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- Keir Starmer’s Labour has won a landslide.
Rishi Sunak’s Tories have had their worst defeat in history.
Beneath the bonnet of that is perhaps the weirdest election of the modern era.
Bleary-eyed and caffeine-fuelled after a night of live broadcasting Jon, Emily and Lewis bring you the results of the 2024 general election and analyse what this decision we’ve all made will mean now.
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I don't understand how Emily recorded this. I've watched her for fourteen hours straight on channel 4, and now she's done half an hour more content, and I'd swear she's fresher and more incisive than when we started. Clones? Androids? Witchcraft? Taking all bets.
Caffeine
I was wondering the same! Could we get Emily as a PM?
An absolute machine. She's done an incredible job!
Because she's a superstar
I was green with envy! I am 87 and a political animal, but despite my interest I started to sink around 1.30 in the morning. There was a time when I would have stayed up all night!
"I will then return to my life as a millionaire" ---not a care in the world, and he'll get to watch Sky too.
Yep. He lost nothing. He & his wive are earning 1 million more every month than than the day he became PM.
@@MAl-u2ywives ?? 😂😂😂
He has A wife and it is illegal to have more than A wife in the UK.
I think you will find Rishi is as diifcult as Macron to get rid of.
@@iaf010 corrected.
@@pmkeith LOL
I'm not sure Nigel Farage converted anyone: I think he has flushed out people who secretly think like him. He has given them permission to say out loud what they've been privately believing, possibly for all their lives.
There was a labour dame on the election program last night and she spoke about fighting an election against the BNP, she said people didn't really agree with them but they were angry and showed their anger by voting for them, I think that is what has happened, also the voter suppression from the conservatives worked, all the 'Labour will get a landslide so they don't need my vote' people as well, and yes all the xenophobic prats as well.
@@carolineclark4760 I completely agree. It is the same reason I was not shocked when the red wall crumbled in 2019.
Agreed, and describing himself as „Centre-Right“ rather than the far right loony that he is also gives them the language to feel safe and empowered to support him. When he was an MEP he campaigned constantly against our membership, I worry his antiestablishmentarianism and trump style approach will further divide people in the coming years
Agree. Also I'm not sure about them not liking immigrants stealing jobs. I think most Reform voters see immigrants as not working but getting handouts, housing and services.
@@mikebroadbridge9816yes indeed. Nigel Farage? Centre Right? 😮
Farage always, but always, talks up the disaster for other people. "Labour will be in trouble very, very quickly" - compare to his MEP rhetoric where Brexit was going to usher in all sorts of other exits across Europe....very, very, quickly. Farage lives for other peoples disasters. Everything is worse, more chaotic, more unstable and he paints himself without necesaarily saying as the answer. Yet he offers no practical policies. Its all pie in the sky. But people want flying pie, it seems.
Not terribly bright people like simplistic answers. Sad, but true. It means they don't have to think.
I look forward to the Speaker shutting fafage down
Why no mention of the Lib Dem’s? They got the best result in 100 years. The bias to reform is utterly ridiculous.
The Liberal Democrats didn't get any coverage in the election campaign. Hence, all the stunts by Ed Davey! Nonetheless, the LibDems put their heads down and fought like crazy and won 71 seats!!! Wow, they smashed it! The Greens 💚 cut through and gained 4 seats. They'll be on the rise. The politics of the country is more fractured. Many people vote tactically, but people are voting for the politics they believe in. Also, the political pundits may have ignored the LibDems, they won't ignore them now! 😂
Watch again, at 8:42 . Maybe you’re tired.
I think Emily in partnership with Krishnan Guru-Murthy were brilliant tonight. Excellence in broadcasting personified!
I didn’t see it but I’ve watched his coverage of the election, and Gaza, and have been very impressed.
Yes, Channel 4 stole it from the BBC tonight!
@@kennethhodges3187 definitely
Cream rising to the top.
Jesus I am struggling to think of two people who have abused their position more on national TV. I am afraid for your character judgement. You must be a bot surely.
Emily The Machine Maitlis.
Not a machine, more of a Frankensteinian Golum made of the spare parts from a plastic surgery clinic. To hold it all together she uses brown shellac that is usually used on old biplanes.
I credit her laptop...
Absolute ghoul
I can't believe Jacob Rees-Mogg is out. After all he did to the country...
LOL👏
After all he did to his ego
A like sarcasm methinks😂
What are you smoking
Love it!
Emily, how are you everywhere? I'm watching you on channel 4. You're mad! Sleep! 😴
When Farage says, 'My plan is to build a mass national movement over the next few years', does it not sound familiar?
Please keep in people’s minds an awareness of the very real difference between antisemitism and opposition to Israeli government attitudes and behaviour!
So agree! I'm no antisemit, but I do not support Isreali foriegn policy
I disagree with the title of this podcast. It's "The Best Tory Defeat in history". It could have been better, but it'll do.
Emily and Co did brilliantly overnight ! Fantastic work from true professionals. 👍 But special mention to Nadine Dories for comedy relief 😂😂😂
Emily usually sleeps during the day. When she was at the BBC she used to sleep upside down behind the Eric Gill statue to avoid the daylight.
Labour could have won more . However independents and Reform caused chaos in some seats. However I am sure labour will be happy with the result. Will Farage actually be seen in Clacton again?
Agreed, also tactical voting especially for the Lib Dems, reduced the Labour % a little.
He won't be seen in Clacton again until the next general election. He will rarely be seen in parliament either. As a MEP he rarely attended.
Says a lot that Labours actual percentage went up 1% and they got 34% of the vote in the UK. Not exactly an overwhelming mandate in a functional democracy which the UK laughably claims it has
@@Leeds71 Well the Conservatives have reaped that benefit for many years. Will any party call for that reform when they come into power off the back of it?
No, he will not.
Narrator: The exit poll made sense by the end of the election
As usual since at least 2005..
Except that the LDs did much better than expected and reform didn't make the breakthrough they were hoping for.
Brexiteers gone thankfully, never forgive or forget the damage they've done with their Brexit con though
It’s important to remember that The Green Party has as many seats as Reform.
So they’ll get the same media coverage….
And what number of actual votes?
Appalling.
THE CONS ARE GONE!
They are diminished…but not gone
Now the liebour in power.
replaced by a bunch of Con lite's
🎉🎉🎉
@@potnoogle5780. Bitter salty tears.
This is the best result I could have realistically expected. I voted green and it looks like all those seats they were hoping for have been won by them. And JC winning too: brilliant. Of course I was hoping for Starting Streeting to lose but you can’t have everything can you?
Wow, it takes this much to make a millionaire PM admit fault. That's some world class arrogance.
Bye Tories
"worst" ? This is the most amazing thing I have seen in politics.
4 Green MPs. Never mind Farage and his gang. This will help a lot.
Watch as Reform gets twice the air time of the Lib Dems and ten times the air time of similar sized parties like Greens and Plaid.
The UK has many issues that need fixing but our ridiculous and corrupt media is near the top of that pile.
It's not immigration that Labour have to focus on. Farage has used immigration as the scapegoat for the housing, local services, and NHS problems. If people feel those problems are being dealt with immigration will fade as an issue.
As for the Tories, the smart move is not to go for the leadership, it's a poison chalice. Let someone else lead the chaos, and go for the leadership next time once everyone is exhausted by the chaos.
Or they could just be like Denmark and do all that whilst recognising the problems caused by non-European migration.
@@Miquelalalaa
Except Reform started using immigration as a scapegoat issue when most immigrants were European.
I despise Farage. I hope that Labour gets its act together and prevents him from becoming PM in 2029.
Farage only won 4 seats and he has along way to go to be PM. Realistically he needs to take over the Tory party to be PM and he didn’t do enough damage to the Tories to make that easy and in fact probably made it very hard to even join their party.
@@christopherblackburn6811 I hope you are right. Unfortunately, he is a gifted polemicist. The FPTP system disguises the real potential in terms of the popular vote. I would love to see the voting system changed to PR, but this time FPTP may have saved us from a stronger Reform presence in the parliament.
He’s the worst of us. The fact that he hoodwinked so many people into voting for him is frightening. On the upside he split the right wing vote and helped Labour into power. They need to nail him to the wall over the next four years.
Tice has so much money you can bet on seeing frog face plastered all over every billboard between Land's End and John O' Groats. And personally I'm sick of wealthy multi-millionaires governing my life and telling me what I can and cannot do.
@@stephengraham1153 id like to know who their other big backers are.
Hallelujah!
A disgraceful period in UK history.
Hopefully, never be repeated.
If that was Sunak's all ...
Sunak is only sorry for losing, not for the damage he has done.
Bye bye sunak , california is calling and the plane is on the tarmac.
This entire interview is about not what policies will be implemented but how parties will act in fear of losing their seats, and that tells you everything you need to know about British politics. It's still highly aristocratic, negligibly democratic.
Clueless.
To be fair, there are 5 years for that (starting tomorrow!), and the Labour manifesto is relatively light on concrete details beyond the top lines. I think it's fair enough for the story right now to be on the numbers game, the downfall of the Tories & smaller parties' rises.
Though I will agree with you, if this focus continues indefinitely as Stamer selects cabinet & begins introducing policies, then that would be ridiculous
that guy in the back really took the L
Exit poll overestimated Conservatives and Reform by 10 seats, and underestimated the Lib Dems by 10 seats.
Hurray for Emily and a grown up response to the immigration "problem"!
Denmark represents the epitome of a “grown up response” to the immigration problem and they’ve recognised it needs to be curtailed .
This is the result of bad leadership 😢😢😢.
The result of one person JOHNSON.
They ran out of belivable excuses for piracy.
Brexit not only breaks the country, it also eats its children!
Sunak is the biggest loser in history.
I agree 😂
The biggest mistake Sunak made during the election was focusing on Labour, and not Reform. Looking through most of the results, it is clear that if Sunak had focused most of his effort on Reform, Labour would have lost so many seats given their low polling share. It does leave Starmer with a big problem, as with Reform in 2nd place in such a large number of seats means that if he fails to turn the ship around in 4 and a half years, Reform will expand and be fully battle ready for the next GE.
Reform only got 4 million votes .that's 4 million idiots
They'll be the same as The Gang of Four - irrelevant in a first past the post system. It's a mirror image of 83 & 87.
@@westcommonroom9737 I completely agree. The media has lost its mind on vote share, especially for the North Sea coast party and forgotten how parliament works.
You underestimate how hated the Tories have become. Nothing could have worked.
Well done Jeremy Corbyn and Diane Abbot 🎉🎉🎉🎉
Keep going we will need you BIG TIME.
No more of our tax money goes to back wars.
Father and Mother of the House by the looks of it
@@SimonSmith-yd6tt Is corbyn that old?
@@SimonSmith-yd6ttyes indeed. So brilliant and so cursing against Starmer.
You guys are all great and thanks for keeping me updated and politics honest
The best thing to come out of the election result for me is that the voting public are not as dumb as I thought they were following the Brexit referendum result
PS Apart from those in Clacton who fell for more of the same bullsh*t from the same bullsh*tter known as Farage
Exit poll looks pretty accurate apart from over estimating reform
Underestimating LD by at least 10 seats, overestimating cons by 10
To be fair, Curtis was reasonably clear that the races in which R were predicted to gain those seats were very marginal and therefore the exit polls were fairly unreliable in respect of whether or not they'd actually get them.
@@simonkapadia7582 yeh im not criticising, a new party on the ballot will be hard to predict
Reform got more votes than the Liberal Democrats
Honest journalism. Thank you.
'I am sorry', could mean for himself. 'I apologise', is taking responsibility for the defeat. Even now, Sunak speaks with forked tongue...
Decent speech. Which is more than can be said for the dreadful Liz Truss.
And you haven't mentioned the Greens, as usual
Can I just thank all the Reform voters for splitting the right wing vote. You’re amazing 👏👏😁
Starmer understood you can only win if you occupy the center. And labour did. They held the center, while the Tories lost the people who would never vote left or center, to Reform. And while the left and the lib dems did very well, it still gave him that large a victory.
Lib Dem gains were pretty much all Tory loses, so if anything Lib Dems doing well helped Labour.
Tactical voting has played a big part today ⚒️@WS12658
Nothing to do with being in the Centre. The Right was split in two. On that basis, Corbyn's Labour would have won 450+ seats.
I don't quite buy that analysis. Sunak's government didn't appeal to the centre or the right. They stood for nothing, except busines-as-usual, and further enriching their cronies whilst the country fell into decline.
@chrisbirmingham5132 Incorrect, I'm afraid. It has everything to do with holding the centre. Corbyn was never going to win a governing majority. He appealed to the core Labour vote, but had little reach beyond (and actively terrified - ridiculous, I know, most Conservative voters). Had Corbyn been leading this election, millions of Conservative voters would held have held their noses and pushed the party over the line again. It is a fundamental misunderstanding of the English electorate (and our voting system) to believe anything else). For context, I've voted Labour all my life, for over 30 years, and I'd place myself Left of the centre of Labour politics.
"It was a moment of pure dignity" - So the Tories have been obliterated along with the meaning of dignity.
Emily, we love you please get some sleep!
The real issue is the 40pct of the electorate who were too bone idle to vote; if they had ticked the “anyone but Labour or Conservative” box we would not now be governed by a party which got only 1 vote in 5 from the electorate - what a disaster!
Loved the LBC coverage guys!
Green having same number of seats as reform but not as much hype
But Reform had quite a few more votes than Greens, who really need to build on this success & make sure they receive as much mainstream media as Reform & NF consistently gets. So far their (Reform & NF) coverage has been way too disproportionate.
'A moment of pure dignity'? From a corrupt mouse of man, I think not
People call him corrupt - but where is the evidence of corruption? There corrupt people around him but there's no evidence of him personally being corrupt.
He was wealthy BEFORE he joined Politics, politics didnt give him wealth. And as a man in his 40s who has been PM - he has plenty of road ahead .
@@iaf010He made some money betting against the banks, and there's actual video evidence of him saying that he's taking money out of deprived areas and putting into Tory shires to keep the traditional Tory voting base happy. He's no morals.
Re France July 7th. EMILY you said Macron had a fit of petulance...well he gambled and he won.🏆
I'll hazard a guess. The country he's on about is England. There are 3 countries in the UK. 🙄🤷♂️
Wonderful show, thank you
The exit poll over estimated the conservative and reform mp’s . Pro Gaza independents did better than reform and green also got 4 mp’s
Appreciate you all getting up so early guys. 😊
Even as the 2nd largest party, the Tories arent the opposition, until they finish tearing themselves apart.
They oppose themselves
@@DomHorne-t2h They did this because of Brexit - they have to cut it out of their system, or disintegrate.
How many will jump ship too reforms. Now
What a night!
Toasted Tories.
Farage isn't centre right!
Thank you so much. You did a great job with this election coverage and I feel you made a real difference to my understanding of both the process and the issues. You all look so fresh and sound cochèrent after a gruelling night - I hope once today is over you all get a decent weekend off to recover.
Shout out to the fellow holding up Sunak's "L" plate...
My goodness Emily, how have you stayed awake since 9pm last night for CH4 UK Election. It was by far the best Media coverage with most of my fav News Presenters, yourself included from The News Agents. I stayed up all night but was dead on my feet 🎉today- too excited to sleep. Well done to you Emily.
Farages speech was very 'me me me.'
Reform and Greens both have four seats.. and you mention Reform six times in the first two minutes and Greens not once..
Thats because the greens are a not relevant to most voters as they discuss unimportant policies miles adrift from day to day life. This is apparent as people are realising climate change for the most part is a con. CO2 levels follow temperature rise not the other way around. Just research "Milankovitch cycles".
They appeal to soy latte drinking, oxfam jumper wearing folks who are detatched from reality. They just think they are relevant because their mates think the same.
Media isn't interested in politics - even this type of media. Instead, they have the ubiquitous addiction to drama and "Oooooh, get him/her!" that all media has.
'New' media knows that legacy media does this but it also knows that if it concentrates on policy then they'll be producing an informative but very dull programme. Since every aspect of life now has to be like a poor soap opera, that's unworkable as a business.
It's disconcerting to know that there's now a far-right party established in British politics.
First past the post has to go ..we need proportional representation
Why not both? We have two parliamentary chambers.
Exactly @@christopherblackburn6811
I wonder where Emily went whilst watching the Channel Four coverage 😂. Great coverage there and here!!
She said where she was going. She said she had to go across London.
I think a vote for reform is a protest vote. Otherwise, why vote for someone who isn't going to win. If the tories sort themselves out, the reform voters will go back to them, and we'll only have a labour government for 5 years 😢
I think you're right about Reform, but methinks the Tories are far more likely to split than sort themselves out. labour's biggest threat now and in the future is Labour!
The results, the volatilty of the electorate, the low turnout all suggest that electoral reform is not only essential but more likely.
I really like Lewis Goodall's tie.
That's my contribution to the political debate.
I would love to see a map of who came second in all the constituencies
Oh well, he got the result he wanted. Off to the US now
Thank you for staying up and bringing us this incisive and fascinating analysis of a historic night! Rest well.
Sunak was always going to go to California in July... he deliberately lost.
Very rude IMO to be holding an L (looser) sign next Sunak while he was giving a press conference. LOL
PR would be interesting - I voted to kick out the Tories using our current election system. However I wouldn't vote this way under PR.
You guys look wrecked!!! So appreciate you 🎉😊
You guys deserve a week off.
The question is will the conservatives continue to take far too long to bury their political failures - Liz Truss being the only obvious exception?
Check out New Zealand. They have been balancing this problem of electorate splintering for years
Jeremy Hunt the obvious next leader of the Conservative party.
Looking forward to many malapropisms about "the leader of the Honservative Party"...
Greens getting 4 seats was my highlight including where I live - was at 34% swing from conservatives to green - total grass root support
Very disappointed to hear Emily describing asylum seeking as “illegal immigration”.
FPTP must go
@@Pietzu10 we had your system in NZ till the 90s then changed to MMP aka AMS. Voters everywhere matter not just in marginals.
@@markstephen9044 We use D'hondt here in Finland though we have electoral districts which helps bigger parties.
The one thing I do question…I’ve no issues with independents and Independent MPs but who vets them? Is there a vetting process?
Suella Braverman as the New Tory Leader,would be Brilliant.
It's shows how low the Tories had gone when you say Theresa cof
Yup. I'm giving up this hobby and going back to my day job.
So much air given by the BBC to the losers. Sham
Up all night watching this and one of the biggest disappointments of the night for me was Wes Streetings survival.
Highlights, Greens winning 4 seats, fab result for them, and the slew of big Tory names that have been kicked out of the commons. Just gutted Hunt managed to hold on.
Labour should never have stood a candidate in Hunts seat.
'Keir Starmer will be off to kiss the ring of the king' are we not doing phrasing anymore?
Brian can kiss my fckn ring!
We are a country of tradition and protocol.
@@EdwardLindon unfortunately.
ONLY BOTHERED ABOUT TORIES NOT THE PEOPLE OF UK
"L" in the background 😂
"catastrophic for labour".... OK. 😅
Your supposed to be independent journalists !
Yes, how dare they report on the stuff that happened!
This reflects the last election in Australia re: a number of Independents. Shows voting, not just here, is now less tribal and more fluid
I actedm as a polling clerk yesterday. I have to comment on a number of people who selected their candidate by tossing a coin.
Bye Bye
We have to say ~ Emily looks fantastic
Penny Mordaunt tried to stand up and fight. She got told to sit down and shut up.