British politics has become it's probably fair to say

unpredictable I'm Rob Watson BBC political correspondence and here at West

Westminster as elsewhere in the country, no one it seems anticipated the political

vault fast by the public ahead of last week's general election.

As people went to vote in the UK general election on June the 8th, many were

contemplating a landslide for the Conservative Prime Minister Theresa May.

Nearly all the opinion polls predicted it.

Now we know the nearly all the opinion polls predicted it.

Now we know the Conservatives lost seats and their majority in the House of Commons.

So what happened?

Why did people vote the way they did? And what does it say about Britain, Brexit,

security and the different generations? We picked one constituency at random,

Chorley in Lancashire, 250 kilometers from London.

Its Labour MP, Lindsay Hoyle, the Deputy Speaker of the House of Commons, had been elected

20 years ago in the 1997 landslide.

The constituency had been conservative for 10 years before that.

So we think we've got assumed 33,000 people who said they're going to vote for me.

Now the differences is converting those into votes,

but that's the basis we work on.

As voters exited the polling stations,

it became apparent that the numbers voting were higher than usual,

and in that remarkable 48 hours, conventional political wisdom was turned on its head in the UK. You're listening to something happened in the UK election,

...