English transcript

Good morning, everybody. I am delighted to be here in the sunshine, outside Havering

Town Hall, which I can now say is under new management. And I'm absolutely delighted.

And it's significant. It's our first win of a borough in London. And that in some ways

goes against the trend, because the pattern that's emerging over the country is that Labour

are being wiped out by reform in many of their most traditional areas. And what you're going

to see later on today is the Conservative Party being wiped out in their heartlands

like Essex. So London goes a bit against the trend in that the Conservatives and Labour

have held up in some of the other boroughs. But I think overall what's happened is a truly

historic shift in British politics. We've been so used to thinking about politics in

terms of left and right. And yet what reform are able to do is to win in areas that have

always been Conservative. But equally, we're proving in a big way we can win in areas that

Labour have dominated, frankly, since the end of World War One. At the moment, we're

winning one in three of all the seats that are up. But I genuinely think the best is

yet to come. I'm very excited about the North East results, the Yorkshire results, some

more to come in the West Midlands. Essex, we're feeling supremely confident. And that's

significant given that half the Shadow Cabinet have seats in Essex. So it's a big, big day.

It's a big, big day, not just for our party, but for a complete reshaping of British politics

in every way. And it all goes to show that over the course of the last two years, since

we made that breakthrough in the general election, we have professionalised the party.

We've done it at a very, very rapid rate. I'm thrilled and delighted and happy to take

any questions.