Labour: Tory MP Benton should have resigned ‘much sooner’

  • 6 months ago
Labour shadow cabinet minister Jonathan Ashworth says MP Scott Benton should have resigned “much sooner” than he did. The Blackpool South MP lost the Conservative whip after being embroiled in a lobbying scandal. He has announced he will quit Parliament rather than wait for the outcome of a recall petition, paving the way for a by-election. Report by Jonesia. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00 Well he should have done it much sooner frankly and the Tory party should have made him resign
00:04 much sooner. I mean it's absolutely chaos isn't it in the Tory party today, a divided party from
00:10 divided from top to bottom and weak leadership under Rishi Sunak. We need this by-election now
00:16 as soon as possible. The Tories should move the writ and let's get on and let's elect
00:21 a Labour MP who can represent the people of Blackpool here in the House of Commons.

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