Blow for Starmer as Hartlepool elects Tory MP for first time in a generation

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”

Fri, 07 May, 2021 - 07:36

Patrick Daly, PA Political Correspondent

Hopes of a Labour revival under 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”.