BIZARRE: 5 - What They Never Told You

Shamed MP Mike Amesbury to quit Commons after being sentenced for punching man

The Runcorn and Helsby MP told the BBC he would ‘step aside at the earliest opportunity’.

Evening Standard · Mar 10, 2025

OPINION - Nigel Farage, Mike Amesbury and the domino effect: how Runcorn could change British politics

It was a by-election that caused a political earthquake. In 1981, Shirley Williams changed the temperature in Westminster when the new Social Democratic Party triumphed in the once true blue seat of Crosby. Months before, her fellow Gang of Four member Roy Jenkins had come tantalisingly close to winning a…

Evening Standard · Feb 27, 2025

MP Mike Amesbury walks free after winning appeal against 10-week sentence for punching constituent

Disgraced politician has been called on to step down from the Runcorn and Helsby seat

The Independent UK · Feb 27, 2025

Jailed MP Mike Amesbury urged to quit Commons

The former Labour MP, who has been sitting as an Independent, was jailed for 10 weeks for punching a man during a row in a street.

The Independent UK · Feb 24, 2025

‘Application refused’: Judge bluntly denies jailed MP Mike Amesbury’s request for bail to appeal sentence

Runcorn MP arrived in court without a bag of belongings with him, unlike many defendants

The Independent UK · Feb 24, 2025

Former Labour MP Mike Amesbury jailed for punching man in street

The Runcorn and Helsby MP pleaded guilty in January to assaulting Paul Fellows in Main Street in Frodsham, Cheshire, in the early hours of October 26.

The Independent UK · Feb 24, 2025

‘I don’t trust them’: voters wary as Reform eyes possible Runcorn byelection

Nigel Farage’s party starts early ground war as it hopes to overturn huge majority of Labour MP Mike Amesbury

The Guardian - UK · Jan 20, 2025

Who is Mike Amesbury? Former Labour politician's prison sentence suspended on appeal

The Runcorn and Helsby MP served in a number of frontbench positions between 2018 and 2023 under Sir Keir Starmer and Jeremy Corbyn

Evening Standard · Jan 16, 2025

Mike Amesbury among Labour’s top 50 largest majorities at 2024 election

He won Runcorn & Helsby with 53% of the vote, with Reform in second place on 18%.

The Independent UK · Jan 16, 2025

First by-election threat for Keir Starmer as 'punching' suspended Labour MP Mike Amesbury faces jail

A judge warned the MP for Runcorn and Helsby that he was considering a prison sentence among the range of options for the assault offence

Evening Standard · Jan 16, 2025