There are pockets across the country where the mood is ugly, as driven leftwing elements within the enlarged local memberships and in Momentum have
targeted elected councillors or MPs whom they view as insufficiently Corbynist.
Whilst it may not be top of the Tory
target list (it is in fact 338th on the list), there are seven Conservative
councillors within the boundaries of the constituency - and the wider North Tyneside Council has a directly -
elected Conservative Mayor, Linda Arkley.