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00:00Let's get more from our correspondent Benedict Pavia who's in London for us.
00:03It's good to have you Benedict. So this is the worst result for the Conservative
00:07since its founding. Voters are really keen to send a clear
00:10message here to the Tories.
00:15Yes, clearly one that they don't trust and want
00:19the Tories to rule the country anymore after 14 years
00:24of governance and various Prime Ministers.
00:29The last one being Mr Sunak of course who's only going to be Prime Minister for
00:33the next hour or two. So an absolutely
00:37bruising night not only because of the huge reduction
00:40in seats and MPs that will be in the lower house of Parliament, the House of
00:46Commons where MPs therefore are elected unlike the
00:50upper house, but you see huge political
00:54Conservative beasts, senior ministers like
00:58the Defence Minister Grant Shapps losing his seat,
01:01like the former Prime Minister briefly, Liz Truss losing her seat. She had
01:07something like a 26,000 majority. Penny Mordaunt, the leader of
01:13the House of Commons also losing her seat.
01:17Let's remember that Penny Mordaunt was one of the people who was up in the
01:20leadership contention with Liz Truss and Mr Sunak.
01:24So really very bruising, huge reduction
01:29in seats as I was saying and it's really a question of
01:33of lack of trust in this and as James Cleverley who
01:36has kept his seat, the outgoing Home Secretary, former Foreign Secretary,
01:41was saying is that there are many lessons to be learnt from this
01:46and of course we now await the arrival of, he will be Prime Minister by the
01:51time he comes here, Keir Starmer. And Benedict, give us a
01:55sense of what the next steps are now in the UK.
02:01Well what's going to happen immediately is we're going to get
02:04Jeremy Hunt, the Finance Minister, the Chancellor of the Exchequer who will be
02:08leaving in just a few minutes from number 11
02:10Downing Street. Then we will have a statement if weather permits, it's
02:14been absolutely bucketing down this morning
02:16although we are the 5th of July. Mr Sunak
02:19in the street probably accompanied by his wife making a short statement
02:23before going up to Buckingham Palace seeing the King,
02:26King Charles, the Head of State of course of the United Kingdom,
02:29tendering his resignation and then moments later
02:33we'll see Keir Starmer go directly to Buckingham Palace,
02:37go and see the King and be asked by the King to form
02:41a government so he will then be Prime Minister
02:45and of course that is the privilege of the person and the leader
02:48that has the most MPs and that very clearly
02:51after this big victory of the Labour Party is going to be Keir
02:57Starmer and when Keir Starmer comes back into, well not back, comes
03:01into Downing Street he will be Prime Minister,
03:05he will make, we understand again if weather permits, a short statement,
03:09one very much where I think he'll say like he said in a
03:12victory speech this morning that he's ready, that it's time for change, that's
03:16what the people have voted and that they are there to serve the people
03:20and that's what he wants to bring back in politics but he faces many
03:23challenges inherited from his predecessor and that
03:27is very much still a crisis in the cost of living,
03:32national health service that's really in crisis with huge
03:36waiting lists, problems with migrants certainly coming over
03:40from French across the sea, across the Channel, coming into
03:45the United Kingdom, you know many many thousand every year
03:50and of course trying to help people who although they have jobs
03:54can't meet their bills, this is where a lot of people in this country are
03:58hurting very much at the moment.
04:02And give us a sense of what the key policies
04:06are being that have been given by Labour here?
04:11Well they're talking just as I was referring to
04:15very much paying nurses and junior doctors properly, there's been an
04:19ongoing strike of junior doctors for example who
04:23that has been going on for a very long time which
04:25is adding to the problem of the waiting lists, having more
04:29police, having more teachers because the sense here is very much that
04:34Britain is broken, that is often what you hear and why people
04:38have decided to change their vote and give well their
04:43trust certainly and place the hope that they
04:46are placing in the ballot box and now in this new
04:50government, a new government where we will hear
04:53we believe this afternoon appointments from about
04:562pm London time of the Defence Secretary, Home Secretary,
05:00Foreign Secretary and the new Chancellor of the Exchequer
05:04and we believe for example that we know who the new Finance Minister will be
05:07Rachel Reeves but also interestingly don't expect a
05:11budget straight away, we already know they want to look at the books
05:14and interestingly I've heard this comment once or twice and that is that
05:18David Cameron won the 2015 election because of what he did as soon as he
05:22arrived in power here in 2010 and that is he said how the
05:27Labour Party had left no money in the coffers at all so
05:32will this Labour government look at the books
05:35and say we've inherited a shocking legacy
05:37and we're going to have to be extremely cautious and we can't put as much money
05:41into certain for example public services that we
05:43would have liked so a lot of unknowns will wait and of
05:46course analyse the speech that Keir Starmer gives when he arrives
05:50here which will be very much setting his for example 100 days, first 100 days
05:55which I understand he wants to be very ready, very active from the get-go
06:00Benedict Pavieux our correspondent in London out there in the rain thank you
06:03so much for your insight