{"id":123053,"date":"2019-12-13T02:57:20","date_gmt":"2019-12-13T01:57:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/12\/13\/uk-general-election-2019-labours-red-wall-starts-to-crumble-as-exit-poll-predicts-tory-majority-live-news\/"},"modified":"2019-12-13T02:57:20","modified_gmt":"2019-12-13T01:57:20","slug":"uk-general-election-2019-labours-red-wall-starts-to-crumble-as-exit-poll-predicts-tory-majority-live-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=123053","title":{"rendered":"UK general election 2019: Labour&#039;s red wall starts to crumble as exit poll predicts Tory majority \u2013 live news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Exit polls, first results and the biggest winners and losers after Britain votes in the \u2018most important poll in a generation\u2019As they happen: full election results trackerHour-by-hour guide to election nightWhat we know about the 2019 election so far \u2013 at a glance 1.57am GMT According to the BBC, in the first 20 seats the average swing from Labour to the Conservatives was over 7%.That is huge by historic terms. Normally election swings are much more modest, as this chart, from the elections analyst David Cowling, illustrates. 1.54am GMT The view from Bury North and Bury South are in some ways similar \u2013 both voted to leave the EU by a margin of 54%, both results are deemed \u201ctoo close to forecast winning party\u201d by the exit poll.Bury South, a two-horse race between Labour and the Conservatives, remains a key Conservative target. Their quest has been aided by incumbent Ivan Lewis, former Labour MP since 1997 who resigned from the party in 2018 citing antisemitism and Corbyn\u2019s failure to sufficiently address the issue. With a majority of just under 6000, Lewis has urged his constituent to vote Tory via Facebook, posting: \u201c\u201cCorbyn\u2019s Labour is not the party I loved or the party of our parents and grandparents. This is why I\u2019m asking you to vote for Christian Wakeford the Conservative Candidate in Bury South.\u201dIf you sneer at working Class voters, depart from the mainstream values of the British people and tolerate racism against a minority you get what you deserve. The Labour Party has no future unless and until Corbyns cult are defeated. #GeneralElection2019 Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/live\/2019\/dec\/12\/general-election-2019-uk-live-labour-tories-corbyn-boris-johnson-results-exit-poll\" target=\"_blank\">UK general election 2019: Labour&#039;s red wall starts to crumble as exit poll predicts Tory majority \u2013 live news<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exit polls, first results and the biggest winners and losers after Britain votes in the \u2018most important poll in a generation\u2019As they happen: full election results trackerHour-by-hour guide to election nightWhat we know about the 2019 election so far \u2013 at a glance 1.57am GMT According to the BBC, in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=123053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123053\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=123053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=123053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=123053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}