A former Conservative MP who quit after being accused of sexual misconduct and cocaine use has died at the age of 59, police have said.<\/p>\n
David Warburton, who represented the Somerset<\/a> constituency of Somerton and Frome between 2015 and June 2023, was found dead in west London on Tuesday, Scotland Yard said.<\/p>\n Officers were called to an address in Sands End in Fulham, where they found a man in his 50s dead at the scene, the force said, adding his death is being treated as “unexpected but not suspicious”.<\/p>\n Politics latest: Cooper pledges end to asylum hotels<\/a><\/p>\n The former backbench MP had admitted taking the Class A drug but denied claims of sexual misconduct against him and hit out at a parliamentary investigation<\/a> into the allegations, which had taken 14 months by the time he stepped down<\/a>.<\/p>\n He said he had not been given a fair hearing and was left with “no choice” but to provoke “the upheaval of a by-election”, which was won by Liberal Democrat MP Sarah Dyke.<\/p>\n The seat was abolished as part of boundary changes that came into effect at last summer’s general election.<\/p>\n A Metropolitan Police spokesperson said on Monday: “Police were called by the London Ambulance Service at 10.47hrs on Tuesday, 26 August to an address at Chelsea Crescent, Sands End.<\/p>\n “A man in his 50s was found dead at the scene. His next of kin have been informed.<\/p>\n “His death is being treated as unexpected but not suspicious.”<\/p>\n A London Ambulance Service spokesperson said: “We were called on Tuesday 26 August at 10.14am to reports of an incident in Chelsea Crescent, Chelsea Harbour, SW10.<\/p>\n “We sent (an) ambulance crew and a clinician on a bicycle.<\/p>\n “Sadly, a man was pronounced dead at the scene.”<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n Read more on Sky News: Mr Warburton was first elected in 2015 with a majority of 20,268, or 53% of the vote.<\/p>\n He was re-elected in 2017 and 2019, with majorities of 22,906 and 19,213, respectively.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A former Conservative MP who quit after being accused of sexual misconduct and cocaine use has died at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":107949,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-107948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107948\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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