The Somerton and Frome, Uxbridge and South Ruislip and Selby and Ainsty by-elections will all take place on 20 July after David Warburton, Boris Johnson and Nigel Adams all stood down.
as an MP last week, having been suspended from the Conservative Party since April 2022 while being investigated by the Independent Complaints and Grievance Scheme .In his resignation letter, Mr Warburton said the"malicious allegations" and"flawed" 14-month investigation had"inflicted unimaginable and intolerable destruction on my family and on [himself]".
He said had been left with"no choice" but to provoke"the upheaval of a by-election", adding:"It is my hope that, in so doing, I can freely illuminate the methods of an oversight system not fit for purpose, so that friends and colleagues in the House can see the perverted process by which their own judgement may at any time be freighted."Mr Warburton was first elected in 2015 with a majority of 20,268, or 53% of the vote. According to the MP's website, at 18.
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