Mike Amesbury urges Labour MP rebellion
You'd have thought ex-Labour MP Mike Amesbury would have tired of making headlines by now, but the former politician can't seem to keep his head below the parapet. Now the former Runcorn and Helsby parliamentarian – who prompted last week's by-election after he, er, punched a constituent – has called on Labour backbenchers to rebel against the leadership's 'big political mistakes'. And Amesbury knows all about mistakes, eh?
Speaking to the Beeb's Today programme this morning, the ex-Labour man spoke to presenters about the future of Labour. Taking no responsibility for the part he played in handing Runcorn over to Reform, Amesbury lamented that while he was 'really disappointed' at Labour's loss in his former seat last week, he wasn't shocked given the 'big political mistakes from the Labour government' in recent months. Ouch.
Going on, Amesbury took aim at Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Chancellor Rachel Reeves, insisting: 'The constituents of Durham, or up and down the country, didn't vote because of my mistake.'
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