00:00I think it's a resounding message of a rebuke, in fact, to the Conservative Party of profound disappointment at years of political malaise and failed policies in many ways,
00:16and a sort of ongoing internal psychodrama within the leaders of the Conservative Party as a whole.
00:23Quite frankly, after a crisis, after a crisis, after a crisis, a sort of omni-crisis, if you like, they've just simply had enough,
00:31and they have cast their votes, seemingly listening to and believing and following the clarion call for change from Keir Starmer of the Labour Party.
00:42Labour have affected the greatest swing in history, as we've seen. They've come, in fact, from a lower base than they originally had back in 1997,
00:52and they've clobbered the opposition. So you have 650 seats in the House of Parliament and the House of Commons, and Labour have claimed 412 seats.
01:02And the Conservatives have been really whittled right back down to 121, and the Lib Dems have done better than they've ever done in history, 71 seats.
01:12That's quite a bit higher than they themselves were expecting, and you have four Reform UK seats.
01:19That's certainly the protest vote, and that has eaten into the Conservative heartland, and it leaves it as something of a rump, and four Green seats as well.
01:29And we've also seen Labour doing extremely well in Scotland. The Scottish National Party, the pro-independence party, having been whittled right down to nine seats,
01:40so that's a deep disappointment. So there are many different messages being sent, but I think the most important one is voting with Labour for change,
01:50and voting against the Conservatives for any continuation of what we've seen in the last 14 years.
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