Labour MP Rosie Cooper has announced she is standing down from her seat in the House of Commons. It means Prime Minister Liz Truss will be facing her first by-election test.
The MP for West Lancashire said she had accepted the position of chair of Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust “after a considerable period of soul-searching and reflection”. Convicted neo-Nazi Jack Renshaw, of Skelmersdale, Lancashire, is serving a life sentence for plotting to murder Ms Cooper in 2017.
Posting a statement on Twitter, Ms Cooper said: “This appointment means I am unable to continue with my other passion of representing the people of West Lancashire as their MP, being their voice and fighting their corner, as I have done since 2005. The events I have faced over the last few years are well documented and undoubtedly have taken their toll.”
