Alistair Smout

Journo at Reuters, currently in Westminster

[Adam Ramsay Jourdan @ARJourdan]

UK in advanced talks with Nissan over Sunderland plant support, sources say https://t.co/EwgiG4Q9h9 @geddiejdk @reuters_shiraki @asmo17 @danielleussink @Reuters

[Alistair Smout @asmo17]

the victories of both Farage and Corbyn in their respective constituencies confirmed moments apart from each other

[Keiran Pedley @keiranpedley]

Grant Shapps loses seat.

Lab 19,877
Con 16,078

Reform on 6k.

Microcosm of Tory problems right there.

[Alistair Smout @asmo17]

Shapps and Chalk lose their seats to Labour and Lib Dems respectively

[Alistair Smout @asmo17]

Starmer has just spoken after winning Holborn and St Pancras.

"Tonight people here and around the country have spoken, and they're ready for change... The change begins right here."

[Alistair Smout @asmo17]

this seems likely

[Sam Freedman @Samfr]

Labour are definitely going to get more than 410 seats.

[Alistair Smout @asmo17]

Momentum say Jeremy Corbyn has won Islington North

[Alistair Smout @asmo17]

Labour also hold Hartlepool, which along with Barnsleys North and South will calm some supporters who were worried about the exit poll and projections Reform UK would win theose seats. But Lee Anderson does get a first win for Reform of the night in Ashfield

[Alistair Smout @asmo17]

a supposedly 99% likely win for Reform was instead held by Labour by 8,000 votes. good context for the Exit poll and the 13 seats it has predicted Reform will win

[Alistair Smout @asmo17]

Barnsley North held comfortably in the end by Labour. The exit poll had it as a likely Reform gain

[Matt Singh @MattSingh_]

John Curtice saying that the first two seats fit with the broad picture of the exit poll, although the Reform share is actually slightly less than it had forecast in those seats

[Alistair Smout @asmo17]

this is fun - Reuters' UK General Election Live page is now, uh, live! https://t.co/H3LNUziqnT

[Alistair Smout @asmo17]

@ChrisGiles_ thank you, this stands to be helpful but it doesn't seem to be able to compute seats which eg the SNP have won (maybe it's been calculated purely on difference between Conservative and Labour votes?) then that throws out the rankings

[Alistair Smout @asmo17]

UK's Sunak suffers major blow as Rwanda migrant scheme declared unlawful https://t.co/kQnJhgbpvZ

[Alistair Smout @asmo17]

Sacked minister Braverman attacks UK's Sunak as failing and weak https://t.co/ZhPQnZt7VG

[Alistair Smout @asmo17]

UK's Sunak to learn fate of his Rwanda migrant plan this week https://t.co/xL3QrqvBbQ

[Alistair Smout @asmo17]

UK PM Sunak did not approve interior minister's article on protests - spokesperson https://t.co/mcxVTABXvq

[Alistair Smout @asmo17]

UK's Sunak wants to ban cigarettes for younger generations https://t.co/lY07vqb5qY