Fiona Onasanya
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| Gender | Female |
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| Age | 40 |
| Date of birth | August 23,1983 |
| Zodiac sign | Virgo |
| Born | Cambridge |
| United Kingdom | |
| Office | Member of Parliament of the United Kingdom |
| Party | Labour Party |
| Parents | Paulina Onasanya |
| Frank Onasanya | |
| Siblings | Festus Onasanya |
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| ID | 407006 |
Fiona Onasanya Life story
Fiona Oluyinka Onasanya is a British politician and former practising solicitor, who was elected as the Labour Member of Parliament for Peterborough in 2017. On 19 December 2018, after a re-trial, Onasanya was found guilty of perverting the course of justice for lying to police to avoid a speeding fine.
Imran Ahmad Khan: What happens when an MP is convicted?
... Fiona Onasanya, was the first English MP to be removed by recall petition...
Fiona Onasanya: Former MP struck off as solicitor
...Fiona Onasanya had worked in commercial property law before being elected as an MP A former MP who was jailed for lying about a speeding offence has been struck off as a solicitor...
Peterborough by-election: Polls close in contest
... By-election factsThe Peterborough by-election was called after Fiona Onasanya - who won for Labour in 2017 but was convicted of lying over a speeding offence and thrown out of the party - became the first MP to be ousted under recall rules...
Fiona Onasanya: Peterborough MP jailed in speeding case
...The Old Bailey was told Fiona Onasanya had been texting on her phone when she was spotted speeding, in July 2017 An MP has become the first sitting member of parliament in nearly three decades to be jailed after she lied to police over a speeding ticket...
Imran Ahmad Khan: What happens when an MP is convicted?
Wakefield MP Imran Ahmad Khan has been found guilty of sexually assaulting a teenager at a House Party .
But he is still the West Yorkshire city's MP.
Khan was elected for the Conservative Party in 2019 - the First Time Wakefield has gone blue since 1931.
After he was charged with sexual assault he was dropped by the Tories - it's called losing The Whip - But he remained in Parliament as an independent.
Now he's been found guilty, whether he stays as MP will be dependent on sentencing.
If he gets a prison term of More Than a year he is automatically disbarred from being an MP and there will be a by-election to replace him.
Should he be sentenced to less than a year he will be allowed to continue as an MP during any appeals he might make.
If those appeals are unsuccessful he would then be subject to a recall petition.
This is a pretty new thing in parliamentary terms - it came into force in 2015. Before then there was no real mechanism to get rid of MPs convicted of crimes. Fiona Onasanya , was The First English MP to be removed by recall petition.
In Khan's case, the petition would be open for Six Weeks and 10% of voters in Wakefield would need to sign it to remove him as MP. If the threshold is met it would trigger a by-election.
He could choose to stand in that by-election if he wanted.
Of course, Imran Ahmad Khan could decide to resign from his position.
Under the UK's archaic system MPs aren't technically allowed to resign, thanks to a resolution of The House passed in 1624. It states that death, disqualification and expulsion are the only way an MP can give up their seat.
In order to go, they have to apply to the chancellor for one of two titles that disqualifies them - The Crown Steward and Bailiff of the Chiltern Hundreds or The Crown Steward and Bailiff of The Manor of Northstead.
The Role of Crown Steward and Bailiff of The Manor of Northstead is currently occupied by former Conservative MP Owen Paterson , after he was found to have broken lobbying rules.
The current Crown Steward and Bailiff of the Chiltern Hundreds is former Batley and Spen MP Tracy Brabin .
She had to apply in order to become West Yorkshire 's first elected mayor.
Source of news: bbc.com
