Elections 2021: winning Tory MP says Hartlepool victory is ‘truly historic’ – video
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Labour has suffered a humiliating byelection defeat in Hartlepool after the former heartland town elected a Conservative MP for the first time in 62 years. In her victory speech, the winning Tory candidate Jill Mortimer, the first woman to be elected as the town’s MP, said Labour had taken Hartlepool for granted for too long