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Coffee House Shots

Labour wins by a landslide

Coffee House Shots

The Spectator

News, Daily News, Politics

4.42.2K Ratings

🗓️ 5 July 2024

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Where to start with an historic election night. Keir Starmer has got his 1997 moment, winning an enormous majority.

Elsewhere, eleven cabinet ministers have lost their seats, including: Grant Shapps, Gillian Keegan and Penny Mordaunt. Former prime minister Liz Truss has lost her seat, as have senior Tories Jacob Rees-Mogg and Miriam Cates. The Lib Dems have made massive gains, the SNP were decimated in Scotland and Nigel Farage is the MP for Clacton. 

But it's not a clean sweep for Labour. Two Labour frontbenchers have lost their seats and Starmer will enter government on a vote share of 35 per cent, the lowest of any postwar governing party. Will this hinder him in government? And is this landslide down to the Farage effect? 

James Heale speaks to Fraser Nelson and Katy Balls. 

Produced by Natasha Feroze and Oscar Edmondson. 

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Hello.

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Hello.

0:17.0

Hello, welcome to Coffey House Shots.

0:19.0

I'm James Yiel.

0:20.0

I'm joined today by Katie Bulls and Frasier Nelson.

0:22.0

Now Katie, it's the morning after the night

0:23.8

before we know what the results are now we have a labor lands line the

0:27.6

Conservatives worst result of the Democratic modern era. What do you think are the top

0:31.6

lines from last night's result thus far?

0:33.2

Yeah, so we still have a couple of seats to go, but at the time of speaking I think there's 12

0:37.2

seats left so we have a pretty full picture and as you say at the moment

0:41.5

labor on 410 seats, the Conservatives are on 117,

0:46.5

Livedems are on 70, that's their best ever result.

0:50.2

You have the SMP on 8, and then you have a series of independence.

0:55.0

You know other parties we can get into later and of course reform currently on

1:01.0

four MPs. Now when the exit poll came through I think what I found interesting

1:06.0

was initially there was almost a slight relief from a few Tories I spoke to just in the sense

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