This is LBC from Global, leading Britain's conversation.

LBC's Election Night Live with Ian Dale.

Hello and welcome to Election Night Live on LBC and LBC News with me, Ian Dale,

and my For the many podcast partner in crime, Jackie Smith.

For the next eight hours, yes, eight hours,

we will be bringing you all the results from the elections in 144 councils across England,

as well as the various mayoral elections and elections in the 32 London boroughs.

We'll be previewing tomorrow's counts in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales,

and we'll be hearing from a rolling cast of politicians, as well as Ben Kentish, our

Westminster editor, Theo Usherwood, he'll be here later too.

And of course we have our renowned elections analyst Gareth Knight here to tell you all the

things that I can't.

And of course we want to hear from you throughout the next eight hours on 0345-6060973.

And you can watch the whole program on Global Player.

Just download the app and off you go.

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LBC's Election Night Live with Ian Dale.

Now, Jackie, everyone's sitting around this table.

We've got Gareth Knight and Ben Kentish with us as well.

We all love election nights, don't we?

Why?

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