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Speculation about results for the remaining mayoral elections in England is causing some unease for Labour, more specifically within the capital, Eleanor Langford says. Professor Sir John Curtice
"There’s a lot of anxiety over the Mayoral race in London. Partly because of backlash to Labour’s response to the situation in Gaza but also changes to the electoral system," the political correspondent for the i Newspaper tells BBC's 5 Live this morning, highlighting how this is the first time the race has used the first past the post system. Professor of politics at University of Strathclyde
She adds that the "anxieties" for Labour stems from a fear that Tory candidate Susan Hall could win - but not because of her policies, "but more by accident because lots of these other issues have come up". Conservative mayor Ben Houchen was re-elected in Tees Valley on Friday, and the party will hope to see similar success in the West Midlands and London today.
Langford believes that we're tucking in for a "very close" contest between the two candidates and says she's "sure Sadiq Kahn has been losing sleep over it". However, these mayoral elections are basically a comfort blanket of consolation and not really something on which to base a realistic assessment of how the Tories might perform in a general election.
These metro mayor contests were designed to people didn't necessarily vote for the same party they usually would in a national election.
The truth is that we know from polling in Teesside and the West Midlands that many voters were willing to vote for a Tory mayor but don't back the party nationally.
For that reason, these contests don't necessarily provide a good guide as to what will happen when the country goes to the polls.
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