Mike Amesbury
British politician
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| January 2025 | Pleads guilty to common assault. |
| January 2025 | Pleads guilty to common assault and becomes an independent Member of Parliament. |
| 2024 | Amesbury was elected to represent Runcorn and Helsby at the general election, winning with a majority of almost 15,000 after the Weaver Vale constituency was abolished due to boundary changes. |
| November 7 2024 | Amesbury was charged with common assault and summoned to appear in court following the Frodsham incident. |
| October 2024 | Suspended from the Labour Party after a video emerges of him punching a man. |
| October 26 2024 | At approximately 2:15 am, Amesbury was filmed confronting and physically engaging with a man in Frodsham, shouting and punching the individual to the ground. |
| January 16 2024 | Amesbury pleaded guilty to assault related to the Frodsham confrontation. |
| September 2023 | Rejoined the front bench as Shadow Building Safety and Homelessness Minister. |
| July 2023 | A 56-year-old man was convicted of stalking and harassing Amesbury, resulting in a restraining order. |
| 2022 | Served on the Transport Committee. |
| June 2022 | Resigned from Shadow Local Government Minister role to focus on constituency work. |
| June 2022 | Experienced stalking and harassment, with offences taking place from June to August. |
| November 2021 | Became Shadow Local Government Minister. |
| May 2021 | Role reduced to Shadow Housing Minister. |
| April 2020 | Appointed Shadow Housing and Planning Minister. |
| February 2020 | Introduced a private member's bill to reduce the cost of school uniforms, which would later become the Education (Guidance about Costs of School Uniforms) Act 2021. |
| 2019 | Re-elected to represent Weaver Vale in the general election, winning with a reduced majority of 562 votes over the Conservative candidate. |
| 2019 | Publicly apologized 'unreservedly' for sharing an antisemitic caricature on Facebook in 2013, claiming he didn't recall sharing the post but was 'mortified'. |
| July 2018 | Promoted to Shadow Employment Minister. |
| January 2018 | Appointed Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary, Debbie Abrahams. |
| 2017 | Elected to Parliament and resigned from Manchester City Council following this election. |
| 2017 | Became a member of the Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee. |
| 2017 | Elected as Member of Parliament for Weaver Vale (later renamed Runcorn and Helsby). |
| 2016 | Started working for Andy Burnham, supporting his work as an MP and later his Greater Manchester mayoral campaign. |
| 2015 | Became an adviser to Tameside Member of Parliament Angela Rayner. |
| 2014 | Began working as a policy adviser at Tameside Council, a position he held until 2015. |
| 2013 | Returned to North West Labour as an events and fundraising manager after previously working at The Manchester College. |
| 2012 | Completes his tenure as Executive Member of Manchester City Council. |
| 2010 | Became a member of Labour's National Policy Forum, a role he maintained until 2015. |
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