Vince Cable is out
Vince Cable loses with 23,563 with the Conservatives with over 25,000 in Twickenham.
The new Conservative MP Tania Mathias is close to tears as she thanks Vince Cable.
He says we were “hit by a very well organised national campaign based on people’s fear of a Labour government and the Scottish nationalists and we will see in the days to come what are the implications of that.”
He says this has been a “terrible night for our party all over” but that they will bounce back nationally and locally.
In Sheffield they await the imminent arrival of Nick Clegg.