No one slept. They stayed up all night. Melissa and Catarina watched the results come in at Ivy’s flat in Stockwell. They were drinking beers and gin and wine and eating pizzas. When the exit poll came they started to shout and grab each other. Femi called Melissa at 1am.

We kept Tooting. By over 15,000 votes. We took Battersea too.

She could hear him crying.

I didn’t think it was possible, he said.