Keir Starmer faces uncomfortable questions as party poised to lose seat to Tories for the first time in 62 years
Labour has all but conceded defeat in the crucial Hartlepool byelection after a Conservative onslaught saw Boris Johnson’s party poised to win the seat for the first time in 62 years.
The expected loss of Hartlepool, which was due to be declared at around 6am, would leave Labour’s leader, Keir Starmer, facing huge questions over the future direction of his party as yet more of its lifelong supporters vote for Johnson’s Conservatives.
