Right wing support grows across Europe
Updated on 08 June 2009
The BNP wins two UK seats as centre-left parties across Europe are left nursing electoral wounds.
Labour is not the only centre-left party in Europe that has been left nursing its wounds.
The German Social Democrats and French Socialists also took a hiding.
Centre-right parties performed strongly and, just as in Britain, far-right and anti-immigration parties gained votes.
In Britain, the Conservatives have defended their decision to leave the centre-right European People's party and form their own euro-sceptic alliance with parties from Poland and the Czech Republic.
Labour MP Margaret Hodge and the new BNP Euro-MP for Yorkshire and Humber, Andrew Brons, discuss the election results with Channel 4 News.
