Tremendous speech from TM, showing great fortitude and leadership. Still on course to deliver the party back to power despite a rocky evening. Questionable choice of colour for her outfit.
Boris won’t get it. No chance.
Loyalists must be overwhelmingly against Brexit surely, at least those outside Belfast?
Best attempt at putting lipstick on a pig I’ve seen for a while.
For all the talk of Northern Ireland being anti-Brexit, Lady Sylvia will be the only local MP to go through the lobbies against it. What a waste of a vote, voting for the abstentionist IRA/SF.
Priti Patel back in, more good news.
Labour GAIN Warwick and Leamington from the Tories, number 68 on their target list, with a 7.6% swing.
Lib Dems HOLD the Tory target seat of Carshalton and Wallington.
And Kingston and Surbiton is also GAINED by them.
A curate’s egg of a night for them, but they’ll increase their seat numbers for sure now, in fact they are already assured of that.
In fairness, the house needs a priti conservative woman, and that she is.
Amber Rudd has demanded, one, two, three, four recounts in Hastings and Rye.
Labour have lost their first seat of the night. Tories gain Walsall North.
Southampton Test stays red however.
Tories have also gained Middlesbrough South.
Every seat is now crucial, it’s that close.
How are you holding up there Sidney?
Grand.
FST is green again.
Ah that’s great to hear.
This is all terribly amusing.
On the phone with Arlene Foster advising negotiation strategy with Boris.
The Tories have caught a Salmond in Gordon.
What a strange election.
Salmond gone, great stuff.
Was that a Tory gain? Holy fuck
Yip.