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By elections in stoke and copeland will give us some idea of how Jeremy Corbyn is going down in a part of britain that is not really his natural territory. Natural, strong labour areas that voted in favour of leaving in the referendum back injune. What did we learn . Do not make predictions before the votes have been counted so i will take the safer course of action of reporting on what the parties say. In stoke, labour say they think they might squeak ahead of ukip, two factors in their favour paul nuttall, the leader of ukip with those difficult questions about his involvement in hillsborough and the second, they genuinely think they have been connecting to those voters who supported leave in the referendum. Ukip say, dont count us out, they had a reasonable pace, ukip say, dont count us out, they had a reasonable base here, second place in the general election, 22. 7 of the vote but the problem was they said they had no idea whe ....