Traditional working-class support for Labour IMPLODES in usually safe seats as Darlington, Redcar, Bishop Auckland, and Burnley all fall to rampaging Tories
Labour lost a raft of traditional safe seats in Wales, the Midlands and the North
Dennis Skinner lost his seat while Tony Blair's former Sedgefield seat went Tory
Labour lost decades-old bastions such as Ashfield and Bishop Auckland
Former Labour minister Caroline Flint, who had been MP for Don Valley since 1997, said the party had 'taken for granted' its heartlands
The result is Labour's worst since the 1930s, forcing Jeremy Corbyn to quit
The Tories performed an incredible rewriting of the country's electoral map last night. The 2019 (right)map of seats is now coloured more prominently, sweeping from Wales to the north east of England in comparison to Labour's 'red wall' in 2017 (left). Boris Johnson stormed through the last night to consign Jeremy Corbyn's party to a historic election defeat. The raft of seats in Wales, the Midlands and the North of England had been safe Labour strongholds for decades. But they came crumbling down as pro-Brexit voters backed the Tories and Sajid Javid proclaimed that the Conservatives are now the 'party of the working class'. Among a series of symbolic blows, Labour lost decades-old bastions such as Ashfield and Bishop Auckland and surrendered Tony Blair's old seat of Sedgefield while Dennis Skinner lost his job after 49 years in Parliament.
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