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MP Mike Amesbury (left) outside Chester Ellesmere Port and Neston Magistrates' Court, where he will be sentenced on a charge of assault, after he was found guilty of attacking Paul Fellows in Frodsham, Cheshire, on October 26, February 24, 2025
PRESSURE mounted today on brawling MP Mike Amesbury to quit the Commons as he began his jail sentence.
Mr Amesbury, MP for Runcorn and Helsby, was sentenced to 10 weeks in prison on Monday after pleading guilty to punching a constituent in an alcohol-fuelled late-night confrontation.
He faces a recall petition from constituents aimed at forcing a by-election if legal appeals against his sentence fail.
Green Party MPs stand alone in Parliament in defending Palestine Action against Labour’s proscription of the group as a terrorist organisation — an outrageous move that the Tories supported and the cowardly Lib Dems abstained on, writes ELLIOT TONG
VINCE MILLS cautions over the perils and pitfalls of ‘a new left party’
From Gaza complicity to welfare cuts chaos, Starmer’s baggage accumulates, and voters will indeed find ‘somewhere else’ to go — to the Greens, nationalists, Lib Dems, Reform UK or a new, working-class left party, writes NICK WRIGHT