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 punched a constituent – has called on Labour backbenchers to rebel against the leadership’s ‘big political mistakes’. And Amesbury knows all about mistakes, eh?
Amesbury lamented that while he was ‘really disappointed’ at Labour’s loss in his former seat
On the BBC’s Today programme, 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.’ He added:
People on those backbenches, you’re not being disloyal but say: ‘look, come on now’ to the leadership, ‘just think again on this’. If we’re serious about having two terms of a Labour government and transforming this country for the better, we’ve got to listen to the electorate and do the right thing.
Crikey! The former MP’s intervention follows murmurings this weekend that changes could be made to the winter fuel payment cut after voters turned to Reform in the local elections last week. While the Labour lot are no doubt considering how best to move forward from last week’s results, Mr S can’t imagine they’d be all that keen to hear advice from Amesbury…
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