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Re: The Chronicles of Rishi
Rishi Sunak faces by-election after Peter Bone recall petition
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/6...25d3e9e17f9a31
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Rishi Sunak is facing another potentially painful by-election after voters in Peter Bone’s constituency of Wellingborough voted in a recall petition for the MP to lose his seat.
The process was triggered when Bone, an independent who lost the Conservative whip this year, was suspended from the Commons.
He was found by parliament’s independent expert panel in October to have subjected a member of his staff to bullying and sexual misconduct, but he denies any wrongdoing. Bone was suspended for six weeks, far above the ten-day threshold that automatically triggers a recall petition.
He has since returned to parliament, and was present for the crunch vote on Sunak’s Rwanda legislation.
As more than 10 per cent of the constituency’s voters signed the petition — 7,904 people, or 13.2 per cent — a by-election is now triggered.
Bone, a former deputy leader of the Commons, will formally lose his role as an MP but is free to stand in the upcoming by-election, for which the government is yet to set a date.
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