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18 or over. Hello and welcome to the Red Box Politics Podcast on The Times, I'm Matt

Surely. This is a special edition of the podcast recorded live on Facebook at just after midday on Friday the 9th of June 2017 as we all came to terms with the outcome of the general election.

Goodness me, this is not what we expected.

We've got a hung parliament, still one more seat to go.

Kensington and Chelsea are taking the afternoon off and they'll get back to their

counting but it currently stands the Conservatives have 318 seats, Labour 261, the

SMP 35 Lib Dems 12 Green One and others lumped together 22 but we'll dig into those

because some of those matter far more than others I'm joined with a stellar panel by Alice Thompson,

columnist for The Times, Emma Tucker,

deputy editor of the Times, Patrick Kidd's sketchwriter from The Times,

and Tim Schittman, the political editor of the Sunday Times.

Welcome to you all. If you are watching on

Facebook you can post your questions underneath the video and we'll try and get

through as many as possible and we've already had some which have been sent in already. So we'll start nice and

straightforwardly. Matthew Knowles on Twitter says who won it seems like everyone

lost. Who wants to start with that Alice? I think Ruth Davidson actually is one of the real winners last night.

She was utterly extraordinary in some ways in the way. She ran her a very nice campaign and

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