Bookies Put Reform as Odds-On to Win Amesbury’s Seat

Yesterday now Independent MP Mike Amesbury was sentenced to 10 weeks in jail after thumping a constituent six times, prompting Reform to call for his resignation, and Yvette Cooper today saying Labour “wants to see a new MP in place.” Considering Amesbury can’t do much for his constituents in Runcorn and Helsby behind bars (probably a good thing), Starmer’s first by-election as PM looks to be on the horizon…

Reform say they’ve been campaigning in the seat every weekend since the video of Amesbury punching the constituent in the face came out, while CCHQ only just started looking for candidates last week.[…] Read the rest