'I remember being in No 10 - then I was in a prison van a few months later'

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A former MP who resigned after assaulting a man in his Cheshire constituency says he is still struggling to find work, one year on.

Mike Amesbury, who was born in Wythenshawe and served as a councillor in Manchester before becoming a Labour MP, spent three days behind bars earlier this year before his 10-week prison term was reduced to a suspended sentence following a court appeal.

The Parliamentarian pleaded guilty to assaulting Paul Fellows, 45, who he punched in the street in Frodsham on October 26 last year.

Amesbury resigned as the MP for Runcorn and Helsby soon after his release from prison, triggering a by-election which Reform won.

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Speaking to ITV Granada Reports , Amesbury said that, since then, he's a