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Mike Hill has stood down as an MP for Hartlepool with immediate effect
16 March 2021 • 1:51pm
Mike Hill resigned on Tuesday following a meeting with the Labour Chief Whip
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Sir Keir Starmer is set to face the first test of his leadership at the polls in May, after a Red Wall MP stood down on Tuesday following sexual harassment allegations.
Mike Hill, the Labour MP for Hartlepool, resigned his seat weeks before an employment tribunal is to hear sexual harassment and victimisation allegations against him.
His departure will trigger a by-election in one of the Labour Party’s most vulnerable seats, which Mr Hill retained with a significantly reduced vote share at the 2019 election after the chairman of the Brexit Party stood against him.
But it also comes in a tumultuous week for Sir Keir where he was mocked after an internal memo suggested they could win back the formerly safe red wall seats in the north and midlands by embracing the Union Jack and wearing a smart suit.
Writing for the Sunday Express, former cabinet minister Esther McVey, founder of the Blue Collar Conservatism Movement which swept the red wall Labour seats in 2019, said that Labour has no idea how to tackle its identity crisis.
She said: “The Labour Leader is the perfect ambassador for the London centric metropolitan elite which has hijacked the Labour Party and so has no idea what makes those working class voters tick.