BBC Vote 2001: Breakfast

Following immediately the overnight election coverage, here is the full BBC Breakfast programme from Friday 8 June 2001. Presented by Sophie Raworth and Jeremy Bowen. Most notable for the fact that William Hague has an announcement to make - skip to 1:44:25 for that.

[@samdoesvids1339]

The last pre-9/11 election...the world will never be the same again.

[@adorabasilwinterpock6035]

Britain isn’t America you know that right?

[@samdoesvids1339]

@@adorabasilwinterpock6035 the world changed after 9/11, with the war on terror and the realignment in politics that followed. The same occurrence can be said after the 2008 recession, or the Pandemic of 2020

[@pault0910]

Last time things were "normal".

[@johnking5174]

No matter how much people might hate Tony Blair - he was the only Labour leader and Prime Minister who won three consecutive terms in office, and kicked the arse out of the complacent and backward Conservative party.

[@ewancuthbertson8019]

Who would have thought just 2 years later the Iraq war vote took place?

[@paulec2634]

Thanks for this!

[@GROMIT9]

Resignation Klaxon! 1:47:33

[@lamarg3783]

I was 16 and remember waking up to labour winning😍

[@thomashall4886]

Awful victory that led us to an illegal war in Iraq

[@mach1nefan]

I’m 16 at the moment. Hoping I’ll be able to experience the same this July!

[@CaptainSwitzerland]

Cheers for uploading these!

[@johnking5174]

18:05 - What idiot decided to switch on the air conditioning fans here, making the newspapers on the desk blow about.

[@wesleycracknell1623]

i agree i noticed that as well

[@francis1971]

Was William Hague's wife crying when he was speaking? She looked like it.

[@jaqe0909]

Then he messed up

[@johnking5174]

The Conservatives never learnt their lesson. 1997 - got kicked in the arse and moved to the right, which led to 2001 where they got kicked in the arse, they moved even further to the right and in 2005 got another kicking (less so, but still lost). They never learn!

[@johnking5174]

@Luke SH Remind me again Luke - what was the majority David Cameron won in 2010?? None wasn't it and he had to rely on the tea boy Nick Clegg to keep him in power. In 2015 he squeaked a narrow majority which Mrs May pissed down the drain in 2017 leading to the mess she and our country is in now. Hardly great achievements for a party which Thatcher led to victory three times.

[@kennyryan625]

@@johnking5174 Do you mean the same Tories who’ve won the biggest number of votes and seats in the last four consecutive elections? 🤔

[@wessexfox5197]

I think having a dull and charisma void leader in those elections (Hague and Howard) didn’t exactly help. Britain and its electorate are socially centre right, in relation to issues like the death penalty, divorce, abortion and so on and populist right on demographics and immigration. Blair won because the conservatives in those elections failed to convince voters they were any different to New Labour. Along with this the false boom of the early 2000s helped Labour. Their defeats had nothing to do with being against the single currency or tough on asylum/immigration.

[@DFandV]

​@@wessexfox5197That's what David Cameron understood by being a "One nation" conservative. Politics of centre right conservatism.

[@jackdubz4247]

Nick Robinson must've been in tears over another Tory defeat.