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If he's recalled, that will cause another headache. Not just because it's yet another by-election, but the next Conservative candidate for Tamworth is Eddie Hughes, who is moving from Walsall North which won't exist at the next GE.
So either they get a stand-in for a year, or Eddie Hughes stands in Tamworth, then they need another by-election in Walsall North even though the constituency won't exist for much longer.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Rishi Sunak faces the prospect of another byelection headache after the former Tory MP Chris Pincher lost an appeal against an eight-week suspension from parliament.
A report in July said Pincher had committed an “abuse of power” by drunkenly groping two men at the Carlton Club in London the previous summer.
An independent expert panel (IEP) found that the original committee that investigated him “approached this task properly, with the correct considerations in mind”.
“He re-entered the Carlton Club in the hope that he could rejoin this same event, or at least interact with the attenders, including other MPs, parliamentary staff and civil servants,” the report said.
Pincher said he “never thought to act with impunity”, had resigned from the government promptly after, apologised to the victims and announced he would not seek to stand as an MP at the next general election.
Those were taken into account, but the IEP said in many other workplaces those actions would probably have “led to disqualification or suspension for periods of years, often with compulsory DBS checks before any return to work would be possible”.
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