As he stepped up to the stage to hear the result of the general election in Stoke-on-Trent North, secondary school teacher turned wannabe Tory MP Jonathan Gullis could only wait nervously for his name to be announced.
Running against incumbent Ruth Smeeth in a constituency that has been Labour since the seat was first created in 1950 was always going to be risky.
Yet with the electorate having voted 72 per cent leave, and the Jewish Labour MP having been practically hounded out of her own party by anti-Semitism, the Staffordshire stronghold could sense change in the offing.
The pivotal moment came at around 11.30am on Friday morning when the 29-year-old was revealed to have eclipsed Smeeth’s...
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