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| UK elections: Sadiq Khan's confirmation as London mayor delayed - live updates | |
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| 11.00pm BST | |
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| With the 2016 elections almost (but, of course, not quite) over, attention is focusing again on the other great electoral battle - the EU referendum. The Telegraph has got an interview with the pro-Brexit justice secretary Michael Gove, and he is using it to say that David Cameron should remain as prime minister if the UK votes to leave the EU, but that he would have to “instantly” enact new laws to stop the influence of “rogue” European courts and allow the immediate deportation of terrorists. | |
| Gove also rules out ever standing for the Conservative leadership himself. | |
| I don’t want to do it and there are people who are far better equipped than me to do it. | |
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| The Greens are so bored, they are playing cards at City Hall#LondonMayor2016 @BBCRadioLondon pic.twitter.com/BPlVa1gGeh | |
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| London is not the only place where the election counting isn’t over. Here, from the Press Association, is the latest summary of the state of play from Northern Ireland. | |
| With 54 seats filled out of 108 in the Northern Ireland election, the party seats are: | |
| DUP 24 | |
| SF 15 | |
| UUP 7 | |
| Alliance 4 | |
| SDLP 2 | |
| People 1 | |
| TUV 1 | |
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| Ashcroft says Goldsmith's campaign was 'awful' | |
| Lord Ashcroft, the former Conservative deputy chairman, has also criticised Zac Goldsmith’s campaign. | |
| The Zac Goldsmith campaign was awful. What more can be said.... | |
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| According to Huffington Post’s Owen Bennett, there is no sign of Jeremy Corbyn yet at Sadiq Khan’s victory party. | |
| At Sadiq Khan's celebration party. No sign of @jeremycorbyn yet. Told he might come depends how late it gets | |
| It was reported earlier this week that Khan did not want Corbyn there, but Khan said on Wednesday that that was not true. | |
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| Here is the Guardian’s splash: | Here is the Guardian’s splash: |
| Saturday's Guardian front page:Khan’s landmark victory gives Corbyn reason to be cheerful#tomorrowspaperstoday pic.twitter.com/IQY79DZpi0 | Saturday's Guardian front page:Khan’s landmark victory gives Corbyn reason to be cheerful#tomorrowspaperstoday pic.twitter.com/IQY79DZpi0 |
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| at 10.29pm BST | at 10.29pm BST |
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| Here is the official announcement about the delay in the declaration: | Here is the official announcement about the delay in the declaration: |
| Here's an update on tonight's declaration https://t.co/xdxM3PqfI6 #LondonVotes | Here's an update on tonight's declaration https://t.co/xdxM3PqfI6 #LondonVotes |
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| at 10.25pm BST | at 10.25pm BST |
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| Declaration delayed | Declaration delayed |
| Robert Booth | Robert Booth |
| A huge groan goes up in the media centre at City Hall. An announcement reveals that the delay in the final result is due to “a small discrepancy in the mayoral numbers” and that the count officials are working to rectify that in conjunction with the Electoral Commission. It means they are “working towards a declaration at midnight”. | A huge groan goes up in the media centre at City Hall. An announcement reveals that the delay in the final result is due to “a small discrepancy in the mayoral numbers” and that the count officials are working to rectify that in conjunction with the Electoral Commission. It means they are “working towards a declaration at midnight”. |
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| at 10.25pm BST | at 10.25pm BST |
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| Bad news from the City Hall count. | Bad news from the City Hall count. |
| Declaration promised. . . . . at MIDNIGHT. #LondonElects (really fucking slowly) | Declaration promised. . . . . at MIDNIGHT. #LondonElects (really fucking slowly) |
| No mayoral declaration til midnight. Groans in City Hall press room. Delay due to 'small discrepancies' in figures | No mayoral declaration til midnight. Groans in City Hall press room. Delay due to 'small discrepancies' in figures |
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| Sajid Javid congratulates Khan as 'one son of a Pakistani bus driver to another' | Sajid Javid congratulates Khan as 'one son of a Pakistani bus driver to another' |
| Sajid Javid, the Conservative business secretary, has put out a personal tweet offering Sadiq Khan congratulations. | Sajid Javid, the Conservative business secretary, has put out a personal tweet offering Sadiq Khan congratulations. |
| .@SadiqKhan from one son of a Pakistani bus driver to another, congratulations | .@SadiqKhan from one son of a Pakistani bus driver to another, congratulations |
| Khan has a rather good joke about how you wait for ages for the son of a Pakistani bus driver to get to the top of British politics, and then two turn up at the same time. | Khan has a rather good joke about how you wait for ages for the son of a Pakistani bus driver to get to the top of British politics, and then two turn up at the same time. |
| More seriously, Khan spoke passionately in an interview earlier this week about how he was glad to see people like Javid in a Tory cabinet because it showed parties were competing for minority votes. | More seriously, Khan spoke passionately in an interview earlier this week about how he was glad to see people like Javid in a Tory cabinet because it showed parties were competing for minority votes. |
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| 9.07pm BST | 9.07pm BST |
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| Still no word from City Hall as to when we will get the London mayoral announcement. | Still no word from City Hall as to when we will get the London mayoral announcement. |
| The Evening Standard’s Pippa Crerar says Sadiq Khan has been getting some sleep. (Lucky man.) | The Evening Standard’s Pippa Crerar says Sadiq Khan has been getting some sleep. (Lucky man.) |
| Word is Sadiq Khan has been taking a wee nap up on the 7th floor - he has a victory party to attend! | Word is Sadiq Khan has been taking a wee nap up on the 7th floor - he has a victory party to attend! |
| Zac Goldsmith, meanwhile, has been billeted in Boris Johnson's 8th floor office, a painful reminder of what won't be his. | Zac Goldsmith, meanwhile, has been billeted in Boris Johnson's 8th floor office, a painful reminder of what won't be his. |
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| I’m afraid we have had to close comments on the blog. Sorry about that. It is because the volume of comments has been huge and we do not have enough moderating capacity on a Friday night to cope. | I’m afraid we have had to close comments on the blog. Sorry about that. It is because the volume of comments has been huge and we do not have enough moderating capacity on a Friday night to cope. |
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| Steve Hilton says Goldsmith has brought 'nasty party' label back to Tory politics | Steve Hilton says Goldsmith has brought 'nasty party' label back to Tory politics |
| Steve Hilton, David Cameron’s former head of strategy, has told BBC Newsnight that the election of Sadiq Khan is “great news” and “a very positive and powerful message about London”. | Steve Hilton, David Cameron’s former head of strategy, has told BBC Newsnight that the election of Sadiq Khan is “great news” and “a very positive and powerful message about London”. |
| And he was scathing about Zac Goldsmith’s campaign, saying that Goldsmith was bringing the “nasty party” label back to Tory politics. Hilton played a major role, with Cameron, in trying to rid the party of that image before the 2010 election. | And he was scathing about Zac Goldsmith’s campaign, saying that Goldsmith was bringing the “nasty party” label back to Tory politics. Hilton played a major role, with Cameron, in trying to rid the party of that image before the 2010 election. |
| Hilton told Newsnight: | Hilton told Newsnight: |
| The overall impression I got from Zac’s campaign was a rather old-fashioned and frankly uninspiring campaign which I was really surprised about because Zac, who I know pretty well, is actually a really interesting, thoughtful, somewhat anti-establishment character in politics, and he’s got a very interesting set of views of different kinds on different issues, and it seemed to me that none of that was conveyed in his campaign which to be honest I found really weird. | The overall impression I got from Zac’s campaign was a rather old-fashioned and frankly uninspiring campaign which I was really surprised about because Zac, who I know pretty well, is actually a really interesting, thoughtful, somewhat anti-establishment character in politics, and he’s got a very interesting set of views of different kinds on different issues, and it seemed to me that none of that was conveyed in his campaign which to be honest I found really weird. |
| At the very least it’s rather careless to allow your campaign to be characterised in that way, and it’s rather amazing that of all people it’s Zac Goldsmith who ends up, if you like, bringing back the nasty party label to the Conservative party. | At the very least it’s rather careless to allow your campaign to be characterised in that way, and it’s rather amazing that of all people it’s Zac Goldsmith who ends up, if you like, bringing back the nasty party label to the Conservative party. |
| I’m not in a position to judge whether it’s fair or not but I’ve been involved in campaigns and you have to be careful to make sure that what you say and do can’t be misrepresented in ways that are fundamentally unhelpful. Of course your opponents are going to say things you don’t agree with and try and distort what you do and so on, that’s part of a campaign. But I think the way this particular accusation has been allowed to stick, even if that’s unfair, shows that there was something there that at the very least was careless, and I think long-term could be pretty damaging. | I’m not in a position to judge whether it’s fair or not but I’ve been involved in campaigns and you have to be careful to make sure that what you say and do can’t be misrepresented in ways that are fundamentally unhelpful. Of course your opponents are going to say things you don’t agree with and try and distort what you do and so on, that’s part of a campaign. But I think the way this particular accusation has been allowed to stick, even if that’s unfair, shows that there was something there that at the very least was careless, and I think long-term could be pretty damaging. |
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| This is from the BBC’s Susana Mendonca. | This is from the BBC’s Susana Mendonca. |
| Libdem @CarolinePidgeon team tells me "the LibDems have not gone away" in London. She's predicting 2 keep one assembly seat #LondonMayor2016 | Libdem @CarolinePidgeon team tells me "the LibDems have not gone away" in London. She's predicting 2 keep one assembly seat #LondonMayor2016 |
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| French prime minister Manuel Valls congratulates Khan | French prime minister Manuel Valls congratulates Khan |
| The French prime minister Manuel Valls congratulates Sadiq Khan on being elected mayor of London. Valls, of course, is a socialist. | The French prime minister Manuel Valls congratulates Sadiq Khan on being elected mayor of London. Valls, of course, is a socialist. |
| Congratulations @SadiqKhan on your outstanding victory in London. Looking forward to welcoming you in France. | Congratulations @SadiqKhan on your outstanding victory in London. Looking forward to welcoming you in France. |
| (I wish he had been elected mayor of London. Some of us are keen to get home.) | (I wish he had been elected mayor of London. Some of us are keen to get home.) |
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| Henry McDonald | Henry McDonald |
| The DUP and Sinn Féin are still on course to be the largest parties. On 19 seats the DUP are well on their way to being the single biggest political force in the assembly while Sinn Féin have already elected 10 including the party’s national chairman Declan Kearney. | The DUP and Sinn Féin are still on course to be the largest parties. On 19 seats the DUP are well on their way to being the single biggest political force in the assembly while Sinn Féin have already elected 10 including the party’s national chairman Declan Kearney. |
| But the shocks in individual constituencies have been seismic, particularly in West Belfast where it looks like Sinn Féin will lose a seat thanks to the amazing performance of People Before Profit candidate Gerry Carroll. He actually increased his 7,000 vote tally in West Belfast in the Westminster election last year to more than 8,000 and was elected thousands of votes ahead of the quota. In many ways the leftwing socialist candidate is the story of the election in Northern Ireland. | But the shocks in individual constituencies have been seismic, particularly in West Belfast where it looks like Sinn Féin will lose a seat thanks to the amazing performance of People Before Profit candidate Gerry Carroll. He actually increased his 7,000 vote tally in West Belfast in the Westminster election last year to more than 8,000 and was elected thousands of votes ahead of the quota. In many ways the leftwing socialist candidate is the story of the election in Northern Ireland. |
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| at 9.11pm BST | at 9.11pm BST |