Elections ’21: Sheer Hartlepool Attack

INSIDE BRIEFING with Institute for Government

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 towards this has been decades in the making.” – Jess Sargeant

Presented by Bronwen Maddox with Cath Haddon, Akash Paun and Jess Sargeant. Audio production by Alex Rees. Inside Briefing is a Podmasters Production for the IfG.

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