Labour set to paint the country red

Moray councillor Sandy Keith jubilant at looming landslide victory.

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00:00I'm in Elgin Town Hall with Labour councillor Sandy Keith, veteran of the Moray Council.

00:06Sandy, still a few hours to go here in Elgin in terms of the count here for Moray West

00:10near Strasbourg, but nationally it's looking like Labour's going to paint the country red.

00:15How are you feeling about that?

00:17Well obviously as a Labour councillor and a Labour member I'm absolutely delighted that

00:22we've made a comeback, particularly after the dark days of 2019 when a victory on this

00:28scale would have seemed unimaginable.

00:31Yeah, I mean how do you feel Sir Keir Starmer will be as a Prime Minister?

00:35I think he'll, you know, I think he'll surprise many people. I think he'll be a steady hand,

00:43which is what we've required after the chaos of Boris Johnston and Liz Truss in particular.

00:50So I actually think he'll surprise a number of people. He's the type of person that you'd want

00:54to take the decisions, a cool head in many decisions that need to be taken.

01:01And in terms of the scale of the victory as it looks like it's emerging,

01:04it could be the biggest ever majority for the Labour Party.

01:09Yeah, and I'm not going to apologise for that. It's certainly something that I welcome.

01:13It will give us a majority which we can use, but we have to use in such a way that we take

01:20the people of the country with us. But I think Keir Starmer will keep us on the ground. He's

01:25changed the Labour Party and he'll be able to change the country with such majority.

01:29Excellent. Thank you, sir.