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Old maxims do not seem to count for much now though, and Labour is worried that it could lose in Hartlepool - a seat the party has held since the current constituency was formed in 1974.

Hartlepool's recently elected MP has stood down from his role as a councillor on the local authority to focus on the "full-time job" of representing the parliamentary constituency. Labour's ...