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Hello, the newscast election tradition continues.

We have just done an episode of newscast talking about the election results we've got so far,

which was broadcast live on BBC Sounds at 7 o'clock in the morning, on the dot.

So that is what you'll hear now in podcast form.

And we've left any of the bad bits where I made mistakes in.

Just keep it real.

Newscast.

Newscast from the BBC.

Hello, it's Adam Fleming here.

Host of the BBC's Daily News Podcast Newscast, and you're about to hear us record a live episode. Record a live episode? Is that possible? Well, such as the topsy-turvy world of British politics. Anything's possible these days. So we're going to be talking about what results we have got at this point, mainly, well, in fact, it's only results from England at the moment. We're still waiting for lots of English local authorities and then the big picture in Scotland and Wales will only become clear after lunchtime. But I'm joined by some friends of the podcast and some fellow newscasters. So shall we get underway? Thanks for joining us. Hello, it's Adam in the newscast studio. And it's Chris in the newscast studio.

And it's Alex in the newscast studio. And friend of newscast, the pollster, Luke Trill, for more in common is here. More or common? Hello. Hello. Yes. Right. Who's been up all night? Alex has been up all night. Luke has been up all night. Chris. haven't, have we?

No.

I think we've just got to take

a vow of Trappist silence.

Just leave these two to it.

Oh, tent to do we're doing it. night. Lucas been up all night. Chris. We haven't, have we? No. I think we've just got to take a vow of

Trappist silence. Just leave these two to it. We're so exhausted. You can just fill all you. How's that go? So we don't have any results from the Scottish Parliament yet. We don't have any results from the Welsh Senate yet. That's all going to be this afternoon. So Alex, what sort of results do we have? So we've got a partial picture of the council results in England so far. So it's about a quarter of the council seats that were counted overnight.

And from that partial picture, there's a really clear trend. And that clear trend is that what we've been talking about for quite a long time, which is this notion that the electorate is fragmenting, i.e., they're looking to other parties other than the two parties that have traditionally been dominant in Westminster. That's Labour and the Conservatives. They're looking elsewhere. And from the seats we've had in overnight, reform seemed to be the big beneficiaries of that. It's worth saying that a lot of the seats, the Green Party are really targeting and had in their sights. They're still to come in. So let's see how they go. But so far, lots and lots of seats going

to reform from both the Conservatives and from Labour. So for Labour, predicted that they were

going to have losses. They have had losses. In some places, I think it's fair to say,

they were probably worse than were expected. So around Greater Manchester, places that have been real labour strongholds for such a long time.

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