GENERAL ELECTION 2005: SPECIAL 23.00 - 24.00

GENERAL ELECTION 2005: SPECIAL 23.00 - 24.00; ATRIUM Professor Colin Rallings (ITV Election analyst) analyses exit polls 23.09.46 GIR ex Westmorland & Lonsdale: Tim Collins (Shadow Education Secretary) live 2 way interview ex Westmorland & Lonsdale SOT - exit polls are almost invariably wrong & they underestimate the Conservative performance / largest number of gains since 1983, smallest majority since 1974 / revival of Conservative party / talks about the Lonsdale tie he is wearing 23.11.29 LONDON EYE Mark Austin interview with Maureen Lipman (Actress and Labour supporter) SOT - better the devil you know than the devil you used to know, I'm still there with the Labour party, I hope the Lib Dems put on a good show, don't win votes with the environment, they must start the President of the United States that things must change, Tony Blair can't talk policy as all media talks about is Iraq and Gordon Brown Austin interview with Germaine Greer (Academic & Liberal Democrat supporter) SOT - the Lib Dems are more accessible to ideas about the environment than Labour and Conservatives, I wouldn't blame just Tony Blair for war, media were hungry for war too 23.14.33 LONDON EYE Katie Derham interview with Tony Benn (Former Labour politician) SOT - Thatcher 'said what she meant, meant what she said, and did what she said she would do' / policies were catastrophic but there was a consistency about it, so have to respect her but she did enormous damage / much to much coverage is about individuals and not about movements CUTAWAY London Eye capsule with Big Ben in background Derham interview with Clive Anderson (Television presenter) SOT - Blair should re-introduce poll tax to see if he can get away with it 23.16.59 STUDIO Dimbleby with Election 2005