HOPES of a Labour revival under Sir Keir Starmer have suffered a blow after the Conservative Party comfortably won the Hartlepool by-election. The Leave-supporting North East constituency went blue for the first time in its 47-year-old history, as Boris Johnson demolished another brick in Labour’s so-called “red wall”. Voters in the town backed Tory candidate Jill Mortimer to be their next MP over Labour’s Dr Paul Williams – an avid Remainer and second-referendum campaigner during his time as MP for Stockton South between 2017-19 – in a rare by-election victory for a party in power for more than a decade.
Conservatives humiliate Labour in Hartlepool by-election
Labour has held the seat for almost 50 years
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Hopes of a Labour revival under Sir Keir Starmer have suffered a blow after the Conservative Party comfortably won the Hartlepool by-election.
Count begins in London as Sadiq Khan faces fight for second term as mayor
Labour s Mr Khan is running for re-election, with polls in the final days of the campaign suggesting he has a firm lead over Shaun Bailey
7 May 2021 • 4:06pm
Labour s Mayor of London Sadiq Khan walks along Brick Lane in East London on his way to Spitalfields City Farm as part of his campaign to be re-elected
Credit: Stefan Rousseau/PA
Sadiq Khan is widely expected to give Labour a glimmer of hope after a crushing blow as the Tories romped to victory in the Hartlepool by-election.
It has raised hopes among Tory supporters that the result could be closer than expected.
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