Analysis: Boris Johnson promises a fresh start laden with opportunity. Now all he has to do is deliver
Jill Mortimer, the brand new Tory MP for Hartlepool, explaining her historic byelection victory on Friday morning, said the town’s voters knew “Labour MPs had not been doing their best for them”.
But as the soul-searching began in Keir Starmer’s party, Labour strategists are not just asking themselves what Labour has done to neglect its former heartlands, but what Boris Johnson’s Conservatives have done right.
