Andy McDonald is one of the few surviving senior Labour figures in the Tees Valley. He tells Chris Lloyd how the party can rebuild after the Tory tsunami swept through
MONDAY may not be the foot-to-the-floor, tyre-screeching acceleration away from Covid-19 that Boris Johnson’s roadmap had once suggested, but as we slowly leave the pandemic behind, we will come to a political crossroads.
That’s the view of the most senior Labour figure left in the Tees Valley following the outbreak of Toryism that has proved so contagious in the last two years that MPs, the metro mayor and local councils have turned the area almost entirely blue.