Ralph Ward-Jackson

Ralph Ward-Jackson is a great-great-great-nephew and namesake of West Hartlepool’s founder.

In Hartlepool, I’m aiming for a noble defeat

By the time you read this you may know if the Tories triumphed in the Hartlepool by-election — or if, in the end, the party was too badly wounded by all that business about who paid for whose wallpaper. Boris Johnson visited the town more times than he visited Scotland in the campaign, so he