’s going to be he I would say that Rishi will will feel this I mean he took responsibility for E count last night I think you’ll see that again today I think he is somebody who will take responsibility and recognize that he is the leader he is the prime minister he made this decision he has to own that decision uh but this is the buildup of of a lot of things there have been a lot of issues that I think not not just 14 years in government there is a cycle to life and politics I think but uh there’s been a whole range of things through the campaign itself but equally if you look at the campaign the gap between the parties at the end of the campaign in the beginning for all the issues that happened during it hasn’t really shifted much changed though would it have made any difference if he’d waited until the Autumn the difference of waiting till the Autumn is he would have had a bit more time to do a few things he’d have also been in a position where he has given it everything for as long as he could to do what he can to get a better result we’ll never know my point is just that he made the decision to go now so that is his decision and talking of which what about his decision he did time where let’s be frank the party wasn’t ready we had 200 candidates roughly not selected should he go now as leader should he walk out of the job imminently or should he stay in place for a few months the uh the next leader the contest to uh to take form well as having been chairman and having been through leadership contest and run a leadership contest as chairman uh there is a process to this so he needs to remain as leader to give time for the party to go through that process to select a leader so I think you will find that today when he resigns as prime minister he will set out what he sees as being the timeline and the party board as it is uh will meet probably next week and then set out a formal timeline so he will remain I would imagine you’ll see as leader because think well there’s no process if for if the party leader can only appointed by the parties it has to go through that process who should that party leader be do you think well we’re going to have to see you know the first stage that is the parliamentarians have to choose the final two and then our members have a vote so parliamentarians generally can do that relatively quickly I suspect you’ll see that in the next few weeks potentially certainly before the end before the summer recess but we’ll see what the 1922 committee decides and then it will go to our members and that that goes around the country that takes a little bit of time but I think we’ll see a new leader in the next few months Brandon thank you very much for coming in to talk to us this morning you are watching election 2024 so much has happened overnight it is time now for the news where you are good morning and welcome to BBC London’s general election special I’m Lux M goal labor have made significant gains across London the liberal Democrats have increased their number of MPS as well while the conservatives have clung on to nine seats as it stands with just one more seat to declare in the capital labor have 58 eight the conservatives have nine and the libdems have six Jeremy Corbin also won as an independent in Islington North our political correspondent car merer has more a winning welcome for a winning leader K starma seeing the country and the capital go a wider spread of red they won in former conservative heartlands like here in Beckham there were victories too in neighboring Beckley Heath and in Westminster I’m Rachel Blake and I’m cities London and westmin MP how does it feel to say that uh that’s the first time I’ve said it um so I’m very I take the responsibility very seriously they won as well in Finchley and gold as green in chipping Barnet in Kensington and in Chelsea and Fulham where former Minister for London Greg Hans lost his seat there was defeat though to their former leader Jeremy Corbin who easily won his link to North the seat he’s represented for more than 40 years I couldn’t be more proud of my constituency than I am tonight I’m proud of our team that brought this result thank you very much Islington North for the result that we’ve achieved tonight thank you the lib demons were celebrating a good night in the capital building once again in their strongholds in the southwest and picking up Wimbledon for the first time what I remember is losing in 2019 that’s the thing I remember and that spurred us on for 5 years well from very workingclass background dad’s scaf mom’s a cleaner grew up in a council house they’re still Council tenants to this day and I don’t see enough of that in politics I think the public don’t see enough of that in politics as well and I I feel like I want to go in there and be a voice for families like mine the conservatives did hold on to some seats they thought they might lose here in Harrow East and in chingford where their former leader Ian Duncan Smith won 17,28 the labor vote split after they replaced their candidate just weeks before the election I know that we’re going to be so disappointed to have being and Duncan Smith all over again and be disappointed knowing that we could have won if it hadn’t been for the lies if it hadn’t been for the what labor party did to why do you think um conservatives aren’t connecting with londoners well I think the trouble is we’ve forgotten about working for people in the communities I’ve worked relentlessly for people here my record of success from getting a new Hospital built right the way through to getting rid of antisocial Way fighting about the closure of the broad me Road Bridge these are everyday issues for people here and it’s important therefore that people MPS focus on that so the new prime minister is a London MP and a labor one during May’s maral campaign sadique Khan said that would mean a better deal for the capital his opponent back then says now we’ll see if that’s true sadik Khan has spent his entire time blaming the conservative government that he can’t do this he can’t do that well he won’t have anybody to blame although I respect he’ll still try well I think K’s right to talk about a long-term plan I think he needs two terms we’ll be I’ll be working with him straight away I’ve already been in tou with him today I’ll make sure that you know with a labor government uh me as the mayor uh is working as closely with them as possible now we’ll be able to find out labor is as strong in London as it has ever been and has a national government with a huge majority car Mercer BBC London well let’s go live now to our reporter Paul Murphy Casp for more well yes so we’ll start with the 2019 general election 5 years ago this is how London looked we had 49 labor MPS 21 conservative MPS and three liberal Democrats now if we look at how that looks on a map you can see there is quite a big chunk of London that is red some blue pockets as well especially around the suburbs and then a little pocket of yellow of the libdems in the southwest now if we wipe that map clean and then start fresh with 2024 two more constituencies added to it this is how things currently look at the moment we’ve got one constituency still to declare which is henden but if you look at the rest of it we’ve still got great big chunks of London which are red for labor we’ve got now six libm MPS and we’ve still got some pockets of conservative MPS around the edge the one main thing though of course uh Jeremy Corbin still has the isling to North seat but it’s no longer for labor it’s an independent seat now if we have take a quick look at the numbers 58 at the moment for labor nine for the conservatives six for the libdems and that one independent Jeremy Cor Paul thank you elsewhere in our region in Su the conservatives have held on to godling and Ash Jeremy Hunt’s seat the lib Dems made gains in woking s Heath Guilford ishan Walton and epan in hartfordshire Grant shaps lost his seat to labor they also took the seat of HL Hempstead and harpenden and berkhamstead has gone from conservative to libdem while the Tories held on to hsir in Essex labor took the thoret seat from the conservatives they also won both constituencies in south end and one in harow they the conservatives held on to basilon and brenford and in Chelmsford the liberal Democrats were celebrating success there BBC London will keep you up to date with the latest throughout the day Eddie Nestor is live on BBC Radio London there he is through to 10:00 this morning with all the results and reaction from across the capital and if you want to find the specific results for where you live you can head to the BBC News website or the news app where there’s a postcode Checker that you can use very handy there uh there’s plenty more on our website of course as I said now though it’s time to go back to Sophie and John live in Westminster [Music] goodbye welcome back to Westminster on a very busy morning uh we can take you now live to Downing Street the still prime minister rishy sunak has uh arrived there a short time ago you can see there all the media lining up because uh the Prime Minister as he still is will be making some last comments last remarks speaking for his last time as prime minister we think in Downing Street in a short time Vicky young what what is actually going to happen this morning yeah I mean this really is an example isn’t it of what is a pretty brutal Handover of power in this country uh he has just discovered that he has kept his own seat but he is going to no longer be prime minister so he will leave uh today now some of these timings are subject to some change they always are but roughly we think he will make a statement at around 10:30 this morning before traveling to Buckingham Palace where he has his audience uh with the King and then of course the Handover happens uh the labor leader will then make his journey to Buckingham Palace before coming back to Downing Street and uh making his statement later on and then of course you know government moves on those cabinet ministers we were talking to earlier will no longer be cabinet ministers the new cabinet will be appointed we expect that uh to happen uh this afternoon uh and Richie sight just said to say he has just been to conservative central office that’s the headquarters that would have been a very very difficult moment um for him he has led the party to a disastrous election result and of course when you talk to the people that yesterday were MPS conservatives I spoke to you know not only have they lost their jobs but their staff we’re talking about hundreds of people who would have lost their job overnight and he will of course have have spoken to them about all another another Resident of uh Downing Street Jeremy Hunt though actually is uh still got his job he’s still an MP he was seen a short early this morning wasn’t he going in through a back door I think yeah that’s right so he of course lives at number 11 uh next door uh the chancellor um and holding on really when so many others around him didn’t uh he clung on there um and for him as well as um Rishi sunak you know their families live in these places as well so they are leaving uh their homes they are moving out and by this afternoon there will be other people uh taking those positions so it really is a very Swift uh turnover of power rishy sunak really doesn’t have much luck with the weather does he I have I’m trying to find out from his people what his plan is um we’re assuming it will be with an umbrella uh this time who knows uh it may not be a particularly long address uh again these things are you know difficult he probably hasn’t got an awful lot still to say you know he’s had a lot to say during the election campaign he’s going to make some personal decisions about whether he stays on and you’re talking there with Brandon Lewis about whether he stays on as the conservative party leader and for how long again uh it’s quite a difficult thing to do you remember that Gordon Brown didn’t stay on as leader he handed it over to a caretaker to Harriet Harmon John Major did stay on for a few weeks it means of course they potentially have to do prime minister’s questions in the House of Commons where basically theyve flipped over uh positions so Richi cite would have to go there as leader of the opposition and quiz Kier starma after this terrible election result from him so we’ll have to see whether he decides to do that the plea from a lot of those conservatives who’ve lost their seats and the ones who are left is that they want to have some kind of sort of smooth transition to whoever the new leader is going to be uh in the conservative party that race of course uh still to come over the coming months somebody who does have an umbrella is Laura curg and she has hot footed it from the studio she is now in Downing Street for us and uh can tell us a bit more about what is going to be happening this morning Laura should you be in bed that’s right Sophie well no I’m going to go to bed later I mean when events like this are unfolding that might have the potential to change everybody’s lives we can s sleep a bit later on but you’re right is absolutely tipping it down and the umbrella or no umbrella debate is Raging already here in Downing Street I understand that both sides the conservatives and the labor party have had discussions about whether they’ll be in or out for the statements I’m sure that richy sunak team would absolutely not want to have a repeat of that disastrous election launch when he just stood there getting wetter and wetter and wetter and then during the campaign well things went from bad to worse so I’m sure that his team who believe that he tried to do the right thing who believe that he tried to do everything right we could just seeing pictures of him leaving conservative headquarters actually should we just listen in to see if there is any straight comment from RI sunak or if he’s just going to dive straight into the car oh he’s diving straight into the car outside conservative Campaign Headquarters a historic place in the last few elections where they enjoyed such success but as richy sunak leaves conservative Campaign Headquarters sweeping through in a couple of Range Rovers no words and barely a sight from him so we’ll expect him back here at Downing Street sometime soon and then if it stops raining perhaps outside at the lecturn if it doesn’t stop raining well then I suspect that they might choose to do his statement inside but yet it promises this morning to be at Downing Street a morning of momentous occasions you know we change Prime Ministers after elections in the most brutal ways right in front of everybody’s eyes it’s quite the way to get your p45 you just wonder how riak will have been received in cchq as it’s known Tory party headquarter because there are many people in there who believe that he and his close team ran the campaign in a very poor way didn’t include lots of expertise from the party and all in all this is a dreadful morning for the conservatives and Laura an interesting speech uh when he won his seat in North Yorkshire from Richi sunak where he said that when he’s done the formalities today and he’s effectively handed in his resignation to the king he will then go back to his constituency calling that home and saying that uh well he was talking about the years ahead wasn’t he no apparent intention of of walking away from politics immediately well that’s right he repeated though John something that he had had to say during the campaign that he would stay on as his local MP and he’s talked often of his fondness for North Yorkshire it was a new part of the world to him and his family when he was first elected not so long ago but he says they now regard as home says he’s looking forward to the Privileges of carrying on as a constituency MP the much more Awkward political question for the Tories today is how long does he stay on for the party leader so as I think you were talking about with Vicki a few minutes ago there’s a few ways of doing it does he walk straight away kind of leave them in the Lurch which maybe he feels like he’s had enough and perhaps his Deputy oliv D who held his seat with acting Deputy Prime Minister maybe he could take over be a caretaker spare she soon act the humiliation of having to swap sides with K starmer in the House of Commons and ask the opposition’s questions at Prime Minister’s questions or does he do what some people in the party would think would be the right thing not walk away straight away come out here today or perhaps tell people inside Downing Street that he will stay on for a while as a kind of caretaker prime minister until the conservative party can elect a new leader can get its act together but I think there’s a long way perhaps until that is resolved because those decisions are made by a powerful group of Tory back benches the 1922 committee along with the men in Gray suits yes they really do exist they will have to get together in the coming days and decide what the rules of a leadership campaign will be the problem is lots of them have gone some of them stood down like s gr Brady who used to be the chair of the 1922 committee so it is not clear how the party proposes not just to get themselves back together but how do they propose to find a new leader and agree that process now I know actually conversations about how to do that have been going on for some time in very small select groups of people so it will not be the first time this morning that conservative Grandes perhaps some party donors are on the phone or in a room H huddle together trying to work out what to do next but until we know how that plan is going to shape up it’ll be hard to know exactly how long Rishi sunak is going to serve as the party leader what we do know for sure is that in a matter of hours his Service as the country’s prime minister comes to an end and Lor of course number 10 is is the home of the British prime minister but it’s also the headquarters of government isn’t it the Civil Service are based there that’s where the country is run from so what are all those civil servants up to this morning as they prepare for a new boss a new government uh this very rapid transition in power well huge preparations I mean frantic preparations really now partly because labor has been ahead in the polls so convincingly for such a long time before the election itself but also because it’s a normal matter of business what has happened in the last couple of months actually is some quite extensive conversations between the shadow teams as they are known the opposition’s teams whether they’re looking after health education defense or the for office they’ve had a series of meetings with civil servants saying okay here are our plans we want you to understand them how would we go about it as quickly as we can if we are lucky enough to be elected and as I understand it that process is really quite Advanced that said I don’t think anything can really prepare a group of politicians who are used to fighting as opposition who are used to fighting for airtime who are used to fighting to get the Public’s attention who are us to fighting to get their arguments across I don’t think anything can really prepare people for the move from that to a group of people who are suddenly making decisions that will affect all of our lives and one of the officials who’s been involved in the transitions said to me look what happens on days like this is that they come in exhausted elated politicians they’ve worked so hard to get here and then actually civil servants have to sit them down and say okay what do you want to do about this what do you want to do about that here are your options we’d like a decision prime minister and I don’t think however studious you are however serious you are about the job however as kir starma has done running the criminal prosecution service the crime prosecution service rather he’s run a big government operation during his experiences doing that as the leader of the CP CPS before he became an MP but I don’t think all of that preparation could really get anyone ready for that human moment where you walk through that door into the biggest job of your life that you have spent years fighting giving everything to get and then suddenly the moment is arrived Laura as for your options now you’re there you’re going to have to stay there in the rain I’m afraid we’re going to keep you there to follow every twist and turn of the next hour or so but we will come back as soon as there any sign of Activity thank you for now Laur very very heavy the rain now actually isn’t it I mean you can really hear it here in our studio be very interesting to see what happens when rishy sunak does come out shortly uh for the last time in Downing Street well we’re joined here in the studio by Greg Jackson the business world the CEO and founder of octopus Energy Group that’s a global energy technology company we want to get your reaction from the business world to this new labor government what do you make of it yeah I mean I’ve spoken to a couple of dozen uh Business Leaders over the last 24 hours and um unanimously uh what they talked about is looking forward to stability it’s easy to forget just how um kind of the UK has not had this kind of stable vision of where we can go uh and then I think particularly in our sector you know one of Labor’s five missions was about green growth and I think uh you know it’s uh really uh important that voters backed uh this idea that we can deliver you know for example cheaper Greener energy um by investing in it and so I think a stable uh business environment a stable political environment will help unleash capital in our sector and you know I spoke to uh CEO of a bank you know said look we’re looking forward to be able to build houses so I think what labor needs to do now is hit the ground running with a lot of the reforms things like planning reform so we can build this infrastructure there’s hundreds of billions of pounds ready to be invested in the UK we just need to be able to do it and the key is to do it quickly for you isn’t it yeah I think the problem is um in politics things can get bed down and there’s never a better moment than right at the beginning to make big changes but the quicker they make the changes the quicker we can uh deploy this Capital the quicker we can start to be creating jobs Bringing Down the cost of energy and you know Bringing Down the cost things like housing they were criticized labor weren’t they uh months ago during the campaign for not being bold enough on Net Zero for for scaling back their Ambitions do you wish now do you think they should have been Bolder given the size of this majority we’re looking at hey I think they’re bold enough you know look you you saw this attempt to make Net Zero a culture war and it hasn’t worked I mean the greens also did very well last night so what you see really is that um you know labor one of their top five pledges was about green growth because what we know is that investment in green energy creates three times more jobs than investment in fossil fuels uh if we’d had more green energy uh during the energy crisis our bills would have been billions of pounds lower and I think voters know this and I’m so glad to see that Britain is leading the way again in being able to deliver this kind of Cheaper more secure system and I really hope that we get the reforms that let us build the infrastructure where people want it to bring bills down and bring down the cost housing you entirely sound like you’re convinced that you will get what you want quickly first of all the stability of a large majority is really going to help labor spent a lot of time in the runup to the election speaking to businesses and I think that dialogue gives us a lot of confidence actually that we will see this change I think the the thing is though it has to happen quickly because what we know is that um if we move quickly now the next 5 years can see real growth and that growth will help create you know the tax dividends that will pay for the NHS they’ll help create the jobs that we need to uh reduce inequality in society so uh no we’re confident but you know our advice is be brave and be fast Greg Jackson from octopus thank you very much indeed for for coming in thank you thank you good morning labor have won a landslide victory in the general election on a dramatic night in British politics we did it it is a spectacular turnaround for sakir st’s party less than 5 years after their worst result in almost a century today we start the next chapter begin the work of change the of national renewal and start to rebuild our country the Tories are set for the worst result in their history with the former prime minister Liz truss and eight cabinet ministers among those losing their seats the British people have delivered a sobering verdict tonight there is much to learn and reflect on and I take responsibility for the loss we will be bring you the very latest live from Westminster on a day of huge change with just a handful of seats left to declare celebrations for the liberal Democrats returning 71 seats and becoming the third largest party in the Commons you have helped us get our best results for over 100 years a difficult and damaging night for the SNP according to Scotland’s first Minister down to just 8 MPS as labor regains dominance in Scotland niga farage becomes an MP on his eighth attempt as reform UK win four seats taking large numbers of votes from the conservatives and the greens now have four or MPS with the party’s co-leader taking Bristol Central from a senior labor politician in Wales labor one back a string of seats completely wiping out the conservatives with ply cry winning four and in Northern Ireland Shin Fain has won the most seats for the first time but significant losses for the Democratic unionist party including Ian Paisley in North ANM a seat that’s been held by his family for more than 50 years is [Music] welcome back to Westminster as the last few results come in after an extraordinary night we now know that it is indeed a labor Landslide after 14 years in opposition a spectacular turnaround in fortunes for sakir st’s party I think we’ve just got five more results to go in the next few hours but beyond that it is a day of huge change a day of transition of power sunak is back in Downing Street just up the road from here at the moment essentially packing his bags we’re expecting to hear from him in the next hour or so before he heads to bucking and Palace for an audience with the King and we’re going to be here all day right in the heart of the very wet action should be calling it wet Minster shouldn’t we this morning as the new labor government’s formed and as sakir sta then heads to the palace and he returns as our new prime minister with a forecast majority We Believe of 176 now we are right by the houses of Parliament and we will continue to talk to politicians old and new experts and advisers who are going to be looking back at an extraordinary night and also looking forward to what happens next overnight some of the most familiar faces in British politics have lost their seats the former prime minister Liz truss Jacob Reese mogs Grant shaps Penny Morant just among the few some of them might be coming to Westminster themselves this afternoon we’ll try and grab them because we are in the heart of the action here and not just here we’ve got a team of BBC presenters in all the key places Laura at Downing Street we’ve got our Royal team at Buckingham Palace we’re in Glasgow Belfast Cardiff we’re going to hear from voters right across the UK wherever you live however you voted whatever you think of the results on your screen right now we will guide you through everything as it happens live here on the BBC so as we now know labor has won the general election by a landslide s kir stama is set to become the next prime minister the party has gained its biggest majority since saton Blair’s Victory back in 1997 and at the expense of huge losses for the conservatives we’re going to look ahead but first uh grab a cup of tea and let’s bring you up to date and explain what has happened while you’re asleep 5 a.m. and enter the winner a new prime minister elect in just four years he’s taken labor from historic low to Landslide now we can look forward again walk into the morning the sunlight of Hope pale at first but getting stronger through the day shining once again on a country with the opportunity after 14 years to get its future back earlier reelected but knowing he’d LED his party to its worst ever election ConEd the labor party has won this general election and I have called Sak starma to congratulate him on his victory today power will change hands in a peaceful and orderly manner with Good Will on all sides you get out of but Goodwill was not on show a short time ago over rishy sunak heckled as he left conservative party headquarters in a rainy London some it seems Keen to see him gone and this too was not sober but humiliating Tim their slow hand clapping apparently there in kingslin if we can bring it up there we go and that must be for the candidate who is not on the stage a slow hand clap from those waiting for Rishi sunak predecessor as prime minister Liz trust there we go there she is on the stage on the right of the screen she sidled in to hear that she’d been voted out losing to labor the issue we faced as conservatives is we haven’t delivered sufficiently on the policies people want and that means keeping taxes low but also particularly on reducing immigration elected the first senior Tory to go was just after midnight Swindon South a labor gain Robert Buckland former Justice secretary a lonely walk to end a 14-year career as an MP angry he blamed infighting and incompetence for leaving his party so diminished I’m fed up of personal agendas and jocking for position you know the truth is now with the conservatives facing this electoral Armageddon it’ll it’s going to be like a group of bald men arguing over a con the liberal Democrats then outed the current Justice secretary Alex chalk and the education secretary Jillian Keegan Labour defeated Penny Morant one of the favorites to be a Tor leader and another one too the defense secretary Grant shaps we’ve tried the patience of traditional conservative voters with a propensity to create an endless political soap opera out of internal rivalries and divisions which have become increasingly indulgent and entrenched Jacob William Reese MOG Jacob Reese MOG lost his seat to labor all the while the Tory party chairman Richard Holden looked nervous by just 20 votes he scraped through doing the damage to the conservatives in seat after seat was reform Lee Anderson won in Ashfield 21,23 and Nigel farage finally after so many failed attempts elected MP for clack believe me folks this is just the first step of something that is going to stun all of you thank you very much and already C celebrating the liberal Democrats this was a record-breaking night for them too seizing dozens of seats from the conservatives to end with their highest tally ever it’s been a record-breaking night this is a historic step forward for the liberal Democrats we will now be the largest third party force in Parliament for over 100 years and I think our positive campaign resonated with people for the greens this was their best ever election from just one MP they now have for putting them on a par with reform in Westminster voters were not feeling particularly inspired by what starma labor party had to offer and I certainly heard that loud and clear on the doorstep here in Bristol uh in contrast people were really excited to vote for the real change and real hope in Scotland labor has scooped up seats from the SNP they had 45 now reduced to single digits in Northern Ireland a double shock Jim aliser of the traditional unionist defeated Ian Paisley Jr and shin Fain now have the most MPS here come out across the country and in monmouthshire another conservative loss to labor the Welsh secretary David TC Davies not a single Tory MP is left in Wales so this is Kia starmer’s moment to savor a time he said for the nation to start a new chapter Dam caticus BBC News well it really has been quite a night and some very big names some very big conservative names have gone 12 cabinet ministers already uh Christian Fraser can take us through exactly what has happened Christian soie we’re nearly there just five to declare three of those are in Scotland one of them is pool where they’ve just gone to the third recount and if you are the conservatives you need every seat you can get they’ve lost 2third of their seats overnight that is an implosion uh you can go back to Churchill in 45 you can go to balerin 06 in terms of vote share you can go all the way back to the great Reform Act you won’t find anything like this here are the big beasts who’ve gone a former prime minister a defense secretary an education secretary and look at the swings 26% 14% 31% these are extraordinary results what about this one penny Morant at the end Lord president of the privy Council such a steady hand at the coronation faltering stumbling in Portsmouth North to an ignominious defeat overnight Michelle Donlan the science secretary the veterans Minister Johnny merer and here are some other big names who have fallen through the night Jacob Reese MOG down there around Bristol Mark Harper the transport secretary the culture secretary in Cambridge also losing her seat for labor an extraordinary result this is comparable to Blair in 97 this was the situation in Wales and this this is what it looks like today an absolute Wipeout for the conservatives down here in monmouthshire the Welsh secretary gone the chief whip Simon Hart gone quite extraordinary they’re in control in Scotland the S SMP slumping we think on our forecast to 10 seats but here is a word of caution for labor let’s talk about vote share because this is the lowest vote share of any party that has won a majority period and it is lower than 2017 when Jeremy Corbin was defeated by the conservatives same note of caution for the liberal Democrats yes they’ve picked up 63 seats but their vote share is flatlining that is less than Charles Kennedy less than Nick CLE less than Patty Ashdown and when you look at it in terms of vote shareing those seats where conservatives were fighting labor or the liberal Democrats that is the big story of the night reform eating into the conservative vote in all these competitive seats I think John Curtis has already told us that if reform hadn’t been there then conservatives would have picked up 2third of the seats in which they were defeated and I’ll just leave you with this thought Sophie I think you’ve already mentioned it we’ve had four Prime Ministers since 2010 in the seats in which they sat so David Cameron in Whitney uh Boris Johnson in Henley and then in axbridge Theresa May in Maiden head and Liz trust down there in norfol Southwest all those seats have gone quite extraordinary Christian thank you it’s 13 minutes past 9 let’s go to Bristol shall we Bristol Central which was won by the greens and by kadena their co-leader good morning to you congratulations on your result in fact it wasn’t just there was it the greens have won a record four seats across the country wavy Valley North Herer and Brighton Pavilion you held on to as well you can be honest now the campaign’s over you said you were targeting four but did you really expect a win or four uh thank you uh thanks for having me on and thank you for the congratulations yeah we were targeting four we’re very open about how many we thought we could achieve and throughout the campaign I could see that four MPS was in reach but we were never totally sure that it was fully in our grasp because the results were looking like they might be close based on our door knocking data based on the conversations we were having on the doorsteps so we are absolutely delighted and really grateful to have the support of Voters across the those four constituencies that now have green MPS and across the country because we’ve also got uh a a record-breaking vote share nationally and a and a substantial number of strong second place positions as well and so everyone who voted green wherever you are you’ve helped strengthen the case uh and and make it easier for us the green MPS who have been elected to push the incoming labor government to be bolder on environmental matters and on making this country a fairer place and on a personal level I mean you have beaten the the labor candidate uh thanam deire who was in the shadow cabinet um quite a a huge achievement for you what do you put that down to well I think Bristol has really been a green City for some time I’ve had people saying to me that it felt like it was overdue a green MP so I think this was a long time coming we had a fantastically successful local election results for the greens with uh now 34 Greens on Bristol city council we we lead the council and it’s the largest group of green councilors that’s ever existed in the UK and while recognizing that local and general elections aren’t the same that clearly showed a direction of travel and an appetite amongst bristolian for more greens elected uh at all levels of government you say that uh you and the other three green MPS are going to push the new labor government but there are four of you more than 400 of them I mean how are you going to manage that push well you can look at the incredible outsized impact that Caroline Lucas had over her 14 years as green MP for Brighton Pavilion and imagine what we might be able to achieve now with a quadruple sized representation with a group of green MPS we can ask the questions put forward motions amendments through work in committees and generally through debate through public debate moving the Overton window so in other words moving the the envelope of what is politically possible putting things on the agenda and keeping up scrutiny on the labor government we’ll we’ll support them on areas where we agree but where we don’t think they’re going far far far enough we won’t be afraid to speak out you had candidates didn’t you in every seat I mean in a sense do you think that your message isn’t getting through enough given what is actually going on in the climate we’ve got you know record global temperatures do you think people aren’t taking you seriously enough well I I’m hugely grateful for the level of support we’ve had of course I would like to get more green MPS elected and eventually have Greens in government as is already the case in a number of European countries but we had to recognize where we were starting from as a small albeit rapidly growing party so yes we stood a Full Slate across England and well 574 candidates more than the conservatives even but we focused our campaigning effort on the four seats where we knew we had the greatest chance of winning getting from one to four quadrupling our representation but given the number of strong second places we got this time around who knows what we could achieve next time and the thing is because we’re in this climate emergency because it’s such an urgent situation Politics the climate couldn’t afford to wait it’s so important that we’ve got these green MPS elected now because the decisions made by this government will determine the trajectory the UK takes on climate and environment issues um and the greens will be there to hold Labor’s feet to the fire and make sure that they also do it in a fair way a way that puts the onus on those with the broadest shoulders and those that contributed most to climate change uh in terms of uh corpor polluting corporations um and adjusting the tax system that those are the kind of things we’ll be pushing the labor government on to try and get them to bring forward policies that meet everyone’s needs help with the cost of living crisis as well as the climate crisis we’re just watching Downing Street and whiteall all eyes on number 10 as we’re uh maybe expecting some movement there Jeremy Hunt we think will be leaving number 11 leaving his job as Chancellor in the next few minutes and of course after that Rishi sunak will leave number 10 and we’ll uh and we’ll head to the Palace to uh tell the Prime Minister that he is resigning so we’ll bring you that as soon as it happens but Carla can I just ask you because Sophie mentioned your seat in Bristol which is uh an inner city seat it’s got lots of students it’s a multicultural seat uh you’ve taken that from labor by a huge swing but you’ve also taken seats elsewhere in the country from the conservatives rural seats um what have you learned as a party in this election about how you you work politically across the UK going forward well I think these results have been a long time coming and I don’t claim any credit for it myself soly as co-leader um I think the party has really come of age you can see that in the last five local elections where we’ve increased our number of local councilors nearly fivefold and that has been in cities like Bristol but also in rural areas like suffk where my co-leader Adrian’s now been elected as an MP and we yes we’re picking up votes from across the political Spectrum different geographies and demographics because people can see that the green party is offering the common sense solutions to the problems we’re facing in this country for example the the absolute Scandal of sewage in our rivers and seas is something that everyone is upset about and yet the green part is the only party being honest enough to say that the the privatization experiment with the water companies has failed and it it’s Common Sense really because it’s a natural monopoly if you live in the Southwest you can’t choose to be supplied by Yorkshire water and so we’re saying the water companies should come back into public ownership so that our bills can go towards investing in the infrastructure rather than paying big CEO bonuses and shareholder payout payouts but the green party is the only party offering this policy so again there’s another example of a topic where we will be pushing the incoming labor government to open their minds and consider all the options kadena co-leader of the greens MP now newly elected for Bristol Central thank you for joining us I’m sure our colleagues at BBC Points West will let you lie down on their sofa if you need a bit of a snooze after a long night thank you the camera’s there on Downing Street we know that rishy sunak has returned to number 10 and inside number 11 is the chancellor the outgoing Chancellor Jeremy Hunt who held on to his seat uh many expected he wouldn’t but he did and we are expecting to hear him uh speak as he leaves Downing Street very shortly let’s go back to Laur runberg who is there waiting in the rain Laura Sophie there are a couple of good bit bits of news for the Tories this morning one bit of personal good news for Jeremy Hunt he managed to keep his seat so he’ll lose his job as the chancellor but he did manage to keep his sry seat only just but there is another good piece of rishy sunak this morning I’m just going to do this you can probably see it out of the shot putting my umbrella down because it has stopped raining so it does look like when Rishi sunak and Jeremy Hunt come out of Downing Street this morning they are at least not going to be met by a complete Deluge but we definitely get the sense here that there’s a bit of activity going on we’ve seen some bags being brought out of number 11 being packed into the boot of a people carrier that is literally how the transfer of power happens in this country so brutal the family belongings of two families today in Downing Street will be moved out I’m not sure Sophie we’re actually going to hear from Jeremy Hunt when he comes out of number 11 but we do expect in a couple of minutes that we’ll see him come out and of course reports the huge scrum not just of British reporters but International reporters here in Downing Street Banks and banks of cameras will try to shout questions to him because he is one of the most experienced conservatives now left in Parliament he says he doesn’t want to take another Tilt at the leadership but I think that he is somebody who we can expect to try to have a significant voice as the conservatives try to set about rebuilding after such a terrible terrible result I’m just keeping an eye on the door there cuz every time the door moves there’s a sort of collective massive nervous twitch here in Downing Street nobody wants to miss the shot nobody wants to miss the moment but it should be happening in just couple a couple of minutes not coming out with the Chancellor’s red box but coming out to say goodbye after a long long time in government for Jeremy Hunt he’s held all sorts of jobs health secretary for years and years foreign secretary for a while laterally the surprise Chancellor if you like he was brought in by rasheid sunak forgive me he was brought in by his trust to steady the ship after the disaster of her time in charge and then kept on by Rishi sunak as the two men sought to rebuild economic stability in this country but in the end that was not to bring them an election Victory it was not to give them another term in office Laura it’s interesting that during the campaign Jeremy Hunt was hardly seen was he on the on the national stage he decided to just pound the streets of his sorry cons consitency and try to cling on there and he did just by about a thousand votes um but it was interesting that in an election where everybody was talking about the economy the cost of living we didn’t really see the chancellor well that’s right and it is weird if you think about it in that big picture you know the conservatives like to tell people during the election that actually they had an improving record that actually inflation had fallen that actually they had helped people with huge amounts of cash to help pay their energy bills BS during the time when bills were just going up and up and up but because of their overall precarious political position Jeremy hun we didn’t see him nationally on our screens all the time because the voters of godling and Ash in Sur were seeing plenty of him banging on every single door visiting every village fet going to every single Nursery School Primary School any social Gathering going Jeremy Hunt was constantly posting pictures on social media of him and his family him and his Labrador out on the campaign Trail pressing the flesh trying to keep his votes also worth knowing he put an enormous amount of his own personal cash into his efforts to keep campaigning in his seat tens and tens and tens of thousands of pounds from his own bank account went into the campaigning efforts to help him hang on and he this morning is one of the very few big names that is left dozens and dozens of conservative ministers have gone those that you’ve been talking about already this morning Grant shaps Penny Moran Jacob ree smog people who have been fixtures of the conservatives terms in charge are now out they are no longer serving MPS they will not be part of political life in the way they have been for a while feels really like it’s a whole generational clear out but Jeremy Hunt is one of the last men standing let’s talk to Vicki while we stay on these pictures as well I mean it is brutal isn’t it it’s abs absolutely brutal as moment in politics when we see well Jeremy Hunt and then Richie sunak leave their jobs their homes goodbye yeah it’s just overnight that’s it now look looking at the polls they had a pretty good idea that this was coming Jeremy Hunt would obviously be relieved that he’s clung onto his seat but there are still important decisions for Rishi sunak to make about whether he stays on as leader of the conservative party he stops being prime minister he stays as leader of the conservative party he’s got to decide how long for and I know from speaking to former cabinet ministers that he is being urged to try and give a little bit of stability at this time when you know they haven’t been wiped out completely but this is a devastating uh um result for them you know they have no they have no seats in Wales they have one or two in very many regions of England they’ve never seen anything like it and there’s now going to be an awful lot of soul searching and arguments crucially arguments about what went wrong now there are some saying look Richi soon ran a bad campaign he stood out in the rain he he came back early from D-Day it goes far deeper than that yes they were they were tactical mistakes but there are many who feel that the rot set in a long time ago some even would go back to saying some of this is still about brexit some of this could be seen as the Revenge of the remainers all these years later then there was of course covid and party gate you know Boris Johnson’s friends say well things started going wrong after he left that’s not true the opinion polls for the Tories started dropping when he was still in power and then as one cabinet minister put it to me yesterday then after all of that economic competence was burnt at the stake by Liz truss and we have seen haven’t we today that her personal defeat in that incredibly safe conservative seat really does personify what has happened to this party and they will now have an enormous R about what went wrong who was to blame whether this means they need to embrace reform UK that they need to move to the right or as Brandon Lewis was saying to us earlier the fact they’ve lost so many seats to the liberal Democrats well you know moving to the right is not going to win those back they’ve got a real problem now about what they do and who takes them through that and just on a personal level for Richi sunak if he he’s got this decision to make about what he does next uh he says he’s going to stay on as an MP is he staying on as the leader but if he does just in the next few weeks what he will have to do pmqs uh The King’s Speech it will be humiliating for him yeah it is I mean you know people have approached this differently John Major did do it uh John Major appointed a very quick Shadow cabinet in which he was the Prime Minister he was the defense secretary he was the shadow foreign secretary so he took on quite a few of those roles um just as a as a brief interim you can do it like that and you can do prim’s questions and there were lots of people who say well that is the right thing to do for the party um but um Gordon Brown didn’t do that so he when he realized that the game was up that there was going to be a coalition between the Tories and the liberal Democrats he left straight away and they brought in a caretaker leader Harriet Harmon now some Tories are talking about that happening someone like James cleverly potentially he has kept his seat um still I think just about for you know the Home Secretary someone like that maybe they could do it for a while there are lots who don’t want to rush into the decision they feel that this needs a lot of um a lot of soul searching they really need to think of what they want to do next and the difference we’ve had a big churn haven’t we of Tory leaders but they were in government you know they were holding these leadership election campaigns while they were in government it was incredible Happ go to Downing Street Jeremy Hunt his family and the dog leaving number [Music] 11 I think that was the dog barking not the chancellor and this is a pattern we’ve seen before with the children of these senior politicians who are quite often shielded and quite understandably kept away from the cameras but we saw Gordon Brown do this didn’t we when he left that he came out with his wife and his children walking down the street and they’ve obviously decided uh to do that as well I don’t think we’ve seen the dog before have we I think that’s a new one as well we’ve seen the cat next door haven’t we I think Larry the cat might be might be happier one less dog around Jeremy Hunt happy to be an MP he probably wondered whether that would be the case even this morning CU he was fighting a very tight seat I he’s an incredibly experienced politician he’s been in cabinet for a very very long time under lots of different Prime Ministers and he will surely have quite a big influence over stabilizing the party maybe about its future direction as they decide what to do he’s now a grande he is he is now a grande and we don’t know whether he would try and go for the leadership again who knows what do you think it’s a tricky one he’s tried it hasn’t he twice and lost um I mean you never know I mean the fact that he fought so hard to stay as an MP you know that was a surprise to some people there were lots of others who decided not to stand pretty much knowing that their seat might be lost and they decided to not even fight the general election you know he made a very clear decision obviously to do that and uh has managed in that sense to pull that off so there the Chancellor’s car leaving Downing Street for the last time Jeremy Hunt and his family children and the dog the gates close behind them uh the rain does seem to have finally stopped it has been torrential here in Westminster which of course uh is very reminiscent of the day that Rishi sunak called this election I think it was 6 weeks and two days ago in that torrential rain only six weeks it’s only 6 weeks ago feels a lot longer uh I think Carol Kirkwood is joining us now for the latest on the weather because uh a lot of people have their eyes on what is happening in the skies above us uh Carol that’s right Sophie well the heaviest rain has now pulled away but it’s going to be fairly cloudy through the rest of the day with some pulite rain and drizzle on and off at times then later more rains coming so don’t put away your Broly just yet but interestingly enough we found had eight general elections since 1997 seven of them have been in the spring or indeed the summer and then it’s been fine the weather’s been great but unfortunately for the last one which was in December 2019 that was quite different so You’ seen pictures now of when Tony Blair entered Downing Street on the 2nd of May 1997 it was a warm day 27 Cel and that may was much sunnier actually than average but when David Cameron got elected in May in 2010 well that was a cooler day it was only 16° but may that year was sunnier than average and then it was Boris Johnson’s turn it was much cooler in 2019 when he became prime minister but it was of course December so you’d expect that the temperature was around 1 Celsius in places but it was also wet in parts of the UK with around 25 mm an inch of rain in some areas of the country and another couple of interesting facts was it was a really wet one in November 1935 when Stanley Baldwin became PM midlam Morgan and Devon had 62.2 millim of rainfall but the warmest one in St contrast was when Edward Heath was voted in in June 1970 it was 26.9 Celsius in Prestwick so it’s been very varied and you do wonder if the time of year is chosen specifically for the longer daylight hours and the better weather rather than the winter weather Carol and dog and dogs thank you very much indeed dogs dogs at polling stations day two disgraced me at the poing station barking and Howling and there were no photographs of my get some tips from Jeremy Hunt his was under control right so Vicki give us an idea what what is coming up in the next sort of hour or two big moments yeah and this is the sort of formal Handover of power if you like and it involves of course the king so we will have Rishi sunak going to the Palace he will say a few words in Downing Street first then he will go to the Palace uh and then very quickly after that uh Sak sto will make his journey there and then the reverse he comes back to Downing Street uh and makes uh his speech and then um we expect the cabinet to be appointed this afternoon we assume with the normal uh parade up the street uh as you know on these occasions you know the people who are getting the jobs come up the street of course on this occasion because it’s a new government um he won’t have to be sacking anybody and there are you know there were two losses actually un you know sort of unexpectedly really two members of The Shadow cabinet did lose their seats so there will be room for some promotions uh for some other people well talking of people who might be walking up that street this afternoon uh we have with us labors Peter Kyle the shadow science secretary are you expecting a call what a of question to ask I’m hoping uh of course I’m hoping I put my heart and soul into this campaign I’m really proud of the campaign uh I don’t think the Party Staff get mentioned often enough in these sorts of interviews but uh I’ve been working around the country and I’ve seen messaging I’ve seen targeting I’ve seen the kind of uh support for volunteers coming from the staff that I have never seen in politics before and that goes right to those people in the front line of politics right up to Kier and right now I am so proud of the leadership that Kier starm has shown the labor party he proed to the country that he could change our party get us fit for service and in doing so made us fit for a party of government it was an extraordinary night what was it like for you well uh like any politician on Election Day you’re out on the streets you’re meeting as many residents as possible uh I was down there in the city of Brighton and ho which is the constituency I represent and next door to me is Worthing where there were two seats that we were targeting where I’ve spending a lot of time in recent uh weeks and months uh we took both of those seats off the Tories the first time ever that those seats have not been Tory before for and that is a sort of traditional coastal town of the sort that I grew up in Bogner Regis just down the the coast to people who live in the Southeast it is quite mindblowing to think that places like Worthing are now turning so decisively to labor and it shows that the labor party under K starma has a central proposition which is magnetic and it is rooted in the priorities of the country and it has been broadened in all directions because we’ve taken seats uh in all different geographies we will be the first party in 23 years that is that has had a majority seats in both Wales England and Scotland so you can see what Kia has done as in leadership and I’m really proud of it at a time when you have won so many seats what do you think happened to thaam deaner the culture uh the shadow culture secretary Jonathan Ashworth who was so high-profile in this campaign they both lost their seats what do you happen what do you think happened there even when there’s a campaign that is historically successful as this one is there is still going to be so much learning from it so in those areas where we did lose really good people angam and and Johnny you know these are good hardworking people who have made a huge contribution not just to this campaign but to getting the labor party back to being as electable as it is now uh but we have to learn from these these areas where where this sort of stuff happened and we believe me we will you know just it was only like three years ago that we lost the heartley pool byelection K starma stood up and said we will listen we will learn and we will change we will do the same again because now the day the day after polling day when the results are still coming in even though it’s so decisive the politic the politics of our country will change today uh and it will change going into the future and what you’ve seen with Kia is the ability to politically be agile to think where the public need us to be as a as a party of government and to always make sure we’re in tune with it that will carry on did you think he could changeed the party as quickly as he had when Kier appointed me to his front bench was in the Justice team which was soon after he first got uh made appointed leader we had a long conversation about the politics and I said back then being somebody that took a seat off of the tour in 2015 where we had a 35e low as a party uh I said that that experience for me shows that in there’s nothing inevitable that winning nothing inevitable in politics about losing which is why we’ve been so determined through this campaign to stay focused but there is a window of opportunity for us to win and it’s narrow we can make very few mistakes and we have to listen so carefully to what the public are telling us their priorities must be demonstrably our priorities they need to see that we have changed as a party from the one they rejected so decisively and look what Kier did I’d like to say he did it based on that conversation I don’t think he did but it shows the kind of character that he has and the kind of politician he is far more Nimble as a politician than people have given credit for and I think the thing that he is uh people have people have underestimated him and those people in politics who have underestimated are the ones that are paying the price today you’re talking about how he listened after the last election is he listening are you all listening to some of the constituencies around the country today after this election because on Gaza for example in some places you have been punished for your policy there would be a lot of learning and a lot of listening to do in fact on Gaza we’ve been listening so incredibly carefully all the way through not just the campaign but ever since the horrific terrorist attacks of October 7th and the Israeli response afterwards um so yes that will carry on uh but the key thing is that we are now in government it’s been frustrating for us in labor party with so much attention on labor party position when we’ve been in opposition but now we have the opportunity to act in government and people can see that we want this war to end we want a political process to replace it but we want this conflict to end as quickly as we possibly can uh and certainly both sides have to buy in that now we as as one country can’t sort of do this on our own but you will see with David Lamy as foreign secretary uh perhaps later today and certainly k k stor as prime minister you will have a a a Britain which will work in lock step with our intern Partners to try and bring the pressure we can to bring this conflict to an end what about green policies because obviously you have lost that seat to the greens um is is that an indication that you haven’t been radical enough maybe that you haven’t inspired people enough because again of course you’ve W you over 400 votes a huge majority I totally get that but you must your vote share is not as high as you might have liked for it to be and I know our system works in the way that it does but that still does mean that people coming out to vote for you and what they expect you then to deliver is there an element that there needed to be or maybe there should be a little bit more excitement a bit more radicalism what you can’t do is have the most radical election results for several Generations so was it a rejection of the conservatives that we weren’t radical enough uh now the two are linked now of course we got votes where we needed the votes to be that is smart politics and we’ve seen too much dumb politics from parties in recent years this was smart politics from a smartly and a smart team and a great labor party uh Team underneath it now of course some people did vote on Gaza issues and environmental issues for other parties but we have to understand what radical is in this day and age and that’s something that people I’m afraid really underestimated in this campaign radical viewed through ordinary people’s lives right now is being able to see a doctor within a week if you’re in pain radical is being able to send your kids to a school where the roof isn’t crumbling in and radical is working in an economy having a job where that money will go further into the future than it has today and in the past these are the lived experiences of people in Britain today on average incomes living ordinary hardworking lives that is what we plugged into so for people who just said you’re not radical because you don’t have enough norts on after every announcement or your targets aren’t two years you know earlier than everything else that is to detach themselves from what is the lived experiences and I understand that because of the polls that we use very politically through this campaign that a lot of people thought there was an inevitability about the labor party winning and therefore they felt able to vote for other parties in order to send us a message we hear this message but we will listen to the voices of all people in Britain in in the weeks and months going forward and we will respond but when it comes to the climate uh and and the transition to Cle clean power and Net Zero our policies weren’t just radical because of what they were going to do they were Radical because we could get into government and deliver them thank you very much well an awful lot of changes here in Westminster the House of Commons here behind us is going to look very different next week Jeremy Vine can give us an idea of what it will look like he’s inside sort of yeah well sort actually inside BBC cardiv which has been hosted us brilliantly here as we built our set and and gone through the night with it Sophie yes so the house of Comm the key thing that will be different of course will be that the government benches have Labor MPS on them and with four results still to go we can say with quite a bit of conviction there’ll be 400 112 labor MPS very close to the number that Tony Blair got in his Landslide victory in 97 bring on the others now bit more space to stretch out on the opposition benches with only 122 conservatives the worst result any of them can ever remember the worst result in their history basically and they have a lot of rebuilding to do and goodness only knows how long it will take different story for the lib Dems the Meltdown in the conservative vote gave them 71 SNP crushed on 10 reform with four greens great result four play cery in Wales doubling their seats with four and the others 23 the others is Northern Ireland 18 plus Corbin plus four other independent MPS which just underlines what a what an interesting and and varied night we’ve had of it of course the main story is over there on the government benches and the majority for K starm lab party 174 Jeremy thank you very much indeed we’ll be back with Jeremy in Cardiff throughout the day drilling down into the data let me just explain those numbers on your screen right now there are 650 seats in the House of Commons so any party needs 326 uh to win and labor have won 411 so it’s a thumping majority it’s a landslide win for labor they’ve won 210 more seats at this election than they did at the last and that’s why there is no doubt uh that this morning it’s a landslide uh labor taking control of government and we’ll see sakir starm arriving at number 10 Downing Street uh in the next hour or two we certainly will and before that we’re going to see rishy sunak who will be leaving I think in about an hour’s time maybe sooner uh we will definitely bring that to you live Laura curg is in Downing Street for us now Laura that’s right Sophie probably about an hour or so to go and you can see you might be able to see just on the edge of shot some of the official photographers are getting ready making sure that they will be absolutely in the right spot for that moment when Rishi sunak will come out and speak to the nation as prime minister for one last time but for his rival now the Victor who has beaten him kir starmer the work already begins and in the last couple of minutes we had the first big reactions from foreign leaders and of course at a time like this Foreign Affairs are going to be such an important part of his job in number 10 Downing Street we have got a tweet online from president zalinski of Ukraine saying congratulations to kir stama and UK labor on their convincing election Victory the United Ukraine and the United Kingdom have been and will continue to be reliable allies through thick and thin of course the UK’s role started under Boris Johnson that leadership role has tried to take on supporting Ukraine against Vladimir Putin has been so critical something soir starmer has always said he would absolutely continue but then another message from Emanuel macron of course he’s in a lot of political trouble at home in France here there he is expressing his congratulations to kir starmer pleased with our first discussion well one wonders when that took place but he goes on to talk about continuing the work begun with the UK for bilateral cooperation on peace and Security in Europe whether on climate change or AI now that’s interesting because labor has tried everything it can not to suggest that in any way they would somehow become dramatically closer to Europe in a way that might upset brexit tending voters however it’ll be interesting to see the tone of European leaders welcoming Kama today let’s bring in our political editor Chris Mason who’s with me in a soggy Downing Street less soggy than you were at the beginning of the campaign interesting isn’t it there are always these congratulatory messages from foreign leaders saying marvelous well done let’s be best of friends but even though the campaign was so focused on domestic issues like it or not Foreign Affairs are going to be such a big part of K s’s tenure aren’t they absolutely it’s a trism isn’t it of election campaigns that of course the focus is principally domestic but yeah straight away the international picture and gosh don’t we know just how difficult the international scene is for the new prime minister soon to be prime minister Kama straight into that world next week as it happens because it was scheduled to happen then anyway the NATO defense Alliance having its annual conference in Washington DC that will be Kia st’s first foreign trip as prime minister and the first chance for him to meet face to face as prime minister the kind of folk who he’ll be speaking to on the phone in the in the coming hours and starting that person those personal relationships that are so crucial to the Diplomatic relationships that exist between the ukuk and its allies and as if to underline that more specific point about the challenge of international Affairs that KIA sta faces he knows it when he just looks around the whole question he faces now of assembling his cabinet when he sees for instance someone like Jonathan Ashworth so key to the labor campaign such a prominent face and voice of the labor campaign losing in his seat in Leicester where the likelihood as a contributor to that uh was the the arguments that have gone on around Gaza and the controversy for some of Labour’s stance on Gaza so a reminder for him of just how real that is and just behind you you can see I think some of the official photographers setting up the shots just so they’re exactly in the right place that’s what they do in 2024 they’re fixing cameras everywhere for the government’s own official footage of the extraordinary events today we’ve of course seen some of the more personal pictures the hunt family coming out uh Jeremy Hunt and his wife there three children and the labrador poppy my you’re big F I know you’re AIG big dog fan and a big fan of dogs at polling stations well now it’s dogs in Downing Street isn’t it or a dog in Downing Street Poppy isn’t it yes we got it was Poppy and the sunx also have NOA the labrador I’m not sure if we will see her but that that’s probably enough of my K9 political specialist knowledge one little detail which is very British I think about the the brutality of the transfer of power when Jeremy Hunt left earlier may have just been out of shot in addition to his children and his wife of the dog he got into the back of a gray Transit van and was driven away High office ends in the back of a van with the family dog I think it was quite a smart people carrier but yeah back of a van quite a metaphor though different from the the jaguar or the Mercedes or whatever without question turning then to these questions of international relationships I mean it hardly featured in The Campaign few questions about the difference between labor and the conservatives in terms of their commitment on defense spending but Sak has always tried to tack very close to the government saying that parties should be United when it comes to National Security we know for many months he’s been involved in some national security briefings along with his team and yet inside the Victorious labor party there’s quite a tricky fault line on the conflict in the Middle East and as you say that cost Jonathan Ashworth his seat it appears lots of pressure yes yes absolutely exactly that so the strategy from labor in the last year or so more than the last year so the last couple of years has been pretty much to cut and Pace the government’s position on the major International folk lines uh particularly on Ukraine for instance and indeed on the on the Middle East that’s one thing in opposition to then do it in government albe it with a whopping majority which will offer K sta some protection from Noises Off on his back benches he knows that the wider labor movement has raised real concerns my goodness he knows that cuz he got a lot of it in his ear after some remarks that he made at the labor conference last uh last October and some of his team resigned overed pH and not only has it cost some of his colleagues seats there are others who have squeaked back in uh to Westminster by the most narrow of margins so uh he’ll be well aware of that and having to um acknowledge that in in his conversations within the party as well as his conversations to the country it’ll be one of the many challenges to that Mantra he’s had of country first party second how does he wrestle with that in government and in terms of his own sense of global Affairs you know K had a fine pedigree as a lawyer he actually dealt with lots of sort of Terror cases and human rights cases on the on the other side of it if you like but does he strike you as somebody who has a particularly Clear Vision of what he would like British foreign policy to be I’m not sure he has sketched that out yet we’ve had the beginnings of it from David Lami the shadow foreign secretary in some quite kind of highminded editorial in uh American Publications even translated into French in French Publications uh and others but I don’t think we’ve had a proper uh sense of that to be honest and so often Prime Ministers find themselves don’t they yes obviously with a focus on the domestic beat but can very easily find themselves oh just looking down down street the gates are opening right now ah no it looks like it might be somebody’s about to sweep back in and I’m just is coming in right now what about half a dozen motorbikes working their way up the street and actually no one else following them so maybe they are lining up for the departure of Ry sunak rather than anyone coming in well we can pop up again then like Jack in the boxes because it looks like that is the motorcade that will then accompany the sunx when they are ready to leave the building so there is the famous black door there’s definitely a sense of an optic inactivity here we’ve seen the cameras being tied to the railings to get the perfect shot we’ve now seen the police out Riders arriving here and just down beside me there is somebody busily putting tape on the floor in order to make sure that all the cameras have exactly the right positions for that moment which will capture the historical defeat of Rishi sunak whose efforts in the last 20 months in office were nowhere near enough to hold off what some conservatives have been saying overnight was an Inevitable Defeat after 14 years in office and yet met Chris at the beginning of all of this when richy sunak came to power after the sort of political explosion of Liz truss there were hopes perhaps not that he would be able to win but there were absolutely hopes and expectation that under his leadership he would be able to drag the conservative party up after the damage of party gate and then Les trust and then there was an expectation the polls would narrow yeah and an optimism that perhaps the Tories might be able to hold off labor to a hung Parliament and it seems you know extraordinary to imagine how wrong that proved to be quite because Richi sunak when he assumed office by surprise because of the implosion so quickly he lost you know been beaten by trust in the summer of uh 2022 suddenly finds him by surprise uh kind of resuscitated as uh a prime ministerial candidate and then the Prime Minister making this argument that not on had been he had been this incredibly popular Chancellor when he was doing out billions of pounds during what happens if you stand on a street corner and give out five metaphorically speaking right your poll ratings saw and they did for him his personal poll ratings also as a character I mean to make a to understate a point wildly a vastly different character from either of his two predecessors Liz truss and uh Boris Johnson came in with Jeremy Hunt saying look we get it we will offer a certain amount of political and economic stability and he’ll be able to point to the fact that economically things are not as wobbly as they were and politically for most of his time as prime minister not all there weren’t immediate thoughts amongst the journalistic pack be included will he survive the weak which at the tail end of Boris Johnson the entirety of Liz trust was a live uh question but yes there were those hopes within conservative circles that he might be able to not just study the but narrow what was then a really big pole Gap and frankly he never managed to do that and he tried everything he tried St stability he tried being a bit more kind of revolutionary in his Outlook nothing worked including in the campaign the brutal Truth for him is the opinion polls never shifted really throughout his entire time in there and the Tories in fact have crashed to the worst defeat that they’ve had in Modern Times And also for Mr sunak who we get a sense might be here before too long he leaves behind not just the tor’s having been smashed a bits in such a turnaround from 2019 but also a party where there are very different diagnoses already of what has gone wrong we heard overnight some people so bman saying I’m sorry to the public we didn’t do enough on immigration we didn’t do enough to be true conservatives on the other hand you had different characters like Sir Robert Buckland another former cabinet minister very much urging the party to stick to the middle ground and not to Veer off so we can already see the way the debate about the future of the Tory party is shaping up but before that can begin in Earnest there will be the official departure of Rishi sunak from Downing Street the last time we will see him speak to the country a couple of meters behind me and of course we will give you a holler as soon as it looks like that’s about to happen it might not be too long sop we’re listening we will hear you and we will come straight back to you Laura and Chris thank you very much indeed for now in fact we’ve still got some declarations coming in have and a very very tight contest uh p uh has just been won from the conservatives labor have taken p and oh my goodness it was tight uh 14,168 votes for labor 14,150 votes for the Conservative candidate Robert Sims Neil Duncan Jordan has won it with a majority of just 18 that’s a seat that the conservatives had since 1997 that was that had gone to a third recount hadn’t it Vicki it is incredible when this happens isn’t it You’ got an electrc of about 70 80,000 and it goes down to the wire like this and it’s not the only one actually cuz Rick Holden who’s was the chairman is still the chairman of the conservative party um in basilon and biller Ricky 20 his went down to 20 I mean people thought he might lose he was sort of parachuted in and there was a lot of local resentment so he’s got a majority to 20 M stride who I think was all over the airwaves really for the general election for the Tories he won by 61 so an a awful lot of very marginal seats here going one way or the other didn’t quite get to the toss of a coin which I think is what does sometimes just imagine just imagine well it’s the perfect moment now to speak to Sal Masa who joins us here in the studio uh formerly a special adviser for the conservatives in government what do you think of these numbers we’ve been showing on the screen conservatives down to 122 MPS look I mean overall I don’t think there’s any denying that it’s a disastrous result for the conservatives and not one that anybody who’s been out on the doorsteps campaigning would would welcome but I think there is an acceptance that um after 14 years in government and certainly after a very turbulent Last 5 Years that this is where we were going I have to say though I feel hopeful because on some of the predictions of us getting as low as 80 and somebody some people even talking about a Canada style Wipeout I think and I know my colleagues aren’t going to be happy about me saying this but there are reasons to be cheerful really yeah there are reasons to be cheerful because we have not had we have not had a complet um Calamity we’re still going to be the official opposition I think there was some question that actually you know could the libdems overtake us there so from some of the predictions for some of the sort of uh places that we’ve been I think that there there is a point that at least the conservatives can rebuild the question now for them is going to be how do they rebuild you’ve already had you know what what Chris and Laura have been saying Robert Buckland on one side of the conservative Spectrum saying we need to get serious about winning again we’ve got to be Centrist and then you’ve got SU rather and sort of you know doing this sort of slightly performative I’m so sorry about immigration because she is probably going to be thinking about how she’s positioning herself for a conservative contest so really this is now going to be uh a point of um introspection and thinking about what is the conservative message and what are they going to do over the next five years and as they reflect who who was to blame uh I mean this is a a multitude I mean my own personal opinion is that um actually post brexit and Boris Johnson’s incompetent was the beginning of the end and that that poll decline really didn’t change from um 2022 and we’ve never really been able to recover from it but as John Curtis has said this is really about the conservatives losing and I think we have to accept if we are going to move on that that um reputation of incompetence and not getting things working we have to we have to look at ourselves and say how do we fix that do you think there is anything the conservatives could have done during this campaign to get them closer to a number a more respectable number or do you think this was lost from the very beginning this was always a damage control exercise in my view I think the issue was not that we could have done anything better but actually we didn’t need to shoot ourselves in the foot as much as we did so you know as it’s raining today I mean Rich Sak’s not been very lucky with the rain as far as this is concerned and I hope at least the weather will clear up as he says goodbye in Downing Street this morning um but you know it’s things like that it was stupid things like judgments around DJ it was the incompetence you hold him to blame for that I think that you make choices and judgments about the people that you have around you and what what you trust and who you put your faith in uh and that is also a judgment on uh you as the Prime Minister as the person that leads I know these jobs are hard I know they’re difficult but I also think that the Reckoning uh will come and people need to take responsibility themselves I’ve take responsibility for periods in government where things have not gone well I was a bad carrier adviser I didn’t make the decisions but we’re all partly responsible for this and what’s happened in terms of our reputation for competence can you believe that only 4 and a half years ago Boris Johnson had a majority of 80 and we were talking then everyone was talking then about the conservatives in power for another decade and now look at these numbers yeah and I think a lot of people are talking about the volatility of the electorate I don’t think the electorate is volatile I think it’s about the way people campaign and the votes that you go for it is undeniable that labor ran a very clever campaign they knew what they were getting the vote share hasn’t changed substantially for labor they took great advantage of the context um they were brilliant at their messaging they were much more disciplined and I think the the result shows that effectively and now it’s for the conservatives to say how are we going to become a lean mean fighting machine again one name next leader oh oh let me check who’s left so thank you very much well it has been quite a night it promises to be quite a morning there is so much for you to catch up on so we’re going to have a go labor have won a landslide victory in the general election on a dramatic night in British politics we did it it’s a spectacular turnaround for sakir st’s party winning a majority of more than 170 seats less than 5 years after their worst result in almost a century the sunlight of Hope hail at first but getting stronger through the day shining once again on a country with the opportunity after 14 years to get its future back meanwhile the former conservative prime minister Liz truss and a record number of serving cabinet ministers and Senior politicians are among those to lose their seats with the Tor set for the worst result in their history the British people have delivered a sobering verdict tonight there is much to learn and reflect on and I take responsibility for the [Music] loss right we’re going to go straight now to Scotland uh John swinny uh is speaking there the Scottish national party night for the Scottish national party and I am very very sorry to be losing so many able members of parliament and candidates who were unsuccessful and that so many staff who are uh work so well to support our members of parliament and parliamentarians will also not be able to serve in the way that they have up until now and I’m sorry about the difficulties that will cause for individuals this tough night adds to what’s been a really difficult period for the Scottish national party a difficult period that has gone on for some time and indeed that difficult period has resulted in me becoming leader of the Scottish national party only 8 weeks ago but I came into office to fix that difficult period and I’m committed to doing exactly that because the Scottish national party needs to H be healed and it needs to heal its relationship with the people of Scotland and I am absolutely committed to doing that I want to make it clear that I take full responsibility for the Scottish national party campaign and the outcome that has been achieved that is what leadership is about you plan your campaign and you take responsibility for it when it’s completed and I take full responsibility for that campaign but I also out of that campaign commit us to listen and to learn from the very obvious setback that we had last night when I stood for the leader ship of the Scottish national party I promise to ensure a vibrant internal democracy within the party as a means of creating strength and cohesion within the party and in the few weeks that I’ve had to exercise those responsibilities as leader of the party I have brought people together in the way that I proposed and planned to do but there is clearly more that is going to have to be done for us as a party to reflect on the election outcome to reflect on the issues that it raises and to listen to each other and to learn from each other about what is necessary to be done to strengthen our position as a consequence of last night’s setback we also have to do that in the country as well as a party we have to listen and we have to learn from the experiences of the election campaign and I commit us have having brought my party together to maintain my party’s external focus of looking outwards of engaging with the public in Scotland to make sure that we listen to the people of our country and we learn from their Reflections and their observations on the election campaign and I think there’s two particular areas in which we have to do that the first is on the question of building trust the Scottish national party has built trust with voters in Scotland by making a positive impact on their lives by changing their lives for the better we have done that we’ve delivered that on a whole host of different policy areas over the time in which we have been in government so delivering policy commitments that change the lives of individuals are Central to how you build up trust with the electorate and I commit us to ensuring that we focus on that delivery on ensuring that we deliver the policy commitments that make a difference on the issues that matter to people in our country and crucially on the issues that are the key concerns that they have which they articulated to US during the election campaign so we must work hard to engage with the public to build trust and to build conference but the second issue and the second area where we have to engage with the public to listen to them and to learn is on the question of Independence in 2021 we asked the people of Scotland to give the Scottish Parliament a mandate to hold a referendum on Independence and the public gave that parliamentary mandate to the Scottish parliament in 2021 it’s a matter of record that that mandate has been thwarted it has not been enacted our Manifesto for this election said that if we won a majority of seats in Scotland that would intensify pressure to enact that mandate essentially it would provide us with the opportunity to take forward that policy commitment I have to accept that we failed to convince people of the urgency of Independence in this election campaign and therefore we need to take the time to consider and to reflect on how we deliver our commitment to Independence which remains absolute and is somebody who’s devoted their entire adult life to the winning of Scottish independence not for an abstract reason but because I believe it will transform the lives of our people for the better we need to get that approach correct in the forthcoming period so I accept that we need to engage with listen to and learn from the people of Scotland on how we take forward our arguments for Independence I said that I would say more about the approach to discussions with the United Kingdom government and later on today sir starmer will become the Prime Minister I’ve served in government for many years and on many occasions and many issues I have enjoyed a good and positive working relationship with the United Kingdom government and I have to say I’ve been appalled by the quality of that relationship in The Last 5 Years in the aftermath of brexit where for a whole host of reasons which many of you will have heard me rehearsing during the election campaign I have felt the powers of the Scottish Parliament eroded by the response to brexit so I want to make it clear as we enter a new era John swiny there the leader of the S SMP reacting to their heavy losses overnight uh from the Le there in Edinburgh saying he’s very sorry to be losing so many candidates and MPS he said he takes full responsibility for those losses of course he only became leader of the S SMP two weeks before the election was called a few days before the surprise election called by Richie Sak he says he will listen and learn we need to rebuild trust as the SNP and he said we need to accept uh that uh we need to take our time to consider and reflect how we deliver our ongoing commitment to Independence obviously that is a bruising loss of seats for them well let’s go to Downing Street now we can see the uh scene there The Umbrellas are down which will be a huge relief for Rie sunak who uh what six weeks and a couple of days after announcing that election in absolutely torrential rain is going to be coming out into Downing Street through that black door for one last time as prime minister before he sets off on a very short journey to bakan Palace where he will tender his resignation to the king we’re expecting that to happen in just over 15 minutes time so do stay with us for that we are joined right now though by the mayor of London sadik Khan who has been mayor of London since 2016 good morning thank you very much for coming to see us your Reflections on last night well it’s been a great night for k d’s labor party if we were speaking in 2019 I think we did we’d be talking about whether the labor party was on the brink of Extinction the worst results since 1935 and uh if you’d have said to me there’s a chance label’s going to form the next government I’d have thought one of us had drunk something too much of uh but we haven’t just won this election we’ve won it with a majority of 170 we think 410 labor MPS in Parliament that’s a big tribute to K stama to the shadow cabinet to candidates to staffers to members for the incredible amount of work changing our party and I think K stama as the Prime Minister will serve with humility he’ll be magnanimous and understand one of his jobs is to bring our country together what has he done in that time in those four and a half years um to completely change the party’s fortunes well firstly to to recognize how badly we lost in 200 19 the British public weren’t wrong we were wrong in relation to the offer we had to the British uh public a root and Branch transformation of the labor party addressing the issues of for example anti-Semitism being in effective opposition to the conservative uh government and then putting forward an offer to the British public look in 2015 and 2017 and 2019 many members of the British public were unhappy with the conservative party but not willing to lend us their vote on this occasion uh yesterday they did what do you want of him what what will you ask for from him well the first thing is I think here’s a responsibility to show that politicians or public servants we’re not all in it for ourselves and that leadership comes from the top in relation to me as the mayor of London what I don’t want is the government to put obstacles in my way on a daily basis if we’re going to get economic growth across our country we’ve got to play our role as the capital uh City one of the things that K is passionate about is making sure there are more homes being built across our country we want AI share of those new homes in London we’ve got a housing crisis I think actually when you compare the UK now with K starm as prime minister for some time we’re of sea of calm sea of Cal compared to France or just Germany or Italy or the USA and that will lead to inward investment and London must play its role it wasn’t all great news for Labor in London was it I mean six libdem seats Jeremy Corbin back as an independent these are the best results in London for labor ever 59 59 labor and peas in uh London no Tores in central London in inner London uh of course I’d rather wish we’d won all 75 seats but I’m afraid that’s not possible Jeremy Corin how is K starma going to handle him I’ve known Jeremy Corin for a number of years um and he’s clearly a popular local MP we all know he is he’s been the MP for Ison North since I think 1983 I think many residents in Ison North have repaid you know Jeremy’s hard work there’s not a school fair that happens in his patch that he doesn’t turn up to or an event at the local community center and I think residents there have rewarded his hard service over a number of decades I just just going to uh show you there once I interrupt what you’re saying uh Larry the cat Larry the cat who always uh becomes a star in these moments he’s been there he’s the chief he’s the chief mous in Downing Street hasn’t he he’s lived there he’s been there longer than anyone I think I think many umps look at Envy the number of Twitter followers Larry the cat’s got the amount of media coverage he gets notice that it’s only since Jeremy Hunt’s dog left that Larry the cat has emerged from number 10 this morning I’m not sure if you’ve heard I mean K’s promised his daughter a new dog has he and I’m not sure how Larry will appreciate about a new puppy I’m not going to confidence I think G the cat was actually getting really really really happy at the prospect of losing two dogs in Downing Street Y and are giving us breaking news that there’s going to be a new one coming out a copy of that as well as what breed of dog he will choose um there are some bigger decisions that he makes has to make doesn’t he as prime minister and he’s got this massive majority do you think now he should should have been Bolder during this campaign he should have made bigger commitments uh maybe on brexit look I’ve known care for more than 25 years he’s somebody who uh stepped forward because he believed in public service and one of the things he realized is you can’t give hope without credibility uh and what the British public won’t stand for is people making all sorts of promises they can’t deliver on and what you what you will see from K St as prime minister it’s somebody who you know under promises and overd delivers and is isn’t it time the British public had government that delivered on promises what about international relations we haven’t heard much from Sak sta uh about that it was a very domestically focused uh campaign in many ways but there’s big changes potentially coming up um possibly in America if there’s a change of government I mean you’ve had your uh views and exchanges with um president Trump how does a labor government deal with that the morning after he’d been to the D-Day commemorations he was so moved by by those soldiers former soldiers those who served that country he’ met the day before he’s somebody who takes NATO seriously he’ll be at the NATO Summit next week in Washington he’s looking forward to hosting European leaders in blad and Palace later on this uh month I think if we’re honest hand on heart there have been many occasions over the last few years where we’ve been a laughing stock across the globe uh what he’s trying to do is to restore our credibility on the international stage as a player not simply a spectator uh you’ve seen the the the the the work that he and David Lamy have done working with both President Biden’s team but also reaching out to the Republican team as uh well none of us knows who will be the next president what we do know is we need to have a special relationship uh with my views on President Trump are wellknown but K St will need to do business with whoever the president is and what about the EU how much closer should he get to the EU well you know it breaks my heart we voted to leave the European Union but I think it’s not possible for us to rejoin the EU what is possible though is next year when when the brexit deal comes up for renewal for us to have closer alignment with the European Union our closest trading partners we know the damage brexit’s caused to our country economically socially culturally we can’t rejoin the EU what we can do is have close links with the EU will you be pushing K to rejoin the Customs Union well listen I mean k and racial we look into what is the best deal for our country what racial you think we should well I think I think what Rachel Reeves and K St need to do is look at the upside of closer alignment obviously this is not a one way thing the EU have got to agree and aede to some of these terms we want to negotiate on the key thing is it’s to impress on the EU how close alignment is good for the UK but also good for the European Union as well so you’re not pushing for them to rejoin the Customs Union that’s not something you’re going to be pushing for I’m looking for close alignment and well the point I’ll been making to to colleagues in the labor government is you know if we get a good deal with the European Union it leads to more growth for our country which is really important if we’re going to invest in public services I know you’ve got a big job you as mayor of London but do you wish you were part of this labor government you waiting for a Ministry a department I’m going to upset K I said I’ve got the best job in British Politics as the mayor of uh London what I’ve been frustrated about over the last eight years is i’ had I’ve had five different Prime Ministers David Cameron uh Theresa May uh Boris Johnson Liz truss and richy Sun looking forward to some calm but also a labor government working with not just the mayor of London but the mayor of Greater Manchester the greater of Greater Moses side with West Yorkshire working together with devolved regions and m in the common interest you’re no longer the most powerful labor politician in the country it’s uh I’m really happy that the that the priz I goes to K stama uh the labor prime minister he come thank you very much well you can see there we’re watching Downing Street we’re watching bucking and Palace we’re expecting rishy sunak to leave number 10 within the next probably 10 minutes but there’s been a big story in Northern Ireland overnight as well Shen Fane has won the most seats there for the first time Christian Fraser can tell us more yeah we were just hearing weren’t we from John swinny in Scotland about the snp’s really poor performance down there and I just wonder on the back of that whether the Constitutional question shifts now from Scotland to Northern Ireland because as you say Sophie Shin Fain which had seven seats at the last election narrowly behind the dup in 2022 they became the biggest party in the National Assembly elections first time a nationalist Republican party had come out on top and now after the Westminster elections you can see that they are now the biggest Westminster Party don’t forget of course they don’t take their seats in Westminster some really interesting results in Northern Island quite an extraordinary night let me start with this one Lagan Valley of course where Jeffrey Donaldson and Jeffrey Donaldson stood down as the dup leader to concentrate fighting uh those abuse charges Sasha Eastwood taking it from uh for the alliance that is an 11% swing from the dup to Alliance he had a really good night in 2019 the alliance and a very good night there in lagen Valley which is some compensation for losing at North down as they did to an independent but what about this one North Anam Jim aliser the leader of the TUV who campaigned on no border in the Irish sea taking it from Ian Paisley The Paisley have had North an trim since 1970 the last time North ANM was not a Paisley Richard Nixon was the president of the United States that is an extraordinary swing 26% from the duv to the unionist the TUV here’s another one for you Belfast East this was the Battle of the leaders the new leader of the dup Gavin Robinson seeing off Naomi long of the alliance it’s pretty much as you were for a while Christian thank you very much indeed we can go live to Downing Street actually because we have lecturn activity there we go we say richy sunet will be coming out very shortly uh we’re expecting him at halfast 10 roughly around then it could be sooner uh umbrella’s sort of up some down uh hopefully well he will be hoping that it is not raining when he comes out Laura and the volume has just started to go up here in Downing Street where you’re joining us some protesters at the End of the Street have got their speakers out playing so long I V ader has is put out here in Downing street they’re trying to do everything they can to make it look impeccable as Rishi Sun comes out for his last address to the nation as prime minister just before the lect turn came out we could actually hear a little bit of Applause from inside the building so imagine what happens now RI sunak will be saying goodbye farewell to staff who have served him during his time in Downing Street those 20 months that he has been in charge he will be saying thank you to those who’ve alongside him in some incredibly difficult political moments he will be perhaps giving a last word to the many officials who have served him as impartial civil servants but also clustering with his political team who have been alongside him in the trenches of this campaign which has been so full of mishaps and mistakes from the off so in a few minutes it does appear that Rishi sunak will be emerging to speak to the nation for one last time this moment of enormous drama um and you can just see they’re about to test the microphones there is one of the long serving press AIDS who works there in Downing Street checking the shot checking the sound right next to we where we are and we she soon expected out in a few minutes time and astonishing really John and Sophie to imagine how this all panned out a former member of the cabinet said to me a couple of weeks ago the point of calling a spring election as a surprise was in order to make things difficult for the opponents in actual fact RI sunak ended up making look look like that he had surprised his own party because they didn’t really appear to be ready to go at all Laura thank you very much well um we’ll stay on those pictures maybe we can just show you now who we have in our studio with us because we have two men who know exactly what is going on uh behind those closed doors uh we have Alistar Campbell who what was it 1997 swept into power as it were with Tony Blair and Craig Oliver as well 2011 uh director of communications both of you um well let’s start with Craig I mean what what do you think is going through Richie Sak’s mind right now I think he’ll want to leave well I think he’ll be thinking about how do I actually you know Le being prime minister well they’ll be thinking about the speech going out there and I think actually when people lose there’s a moment where you look at them and you go okay let’s reassess Gordon Brown gave a very good speech when he left Downing Street and I think a lot of people felt he left well so I think Richie sunak will be in that position he wants to leave well he wants to say the right things and he wants to leave bizarrely some kind of residual affection and alist Campbell the scale of what uh kiss dama has achieved it’s fantastic I mean you know it’s not that long ago harle PA byelection when people was saying K could never win and goes into this election and pulls off this extraordinary Victory huge Landslide Landslide and yes people will talk about the share of the vote but the fact is you fight to win and they’ve put all their resources into the places where they needed to needed to win and I think now he’s got a mandate to deliver change and I think he’s going to seize that in these first weeks and months because the truth is the challenges are huge honeymoon won’t last very long but he’s got energy he’s got a bit of Hope going back in the country I think and I’m I’m just thrilled the worst government in history is gone and something better is coming in and as we are talking to you we’re just going to look at those pictures that’s a king arriving at Buckingham Palace he is uh going in there which is where Richi sunak very shortly will also travel to Bing Palace to Tender his resignation to the king GRE you were talking about richy sunak wanting to leave well I can tell you that apparently there is an umbrella this time outside Downing Street because of these showers everyone will remember the pictures from number 10 when he called the election so uh yeah there’s an umbrella on standby the king there just about to enter Buckingham Palace um when we talk about Ry sunak and and his plan leaving office of prime minister he has to do that he’s still an MP what do you think do you think he’s going to want to stay on in Parliament even as leader I think given the choice he would like to go as quickly as possible I think the reality well I suspect he you know he’s going to stay on for a little bit as an MP and that kind of thing but I think he’d want to leave the office of leader of the opposition to somebody else he doesn’t want to do that having said that I think there’ll be a lot of pressure on him to stay I think people will say look let’s have a few months let’s use the Conservative Party Conference as an opportunity to choose a new leader let’s have a time to take a breath and reassess here what’s really happening um and I think that they’ll want allow one he’ll want to allow the forces to gather and actually have a real opportunity at the moment I think that the conservative part is in danger of having a real knee-jerk reaction to this and say well it’s easy let’s just go and join forces with reform I think Richie Sun’s Instinct would be to say to the party look let’s just take a breath let’s stop let’s properly consider and allow somebody who’s perhaps more moderate to take charge in me S starm really doesn’t have any time to take a breath does he because he’s got to hit the ground running uh Tony Blair in his first 100 days he was pretty radical though he says he wishes he had been more radical I mean within what four days the bank of England was independent could we expect to see K starma produce a rabbit out of the Hat next week something that he hasn’t even mentioned the bank of England’s Independence no one knew about that in the days in the C it was wasn’t mentioned in the manifesto was it what was mentioned in the manifesto is it we do everything to ensure economic stability uh and that became the line that justified this policy that we not talked about in opposition I think I don’t know whether K will have any sort of big surprises like that I think what he will do is take those missions and build the King speech around them and I think that’s the right approach and what the Mandate does him what this gives to him what the the size of the majority does he can actually do a lot of things that maybe he hasn’t talked about and particularly I think in terms of this planning reform approach to housing I think that’s where you’ll see some quite big stuff coming down strike hard fast doesn’t he given the the size of the majority you can’t waste time in these things no and also I think one of the one of the messages from this election is that we live in very volatile political times so he’s got to he’s got to kind of use this enormous Capital that he now has and I and I think he will I think the one thing that people should learn about gear St is at every stage of his life and his career he’s kind of been underestimated and people are sort of saying not sure about him and he’s always over exed he’s always exceeded what the expectation and I’ve always felt he’s not somebody who likes opposition I think he’s a creature of government and I think that now he’s got labor back into Power he’ll be pretty ruthless and pretty clear about what he wants to do know very well don’t you I mean you I think you advised him in 2015 when he first became an MP what advice or what what advice have you given him about taking on this well I look I I think you’ve I I’ve been through the campaign and before the campaign on the the podcast that we always sure I’ve been actually quite critical at times of Labor saying not sure they’re being bold enough not sure that couldn’t be a bit more radical and so forth but you have to judge campaigns by the outcome when you’re going from opposition into government you’ve got to judge them by the outcome and the outcome he’s delivered is extraordinary and I think that what he’s done is shown that he follows his own path he listens to other people but he follows his own path and I think if he does that in government it’ll be pretty ill set fair how much contact has K dama had with Tony Blair over the last few weeks I don’t know about over the last few weeks but I I I think that one of the good things about the labor party and this has been very much a contrast with the conservative party is that all the previous leaders kind of just want to be helpful uh whether that’s Neil kenck who was there tonight whether it’s Gordon who’s been saying the things that he does and Tony so look I think K will be his own man I think he’ll do his own stuff he’ll appoint his own team but I think he’s clear about the I think it’s interesting he he knows this isn’t the 9 997 moment he actually you know he said to me one point you know if we went around just singing things could only get better at the moment the way the country feels it wouldn’t work what has worked is him setting out a plan for government showing that he’s going to be serious absolutely believing this thing about politics being about public service and just sort of you know putting this the last few wretched years behind us the weather certainly not getting better as it is raining again in Downing Street but we can go live to Laura curg who’s there for us for this moment of the Prime Minister leaving for the final time Laura John thank you it is raining now a little bit not very heavily but this is what happened when RI sunak came out to announce the election it wasn’t raining very much and he came out and then there was a sudden Deluge so there’ll be hoping that doesn’t happen today although as you spotted there is a official looking gentleman standing with a Union Jack umbrella perhaps ready to stand in just on the left hand side of the number 10 famous black door in case there is that torrential downpour it feels here however that the tension is building we are probably just a couple of minutes away we’d expect to see rishy sunx close Team come out actually of the door of number 11 first that’s the normal procedure they sent it all pile out and stand watching on and when Boris Johnson left there was actually a whole sort of horde of people who came out one side number 11 one side of number 10 including his wife carry all watching on and many of his loyal stalwart MPS who stood by him to the last as the vast majority of his colleagues deserted him over time but we do expect to see lushi sunak and probably his team will basically give us the 321 CU they’ll probably come out to watch it themselves from Downing Street in the last couple of minutes we’ve heard a bit more Applause and cheering actually from inside the building as Rishi sunak we assume goes around and says here’s goodbyes you might just be able to pick that up there maybe they’re cheering again because they can hear us talking about it on the TV you never know stranger things have happened but clearly remember such an emotional moment not just for the politicians but for all their staff for the people who have gone the extra mile to work for them and of course as we’ve chatted about about a family also leaving their home so in just a couple of minutes we think that Rishi sunak will be here to declare not just the end of his 20 months in office but also the official end of 14 years of conservative governments David Cameron followed by Theresa May followed by Boris Johnson followed of course by Liz truss and then Rishi sunak and he will be on his way out there we can show you the scene enormous numbers of journalists here from all over the world have come here to witness this moment and to broadcast these pictures to their audiences right around the world so a real moment here about to unfold as Rishi sunak who has led his party to the worst defeat in a general election in modern times prepares to come out and give his official fairwell well to the nation before of course he will go off to Buckingham Palace where he will tender that resignation to his majesty the king let’s bring in Craig Oliver while we’re waiting there keeping those pictures on that door um tell us what it is like those last few minutes before they leave I was interested hearing that you could hear Applause behind the door there’s a series of emotional goodbyes that are going on at the moment lots of people have built up relationships over the years civil servants have worked very closely with political figures and I remember when David Cameron left when he walked out the door we watched him give his speech and as soon as he’d given his speech we were rushed through Downing Street hugged a number of civil servants we work with very closely and pushed out the cabinet office door and saw the new team standing there waiting to walk in immediately so the transition is incredibly quick and there’s a lot of people with a lot of you know emotion but they’re being shoved out while they put the other one in because it’s not just the Prime Minister himself leaving with his family it’s all the people who worked with him they’re all gone in a Flash exactly that and that you know they’ve worked very very closely with people for a number of years the relationships are very very strong and I know that alist has experienced that when Gordon Brown left as well that you were there weren’t you well Gordon actually uh was wearing my tie he stole my tie and I never got it back because just before he walked out the door he realized he was wearing a blue tie and he said I cannot wear a blue tie my last leaving Dow Street I was the only person wearing a red tie so he took my tie I’ve never seen it again no it is very emotional because you know when we arrived in 1997 I was introduced to to my team including a personal assistant who became incredibly important to me but she when I first met her she was in tears and I said what’s wrong she said I love John Major I’m so sad that he’s that he’s going so you’ve got people who really formed relationships with the people who going out but as as CRA says you just got to get out so when Gordon went we were you know Gordon went out he spoke there he walked off with his with and the two boys and then we had to sort of find another exit and out with and I think one thing that David keron did that was very interesting when he came in is he said to a number of the private secretaries and civil servants look I want you to stay on for a period you’ve got knowledge you’ve got experience I want your experience and your enthusiasm to work with me other prime ministers have been very quick to boot out civil servants feeling maybe they’re a bit too close to the other side my advice to kid D if you’d ever listen to it would be look there people who want you to succeed they want to work with with you give them an opportunity well the first one of the first things Tony Blair said to me and Jonathan Powell when we were inside there on day one was you’ve got to make sure that we have good relations with the Civil Service and we really worked to that and I think it’s one of the big mistakes particularly L list truss uh you know when she sacked Tom scholar at the treasur it was just it sent a signal to the Civil Service that I see you as the enemy and you’ll get nothing done if you treat the Civil Service trust isn’t it that relationship civil services are impartial but it is all about trust and it’s a really difficult time for them it’s just on a human level well they’ve been up all night they’ve been following everything they’ve been they’ve been reading through all the manifestos particularly obviously Labor’s Manifesto to try and work out you know what what what will actually happen now they’re going to have to get used to new ministers new processes and even like you know talking to somebody at the treasury the other day who was saying and Craig will know you know the treasury there’s a there’s a bathroom that belongs to the chancellor well let’s just say it’s only useful for men uh you know so that’s all had to be sort of kitted out in new stud so all that sort of thing and bear in mind for Kier as well you know you got two teenage kids having to leave their home uh carry on at the same school it’s going to be he’s spoken a lot about that hasn’t he or he’s not spoken about them at all I he mentions their children he never mentions their names we know they’re 16 and 13 but he said all through that campaign um that the one thing that he really is worried about is his children it’s a difficult age isn’t it it is yeah so he’s starting a new job one of the toughest jobs in the world they’re moving house uh they’re being uprooted from Friends they’re get a pu of told okay that’s good that’s good the security I mean I know K has had security for a while but it now goes to a completely different level added to which he’s now already as soon as he gets through that door there is an intay bulging with presidents who want to speak to him decisions that have to be made right now policy decisions visits decisions all the different things cabinet the cabinet with two gaps that he maybe didn’t expect I think maybe thanam deaner did but didn’t expect and then before that we’ve got this moment now which we’re waiting for a few minutes uh to go where we understand um when rushy will come out and what a moment for him and I mean after the campaign that he’s Leed as well so I bet behind that door down that Corridor that leads up to the cabinet office it will be lined with people not just the civil servants but staff and they as we’ve said will be emotional they will Clap the Prime Minister out and you know he will say goodbye to them and then he’s got to walk outside and deliver a speech and he’s to deliver a speech which really puts a full stop to him being prime minister and I think setting that tone right is incredibly hard and say what you like about Richie sunak I’ve disagreed with a lot of the ways in which he’s handled things in the last couple of weeks of his campaign the pressure on him as a human being has been extraordinary and he has I think risen to it and knowing that he is going to lose and lose badly apparently the notes are on the Lector the the text of his speech has been placed there so that we’re expecting Rishi sunak to emerge from number 10 in the next minute or so and what must he be thinking and he’s only 44 years old he’s been Chancellor through a pandemic he’s been prime minister and now it’s over well political careers at the moment go up like a rocket don’t they and they come down like a rocket and it is extraordinary how fast people come in um you know they can rise to the cabinet and then leave within and two or three terms of his rise was meteoric his rise was absolutely meteoric and he was spotted by the conservative party is somebody who had potential William ha took him under his wing he went to William ha scene in Richmond in Yorkshire massive majority May Chancellor actually by a bit of a flute because sag Javid said look I can’t I can’t serve um the pandemic happened Boris Johnson everything happened with him he became prime minister I think what people will do when they look back after this though is say when Richie sunet came prime minister it was over before he started you cannot be a government that promises that you’re going to massively slash migration after brexit and see it double you can’t tell people to stay safe and party you can’t be warned about your economic policies and deliver a mini budget and expect people to still listen and no party had ever won five successive terms of government either they haven’t but also very few parties go from having a majority of 80 to losing to a majority of 170 it is astonishingly volatile times and just picking up on my Anis said look this is Labor’s night you have to hand it to K St he’s done an extraordinary job I would be really worried about that thir 34% share of the vote this win is a mile wide and an inch deep and once you get into the sort of knockabout volatility of the next few years who knows what’s going to happen I thought um John Curtis I know you’ll have had on Lots during the night but I was at an event a few months ago with him when I was still in that mode of saying oh don’t count your chickens I don’t believe this is over till it’s over and he made the point that the two major points where opinion has changed massively in recent years one was party gate hear the door’s opening I’m going to stop you there Here Comes rishy sunak good morning I will shortly be seeing his majesty the king to offer my resignation as prime minister to the country I would like to say first and foremost I am sorry I have given this job my all but you have sent a clear signal that the government of the United Kingdom must change and yours is the only judgment that matters I have heard your anger your disappointment and I take responsibility for this loss to all the conservative candidates and campaigners who work tirelessly but without success I’m sorry that we could not deliver what your efforts deserved it pains me to think how many good colleagues who contributed so much to their communities and our country will now no longer sit in the House of Commons I thank them for their hard work and their service following this result I will step down as party leader not immediately but once the formal arrangements for selecting my successor are in place it is important that after 14 years in government the conservative party rebuilds but also that it takes up its crucial role in opposition professionally and effectively when I first stood here as your prime minister I told you the most important task I had was to return stability to our economy inflation is back to Target mortgage rates are falling and growth has returned we have enhanced our standing in the world rebuilding relations with allies leading Global efforts to support Ukraine and becoming the home of new generation of transformative Technologies and our United Kingdom is stronger too with the Winds of framework Devolution restored in Northern Ireland and our Union strengthened I’m proud of those achievements I believe this country is safer stronger and more secure than it was 20 months ago and it is more prosperous fairer and resilient than it was in 2010 whilst he has been my political opponent sakir starma will shortly become our prime minister in this job his successes will be all our successors and I wish him and his family well whatever our disagreements in this campaign he is a decent public-spirited man who I respect he and his family deserve the very best of our understanding as they make the huge transition to their new lives behind this door and as he grapples with this most demanding of jobs in an increasingly unstable World I’d like to thank my colleagues my cabinet the civil service especially here in Downing Street the team at Checkers my staff cchq but most of all I’d like to express my gratitude to my wife AA and our beautiful daughters I can never thank them enough for the sacrifices they have made so that I might serve our country one of the most remarkable things about Britain is just how unremarkable it is that two generations after my grandparents parents came here with little I could become Prime Minister and that I could watch my two young daughters like the valley candles on the steps in Downing Street we must hold true to that idea of who we are that vision of kindness decency and tolerance that has always been the British way this is a difficult day at the end of a number of difficult days but I leave this job honored to have been your prime minister this is the best country in the world and it is thanks entirely to you the British people the true source of all our achievements our strengths and our greatness thank you joining his wife AA rushi sunak leaving Downing Street as prime minister for the final time after 20 months in office in that speech he began with a farrowed brow and a glint in his eye with an apology an apology to the country an apology to his party apology to his colleagues who had lost their seats but he went on to highlight some of the achievements he believed he had made in his time here settling the country’s economy bringing back some stability after the political and economic explosion of his predecessor Liz Truss he said he would stay as conservative leader until the formal arrangements to make his successor are in place now those arrangements do not yet exist so it is unclear for how long he will actually remain conservative leader but he is not driving away today never to have any role at the top of his party again so he said once formal arrangements are in place he will step down as the conservative party leader but you can see here see him entering White Hall there and you can probably also hear some of the booze and jeers as the cars make their way off to Buckingham Palace but one notable other close at the end of his speech he referenced the fact that it had been unremarkable that he was the first British Asian prime minister two generations of his family and he has ended up in number 10 and I wonder there if he was just making a hint to Nigel farage’s Reform Party who did well in this election having secured veral MPS and RI sunak says we must hold true to the ideal that saw him being able to come to Downing Street as a nonwhite the first non-white Prime Minister without there being a huge fuss about that taking place but he left s he leaves on a difficult day after many difficult days honored to have carried out the job on behalf of the country ending to Chris Mason our political editor with some gracious words to sir starma we’ve heard that a couple of times in the last 24 hours he said he was a decent public spirited man yeah and essentially wished him luck such a different tone to the campaign what did you make of it completely different tone it picked up didn’t it on what we heard from the soon to be former prime minister in the dead of the night when he conceded defeat and said he’d already spoken to Kia stama to offer his congratulations and to concede that he had had indeed lost what I was struck by la listening to to that firstly we should remember shouldn’t we the human beings at the heart of these stories our viewers will have different views as to whether or not they are glad to see Ru departing or sad to see him departing but there there spoke a a human being who was acknowledging failure so he listed didn’t he some of the achievements of which he was proud in office that winds a framework for instance around the brex brexit arrangements and uh Northern Ireland an element of economic stability But ultimately politically or as we were reflecting earlier on everything he tried in office as prime minister and then it within the election campaign to do anything to revive the fortunes of his party simply did not work and as he makes his way up to Buck and Palace to see the queen see the king forgive me richy sunak said the public had sent a clear signal that the government must change he’d heard the anger and disappointment making that apology to the country an apology to his party Jane Hill is at Buckingham Palace for us today as we await the prime minister’s cars Jane Laura thank you yes big big crowds here outside Buckingham Palace the outgoing prime minister Rishi sunak should appear soon it is just a short drive from where you are Laura at number 10 here to the palace and this is where the Constitutional element of the day begins all the formalities the formal Handover of power in fact Rishi sunak himself has referred to it as an orderly transition he used that phrase if anyone was awake early this morning when he was speaking at his constituency in Richmond in North Yorkshire he said there will be an orderly transition uh and that is what the next couple of hours here at the palace is all about uh big crowds that is because uh we have to remind people 11:00 is Changing of the Guard it’s always a big tourist attraction here at Palace uh that we can only assume is what most people are here for now that the rain has finally stopped here this morning but of course today we’re talking about a political Changing of the Guard aren’t we and Rishi sunak uh C coming down the M we can uh hear the whistles we can hear the out Riders just behind us here at the palace and he will be here momentarily to as he said to formally offer his resignation to the king watching all this morning’s events alongside me is our senior Royal correspondent Danielle Ral this is an important moment a significant moment explain explain why yes Jane it’s significant because it’s an important moment constitutionally symbolically personally so on a number of levels this is a very important moment we can see the prime minister’s Vehicles the police out Riders now going into the central gate of Buckingham Palace the king himself actually only arrived at the palace back at the palace from Windsor uh within the past few minutes and uh the Prime Minister the outgoing prime minister going into the central Gates now where he will meet the king coming in we can see his vehicles coming into the main quadrangle of Buckingham Palace here we have our cameras where we’ll be able to see the point where he meets some of the royal household staff before going to the private audience room here at the Palace where he will meet the king he will offer his resignation and he will then leave privately that’s the interesting contrast here he arrives through those main gates but he actually departs Buckingham Palace from a different exit privately no longer as prime minister and it is worth reiterating that point isn’t it because uh as he gets out of the car with his wife this is a private meeting between the Monarch and the outgoing prime minister now he is with AA mcy his wife and there is a convention I think that the that the the spouse of the Prime Minister of the day is invited in towards the end of that meeting but the the bulk of the meeting will be that that is it that is the last time we will see Rishi sunak entering Buckingham Palace as prime minister uh and then that private intimate conversation once the resignation has been formally uh verbally made we don’t know of course nobody knows except those two men what will be discussed about this day that’s right designed to be private and the Prime Minister and his wife there met by two of the most important people in the Royal household sir Clive Alon the principal private secretary to the king and the queen very much the gatekeeper uh for the king and the equiry flight Manda Will Thornton he is the eyes and ears of the the king and the queen as well so two important figures who will be taking uh the Prime Minister and his wife up to the private audience room for you say that very private meeting and just to to say as well in terms of the relationship between the king and the prime Minister here it struck me thinking about this it has been a short run for rishy sunak in the very early stages of this new monarch uh but it has been a very important relationship if you think about what has happened uh richy Sak has been prime minister in the months after the King was mourning the death of his mother during his coronation during his cancer diagnosis so there have been some real personal moments between the two of them in recent months and that’s I was going to say how much do we know about um given the unusual nature that that you started describing there how much do we know about that relationship between the two of them but of course historically this is what is so fascinating the Monarch is politically neutral always has been always will be and and what we know about how any monar gets on with his or her prime minister if we think back to the recent past I guess that information comes from from the politician or from people around the politician that we don’t know what what goes on what he said that that is that has been the case for for for Generations that’s right and in that private audience room which is in the king’s private quarters it is completely private we it is designed to be private there is nobody else in the room it is a chance for the king to just ask the questions he wants to ask of the prime minister so it is a very important relationship and it is always conducted in private for those weekly audiences we will talk much more about this because there’s plenty more to come here from buck and Palace that meeting we assume probably just getting underway danela thank you for now uh and much more because of course once this element of the formality is over then we wait to see the new prime minister sakir stama we will have more from Bucky and Palace shortly for now I’ll hand you back to John and Sophie we will be back to you later Jane thank you very much here in Westminster in our studio right on College Green outside Parliament still with us is Alistar cville who of course was Tony BL director of communications back in 1997 and Sir Craig Oliver who did the same job with David Cameron Craig you are saying that rishy sunak would want to leave well today what did you think of the words he he said in Downing Street I think there was a lot of Grace and dignity in what he said um it was interesting when he came out and repeated I’m sorry several times and that’s quite a big moment for a prime minister to say I’m sorry for what happened while I was leader but then I think he moved on to basically saying look K arm is a good man and I wish him well I thought what was really interesting is you always when you see aart there standing just behind him how emotional that is for somebody you know you love this person you care for this person you’re seeing them at their lowest moment you’ve got to stand there in front of everybody get into the car leave it’s a incredibly emotional powerful moment and I think actually just the sheer Act of holding yourself together at that moment is is really hard and I think that that’s what she would have been found finding there looking at her husband and thinking you know it ended in Ash is he had this extraordinary career that was incredibly fast um and it’s over and yet I mean he said as you say sorry repeatedly it pains me I have heard your anger though he is not stepping down immediately so he is going to he said he would and he’s going to sort of try and steady the ship a bit but I mean it’s going to be incredibly difficult for and that’s a a real element of Duty you know like you’ve been humiliated into in an election there’s no other way of saying it but the conservative party were humiliated last night and yet you still need to stay on there’s going to be a prime minister’s question you have to stand the the House of Commons is not going to be able to accommodate all labor MPS on one side they’re going to have to come round to the opposition benches so you’re sit you’re standing in the House of Commons with just 120 people behind you talking about the fact that you lost in an historic election and you’ve still got to try and hold the government to account that’s an extraordinary thing to ask of somebody but he’s doing it because I think he wants to protect the conservative party and make sure they don’t make a historic mistake now and he’s still an MP he’s an MP for for North Yorkshire and he said at the count last night when uh that declaration happened that he intended to go back home as he called it to North Yorkshire not to California but to North Yorkshire and and be with his family there for a while yeah and David Cameron said to me that he wanted to stay on as an MP but he discovered very quickly when he was wandering around Westminster afterwards that there’s nothing nothing so X as an ex- prime minister I mean when that power drains away from you and you’re used to people hanging on your every word and you’re just sort of you’re a sort of slightly lonely figure and I think that would be interesting for for Richi sunak easier in some ways when you’re still leader of the opposition and you’ve got an official thing to do but when that goes it’s very difficult to hang around Gordon Brown didn’t do it did he he left it to Harry Haron I mean he clearly couldn’t face it well and and I think with it’s interesting I think the conservative party if I know they won’t listen to me but if I were given the advice I said I think they just need to go away and take a break and get out of the Public’s face and I think that does require him to stay on for a bit at least if they rush into a leadership election I think they’re mad but I I thought he spoke really well I thought he spoke well at the count and I I thought he spoke well there and it is interesting in our system how you go from literally knocking lumps off each other all the things that sunak has been saying about K starma during the campaign and then he’s able to say that one of the great things about our democracy compared to what happened in America recently is you can have this seamless peaceful transition where he literally started the day as prime minister he’s now left he goes and sees the king you know then leaves K starma goes and sees the king he goes to Downey Street and he’s the Prime Minister it’s a pretty amazing thing he was also gracious about k starma a decent well-meaning man he called him I think that’s right and I think that you know ultimately politics is very very tough and people do attack each other a lot and I I really hope that one of the things that K Stu says he’s going to do that he does it’s this thing about politics as public service um but I think you wouldn’t be human if you didn’t understand that for richy do that today this is a absolutely devastate devastating day and what’s interesting about what’s going on now is that you know Kia um sorry Craig talks about power draining away he’ll feel that he’ll feel that as he leaves the palace and then K starm will go in there and and they’ll have this one-on-one conversation and new man I’m just looking at these scenes you know it’s a very still shot of Buckingham Palace and we can’t see what’s going on behind the scenes what’s going on at number 10 at the moment is frenetic though literally you are rooting out one team who are pushed out the cabinet door it’s around the corner from number 10 the cabinet off they literally pushed out and the other team are going in there and they will be waiting to greet K Dharma who will want to hit the ground running this afternoon the cabinet thing it’s very quick you know making sure that they’re all chosen that that’s all clear the pace of that is extraordinary so we’re seeing a very sedate scene at the moment but actually behind the scenes is in is frenetic you went to the Palace didn’t you with Tony Blair in 1997 What You can tell us what what will be going on behind the scenes well I don’t know what goes on between ton never well hardly ever barely ever talked about his discussions with the queen but what happened on the day that we went there Jonathan Po and a couple of cars behind behind the police and Tony literally goes up the stairs he gets taken off everybody else gets shoveled into this other room we were actually remember we were watching the BBC because I remember uh turning around and my kids were on the Telly waiting in Downing Street because you remember the the street was packed with labor supporters and so forth but it’s very it’s very quiet in there it’s very calm in there and they have this very very private conversation and I suspect when both Richie sunak talking to the king now K St when he talks to him I suspect apart from their their wives they probably won’t ever talk to anybody about what gets said and that’s a very very important part of our constitution Al cam I’m intrigued by the fact you say Tony Blair barely ever mentioned what the queen had said to him when did he tell you what had been said well I remember he he came back once and said that he thought he’d said something terrible because she the queen had told him that she was going to Scotland and I think it was a cup final or something but there was a Celtic Rangers element and on she happened to be wearing a green dress when he was talking to her and he said to her I hope you’re not going to wear that dress and Bey Celtic Rangers green blue and I think he thought she thought she was he was just insulting her dress bit of fashion advice yeah yeah no he very very very rarely talked about you talk about the scene that greeted you in 1997 back in Downey street it’s going to be different is it today I mean there’s not that same sense of you know Euphoria sweeping into power that you had when Tony Blair W no I think I think that’s right the weather it was a great it was beautiful day that day it’s not just that I mean it was packed wasn’t it I don’t know we haven’t seen it was pack because we packed it absolutely will they be doing that again today I don’t know I don’t know I thought that the the mood at the the the party that they had at tap modern seemed pretty subdued I think he’s literally going to be saying to the country thank you you put your faith in me you put your trust in me and now I’ve got to get on and do this stuff and so I I suspect it will be more subdued um but you know we’ll see I I think the other thing that that Craig will know when the Prime Minister changes it is amazing how quickly that becomes the norm for everybody around them it just you know all the civil servants will as soon as karma walks through the door they will call him prime minister and the King call him prime minister and it’s interesting because a lot of people who are very powerful in opposition suddenly don’t have that kind of Aura because actually you’ve got several thousand civil servants who are all looking to the head of government and behind them and these other figures that often are quite peripheral you had a role being director of communications that’s a big job but other people float away and find that quite hard yeah you’re watching BBC News as we have all our eyes on Buckingham Palace Richi sunak entered about 10 minutes ago to effectively hand in his resignation to the king and then in a few minutes time after he has left we will see sakir starm accept the invitation to form a new government and then he will head to Downing Street where we expect he will speak to the nation Craig it’s interesting watching this wondering what conversations private conversations must be having here between uh the Prime Minister and he is still prime minister at the moment we think rishy sunak and the king I wonder whether rishy sunak will be reflecting on the timing of the election that he called it was his decision to go in July when many people thought maybe he’d have been better off waiting till the Autumn yeah it was very very quickly obvious that it was not a good idea to have gone early for all sorts of reasons I can see why they did it and why he gambled I think he thought he was going to get to a situation where you could wake up the electorate and force them to have a conversation and force them to listen um and actually in reality that wasn’t that wasn’t the case and a lot of things that could have happened for example a cut in interest rates you know showing people that the econom is better that just didn’t happen and actually they surprised labor a little bit but it appeared that they actually surprised their own machine even more because there were a number of unforced errors that happened throughout the campaign so rich sunite when he leaves the palace and they usually stay probably 20 minutes or so uh he is going to leave through the garden exit I think we will actually get uh Imes of that that’s brutal uh but we will see him I think leave uh he will then go presumably uh this is earlier this is not him leaving he has just arrived here but this was about 10 minutes ago um but we assume that he will go back to his constituency that’s what we think he’s going to do there is just a gap in time I mean it is extraordinary isn’t it sometimes it is very very only a few minutes but we have no prime minister until K sta arrives at the palace absolutely yeah it’s the way it works it’s the way it works so we expect to see s sta sweep into that Palace shortly after just talk again about the uh what it was like in Downy Street I think we’ve got IM of of that day because just for people who cannot remember 1997 when uh Tony Blair swept into Power you say you packed Downing Street and it was with lots and lots of Labor supporters and it was really it was a it was a festival carnival party atmosphere wasn’t it yeah I mean Tony came we came back from the palace Tony stopped at the bottom got out walked into dowy Street and yeah they were they were people here we are people very very happy to see them uh I think it was the the the the late beloved Margaret McDonna who would organize the flags and the and all the other stuff that were there um and it was it was an amazing feeling because of course of the other thing you’re at the end of an utterly exhausting campaign but that sort of mood and that sort of vibe gives you the energy that you need to kind of keep going on um because you know we’d been in svi the night before Tony probably had I know about 90 minutes sleep and then you’re in and through the door and you’re being basically signing letters about contrast is intense isn’t it I mean you see those celebratory scenes and actually now the mood just feels just a bit you know quiet interesting to see what it’s like I mean look personally if they try and repeat that that is crazy and if they do that that will be a massive misstep given the mood of the country they should not do that and if they do that I think that will be seen as mass I mean I I had a conversation a while about with K starmo he said look you know one of the problems we Face both in the campaign in terms of because I was saying more positivity more this more that and he was saying the mood of the country is is not where it was and he he actually had this argument that one of the worst things the Tores have done in the last 14 years is kind of drive out people’s hope and his job now is to kind of resurrect that hope and the way that you do that is not by having lots of people waving your flags as you or to down I expectation management a little bit yeah no but I agree with that about definitely about the waving flag things but I do think it’s so interesting that the campaign didn’t have much energy and inspiration and I wonder if they’ll look back and slightly regret that this does feel like a Tory Lo a massive Tory loss it it feels like an anti-tory vote it feels like a referendum on the conservative party and I just feel with looking at the labor party did you do enough to say this is who we are this is what we’re going to do this is what we care about in debates why wasn’t he en energized and punching back and showing that it just feels a bit lacking in EN look at the numbers of people who voted 9 and A2 million people voted for labor last night 13 and A2 million people voted for new labor in 1997 it’s quite a figure isn’t it it is um but I I think it was interesting I’ve been at Channel 4 all night and there was a small studio audience it was very interesting When Kia did the speech both at the count and then at at tape modern it was really interesting watching the people in the audience they were looking at him in a different way to how most of them I think would have been looking at him during the campaign it’s amazing what the office will give him provided he does the job well I have got no doubt at all that he will be I think a better prime minister than people have viewed him as leader of the opposition I just don’t think he enjoy opposition I think he’s a creature of government it’s definitely true that Prime Ministers take on the mantle of office and people remember Tony Blair in 95 to 97 period looked very young when he became prime minister you know he he looked to the part and it was and that takes on I mean my my concern about K stor is like look have you have you just done enough have you told people enough what you’re going to do have you given them enough clarity about the direction this is going and I think you saw during the campaign you saw a man who wants to think about things quite a lot and when you’re in number 10 you have very little time to think about anything you have to rip the plaster off very quickly and your political capital is never higher than at that moment look he’s won an extraordinary Victory he’s got a big majority yes people are talking about turnout and all the other you know Independents beating labor MPS over Gaz and all that stuff’s around but the big picture story is he has never going to have as much immediate power as he’s got today and he’s going to go in there today and find there are dozens of decisions waiting small and large that he’s going to have to make today and he’ll have the whole family thing to be dealing with as well but he I think he understands this he knows and don’t forget he we we interviewed Gus O’Donnell on the podcast you he was the cabinet sec when David Cameron took over and he he was making the point that K starm used to attend guso Donald’s permanent secretaries meetings because he was director of public prosecution head of the crown prosecution service so he knows how all that side of it works but he’s also going to have to be dealing with relatives who want to be there and friends who want to be there all that’s going on but today is a massively important day where you I mean the cliche hit the ground running but it’s more that you start by showing how you mean to carry on to 1997 I mean Tony Blair’s team were very very inexperienced having been in the wilderness for for almost 20 years kiss D’s team I mean there are about 17 of them who have government experience already yeah there’s well I mean there’s cooper cooper Pat Fen David Lamy Ed Milan there’s you know there’s quite a solid group there but also back to the point I made earlier about how normal and quick it becomes that these people are the cabinet these people are ministers and you know that will happen to all of them and then some you know some maybe won’t last very long others will you know really shine and I one other thing I really hope for K is that we end this kind of you know quick change around I mean I hope he’s basically app points the cabinet and says barring Scandal barring unexpected disasters this is my team and it’s going to stay that way for a while which is exactly what David Cameron did it was one of the best things he did before secure starma can roll up his sleeves and head to Downing Street he has to go and see the king and at the moment the king is speaking with Rishi sunak who’s been in there for about 20 minutes now hasn’t he handing in his resignation a private chat but we we’re looking in there through the front Gates of Buckingham Palace where we expect we will see uh Rishi sunak no longer prime minister leaving with his wife in the next few seconds absolutely well that is the gates they shot through those front Gates and we are expecting him to leave very shortly and after that probably will be just a few minutes uh a very short transition but we should see sakir st’s car sweep in from uh we don’t actually know no way he’s not been at home has he the gates are opening now so they’re really getting ready preparations in place for him to leave uh do we know where s stor is coming from or where’s he been all this morning sure he does I’m sure he does I was wondering you I’m sure I’m sure his secur team does he know where he’s going too I he knows where he’s going as well yeah yeah now the car’s getting ready to talking of C I mean all the security Personnel that come with the role of prime minister that continues right after the prime minister is no longer the Prime Minister yeah I mean they don’t I don’t they don’t all have it at the same level um but yeah they will have security some prime ministers didn’t enjoy it and gave it up I think Jim Callahan gave it up just didn’t didn’t enjoy it but yeah I don’t I think these days the police probably wouldn’t let her uh prime minister go officers still remain it’s interesting you’re mentioning the cars there um what’s really weird about them is that they’re so armor plated and very thick doors that you can’t they look like they’re incredibly spacious Jaguars or whatever but in reality you’re cramped in the back and very often I remember like the Prime Minister getting in there in a red box sitting on the seat next to and you were really pushed into a corner then that’s the Le that’s the security side of bulletproof glass very very thick doors uh that kind of thing and getting used to that I think is is interesting too right let’s go to uh Jane Hill who is outside bakan Palace Jane uh we’re getting ready now for rishy sunak to leave the palace what more can you tell us yes it not something we always see necessarily but uh yes camera’s very much trained as you’ve been reflecting and uh again as we are going to see several times here this morning at the palace this is a moment when he leaves uh he will leave uh as an MP but no longer prime minister and that will then lead to that ultimate transition of power to sakir stama as the country’s new prime minister as you’ve been reflecting it is that constitutional Quirk it does leave the country in fact without a PM for a matter of minutes perhaps slightly longer but officially that is the situation our senior Royal correspondent Daniela relf is alongside with me well used to what watching events like this and just remind us Daniela constitutionally why what we are watching here is important the king does play a role today the Monarch plays a role in this Handover of power that’s right the king as head of state it is his job to appoint a prime minister and to make sure that that new prime minister in this case can command the confidence of the House of Commons that is the King’s constitutional Duty and that is what is happening here today um we’re looking at one of the side Gates here at buck and Palace but the departure of the outgoing prime minister today is not designed as a public moment that’s one of the bits of choreography of today that Rishi sunak arrived here as prime minister through those Central Gates of bucki and Palace in to see the king but he leaves here not publicly not through the main gates but through a side gate and goes off privately in that moment no longer as prime minister but an important duty that the King has today to appoint a new prime minister to ensure that prime minister has the confidence of the House of Commons and that is of course usually the leader of the party who has the overall majority and that is Theiss Arma and wouldn’t it be fascinating to have been a fly on the wall at that final meeting between the king and Rishi sunak as we were reflecting earlier he’s been prime minister during an unusually tricky time for the monarchy a lot of unexpected unanticipated events have emerged since King Charles came to the throne some of them of course regarding his own health and the health of other very senior members of the royal family it’s been an unusual and and turbulent time yes it has and you know there is this Fascination isn’t there with the relationship between the Monarch and the Prime Minister and a lot of that relationship is dictated by the time that the prime minister is serving and I think on this occasion when you look at the past couple of years almost a couple of years uh at that relationship between the king and the Prime Minister it has perhaps been a little more personal than other relationships in the past because of the kind of things that have happened a king who was mourning the death of his mother a king who had his coronation with Rua’s prime minister a king who had to tell the country that he was unwell and that he actually had cancer and was having treatment and had to step back a while from public duty it was Rishi sunak who was his prime minister during that period of time and actually there are some very memorable uh pictures from a few months ago of when audiences with the Prime Minister resumed between Rishi sunak and the King uh we were allowed to take some cameras into the private audience room that evening and we saw the king talking to rishy sunak then about the cards that he received from the public the letters how moved he was and a very personal moment and I think there have actually been scattered through this relationship some very very personal moments that perhaps have forged a stronger relationship between the two men that you perhaps you would have thought normally and in terms of the king’s schedule I mean we worth remembering he he is a man still going through cancer treatment isn’t he his his treatment as far as we aware is not over it isn’t over it is absolutely ongoing so as you say he is someone still going through cancer treatment his schedule is being very very carefully managed you know he is somebody who wants to be out there he wants to be doing public duty he wants the public to see him he very much would have wanted to have been part of this event here today um but he is the man said undergoing cancer treatment and there are some restrictions and some limitations on him because of that we should say as well uh the king returned to London for this um just recently because of course uh he should have this is Scotland week is that the correct terminology this is this is a key week usually tradition dictates this is a a week packed full of engagements and responsibilities in in Scotland for the royal family we saw some of them happening earlier in the week and uh when this election was called a surprise to many we’ve been reflecting on that all night and all morning U plenty of MPS took to social media and said wait a minute I had a holiday booked I didn’t think we were having an election on July the 4th well by the same token the royal family probably looked at that announcement and thought wait a minute that’s Scotland week we’re not meant to be in London for this um so he he’s had to in all seriousness he’s he’s had to break away from what is a traditional week north of the Border that’s right the king and the Queen have had to rejig their diaries with the Royal household staff but as you say they should have been in Scotland for Scotland week it usually happens um around this week in July but this year it was ciled a little um the King was back from Scotland yesterday at Windsor Castle for election day and is then overnighted there and come into London this morning so uh they have had to change their Diaries like so many people have had to to accommodate this day um and to be here of course to welcome his new prime minister yes and as we saw Richi sunat go in he had his his wife with him um she was standing beside him when he made those very gracious final words outside number 10 and she’s made this journey just just remind us uh to what extent is the the spouse of of the Prime Minister of the day invited into these meetings allowed in how much is is their role there how much do we know about that well what normally happens we saw um rishy andx wife a myty go in to the palace with him she would have gone up to the private audience room but her husband would have had some time with the King Alone first so that moment of resignation the discussion about that that is just a moment between the king and the Prime Minister towards the end of that audience she would have come in uh to the room and again had some time herself with the King and her husband so she has a a role to play she’s very much part of what we have seen at the palace today but it is essentially a meeting between uh the king and the Prime Minister Rishi sunak we assume has absolutely offered his resignation now to the king because it’s uh 20 minutes it’s I’m sorry it’s half an hour in fact since since uh his car drove through the gates of Buckingham Palace and into the into the quadrangle so perhaps a slightly longer meeting than we might have anticipated it is of course up to the two individuals how long they chat for and and as we’ve been reflecting on the sensitivities of of what’s gone on during what’s gone on for the royal family during during Rishi sunak time in number 10 perhaps we can only speculate of course it’s a private meeting but perhaps a little more has been discussed than we might have anticipated no sign of uh Rishi sunak and his wife leaving just yet and just as I say that of course live television that’s for you perhaps just starting to to pull out out and and therefore begins ultimately a new era once he has left he and his wife have left all eyes will then turn and thoughts will then turn to the next prime minister of this country because it might not be too long before we see saki starma similarly driven down the mile to Buckingham Palace for his first meeting with the King just the final shots of those cars being driven away uh he remains an MP of course he regained his seat in Richmond in north yure but no longer prime minister uh a lot of crowds a lot of people still staying actually here at Buckingham Palace it was absolutely miserable day for the first few hours that we were here but it’s warmed up it’s dried up and Changing of the Guard as ever a big tourist attraction here at the palace and I guess perhaps that’s why there are still so many people here uh but the next stage of events here at the palace will be the arrival of Sakia stama we will bring you all of that and the implications of all of that in the coming minutes so for the next few minutes though I’ll hand you back again to John and Sophie Jane thank you so much yes we could be back there very quickly couldn’t we because this is the vital period where we don’t officially have a prime minister so they’re always Keen to uh to Appo that so-called kissing of hands ceremony inside I don’t think any hands are actually kissed are they Al a light brush Alis Campbell still with us uh and Sir Craig Oliver um Craig that’s it not only rishy sunak no longer prime minister but the conservatives no longer in power after 14 years of government yeah I think you’ve got to say of British Cate that he has handled this morning with Grace and dignity the more I think about it the more the fact that British prime minister left Downing Street and apologized to the British people is an extraordinary thing that is an extraordinary moment most politicians if you said to them look you’ve got a whiff of being prime minister they would grab it regardless of the circumstances I think he’s going to go away and wonder would it have been better if I hadn’t taken uh Power I had a hand that I probably could never have won um and it was an you think he’ll regret ever becoming Pro I think but I think that will be going through his mind look could he have ever actually turned this situation around I mean he’s given an extraordinary energy effort say what you like about him agree with him or disagree with him he’s given it all in the last two years he will be physically and mentally exhausted and I think he will be looking back thinking you know did I make the right choices at the right time should I even have been prime minister was that actually the right thing because actually it’s been a devastating period and he leaves with a 2-year period of people saying it just didn’t work and literally you yourself had to apologize at the end you want to sign of the brutality of uh this change over of power he’s already changed his Twitter feed it now says former prime minister that’s the civil service changes the the point the point I was going to make when just I was walking out the door John Curtis had said this is months ago and I was still in labor could lose this mode because that’s the way I think and he said the two moments at which the conservatives have absolutely lost this election and he said this some time ago was Boris Johnson party gate and Liz truss as prime minister and they’ve never recovered from that and nobody would have gotten to recover from that very polls wasn’t it you could see the polls there were two moments when they really went and they never recovered from that and the trajectory of that I do also think the other thing that he will be pondering and look it was Labor night brilliant job but Richi sunak will be looking at the volatility of the British electorate and thinking is this here to stay and is anybody who’s in power going to experience this kind of volatility because they’ve got really tough decisions to take and you know look at the results that is an extraordinary volatile situation with a labor vast majority that is a mile wide and an inch deep you mentioned party gate you mentioned the mini budget I wonder whether rishy sunak will also wonder whether dday rishy sunak dday was was the moment when it became actually I spoke to some very senior people in the party and they said that D-Day obviously wasn’t great and was a problem actually gambling they felt was much bigger problem on the doorstep the fact that people bet on the election they were getting to a stage they felt where people were thinking okay look we’re really annoyed with you but we’ll just give you a vote here to stop a super majority and they discovered on the doorstep look you reminded us of party gate you reminded us of the fact that you looked like people who thought there was one rle for you and another rule for other people right at a key moment in the campaign and that was devastating I think that’s right I think the the and I saw in polling today the the three most remembered issues or moments of this campaign were betting D-Day and rushy getting wet on day one uh now if you think about it for labor to win the landslide they’ve just won but the three most remembered things in the campaign are all about rushi sunak and the Tories that does underline the extent to which this was really people say and that’s that’s 100% right Alison I totally agree and I and you’ve got to admire labor for the discipline of not interrupting their enemy while they in the process of making a series of mistakes but it wasn’t an enthused or energized campaign they didn’t say very much about what they were going to do it was a campaign strategy that I suspect is going to be a problem when you’re governing if you are saying that we you know we have a mandate a mandate for what what did you tell people that you were absolutely going to do there’s another way to look at it cig if so number one mission is growing the economy growth okay a mandate for growth no but if you now come up with a he’s now in power with a a big majority he can come up with all sorts of radical stuff that’s related to to growth a bit like us not saying we were doing the bank of England Independence to a point economic stability a point such as I know well well I think this planning reform thing which the one thing you really have to take from what both K starm and Rachel re been talking about is this planning reform thing that is going to be very very difficult we have become a nimi culture and we are going to be turned into a yimi culture yes in my backyard we have to be and that’s going to take leadership and it’s going to take that mandate and it’s also going to take a lot of time and I think that the other thing that we’re saying not making a party political Point here but we are seeing that the willingness of people to wait for action and things to happen is short and shortening and shortening and that is a real issue for anybody trying to govern the country particularly where there’s got to be long-term Solutions a willingness to wait we’re all waiting we’re all waiting to see the new prime minister sakir stama arriving at buckingam Palace to accept the invitation of the king to form a government and we’re expecting to see that in the next few minutes and in the back of a car somewhere else in London Ry sunak MP only mp uh is heading off to what kind kind of future do you think Craig we know he he plans to leave his job as conservative leader in the nearish future but for him personally the IM well the immediate thing he’s got is leader of the opposition and I do think he’s got a very very important last job which is to allow the conservative party to take a bit of time or try and get the conservative party into a situation where it can take a breath and have a sensible conversation about where it goes forward that is an incredibly tough thing for somebody who’s been booted out in these circumstances scale of that defeat look at the figures I mean almost 40 million people voted for the conservatives under Boris Johnson 6.8 million voted and when you look at the results you can see how the British people looked very closely to say how can we kick these people out you know you you know the Boost in the liberal Democrat vote the reform vote some labor aspects of that that the the party was thoroughly rejected and this does feel to me like a referendum on the conservative party rather than a pro labor vote and that’s going to be interest in going forward can they take that Gras bit and actually run with the ball because during the campaign they didn’t interrupt their enemy in the process of making a mistake but neither did they make a particularly positive case for what they were going to do and just to alistar’s point yes you’ve got a massive majority in the Commons but if it’s not in the manifesto the Lords can make hell for you yes ultimately the commons will push things through but they can say well I’m sorry that was not in the manifesto why is this suddenly popping up now and then you start seeing it becomes bitter and divisive you’ve got over 400 MPS factions start happening in the party it’s going to be an interesting period but having said that a major win for the labor party and a real tribute to K starma to actually pull it off in the way that he’s done fing in Palace on one side of your screen Downing Street on the other there’s Larry the cat waiting to meet his new owner he is so chilled doesn’t he look at him in the midst of the world’s media there he is having a snooze he counts them in he counts them out and he’s going to seventh prime minister in 8 years do you know he’s 16 years old that cat he’s been there since 2011 I mean he really has stood the test of time Gordon Gordon was Larry’s first prime minister no he was I Liz Liz sug who was the um David Director of Events went to Bassy D cats and dogs home and brought Larry back and he’s been there yeah ever since as you say 16 years old word from our team in Downing Street is that labor party supporters are starting to arrive there we were speculating a bit earlier about whether the party would want to have the kinds of scenes that we saw back in 1997 when Tony Blair swept to power whether the the crowds several deep would be lining with flags aliser Campbell you thought not but um it sounds like there are certainly quite a few head in that way okay let’s see expected it’ll be a lot more muted I mean and they they will have told people I know that for example last night at the tape were very clear that this isn’t a party it’s a thank you to staff and I think that that tone will have been made very very clear it’s a different environment so yes it’s fine to have people in the streets but a sense of euphoria would really strike the wrong note I think if they if they did that now so we’ve been about 10 minutes now without a prime minister we are waiting on these pictures uh kiss armor will be coming we are not sure from where but uh we Hope’s holding the fort Larry is holding the fort behind those railings you can see him in the corner of the picture but he will is his car will be driven from somewhere here in central London Westminster from Houses of Parliament I’m really guessing here but uh they will be coming towards Bucking Palace secret location secret location I suspect you probably know it Alis Campbell but are not telling us um but we will expect him fairly shortly for his audience with the King his when the king invites him to become the next prime minister of the United Kingdom Labour’s seventh prime minister he will be and and only the fourth who has taken labor from opposition into government which when you think that Eaton college has had 21 prime ministers for only four people Atley Wilson Tony Blair and n starma it really does underline how extraordinary this is a very very difficult country to win from the left I think we all know that for red eye history lots of activity there in Downing Street that we can see people coming in and out even more activity going on behind the scenes because a new prime minister’s team will want the desks in different places the offices to be organized in a different way it is all change like that well I remember when David Cameron came in they’d already been in to look at the office and Gordon Brown had this sort of horseshoe he was actually worked out of number 12 and I think David Cameron’s team came in and said no David Cameron is want to get all out so I don’t know whether that was gone by the time you all got in well they they knew that he was actually going back into the office that had been used by Tony Blair which would have been very familiar to you um but yeah there’ been an experiment with having what was the Press office in my time actually being a kind of horseshoe and he’d been very impressed by Mike Bloomberg and directing all um stuff from there um so yeah there will be a swap round but they would have said beforehand look this is where we intend to go this is the kind of thing we want to do I think it’s most natural for a prime minister to want to take the office which is right next to the cabinet room you can literally open the doors walk through it um it makes it makes a lot of sense and I suspect that’s where where he’ll go absolutely well we are still waiting for uh sama’s car which we hope will arrive at some short time um it is going to be an extraordinary moment though for him isn’t it personally after such a quick turnaround he came in four and a half years ago became leader he had to do that on Zoom didn’t he I mean it was he was in it was covid times he had to do his acceptance and begin on a world in Zoom uh now just four and a half years later here he is about to go to the palace and then return here as the seventh labor prime minister the fourth only to win a majority what did he do to turn it round so fast well the other thing to underline is he he hadn’t been an MP for that long before that I mean he came into politics relatively old into his 50s um I think what he did was was grasp straight away the scale of the change that was necessary within the labor party and I think the thing he did that was very very clever was to make that change without that being the only thing that the public knew about him as he was doing it so we made the thing about I’m going to tear anti-Semitism out from his roots and you know I think that people you know see Tom Baldin his biographers over there uh I think one of the things that Tom’s book really really shows is that is that kier’s got a sort of Steely quiet ruthlessness that when he wants to get something done he goes about it in quite a quiet way he sort of plans it and then he does it um so I think that’s what he’s done he he he worked out the scale of the challenge and I think the one of the key moments in that was the Harley pool byelection Labour lost the heartley B by elction lost it to the Tories uh with Boris Johnson’s prime minister and that was a really low Point didn’t he think about quitting at that point according to his biographer uh we will short Tom but I mean didn’t he think about quitting that I think he to wonder I think he began to wonder whether he had What it Took um and I remember because he he he lives quite near us and and I remember we we I met him and we had a cup of tea at my house and I remember I was kind of in my usual you know why you why aren Lo doing this and why aren’t L doing that and he and he said this thing which is stuck with me ever since especially as I’ve heard him and so many other people say it since he says I’m trying to do in one term what you you lot took quite a long time to do I’ve got three stages to my strategy stage one decontaminate the labor brand after all this Corbin antisemitism Stuff stage two show the Troys are unfit to govern stage three set out the alternative and he’s done it stage by stage and now he’s in there and he’s stuck in traffic uh so we will uh we will see him arriving at Buckingham Palace soon we believe but in the he can’t be stuck in no no no no no no we’re just wondering where he is let’s in the meantime go to Glasgow cuz Nikki Campbell can talk us through the results and the reaction in Scotland morning Nikki we’ve got Anna SWA the leader of labor party up here who is absolutely as you would imagine cocka hoop let’s just dig into this a little bit an ask because Independence is still strongly supported in Scotland and a lot of people who still support Independence lent you their votes what’s your message to them I think the first thing is to say thank you to people right across Scotland for putting their faith trust in Scottish labor for voting for Change and we want to get to work straight away and you’ll see that today a UK lab government delivering for Scotland but we also recognize that’s just one stage of the change because so many of the frustrations people in Scotland feel are actually in the control of the S&P Scottish government so yes we start that Journey For Change with the UK labor government still campaigning just a little bit can relax now your message to the people who want L’s campaigning more about delivery for the people and directly I say to people who supported independ dependence and in the past or indeed voted S&P in the past is I have always said in the three years I’ve been leader that I will turn my back on no one I want to bring our country together and deliver the change and also recognize the frustration that so many of them had and but I think it’ be wrong to pretend that somehow it was all just a tactical voting block the reason why so many people have turned to Scottish labor in this election is of course because they wanted to get rid of the Tories after 14 years it is because they wanted a UK libal government and change but also there’s frustrated after 17 years of the SNP at their incompetence and failure and the vast majority of people in Scotland want far closer ties with the European Union if not indeed re-entry and kiss T said not in his lifetime so what we are going to do is recognize that the brexit mess we have is because of the Tories and their Carnage in government and we are going to fix the mess we are going to reset the relationship does that and we are going to work together when it’s in our national interest to deliver for people right across what does that what are the specifics of that CU people in Scotland specifically will want to know because there’s a huge impetus in this part of the United Kingdom for far closer ties single Market included but what I say Nikki is you rightly said to me the campaigns over not campaigning in the exact same way in terms of people asking what we were going to do us putting our perspective forward and people backing that perspective and US winning not just in Scotland by a margin not just being the largest party but winning an overwhelming majority it and people backing our program for change which includes resetting the relationship fixing the mess and of course that’s a discussion and negotiation we want to have with our EU neighbors tricky one though isn’t it if if Michel bar and others are saying no no renegotiation no as you put it fixing the mess without looking at the single Market looking at Freedom of movement well first of all I don’t think that will happen from all my conversations both with sister labor parties across the European Union with EU ambassadors as well as individual EU Nations ambassador ERS none of them have said we want you to commit to rejoin what they’ve all said is we want a government that’s not going to pick fights for the sake of picking fights but they want us to reset the relationship rebuild trust and find those areas of alignment where we can work together in the National interest and that’s what we’ll do tough talking ahead clearly as a a lead I don’t think it has to be tough talking I think it can be it will be collegate collegate government which is about building a relationship listen as a leading Muslim politician in this country labor took a real kicking uh they lost leer South Blackburn tubry and Batley as well candidates beat them who are campaigning on Gaza what does labor what does Kama need to do to get those people back into the labor fold well first of all we are all United in our view that we need an immediate ceasefire the immediate access to humanitarian Aid the immediate release of hostages and for the start of that process to deliver a two-state solution with both Israel and Palestine living in peace side by side and look we recognize that we haven’t won the support of everyone across the country of course we haven’t but we will govern for everyone across this country and we want to rebuild all relationships we’ve lost so we can build people’s trust build their support and actually deliver for people and that’s actually regardless of whether they voted for us in this election or not because I think for far too long we’ve had governments across the UK and here in Scotland who think they only have to govern for the half of the country that agreed with him on the Constitutional question that is not the approach we will take we will govern for everyone and try and pull our country together and a word for John swiny he’s you know clearly a decent man an experienced politician and he had this thrown at him the S&P have not had their troubles to seek as you well know um what would you say to John swiny this morning look I’m I’m not going to do what the S&P has done for the last 17 years which is come the day after the election and give the advice to the losing political party as if it’s impartial advice or advice that might be in their best interest or not it’s for the SNP to look at what happened last night but one thing I think is absolutely clear is if they think this is purely a rejection of 14 years of the Tories then I think they are wrong I think there has also been a rejection of the snp’s record in government and people want the incompetence and failure to end and it has ended now across the UK we start that Journey for change but we want the incompetence and failure to end here in Scotland too I was looking perhaps more for a word of empathy or or at least sympathy because you know what it’s like to lose I remember when I was growing up in Scotland you guys used to as they say not count the votes you used to weigh the votes probably before I was born Cas so my adult life has largely been as in opposition you’re you’re a lot older than I am that that’s all changed that’s all you were in Oblivion and now you’re not and they’ve taken they’ve taken a real hammering and and some some decent Representatives have lost their seats look of course and I’ve know this from personal experience having been an MP having lost my seat in 2015 of course there’ll be individual Rises and falling of political parties but we’re all human beings at the end of the day and lots of people here in Scotland across the UK will actually have lost their jobs last night and even more than that all their staff are likely to have lost their jobs too and so on a human level of course I feel a degree of sympathy but I also recognize that we have a mandate for Change and we have to start the work right now to start deliver on that change look at the House of Commons as a whole and and in Scotland of course which is in terms of the poity far more left of center than some other parts of the United Kingdom um we are going to get looking at the lib dams looking at uh looking at Labor we’re going to get a really left of center skewed House of Commons and yet if we look at Europe things seem to be going in the other direction have you got a quick analysis on that look I think clearly there’s a rise of the right across Main Street uh Europe you can see it happening in the US too and I think we have turned the tide in the UK against the politics of division and I hope the UK can be a Beacon of Hope actually for the rest of Europe and indeed the rest of the world that we don’t have to have this inevitable rise of the right we can push them back we can turn the tide and we can have governments that work for working people rather than seek to put Community against community so I hope we can be that Beacon of Hope and leader of the Scottish labor party congratulations incredible result for for you thank you for being with us uh to you guys Nikki Campbell in Glasgow thank you very much well while you were speaking the heavens absolutely opened here in Westminster torrential rain uh here let’s go to Downing Street now and Laura cburg is there where everybody has been waiting I can see though you’ve got your umbrella down now i’ I’ve just put it down but I definitely had it up Sophie because there were actually Thunder clamps here overhead in Downing Street and you can see there are labor Representatives now here in Downing Street some of their Communications and events team some of them might be walking in here for the first time and they’re trying to prepare for the biggest moment of their professional careers down the bottom of Downing Street it appears that there are some activist or pre-selected campaign supporters starting to turn up perhaps to be here so that kir starmer can ape Tony Blair’s arrival in Downing Street and walk in surrounded by people rather than swishing in in his new Prime ministerial armored Jaguar but we will have to see exactly how they play it and exactly what happens with the weather but I can tell you they’ve taken careful preparations after richy sunak soggy beginning of the departure if we can show the other shot in Downing street down the bottom there are some people holding Union Jack umbrellas so even if it is chucking it down when kir starma arrives they will still get those images with him surrounded by Union Jacks as we’ve seen so often during the campaign even if they are the kind of Union Jack that you put up over your head to keep your hair dry Laura thank you very much indeed it’s getting very congested down there in Downing Street isn’t it but still no sign of our new prime minister at Buckingham Palace I reckon he’s waiting for the weather there is actually there is a glimpse of Blue Sky up there so maybe they’re driving around waiting until till they get a bit more of that we’re joined in the studio here by Tom Baldwin who is uh Sak st’s biographer who like alist Campbell has also been awake all night I think no no sleep at all I I’m I’m very slightly younger than Al um you have spent a lot of time with Sama you know him very well there are a lot of people who still have no idea who Kama is as a man tell us I think he’s an unusual politician someone who doesn’t conform to The Stereotype of you know big speeches tight backstory Vision he he is you know someone who spent three decades as a lawyer he learned his political his sort of speaking style and his identity elsewhere he’s an outsider in that sense but unlike lots of other Outsiders who come into politics he doesn’t go into the sort of populist route of drain the swamp he’s someone who wants politics to be more serious not less he wants politics to be more factual arguments to be better based on evidence and reason rather than this sort of shrill polarized in divisive debate that we’ve had for so long in recent years because he came to politics very late didn’t he 2015 he became an MP he was AG 52 and he’s now 61 he had a whole other career as you say before that I’ve heard you say before that he doesn’t really like the whole Westminster bubble atmosphere no I think he came into politics and was like rather taken aback by just how shallow and shrill it was you know he’s he came into he came in because he thought he was going to be attorney general in Ed Milan’s government probably the biggest political misjudgment he he he he’s made but he said to me once that he thinks the last N9 years he’s been an MP he’s achieved less than any other time in his life because for him you know the reason he came in was to actually take decisions in government so he’s kind of really impatient to get there and roll his sleeves up and I think what you’ll see probably by lunchtime is pictures of him at the cabinet of table sleeves rolled up doing stuff that’s he he he really need to turn to show that change has already begun so here st’s colleagues supporters now arriving in Downing Street Broly’s up rain coming down they’re all on one side desperate to get back inside number 10 and start work we have been hearing but before that can happen the formalities need to be concluded at the palace and S starma needs to go through that kissing hands s Cy where he formally accepts the invitation to form a government from his majesty the king Laura curg is in Downing Street it’s not the the flags the uh that are being waved that we saw in 1997 but plenty of Union Jacks there as they uh approach you in Downing Street yeah I told you about the Union Jack broles that was my uh top tip for the day we can see now lots of Labor supporters now coming into Downing Street now I’m not sure if they’re going to make will stand there in the rain until kir starmer has arrived at Buckingham Palace gone in to have his meeting with the king who knows how long that might take I would imagine they’d want to have a serious conversation it could take some time and are all of these people going to stand there in the rain while that whole procedure is carried out well it appears that they probably are but they’re putting them all there into place no doubt checking what the camera shots are going to look like not just the live shots today but those images that will be captured forever for posterity those moments where sakir s will be captured taking his party back to Power having lost election after election after election after election becoming only the seventh labor prime minister in the party’s entire history however I do fear that these people might all be rather soggy if they have to wait here for the whole time but no doubt in the labor movement there is a profound sense of Joy this morning at what happened has been achieved I think also among some people still a bit of a sense of disbelief a member of The Shadow cabinet soon I imagine to be a cabinet minister said to me I’ll only believe it when I believe it and I’m not sure I really do yet I think the sense of achievement May well only still be sinking in in some labor minds but certainly labor Hearts this morning will be absolutely elated but no question K and his team I don’t think are under any illusion about the challenge that is lying ahead of them they’ve been preparing very very carefully for months now they’ve had a formal period of what are called transition and access talks with civil servants making their plans and we fully expect him to get down to business after the ceremonials at the palace and then his arrival here claiming the Downing Street door and the Downing Street lecturn as his own for the first time we expect very much the cabinet main appointments to be made probably starting at 2:00 this afternoon we don’t expect any big surprises in terms of the cabinet although remember two prominent members Jonathan Ashworth and thanam deboner both lost their seats overnight so the labor leader does have to find a couple of extra pieces in the jigsaw to make up his top team but I don’t expect them to waste any time doing that I would imagine the first meeting of the cabinet is likely tomorrow morning and it’s also expected that labor will as we’d reported a few times in the last month or so we expect that they will slightly extend the session of parliament in other words once they get going once they put their plans forward in the King speech that’s going to be on the 17th of July we expect that they will cut short westminster’s summer break somewhat in order to get cracking because that’s what they want to do but I also think part of that is a sense on the behalf of the labor leaders team that they want to show to the country that they are not hanging around they want to show that they are serious and from a political point of view knowing that there is a real of cynicism out in the public labor politicians talk about it all the time they talked about it often as their number one enemy while the Tories were making so many mistakes one of their big challenges was proving to the public that government can be a force for good in other words that government can actually get anything done so in terms of a message to the country of getting cracking and a desire to get things done labor I think we’ll be doing everything in this first period in government not just to get going but behind closed doors but to persuade and to demonstrate to the public that they can do that a senior figure in K’s team said to me last week we think we will have to show our workings demonstrate to the public how they are working on their behalf and show to the public that those who voted for them this time did the right thing in their view interesting though even in the early ARS of this morning when kir s was speaking at the turbine Hall at London’s Tate modern just on the other side of the river he suggested very much that he would have in mind not just the people who voted for labor at this time round but also everyone in the country who voted for whichever party that they chose maybe even people who stayed at home and didn’t vote at all we can see though his most Ardent supporters some of them even bringing babies some good old-fashioned campaigning there some children being brought into Downing Street ready a little girl running along there to be present at this moment of History so the scene is absolutely being carefully set and staged by the labor party here wanting to paint a picture of the kind of image Kosama wants to associate with his leadership perhaps the kind of country that he wants to reflect during his time as prime minister but his arrival here is still some way off there’s one of his senior colleagues Welsh labor MP but we will be right here in Downing Street whether or not the rain is on or off with his Union Jack umbrellas a loft or folded down but not until sir starmer has arrived at the palace had his conversation with the King and then swept back here into Power Laura thank you very much well while we wait we’ll stay on those pictures of Downing Street but just to say we’ve got alist Campbell here who of course lived through all this in 1997 and also sakir st’s biographer Tom Baldwin who also worked uh in labor party Communications in the mid 2015 I think about that about that um Alis I mean we all remember the Tony Blair arrival in Downing Street in 1997 this is looking like a rather wetter Affair but it’s all about setting the tone isn’t it yeah I I mean there’s Tony you know all the flags waving stuff I I think that you know the nobody can do anything about the weather it’s raining and there you go that’s that’s bad news but manageable but I think what they want to do every time Kier has spoken during this campaign there’s always been people behind him uh and I think just showing there that he’s kind of you know leader of people and so forth I don’t it’s impossible not to be excited if you’re a labor supporter it’s impossible not to feel a sense of real kind of relief and joy relief the chores have gone joy that labor back in um and so you know You’ seen you’ve seen people in the the people that arriving Dow Street who are Party supporters personal friends of of K starm some of whom I’m sure Tom has interviewed for his excellent biography um I do mean that by the way I think Tomas Brook says so much about Karma that a lot of people don’t yet know and they’re going to get to know it because he’s going to become such a a high-profile political figure and there’s a there’s a baby arriving hope they got strong arms there might be a lot of carry Gilbert who I think is the uh has got a senior position in his local labor party um so you know I think that’s about that looks good I think you know people standing in the rain waiting for gear sta a few umbrellas very British and he’s going to want his moment in Downing Street as I mean there was some Talk of the him actually addressing the nation for the first time from inside Downing Street but I don’t know if any other prime minister has ever done that he’s going to want that moment outside isn’t he whatever the weather I have thought so and it’s interesting I was on the way here I was just looking at um this election hasn’t had that much coverage around the world compared to I think previous elections but I was looking at all the kind of main newspapers of the world their websites as as I was coming here this the scale of the victory I mean k St is on front pages in France in Italy in Germany in Spain in the United States and you know so this is a big moment and and yeah that door is one of the most famous doors in the world I think you’d rather be there as a news Prime new prime minister rain or not uh than in that sort of purpose-built covid Press Room that Boris Johnson disgraced so much Tom one of the words that’s been used about K sta this morning we spoke to a lot of people involved in politics is ruthless and yet for the public they see this this guy during the campaign and he doesn’t appear to be a particularly ruthless character does that word make sense to you it does in that he’s changed his labor party you he’s turned it inside out at a rate of Nots you know you know he’s turned the party from one which faced its activists to one which faced out again to the British people and he’s done it without huge drum roll or Fanfare he’s done it in 4 and a half years compared to 14 years which is what it took L party last time it was an oppos going into the four Court of ban Palace let’s go to Jane Hill yes just a flurry just in the last few moments of course we didn’t know we haven’t been told where Kama is traveling from but it looks like we finally have that arrival that we’ve been waiting for and this is a significant moment this is important constitutionally it’s a moment of History the country has been technically without a prime minister for the last what um 40 minutes or so but we are now building up to the point where K sta leader of the labor party will meet the king will be asked whether he can form a government will be appointed prime minister Daniela explain who kiss arm’s meeting here and there is kiss Arma with CLI Alon the principal private secretary for the king and the queen shaking hands with Lady Victoria there going into Bucky and Palace just an interesting titbit Jane is that so Clive Alon and K armor actually was sat next to each other in the seating plan for the state banquet that was here last week for the visiting Japanese emperor and Empress it just an interesting little bit of uh information when you looked at the table plan that that is where the most powerful person in the Royal household to Clive chose to sit that night next to K Dharma interesting decision perhaps but yet they are now inside Bucky and Palace up to the private audience room where the king will meet K dama and ask him to form a government and become Prime Minister and just as we were reflecting when rishy sunak was in the palace behind us again this is a private meeting it is a private meeting nobody else in the room for the early stages of that meeting while they have uh that discussion uh but that kiss ARA’s wife lady Victoria will go into the room in the later stages of the meeting but at first it is just uh the king and the new prime minister what will they talk about it’s hard to know we don’t quite know but we have in the past in various you know autobiographies and things that have been written this moment has been discussed and actually Harold Wilson in 1964 said that the thing that really struck him about this moment was that suddenly he was prime minister as he put it on the spot it just suddenly happens in a moment he described feeling quite shocked about that uh Gordon Brown he also talked about this moment as well when he went to see the late Queen and said once he’d been asked to form a government to become Prime Minister there was what he described as a a congenial and business-like chat about his plan so I think we can expect the conversation to be about forming a government building a cabinet policy priorities a short chat here before Karma leaves to go to Downing Street yes and you do wonder what was going through Karma’s mind on that that drive here to the Palace because fishy sunak in his words outside number 10 in the last hour or so I mean there was quite a gracious reference to just how much one family’s life is about to change yes it’s an enormous job it’s a timec consuming job but he is a a man with two children who are still at school he guards their privacy very closely doesn’t talk about their names you don’t see photos of them this is a huge moment for them as a family and he’s about to be formally told he is prime minister and then as you say his wife will then come into the room for those final moments it would be be fascinating to know what on Earth goes through your mind however much you’ve thought about it You’ thought about it during the campaign in the runup as leader of the opposition this is a real moment politically constitutionally but for them as a family as well and and the Monarch’s aware of that the Monarch may may rate reference to that I think it’s highly likely the king will ask him about that and there is just something I think about being driven through those Central Gates into the quadrangle of buck and Palace going into the palace here to meet the king that will really bring home just how public their life as a husband and wife as a family is now going to be however hard they will clearly work to protect their children and not have them involved in the public side of their life there is going to still be a curiosity and an interest into into this family and they must be feeling that and be very well aware of that as they head into buckingam palace and have their audience with the King today do we know how how well the king knows k d actually what how many times would they have formerly met what do we know on that front yeah I have asked the palace about that this week and I don’t think that any of members of the royal family know kiss D particularly well but he has been involved in a number of setpiece occasions where he would have come into contact with the King a number of times particularly after the death of the queen uh he had number of meetings then with uh the king he also um was part of obviously various meetings around the coronation he’s been part of State visits he’s been part of State opening of parliament so there will have been contact we also know the Prince of Wales uh has a yearly meeting with the leader of the opposition so he will have had a private meeting with Ki starmer as well following a patent his father had set over the years so some contact but it is now really that the two men the king and the new prime minister will have a chance to get to know each other very well just replaying those images of Kama and his wife arriving here at Buckingham Palace in the last few few moments we have had torrential rain here for so much of the day at the palace and look at that just as they walk in that’s the king’s door there uh just as they walk in goodness the Sun comes out I’m not drawing I’m not saying anything by that I’m just mentioning that’s for a group of a group of people who’ve uh got pretty B draggles standing here at Buckingham Palace today and now the sun is out just as they go through the king’s door they’re taken up to the the first floor that’s where the audience room is and that is where that meeting we assume will be going on right now and again this is Daniela something that um the two men will now get used to because it’s worth just reflecting again isn’t it on the the relationship between the Monarch and the prime minister of the day the Monarch remains remains politically neutral but acts history tells us anyway as a as a sounding board and and many prime ministers we know have talked about really valuing and welcoming that opportunity just once a week whether it’s face to face or on the phone now to to chat with confidence some have made um have have said almost with a smile it’s lovely to have a conversation with someone who understands what you’re going through as prime minister and you know it won’t be leaked exactly it is a a private meeting it isn’t leaked and of course this is a king who has some very strong views about the world all that vast experience he had as Prince of Wales and learning from his mother as well so he will have a view he will be interested in what the Prime Minister has to say and I think he will want to be involved and understand how how this new labor government forms and what its policy priorities are Daniel for now thank you so much our senior roal correspondant there with me at the palace more from here a little later for now though that uh meeting is private and there are no cameras as you will be gathering so for now we will hand you back to John and Sophie Jane and Daniela thank you very much for now we’re here in the studio we’ll stay on those pictures of baking and Palace and uh but we do expect sakir stama to be in there for at least another 25 minutes but we’re here uh in Westminster with Tom Baldwin who is sakir st’s biographer and also we are joined Again by our Deputy political editor Vicki young at Tom bwin we saw Sak starma go in there we saw him with his wife lady Victoria a lot of people will not know very much about well really either of them but I his wife has been very very hidden during this campaign hasn’t she yeah well I mean she she doesn’t want to be a sort of prop in politics she’s got a job she works at a local hospital she wants to carry on working at a local hospital she doesn’t want to be you know sort of just someone on the arm of the Prime Minister all the time you know if it’s foreign visit she’ll do that she’ll do what she has to do but she doesn’t want to be you know a kind of part of his brand and nor are either of them going to let their kids be part of their brand you know they will not use their names in public they will not allow them to be photographed right it’s really important to them that these teenage kids get a chance to have a proper teenage without sort of becoming sort of public property CU they’re 16 and 13 years old AR there it’s pretty difficult time to to be to uproot your life and to move into somewhere which is so in the public Spotlight as as Downing Street it is difficult it’s the thing that K says really keeps him up at night you know he has sleepless nights over this you know he says at that age they should be getting up to all sorts yeah having a proper teenage time and it’s going to be very difficult for them and he’s worried about the impact on them and I think they will find lots of ways to mitigate that because that is so Central to their thoughts I mean I just reminded just seeing him going into bu in Paris though one of the previous times he went in there to get his Knighthood and it’s yeah it’s an unlikely knited he’s probably the most working class labor leader we’ve had for a generation the only one to had sir prefix to his name before he got it got United for being head of the CPS when he went up his night his dad rocked up with his mom was very disabled in a batted Volvo at those gates with a Great Dane in the back and they said we’re here for kier’s Knighthood they didn’t eventually they let him in and then he’d asked the footman could you take the dog for a walk because he needs exercise and so the corgis are out Queen’s corgis and the footman didn’t know what to do and it’s absolute chaos and it’s a all fantastic vget I think of the kind of slightly ramshackle background he comes from you know this was his dad was a character I mean proper character his mom was lovely you know very very ill most of all of kid’s life in fact but that sort of sense of just turning up so I think my son’s getting kned you know could he take the great D for a walk and you I think they all had a nice time that day you see the scenes there in Downing Street flags being handed out the Union flag uh flags of the individual nations of the United Kingdom uh the sun’s come out the broes are down and Tom what do you think K starma will be wanting to say to the United Kingdom today what kind of tone will he want to set cuz some people were assuming he wouldn’t want crowds and Flags today he might be doing it in a in a rather more dare I say auster way well look he the the contrast of those pictures of Tony Blair in 1997 that was a time col was going pretty well benign inheritance internationally look like you know liberal democracy had won around the world you’ve now got these very dark skies I mean the weather today is a metaphor for The Inheritance you’ve got an economy which is absolutely broken you know there’s you know there’s a rotting lettuce in the treasury fridge you know some nasty stuff in that salad drawer you know from dating back to Liz truss and you know this is this is this is not that moment of a new dawn is broken things can only get better it’s what he said last night I is really important he said we’ve got to show that politics can make a difference he said this fight for trust now defines our age not just in this country you’re seeing in France you see in the United States this battle against people who actually want to divide and polarize and bring politics down and the kind of politics he represents which hopes seeks to unite and bring people together and it’s going to be a big battle this but the battlefield is changing you’re seeing reform probably second place right across the red wall and what’s interesting talking to labor people the last few days they’re already getting ready for that next battle they’re far from taking their armor off far from kicking back saying we won this election they’re saying hold on there’s a huge political battle now and despite that huge number of seats that big majority the reality is that his share of the vote Labour’s share of the vote yesterday was 35% so how does he carry the country with him does he have the the communication skills to do that cuz sometimes I think people wonder whether he’s as comfortable with the performance side of Politics as maybe somebody like like Tony Blair was no he isn’t and he doesn’t like the performance he likes doing and you know what he says he always likes a football metaphor he says I’ll do my talking on the pitch he says if I can show that politics can get fix something not fix everything with a three-word slogan but start fixing some things now that will do more to restore faith in politics and democracy that any fancy speech any brilliant image is just showing that he can get things done and I think that’s his priority get some stuff done but there is something that you did have in your book where he talked about being running for Parliament for the first time and he said afterwards he didn’t really enjoy it because he sort of hadn’t realized how much of it was about self-promotion and it’s just not something that came easily to him which is that’s all well and good but there is an issue isn’t there when you’re prime minister because in this day and age and labor probably hasn’t governed in a the blitz of social media you do have to be able to communicate so it’s all very well achieving things but you do still have to communicate that it’s a huge part of the job that he’s going to have to get used to along with the scrutiny that comes with that as well yeah look one one thing about him though is you know if he recognizes deficit he will do his best to Corp he’s never going to be the best speaker in the world he knows that he’s never going to be the best performer at pmq another thing he really doesn’t like about politics but he’ll do it you know and he you compare his speeches now to what they were four years ago they’re much much better and he is Relentless you know you know it’s not he’s not a natural but he will work hard to get to a place where you he can do what’s necessary but he doesn’t think he want you know that he should be judged as a prime minister by questions like you know what’s your favorite chocolate biscuit or which sock do you put on first showed quite a lot of irritability about those kind of questions in his campaign he really wants politics to be serious and I think there’s a battle of Wheels now not just you know between popularism and democracy if you like but actually we have a media which has been addicted to drama and spectacle and whether you can actually have this politics which as he says shreds a bit more lightly on people’s lives I mean in my book I say so much of politics has been sort of crowd pleasing stuff Boris Johnson gathered his huge crowd around him he set fire to some of the things we value most in this country starma by contrast always talks about building blocks he’s always got building blocks to his argument one on top of the other doesn’t mean that he and labor haven’t maybe the scrutiny that you might have expected being in opposition because the conservatives for lots of people would say all the wrong reasons have really sucked attention towards themselves and they infighting and all the rest of it it does mean that labor has been sort of unchallenged and that’s going to be something new as well I think I think if anyone from the late party campaign was here they wouldn’t have felt they were unchallenged they but they they had endless stories some more substantial than others about tax and spend what their plans were what they’ve done is extraordinary this campaign that they’ve not dropped the ball it’s so easy I mean I’ve been part of campaigns where we dropped the ball they haven’t V everyone and K said to me you know he said to me on the plane earlier in the campaign you know I’ve been carrying this vase around I’m not going to start juggling it now right I’m not going to do that and he hasn’t and it’s a huge achievement of his team and everyone around them that that that that you know they’ve got through this campaign and it is a white light scrutiny it’s eviscerating and they haven’t screwed up and I think it’s amazing but this sort of you is part of their approach they’re methodical to everything and just going back to that sort of metaphorized try to about building blocks I think it’s really important people don’t find watching someone putting one building block on top of another exciting it’s not inspirational it’s quotes boring turn your back come back a bit later he’s built a house and that’s different and when you’ve built this whole campaign on change he’s now going to have to deliver change and deliver change fast isn’t he that’s going to be his huge challenge think that’s a real tension so their whole thing is about long-term he talks about no more sticking plaster Solutions but they’re going to need some short-term stuff just to get the growth otherwise you are going to have to make some spending cuts or tax Rises they don’t want to do either they they think that you know they’re Relentless approach they can do it but it means you’re going to have to do stuff which doesn’t necessarily look longterm you’re going to have to get rid of lots of regulations have to do lots of business-friendly stuff in that short term while also putting in place some of the long-term changes they want to make the economy the skills changes the infrastructure changes and that is you know that that’s something that’s hasn’t entirely been resolved I think in terms of presentation over the next few months yeah because I mean people you know they people are going to be impatient aren’t they they want change and they want more dentists they want to more teachers they want they want to have what they have been promised the people who have voted for labor and all those things that they’re promising cutting waiting lists it all takes an awful lot of time but it doesn’t always take money if you think of the things that Tony Blair’s government did in that first term things we remember now the Good Friday agreement the minimum wage Devolution they weren’t actually about spending money that actually changing the way government relates to the people and I think there’s quite a lot of stuff they can do which isn’t about spending money in the first in first instance and do you think he’s going to surprise us on Monday are we going to get some big radical announcements that they haven’t spoken of yet but they can now do what you always get with st is he will do the obvious traful things first if that doesn’t work you’ll become progressively more radical for pragmatic reasons so it’s not coming with some gigantic blueprint or Grand Vision that’s not his style it’s about getting outcomes remember yeah when he was in charge of the CPS one of the reforms he was proudest of was moving from paper to digital files you’re never going to get headlines for that sort of stuff but it actually produced better outcomes it’s bed up justice meant fewer FS were lost cases came to court quicker that’s a kind of form which makes a difference to people’s lives he also made Cuts didn’t he as head of the he had to that was it was Cameron Osborne’s austerity he made 27% cuts and some of them he thought were good that made the service more efficient and then it went too far it’s one of the reason he went into politics so you we cut services to the Bone and Beyond and he wanted to actually get his hands on the Li’s power to actually change the laws rather than just implement the laws and he’s waited N9 years to do it he’s found it the most frustrating period of his life you he he says like you know I’ve achieved less in these nine years at any other time in my life he you this is all this is this is the moment he’s been waiting for to get in there and start take Taking decisions which change people’s Liv how do you think he’s going to coope with the pressure I mean he’s he said in the past if I can’t be the best I’ll leave it in the cupboard he’s a really competitive man isn’t he but how is he going to cope with the pressure once he’s walked through that door shortly in the next hour or so when he really does have to deliver he he he can’t let himself or or anyone else down yeah I mean you have this weird situation where you have this eviscerating six we political campaign we exhaust our new prime minister and then we say right govern and you know I don’t think he’s G to bed tonight what he is though is he right he’s competitive and he will always get ready for the next challenge ahead so I I spent quite a lot of time with him the last 72 hours I just watching him closely quite a lot of time he was sat looking out the window on the plane very contemplative on his own just saying that I think we’re just about to show you the uh tell us more about this but we have a photograph here we have the first image uh of s starma with King Charles I can see it you will see it in in a moment well keep keep telling us about the last 72 hours there is an image which has just been released and it is saki stama uh shaking hands with King Charles a short time ago um and that will be be quite a moment for him here we go I think we have the image there we have it the image just released of sakir stama being welcomed into Buckingham Palace as prime minister being asked by his majesty King Charles to form a government that is what’s happening inside Buckingham Palace right now and then sakir will leave the palace with his wife as prime minister and they will head to Downing street where the crowds await them and he will speak to us and we will cover that live here on the BBC Tom Baldwin K st’s biographer what will this moment mean to him I think there will be a thought in his head about when he came to bucking pal with his dad and his mom and Prince Charles kned him he doesn’t use that Knighthood very much you know he prefers to be known as K dama um but it was a moment where I think he you wanted to show his mom and dad that he’d done something and make them proud of him and I think that memory will probably pop back into his head but he won’t be sort of he won’t be wallowing in a moment I I promise you the thing about him is he’s thinking about what’s he going to do when he gets to the desk what’s what’s the decisions he can start taking this is what it’s all been about he’s gone through nine years of opposition which he’s absolutely hated every minute of it he wasn’t someone who’s like always wanted to be prime minister practic practicing his s speech outside down the street naked in front of the mirror at age of 16 and sun do right he’s he’s someone who has done this and got into politics because he wants to change decisions and change people’s lives now that’s what he wants to do he wants to get to that desk at one point he almost resigned a couple of years ago after Harley pool yeah because he thought he wasn’t making enough of a difference he thought if I’m going to lose this next election why am I doing this and it took about 24 hours for him to be persuaded he had to talk to Vic his wife he had to talk to his AIDS they had to persuade him not only that he could cling on but that he could win and that was the moment I think when the changes to the L party really accelerated I’m struck by the tone actually the the image that we just saw of sakis armor and the king and uh it’s not great smiles is it it’s very serious Ser time it’s a really serious time it’s it’s how he is striking the initial tone isn’t it I mean you look at the picture on the front of the labor Manifesto that’s a picture a guy was tied on up sleeves rolled up but tied right tight staring down the barrel of the camera compare that with Tony Blair in 97 you know Ty loosened eyes gazing up at the Horizon this is a serious guy a very very serious time for our country and for our politics and you Christ almighty this is you know it’s going to be a tough ride and he knows it and he’s preparing for those bumps on the road because they’re coming how much pressure do you think he’ll feel under you’ve talked about the pressure from the the public wanting change very quickly with that huge majority that’s also pressure from the Parliamentary labor party isn’t there you know you’ve got this massive majority you could do whatever you want pressure on him to do things and go in certain directions with all those MPS lots of them new will there be a big there will be a big difference in the Parliamentary labor party as well weren’t they yeah and they’re playing this game of fre you know they’ve got fighting free fronts now you know you’ve got a resurgent popular far right here’s the moment so we can see this will be the first time we have seen Sak stama since he became prime minister he’s about to leave Buckingham Palace with his wife Victoria and head towards Downing Street his new home his new office the center of his government a short drive at a big start sta who is going who is now the seventh labor prime minister he is Britain’s 58th prime minister and as we wait for the moment that we see him the first time we see him as Britain’s new prime minister let’s go to Jane Hill who is outside the palace yes because this is a moment isn’t it and that still image tells that story The King the Monarch shaking hands with the country’s new prime minister Sakia stama that image taken in the audience room on the first floor at Buckingham Palace here and Daniela that is a room that the two men will meet in or schedule to meet in the king’s Health allowing uh every week this is a new relationship here that’s right the new prime minister K dor is going to get to know that room very well indeed the private audience room at Buckingham Palace it is within the king’s private Quarters here you can see in that image uh personal Family Photos scattered around that room and it is uh an important room it’ll be the place where privately weekly the two men will meet for Their audience uh there is a a query in the room there flight Commander will Thon in the background there who just policed the logistics of this moment the photograph but it is essentially a moment that would always be private a meeting that will always be private between the two men what is said in that meeting will be kept within the walls of that private audience room and it’s the king’s third prime minister for a monarch who’s who’s been on the throne for not even two years but it is his first elected prime minister so constitutionally this is significant historically that that image will be important if I if only for that reason and and and The Changing of the Guard in every sense from from one party to another and a new moment and and as we’ve been reflecting we would all perhaps love to know what what conversation went on between the two men but it is the very fact that it’s private that that makes it so so special I suppose as you say Jane the first elected prime minister for the king but also the first time there has been a change of political party in government so I think that in itself will be very interesting for the king he will want to know about new policy ideas new priorities the new cabinet what the direction of travel will be for this new labor government it is something that we know the king will be interested and engaged in we know the kind of person he was as Prince of Welles a little quieter as Monarch he has been in terms of his views and opinions but he’ll be engaged in what’s going on so Clive Alon there the principal private secretary to the king and queen saying his goodbyes is a kiss there for lady Victoria stas the new prime minister and his wife leave Buckingham Palace after that audience with the King where K dama is asked to form a new government and become Prime Minister and so he is the country’s prime minister he is driven away with his wife we can hear the whistles in the in the background amongst the crowds here behind us the cour behind us all the police out Riders lots of fluorescent jackets making the way clearing the path there for the car to have a clear run and a safe and secure run of course through the streets of Central London to Downey street it’s not a long journey um not even five minutes really is shouldn’t be any longer than [Music] that and interesting I was just pausing there because there was quite a cheer went up from the crowd behind us I just wanted to see whether we could hear anything that people were calling out it’s always so hard to know here at bucking and Palace the reasons that bring people to the Palace it’s a tourist attraction of course there will be tourists from all over the world here at Buckingham Palace but do they also know that they are seeing the country’s new prime minister being driven away having had his audience with the King and now on his way to his new home a new family home number 10 Downing Street just a few minutes drive away as it gets noisy here at the palace the helicopters all the security overhead and being driven down the m to Downing Street and I will hand you back to our teams there Jane thank you well the scene here in Downing Street couldn’t be more different to that scene of real solemnity of real formality that picture with the King s starm and his wife lady Victoria coming out grinning away broad beams as they get into their official car but here in Downing Street the lecturn is now out you can see it there the Lector came out and a cheer came up from the labor activists who’ve been Gathering here and frankly a labor script writer could hardly have dreamt of this it was raining and drizzly this morning now kir starmer has become the Prime Minister and is on his way to Downing Street the sun has come out and in a sense despite Kier starmer’s often sober demeanor as a politician as you were discussing with Tom Baldwin the dramatic turnaround that he has been able to achieve as labor leader is really the stuff of some kind of political Legend it was not what the vast majority of people in the labor movement and the labor party thought was possible in 2019 indeed some people warned that the labor party could be out forever there were even on the margins some discussions about whether or not the party should disband and yet here British voters hav been shown themselves willing to change their mind in large number and Kama is not far now from making the short Journey from his official car we expect him to walk up Downing Street and greet some of the people who have helped him in the campaign who’ve worked so hard behind the scenes some of them have spotted in the crowd who’ve worked with him for so long and no doubt as he makes the short Journey up the street before addressing the country at the lecton he will want to shake hands perhaps Embrace a few of them give them a word give them a smile and no doubt give them a thank you and we can see the cars turning there as they get ever closer to Downing Street soir starm making this short Journey one that not so long ago he might hardly have dared dream was possible we can now here in Downing Street here the helicopter overhead you can see there lady Victoria get out of the car and her red dress K starma get out of the car on the other side and they have not stopped at the end of Downing Street so they they’ve got out slightly around the corner in whiteall that suggests that they are going to come into Downing Street here on foot creating as we suggested a very different image he’s not going to sweep up the street in that Prime ministerial Jaguar that armored car it looks like they are being squirreled away through one of white Hall’s many exclusive tunnels and corridors genuinely the corridors of power and he will then emerge here in Downing Street you can see that’s just around the back of the Glorious horse guards parade here right in the heart of White Hall where governments over the centuries have wielded such power and influence that Center of political power which now belongs to kir starmer and the labor party it’s likely here in Downing Street when he speaks to the country he will strike a very serious tone about the job ahead but I think since the victory became clear in the early hours of the morning in fact being confirmed by Rishi sunak who was the first person to say out loud before we passed the magic marker for labor of 326 seats giving them a majority ironically it was rishy sunak who was the first to say labor has won this general election he revealed before 5:00 a.m. that he’d already called Sir to congratulate him when labor technically was still short of that majority but some eight or so hours later kir starmer is now here and is just moments away from making a historic walk up Downing Street and without question after the formality of all of those pictures at Buckingham Palace I’m sure he will be greeted with rapturous cheers by his supporters friends and some close parliamentary allies who will greet him here and the they’ve been giving here while practicing waving their Flags is Here There and Everywhere that’s what they’ve been seeing so rather different the kind of tourist crows we saw outside Buckingham Palace they’ve been practicing that chant there they are clutching not just Union Jacks but look at that Soul tires and the Welsh flag too there will be no accident about that no accident whatsoever because labor has picked up seats in Wales they’ve done extremely well as Scotland and that has all been part of adding up Kier starmer’s majority safely over 400 seats which will give him as this day moves towards the afternoon his first afternoon in power an enormous majority and enormous political power the new prime minister sweep we used to seeing the new prime minister sweep in through the gates of Downing Street when Where Do We Now think that uh sist armor is going to arrive from well Sophie it’s a bit of a guessing game I was trying to identify from the air I know this neck of the woods pretty well but I think he went into one of the courtyards just off horeg guards parades which means he’s somewhere off to the right of the historic shiny door but there are all sorts of Warren and ways through so I think that he will probably pop out at the end of some of the cabinet Office Buildings down at the White Hall end of Downing Street but through a secure way around rather than actually having to walk up White Hall past members of the public security of course for kir starmer has been tight as leader of the opposition but now as prime minister as the leader of the sixth biggest economy in the world as the leader of a country that has a significant military and security role around the world security for him will go through the roof now so he’s not going to be wandering up white hole through members of the public I wouldn’t expect I think he’ll probably pop out through some part of White Hall at the end of Downing Street and then walk up the street I don’t think past his crowds of supporters who’ve gathered here in the Sun but we’ll have to see maybe he’ll pop out surprisingly from the other end I don’t know I am guessing based on my my decent knowledge of this neck of the woods but I’ve been trying to identify buildings from the air so uh yeah I hope I’m right and he’s not cly going to pop out the door behind us but I can’t imagine he’ll do that this is all about setting a different tone though isn’t it yeah without question I mean it’s interesting you were talking to Alisa Campbell earlier and he was saying I don’t think you’ll do the big sort of celebratory thing but I I think actually for this moment after the formality of the palace I think when you think about the Superhuman efforts that actually campaigners and activists and politicians in all political parties put in during campaigns particularly in this context I think the the idea that they weren’t going to allow themselves just a few moments of flag waving and baby kissing and greeting and congratulation and celebration from K’s close supporters and AIDS I think they idea they weren’t going to indulge in a little bit of that was probably for the birds however I think he will strike a pretty business-like tone in his speech offering as he did in the early hours of this morning around about 5:00 speaking the Tate modern he did talk about sunlight of Hope returning to the UK he did talk about returning that sense of promise that people’s children would always do better than them the return turn of that social contract between Generations that he says has been somewhat stretched and strained after 14 years of conservative governments so he will be trying to offer a dash of Hope as well but at one point during The Campaign which was such a kir stur statement he said he offered Frank hope now that wasn’t a a man called Frank hope but a Frank hope a sense of an Sumer I’m not going to promise you some kind of Nirvana overnight he’s trying and I think we’ll hear this in a few moments he’s been trying to say all the way through this campaign a commitment that under his leadership Britain can be a better place but a warning to the country that it may well take some time but it’ll be interesting Sophia and John I do think in the next couple of weeks that we are likely to hear from senior labor politicians those new members of the cabinet we expect to be seeing coming up in dowy Street later today I do expect they’re going to try and shift some of the story they’re telling the public to include a sense that things might be even worse than they had expected I think they might try to set some kind of Ground Zero but at this moment the sun shining on Downing Street where the sun doesn’t often shine it has to be said it’s a slightly strange microclimate here in Downing Street but as we just show you again that formal picture of the king greeting the new prime minister of the United Kingdom his supporters here in dowy street are standing in the sun broad smile miles everywhere to be seen lining up along the street and I do expect that they will all be ready to make the most of every single second as their leader the leader of the labor party you couldn’t have dreamt of this moment in 2019 is about to arrive but I’m still guessing where he’s actually going to pop out in Downing Street so I keep looking up the street and then down the street but we’ll we’ll shout as soon as we see him look up Laura maybe he’s about to parachute down who knows I mean Sak St he he took that would be Davey on a bunge that’s right Sak St talked during the campaign didn’t he about growing up in a workingclass family in a pebbl dash semi in sorry and here he is about to arrive at one of the most famous addresses in the world at number 10 there we go we can see Lady Victoria there in the red dress air getting in on the other side of the car we understand that they they got out of the car r the back of Downing Street I think that might be the treasury they’re now getting back into the car and they’re going to head around the front so Laura it looks like they will be making the traditional entrance through the gates but they obviously had a a pit stop along the way so no secret tunnels being required to lead to some kind of surprise entrance but perhaps they were just making a pit stop perhaps just having a private moment together before one enormous moment just after one other moment I wonder perhaps if they were saying to each other things that they had been thinking of saying for a very very long time of private moment together perhaps they were there to see their children to acknowledge their importance to each other as a family at this enormous moment for them we don’t know what happened just behind closed doors but they now are now back in the car and they are literally around a quarter from here John so who knows what they were up to in that moment as they come back onto White Hall they are they’re just turning back back on to White Hall and they are quite literally around the corner from Downing Street now a journey that for the labor party has felt for so long so far and so impossible has now almost come to an end with the labor prime minister for the first time walking into Downing Street for the first time in so many years he certainly will and you can hear the cheer going up from his supporters here waiting for him in Downing Street the gates are open at the End of the Street causing a cheer to go up here come the out Riders they’ll flank him everywhere he goes now it’s the 58th prime minister of the United Kingdom arrives in Downing Street in that role for the first time w [Applause] [Applause] [Music] St there thanking and greeting his supporters a beaming Smile as he shakes hands with those who have supported him for so long that was just Pat mcfaden who’s been the chief of this campaign shaking his hand Karma looking elated that is an image of the labor leader we have so rarely seen in public hugs Smiles cheers and handshakes [Applause] as he crosses over the famous street with his wife Vic as he often refers to [Applause] her making his way across that line of supporters a hug there from his longtime [Applause] Aid and such is the desire of his supporters friends to greet him as he makes along the line that it’s taking him quite a long time to get to the Lector and they’re enjoying every moment of [Applause] this and time for the waiting cameras in a second but first the final thank yous to friends activists and campaigners those people who’ve worked alongside kir starmer and his wife so hard and for so long and here he comes up to the lecturn only the seventh ever labor prime minister thank you good afternoon I have just returned from Buckingham Palace where I accepted an invitation from his majesty the king to form the next government of this great nation I want to thank the outgoing Minister Rishi sunak his achievement as the first British Asian prime minister of our country the extra effort that that will have required should not be underestimated by anyone and we pay tribute to that today and we also recognize the dedication and hard work he brought to his leadership but now our country has voted decisively for change for National renewal and return of politics to Public Service when the gap between the sacrifices made by people and the service they receive from politicians grows this big it leads to a weariness in the heart of a Nation a draining away of the hope the spirit the belief in a better future that we need to move forward together now this wound this lack of trust can only be healed by actions not words I know that but we can make a start today with the simple acknowledgement that public service is a privilege and that your government should treat every single person in this country with respect if you voted labor yesterday we will carry the responsibility of your trust as we rebuild our country but whether you voted labor or not in fact especially if you did not I say to you directly my government will serve you politics can be a force for good we will show that we’ve changed the labor party returned it to service and that is how we will govern country first party second yet if I’m honest service is merely a precondition of Hope and it is surely clear to everyone that our country needs a bigger reset a rediscovery of who we are because no matter how Fierce the storms of History one of the great strengths of this nation has always been our ability to navigate away to calmer Waters and yet this depends upon politicians particularly those who stand for stability and moderation as I do recognizing when we must change course for too long now we’ve turned a blind eye as Millions slid into greater insecurity nurses Builders drivers carers people doing the right thing working harder every day recognized at moments like this before yet as soon as the cameras stop rolling they lives are ignored I want to say very clearly to those people not this time changing a country is not like flicking a switch the world is now a more volatile place this will take a while but have no doubt that the work of change begins immediately have no doubt that we will rebuild Britain with wealth created in every Community our NHS back on its feet facing the future secure borders safer streets everyone treated with dignity and respect at work the opportunity of clean British power cutting your energy bills for good and Brick by Brick we will rebuild the infrastructure of opportunity the worldclass schools and colleges the affordable homes that I know are the ingredients of Hope for working people the security that workingclass families like mine can build their lives around because if I asked you now whether you believe that Britain will be better for your children I know too many of you would say no and so my government will fight every day until you believe again from now on you have a government unburdened by Doctrine guided only by the determination to serve your interest to defy quietly those who have written our country off you have given us a clear mandate and we will use it to deliver change to restore service and respect to politics end the era of noisy performance tread more lightly on your lives and unite our country four nations standing together again facing down as we have so often in our past the challenges of an insecure World committed to a calm and patient rebuilding so with respect and humility I invite you all to join this government of service in the mission of national renewal our work is urgent and we begin it today thank you very much Kama inviting the country to join him in his government of service and embrace there for Carolyn Harris one of his close MP colleagues as he says thank you and Embraces more of his supporters who have gathered here in Downing Street who have listened with the country toir s’s first speech to the nation as prime minister joining hands once more with his wife [Applause] Victoria greeting a family friend there or perhaps her father will check that and get back to you but clearly huge scenes of emotion here in Downing Street the S and his family a man who has become our nation’s prime [Applause] minister who not so long ago and there we are a historic image labor seventh prime minister SEC stommer the Downing Street wave and we’ll stay on these pictures as kir stammer having made history walks through the famous door into the entrance hall of Downing Street being greeted there by the cabinet secretary so Simon case who served Boris Johnson LZ Russ and RI sunak of course being clapped in as is traditional by the civil servants who will now work on his agenda outside on Mr calville atmosphere among labor supporters and activists who came here to Downing Street to watch it and to watch Kos address the nation for the first time as prime minister promising a government of service promising to restore trust saying I will fight until you believe it interesting very much a theme of The Campaign and straight away k s acknowledging what many voters have felt that there are plenty of things about this country that just have felt that they don’t work anymore acknowledging the extent of public frustration and promising to rebuild the nation let’s GB a Chris a quick word with our political edor Chris Mason who been watching that speech alongside me here in Downing Street it’s almost as if Karm looked unburdened almost sort of 2 Ines taller with the importance of this moment what did you make of his speech I thought exactly that and it’s been striking following him over the last couple of years and seeing his growth in confidence as the likelihood of this moment inched closer and closer throughout the campaign he was desperate never to appear uh in any sense triumphalist and it was interesting that he’s allowed himself that moment because in amongst the choreography that we always expect at these moments an element of partisan choreography as well with party supporters with their flags and the chance for the new prime minister and his wife to greet uh some of their supporters and I guess given the scale of their Victory you can see why if you were them you might be tempted by that but we should be very clear about the nature of who those who those people are then the expectation management from K St attempting to pitch the tent even wider than his majority to talk talk to people who did not vote labor at the general election but then to acknowledge that the flip side to that slogan that one-word slogan that we’ve heard repeatedly for the last 6 weeks change can’t be delivered quickly and he acknowledged that explicitly because the flip side to a giant majority might be that sense of expectation relatively soon given few people dispute the Towering list of challenges that he faces and the country faces that people will want to see delivery fairly soon he was just mark the card I think of the wider country that that will take some time interesting though also he I think in quite a imager way painted a picture of the challenges and the instability around the world actually he said no matter how Fierce the storms we’ll go into we will reach calmer Waters saying he would govern with stability and moderation now I think that was a pretty undisguised Bar B acknowledgement of the turmoil that we’ve seen in this street in the last few years as you know well yeah undeniably I think the the biggest element of difference in a in a big sense that he has been attempting to draw as a distinction between him and the conservatives uh is the chaos frankly that there has been with the rotation of prime ministers uh in recent years the succession of so many secretaries of State in the key departments uh around uh whiteall and trying to make a virtue out of stability after a period of years well going back B of the last decade really where there just simply hasn’t been civility now whether or not he can deliver that let’s see he’ll be helped I guess by the size of that majority but hey there’ll be all sorts of events to come won’t there domestically and around the world that will test that hope from his perspective well you can feel and see here actually in Downing Street on the faces Sophie and John of the campaigners and activists who’ve been here quite a few of them wiping away tears stopping to take their own photographs of what is a historic moment for their party it must also feel for many of them you can see an enormously emotional moment those cheers when kir arrived then suddenly completely silent while he was speaking you could hardly hear a pin drop while they listened with wrapped attention as he made his promises of course his words may not be received in the same way on televisions radios and online when people who are not labor supporters hearing his words around the country but K stammer this very choreographed but for these people very moving very emotional occasion making a promise not just to them but in kir starmer’s words making a promise to the country we will rebuild Britain people who have been ignored by previous politicians not this time he said I will fight until you believe again it’s a big promise Sophie and John easier to say than to achieve certainly is Laura kbur thank you for now and here we are in the studio and just outside the House of Commons with Tom Baldwin who is Sak st’s biographer who is watching those images very intently you knew an awful lot of the people uh there cheering him on and you’ve spent a lot of time with him in the last few days haven’t you yeah and I thought it was really significant that some of the people he shook hands with and hugged just at the last just before his speech very very old friends I spotted John Murray there his best friend at University who taught him all about Indie music there pares Jabba who worked with him on the death penalty project when he’s a human rights lawyer and those old friends are a huge part of his scaffolding that you know they are the people who are there to keep his feet on the ground and keep him connected to the real world and then I thought his speech was interesting because he did talk about stability and a sort of sense of trying to steer the ship to Karma Waters but then he also recognized this thing about trust he he recognized the there’s a lot of people really angry and disillusioned and contemptuous of all politics by addressing Everybody by dressing people who didn’t vote labor in particular I think he’s trying to say that you know we’ve got a big problem in democracy now you know we’re going in a year time our democracy could look more like France or America’s unless he can show he’s demonstrated some change so that last phrase he used Brick by Brick it’s not going to be showy it’s not going to be that sort of noisy performance as he put it it it’s going to be Brick by Brick but he’s trying to get something solid something solid done to rebuild service I don’t know how many times he used the word serve or service but again that’s a key theme yeah it’s it it uses service respect ordinary hope not some sort of speculative hope it’s about being grounded but in these quite patriotic values it’s not an ideology there’s no such thing as starm merism I think he Roots himself in quite traditionally recognizable British values like service and Duty and respect and you know as such what he wants to do is be a prime minister who looks like this country can fit into the folds of this country rather than draw straight lines through it we’re about to find out where he’s going to be able to do it because it’s going to be a really tough ride but what he wants to do is kind of bring that sort of sense of pism which everyone can own a bit of this country and feel proud of it back it’s a really tough task in front of him Tom bbin I know you’ve been up all night no sleep at all thank you so much for joining us this afternoon well what a busy few hours we’ve had here in Westminster we now have a new prime minister sakir starma whose labor party won that Landslide over 410 seats in the general election and in the last few minutes we’ve seen him addressing the nation saying that change begins immediately that he wants to move the country forward together earlier we saw the departure of the former prime minister Rishi sunna who apologized after the conservative party’s general election defeat the worst in its parliamentary history with just over 120 MPS remaining it’s not over yet don’t go anywhere we’ll be bringing you all the news at 1:00 a summary of what’s happened so far and of course we will bring you all the later news about cabinet appointments because the work as K starma said begins now but first let’s just have a a quick moment to remember what happened overnight and this morning [Music] so my government will fight every day until you believe again from now on you have a government unburdened by Doctrine guided only by the determination to serve your interest to defy quietly those who have written our country on we did it the British people have delivered a sobering verdict [Music] [Applause] [Music] tonight can now say with certainty that labor have won the 2024 general election [Music] [Applause] [Music] believe me folks this is just the first step of something that is going to Star [Music] welcome to this election special news
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That's a quick smooth transition. I'm assuming the Sunak's personal effects were moved out of 10 Downing Street last night? 🤔
1:28:50 Hunt leaves Downing Street
2:40:10 Sunak leaves, speech
3:56:50 Starmer goes to Palace
4:17:40 Starmer becomes PM, goes to Downing Street
4:37:30 arrives in street, speech