Jackie Lengthy: 5 years after an election which was outlined by ‘Getting Brexit Finished’, it appears to be the one difficulty neither celebration needs to say. Within the final in our sequence on the coastal cities of England and Wales, we’ve been to Hartlepool to ask why nobody is speaking about Brexit.
When the Conservatives received the seat in a by-election with a majority of practically 7,000 votes – it appeared to cement the Tory takeover of Labour heartlands – as disenchanted Brexiteers flocked to Boris Johnson. However this time round, all that’s up for grabs.