ELECTIONS LIVE: Tories to beat Labour in Scotland and London Mayor results to come
Toby Melville/ReutersBritain's opposition Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn addresses his party's annual conference in Brighton.
- Labour's presence in Scotland is set to crater - it should be gaining hundreds of seats if history is a guide - but it is not.
- Conservatives are shaping up to become the No.2 party after the SNP north of the border. Labour is on course to lose all its seats in Glasgow.
- Labour MP John Mann says coming third in Scotland would be "beyond comprehension."
- Labour loses seats in areas with large Jewish populations following the Ken Livingstone anti-Semitism spat.
- Modest gains for UKIP and the Lib-Dems.
- Labour MPs are not blaming leader Jeremy Corbyn (yet) ... even though the results suggest he cannot make gains for Labour nationally.
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0849 - UKIP IS GAINING GROUND
We know that Labour is haemorrhaging seats and this has meant that right-leaning parties are gathering more ground.
The Conservatives have popped back from the dead in Scotland and is on course to beat Labour to second place, behind the SNP.
Meanwhile, UKIP is seeing a rise in seats and assembly member positions.
Courtesy of the BBC's results counter:
0829 - THE SCOTTISH TORIES ARE LOOKING FAIRLY CERTAIN TO BEAT LABOUR
It looks pretty certain that the Tories will be back from the dead in Scotland and beat Labour to second place.
The SNP's popularity has not waned since the independence referendum in 2014. Here's what it looks like right now. There are still 14 seats to declare.
0821- RECAP - THINGS ARE LOOKING DEVASTATING FOR LABOUR
Labour is suffering badly.
- Local elections are supposed to be the occasion when voters punish the government for its missteps. The average opposition party gains 434 seats in the local vote. Yet Labour is losing seats. That has only happened twice since 1974.
- The Conservative party is poised to overtake Labour in Scotland - previously unthinkable two years ago.
- Andy Burham, the previous favourite to become leader of the Labour party but ended up losing out to Jeremy Corbyn, is considering becoming the Mayor of Manchester.
- Labour MPs are not blaming Jeremy Corbyn but the outcome of the election so far is all a damning indictment for the party and its leader.
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