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It's wrap up time here, but for those who live outside London here is the final edition of tomorrow's front page... A brilliant night for the Tories and full marks for the Tory spin operation. Few crumbs of consolation for the testy Labour ministers on the telly. The Libs look like they've just scraped home in Liverpool and across the country so no early crisis for Nick Clegg.

But after the last month - where Downing Street faced backbench revolts, dire polls and a humiliating U-turn, it's hard to see where the Labour Party can go now since everything that could be said has been said already over the last month. The danger is that Number 10 starting blaming Labour MPs for causing the 10p tax row, and the relationship spirals into violence.

We await the Today programme.

By Philip Wester, Political Editor.

The Conservatives made sweeping gains across the country early today as voters gave Gordon Brown a huge rebuff in his first electoral test as Prime Minister. David Cameron chalked up important successes in the North, the Midlands and the South , securing his top target of Bury in Greater Manchester and taking control of Nuneaton and Bedworth, and Southampton. The Conservatives also took seats in Labour strongholds of Sunderland and Wigan. Labour suffered one of its worst electoral humiliations, with its national share of the vote dropping to 24 or 25 per cent.The Tory share was projected at 43 or 44 per cent, better than its most optimistic predictions. The margin was similar to the drubbing handed out to John Major in 1995 two years before Tony Blair entered Downing Street.