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Latest in from BBC analysis … the exit poll is proving quite accurate!
○ Election results LIVE! – The Guardian
Con 297 [-13]
Lab 252 [+30]
LD 11 [+5]
SNP 34 [-18]
DUP 10 [+2]
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BIG Scalps
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Jeremy Corbyn and Labour pull off a surprise; heading for a hung parliament | The Guardian |
Loser: Nick Clegg, Liberal Democrats (Sheffield Hallam)
Nick Clegg, the former deputy prime minister and Lib Dem leader who was at the helm when his party were routed in 2015, has taken his fair share of political kickings. Thursday night delivered one more as his seat – one he had held for 12 years – fell to Labour.Seven years after he became deputy prime minister and two after he resigned as leader of his party, Theresa May’s snap general election delivered a crushing blow – with Clegg losing his Sheffield Hallam constituency after failing to fight off a Labour surge. One of the biggest scalps of the night, Clegg couldn’t defend his slender majority of 2,353 in the South Yorkshire constituency, losing it to Labour’s candidate, disability campaigner Jared O’Mara, in a 4% swing to the party from the Lib Dems.
Clegg looked visibly saddened as the results were read out, facing the fact of a successful political career coming to an end at a time not of his choosing. In a speech following the result, he said it had been the greatest privilege of his political career to serve Sheffield Hallam as MP. Clegg urged politicians of all political stripes to work together to bridge divides that he said threatened to seriously damage the country.
“We must try and reach out to each other to find
common ground to heal those divisions. If we do not
our country will endure unprecedented hardship.”Amber Rudd wins in Hastings & Rye. It was extremely close – and went to a recount – but the home secretary clings on.