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Hartlepool-by election - what might happen?
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2021 elections: Why is there a by-election in Hartlepool?
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Hartlepool by-election ‘is the Conservatives’ to lose’
Plus: Jake Berry, the chairman of the Northern Research Group, on why the constituency feels ready for change
3 May 2021 • 9:00pm
Boris Johnson steps out on the campaign trail in Hartlepool on Monday
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The Conservatives are heading for victory in Thursday s by-election in Hartlepool, the leader of the council believes, as Boris Johnson warned that the party faced a fight.
During a visit to a seafront fish and chip restaurant in the north-eastern constituency, the Prime Minister said: I have always believed that it was going to be a tough fight, and I still believe that is the case.
Quite apart from some serious implications for modern British politics, this also has to be one of the most bizarre contests of modern times. When it comes to by-elections, next Thursday’s battle for Hartlepool really is a collector’s item.
Here we have no fewer than 16 candidates, including three former Labour MPs, a convicted sex offender, a kinsman of the man who built the town and an ex-soldier driving round in a tank under the banner of the Social Democrats. All of a sudden, the Monster Raving Loony Party candidate (whose manifesto includes hiring the Hartlepool Arms’ darts team to speed up vaccinations) doesn’t look quite so loony after all.