Voters go to the polls on Thursday in a by-election in the marginal seat of Peterborough.

The seat had been held for Labour by Fiona Onasanya with a majority of just 607.

The by-election was triggered after she was jailed for lying about a speeding offence.

She was suspended by the Labour Party, then forced out as MP after more than 19,000 Peterborough voters signed a petition to instigate a by-election (27%), smashing the required 6,967 signatures.

It made her the first MP to be forced out of her seat as a result of the measures brought in in 2016, whereby a by-election will be triggered if 10% of registered voters in a constituency sign an organised petition.

The candidates standing in the by-election are:

– Brexit Party: Mike Greene

– Christian Peoples Alliance: Tom Rogers

– Common Good: Remain In The EU: Dick Rodgers

– Conservatives: Paul Bristow

– English Democrats: Stephen Goldspink

– Greens: Joseph Wells

– Independent: Andrew Moore

– Independent: Bobby Smith

– Labour: Lisa Forbes

– Liberal Democrats: Beki Sellick

– Monster Raving Loony: Alan “Howling Laud” Hope

– Renew: Peter Ward

– SDP: Patrick O’Flynn

– UK European Union Party: Pierre Kirk

– Ukip: John Whitby

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