Why did louise mensch resign

Already subscribed? Log in. Forgotten your password? Mensch said every effort had been made to ensure she could stay in her role, but she had ultimately made the decision to ensure the welfare of her family.

It's been unbelievably difficult to manage family life," she said. Mensch said she had planned to move after the next election in but was concerned that her children would be too settled in east Northamptonshire by then and it would be unfair to uproot them.

Instead, she has decided to quit and a byelection will be held on 15 November, at the same time as the police commissioner elections. Labour will be desperate to win back the seat it held for 13 years until Mensch won it with a majority of 1, in The Liberal Democrats came third with 7, votes, and it is likely to see its vote squeezed.

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Published 6 August Published 20 June Published 25 April Published 20 July In she defeated Labour incumbent Phil Hope with a majority of 1,, but the seat had been Labour for 13 years before that.

In her resignation letter, she thanked David Cameron for allowing her to work in her constituency on Thursdays and Fridays, but said it was not enough. Mrs Mensch told her local paper that she had planned to move the family to New York after the next election in but was concerned her children might become too settled in the meantime.

We are now going to be moving out to New York as a family. Mrs Mensch married her husband last year after the breakdown of her first marriage. She has kept her children out of the limelight. An author of 15 fiction books, she recently launched her own social networking site, menschn. She is now expected to concentrate on expanding the site. In Parliament she won plaudits after grilling James Murdoch over his knowledge of the News International phone-hacking affair.

The MP also admitted taking class-A drugs with violinist Nigel Kennedy in the Nineties, and was the victim of offensive and threatening comments on Twitter, which resulted in a suspended jail sentence for the accused.

I'm frankly wondering why LouiseMensch ever got into politics at all. Was it just a hobby, something for her CV, or was it the spotlight? Any "lessons" to be learned from Louise Mensch quitting? Well done LouiseMensch.