Not just about the trees: Labour hopeful on the doorsteps in Plymouth

Tess Blight, the Labour candidate for Eggbuckland, canvassing on the streets of Plymouth. Photograph: Jim Wileman/The Guardian

If Plymouth’s relationship with politics had a Facebook status it would be “it’s complicated” – and that’s before you mention the trees.

In the past 25 years or so in Britain’s Ocean City, there have been four Conservative majority administrations, five Labour majority administrations and, as there is now, there have been four periods of “no overall control”.