By Echo Comment ECHO COMMENT Keir Starmer and Paul Williams on the campaign trail in Hartlepool where they visited Cameron’s Brewery A RARE accident of political timing and geography brought both leaders of the main political parties to the North-East yesterday ahead of May 6’s elections. The Hartlepool Parliamentary seat is one that Labour under its new leader, Keir Starmer, has to hold on to, but one in which Boris Johnson’s Conservatives feel they have unfinished business from the 2019 election as they would probably have won it when the red wall fell had it not been for a high profile Brexit Party candidate.