Exclusive: Labour’s candidate selection timetable ahead of Hartlepool by-election
Labour has prepared a notably short selection timetable for replacing Mike Hill as the party’s parliamentary candidate in…
Hartlepool
Mike Hill: For jobs in Northern coastal towns, create supercharged free ports
Hartlepool, like many other Northern, traditionally Labour towns, voted for Brexit. After years of under-investment and not enough…
Updated council by-elections: Labour loses one seat to Tories but wins in the north
Labour lost one council seat to the Tories and held several more on a night of 10 by-elections.…
Updated council by-elections: Labour holds five seats as UKIP slide continues
Labour held five heartland seats in last night’s council by-elections. Jeremy Corbyn’s party retained five wards in Nottingham,…
Councillor and Unison rep chosen to defend north-east Brexit seats
Labour officials have turned to local government and the trade unions again as they appointed two candidates to defend…
Updated: The winners, runners and riders for the vacancies in 13 Labour seats
Labour officials are this week interviewing candidates for a host of winnable or safe seats. The resignation of…
The runners and riders for Hartlepool as Labour aims to see off UKIP
A trade union rep and local councillor are among the candidates who could be chosen to defend a…
Thursday 10pm: Which Labour MPs have said they will stand down at the election?
Tom Blenkinsop, Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland Alan Johnson, Hull West and Hessle Iain Wright, Hartlepool Andrew Smith, Oxford…
Fight for Hartlepool as Iain Wright becomes fourth Labour MP to confirm he will step down
Iain Wright, MP for Hartlepool since 2004, has announced that he will not stand in the upcoming general…
Why Labour must listen to Jon Cruddas and use our patriotism to see off UKIP’s threat to our working class vote
Despite the UKIP-dominated Brexit campaign resulting in our imminent departure from the EU, the notion that the “Little…
