Exactly. This gives them a chance, but people also need to be patient - it takes a long time to make things this bad, takes the same amount of time to make it better.
Set my alarm at 2.30 for the influx of results. Delighted to see Barnsley and Hartlepool doing the right thing!
Oh my god! There are not enough likes in the world for this!!!! Slight worry for the rest of the exit poll reliability if they got this so wrong (99% apparently) but so so relieved!
10 pages of criticism and worry based on something that wasn’t true…certain irony there. I’m going early but I think Starmer has this. (99.8% likely )
Good to see Corbyn batter the Labour candidate. Corbyn was a narrow underdog at times this week but won by over 5,000. No doubt it’ll enrage a few of the biggest ***** in the Labour Party. Mandelson, Margaret Hodge & Tom Watson all spent time in Islington trying to oust him.
I know one of the senior folk in Ipsos who are providing the numbers , seems like they have had a troubled start. Is it first time they have provided for BBC?