Gains. Another blow for conservatives, they also lost a blackpool by election. The third biggest swing in the postwar by election history. Heres our political correspondent, hannah miller. The Prime Minister touring a Military Base with very little to laugh about. Laughter. Trying to defend his partys losses after a dismal set of results. Obviously its disappointing to lose good, hard working conservative councillors, but weve still got lots of results to come as well. And there are also things that i would point to. Harlow, for example, where keir starmer held a rallyjust on wednesday saying that was a place that he had to win to be on track to win a General Election. That hasnt happened. The conservatives did deprive labour of a win in harlow, but they still lost five seats and are considering that a success. The party had also pinned its hopes on ben houchen remaining tees valley mayor, though he wasnt even wearing a rosette. He did thank the Prime Minister in a later show of unity.
Being elected to the very first time. Im detecting a lot of scepticism talking to voters in this part of the world about the idea of having another elected politician and that may well be borne out in the low turnout we get it eventually but that once people understand what a mayor does and we have seen that in Greater Manchester and the midlands, and those politicians tend to be very well known and they tend to be very well known and they tend to do and perform quite well and in many respects this is different was happening in the West Midlands and the tees valley where you have two conservative incumbents that have quite successfully managed to create a sense of them being apolitical, really, standing up for the region and not having to go along with the party is doing nationally. Thats not necessarily the case here is i dont think the conservative candidate will do that in quite the same way here as they dont have a track record to speak of. The expectation is that labour are in a v
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