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