LABOUR’S hard left were sharpening their knives for Sir Keir Starmer after a shock poll predicts they will lose the upcoming Hartlepool by-election.
The survey commissioned by the leftie Communication Workers Union shows the Tory party on course for a win with 49 per cent of the vote – a bump of 20 points.
Conservative candidate Jill Mortimer currently has a seven point lead over Labour’s Candidate Dr Paul Williams – a hardliner Remainer – in the Survation poll.
The seat was won by Labour’s Mike Hill at the 2019 election.
Hardliners say the loss shows Sir Keir’s first year in the top job has been a flop.
‘WORKING PEOPLE WANT THE REAL THING’
CWU leader Dave Ward said Hartlepool’s Labour voters want politicians with “a moral backbone” who are true to their personal beliefs.
He said: “Working people want the real thing – politicians that have a moral backbone, that can tell you what they believe because it’s an integral part of who they are and not because it was approved by a focus group and a handful of the political elite.”
He said the Labour leader has been “obsessed over telling people he isn’t Jeremy Corbyn”.
Labour insiders said the Tories would have won the seat without the Brexit Party splitting the vote – and the polling takes into account Boris Johnson’s vaccine bounce.
