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The Brexit Party wins three seats, with one each for Labour, the Conservatives, Greens and Lib Dems.

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Aston Villa head coach Dean Smith says he can't give the team "enough credit", after they secured promotion to the Premier League.

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Smith was speaking after Villa beat Derby 2-1 at Wembley in the Championship play-off final.

The boyhood Villa fan said: "The emotions came when I saw my family crying in the stands. It was a life-changing decision for me to come to this club."

Anwar El Ghazi and John McGinn were on target for Smith's side.

The latest news, sport, travel and weather across the West Midlands and south Cheshire.

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Aston Villa are promoted to the Premier League after beating Derby County 2-1 in the Championship play-off final at Wembley.

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Patrick Burns
Political editor, Midlands

The region which registered the highest proportion of Leave votes in the 2016 referendum has now delivered an equally thumping victory to Nigel Farage’s new Brexit Party.

Over half a million West Midlands voters have sent three Brexit Party MEPs to the new European Parliament.

That matches the number achieved last time by UKIP, who have been reduced to fringe players this time round, finishing second last, just ahead of Change UK who, with no seats in the new parliament, both face serious questions about whether either of them have a future here.

The Brexit Party drew support from both the Conservatives and Labour, who both lose one seat and now have one each in what will be seen as a punishment for their failure either to deliver Brexit on time, or to find an effective compromise at Westminster.

The Conservatives finished fifth behind the Greens, who now have their party’s first West Midlands MEP.

The other big message of the night is that Remain supporters congregated around the Liberal Democrats and to a lesser extent the Greens, both of whom may be ruing their failure to reach some sort of electoral accommodation which might have prevented them from splitting the vote.

What’s already clear is that these results will have a heavy impact not only on the Conservative leadership race, but also on the debate within Labour over whether or not it should clarify its position as a party of Remain or a party that really does want Britain to leave the EU.

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Professor Sir John Curtice
Polling expert

The 37% of the vote won by Brexit Party is five points above what UKIP achieved in 2014, much as in the rest of the country.

Meanwhile the Lib Dems have narrowly failed to overtake Lab on what is a 10% swing.

Here too the Greens have enjoyed a notable increase in support of 5 points while the Conservative vote has collapsed into fifth place with a 14 point drop in its support.

The Brexit Party won more than 500,000 votes to get three of the seven seats in the West Midlands.

Labour, the Liberal Democrats, the Greens and the Conservatives got one seat each.

Change UK came bottom with around 45,500 votes.