Outgoing leader Jason Smithers at the North Northants election count

Jason Smithers at the North Northants election count

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00:00How do you feel about results? Have you had a chance to stay showing on yet?

00:02Yes, I've had a chance to speak to people overnight and obviously today in the morning.

00:07Feeling very confident, as you would expect me to.

00:10And I'm looking forward to a compelling Conservative win here today.

00:14Okay. Who's the biggest threat, do you think?

00:17We've heard a couple of people saying about reform. Do you feel that as an analogy?

00:21Why don't we look overnight at the election results and such?

00:26We would be foolish not to think they're a threat. They've had some outstanding victories.

00:32But quite frankly, I think it will be a Conservative win across the country and local governments.

00:38And the casualties of the day will certainly be the Labour Party.

00:42Fantastic. Have you had a chance to get out of the doors?

00:45Absolutely. I've been knocking on doors and the support is quite positive on the doors.

00:50You know, that's got to convert into votes and we want our voters to come out.

00:54They've assured us that they are coming out.

00:56And the data that we gather shows that we've got a large majority of people coming out and voting for us.

01:02But, yeah, I'm not complacent. There is threats coming in from other parties.

01:05But we will be here, and as I said, to win it.

01:08So you're seriously, you sound really confident.

01:12I'm always confident. You know, I think, you know, it's a public...

01:15You sound very relaxed as well. Sorry, I'm interrupting.

01:17You sound very, very relaxed. I'm a relaxed type of person.

01:21There's no point getting stressed on things like this.

01:23OK, fair enough. Yeah.

01:25Are you looking forward to retirement? Well, semi-retirement, sorry.

01:27Semi-retirement, yes, absolutely.

01:29Going from 80 hours to about 40 a week will be a bit of a shock.

01:34But it will be a welcome shock.

01:37So I'm certainly looking forward to it.

01:40And looking forward to observing politics in North Northamptonshire from a distance.

01:44And you can follow it all on the North Northamptonshire website.

01:47Well, I'll be watching you on Twitter and certainly watching your colleagues

01:50and watching your newspaper and seeing what's going on.

01:54Excellent.