Overnight, the Brexit party gained 28 seats, with the Lib Dems in second on 15 seats. The Brexit party won all of the regions in England, apart from London, as well as Wales, and took almost 2 million more votes than their closest rivals, the Lib Dems. The Brexit party chair Richard Tice, who won a seat in the east of England, echoed Farage’s demand that his party be included in any forthcoming Brexit negotiations with the EU. In Hannan’s south-east region, the Brexit party came top in 27 of 31 areas, with three won by the Lib Dems and one by the Greens. Vince Cable’s party took three seats in the capital, with two each for Labour and the Brexit party and another for the Greens.

Source: The Guardian May 27, 2019 00:10 UTC