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It might be super Thursday in terms of the amount of voting, but many of the results from the elections being held across every part of the UK except Northern Ireland will trickle in over several days, mainly due to Covid restrictions slowing the counting process.
So here are the timings of some politically significant races to keep an eye out for.
Friday, after 4am: Hartlepool byelection
A solitary parliamentary contest bolted on to the rest, this is simultaneously one of the most significant races and one where many of the repercussions have already been politically priced in. Both polling and Labour’s own surveys seems to indicate that Keir Starmer will preside over his party’s first loss of the seat to the Conservatives since the constituency was created in 1974. This would be a notable blow to the Labour leader, while simultaneously highlighting existing structural issues for the party as much as any new failings. For a recently-
wrong to hate us, sometimes. The capital
does suck up too much spending and too much attention, while other bits of the country are starving from the lack of either of them. What’s more, London has a nasty habit of taking your children from you and never giving them back again, like some kind of fairy-tale goblin. And nobody likes goblins, do they? So no wonder you all hate them. Bloody goblins. Where was I? Right, yes: you hate London, probably, and fair enough. As a left-leaning, Remainer city, we’re a bit sick of being conflated with the government/Westminster/the Conservative Party, and being held responsible for all the ills of this country. But nonetheless, the United Kingdom really