Labour has just won the North East mayoralty, with candidate and current Northumbria Police and Crime Commissioner Kim McGuinness taking over from ex-Labour Corbynista Jamie Driscoll. Labour got 41.3% to Driscoll’s 28.2% – the Tories trailed on 11.7%. And that’s despite all of Owen Jones’ campaigning?

Meanwhile Labour has just nabbed the usually Conservative York and North Yorkshire. Maybe that’s because the Tory candidate took his inspiration from Engels. Rishi Sunak has a new mayor…