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‘Hartlepool has always been a working class town – but it is not a working class Labour Party’
As the constituency goes Conservative for the first time, voters speak of growing alienation from Sir Keir Starmer s party
7 May 2021 • 3:00pm
Wearing a bright blue jacket to match Hartlepool s new political dawn, 29-year-old Jo Herrell casts her fishing line into the town s marina and contemplates the turning of the tide.
Herrell, a prison officer who is Hartlepool born and bred, was one of 15,529 of the town s citizens to vote the Conservative Party into power on Friday morning for the first time since the constituency was created in 1974.
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So where does Labour go now? Make no mistake, losing Hartlepool so badly is a body blow to the party.
It doesn t really matter that they could have lost it in 2019, had the Brexit Party not ignored its pact with the Conservatives, given in to hubris and went full pelt to try and catapult its chairman Richard Tice into Parliament.
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Hartlepool by-election candidates: Who is standing to replace Mike Hill?
Updated: 10:22, 6 May 2021
PEOPLE in Hartlepool are set to elect a new MP following the resignation of Mike Hill.
Residents of the coastal area will cast their votes today, Thursday, May 6 - the same day local elections are taking place up and down the country.
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Who is standing in the Hartlepool by-election?
He was suspended by the party in 2019 over claims he harassed a woman, and has since stepped down from the Commons.
Mr Hill denies the allegations, which will be heard at a tribunal in May 2021.
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