Now Independent MP Mike Amesbury has been sentenced to 10 weeks in prison at the Chester Magistrates’ Court after pleading guilty to assault by beating. The now infamous video is here…
Meanwhile, the Tories have already begun selecting their candidate for Runcorn and Helsby, and Reform has been actively campaigning in the constituency most weekends. Still, Amesbury holds a solid majority of 14,696—a challenge for Farage to overturn…
UPDATE: Zia Yusuf calls for a resignation: “The great people of Runcorn deserve far better than waiting six weeks for a recall petition to take place. We call on Mike Amesbury to do the honourable thing and resign immediately.”
Robert Jenrick on the Today programme:
“Can you now give a guarantee to your listeners this morning that no BBC presenter in the future will be exposed as a paedophile, as a number have been in the recent past? No, of course you can’t…”