Electioncast: The First Results Are In!
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Hello, it's Adam Fleming here, host of the BBC's daily news podcast, Newscast, and you're about to hear us record a live episode. Record a live episode? Is that possible? Well, such is the topsy-turvy world of British politics. Anything's possible these days. So we're going to be talking about what results we have got at this point. Mainly, well, in fact, it's only results from England at the moment. We're still waiting for lots of English local authorities and then the big picture in Scotland and Wales will only become clear after lunchtime. But I'm joined by some friends of the podcast and some fellow newscasters. So shall we get underway? Thanks for joining us. Hello, it's Adam in the newscast studio.
And it is Chris in the newscast studio.
And it's Alex in the newscast studio.
And friend of newscast, the pollster, Luke Trill from More Incommon is here. More Orcommon. Oh, hello. Hello. Yes. Right. Who's been up all night? Alex has been up all night. Luke has been up all night. We haven't, have we?
No. I think we've just got to take a vow of Trappist silence.
Just leave these two to it.
We're so exhausted, you can just fill up.
So we don't have any results from the Scottish Parliament yet. We don't have any results from the Welsh Senate yet. That's all going to be this afternoon. So, Alex, what sort of results do we have?
So we've got a partial picture of the council results in England so far. So it's about a quarter of the council seats that were counted overnight. And from that partial picture, there's a really clear trend. And that clear trend is that what we've been talking about for quite a long time, which is this notion that the electorate is fragmenting, i.e. they're looking to other parties other than the two parties that have traditionally been dominant in Westminster. That's Labour and the Conservatives. They're looking elsewhere. And from the seats we've had in overnight, reform seemed to be the big beneficiaries of that election.
What were the initial results from the English local elections?
It's worth saying that a lot of the seats the Green Party are really targeting and had in their sights, they're still to come in. So let's see how they go. But so far, lots and lots of seats going to reform from both the Conservatives and from Labour. So for Labour, predicted that they were going to have losses. They have had losses in some places. I think it's fair to say they were probably worse than were expected. So around Greater Manchester, places that have been real Labour strongholds for such a long time. But also, let's not forget that the Conservatives have had losses as well.
Chris? Yeah, all of the above. I defer to these stacanovite all-nighters having merely crawled out of bed after the lay-in of getting up at 4.30 in the morning. So yeah, it's a partial picture, isn't it? There is shed loads still to come. Sort of worth emphasising, just doubling down on that point, because we're so used to, aren't we, in the kind of British election psyche. that if you haven't stayed up all night, you wake up in the morning and you turn on the telly or the radio or your phone or whatever, and that's it. It's basically done, all the results are in, and the analysis starts here. Well, the analysis is starting here, but for a really partial picture of one nation in a multi-nation system,
That said, as Alex says, yes, there are clearly some trends.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–2:59
2
What were the initial results from the English local elections?
2:59–10:47
3
How did Reform UK perform compared to Labour and Conservatives?
10:47–13:58
4
What trends are emerging in the local elections across England?
13:58–22:08
5
What are the implications of the election results for Labour's leadership?
22:08–29:16
6
How are the Scottish and Welsh elections expected to unfold?
29:16–35:36
7
What does the political landscape look like for the Greens and Reform UK?
35:36–41:05
8
How are voters reacting to the current political situation?
41:05–48:04