let the healing begin Boris Johnson
declared today in a victory speech on
the steps of number 10 aimed at bringing
a fractured country back together he
insisted the focus would be on the NHS
but his landslide victory puts a brexit
right back on the immediate agenda that
withdrawal bill likely to go before MPs
next week and it will put Scottish
independence front and center too thanks
to a resurgent SMP as for labour with
their worst results since the thirties
the political recriminations begin and
the search for a new leader let's take a
look at the result by numbers with all
seas declared the Conservatives have 365
MPs labour has two hundred and three
fewer than Michael foot one in none in
the 1983 election the SMP will have 48
seats and the Lib Dems just 11 all that
means Boris Johnson will enjoy a
majority of 80 the Tories have gained 47
seats on the 2017 results labour have
lost 59 the SNP picked up 13 and the Lib
Dems are down one Boris Johnson won just
over 43 percent of the vote only a
slight improvement on Tory's amazed
performance but labour took just 32
percent with the Lib Dems on 11 the big
story
Labour's votes share is down by nearly 8
percentage points and especially in its
northern heartland the Lib Dem vote did
rise significantly but not enough to win
seats our political editor Gary Gibbon
is with me again Gary the big
significance of last night is that
brexit is now happening if you have a
pro second referendum banner of
blueberry with stars on it put it away
in the cupboard that is not going to
happen what is going to happen this
breaks it and Boris Johnson is going to
move as fast as he possibly can to make
sure that the first phase of that the
delivery of the divorce bill into law us
actually technically leaving EU happens
very quickly potentially with the second
reading of that bill a week today what
he does actually in terms of the new
relationship is an interesting open
question because an awful lot of people
are wondering where exactly he will
take that everybody's wondering whether
he can remotely keep to the timetable
his set but all of that getting over the
timetable blurring that maybe tacking
slightly closer to Europe than people
might expect all of that becomes
possible because he's a man with a great
big hefty majority now something we
haven't seen of course in Downing Street
for some time but the other massive
thing about last night is what it does
for the realignment of British politics
you've been talking there about what's
happened to Labour's heart clans the
most obvious comparison that we keep
going back to to understand last night
is what happened under Michael foot in
1983 when the party reduced to what we
thought was its irreducible core labour
now controls only half of the seats that
were in that irreducible core it is an
extraordinary transformation of our
politics and the seats that they are
left with are potentially more
vulnerable to other sort of sweeps and
changes or new political movements that
could crop up we have of course a
different kind of general election in
Scotland it looks as though a
constitutional crisis is coming towards
us in Northern Ireland as you said some
very interesting changes where for the
first time unionists not holding the
majority of seats there are occasionally
general elections we have seen them in
the past where not much actually changes
this is most emphatically not one of
those he's back and with the majority
bigger the men in his team had ever
dared to dream of horas Johnson now the
most powerful Prime Minister since Tony
Blair
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and after the Queen formally asked him
to form a government he spoke to those
voters in the old labor heartlands who'd
given him their votes to all those who
voted for us for the first time and
those whose pencils may have wavered
over the ballot and who heard the voices
of their parents and their grandparents
whispering anxiously in their ears I say
thank you for the trust you have placed
in us and in me and we will work round
the clock to repay your trust and to
deliver on your priorities with a
parliament that works for you watched by
his team including advisor Dominic
Cummings he called on the nation to come
together I frankly urge everyone on
either side of what are after three
years three and a half years after all
an increasingly arid argument I urge
everyone to find closure and to let the
healing begin
in Levy the Conservative Party candidate
17,000 it was a night of Tory wins in
seats labour thought it could not lose
like live valley facet law to the
drawn-out saga of brexit driving leaves
supporting labour backers into the arms
of the Tories but you couldn't some said
Park all the blame on bricks it it
wasn't just about brexit it was me so
provider about the perceptions of the
party and the leadership has jeremy
corbyn cost you your job tonight
absolutely completely but I shouldn't be
surprised in that because Jeremy Corbyn
and I have very very little in common we
just both happen to be members of the
Labour Party Corbin was a disaster on
the doorstep everyone knew that he
couldn't lead the working-class out of a
paper bag now John's developed this
momentum group this party within a party
aiming to keep the purity the culture of
betrayal goes on you'll hear it now more
and more over the next couple of days as
these this little cults get their act
together
I want them out of the party I want the
mentum gone I think that would be a
disaster for the Labour Party and a
disaster for the politics music wheeled
out of labour campaign headquarters a
white board of Tory games as it wiped
clean
or did they give up writing them down
that were 54 Tory gains from labour
Jeremy Corbyn announced he'd stand down
when a new leader was in place process
aides said that could take a minimum of
three months he insisted his manifesto
was the right one but the media had been
hostile and brexit was at the heart of
Labour's disastrous result I think the
issue that dominated this election
ultimately was brexit our policies I've
named some there are many many others I
could name were actually all of them
individually very popular there was no
and there was no huge debate or
disagreement in the party about any of
the policies in our manifesto chamber
the Labour target that slipped from the
party's grasp tonight the unite general
secretary Len McCluskey described the
manifesto as an incontinent mess of
unbelievable promises while labour
argues about we're next back in number
10 Dominic Cummings has been leading the
planning for domestic policy some in
Whitehall worried what he might have in
store this morning cameras caught him
offering his hand to the cabinet
secretary Sir Mark said well
one thing definitely in store the fast
track progress of the brexit divorce
bill after another Queen's speech next
Thursday the second reading is expected
a week today the big majority now
guarantee the stairs are strengthened
Boris Johnson implements a plan Northern
Ireland's DUP loathes the party's lost
its deputy leader Nigel Dobbs and
unionists for the first time no longer
hold the majority of Northern Ireland
Westminster seats the Lib Dems Joe
Swenson had called for this early
election and was its biggest casualty
losing her seat to the SNP nearly five
months into her leadership where the
people attacked my vision are my voice
my ideas or my earrings one of the
realities of smashing glass ceilings is
that a lot of broken glass comes down on
your head on a personal level I do feel
for Joe Swanson it's not easy to lead a
campaign and you know to lose her seat
is a real really cruel blow so yes I do
have a lot of sympathy all that was well
hidden when Nicola Sturgeon actually
heard the news there was a lot for the
SNP to celebrate back up to 48 of the 59
seats in Scotland the SNP leader says
Boris Johnson must now give Scotland a
second referendum on independence a
calls she believes brexit will greatly
strengthen getting brexit done is now
the irrefutable irresistible unarguable
decision of the British people and with
this election I think we put an end to
all those middle miserable threats of a
second referendum he insists he wants to
meld one nation but looking at how leave
and remain seats voted differently you
see how difficult that might be if you
look at the seats that voted strongly
for leaves 60% plus as much bigger swing
to the Tories here if it was up to them
if all the seats behave like these
tory's would have 118 majority now look
at seats that voted strongly for remain
in the referendum and the swings are
different if it was down to them the
Tories would be clinging on with the
majority of six as it is he's back with
80 whole new voter base he must please a
timetable for EU trade negotiations many
think unachievable the massive majority
it gives a leader authority to act not
seen in this place some years well
earlier I spoke to the Conservative MP
Jillian Keegan and I began by asking her
how Boris Johnson can unite the country
when the election results suggest it is
still bitterly divided I don't think the
boats do suggest it's bitterly divided I
mean you know we've been talking about
one nation conservatism we actually
represent every nation we have more
seats in Wales now we have six seats
still in Scotland we got seats in the
Northeast the Northwest we've got seats
in the Midlands we've got seats all over
the country so we represent every part
of the country we represent every
different type of people in the country
as well from every city different socio
demographic so that's the start if
you're talking about leave and remain
how you unite those people who still may
feel they want to remain then the answer
there is to do a sensible brexit a good
deal with the EU and make sure the
voices of the four nations and
particularly young people are heard in
the next stage of the negotiation do you
see any problem with Boris Johnson
claiming and mandates for leaving the EU
when in fact more people voted for
parties that want a second referendum or
to revoke than parties that are
committed to leave it in our system if
this doesn't give a mandate nothing ever
will of course it does you know look the
Parliament has been stuck the British
people have basically cleared the way
through and said here you go get on with
it
we want to leave with a deal and so what
kind of government do you think this is
going to be I mean you know because
we've heard this before we heard this
from Theresa May talking about wanting
to tackle the Great and Justices and
nothing very much happened I mean do you
think he will deliver when he says you
know he wants to address the concerns of
those people who lent
their votes that that is what we all
want to do the Labour Party in other
parties try to pretend also try to
proclaim that they've got superior value
sets every single person in politics
wants to tackle the same issues we have
in our country we just think we've got a
better more credible plan to do it do
you have any concerns about the other
agendas that go along with this though I
mean those sort of rather oblique
references in the Conservative Party
manifesto to looking at the Constitution
the Supreme Court their approach to the
media all of those sorts of things could
change at the same time I don't because
honestly I think what is what defines
the Conservative Party and the reason
I'm a conservative is sensible pragmatic
policies so the Conservative Party is
never going to be extreme people try to
paint as as extreme but we're not were
actually a centrist by nature very
centrist this majority means we will
have the ability to be a true one nation
conservative government unlike that we
haven't seen for decades and I'm very
excited about that do you think that
goes for the people around Boris Johnson
as well I don't know that I guess you're
talking about Dominic Cummings and some
of those people I don't know that but
you know there's a lot of extreme
talking in this in this conversation and
it was all really around brexit and you
know you have very extreme positions
like the Lib Dems and you had very
extreme positions like the brexit party
and you know they paid Dominic Cummings
out to be you know somewhere somewhere
you know extreme as well I don't see
that what he's delivered is a you know a
conservator he's helped deliver a
conservative majority and for people all
over the country
you know his strategy and the strategy
that the Prime Minister had with many
other people has been successful I mean
you've always wanted to moderate the
party's position on brexit I mean do you
think there is any problem with a brexit
that is sensible in your terms when
there are lots of people who have voted
conservative who might otherwise have
voted for the brexit party and want
something a bit harder you know can you
actually satisfy everybody
actually if you look at the three and a
half years worth of work that's been
done with the civil servants with
everybody else it is clear that what you
need to do to solve the problem of
brexit is you need to get something that
um picks a 45 year old relationship
without damaging everything and give us
the opportunity to build a future
collaborative arrangement with the EU
that's what we'll do
it's as simple as that - Keegan thank
you very much thank you
well while Boris Johnson has been
talking about unity hundreds of
protesters descended outside Downing
Street tonight
Whitehall was briefly closed to traffic
in both directions as the crowds waving
placards declaring defy Tory rule began
a heading northwards towards London's
busy Piccadilly well we'll be back here
in Westminster later in the programme
but now over to Cathy who's in Wakefield
thanks Chris welcome to the red shed the
Labour Club in Wakefield
a constituency wants the cornerstone of
the party's so-called red wall now
that's a swathe of the country which
marks out from coast to coast huge areas
of solid labour seats but now that red
wall has crumbled but the Conservatives
picking up a host of those seats
instead many of the 60 Labour MPs who
lost their jobs last night turned
angrily on Jeremy Corbyn saying he was
simply unelectable
but for plenty of voters across the
north it was the party's ambiguity over
brexit which was to blame like here in
Wakefield where Labour's Mary Kray was a
prominent remain voice and suffered the
consequences as the Conservatives won
for the first time since 1931
our political correspondent Liz Bates is
here well Liz this was a historic night
here wasn't it we make yeah it was and
the thing that really stood out for me
actually was the political shift that's
happened in this area I grew up just
down the road from here in Rotherham and
to see those seats last night going
conservative that just wouldn't have
happened a few years ago so big change
over a really short period of time the
second thing that I really noticed is
that among Labour MPs and activists
there was a lot of shock actually at the
level of loss
that they were enduring but when we went
out into the streets and spoke to vote
to voters they were actually not that
surprised which suggests that actually
that relationship between labour and its
post-industrial Heartland has been
breaking down for maybe quite a long
time longer than this general election
period certainly and of course this was
a really difficult night for the Labour
Party but this also offers a big
opportunity to the Conservatives and
they understand that I think I was
speaking to number 10 last night even
before the results were coming in and
they were saying they understand that
they have to adapt their program for
government to reflect the political
needs of these huge weights waves of new
voters that they have across the country
so that is the political challenge that
Boris Johnson will face during his
Premiership but of course a really tough
night for labour last night and this is
how it all played out in Bolsover
Derbyshire rehearsals for the Christmas
production are in full swing but it's in
the room next door that the real drama
is unfolding voters here and across the
North Attorney out but this time they're
painting these Labour Heartland towns
blue first time ever baby
so that you've changed you've switched
debts don't I Corbin the polls had
narrowed but on the doorstep labor
activists had heard that brexit and
their party leader were driving voters
away as voting closed box loads of
ballot papers swiftly turned those fears
into devastating reality and I do hereby
declare but mark Peter Fletcher is
elected to serve as Member of Parliament
for the constituency of bowls over and
as Labour's red wall began to collapse
there were more casualties down the road
in Doncaster Carolyn has just lost her
Don Valley seat here tonight amid a
labor collapse in its heartland the
senior figures are blaming brexit but
there are much more fundamental
questions for the party to answer what
happened tonight for labour I just want
to have a bit of time can I just ask you
is it time for Jeremy Corbyn to step
down now yes who is to blame what's
happened to labour tonight I think
there's a combination of factors play
one is I think Jeremy Corbyn is a leader
time and time again on the doorstep
people said I like you I'm a laborer
through and through my dad was a miner
my granddad was miner be turning in his
grave if I didn't vote labor but I just
can't vote Labour whilst that man as
your leader and what was most cut me the
last couple of years is the disrespect
that has been meted out to my voters you
know by you know because they voted
leave the current Labour leader has said
he won't fight another election but a
former Labour leader wasn't in the mood
to talk Mr Miliband this is a terrible
terrible night for your party do you
really have nothing to say at all across
Yorkshire nine Labour seats went
conservative including Wakefield Mary
Cray lost her Wakefield seats here last
night she was one of dozens of Labour
MPs to lose out as the party suffered
its biggest defeat since 1935 and as one
senior Insider pointed out to me it
could have been so much worse with many
more seats seeing huge majorities
slashed to just one or two thousand
creating a sea of marginals in what used
to be a Labour dominated landscape this
morning the party rather than uniting to
face up to this defeat is more divided
than ever over who or what is to blame
I'm absolutely elated can we go can I
see you guys have you voted for sorry
Connor we do yes normally I'm live will
people ever go back to labour do you
think I think so I think it was a bit of
a protest but we'll wait and see so the
voters have spoken the question now is
can labour rebuild the red wall or have
the Tories torn it down for good
well I'm joined now by Labour's Shadow
Minister for women and equalities nasha
nasha should the leadership take
responsibility for this historic defeat
I think there's a lot of responsibility
to be had by lots of people and one of
them should but the leadership is takes
responsibility because what what jeremy
has said that he will not be taken as in
to a next general election I think
that's the right thing to do he's given
me the media he's blamed
brexit he hasn't said I blame myself
well my respects it has played a role
Catholic and we know that we've seen
that by the result the kind of results
that we've had you know in those largely
leave seats you know Mary's here in
Wakefield you know she was a heavy
remainder she was very clear about her
position and that's the price that you
know it was really really sad for a
little party in particularly for the
colleagues I have lost things you see
you know there have been a little bit
more humility from the leadership an
apology even to those 60 colleagues of
yours who lost their seats I'm very very
sorry and I understand that Jeremy did
say he was very sorry this morning for
the 60 people that have lost their seats
that's my understanding of it and I'm
very sorry that we've lost so many
colleagues they're very very good people
up and down the country it really really
is heartbreaking and I'm sorry for our
constituents and my constituents you
know who returned me to Parliament to be
their voice and to the idea of a Tory
for the next five years of continued
austerity that will impact on places
like where I company about the West it
really is heartbreaking I mentioned for
exit you've said you're sorry for the
losses of your colleagues what Jeremy
Corbyn ultimately just unelectable and
policies if you look at 2017 count so
what we had was we had a manifesto but
manifesto we went out on was gave as the
results that we had in 2017 and in
fairness the 2017 when we had the ideas
that we put in at this manifesto they
were also very popular but the manifesto
dish did not cook food breakfast because
of the leadership a timely get on the
doorstep Labour MPs your colleagues in
also see in those that kept them so
Jeremy Corbyn kept on coming up there's
an opinion poll which said forty three
percent of people said that the reason
they didn't vote
because of Jeremy calling I think one
possession I think these are the
conversation that the leadership and the
anythi need to be having the Shadow
Cabinet need to be having once we get
back to London and once people have you
know we need to be having those
conversations and really really
digressing and thinking what did go
wrong the Union force Len McCluskey said
that one of the key reasons for labour
losing was the allegations of
anti-semitism which he just didn't knock
on the head now you apologize for an
anti-semitic Facebook post that you
shared the leaders seem to find it a lot
harder to apologize singing and yes
there was Jeremy did apologize he
apologized belatedly when closed yes so
he has apologized and I'm very very
clear now we have change of a system
what we did have was a system but it
wasn't get the purpose in dealing with
the level of complaints we had an
increase in membership
we've now addressed without have with
the majority of apologized register he
Jeremy I said himself he would look he
would have done things differently and
apologized and I think absolutely that's
a fair point that we could have done
things differently otherwise we wouldn't
have been in that position just quickly
I mean the next Labour leader should it
be a woman in your view well I think
that conversation hasn't started until
the NEC is made a decision but yes I
would look to see a woman lead in the
Labour Party and that would be amazing
we've got amazing talent you know we
really have got some amazing women in
the labour party so yeah it's a we'll
see when we get back now sure thanks
very much for joining me so now well at
one end of the all-important red wall is
20 Blair's former seat of Sedgefield it
was always considered rock solid labour
but now it has a new Conservative MP
hour north of England correspondent
Clare Fallon is there Clare for well
when you think sedge fields chances are
you think Tony Blair 1997 labour
landslide and in the last 24 hours we
have had another huge shift in British
politics the red wall as it's been
described is now frankly more of a
collection of red islands across the
north and the Midlands but this is
Sedgefield it's Tony Blair's old
constituency it's been labour since the
1930s it's an old mining area
and it had a majority of 6,000 so few
seriously thought that Sedgefield would
go blue and yet it did earlier today I
spoke to now ex Labour MP for this area
he told me all of this is about more
than brexit we'll hear from him in a
moment but first let's hear from the new
Conservative MP don't want to be just
the brexit decision but it's up to me
it's up to me to prove that you know
conservatives can look after this part
of the world and that's what we'll do
you're saying that the Tory Party needs
to now be a party of the north by
inference it hasn't been up until this
point well if you actually come round
and knock a few doors with me what
you'll find is actually the comment goes
further back than that what I get is
twenty blow was our prime minister who
is our MP and he didn't do anything for
us here he was too busy doing other
things when you've got people who will
leave the borders all their lives said
to you on the doorstep Phil I can't Fort
Lee about this time but mine is stopping
me for importantly of it and these are
people in the 70s and the realities of
being labour all the lives and it's just
heartbreaking really you know to go
actually port to actually put your own
supporters through that to make a choice
of often wanting not being able to to
vote labour anymore but the Volturi
to make sure that the leader of the
Labour Party doesn't become Prime
Minister that's tragic
you know it's also worth saying I think
that there is really a brutal reality of
politics because last night 60 people
who were the sitting MP in their
constituency who are hoping to carry on
representing their area went to account
and found out that they were out of a
job but it's not just the end piece
because bear in mind there are also
members of staff who work for members of
parliament and they also many of them
will be out of a job
Claire thanks very much well joining us
now from wakeful is a newly elected
Conservative MP Imran Ahmed Khan
congratulations
what do you think was the biggest factor
in that demolition of the red wall I
think of course Briggs it was a big
matter but what does Prichard mean what
does it mean to the people Wakefield I
didn't know tired of politicians telling
them what to think there are a lot of
daughters husbands wives children of
coal miners that were very very annoyed
that they had been told by Islington
remain errs and others that had come up
to get them to vote for remain in the
referendum 2016 I did I did
they were told when they didn't agree
with those people that they were either
stupid uneducated racist or wrong and
there was a massive rejection of this
and it was as if they were party had
left them behind well how is the
Conservative Party under Boris Johnson
going to make sure that you keep those
former labour voters on board well I'm
great I hope that they live in the
Conservative Party will reenter age
itself entirely to the people to the
strivers and the aspirational they are
the natural conservatives they can
search of what people of Wakefield want
I have found is a party that's going to
be with them every step of the way as
they improve their lives who can provide
first-class services both in education
the health service governments have cut
cut cut on health and education will you
see that narrative is often used by
labour actually doesn't so in week for
example the people here are pani enough
and they don't need people talking down
to them from from Islington or else were
so we have a PFI deal that was done
under Andy Burnham the present mayor of
Manchester and in fact my predecessor
maybe cui was a junior health minister
at the time it was a two hundred and
seven million million pound investments
costing billions and it was based on one
reconquer terms and the people realize
they're not getting good services
because of a really bad privatization
deal orchestrated by labour not the
tourists but do you believe that Boris
Johnson is a one nation Tory I
should we do more important than even I
believe a conservative ethos of
aspiration of enterprise and also that
the citizen is king and not the state
Marxism and socialism is and the people
of Wakefield have rejected as an indeed
of cross Yorkshire that the state should
be master over the citizen in the
citizen subject now the you the previous
candidate you were sort of bit of a
johnny-come-lately actually here I mean
the previous candidate had to step down
after some racist social media posts
were found do you think the
Conservatives do have a deep
Islamophobia problem first of all they
take exception to being a
johnny-come-lately I was born in this
constituency my father was the
dermatologist
my mother was did her nurse training
here my grandmother was the nice sister
at local hospital I went to school here
johnny-come-lately is certainly not I
think somebody who was raised in common
to him was a campaign office manager for
Mary I mean it could be regretful I
don't find it
I think inquiry to size the leave I
believe all forms of racism prejudice of
any sort whether it's about religion or
sexuality or gender should be rooted out
it has no place in a decent society and
women comparison to letterboxes and
family did you take a vessel no no no
because read the context the context was
saying that women everywhere should be
empowered to dress as they wish and of
course as a change in racist attacks
after that collar well does it do you
combination innovation as you know very
well the two very very separate things
and you will also know as a journalist
sensationalism is a very good way to
attract people to read your article mr.
Johnson as a great journalist was doing
just that now he's a statesman now as a
prime minister his language would be
slightly more tempered thank you very
much for coming to the lion's den the
labor club here thank you very much
after the break we're in Wrexham in
Wales where voters deserted Jeremy
Corbyn to elect the town's first
conservative since the 1930s but before
that we'll return to Chris first Kathy
well that's the story in the north of
England but what's the reaction being
elsewhere in the United Kingdom and
Europe in a moment we'll hear from our
correspondents in Belfast
and in wrexham but first let's go to our
scotland correspondent Karen Jenkins
who's in Edinburgh where Nicola Sturgeon
has been setting out her plans for
another independence referendum
yes krishnan the Prime Minister and
Nicola Sturgeon have actually been
speaking on the phone this evening he
told her what she already knows that
he's against a second independence
referendum she told him to respect the
mandate that she says the SNP now has
Boris Johnson's Conservatives pummeled
in Scotland labour eviscerated the SNP
swept the Westminster party's away
Nicola Sturgeon could have a formal
request for an independence vote on
Boris Johnson's desk within days in
Scotland the only landslide was Perce a
watershed moment says Nicola Sturgeon
she will request a referendum on
independence within days that Boris
Johnson has long said he'll flat-out
refuse the prime minister let me be very
clear this is not simply a demand that I
or the SNP are making it is the rate of
the people of Scotland the SNP message
is evolving a campaign fought on the
words stop brexit today the podium reads
Scotland's Choice your bus what did it
say stop brakes it now you're saying
something else you're saying there's no
endorsement of a second independent
reform the recei aspects probably said
them to you in interviews many times to
the snps campaign stop Boris Johnson
stop breaks it and put Scotland's future
into Scotland's hands but for the Tories
in Scotland this was an election on
independence stopping it their flagship
pitch and they lost more than half their
seats
Boris Johnson now talks of uniting the
country even as Scotland embraced MPs
seeking a vote on breaking away for how
long realistically can he keep saying no
the Prime Minister may be emboldened by
Labour's gloomy prospects they used to
forge majorities with Scottish MPs now
there's one and he's not happy this
party must listen and this party must
respond or this party will die Boris
Johnson has his mandate so do I says
Nicola Sturgeon the scenes set for the
row of all rows over Scotland's future
well in another sign of this new
political landscape for the first time
Northern Ireland now has more
nationalist and Republican MPs than
unionists there were some major defeats
for the Democratic unionists including
their deputy leader Nigel Dodds who lost
his seat to shin Fane
there were gains too for the SDLP and
alliance parties all three strongly
opposed to brexit are chief
correspondent Alex Thompson is in
Belfast yes already the Prime Minister's
been on to his Irish counterpart saying
his number one priority restoring the
power sharing assembly here at Stormont
after a night in which unionism fell to
a new low in terms of power reach voice
influence a slew of nationalist and
Republican Pro remain parties though had
a very strong night so strong some
already openly campaigning to further
that strategy in very much an all
Ireland not a UK context all in all
quite an IDE
the very essence of the story Republican
John kanou-kun his father murdered by
loyalists leading the political shock of
the night wiping the DUP Westminster
leader off the political map on a night
that brought unionist power here to a
new low commiserations but the deep E's
pivotal days of the Commons are gone
shin fain now working brexit in an all
island context but not a united Ireland
our protagonist well come from making
sure that our voice is heard in Dublin
making our voices heard and bustles and
I think to be fair that as a negotiating
position that's been hardwired in the
Irish government the European Union from
very early doors major gains - for the
equally NT brick seed SDLP winning in
Belfast and Derry and attacking shin
fain for refusing to take Westminster
seats or Stormont ones at present the
people of Derry have just said an office
enough they're fed up having their
represent the representative standing
outside looking in the window they want
people to be in there whether that's an
West once they're fighting for us or
Stormont delivering for us because they
can see the public sector is crumbling
talks begin on Monday to attempt to get
the power-sharing assembly here at
Stormont functioning again after three
years years which have seen public
services like the NHS fall into genuine
crisis as all parties here agree
the DUP down from 10 to 8 MPs and
knowing they've lost in numbers but in
influence to the Tories can simply
ignore them to deliver a brexit this
party regards as a sellout with its
border in the Irish Sea we will stand up
for Northern Ireland as we always do we
will use whatever influence we have and
west
we'll use the relationships that we have
built up over the past two and a half
years to work for the good of Northern
Ireland that's what we intend to do
brave rhetoric of course but their loss
is over here and the Tory landslide over
there add up to a new low in unionist
influence inside and outside Northern
Ireland Alex Thompson Channel 4 News
Belfast well over in Brussels European
leaders say they are expecting newly
elected MPs to vote on mr. Johnson's
withdraw the agreement as soon as
possible while Chancellor Merkel of
Germany questioned the Prime Minister's
claim that he can get a second agreement
a trade deal with the EU by the end of
next year our foreign affairs
correspondent Jonathan Rugman is in
Brussels Jonathan there is relief here
in Brussels that the UK is finally on
course to leave the EU at the end of
next month but what about the next
battle over the trade agreement well
Angela Merkel who congratulated Boris
Johnson tonight has described the UK as
an enemy a competitor I should say on
Europe's doorstep her reinforcing
comments from President macron of France
that the UK must agree to EU rules and
regulations as the price for any future
free trade deal Boris Johnson's absence
from today's summit is a sign of things
to come his overnight gift to the --use
chief negotiator is that the British are
leaving in 49 days time we have been
waiting for one year for the UK to tell
us what it wants now we have clarity and
obviously I want to tell my best wishes
wish all the best to the prime minister
of UK boys Johnson and to the government
of UK but how long will this bonhomie
last given the Prime Minister's next
deadline a trade deal with all 27 EU
leaders in one year's time does the
clarity of the result in Westminster in
your view make it easier to strike a
trade deal
next year I think it does
striking a trade deal by the end of 2020
is enormous ly ambitious but we won't
achieve if we don't try and we're
determined to try and I think the fact
that Prime Minister Johnson has a clear
majority and has been given a big
personal mandate as well makes a big
difference though not all the UK's
biggest trading partners are that
confident Chancellor Merkel of Germany
called a deal by next year very
complicated warning that it may take
longer our biggest hurdle will be that
we need to sort out these issues fairly
quickly we need to conclude by the end
of next year
and decide by June whether we want to
extend the negotiation period still the
Prime Minister's critics here now admit
that last night's election result does
for the moment clear the air I still
regret the outcome of the referendum but
I respect it and I'm happy that it will
be finally now over which this situation
where we are able to agree here but in
London they are not able to agree so
finish this situation and Jonathan
Rugman Channel 4 News Brussels
well those protests that were outside
Downing Street earlier this evening have
now made their way down here there
they're carrying defy Tory rule posters
but there they're still moving and
moving past well a year ago Boris
Johnson was a frustrated backbencher
railing against Theresa Mays leadership
today he has led his party to a
triumphant victory talking of healing
and one nation conservatism but from a
man who was often expressed
contradictory beliefs just what do we
know about the prime minister and what
he really thinks joining me now is Salma
Shah
a former special advisor to conservative
government ministers and curvy arranger
who worked with Boris Johnson as
director of transport policy when he was
mayor of London um sama Shah I mean a
lot of people are suspicious of what is
the real Boris Johnson is it there you
know they've determined fighter who
prorogued Parliament and did all those
things when he didn't have a majority or
is he this magnanimous one nation tour
who we see on the steps of Downing
Street I think the ultimate Boris
Johnson is someone who's very pragmatic
which is definitely something that
you've seen from what he said on Downing
Street today just referencing this
protest that's coming back you can see
his absolute need to try and have a
unifying one nation Tory message so what
we are seeing is a transition from
campaigning Boris Johnson into Statesman
Boris Johnson and I actually think it
gives a lot of people some comfort that
he's moving into that mold range I mean
you work for and obviously you're a fan
but I mean explain why you you believe
the sort of the more liberal Boris
Johnson well I worked with him you're
right and what I saw was Boris before he
became mayor of London then in fact if
we rewind to late 2007 Bush was a late
replacement to be the mayoral candidate
when the then candidate Nick Bowles said
she was on what became ill and at that
point boys had to work out what he was
going to stand for to be Marilyn and in
fact win this city over to Tories and
reach out to non-traditional Tory voters
and what he does and what he's done best
throughout his career is listen to
people he spends a lot of time this to a
broad spectrum of people which is why
people say Boris's the Heineken
politician he sort of gets his finger on
the pulse of things that's his listening
and then what he does is he makes his
promises and commitments based on what
he's heard then as Salma is
demonstrating and saying well he moves
into his The Statesman who delivers and
it's delivery that then gets him that
momentum to keep doing more and more
suppose what you're both saying is that
it's by a sort of quirk of fate Boris
Johnson's ended up in a similar position
now in whether he believes it or not
pragmatically he's got to appeal to
labor voters because he wants to be
reelected
he's just been elected by traditional
labor voters and what he said last night
was um you know I did trust me i we know
that you've lent us your vote so he
knows that he's got to consolidate this
victory much further by changing tack
slightly now that he is a prime minister
sitting on oh you can't please everyone
tell you how can you please the right
but there will be ways once he gets
through brexit which is going to be an
incredibly complicated process there are
ways that you can do that Margaret
Thatcher did it and Tony Blair did it
both on opposing side appealing to
different people so there have
in every man leaders previously and he
did it before because the second
election in London which we fought he
defied as it was said then the laws of
political gravity I think the
Conservative Party was 17 or 18 points
behind in the polls in London he with
his personal mandate won that election
and that was by reaching across by
demonstrating it was a one nation Mary
or one city mayor at that point reaching
out and that's what he's going to
demonstrate I think as Prime Minister
and that's what he's starting with right
now
Square you know brexit and immigration
controls with his old immigration
amnesty positions and things like that
it's a you know it's all that view that
says people want to see an element of
control they don't want draconian
policies they don't want radicalism
we've seen what's happened when a party
presents radicalism to people they run
away from it he will find the answers
that will reach that middle ground and
he will be exactly in the middle ground
and retain that space whether it comes
to security whether it comes to
investment he will have to make
compromises undoubtedly and that those
compromises will come at some kind of
personal cost to him and his leadership
but those are things that we will wait
and see how they actually pan out you
know the truth is he's got this
fantastic majority but he has a hell of
a job to do with delivering brexit and I
mean we're in the almost of cynicism not
almost a certain situation of no no
sooner are you elected then Minds
turn to five years down the road and how
you're re-elected and do you know what
there is no point in doing that because
as a veteran of campaigns as call
viewers as well I remember the elation
after the 2015 campaign when the Tories
came back with a small majority and
pundits were saying go god this is going
to be like the next Tory decade and look
at what happened there is no predicting
what's gonna happen in five years
because a week is a long time as we all
know is absolu right these are the
moments when people all like to project
forward the next election what will it
mean for the Labour Party in the next
election where will the Liberal
Democrats be really it's about what's
going to happen next year and boaster
has to take this momentum that he's got
from this mandate he has to progress the
bracelet conversation and he has to
start delivering as some says some of
those promises that he's made people
will want to see the proof of the
pudding on the streets and around the
country
Kove arranged us a mushaf thank you
very much