Mike Amesbury will still be paid his £91,346 taxpayer-funded salary despite being handed 10-week sentence for ‘drunken brawl’

Suspended Labour MP Mike Amesbury has been jailed for 10 weeks for punching a man following a row in the street, and taunting “you won’t threaten your MP again will you?”.

Mike Amesbury's jailing has sparked "enormous pressure" for a by-election in his Runcorn and Helsby constituency, said Sky's chief political correspondent Jon Craig, with Labour hoping to see off a threat from Reform UK.

Sir Keir Starmer faces a by-election nightmare after disgraced Labour MP Mike Amesbury was jailed for 10 weeks for brutally attacking a man in the street. The Runcorn and Helsby MP is now under pressure to resign from the Commons, which would trigger a by-election that Nigel Farage 's Reform UK hopes to win.

Former Labour MP Mike Amesbury has been jailed for 10 weeks after punching a constituent. Release date: 24 February 2025

A British lawmaker was sentenced to 10 weeks in prison on Monday for punching one of his constituents after a night out, raising the prospect he could be ousted from parliament and trigger an electoral test for the governing Labour Party.

You won’t threaten an MP again’.Credit: SWNS/

After the 55-year-old was jailed for assaulting a constituent, Barney Davis asked Frodsham locals how they felt now their MP was behind bars