Oliver Coppard on the local elections across South Yorkshire: "Labour is the change that this country needs"

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00:00Oh well look it's been incredibly well run as ever, efficient and effective running of

00:05the election right across South Yorkshire. I was in Rotherham last night, here in Barnsley

00:08today. I'll be over in Sheffield later today and then Doncaster tomorrow. Always really

00:13well run process, got absolute confidence in the process itself. Look it's still early

00:17on for me, our election result won't be until tomorrow afternoon at about one o'clock we

00:22think, so still looking at the results here. It looks good, I'm confident, I'm hopeful

00:27but still a long way to go.

00:28Look nationally the evidence would seem to be in those places that counted last night

00:32that there is a real swing towards Labour, that people are seeing that Labour is the

00:35change that this country needs. Look we're in a mess, we're in an absolute mess after

00:4014 years of Conservative and Lib Dem governments. I think most people are just deeply frustrated

00:44and angry with the state of this country and they want to see change happen and the results

00:48that we seem to have seen overnight, hopefully the results here in South Yorkshire indicate

00:52that people in South Yorkshire share that hope for a better future with a Labour government,

00:57a Labour mayor and a Labour council and that's what I hope we're seeing but I'm way to go.