'I'm sorry to be putting you up here on the screen like this.'
This is the awkward moment a Conservative Party MP Steve Baker was told he was going to lose his seat during the General Election live on air.
Steve Baker, the MP for Wycombe was told on BBC news he had a less than 1% chance of winning the election.
While presenting the projected results, host Reeta Chakrabarti said: ‘Steve Baker who is in the studio with us… I’m sorry to be putting you up here on the screen like this but, you know, we are giving you a less than 1% chance ofholding on to your seat.’
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Mr Baker was seen smiling through the pain as the exit polls projections were read out.
Ms Chakrabarti said Iain Duncan Smith and Grant Shapps are also likely to lose.
The exit poll has predicted Labour will win in a landslide with the Conservatives suffering their worst ever loss.
According to the forecast Labour will win 410 seats, with the Conservatives on 131, and the Liberal Democrats overtaking the SNP as the third-largest party in the House of Commons with 61 seats.
Commissioned jointly by major British news broadcasters, the poll is based on research carried out by interviewers at 133 polling stations in marginal constituencies around the country.
In recent weeks, the Tories have actively encouraged the idea that the opposition were set to win a massive majority in the House of Commons.
Less than 24 hours before polls opened, Pensions Secretary Mel Stride told the Today programme it was ‘highly likely’ Labour would win ‘the largest majority that any party has ever achieved’.
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