Home Secretary Yvette Cooper has said she wants to see jailed MP Mike Amesbury resign or face a recall petition.
“I want to see him either obviously resign or face recall, and so that we can have a new MP in place,” the Home Secretary told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme.
Amesbury’s sentence leaves him liable to the recall process, which would trigger a by-election if 10% of registered voters in his constituency sign a petition calling for it.
Ms Cooper was asked for a response on Amesbury continuing to be an MP and receiving full pay as there is no automatic suspension for MPs serving a custodial sentence.
Amesbury was suspended from the Labour Party after footage emerged which showed him punching a man on the street in Frodsham, Cheshire, and he subsequently resigned his membership.
