RISHI Sunak faces his first key electoral test today as thousands of voters flock to the polls in Chester for a crunch by-election.
Polls are now open for the Chester seat in the North of England, where Sir Keir Starmer hopes his party will grab votes from disaffected Tories.
Rishi Sunak faces his first key electoral test
But Labour are set to hold on to the seat despite the previous MP stepping down after being found to have sexually harassed a staffer.
A fresh poll out today has Labour on a huge 25 point lead, with the Tories on just 22 per cent.
The Tories haven’t held the Chester seat since David Cameron’s era.
Since then the area has gone from being a tight marginal, to now a safer Labour area.
Chris Matheson quit after a sleaze watchdog found he tried to kiss an ex-staffer and invited her on a “sexually motivated trip”.
An Independent Commons Panel found that Chris Matheson had committed “serious sexual misconduct”.
Mr Matheson announced he would quit as an MP after Commons chiefs recommended a four week suspension from the Commons as a punishment.
The Independent Expert Panel found he had invited a former staffer to take a trip with him to Gibraltar, and said: “the invitation was sexually motivated, unwanted, and had placed the complainant under pressure and intimidated her”.
He also looked at the member of staff “suggestively” and “made personal comments about her appearance”, the probe found.
Chris Matheson quit as an MP after the investigation
