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04th May 2021

Elections 2021: Searching for the Labour party’s soul in Hartlepool

Watch the PoliticsJOE team's campaign trail vlog

Oli Dugmore

Keir Starmer stounds outside a fish and chip shop in Hartlepool while ccampaigning for the Labour party ahead of the upcoming by-election

Watch the PoliticsJOE team’s campaign trail vlog

Presenter Oli Dugmore and videographer Ed Campbell travel to Hartlepool to report on the by-election.

They bump into Keir Starmer during a campaign visit, interview Thelma Walker of the Northern Independence Party and sample a deep fried chipy butty with splash.

Hartlepool by-election candidates:

David Bettney, SDP

The Incredible Flying Brick, Monster Raving Looney Party

Hilton Dawson, North East

Gemma Evans, Women’s Equality

Rachel Featherstone, Green

Adam Gaines, Independent

Andrew Hagon, Liberal Democrats

Steve Jack, Freedom Alliance

Chris Killick, Independent

Sam Lee, Independent

Claire Martin, Heritage

Jill Mortimer, Conservative

John Prescott, Reform UK

Thelma Walker, Independent

W. Ralph Ward-Jackson, Independent

Paul Williams, Labour