Disaster for the sketch-writing community?published at 01:07 British Summer Time 8 May 2015
A political sketch writer for the Telegraph
Summary
Conservatives have Commons majority of 12
David Cameron promises his party will 'govern as a party of one nation'
Ed Miliband quits as Labour leader. Ed Balls loses seat
Labour crushed in Scotland, with SNP winning 56 of 59 seats
Lib Dems routed, big names ousted - Clegg holds seat but resigns as leader
UKIP gets 13% of vote but Nigel Farage quits as leader after missing out on seat
Disaster for the sketch-writing community?published at 01:07 British Summer Time 8 May 2015
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The BBC's UKIP campaign correspondent tweets...
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The Independent columnist tweets...
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The political editor of the Scottish Daily Mail tweets...
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BBC's Nick Robinsonpublished at 00:02 British Summer Time 8 May 2015
Key seatpublished at 23:52
If - there's that word again - the exit polls are correct then we will have some indication at about 01:00 when Nuneaton declares. Conservative MP Marcus Jones is defending a majority of 2,069 and the seat is a target for Labour who need a swing from the Tories of 2.3%. If they achieve that then perhaps the exit polls may not be quite correct. But if Labour doesn't win the seat then perhaps the exit polls are spot on. We'll know in just over an hour.
Doing the mathspublished at 22:04 British Summer Time 7 May 2015
Newsnight's chief political correspondent tweets...
More on exit pollpublished at 22:04
More details on the exit poll. It predicts the Liberal Democrats will have just 10 seats - a loss of 47 from 2010. The SNP is predicted to win 58 seats - every constituency bar one in Scotland. UKIP is forecast to have two, as is the Green Party. Plaid Cymru is expected to go up one to four.
Exit poll predicts Tories largest partypublished at 22:00
BreakingUK election exit poll predicts Conservatives will be largest party in a hung parliament, with 316 seats to Labour's 239. Survey by NOP/Mori for BBC, ITV and Sky.
Image source, bbcFinal countdownpublished at 21:47 British Summer Time 7 May 2015
The BBC's economics editor tweets...
Pic: The stage is set in Grimsbypublished at 21:44
