🗳️ A general election all-nighter
I stayed up through the night to follow the election results coming through on GB News.
A few highlights, as the action began to pick up after 2.00 a.m.
02.19 Lee Anderson holds Ashfield, this time as a Reform candidate. Increased majority, with 43% of vote.
02.30 Labour is racing away with 37 seats won, while Conservatives are on just 3.
02.39 George Galloway loses his Rochdale seat.
02.41 Bungee jumper, surfer and paddle boarder, Sir Ed Davey, holds Kingston and Surbiton.
02.59 The next Prime Minister, Kier Starmer, holds Holborn and St Pancras, although his majority has been cut from 22,766 in 2019, to 11,572.
03.10 Grant Shapps loses his seat, as the Conservatives make just ten so far. Meanwhile, Labour is in the 90s. This is what happens when Conservatives are no longer conservative, they lose the votes of conservatives.
03.26 Jeremy Corbyn holds Islington North as an independent.
03.29 Massive result for Reform, as Nigel Farage wins Clacton.
03.40 Been keeping an eye on the SNP and they’ve been losing seats to Labour. Bad night for the nationalists north of the border but good for the unionists.
03.45 Rupert Lowe wins Great Yarmouth for Reform.
04.09 Penny Mordaunt loses her seat.
04.15 Richard Tice makes it four for Reform in Boston and Skegness.
04.42 Jeremy Hunt and Rishi Sunak hold their respective seats.
04.59 Jacob Rees-Mogg is out of parliament.
05.00 Labour hits 326 seats, they now form the government.
05.01 I’m going fishing.