And so it starts.....

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While Labour did not suffer many losses in the north, the turnout and share of the vote in safe Labour working class wards was limp. In Sunderland, turnout across the city was the same as in 2012 but in the safest Labour wards it fell. There is no sign that working class core voters are any more willing to turn out than they were in the last parliament.

These trends are in part a reflection of the current political strategy pursued by the Labour leadership, but they also fit into the longer term trends of support for Labour and to some extent social democratic parties elsewhere. Labour’s vulnerability to a loss of working class votes to abstention and UKIP and defeat in the battle for the floating vote in the middle with the Tories were more powerful influences on the result than the rallying of the progressive metropolitan middle class and ethnic minority votes that were already heading Labour’s way in 2010 and 2015. There is a limit to how much further the electoral gains from this movement can go. There are only so many Latin Quarter constituencies to go round, and Labour already has nearly all of them outside Scotland.

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After a “calm” Lock got out of his car to ask why he had braked so suddenly, Daley knifed him while remaining calm “like Jesus Christ”, jurors heard.

As Daley attacked him with a four-and-a-half inch blade, he allegedly told Lock to “die, you fucking cunt”.

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