Politics, particularly in labour northern areas, like greater manchester. labour still have the majority here, eating away at their majority. if we look at somewhere like cumberland, important in parliamentary terms, that s about as far as it gets. it is difficult to chart a course. but we will have more information coming over the course of the morning. two to keep your eye on, wakefield you have talked about, important because of the glimmer, the tantalising limit might give us for the upcoming by election, which i would suggest is a must win for keir starmer s leadership. this is an interesting one. newcastle under lyme, in staffordshire, it is one of the only so called redwall burrows where all of the seats are up for election, as you will see in so many of these places it is just a third, which makes it hard to get an accurate extrapolation. all of the seats are up extrapolation. all of the seats are up in newcastle under lyme. the