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Tory landslide predicted - what are the key seats to watch for?

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🗓️ 12 December 2019

⏱️ 10 minutes

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With Katy Balls and James Forsyth.

Presented by Isabel Hardman.

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0:00.0

Our exit poll is suggesting that there will be a conservative majority.

0:08.0

The Conservatives on 368 seats and Labour way down on 191.

0:15.0

Now on those figures we are looking at a conservative majority of 86.

0:22.7

Well, we have the exit poll.

0:29.2

The polls are closed, and the exit poll is predicting that the conservatives are going to have a landslide,

0:37.2

winning 368 seats, Labor on 191 seats, the SNP on 55 seats, Blyke-ry on three, the Greens on one and others on 19. So that would be a Tory majority of 86, which would be quite something, particularly given the way that polls have been going in recent days. I'm Isabel Harbman and I'm joined by James Forsyth and Katie Balls.

0:56.2

James, this is a surprising result, isn't it?

1:01.2

Yes, I think the Tories were hoping for a majority,

1:04.5

but I think they were thinking of a majority in the 20 to 50 range,

1:08.6

not sort of this size and this magnitude. One of the things that I think is striking

1:13.6

about it is the exit pole comes to a projection for every speed. And it looks like the toys

1:19.6

have had a very bad night in Scotland, the SMP got to 55 MP. They've had a bad night in London,

1:24.6

losing 50s at London and Western. But they are still on course for this big majority.

1:31.4

And I think that shows that they have taken a wrecking ball through that infamous Labour

1:35.9

Red Wall.

1:37.1

You know, Tony Blair's old seat of Sedgfield on this projection is going Tory, hardly full.

1:42.1

You know, where they used to joke that the same people they

1:45.2

would vote for a monkey of a Red Rose out, has gone Tory.

1:49.2

And I think what you see here is a one-two hunch that's done for Labour.

1:54.3

The first is Brexit and their equivocation on that issue, that feeling that they were not

2:00.0

respecting the referendum

2:01.9

result in birth of commerce, he's by Boris Johnson's favorite phrases, and the second is Jeremy

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