{"id":47157,"date":"2025-04-05T18:44:15","date_gmt":"2025-04-05T22:44:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/u-k-labour-lawmaker-suspended-from-party-after-arrest\/05\/04\/2025\/"},"modified":"2025-04-05T18:44:15","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T22:44:15","slug":"u-k-labour-lawmaker-suspended-from-party-after-arrest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/u-k-labour-lawmaker-suspended-from-party-after-arrest\/05\/04\/2025\/","title":{"rendered":"U.K. Labour Lawmaker Suspended From Party After Arrest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Britain\u2019s governing Labour Party on Saturday said it had suspended Dan Norris, one of its lawmakers in Parliament, after he was arrested by the police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Morris \u201cwas immediately suspended by the Labour Party upon being informed of his arrest,\u201d the party said in a statement, adding that it \u201ccannot comment further while the police investigation is ongoing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The party did not specify why Mr. Norris, 65, had been arrested, and he did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Saturday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In Britain, the police typically do not disclose the name of suspects unless they are charged. The BBC said that Mr. Norris was <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/czx48gq0y77o\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">arrested<\/a> on suspicion of rape, child sex offenses, child abduction and misconduct in a public office.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In a statement that did not give any names, the Avon and Somerset Police said that a man in his 60s was arrested on Friday on suspicion of sexual offenses against a girl, rape, child abduction and misconduct in a public office. The police said he had been released on conditional bail.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cIn December 2024, we received a referral from another police force relating to alleged non-recent child sex offenses having been committed against a girl,\u201d the police statement said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cMost of the offenses are alleged to have occurred in the 2000s, but we\u2019re also investigating an alleged offense of rape from the 2020s,\u201d it added. The police said that the investigation was \u201congoing and at an early stage.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The Labour Party\u2019s move is expected to mean that Mr. Norris will, pending the investigation,<span class=\"css-8l6xbc evw5hdy0\">  <\/span>be effectively suspended from representing the party in the House of Commons.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Last year Mr. Norris won a seat in Parliament representing North East Somerset and Hanham, near the city of Bristol, defeating a former Conservative cabinet minister, Jacob Rees-Mogg.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Norris is also the mayor of the West of England, responsible for the administration of several cities in a western region, a position he has held since 2021, though he is not running for re-election when that post is contested on May 1.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">His political career goes back more than two decades. Mr. Norris was a lawmaker from 1997 to 2010, representing the seat of Wansdyke, in the west of England. He was an assistant whip in the government of Tony Blair from 2001 to 2003, and a junior minister in the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs from 2009 to 2010, under Prime Minister Gordon Brown.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/04\/05\/world\/europe\/uk-parliament-dan-norris-suspended.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Britain&rsquo;s governing Labour Party on Saturday said it had suspended Dan Norris, one of its lawmakers in Parliament, after he was arrested<br \/><button class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/u-k-labour-lawmaker-suspended-from-party-after-arrest\/05\/04\/2025\/\">Read More &rsaquo;<\/a><\/button><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47158,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2025\/04\/05\/world\/05INT-UK-LABOUR\/05INT-UK-LABOUR-facebookJumbo.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47157"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47157\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}