Councillors for the conservatives who were in different seats tonight as well so that's quite interesting here and yes so far the snack sort of snack game hasn't been great I'm not seeing too many snacks all of that in front of me is too easy so far so I'm hoping that improves as the night goes on when the exit poll came out. Everybody was looking for it and watching it was there any sort of instant reaction yet and what's interesting actually is that there is more media here than there has been previously and I can you know I've been here a few times so I know that there's always local media we always have the b.b.c. Regional news we always have certain of the bits of the national media but there is a there are loads of people in this press balcony here tonight and as that exit poll came out there was a bit over a gas you know as there is I mean everyone's waiting for that I did his and it really interesting that maybe this exit poll will be you know potentially be as accurate as previously because so many things are in play in this general election but whether or not that's true who knows but yeah there was a bit of a gasp I'm not sure everyone here was expecting it to be quite so much but yeah it's a it's a there's a long way to go there's a long way to go but if Birmingham if any of the Birmingham seats change from labor you know that is an indication of a really good night for the conservatives for the moment thank you we'll be back with cash at the i.c.c. At regular intervals just to clarify this exit poll means a conservative majority if it's right and there's a long night ahead and a dramatic night as well it would mean a Conservative majority of $86.00 because they are predicted on the b.b.c. Exit poll to have 368 seats Labor dropping to 191 the s.n.p. Effectively to win all but 4 seats in Scotland the Lib Dems. So that means the conservative gains likely to be maybe one or 2 on a patch maybe more than one or 2. Quite a few in the Northeast think yeah it looks like some of that red wall must have gone because if the conservatives have lost most of their seats in Scotland which of the poll is right they have they've made up that ground i'm lot more in England and Wales so some of the key target seats the ones in dog lay the Northfield in Birmingham to Wolverhampton streets to Wolverhampton Saints these and got to be ones that were more likely to fall now there are going to be individual stories Northfield is an interesting case because although the conservatives are strong there there is a Ukip candidate there's a Brecht party candidate and Richard Burton has a very strong record as a local m.p. So that's going to be very interesting case to watch it won't necessarily as cover saying go exactly as the polls suggest because their individual constituency stories with individual outside Labor and Conservative M.P.'s people being thrown out of their party just standing against their own party's candidate so there will be odd individual isolated stories but to chip away at that $368.00 predict prediction is going to be after all have to be a lot of exceptional stories yes the is the end of the line for a number of big names politically in Appalachia in Austin is one who's still down resigned from the party so a godly ne a big one if it's correct by the way the b.b.c. Exit poll tonight it'll be the highest number of conservative states since back in 1983 which is Margaret Thatcher's 2nd win and it will be the largest majority any party's had since 2001 Tony Blair 2nd big landslide election victory so this is not to be underestimated if it has really happened it puts Boris Johnson in absolutely secure position he's got complete control of his party there are there are no remain a M.P.'s who are going to cause him trouble his main trouble if it came would come from the other end of the party but with a majority like that he can withstand quite a big rebellion a long way to go this is just the indication from the b.b.c. Exit poll which has been right in the last 2 elections by the way the. Sterling is already shot up against the dollar on the basis of the b.b.c. Exit poll as your race for the exchange is now under their closed let's head to the stab region Dudley count. Manager at the Crystal Ledger center into the average leaving. Evening Frank Samson under the golden glow of the lights here at the Crystal leisure center you've just been talking about Dudley north and there are 4 counts here Dudley North Dudley South Wales 0 in and around the Regis and Stamford Bridge as well and we're guaranteed 2 new M.P.'s tonight and that's because in 2 of those seats. The incumbent isn't standing there bang out so let's start with Dudley north so it takes in the the center of Dudly up towards says Julie places like gone all would set in areas like that now what an interesting story here the last time just 22 votes in it the 4th most marginal seat in the country was won for labor by in Austen but in February live on b.b.c. Wm he quit the Labor Party to say he's not a fan of Jeremy Corbin is putting it mildly but to be fair every even really isn't keen on him at all he's not happy with the way in his eyes there's been a lack of action on anti semitism allegations and after he resigned he went even further he told people here to vote conservative and there this is an area that voted heavily to leave the European Union as well and on the back of the exit poll you have to say things look a bit grim here for labor just 22 votes last time the Labor candidate is Melanie Dudley perhaps the most appropriately named candidate in this general election and the conservative candidate Marco long a councillor in what was Saul no sign of either of those here at the camp yet tonight the Liberal Democrats in the Green Party not standing. As well. Perhaps the key is that the Bracks it Party decided to pull out of the race here they didn't want to get in the way of the conservatives so the conservatives have 22 votes to make up on last time and on the basis of the exit poll if it's correct you'd think they'd be likely to do that the other place will get a new m.p. Is in Tower Bridge and that's because Margot James the conservative isn't standing in this election you remember Boris Johnson had the whip removed from her when she voted against a no deal Bragg's it she since said she thinks her party's let down business over the Bracks it issue in a place we have Suzanne Webb sort of fairly well known in Conservative Party circles and challenging for labor Pete low former leader of Dudley council wants to be West Midlands Mary's Well next man he's standing for the Labor Party the Lib Dems the Green Party in one independent check their hat into the ring on that one I don't think we're really expecting any surprises in Dudley south where we've got Mike word conservative he's been in place for quite a while now and we're not really expecting any shocks there but you know you never know d. There will be individual stories and also in hell so in and around the Regis James Morris m.p. They 1st won the seat back in 28 and he's got a pretty healthy majority of just over 5000 so again on the back of that polling it's quite a night for Labor if they were to manage to make up any ground there in hell so in and rally Regis So you asked if you were asking Kath about the reaction to the poll there frankly I heard one solitary cheer here at the Crystal measure center. From a conservative perhaps someone else who knows something we all don't but that was what the reaction was when those numbers came up on the big screen here are the moments like you don't lead. As Rob was talking about 22 votes was the difference in the last election so he's not standing 71 percent leave was the vote in the e.u. Referendum a quick word with McCullum I mean that's got to be now you would have thought turning blue wasn't Well the key thing is that last time there was you could candidate who took 5 percent of the vote now all of those votes are up for grabs a couple of 1000 votes that could make the difference in a seat that was won by 22 votes last time and there's been the disruption within the Labor Party in the introduction of a new candidate having to nurse a constituency short notice and the old the old Labor m.p. And Austin declaring his support of the conservative party that can help either this is going to be a very very hard one for the labor to hold looking at the exit poll let's head out to Walsall Rob trick is our man there it's they were Hampton University the but the Walsall Sports Campus evening Mr trick Hello Frank See I think I might be called Rob as well but I think I can better Rob's 71 percent on a break sit vote because I'm here to cover in free constituencies a war society also northen Aldrich brown hills in Warsaw North had a leave vote of 74 percent which is one of the highest in England if not be highest and blocks which East which is within that had had a leave of 76.6 percent and so yet 3 constituencies here up on the balcony overlooking a sports center it's broken up 3 distinct ways you can see exactly where these camps will be all eyes are on the door underneath me waiting for those ballot boxes to come through No In fact some of these ballot boxes have just arrived I can see a couple of the counters and empty now and they look like a college tied in the piles at the moment but yeah they're waiting for those ballot boxes in all the bulk of the ballot box to arrive but some have started to arrive already so why. Again with Walsall Saxon out this historically well from the seventy's on boards has been a labor see. Bruce George had this from 1974 he was a labor m.p. Then Valerie valves took this on in 2010 in 2017 she won the seat with 57 percent of the vote that was an increase of 10 percent so you expect that she might hold on to that she is standing so well the conservatives the Liberal Democrats the bricks that Party the Greens and the independents. Also North which as I say had to leave vote of 74 percent this was a Labor seat until 2017 when Eddie Hughes took this for the Tories and this was the only seat in the patch which changed hands at the last election previously and it was held by David Winnick who had this from 1979 for labor and he stood at the age of 83 said Eddie Hughes of the Tories taken a seat meant that he ended his parliamentary career but as you can imagine I mean that was a fairly shocking result Back then David when it was spoken to a few people already downstairs it was it was a popular m.p. Around here as I say as a leave of 74 percent so at Hugh's I imagine is fairly confident and he won with 49 point one percent in 27 seats I imagine he's fairly confident he's going to keep hold of this seat when we talk of war and also talk and will and hold Blake in whole. Blocks which in short he thought the last one Aldrich brown hills it's fair to say this is frankly one of the safest Tory seats in the West Midlands Wendy Morton won this in 2015 or so Richard Sheppard had this from 1979 to another really long serving m.p. For the West Midlands. So Wendy Morton can conservative she stand in again ways at labor the Liberal Democrats the Greens and Mark Beach from the official Monster Raving Loony Party so before those results come in I'm going to hunt down one of these press offices and see if we can get hold of Marc and find out if he's confident at all I mean you know he's a forked out 500 pounds to stand in this constituency say we'll have to find out if he's confident of winning this or not the thing is Rob Where would a general election be without the Monster Raving Loony Party exactly I think you need them you do and here they are I will be back with Rob trick shortly was pulled off by the way was the only street to change hands at the last general election in 2007 so you are going to get the national picture very shortly but I want to get to Mitchell our man who's in Santa well tonight and we're looking forward later on to the head to head between Matt and George Galloway who will be there at some stage because he's an independent for the West Bromwich East constituency. Even frankly yes George is in West Bromwich Ace made up some law of 3 constituencies of the West from it's as you've just mentioned west from West and also Wally old 3 of which famously read talking about the referendum is well over 60 percent in all 3 constituencies so we got 67 percent in west from East West Bromwich West 69 percent over in leave and 61 percent in Warley interleaved as well getting back to West Bromwich East obviously a stronghold for Tom Watson for many. Victories in toto but isn't stand in this year so in his place we have Abraham Douglas for labor also running his Nicholas Richards conservatives moving on and then we got West from West. Isn't standing also so you've got someone new in place of that is James Cunningham for labor and Sean Bailey running for conservatives and also a flow caucus for live there were Democrats and probably the strongest of all labor strongholds let's face it we're talking since 9097 since it was created it's been under John Spellar John spell of running again so you can't really say much of a change happening there alongside him. Is Chandra can we can let a finger matter and that is conservative and Brian manly going for liberal Democrats not expecting some surprises but definitely want to have a chat with George at some point in the evening. A match thank you will be back with Michel we got a call in the studio what does it know about politics Eason worth knowing there's a few quotes Laura political editor saying that Boris Johnson has redrawn the political map a quote from John McDonnell in the last few moments if this is anything near this is the b.b.c. Exit poll that we mentioned. The conservative majority being predicted of $86.00 the Conservatives $368.00 labor down to 191 so the approximate vote share the Conservatives 46 percent of the vote Labor at 32 percent which potentially How could Jeremy Corbin survive that if this plays out but John McDonogh saying that this is anywhere near it's extremely disappointing that would be putting it mildly McColl wouldn't that's that's a world class euphemism I think. This would be a terrible terrible performance of the Labor Party not their worst poll share actually as it happens I mean they got less Gordon Brown unless they got 29 percent they got less than a Michael Foot they got 2627 percent so actually 32 although it's not their worst performance in the post-war period it's an incredible drop from the 40 percent they got any 2 years ago and they looked like they were going to do better in the later polls they were up at 3536 percent that seems to have just evaporated and we're back where we were at the start of the campaign we'll be able to explore why the voters drugs it's the lowest potentially the lowest labor post war drop since we talked about $83.00 markets such as a 2nd term yeah in terms of the number of M.P.'s this predicted total would be the lowest in the post-war period it would. Be some of the 909093 so now it will be the lower than that you know in terms of vote share is not quite the worst but it's certainly that's no compensation to the Labor Party for what it looks like has happened to it and the look on John McDonald's face when being interviewed and what he's saying demonstrates to the layperson knows that there is a great there's there's very little comfort to be had in questioning this poll and many of the stories that were coming back from labor campaigners including the one that was recorded by his friend. That merely echoed what a Labor a lot of Labor M.P.'s were saying they knew the Johnson. Tack on the red wall have had a great effect now whether he'll keep that up if he's redrawn the map he may just of redrawn in pencil whether he's going to keep that going for the future whether the Tory Party will hold on to the seat when he's not abrupt election that's a whole other question that was his mantra to build a Southerner how everybody else felt but I was getting really fed up with it but it seems to have struck home that's all he kept saying it's over and ready ready to go or going to do a stick in the microwave ping and off we go but it seems to of registered with me that's right I mean if anything gets done was said more times than strong and stable was last time I think I've heard that phrase more often than I've heard say not a whole to say Merry Christmas everybody. But it has turned out to be it looks like a brick still action not a public expenditure austerity social justice election which is what Jeremy called and wanted it to be Yeah I mean to be in so many issues to obviously labor we're trying to focus on because services were majoring on it and it looks like it's certain key areas of the country breaks it has been the number one and maybe the only thing that people have been focusing on. You know I think the focus of the election for a lot of people has been to sort it out some way or other and they believe the only way to do that the only party with clarity on the issue that could actually resolve the problem was the conservatives 1st official results should come in Sunderland like to declare 1st Newcastle one of the 6 in Newcastle always like to have a bit of a race with Sunderland their rivals in football and politics as well pitfall is a resident expert one of our experts based in the nerve center in Westminster So Peter what's everybody saying down there at the moment well we just heard from the shadow chancellor John McDonnell actually who says that if this exit poll is true that is obviously extremely disappointing for the Labor Party I mean this would be then if you already said this the 1st Labor worst labor result in modern times then lowest in 7 overseas and 135 a major victory really for Bush and since conservatives obviously it is early in the night and exit polls have got it wrong in the past but certainly not so wrong that they've you know there are dozens of seats out so I don't think we're looking at a hung parliament or certainly not a Labor majority governments come this come tomorrow morning pretty Patel The home secretary has also been on the main program just downstairs from where I am at the moment she says this is a projection it's too early to say I suppose she would say that wouldn't she and she was asked whether the government would bring back the Braggs a bill before Christmas she wouldn't really go there but she said they would move quickly and if indeed this exit poll is correct then obviously it has a major impact doesn't it does mean that we will finally be leaving with the European Union on January the 31st Boris Johnson will have easily the numbers behind him on the green branches to to get Bragg's it done as the slogan goes so obviously we're still waiting on official confirmation of declarations around the country do we believe it is the the view down there that most of these gains for the conservatives are going to be in the north of England it sounds like an odd. Course in the West Midlands as well you know you looking at Dudley north and I think judging by this exit poll you'd be suppressed surprise if Labor held on there were perhaps in South West West Bromwich West probably in play as well in terms of conservative gains you looking at the northeast of England as well would be interesting to see what the result is in Sunderland watching pictures actually of the but ballot boxes coming in there they obviously have that rivalry down there with the with Newcastle in terms of who can be the 1st to declare But again we may well see some very very different results depending on the parts of the country anecdotally here in London people are saying there's been quite a high turnout lots of young people turning out to vote Labor feel that they're doing quite well around here and you know the s.n.p. In Sc