Voters in Blackpool South will go to the polls for the second time in two months after a General Election was called for July 4.
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak faces the prospect of another difficult by-election after an independent panel upheld a finding that former Conservative MP Scott Benton should be suspended from the Commons for 35 days.
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