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Hartlepool confirms Johnson as a 'vote winner'published at 09:26 British Summer Time 7 May 2021

09:26 BST 7 May 2021

Laura Kuenssberg
Political editor

The rickety folding tables looked like they could hardly cope with the weight of votes for the Tory's candidate, and now elected MP Jill Mortimer, in Hartlepool.

The result: more evidence for the Conservatives that they are digging further and further into territory where once they were total outsiders.

They didn't just win here, they romped home.

Hartlepool, as it's constituted now, has never had a Tory MP. It's also unusual that governments win by-elections - they are often moments when voters remind the administration of the day who is really in charge.

Not this time.

Boris Johnson's party has also scooped up council seats in places like Harlow and Nuneaton, with swings - at what is still, remember, an early stage - that give the impression the Tories really are consolidating their dominance in England.

Despite a bumpy few weeks, it's a reminder for the Tory party of Mr Johnson's record as an election winner.

The Hartlepool result is not a surprise for Labour. And it's important to remember that about 10,000 people voted for the Brexit Party in 2019 there, and at an early glance it seemed many of those voters switched across to the Tories.

But that doesn't mean it's not a setback. The result is more evidence of the long term shift in politics where areas that had chosen Labour for decades were less and less convinced.

Read Laura's blog in full here.

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