Owen Paterson's dramatic resignation as an MP presents the Conservatives with a nightmare by-election, in which opponents will campaign against 'Tory sleaze'. Analysis from Sky's JonCraig 👇
Sir David Amess was stabbed to death while meeting constituents in a churchThe by-election in Mr Brokenshire's Old Bexley and Sidcup constituency is due on 2 December and Tory councillor Louie French will be defending a majority of 18,952.
The theory about a well-loved MP was spectacularly disproved this summer, of course, when the Liberal Democrats pulled off a shock win in Chesham and Amersham after the death ofDame Cheryl's 16,223 majority was overturned as the Lib Dems won comfortably by 8,028 votes, in a result that sent shock waves through the Tory high command and through the party's seats in the leafy shires and home counties.
The most memorable election dominated by sleaze allegations in recent years was in Tatton in 1997, when former BBC journalist Martin Bell stormed into the affluent North West constituency and defeated the cash-for-questions Tory Neil Hamilton.
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