Hartlepool Labour MP Mike Hill resigns with immediate effect

© Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Lee Smith/Reuters

A Labour MP has quit the Commons, triggering a byelection that will test the party’s performance in the “red wall” a year after the general election.

Mike Hill resigned as MP for Hartlepool, multiple insiders told the Guardian, following an investigation into his behaviour.

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One Labour source said: “Mike Hill has done the right thing and resigned. The Labour party believes fundamentally in equality and integrity and it is right above all else that any investigation is carried out fully and that justice is done.”

© Photograph: Lee Smith/Reuters Mike Hill was suspended from the Labour party during an investigation in 2019 but the whip was reinstated a month later.

A party spokesperson confirmed: “Mike Hill has resigned as member of parliament for Hartlepool with immediate effect.”

Hill, 56, has been the MP for Hartlepool since the 2017 snap election.