Our constituency poll has awful news for Britain’s Tories
Hartlepool is on track to lurch back to Labour in the election. Reform UK is in second spot
For a place that is often described as left behind, Teesside receives a lot of attention from politicians. The Evening Gazette, a local paper, tallied over ten visits by Boris Johnson between 2019 and 2022, when he was prime minister. His successor-but-one, Rishi Sunak, has pointed at potholes in nearby Darlington and opened a branch of the Treasury there. On June 1st Mr Sunak launched the Tories’ “battle bus” in Redcar, east of the river Tees.
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This article appeared in the Britain section of the print edition under the headline “Blue rinse”
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