The House of Commons green benches have fallen silent in Westminster and it's time for us, the United Kingdom, to choose who will occupy them next. So, Sky News has decided to take a piece of upholstered parliamentary furniture around the country for you to share your thoughts on. We started our Bench Across Britain series in the West Country, hauling our green bench down the harbour steps, across dark slimy rocks and on to the vast yellow sands of Towan Beach in Newquay Bay.
' St Austell and Newquay is Tory-held. Labour were second in both 2017 and 2019 and there was no UKIP or Brexit candidate in either election. This year there are at least seven candidates, including one from Reform in a seat that is estimated to have voted 65% Leave in the Brexit referendum. Labour needs a 14.5% swing to take the constituency. With that, uniformly across the country, they would be on course for a 50-seat majority.