Streeting is so obviously going to be the first Cabinet casualty in the new government.
I doubt it. His plans for private involvement in the NHS is pretty central to Starmer's government.
But he now knows that he has every chance of losing his seat at the next general election, especially if Leanne Mohamed stands against him again. That might temper his enthusiasm for some of his radical "reforms" for the NHS.
I wanted to see Moggy actually go but I'm toast.
Night all.
I can still hardly believe it.
Unbelievably my mums constituency of South Norfolk has gone Labour overturning a stonking 21,275 maj
I've come this far, want to see the Skipton count. And mel stride s seat (my sister's) constituency before I call it a day
Time to enjoy some relief, we've earned it!
Must have had 20mims sleep so no idea how I'll function tomorrow...
Wes Streetings reduced majority. I imagine there’ll be many sleepless nights ahead about that
So maybe explain why one of Labour's most senior politicians has lost 21% of his vote in a general election which was billed as potentially being Labour's greatest ever landslide victory?
How could Wes Streeting possibly do worse, significantly worse, than in 2019?
And if you really think that he won't be losing any sleep after discovering that he now has one of the smallest, if not smallest, majority in the country you are extraordinarily naive.
And if you really think that he won’t be losing any sleep after discovering that he now has one of the smallest, if not smallest, majority in the country you are extraordinarily naive.
If we’re lucky Starmer will dump him as health secretary on account of his wafer thin majority. Although Starmer can hardly talk with his own performance.
PS WTF is Andy Burnham doing whoreing himself on sky news??
Woke up to find that I am still one of the few in a tory seat, sigh of relief. It was Swayne's worst performance in 27 years though by only getting 35% (down 28%) though so there is that.
Labour are in now, so you can help yourself to a four-day week 🙂
How did Count Binface do? I know Sunak held his seat, but did the Count get his deposit back and is he in with a chance in the by-election when Sunak leaves for the US?
Dross out with the bins. Fabulous !
BBC: Footage of a private plane waiting for Sunak... iconic.
extraordinary scenes in Birmingham
Jess Phillips just about holds, sounds like she’s had a horrible campaign
DFDS Fox taken down. Very pleasant
Just checked out a lot of the results for areas I know. A good shows by the LibDems (around Cambridge) and Labour, but the Reform vote is worrying and the national result does not (imho) represent them fairly. Ed Davey has done well I think, but he needs to be worried about 2029.
I find it highly disturbing that Reform has so far got almost 3/4 million more votes than the Lib Dems!
(btw - that wasn't posted in response to the above post - pure coincidence)
Glad to see Mogg, Mordaunt, and Galloway all gone.
The worrying thing now is that SKS / Labour will do what Cameron / the Tories did when they tried to appeal to and appease UKIP.
They'll try to appeal to Reform - and unlike UKIP, Reform actually have high profile MPs now. Farage is going to be unbelievably dangerous and generally awful all round.
My Dad's true blue constituency remains blue but only just. The Tory majority there has collapsed; the incumbent hung on by about 2000 votes from a previous majority in the tens of thousands.
Four greens is good news.
Glad Corbo kept his seat.
And Curtice saying the vote share is basically the same as 2019 for Labour.
Now the interesting bit starts ...
Four greens is good news.
What's the fourth Green seat? And I agree.
Article on the Beeb for Curtice also expecting Reform to be limited to 4 seats
Newbury has done the right thing!
Reform only really need Tice and Farage... that'll get them five years of coverage to spew their poison.
north herefordshire I’m guessing
Wow!
The news gets better.
Well done to the wife of the STWer who is now my Labour MP!
Brighton no?
It was North Herefordshire I'd missed. That's a big change for the better. Well done Ellie Chowns.
I imagine a lot of campaigning for improving the water quality of the Wye swayed voters there
Priti depressing news from Witham
Our local stays Lub Dem which is a good result
How long are we giving Labour to start f@king stuff up? They have no real plans for anything. I guess they will continue to screw the NHS. Surprised how little the swing is to Lib Dems
Surprised how little the swing is to Lib Dems
LibDems have had an amazing election. Look for the positive.
Pretty happy with the results so far, especially JRM losing. Worried about the rise of Reform and Farage though.
Dare we start to dream of better times in the not too distant future? It's going to take a lot to undo the damage of the last 14 years but we have to start somewhere.
I wonder where Liz Truss is hiding?
count in North Norfolk and Truss hasn't turned up apparently
I live on the edge of Barnsley, and pleased the two main seats that cover the area stayed Labour after the exit poll seemed to suggest they’d both go Reform. My constituency went from Conservative to Labour too.
However, despite voting Labour this time, looking at some of the new cabinet doesn’t fill me with masses of confidence. I’m clinging on to the fact that no matter how bad people like Streeting are, no one could be worse than the last lot!
Also seems Truss is gone - that and Mogg are my favourites tonight! She seems to have done a runner now they’re about to call it!
slow handclap for her now.....
Dare we start to dream of better times in the not too distant future? It’s going to take a lot to undo the damage of the last 14 years but we have to start somewhere.
I don’t see how they can. Labour have said they won’t tax more, they won’t invest more, they have no real plans, yes it can’t get much worse, but I do t see it getting any better. I fear for the NHS
LibDems have had an amazing election. Look for the positive.
Yes but not enough to stop the damage Labour will do
She's turned up...
Disappointed that the cons won my new constituency (Aphra Brandreth - I wonder if daddy's name had anything to do with it?) as it was a close run thing in the polls previously, but very pleased that Labour have stuffed them generally.
At least reform don't so far appear to have done nearly so well as the exit predictions.
400-odd votes, and Truss is out
Amazingly the massively conservative Worthing West has now flipped to Labour!
The ruddy faced octogenarian racists couldn't get their shizzle together and became TOO racist.. with reform splitting the conservative vote!
DrP
That
Is
A
Result
Truss ?????
Beaten by a man whose name looks like a typo!
Oh god Nad is back
No concession speech. No class at all.
North Norfolk sign on the wall - "Goals should be hung up when not in use"
She can hang her goals up for good now I hope, and disappear to be an irrelevant commentator somewhere.
Labour have said they won’t tax more, they won’t invest more, they have no real plans
None of that is true. But we wait for the actions now.
Hurray, Truss is out!
And Mark Harper can stop pretending he gives a shit about the FofD too.
Well done everyone involved with both those victories.
Clive's just pointed the weather out..... I wonder if they'll find him an umbrella this time.
He's said he's staying on as an MP. Hmmm.....
I guess Rosie Holt is out of a job now, which is a shame.
Mel Stride ...... holds by 61
@ThePinkster also massively disappointed, I’ve had no campaign material or any sight of Aphra whoever they might be, I held my nose and voted for the labour candidate who lives in north Manchester instead of in the constituency (instead of my preference of greens) and it was a waste of time ?
Jess Phillips looking like she's been up all night... again... definitely the MP you'd most like to chat to down the pub... and still an MP (thankfully).
A thousand times no paisley
You ****ing said it!
