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The ex-Labour MP who drunkenly punched a constituent has blamed Sir Keir Starmer‘s winter fuel cuts for the party’s loss of the once safe seat he held. Mike Amesbury, who quit parliament after ...

The ex-Labour MP who drunkenly punched a constituent has blamed Sir Keir Starmer‘s winter fuel cuts for the party’s loss of the once safe seat he held. Mike Amesbury, who quit parliament after being ...

Mike Amesbury: "The prime minster and ... partly blaming winter fuel and Pip cuts for the party's local election drubbing, which saw Labour lose two-thirds of the seats it was defending.

Ex-Labour MP Mike Amesbury has blamed "big political mistakes ... have been growing increasingly vocal about opposition to the party's benefit cuts. He is one of several Labour voices partly ...