[interestednovice]

They simply don’t seem to have the capability to roll with something like this today. I’ve been thinking what they *should* have done, and I’m struggling to imagine who they’d have had presenting, and where from.

The BBC are not exactly short of facilities, even with Studio E out of action. They could have run a proper opt (rather than a balcony one, because this was - let’s face it - a totally planned and foreseeable event where we always knew lots of results would be coming in late today) from Studio D (a proper NBH studio) or Millbank and have a special weekend Politics Live.

They could even have used Studio B again and relegated BBC One news updates to Studio D.

Any of these options would have been pretty easy to pull off. Any seasoned BBC NC presenter could have handled the opt - it also probably would have been quite possible for Jo Coburn to come back today, as she was not involved in overnight coverage. Ditto Vicki Young. Why they haven’t done this, when it’s obviously the only real way to cover the story properly, makes no sense.

Clive is also very good with elections and has been the senior next-day news channel presenter in the past.

Victoria Derbyshire or Kirsty Wark would also have done a fine job.