Labour picks candidate to replace Amesbury
Labor has announced that Cheshire Councillors will be candidates for the upcoming Runcorn and Helsby by-elections.
This is Mike Amesbury’s recent decision to resign from the House of Commons after being convicted and sentenced to a sentence for repeatedly beating members on the street.
Amesbury has been an independent MP since he was suspended by a labor boss after an attack in Frodsham, Cheshire in the early hours of October 26.
Cheshire West and Chester MP Karen Shore hopes to keep Amesbury winning Labour seats in last year’s general election, most of which are more than 14,000.
Video footage shows Amesbury, 55, slammed Paul Fellows in the head and knocked the 45-year-old to the ground before hitting him at least five times.
The former Labor MP was initially granted a 10-week prison term before being suspended by appeals.
This means he easily passes through the process by which voters can recall MPs sentenced to jail.
Amesbury told the BBC that he would “take the earliest opportunity to walk away”.
The dates for Runcorn and Helsby by-election (the first under Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour government) have not been determined.
“Karen Shore will be the champion of Runcorn and Helsby people,” Starmer said.
“She is local, she is the teacher’s experience and serving as a member of the community will give people a strong voice in the House of Commons.
“That’s what the people of Runcorn and Helsby deserve in the MPs.
“I look forward to her working hard with the ministers if she chooses to implement the local change that the region and our country deserves.”
Other candidates for Runcorn and Helsby by-election have not been announced.
