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Speaker 1: Nine nine two. You can let me know what you think.

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Speaker 1: Standard text fees apply now. The Labor Party, no surprise

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Speaker 1: at all, as predicted, have won the UK general election.

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Speaker 1: Tory leader Rishi Sunek has conceded defeat.

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Speaker 2: The Labor Party has won this general election and I

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Speaker 2: have called to Keir Starmer to congratulate him on his victory.

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Speaker 2: The British people have delivered a sobering verdict tonight. There

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Speaker 2: is much to learn and reflect on and I take

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Speaker 2: responsibility for the loss.

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Speaker 1: I am sorry now. Nigel Farage also this is a

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Speaker 1: standout of the evening. Nigel Farag has also won his

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Speaker 1: seat and collecton for the Reform Party. He's going to

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Speaker 1: be in parliament now. And our UK correspondent Peter Anderson

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Speaker 1: is with us.

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Speaker 3: Hey Peter, happo, good morning to you.

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Speaker 1: How big is the landslide?

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Speaker 2: Then?

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Speaker 3: It is looking as though it is going to be considerable.

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Speaker 3: We had comfirmation just ten minutes ago that Labor had

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Speaker 3: reached the threshold of three hundred and twenty six seats,

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Speaker 3: which meant that they would have a majority in our parliament.

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Speaker 3: As we speak. Stamer, the Labor leader until today, the

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Speaker 3: opposition leader is actually addressing his supporters in central London.

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Speaker 3: He's talking about change beginning now. He's talking about providing

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Speaker 3: service to the working people. Looking forward and as the

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Speaker 3: sunrises just after five am here in the UK, he's

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Speaker 3: talking about the sunlight of hope. What we are expecting,

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Speaker 3: based on figures so far, is that Labor will end

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Speaker 3: up with about four hundred and ten seats in the

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Speaker 3: six hundred and fifty seat parliament, which will give it

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Speaker 3: a whopping majority of one hundred and seventy seats in Parliament.

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Speaker 3: By comparison, the Conservatives are looking to have shed more

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Speaker 3: than two hundred seats and will be a rather lowly

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Speaker 3: one hundred and forty one hundred and fifty MPs at most.

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Speaker 3: This has been Labour's day and we are looking at

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Speaker 3: an historic day with Sakir Starmer currently addressing a very

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Speaker 3: celebratory crowd at his party headquarters.

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Speaker 1: Right, we have got some big names who've lost their seats,

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Speaker 1: Jacob Breeze, Bog Morden. Can we call it a blood bath.

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Speaker 3: Yet? Interestingly, Penny Mordant has been seen as a potential

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Speaker 3: leader of the Conservative Party, as a potential future prime minister,

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Speaker 3: but she has lost her seat as you say, other

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Speaker 3: big hitters to go include the Defense Secretary Grant Shapps,

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Speaker 3: who has been beaten by Labor in his constituency. And

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Speaker 3: what was very telling Heather in his comments when he,

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Speaker 3: i suppose, responded to his defeat, he talked about the

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Speaker 3: soap opera of internal divisions within the Conservative Party. He

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Speaker 3: talked about indulgent squabbling within the Conservatives and very much

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Speaker 3: pointing the finger at leadership saying things have to change.

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Speaker 3: There have been other comments also made about the Conservatives

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Speaker 3: and how they've been out of touch and how they

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Speaker 3: have let down the general public. And you mentioned before

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Speaker 3: Nigel Farage. Nigel Farage has been the thorn in the

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Speaker 3: side of the Conservative Party. The former Brexit party is

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Speaker 3: now Reform UK here is the leader and as a

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Speaker 3: right of center party, he has been taking support away

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Speaker 3: from the Conservatives, splitting that area of the electorate and

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Speaker 3: that very much has let Labor into power. Many people

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Speaker 3: have said Labour didn't so much as win this election,

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Speaker 3: it was the Conservatives who lost it, and Nigel faraje

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Speaker 3: in his Reform UK, were there making sure that the

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Speaker 3: Conservatives lost it. Really quite convincingly.

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Speaker 1: What do you make of Jeremy Corbyn beating Labor.

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Speaker 3: It's an interesting one. Jeremy Corbyn was the former Labor

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Speaker 3: leader who was thrown out of the party over recent

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Speaker 3: months he decided to stand in his Islington seat in

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Speaker 3: North London as an independent. He has been the MP

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Speaker 3: there for forty years and he has won. He has

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Speaker 3: beaten Labor now standing as an independent. I think it's

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Speaker 3: the fact that he is seen as a very solid

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Speaker 3: constituency MP meant that he won convincingly in that constituency.

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Speaker 3: But I think when we come to Parliament he is

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Speaker 3: going to be a problem for the Labor Party. He

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Speaker 3: will be sniding from the sidelines. He will be giving

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Speaker 3: them a tough time and he will put pressure on

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Speaker 3: the party to move to the left. They won't do that,

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Speaker 3: but he will be a voice very much critical of

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Speaker 3: any centrist policies as he sees them having Peter, it.

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Speaker 1: Is very good to talk to you. Thank you very

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Speaker 1: much for wrapping that up for us. As Peter Anderson

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Speaker 1: our UK correspondent. Now Nigel Farage right, happy day for

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Speaker 1: him because as you just heard, he's finally won his seat.

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Speaker 1: And when I say finally, that's because this is literally

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Speaker 1: hits eighth time trying to get into Parliament and things

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Speaker 1: have gone his way this time pretty big majority. Last

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Speaker 1: time I had a look, he at twenty one thousand

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Speaker 1: votes to about thirteen thousand votes.

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Speaker 2: The guy that he.

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Speaker 1: Knocked out soon after claiming victory, he trained his guns

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Speaker 1: on Labor.

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Speaker 4: There's no enthusiasm for Starma whatsoever. In fact, about half

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Speaker 4: of the vote is simply an anti conservative vote. This

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Speaker 4: Labor government will be in trouble very very quickly. We

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Speaker 4: will now be targeting votes. We're coming for Labor, being

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Speaker 4: no doubt about that.

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Speaker 1: And the fact that he's managed to win this convincingly

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Speaker 1: is actually remarkable given Ione decided to run about a

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Speaker 1: month ago.

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Speaker 4: I will say this, it's four weeks and three days

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Speaker 4: since I decided to come out of retirement and throw

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Speaker 4: my hat in the ring. Given that we had no money,

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Speaker 4: no branch structure, virtually nothing across the country. We are

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Speaker 4: going to come second in hundreds of constituencies. How many

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Speaker 4: scenes we're going to win, I don't know. But we

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Speaker 4: have done this in such a short space of time,

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Speaker 4: says something very fundamental is happening. For more from hither

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