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Labour shadow cabinet minister Jonathan Ashworth says MP Scott Benton should have resigned “much sooner” than he did. The Blackpool South MP lost the Conservative whip after being embroiled in a lobbying scandal. He has announced he will quit Parliament rather than wait for the outcome of a recall petition, paving the way for a by-election. Report by Jonesia. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00 Well he should have done it much sooner frankly and the Tory party should have made him resign
00:04 much sooner. I mean it's absolutely chaos isn't it in the Tory party today, a divided party from
00:10 divided from top to bottom and weak leadership under Rishi Sunak. We need this by-election now
00:16 as soon as possible. The Tories should move the writ and let's get on and let's elect
00:21 a Labour MP who can represent the people of Blackpool here in the House of Commons.

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