and that is mike amesbury, the mp for runcorn and helsby.l continue to receive his £91,000 salary. but there will presumably be a recall petition in these weeks and months to come. do you fancy your chances in his seat? reform uk? >> well, we'll certainly be going for it big time and working very, very hard. we won't take anything for granted. nothing's easy. and indeed, nor should it be, of course. but we will go for it as soon as the by—election is announced. doesn't it tell you something about labour politicians that here's a man who punched and thumped some one of his constituents has been sent to jail, but he doesn't have the moral decency or integrity to resign and accept that he can't be paid by the taxpayer. i mean, honestly, in no private sector business would that be allowed to continue? but if you're a labour politician, just keep taking the shilling from the taxpayer, even when you're in jail. i think that tells us a lot about the complete collapse in integrity amongst socialists. >> richard tice we'll leave it there. thank you v

the mp of runcorn? that's what you should be doing round here.s the local mp, john. >> so, ten weeks in prison, £200 compensation to the victim, £85 court costs and a £154 surcharge in the last few minutes. it's just come to my attention that apparently mike amesbury is going to continue to receive his mp salary whilst he's in prison. so there we are. that's something, isn't it? in reality, it'll probably be back out prowling the streets of runcorn within just five weeks or so. but let's have a little look at the judge, shall we? it's tank cram now. mr cram sent a police officer to prison for 20 weeks for making a racist joke in a whatsapp group and then appeared to brag about it, saying, reportedly, this was a police officer bringing the police service into disrepute. so i gave him a long prison sentence. the police were horrified by that. it's the same judge that let the two women who attended a pro—palestine protest with pictures of the hamas paragliders walk free. he said emotions were very high and their lessons had been well learned. shall

the mp of runcorn? that's what you should be doing round here.he local mp, john. >> so, ten weeks in prison, £200 compensation to the victim, £85 court costs and a £154 surcharge in the last few minutes. it's just come to my attention that apparently mike amesbury is going to continue to receive his mp salary whilst he's in prison. so there we are. that's something, isn't it? in reality, it'll probably be back out prowling the streets of runcorn within just five weeks or so. but let's have a little look at the judge, shall we? it's tank cram now. mr cram sent a police officer to prison for 20 weeks for making a racist joke in a whatsapp group and then appeared to brag about it, saying, reportedly, this was a police officer bringing the police service into disrepute. so i gave him a long prison sentence. the police were horrified by that. it's the same judge that let the two women who attended a pro—palestine protest with pictures of the hamas paragliders walk free. he said emotions were very high and their lessons had been well learned. shall we

the custodial sentence handed to the runcorn rocky, sorry, the runcorn rocky, sorry, the runcorn andsby mp means voters in his constituency can remove him from his seat. now with a recall petition now, could this be a major knockout blow for prime minister sir keir starmer and indeed an opportunity for the gloves to come off and to get one straight on the chin for nigel farage's reform party. many, many more boxing puns will follow, i guarantee you. now we can speak with gb news political editor chris hope. i'm also delighted to say i'm joined in the studio by the political editor at the independent, david maddox. dave, great to see you've been waiting too long, my friend. but, chris, let's start with you. we expected this to go to court. obviously we expected, i think, a custodial sentence. we may find that mike amesbury appeals. we may find he doesn't go to prison. but certainly an astonishing statement from the labour party came out. will there be a by—election.7 well, there be a by—election.7 well, there doesn't necessarily have to be. of course, he's now former labour and it see

the mp for runcorn, they're calling the runcorn rocky.admitted to punching a man to the ground constituents dunng man to the ground constituents during a night out in his constituency. now the labour party have disowned mr amesbury, suspending him from the party and releasing a statement today saying that the people of runcorn deserve better in the form of a new labour mp. the custodial sentence has opened the door for a recall petition, which would trigger a by—election if 10% of his constituents were to sign it. however, shouldn't amesbury do the decent thing and simply resign? well, that's the first topic in tonight's show, and i'm joined by gb news senior political commentator nigel nelson and the former spokesman for reform uk, gordon taylor. gentlemen, welcome to the show. nigel, i'm going to start with you. isn't it ironic how sir keir starmer said at the weekend it's reform uk who are dangerous. it was a labour mp who chained a constituent into the ground. he punched him four times when he was down and now he's behind bars. >> yea

we've got the runcorn mp with the violence where he punched somebody.e hague resigned for fraud. and now we've got these really offensive, stupid comments that aren't funny and will cause a significant offence. these are mounting up. and i think what's interesting is they're adding to a sense of chaos just eight months into a new government. so it's 1547 00:08:2