Chris Mason

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We did really, yeah.

So we are gathering again 15 hours later.

And I think, yeah, broadly speaking in England, the trends that we were picking up from those results overnight continued.

Yes.

Obviously, when we were speaking on Friday morning, we had no results at all from Scotland and Wales.

And they were always going to be a substantial part of the overall kind of Great Britain picture.

And we got those results by what around about tea time, pretty much in both instances.

And so, yeah, as we sort of digest it, by the way, as we record, we are not yet finished.

There are still seven episodes.

English councils, principally in London and West Yorkshire, to come on Saturday.

And I think, James, I'm right in saying is that there's a little bit from the Highlands and Islands.

Victor, there you go.

Yeah, it was a big breakthrough that.

They went on to win the council as well in Hackney, the mayor of Lewisham, the council in Waltham Forest and the council in Hastings off the top of my head, and a substantial increase in green councillors in plenty of other places with a concentration in London, but not exclusively in London as well.

So they can point...

to a real bounce and clearly Reform in so, so many places performing very, very well and particularly striking, Adam, how well they've performed in places like Sunderland and Gateshead and South Tyneside and Wakefield and...

Barnsley where you're looking in some instances there at local authorities that have been Labour at Labour majorities at every single election going back to their formation in the 1970s and often earlier than that in in slightly different configurations where broadly speaking in some of them in fact let me pull up I think Sunderland's a good example I'm just going to type this into our little system here so reform previously had no seats they gained 58 and

Labour previously had 54 seats.

They lost 49.