There were a few chinks of light amid dire set of results for the Tories, and some food for thought for Labour
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak at Tees Valley Mayor Ben Houchen’s celebrations on an otherwise bad day for the Tories ; Labour Leader Keir Starmer and Deputy Leader Angela Rayner meet new Labour MP for Blackpool South, Chris Webb, at Blackpool Cricket Club proved that the polls, as they stand, are not wrong and that if there were a general election in the coming days then the Conservatives will be heading for the opposition benches.
Just how the Prime Minister decides to approach the election could be informed by another positive result for the Tories in the shape of It was only a few weeks ago that pollsters were insisting that both the Tees Valley and the West Midlands were very much in reach for Labour, but the party failed to get enough voters to turn out for them in the North East, with West Mids also expected to remain Tory.
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