Osborne describes exit poll as ‘Tory Party’s Waterloo’
Former Conservative Chancellor, George Osborne, gives his reaction to the exit poll predicting a massive Labour landslide on ITV’s election coverage, describing it as “the Tory Party’s Waterloo”. Report by Jonesia. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00That's for the Conservatives.
00:01You know, it's going to sound odd.
00:02There'll be a bit of a sigh of relief,
00:04even though it's the worst results since 1832,
00:06when the Duke of Wellington was, you know,
00:09running the Tory party.
00:10Though this one feels more like, you know,
00:12the Tory party's Waterloo, frankly.
00:14And, you know, they'll...
00:16Really? The cabinet ministers buy their drones,
00:18get in using their seats?
00:19Look, we're going to see a load of people lose their seats,
00:22household names, or at least in those who follow politics,
00:25household names.
00:27And it'd be a huge mistake to take a lot of comfort from this.
00:31But there were people thinking,
00:33and the polls were suggesting it could be an extinction night
00:36for the Tory party, an extinction-level event,
00:38and the Tory party would never come back.
00:40I think there'll be a lot of Conservatives saying,
00:42we can come back.
00:43And then the final point I make,
00:45and, you know, the second big story of the night is reform.
00:49They have entered the palace, the Palace of Westminster.
00:52You know, and if this is right, there will be reform MPs,
00:55and there will be a huge conversation,
00:57an argument inside the Conservative party,
01:00which is if we can merge with reform,
01:02then we can come back at Labour.
01:03Labour didn't get such a high share of the vote.
01:06If the majority is thinner than it looks on paper,
01:09I think that's a disastrous route for the Tories to go down.
01:12But it is going to be the conversation.