Former Conservative MP Jake Berry has said Sir Keir Starmer should call on Mike Amesbury to resign.

Speaking on GB News Sir Jake Berry said:

“We’re all having a bit of a laugh at Mike Amesbury’s expense but this is actually very serious; people are killed by one punch.

“We could be sitting here talking about someone who’s died because of the action of Mike Amesbury. It is completely unacceptable.

“And what I just find bizarre about this is he was walking around the streets, I think it was about quarter to three in the morning, but actually, the hour had changed so it was near four o’clock in the morning if you’d started drinking before midnight.

“If you walk around the streets at that time of night, you run into lots of people who’ve had too much to drink. It’s not a safe place to be, it should be but it’s not, and altercations like this happen.

“But when people vote for a Member of Parliament, they expect you to be able to fight and win arguments using your voice. That’s why you get sent to parliament.
“The idea you’ve got to resort to this is bizarre.

“He’s got to go. He will go. And the longer he is sat there, the weaker Keir Starmer looks.

“Even if Keir Starmer technically can’t force him to resign, Keir Starmer could call for him to resign, which I think would show much more strength than to sort of sit back and say, ‘it’s over to the police’.

“And this isn’t unprecedented, because if I think back at my knowledge of politics, I remember when John Prescott clocked someone. And John Prescott clocked someone because they hit him in the face with an egg.

“He retaliated for being attacked. We can see on the video, this fellow had his hands in his pocket.

“So it’s not quite the same as John Preston. I don’t think John Prescott should have resigned. He didn’t resign because he was defending himself.”