The ballot for the next by-election, to be called due to a scandal hit sitting MP being suspended, is to include a senior charity fundraiser for the Labour Party.

The party’s candidate for Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, Genevieve Kitchen, known as Gen, will represent Labour at the upcoming by-election.

This is to take place early in 2024 after sitting MP, Conservative Peter Bone was found to have subjected a member of staff to bullying and sexual misconduct.

Kitchen has been a fundraiser for charities for more than six years, including stints at The Salvation Army and Sarcoma UK, where she was philanthropy manager.

For more than four years she has been a board trustee of activeNewham.

10,505 (13.2%) people have signed the Recall Petition and want change. As the @UKLabour candidate for Wellingborough and Rushden I will work hard to be the #freshstart that people want. Looking forward to a by-election in the new year.

— Gen Kitchen 🌹🇬🇧 (@Gvkitchen) December 19, 2023

Kitchen was selected to represent Wellingborough for the Labour Party in November. She was a councillor for four years in the London Borough of Newham for the party, including a stint as the local authority’s deputy cabinet member for community wealth building and the inclusive economy.

She unsuccessfully stood for the Labour Party against former Conservative cabinet minister Andrea Leadsom in nearby South Northamptonshire in 2019.

More than 10,000 local people in the Northamptonshire seat signed the recall petition that is triggering the by-election following Bone’s suspension from parliament.

The forthcoming by election is the eighth to take place since the beginning of 2023.

Of these Labour has won three from the Conservative Party, including a by election triggered in Tamworth when Conservative Chris Pincher resigned as an MP after losing his appeal of a suspension following sexual misconduct allegations.

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