Hartlepool By-Election Special: Who's King In The North?

The by-election in Hartlepool on Thursday is being closely watched - it's one of the so-called Red Wall constituencies in northern England, which hung on for Labour - just - in 2019 when many turned their back on decades of supporting the party and went Conservative.Steven Rayson, author of The Fall of the Red Wall, tells Bloomberg Westminster's Caroline Hepker and Roger Hearing it's not clear that the modern Labour party, socially liberal and fiscally conservative, shares its views with working-class voters in the northeast any more.Rachel Anderson, assistant director of policy at the Northeast England Chamber of Commerce, joins to discuss the economic opportunities for what is the 10th most deprived town in England, and what the government could do to help.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.