The former Ukip leader has torn into the Labour leader as he backed his successor Paul Nuttall to claim the vacant
Stoke Central seat.
We asked the candidates running for
the Stoke Central seat in this week's by - election five questions, to help you get to know them.
Not exact matches
The only
seat that Conservative
Central Office had to offer was the safe Labour
seat of Hanley near
Stoke on Trent, which he was told he had no chance of winning — but Harold had other ideas...
Hundreds battled Storm Doris in their last - minute push for votes in the race to win
Stoke - on - Trent
Central - a Labour
seat since 1950.
Labour Candidate Gareth Snell has ensured the party have held the
Stoke - on - Trent
Central seat in a by - election, beating UKIP Leader Paul Nuttall.
Labour Candidate Gareth Snell has ensured the party have held the
Stoke - on - Trent
Central seat in a by - election.
UKIP campaigner Mick Harold, who stood for the
Stoke - on - Trent
Central seat in 2015, has accused the Labour Party of «dirty tactics» smearing their candidate Paul Nuttall during the campaign.
High profile MPs whose
seats are abolished include Tristram Hunt in
Stoke Central (divided between
Stoke North and South), Ian Austin in Dudley North (his
seat mostly ends up in the new Dudley East & Tipton, the successor
seat to Adrian Bailey's West Brom West), Vernon Coaker (whose Gedling
seat is divided between Chris Leslie's Nottingham East and Conservative - held Sherwood).
Jeremy Corbyn's own
seat sees substantial changes: Diane Abbott's Hackney North and
Stoke Newington is abolished and split between a Hackney
Central seat (mostly made up of Meg Hillier's Hackney South) and a Finsbury Park and
Stoke Newington
seat (mostly made up of Corbyn's Islington North), with a much smaller part going into a new Hackney West and Bethnal Green
seat.
There was better news for Labour in last night's other by - election in
Stoke - on - Trent
Central where Gareth Snell retained the
seat for his party.
He withstood the «media bomb» they generated and can now look forward to joining the intra-party tussle for a
seat in 2020, as proposed boundary changes scrap
Stoke Central.
I understand the need for parachuting on occasions like if you have a truly exceptional candidate who lives in the one of your parties deserts but it should be done sparingly, only to get the very best people involved who have literally zero chance of getting a
seat locally and the
seat they must be parachuted into must be at least somewhat compatible i.e no Tristram Hunt's in
Stoke Central type affairs which frankly I think is taking the bloody p ** s