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Can anyone beat Labour in the Middlesbrough by-election? | :01:31. | :01:33. | |
Other Government enterprise zone that selecting new jobs for the | :01:33. | :01:43. | |
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Apology for the loss of subtitles for 2243 seconds | :01:43. | :39:07. | |
North East or just recycling Good morning. | :39:07. | :39:10. | |
Coming up... A bar the Government's enterprise | :39:10. | :39:13. | |
zones delivering new jobs for the North East or just recycling | :39:13. | :39:17. | |
existing ones? We will be talking about that and | :39:17. | :39:21. | |
the rest of the week's political news. | :39:21. | :39:26. | |
The cuts made by Newcastle council to its supportive arts | :39:26. | :39:30. | |
organisations made the national headlines this week. Are those | :39:30. | :39:33. | |
grants just a luxury we cannot afford? | :39:33. | :39:36. | |
Absolutely not. Arts and culture are part of the branding of | :39:36. | :39:42. | |
Newcastle Gateshead and the North East. They have also driven growth. | :39:42. | :39:46. | |
The council has to explain why its proposal to do these cuts when | :39:46. | :39:50. | |
other councils are not. They haven't got enough money. | :39:50. | :39:54. | |
Newcastle are not very different to the other councils around them. | :39:54. | :39:58. | |
Can you justify funding for the arts when the councils might say | :39:58. | :40:02. | |
money for essential services is so tight? | :40:02. | :40:08. | |
They have made these choices. I think it is important about the | :40:08. | :40:11. | |
arts and the creative industries are well financed and well-funded | :40:11. | :40:16. | |
from central Government. A lot of local authorities are staring into | :40:16. | :40:23. | |
the abyss in terms of finances, and the mass of savage cuts imposed | :40:23. | :40:27. | |
upon local Government means that these tough choices have had to be | :40:27. | :40:30. | |
made. They have made these decisions against their will. They | :40:30. | :40:35. | |
would prefer to have the arts and the creative industries left in | :40:35. | :40:38. | |
place. If you haven't got the finances, you cannot do what you | :40:38. | :40:44. | |
want to do. The Middlesbrough by-election up | :40:44. | :40:48. | |
next. The Labour leader was in town yesterday campaigning on behalf of | :40:48. | :40:52. | |
his party's candidate. The by- election follows the death of Sir | :40:52. | :40:56. | |
Stuart Bell, whose cast -- some critics that it use of neglecting | :40:56. | :41:02. | |
his duties. Also, the UKIP leader is aiming to cause an upset when | :41:02. | :41:06. | |
they go to the polls this Thursday. The vote comes at at time when | :41:06. | :41:11. | |
Liverpool is wrestling some of the biggest cuts yet to local services. | :41:11. | :41:16. | |
Middlesbrough. For almost 40 years, represented by a Labour MP. For | :41:16. | :41:20. | |
more than half of that, by Sir Stuart Bell. Plenty of people paid | :41:20. | :41:24. | |
tribute to his work here but he did, a fair amount of flak here in his | :41:24. | :41:30. | |
final years, with some asking if he does Britain's laziest MP. His | :41:30. | :41:35. | |
reputation and majority in recent years took a bashing. In 1997, | :41:35. | :41:41. | |
seven out of 10 people voted Labour, producing a massive 25,000 majority. | :41:41. | :41:46. | |
By 2010, they had slipped to 45% of the vote and a majority of the | :41:46. | :41:52. | |
8,700. As low as it has been and 40 years. 17,000 voters drifted away. | :41:52. | :41:57. | |
That doesn't mean a Middlesbrough is a marginal seat, but opponents | :41:57. | :42:01. | |
believe this figures suggests this is a town that is falling out of | :42:01. | :42:05. | |
love with Labour. Most of the people I speak to on the doorstep | :42:05. | :42:08. | |
are crying out for something different. They're not sure what | :42:08. | :42:12. | |
that something different days. The time lacks a credible challenger | :42:12. | :42:16. | |
who will pick up the gauntlet and really challenge the Labour Party | :42:16. | :42:22. | |
and told them to account. I am offering that. | :42:22. | :42:26. | |
I am asking, what is the Labour Party doing for us? There has been | :42:26. | :42:31. | |
little or no investment in the area. They have turned up at election | :42:31. | :42:34. | |
time and then they will disappear for five years and did all over | :42:34. | :42:39. | |
again. I am here to say that does not have to be the case. I am a | :42:39. | :42:43. | |
genuine alternative for the Labour Party. | :42:43. | :42:47. | |
There is one tricky problems. As the Conservatives leaflet voters, a | :42:47. | :42:53. | |
few hundred yards away, the council was planning 111 cuts worth | :42:53. | :42:59. | |
millions. They're even turning off the town centre CCTV cameras. | :42:59. | :43:03. | |
Middlesbrough's mare, Ray Mallon, has blamed the coalition. You | :43:03. | :43:08. | |
contenders believe they have the chance to prosper. It is such a | :43:08. | :43:12. | |
strong Labour area that for historical reasons, at we could | :43:12. | :43:16. | |
never find us in our hearts to vote for the Conservatives. | :43:16. | :43:20. | |
Understandably. Lot of people are beginning to realise that UKIP | :43:20. | :43:24. | |
really does represent the ordinary hard-working person in the country. | :43:24. | :43:28. | |
More so than the current New Labour Party. There is nothing in | :43:28. | :43:32. | |
Parliament at the moment that will fight on behalf of these people. | :43:32. | :43:36. | |
They don't care. All they care about is global business. They | :43:36. | :43:40. | |
don't care about building factories and making stuff again in our | :43:40. | :43:45. | |
country. Labour are facing plenty of hostile fire. But it is still | :43:45. | :43:55. | |
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those prepared to stick with them. Support like that is likely to make | :43:56. | :44:01. | |
this man Middlesbrough's next MP. Does he accept that his party needs | :44:01. | :44:07. | |
to up its game? I am telling people that I am absolutely committed to | :44:07. | :44:11. | |
opening an office in Middlesbrough. I will have the surgery is there | :44:11. | :44:15. | |
and I will be a very accessible. The MP and the party should work | :44:15. | :44:19. | |
hard to serve the people who elect their representatives. That is an | :44:19. | :44:24. | |
absolute given, as far as I'm concerned. I will work hard for the | :44:24. | :44:28. | |
people of Middlesbrough. There is another danger. Apathy. At this | :44:28. | :44:34. | |
time of year, there are plenty of distractions. Recently, a own | :44:34. | :44:39. | |
record low by-election turnout to be 18% was set in Manchester. It's | :44:39. | :44:43. | |
will be a shock of labour did not win next week. It might be less of | :44:43. | :44:46. | |
a surprise if that term at record comes under threat. | :44:46. | :44:50. | |
You can hear more on the by- election on BBC TV's Breakfast | :44:50. | :44:54. | |
programme which is running minutes manifestos from all the candidates. | :44:54. | :44:58. | |
You can see a list and are of who they are lower at the website. | :44:58. | :45:03. | |
There seems to be an increasing challenge to get people to turn out. | :45:03. | :45:08. | |
Is that quite depressing? It is. For generations, people | :45:08. | :45:11. | |
thought for the vote and people have got red and people are not | :45:11. | :45:15. | |
turning out. Whether it is in the police and crime Commissioner | :45:15. | :45:18. | |
elections last week were these recent by-elections, they have not | :45:18. | :45:22. | |
been turning out the way they should have. They have to take | :45:22. | :45:26. | |
responsibility for that. People should look at what is happening in | :45:26. | :45:32. | |
their area. There are plenty of critics. They should vote for who | :45:32. | :45:36. | |
they think should best represent their area. | :45:36. | :45:40. | |
Is it telling you politicians that you're not inspiring them to vote? | :45:40. | :45:44. | |
They may believe that, but there are plenty of good politicians of | :45:44. | :45:49. | |
all colours out there. People are not listening. | :45:49. | :45:53. | |
A low turnout is a sign of disillusionment with politics. That | :45:53. | :45:56. | |
is the danger. I absolutely. It is particularly a | :45:57. | :46:01. | |
problem with young people. Alter people have had a habit of voting | :46:01. | :46:06. | |
over many years. -- older people. I am very seriously worried about | :46:06. | :46:12. | |
this. Politicians will have to do more to engage with the population. | :46:12. | :46:17. | |
With young people in particular. How do you best defence you | :46:17. | :46:23. | |
communities as a politician? De protest against cuts, or is there | :46:23. | :46:28. | |
something else? You grow your business rates. From | :46:28. | :46:33. | |
April, Middlesbrough has the capacity to share in half of the | :46:33. | :46:37. | |
growth of business rate income. Given the amount of money going | :46:37. | :46:42. | |
into the regional growth fund, some �300 million across the North East | :46:42. | :46:46. | |
as a whole, there is great capacity to grow... | :46:46. | :46:49. | |
Does that compensate for all the money that has been taken out of | :46:49. | :46:54. | |
all these places? Broadly speaking, the amount of | :46:54. | :46:57. | |
money that the Government is spending through the regional | :46:57. | :47:00. | |
growth fund and similar funds in the North East is not that | :47:00. | :47:05. | |
dissimilar to what was spent by one North East. | :47:05. | :47:10. | |
But there are lots of other cuts. Sure. But led Middlesbrough has the | :47:10. | :47:14. | |
power to grow its own tax base and let's get the councils to share | :47:14. | :47:20. | |
services more than they do. Your area has suffered cuts. His | :47:20. | :47:26. | |
protest will you can do? The job of an MP is to be sickly | :47:26. | :47:31. | |
get into the house of Commons, speak to people, discuss things, | :47:31. | :47:34. | |
explain the problems in your area and hopefully, get a good deal from | :47:34. | :47:38. | |
whoever is in Government. It is always very difficult if you are in | :47:38. | :47:45. | |
opposition. My job... I met with the Secretary of State from | :47:45. | :47:50. | |
different departments and tried to promote my area. I tried to promote | :47:50. | :47:55. | |
so that the areas we needed help with. It is a constant, ongoing | :47:55. | :47:58. | |
process of campaigning on behalf of the people you represent. | :47:58. | :48:02. | |
A queue. Enterprise Zones carried Government | :48:02. | :48:06. | |
policy designed to attract new jobs in two areas hardest hit of the | :48:07. | :48:11. | |
recession. There are two in the North East. There are discounted | :48:11. | :48:15. | |
business rates and other tax breaks to tempt new companies in. But are | :48:15. | :48:19. | |
they working? There one of the Government's big | :48:19. | :48:24. | |
ideas for reviving the economy. But already, there are claims that | :48:24. | :48:30. | |
Enterprise Zones are displacing, not creating, jobs. It was | :48:30. | :48:35. | |
obviously far more advantageous to them to be on at this site within | :48:35. | :48:39. | |
the Enterprise Zone, as opposed to being on our site 50 yards away and | :48:39. | :48:44. | |
not being on a Enterprise Zone. This man runs the oceanic business | :48:45. | :48:50. | |
park on Tyneside, right next to an Enterprise Zone. He claims a client | :48:50. | :48:56. | |
left him for the zone next door. is 10,000 square feet of offices | :48:56. | :49:01. | |
which were occupied by them for about four years. From our point of | :49:01. | :49:07. | |
view, it is not easy to replace that. Why would a firm up sticks | :49:07. | :49:13. | |
and move into an Enterprise Zone? They offer a discount of up to | :49:13. | :49:15. | |
�55,000 via on firms on their business rates, faster planning | :49:16. | :49:20. | |
process and other help with big projects, but super-fast broadband. | :49:20. | :49:29. | |
Northumberland, Tyneside and Wearside is where our area is. | :49:29. | :49:32. | |
Focusing on firms associated with the manufacture of all to no carbon | :49:32. | :49:37. | |
vehicles, part of the stone is near the Nissan factory. Other areas are | :49:37. | :49:41. | |
near the North bank of the time, focusing on its renewable energy. | :49:41. | :49:45. | |
Is there a small area is that the Port of Blyth. There is another | :49:45. | :49:49. | |
right here. Around 40 nectars of the Port of Blyth is part of the | :49:49. | :49:53. | |
Enterprise Zone. But the port had risen he wanted more than 60 actors | :49:53. | :49:59. | |
included. We were open for 60 plus at one point. It was then died 30 | :50:00. | :50:06. | |
plus, but we have to be pragmatic. We will work with what we have got. | :50:06. | :50:10. | |
We have still got the Enterprise Zone on the two key sites around | :50:10. | :50:15. | |
the estuary. We're already getting firm interest in both those sites. | :50:15. | :50:20. | |
The local MP thinks that because the area in his own as though -- so | :50:20. | :50:24. | |
small placed at Port of Blyth, it is not well placed to take the | :50:24. | :50:29. | |
thriving new energy development. But we have the land, the place | :50:30. | :50:34. | |
that it, and we must encourage that. We have the best testing centre in | :50:34. | :50:38. | |
the whole of Europe for these things. You would expect companies | :50:38. | :50:42. | |
to a building them would want to come to that Port of Blyth and set | :50:42. | :50:47. | |
up business. This is the old shipyard on the banks of the | :50:47. | :50:51. | |
enterprise zone. How about that claim we heard area, that the firm | :50:51. | :50:57. | |
hopped over the fence to be here? This man -- woman is a board member | :50:57. | :51:00. | |
of the Local Enterprise Partnership. That is the organisation who | :51:00. | :51:05. | |
oversees the zone. That the council were talking to that business one | :51:05. | :51:13. | |
year before the Enterprise Zone was actually allocated. Enterprise | :51:13. | :51:17. | |
zones now offer a real opportunity. Previously, we had shipbuilding. | :51:17. | :51:23. | |
That is gone. Now, we have the opportunity to move on. This is a | :51:23. | :51:27. | |
great opportunity for regenerating the area to bring life back into | :51:27. | :51:33. | |
our region and the really successful. We have got that | :51:33. | :51:37. | |
opportunities. We have been great before and we need to be great | :51:37. | :51:42. | |
again. Enterprise Zones were tried in the 1980s and 1990s with mix | :51:42. | :51:46. | |
success. Many jobs for simply displaced from elsewhere. This time | :51:46. | :51:50. | |
around, it is hoped an old idea will bring new vigour to the region | :51:50. | :51:56. | |
rather than running into the same old problems. | :51:56. | :51:59. | |
Thin you local enterprise partnerships over Segers and Max | :51:59. | :52:09. | |
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Louis Phillippe. Over see those Enterprise Zones. Jobs can just pop | :52:10. | :52:14. | |
over into the Enterprise Zone. As that's something that concerns you? | :52:14. | :52:20. | |
You heard on a report that there are two sides to that particular | :52:20. | :52:25. | |
incident that was described. I think, however, as we have said | :52:25. | :52:31. | |
with the Enterprise Zones, what we have tried to do is set up a regime | :52:31. | :52:37. | |
where that risk of so-called sense of income be minimised. The end -- | :52:37. | :52:43. | |
Enterprise Zones are very different to the ones in the 1980s. Business | :52:43. | :52:47. | |
rate relief is limited to five years rather than 10 years. The | :52:47. | :52:51. | |
absolute amount of money someone can benefit from his limited. We | :52:51. | :52:54. | |
have deliberately chosen sites that are more suitable for manufacturing | :52:54. | :53:01. | |
rather than offices or retail. Would you accept that there is some | :53:01. | :53:05. | |
risk? If you can get an advantage, the business will take it? | :53:05. | :53:10. | |
There is a risk. But we have taken a lot of steps to minimise those | :53:10. | :53:15. | |
risks. We have cut allowances and these are only available for plant | :53:15. | :53:19. | |
and machinery. It is not available for the buildings like it used to | :53:19. | :53:23. | |
be in the past. A lot of measures have been put in place to try and | :53:23. | :53:27. | |
mitigate some of the things from the past. Are you convinced that | :53:27. | :53:30. | |
these Enterprise Zones will generally create lots of new jobs? | :53:30. | :53:39. | |
Yes. We are already seeing some success. The North East Enterprise | :53:39. | :53:44. | |
Zone is the first to actually achieving a significant tenant with | :53:44. | :53:49. | |
the announcement earlier in the year of a van TEC, who have arrived | :53:49. | :53:56. | |
under making a big investment. Be is what is on offer and off? Yes. | :53:56. | :54:01. | |
Ask all the companies why they came. They are taking advantage of the | :54:01. | :54:06. | |
benefits of the Enterprise Zone. Thank you. | :54:06. | :54:09. | |
That is the view of business. Enterprise Zones are delivering | :54:09. | :54:13. | |
jobs and will continue to. That is why I have been calling for | :54:13. | :54:20. | |
an extension from the Councillor Sammy Brush to cover -- an | :54:20. | :54:27. | |
extension of the current Enterprise Zone to cover new regions. The | :54:27. | :54:32. | |
statistics you see in some areas are alarming. There is a rate of | :54:32. | :54:36. | |
15.9% of people aged between 18 and 24 or claiming jobseeker's | :54:36. | :54:41. | |
Allowance - twice the national average. Yet the current Enterprise | :54:41. | :54:46. | |
Zone stops but for -- before this area that is in the greatest need. | :54:46. | :54:50. | |
Anybody who wanted to come into the area would stop at the side of the | :54:51. | :54:56. | |
events were the incentives are and not come into the area is beyond me. | :54:56. | :55:00. | |
They're not there to go into the areas with the highest unemployment, | :55:00. | :55:04. | |
there are there to target areas where businesses are most likely to | :55:04. | :55:08. | |
wants to come. They cannot be everywhere. Correct, but I would | :55:08. | :55:15. | |
have thought that where you have areas of high deprivation, and | :55:15. | :55:21. | |
there are a lot of their areas like that, and I cannot for the life of | :55:21. | :55:26. | |
the C Y D Enterprise Zones stop its there, when there are massive | :55:26. | :55:31. | |
unemployment rates and social deprivation. We need to create up | :55:31. | :55:35. | |
employment and growth. I have been calling for an extension of the | :55:36. | :55:39. | |
already extended Enterprise Zone into my area. | :55:39. | :55:43. | |
The allegation is that there's just not enough of the areas in the | :55:43. | :55:46. | |
Enterprise Zone to make a big enough difference. | :55:46. | :55:52. | |
In Port of Blyth, it certainly is big enough. I have some sympathy, | :55:52. | :55:56. | |
but these Enterprise Zones we have are the ones that the region asked | :55:56. | :56:01. | |
for. In the course of time, they might be able to be expanded. But | :56:01. | :56:05. | |
let's just celebrate the good news of the energy bill, which has made | :56:05. | :56:10. | |
it financially viable for companies to invest in offshore. | :56:10. | :56:14. | |
What about the point that the danger is that instead of getting | :56:14. | :56:19. | |
valuable investment into impoverished areas, it will just go | :56:19. | :56:22. | |
towards whether some at the Max are already? | :56:22. | :56:26. | |
You will see very substantial private sector investments now as a | :56:26. | :56:31. | |
consequence of the energy bill in offshore. To her mind and bleared | :56:31. | :56:37. | |
manufacture I think are going to come to the North East. There could | :56:37. | :56:42. | |
be supplied change, you see. Think of Nissan in Washington, Sunderland, | :56:42. | :56:47. | |
and look at their supply chain. The North East as a very bright future | :56:47. | :56:50. | |
and that is not just about the James Murdochs. | :56:51. | :56:55. | |
Wood and the best way to get gross be to make the will of the North | :56:55. | :56:59. | |
East is the Mac and when a company comes, you say you can have your | :56:59. | :57:02. | |
grants Revenue want to go in that region? | :57:02. | :57:05. | |
The effectively, the regional growth fund is doing that by giving | :57:06. | :57:10. | |
de private sector companies to can grow. That is almost �300 million | :57:10. | :57:14. | |
from the first three rounds of the region on with funds coming into | :57:14. | :57:17. | |
the North East. That's bigger success of what we have got and | :57:17. | :57:21. | |
demonstrate a Government that we can use the money productively. | :57:21. | :57:26. | |
Are you satisfied with that? The idea you have just suggested, | :57:26. | :57:31. | |
making the whole of the North East and the James Murdoch, is fine. | :57:31. | :57:37. | |
But there is a limit to public finances? | :57:37. | :57:41. | |
Yes, but the current extension to the Enterprise Zone has not | :57:41. | :57:47. | |
attracted extra enhanced allowances. Geographically, it has expanded, | :57:47. | :57:51. | |
but the finances are exactly the same as what was announced in | :57:51. | :57:55. | |
November 2011. They have just expanded the size of the Enterprise | :57:55. | :57:59. | |
Zone. Thank you. It is not often a humble | :57:59. | :58:02. | |
kebab gets a mention on the programme, but a Cumbrian MP is | :58:02. | :58:12. | |
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keen to change all that. Here is the 60 seconds news. | :58:16. | :58:21. | |
Newcastle council is to shed 1,300 jobs and scrap weekly been | :58:21. | :58:24. | |
collections as part of its efforts to save �90 million over three | :58:24. | :58:27. | |
years. Arts funding will also be cut. | :58:27. | :58:31. | |
Come rain needs to save �80 million next year to balance the books. | :58:31. | :58:35. | |
The region's new police commissioners are starting work in | :58:36. | :58:40. | |
County Durham. Anne McIntosh has criticised | :58:40. | :58:42. | |
planning inspectors for lying 300 houses to be built in an area prone | :58:42. | :58:46. | |
to flooding. How is this that a planning | :58:46. | :58:51. | |
decision can be overruled by an out-of-town planning inspector that | :58:51. | :58:55. | |
will have enormous implications for something? | :58:55. | :59:02. | |
Is it time to move the house of Lords up North? Peers will debate | :59:02. | :59:06. | |
at Northumbria University this week that the second chamber should up | :59:06. | :59:10. | |
sticks out of Westminster. And the quality of Cumbria's kebabs | :59:10. | :59:14. | |
get celebrated by Penrith MP. He has dominated the alternative | :59:14. | :59:20. | |
takeaway for the first ever British kebab wards. | :59:20. | :59:23. | |
It comes in all shades and sizes! It would be great news 3, wouldn't | :59:24. | :59:28. | |
it, that out of Lords came to the North? | :59:28. | :59:34. | |
They would certainly save me in travelling. The idea originated | :59:34. | :59:39. | |
with the proposed Bill, which would have turned the house of Lords into | :59:39. | :59:44. | |
a set and would have had its direct regional representation. It is very | :59:44. | :59:48. | |
complicated to do, because the nature of the Lords, which revises | :59:48. | :59:52. | |
have scrutinised as the Commons, which the sides, actually requires | :59:52. | :59:56. | |
us to be very close to the Commons. However, it is my view that you | :59:56. | :00:00. | |
could get many more select committees to take evidence from | :00:00. | :00:04. | |
right around England and the rest of the UK and I could welcome that. | :00:04. | :00:09. | |
You can make a case for moving civil servants, but not the Lords? | :00:09. | :00:14. | |
You can make a decision to move the Commons and the Lords to the region. | :00:14. | :00:18. | |
Why not? We have a brilliant region here with fantastic people and | :00:18. | :00:23. | |
facilities. It would stimulate a regional economy. | :00:23. | :00:28. | |
But everybody has to be together. While I do they have to be together | :00:28. | :00:32. | |
in London? Why not Newcastle? Simulate the local economy. Bring | :00:32. | :00:36. | |
them into one of the best regions in the world. | :00:36. | :00:40. | |
Do you think you could persuade business leaders, international | :00:40. | :00:44. | |
politicians, to come up to Northumberland? | :00:44. | :00:49. | |
I doubt it. Fair enough! | :00:49. | :00:53. | |
It would change the whole political balance of the country, wouldn't | :00:53. | :00:58. | |
it? We desperately need to do that. That is true. You would have a | :00:58. | :01:02. | |
problem deciding where it would be. The North of England would be | :01:02. | :01:05. | |
competing with Edinburgh, because that house of Lords covers the | :01:05. | :01:10. | |
United Kingdom. What I would prefer, because the back of the matter is | :01:11. | :01:15. | |
that London is the UK's capital. It is where the media is, big | :01:15. | :01:20. | |
business... Briefly, obviously, there is the | :01:20. | :01:23. | |
need to refer this. It has to go somewhere. | :01:23. | :01:27. | |
A for five years, we will have to leave. You either leave elsewhere | :01:27. | :01:32. | |
in London or you could leave to go elsewhere in England. I would | :01:32. | :01:36. | |
welcome a study which tells us I feasible that might be. | :01:36. | :01:42. | |
Thank you. That's about it from us. I will be | :01:42. | :01:45. | |
Middlesbrough on Thursday night for the by-election count. You can | :01:45. | :01:51. |