Geri Scott

Yeah, look, there's still a lot to go, but we're definitely seeing pretty major losses from Labour, especially in what's been their traditional heartlands, to reform on the right, Greens picking up some seats and some green shoots for the Tories as well.

But what we should say is that, you know, there is kind of no good way to spin this for

the traditional parties, Labour and the Tories, are still going to be massively down on the seats that they were defending.

And, you know, we've still got those results, as you say, across many councils and in Scotland and Wales to come.

Yeah, I think that's right.

But, you know, there is a long kind of time to go yet.

And, you know, we used to be a country.

We used to do all these election counts overnight.

And it's much better, in my opinion.

But what this does mean, this drawn out process, is that there's this kind of drip, drip, drip of results.

One MP described it to me as being a bit like Chinese water torture, where, you know, this is drawn out over a long period of time.

And that plays into the kind of emotional reaction that we will see throughout the day.

I think so.

And look, I mean, when I say green shoots, this is coming from a very low base.

So this is not me saying that the Conservatives are doing excellently, but they are doing better in some areas than they were expecting.

So, you know, taking control of Westminster Council, doing very well in Wandsworth, you know, Bexley and the outskirts of London as well, being able to perform there.

So there have been some successes for them.

They weren't necessarily expecting, but they have mostly been concentrated in London so far.

So let's see how the rest of the day goes.

Well, I think there's a bit of all of this, right?