Mike Amesbury and Derek Twigg will be returned to Parliament as party earns landslide victory
Mike Amesbury secured a comfortable majority as he claimed the Runcorn and Helsby seat for his party as it continued its march to power. Veteran MP Derek Twigg will be returned to Westminster in the newly drawn Widnes and Halewood seat after taking more than 23,000 votes.
Mr Amesbury, originally elected to Weaver Vale in 2017 and today's winner with 22,358 votes, said: “Politics is broken after 14 years of division and we now need economic stability and to get the NHS back on its feet, establish a nationals social care service over time and get people’s bills down.”
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