The next stop in Sky's Bench Across Britain series is a dog track in Sheffield, where members of a Labour-safe constituency could finally get the government they vote for.
With betting an unexpected theme of this election, we've taken our parliamentary bench to the Sheffield dog track. Bookies are lined up beside the arena and the people of Sheffield have come for a perfectly legal flutter on which greyhound can run fastest, while chasing a mechanical hare that they will never catch. Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough is one of the most working-class constituencies in the UK - the seventh most deprived in England and Wales.
It was David Blunkett's in the Blair/Brown years when it was simply Sheffield Brightside, and Blunkett kept it when the Hillsborough area was added and David Cameron formed his coalition in 2010. Here, they voted for Ed Miliband in 2015, they voted for Jeremy Corbyn in 2017 and 2019. It's a safe bet they will vote for Starmer in 2024 - but even so there are mix feelings about the current leader of the Labour Party.
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