It’s looking like a breakthrough for UKIP in Wales as well as right across the country.https://t.co/ZcH8IlnLEO Labour lost all of the constituencies it had held in Glasgow to the SNP, a repeat of the fate it suffered in last year’s Westminster election. Ms Sturgeon, who was comfortably returned as the MSP for the Glasgow Southside constituency, said: “I want to thank the people of this great city of “If you had told me when I was a teenager, starting out in politics, that one day the SNP would win every constituency in the city of Glasgow, not just in one election but in two elections, I would scarcely have been able She went on to thank “with great humility the people of Scotland for placing their trust in me and in the SNP”. Ms Sturgeon continued: “What is now beyond doubt is that the SNP has won a third consecutive Scottish Parliament election. That has never been done before in the history of the Scottish Parliament.

We have tonight made Kezia Dugdale has said she will stay on as Scottish Labour leader, despite it looking like her party will be beaten into third place in Scotland. She told Sky News: “I’m 100% committed to continuing as the leader of the “I have a mandate to lead the Scottish Labour party. “Politics in Scotland has fundamentally changed since the Scottish referendum. “The Labour party has to appeal to people who voted both yes and no in that “The reality of the SNP winning tonight and the Tories becoming the official opposition, if that is indeed what happens, is that there is now a majority in Scotland for austerity, and that means £3bn of cuts yet to come inI will continue to stand firmly against that.” “I took over the leadership of the party just after our most devastating general election result going from 41 MPs to just one. I said at that time that the problems of the Scottish Labour Party hadn’t happened overnight,

and they wouldn’t be fixed overnight. But I had a plan to renew the fortunes I’m now signing off the live blog and my colleague Robert Fisk is taking over as the final results from Wales and Scotland come in. The Welsh First Minister has turned on the Labour Party and blamed internal rows for harming its chances in yesterday’s elections. Speaking after he had won his seat in Bridgend he said of the divisions on a national level: “It’s not helped. I’m not going to pretend otherwise. “The lesson is that it’s really important for politicians in London not to say things that are not helpful to colleagues in the UK.” Counters out for the count. It’s been a long night but we’re getting close to a result in Barry. — Teleri Glyn Jones (@TeleriGlynJones) May 6, 2016 Having been updating this blog for almost 10 hours, I know how they feel. 6.15am: Update on where we are As the sun comes up now seems as good a time as any to try and make sense of

what’s been going on for the past eight hours. In England there has been little in the way of major headlines, with the expected losses for Labour failing to materialise.cosmo embroidered grommet window curtain panels The party is still down more than 40 councillors, which would be deemed a verymelina grommet top curtain panel bad result for an opposition party in a mid-term election.wilkinson blackout curtain linings But having done a pretty good job managing expectations they did an eveneclipse thermal blackout patio door curtain panel wheat

better job defending the councils they control, managing to only lose one local authority, Dudley, to no overall control. For the Tories they have made some gains, which is fairly extraordinary for aeclipse curtains meridian grommet window curtain single panel party a year after getting into Government – but they will probably feelbeaded door curtains dunelm mill they could have done more, and they lost control of Worcester and Rugby However, there are still hundreds of councils yet to declare, so the pictureAt the moment it will be seen as a decent night for Labour. In Wales it has been less good for Labour, losing the Rhondda to Plaid Cyrmru leader Leanne Wood. But having held the Tories off – who have not done well in Wales – in several

seats, they are inching towards the 30 seats needed to govern in the There are still 26 seats to declare, six constituencies and 20 via the list In Scotland the Tories are having a very good night, while Labour’s Ruth Davidson had a stunning win over the SNP in Edinburgh Central, while Kezia Dugdale lost out to them in neighbouring Edinburgh Eastern. It now seems likely the Scottish Conservatives will finish second overall. But the night, as expected, belongs to Nicola Sturgeon and the SNP, who are still on course for a majority in Holyrood. Meanwhile the two Parliamentary by-elections both returned Labour MPs and Joe Anderson was re-elected Mayor of Liverpool. Results of Police and Crime Commissioner votes, the Northern Ireland Assembly, London Assembly and London Mayor will all be announced later today. 5.45am: Sky saying Tories WILL finish second in Scotland Sky News have broadcast a new projection for the Scottish Parliament with the

SNP down to get 69 seats, but the Tories are in second on 25, up by 10 on Labour are down just 20 seats, a loss of 17, while the Lib Dems go up by one 5.30am: Joe Anderson re-elected as Liverpool Mayor Some better news for Labour, holding one of the city mayors up for grabs 5.15am: Leanne Wood takes the Rhondda A big moment in Wales, and a hammer blow to Labour. Plaid Cymru’s leader Leanne Wood has managed to create a 21% to her party in the Rhondda, and has defeated former Labour minister Leighton Andrews by more than 3,000 votes. That was not an expected result, and could see Labour drop to 26 or 27 seats in the Welsh Assembly, and force them into coalition. No wonder First Minister Carwyn Jones is looking so glum. 5.05am: An update on England After lots of excitement about what is happening north of the border, let’s take a look at what’s happening in the English council races: Lib Dems: 144 seats, 124 holds.

So overall, not much of a shift – and so far those predictions of big losses for Labour look wide of the mark. In terms of council control, the Tories have lost Worcester and Rugby to no overall control, and Labour have lost Dudley to NOC. 4.50am: A crumb of comfort for Scottish Labour Having lost 11 seats in the Scottish constituency elections, nine of them to the SNP, Labour then win one out of nowhere. Daniel Johnson beat Jim Eadie to take Edinburgh Southern by more than 1,000 But that is only their third win so far, leaving them behind both the Tories and the Lib Dems. 4.25am: Ruth Davidson wins – Kezia Dugdale doesn’t Something quite big is going on in Scotland, with the Tories winning seats they had absolutely no right to. As well as Ruth Davidson taking Edinburgh Central from the SNP after a 10% swing, Oliver Mundell won Dumfriesshire from Labour, and Alexander Burnett took Aberdeenshire West off the SNP having seen his vote share go up by 17%.