The Conversation’s hot seats series looked at the key marginals. Our panel of experts take a look at the results.
- Professor, School of Applied Social Sciences, Durham University
The Tories are on course to lose their only Scottish seat, and they need to pick another up. They’ve found a target – and ended up in a three-way battle.
After losing the seat in 2010, Labour parachuted in a former advisor from Islington to reclaim Redcar and Cleveland – but the Greens may have played a surprise trump card.
The north of England, along with the central belt of Scotland, created the world we live in today. But the fundamental problems the region now faces stem from the very industrial revolution that shaped…
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