London mayoral and UK local election results 2021 LIVE: SNP wins emphatic victory, but falls just short of overall majority

Scottish Parliamentary Elections 2021

Nicola Sturgeon’s party took 64 seats in Thursday’s vote – 62 in constituencies and one on the Highlands and Islands and another in the South Scotland regional list – one shy of a majority but well ahead of the Tories on 31 seats.

With the failure to return 65 MSPs, the case for another independence referendum is weakened, but the Scottish Greens provide an overall pro-independence majority of 72 seats.

In a televised victory speech, Ms Sturgeon said another vote was “the will of the country”, adding: “It is a commitment made to the people by a majority of the MSPs have been elected to our national parliament.

“It is the will of the country.

“Given that outcome, there is simply no democratic justification whatsoever for Boris Johnson or anyone else seeking to block the right of the people of Scotland to choose our future.”

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8 May 2021

Shaun Bailey says the people of London never wrote him off

In a concession speech the Conservative candidate said: “I was written off by pollsters, by journalists, by fellow politicians candidates. I’ve been a poor boy, whose been homeless, who has worked in youth services.

“When you’ve seen the things I’ve seen you understand that Londoners are generous in spirit and will give you a hearing.”

He thanks those who gave a chance to a “young black boy from Ladbroke Grove.”

“All this is possible because of my mum.”

To Sadiq Khan he wants him to reflect that: “People who look like me are 4x more likely to be murdered than people who look like you.”

He jokes he will have to check the numbers on whether he can hold the Mayor to account in the London Assembly. “It’s been a long road but I’ve enjoyed every minute of it.”

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8 May 2021

Oh yes he Khan! Sadiq wins highly contested Mayoral battle

Labour’s Sadiq Khan has officially won a second term as the Mayor of London.

For the next three years, he will serve in the role as it went to a second round of votes between his closest rival Shaun Bailey.

Sadiq got a total of 1,260,034 votes to Mr Bailey’s admirable 977,601 votes in a close run election.

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8 May 2021

We are still waiting for second prefs to be added but Ross Lydall has Sadiq unsurprisingly at the top

8 May 2021

Boris Johnson invites Nicola Sturgeon and Mark Drakeford to ‘Team UK'

Boris Johnson has written to Nicola Sturgeon and Mark Drakeford to congratulate them on their election victories and invite them to a summit on how “Team UK” can recover from the pandemic.

He said the people of the UK are “best served when we work together”.

In his letter, he pointed to the vaccine roll-out as well as the support for jobs and businesses as successes for the union. He called on Sturgeon and Drakeford to “show the same spirit of unity and co-operation that marked our fight against the pandemic”.

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8 May 2021

A huge victory again for Sadiq Khan.

After a slight delay City and East first preference votes

Shaun Bailey Con: 58,145

Sian Berry Green 13,615

Count Binface: 1,968

Laurence Fox Reclaim: 3,174

Sadiq Khan Lab: 99,971

Labour’s Unmesh Desai wins the London Assembly seat. He thanks the staff at the Excel and police and security. Above all he wants to thank the best people in the best part of London and thanks them for their trust. He says “you don’t take people for granted, you value them and should earn their trust.”

He says Labour should be bold, visionary and go forward to the future with confidence and hope.

8 May 2021

As London is kept waiting for a result Manchester’s new mayor is lapping it up

8 May 2021

You had one job...

Reason for the delay Rachael Burford reports that staff at the City & East count at the Excel found three unopened boxes of votes after everything else had been counted. Doh!

8 May 2021

Don’t get locked in Rachael

8 May 2021

London’s female candidates pose for a photos they await the final results to come in at City Hall

8 May 2021

More fallout from Labour MPs after the reported sacking of Angela Rayner

Clive Lewis, another MP from the left-wing of the party, branded the situation a “mess”.

Richard Burgon MP, former shadow justice secretary and prominent left-wing critic, said: “Instead of making progress in the key areas we need to win back, at these elections we’ve gone backwards – this can’t go on.

“There should now be a special Labour Party conference where the leadership outlines its plan to turn this around and seeks the confidence of the party for it.”

Shadow schools minister Wes Streeting said: “I’m not sure that’s the case, I haven’t heard anything from the party officially about any of this.

“Angela Rayner is the deputy leader of the Labour Party, she’s not going anywhere, she’s a formidable campaigner, (she) socks it to the Tories.”

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