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Labour Party leader Sir Keir Starmer with deputy leader Angela Rayner during a visit to Birmingham before the Hartlepool by-election disaster Democracy, Winston Churchill famously said, was the worst form of government; except, that is, for all the others. Indeed, our way of doing politics has a strange kind of beauty to it, which, over time, has seemed to work, although the devolved settlement is now challenging it in new ways, most notably in Scotland. Fresh-faced UK governments, promising change, start off brimming with ideas, enthusiasm and energy. Good judgment and circumstance can mean that they survive for many years but, usually, the longer the same party stays in power, the harder things get.
David Lloyd has been re-elected as Hertfordshire Police and Crime Commissioner
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The newly elected Police and Crime Commissioner for Herts has been announced as Conservative David Lloyd.
Mr Lloyd received a total of 167,875 votes, up from 126,069 in 2016.
Under the supplementary voting system, voters were asked to indicate both a first and second preference from the three candidates.
Sam North, Police and Crime Commissioner candidate for the Liberal Democrats
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As no candidate received more than 50 per cent of the first preference votes, David Lloyd and Lib Dem candidate Sam North progressed to the second round, as they had accrued the most first preference votes.
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