{"id":258952,"date":"2025-03-14T08:26:34","date_gmt":"2025-03-14T08:26:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/14\/runcorn-and-helsby-by-election-labour-picks-candidate-to-replace-amesbury\/"},"modified":"2025-03-14T08:26:34","modified_gmt":"2025-03-14T08:26:34","slug":"runcorn-and-helsby-by-election-labour-picks-candidate-to-replace-amesbury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/14\/runcorn-and-helsby-by-election-labour-picks-candidate-to-replace-amesbury\/","title":{"rendered":"Runcorn and Helsby by-election: Labour picks candidate to replace Amesbury"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Labour has announced that a Cheshire councillor will be its candidate in the forthcoming Runcorn and Helsby by-election.<\/p>\n

It follows the recent decision by Mike Amesbury to quit the House of Commons after he was convicted and given a suspended prison sentence for repeatedly punching a constituent in the street.<\/p>\n

Amesbury has been sitting as an independent MP since he was suspended by Labour bosses following the assault in Frodsham, Cheshire, in the early hours of 26 October.<\/p>\n

Cheshire West and Chester councillor Karen Shore will hope to retain the seat which Amesbury won for Labour at last year’s general election with a majority of more than 14,000.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Video footage showed Amesbury, 55, punching Paul Fellows in the head and knocking the 45-year-old to the ground, before hitting him at least five more times.<\/p>\n

The former Labour MP was initially handed an immediate 10-week prison term before it was later suspended on appeal.<\/p>\n

This meant he was vulnerable to being ousted from Parliament through a process in which jailed MPs can be recalled by constituents.<\/p>\n

Amesbury told the BBC he would “step aside at the earliest opportunity”.<\/p>\n

The date of the Runcorn and Helsby by-election – the first under Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour government – has not yet been set.<\/p>\n

“Karen Shore will be a champion for the people of Runcorn and Helsby,” said Starmer.<\/p>\n

“She’s local and her experience as a teacher and serving the community as a councillor will give people a strong voice in the House of Commons.<\/p>\n

“That’s what people in Runcorn and Helsby deserve in their Member of Parliament.<\/p>\n

“I look forward to her working hard with ministers if she is elected to deliver the local change that the area and our country deserve.”<\/p>\n

Other candidates for the Runcorn and Helsby by-election have not yet been announced.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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