Local Electioncast! The BIG Result (part 3?)
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BBC
4.4 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 4 May 2024
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Today, we look at a big result in the West Midlands as Labour's Richard Parker beat Conservative Andy Street in a mayoral vote that was too close to call until nearly 9pm.
Laura and Paddy give their instant reaction.
They also reflect on votes elsewhere, including London, where Labour?s Sadiq Khan was voted in for a third time.
Newscast brings you daily analysis of the latest political news stories from the BBC. It was presented by Laura Kuenssberg and Paddy O?Connell. It was made by Chris Flynn with Adam Chowdhury. The technical producer was Ricardo McCarthy. The assistant editor is Chris Gray. The editor is Sam Bonham.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC sounds, music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:04.5 | This is what elections are like. |
| 0:07.4 | Wait, and you wait, and you wait, and you wait, and you wait, and you wait. |
| 0:10.1 | And then all of a sudden. |
| 0:12.3 | You wait some more. |
| 0:13.9 | Because this is the big reveal. |
| 0:16.2 | This is the big result right at the end of more than 48 hours of local elections. |
| 0:22.6 | And everyone said, wait till the final moment before you call the story of these elections. |
| 0:28.6 | And it looks like Labor is about to be confirmed as having grabbed the West Midlands |
| 0:33.4 | mayoralty from the Tories. |
| 0:34.9 | Those are all Labour front benches standing there. |
| 0:37.6 | Shabana Mahmood. |
| 0:39.4 | Jess Phillips, actually, she's not a front bencher. |
| 0:41.1 | But the Labor front benches there, Liam Byrne, Labor Midlands, faces, all looking very happy. |
| 0:47.6 | And now the camera's gone all wobbly, and we've gone back to our colleague Virginia Vajanath and talking about what might happen. And you can hear the voice of our colleagues there, |
| 0:55.8 | filling basically what they're doing until we get the announcement. |
| 0:58.4 | So what we've done is we've waited right up to this moment to bring you our newscast |
| 1:02.7 | because basically speaking, this is the result that blows the conservative silver lining out of the water. The clouds, the cloud has |
| 1:14.1 | parted for them and the rain has fallen on the prime minister. So poetic. More poetry and lots |
| 1:20.6 | more politics on this episode of Newscast. Newscast from the BBC. Hundreds of bald men scrapping over a single broken cone. |
| 1:29.8 | He's not a leader. He is a human weather vane. |
| 1:32.7 | Two cheeks of the same backside. |
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