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7th May 2021
11:21am BST

Diane Abbott, Labour MP and former shadow home secretary under Corbyn, also took to Twitter to express her dissatisfaction about the result.This result is a disaster. In 2017, we won over 50% of the vote in Hartlepool. Now it looks like we’ve lost it to the Tories.
A transformative socialist message has won in Hartlepool before, and it would have won again. — Momentum ? (@PeoplesMomentum) May 7, 2021
However, some political pundits still saw the result as a symptom of the failings of Starmer to distance himself from the left of the party.Crushing defeat for Labour in Hartlepool. Not possible to blame Jeremy Corbyn for this result. Labour won the seat twice under his leadership. Keir Starmer must think again about his strategy #HartlepoolByElection
— Diane Abbott MP (@HackneyAbbott) May 7, 2021
And Boris Johnson's estranged former political advisor, Dominic Cummings, also pulled no punches on why Labour suffered such a devastating outcome today. Like McDonnell, he suggests that party are lacking direction.This is another key test for Starmer. Will he now purge Momentum. If you can be a member of Momentum and a member of Labour then the party has zero chance of recapturing seats like Hartlepool. https://t.co/GLcCf8htzT
— (((Dan Hodges))) (@DPJHodges) May 7, 2021
The whole thread is worth your time.KS is a beta-lawyer-gamma-politician, like ~all in SW1 he obsesses on Media Reality not Actual Reality, he’s played the lobby game (badly) for a year WITHOUT A MESSAGE TO THE COUNTRY, now the pundits will a/ savage him, b/ tell him he needs to focus on them more, more exclusives!
— Dominic Cummings (@Dominic2306) May 7, 2021
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