Fiona Onasanya, the Labour MP for Peterborough, has been found guilty of conspiracy to pervert the course of justice. The former lawyer, who was first elected in 2017, was found to have misled police in order to avoid speeding charges.
The Labour Party has suspended her and called for her resignation, but the opposition has no formal power to remove a sitting MP, so it is not clear that the verdict will trigger a by-election in Onasanya’s Peterborough seat, a tightly-fought marginal that Onasanya won by only 638 votes.
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