Hartlepool by-election: Jill Mortimer wins seat as Tories make history
Telegraph, 07 May 2021
Going, going, gone. Shortly after 7am today, for the first time since its inception as a constituency in 1974, Labour lost control of Hartlepool.
Fittingly, the Monster Raving Loony Party candidate on the ballot paper for the local by-election was named “The Incredible Flying Brick”. Because here at the count in Hartlepool’s Mill House Leisure Centre, lay the rubble of Labour’s Red Wall.
Read more here: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2021/05/07/labours-hartlepool-citadel-finally-toppled-election-aftershock/
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Fittingly, the Monster Raving Loony Party candidate on the ballot paper for the local by-election was named “The Incredible Flying Brick”. Because here at the count in Hartlepool’s Mill House Leisure Centre, lay the rubble of Labour’s Red Wall.
Read more here: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2021/05/07/labours-hartlepool-citadel-finally-toppled-election-aftershock/
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