Mike Amesbury is due to be sentenced at Chester Magistrates’ Court for assault by beating. He pleaded guilty to the attack 45-year-old Paul Fellows last month. In October last year a video emerged showing him punching a man to the ground in his Cheshire constituency. He was suspended from the Labour Party shortly afterwards.

Former Labour MP Mike Amesbury has been jailed for 10 weeks for punching a man after a row in the street.The Runcorn and Helsby MP, who has been sitting as an Independent since he was suspended by the party after his arrest in October last year,

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.