Contest was triggered by MP Rosie Cooper’s resignation after being targeted in rightwing plot
West Lancashire constituents will vote for their next MP on Thursday in a Westminster byelection triggered by the resignation of Labour’s Rosie Cooper.
Cooper announced she was stepping down last autumn after more than 17 years, after being targeted in a rightwing plot in 2017 in which a 23-year-old extremist had planned to “replicate” the murder of Jo Cox using a machete.
