Labour had taken the people of Hartlepool foregranted for too long. She told the 7am declaration of the result: “People voted for positive change, for jobs and investment and that is exactly what I am going to deliver.”Shadow transport secretary Jim McMahon, who led the Opposition party’s campaign to hold the North East town, earlier conceded that it looked clear that Labour had not “got over the line”.Losing in a constituency that has voted Labour for almost 50 years will be a blow to Sir Keir Starmer’s leadership, after he stressed during the race to replace Jeremy Corbyn that he was the person to turn the party back into a winning force again.Polling guru Professor Sir John Curtice said a large part of the switch fuelled by the fact that.
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