Labour’s Jonathan Ashworth has accused the Conservatives of being weak in their handling of the case of the disgraced former MP Peter Bone and said the prime minister is being “pushed around” by members of his party, as he campaigned in Wellingborough before an upcoming byelection.
Ashworth, the MP for Leicester South and shadow paymaster general, was in the Northamptonshire seat after a byelection was triggered on Tuesday when 13% of the Wellingborough electorate signed a recall petition against Bone, who was found in October to have engaged in bullying and sexual misconduct against a former staff member.
