Mike Amesbury is quitting as an MP in a move which will see Sir Keir Starmer face his first by-election as prime minister.
The suspended Labour MP was last month given a 10-week suspended prison sentence for drunkenly punching a constituent in the street.
And, in an interview with the BBC, Mr Amesbury said he is going to step down from parliament “as quickly as possible”.
“I’m going to step aside at the earliest opportunity,” he said. Mr Amesbury added: “I’ve got processes I must go through – there’s a statutory process in terms of redundancies.”
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