UK, Boris Johnson wins election in populist stronghold

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Hard blow for the Labour, the center-left British Labor Party, and Boris Johnson’s first victory in the all-important “Super Thursday” election test. After 57 years, the Conservatives have wrested from Labor, which have already recognized defeat, the college of Hartlepool, in the former “red wall” of the North of England. The Tory Congresswoman Jill Mortimer she was elected to the House of Commons in the single national by-vote, obtaining 15,529 votes, almost double that of her Labor opponent Paul Williams, who stopped at 8,589.

The Hartlepool electorate, strongly pro-Brex, he has never voted conservative since the college was created. “It’s an earthquake. For the first time in 57 years the citizens of Hartlepool wake up with a Conservative MP. The result will not change the math in Westminster, but it will change the atmosphere” commented the BBC, noting that they are already doing so. “dissatisfaction is emerging within the Labor Party. The loyalists of former leader Jeremy Corbyn who have been waiting for the moment to criticize Keir Starmer already have many opportunities to do so”.

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