Elections ’21: Sheer Hartlepool Attack

Inside Briefing with the Institute for Government · May 7, 2021 · 21m

Was the seismic shock of the Conservative victory in Hartlepool down to Brexit, vaccines, pork barrel politics or something more fundamental? What does this shock by-election mean for the endless battle between Starmer and the Corbynites? In the local elections, are the so-called Green and Lib Dem surges real? And what we know so far about the Scottish and Welsh national elections – all in a Friday afternoon interim election special.

• “Journalists will be thumbing over this for days – but political scientists will be looking at the causes for years to come.” – Cath Haddon

• “The trend…