Thread by @SebDance

Thank you for all the kind messages.

It is a huge honour to have been re-elected alongside @Claude_Moraes.

But this is not a good night for Labour and we have seen brilliant Labour MEPs lose their seats and excellent candidates not take up seats.

Those colleagues who lost their seats did not do so because of their record or their commitment to fight for Britain’s place in the EU.

They lost because our message as a party was not clear. We tried to fudge an issue that voters held paramount in these elections: Brexit.

It is impossible to make a cogent case for election to the European Parliament if we are ambivalent about whether or not we support the institution itself.

We can’t fudge this any longer. We have run out road and run out of options.

The Tory Party has collapsed. It is no longer a coherent force.

What is replacing it should worry us all.

Our values as internationalists mean we must step up. If the nativists and nationalists rush in to fill the vacuum and we‘re absent, we will have failed our core mission.

The majority of votes cast in this election were for parties supporting a public vote.

The penny must drop.

We owe it to our values and the communities we represent to be honest about what Brexit is, the harm it will do to our countries and to give people the chance to stop it.