{"id":389599,"date":"2025-09-01T16:02:14","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T16:02:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/389599\/"},"modified":"2025-09-01T16:02:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T16:02:14","slug":"ex-somerton-and-frome-mp-david-warburton-dies-suddenly-in-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/389599\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Somerton and Frome MP David Warburton dies suddenly in London"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">An ex-MP who quit politics after allegations of sexual misconduct has died suddenly aged 59. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">David Warburton, who represented the Somerton and Frome constituency in Somerset until June 2023, died in London on 26 August.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">The Metropolitan Police said a man in his 50s was found dead by paramedics at an address in Chelsea, west London.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Officers are treating the man&#8217;s death as &#8220;unexpected but not suspicious&#8221;, the force added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Mr Warburton was suspended by the Conservative Party in April 2022 when claims of sexual misconduct were made against him, which he denied.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">The allegations were later withdrawn and an investigation by the House of Commons Independent Expert Panel was closed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Mr Warburton resigned as an MP in June 2023 after admitting taking cocaine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An ex-MP who quit politics after allegations of sexual misconduct has died suddenly aged 59. David Warburton, who&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":389600,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7757],"tags":[748,393,4884,257,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-389599","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-london","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115129886053877273","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=389599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389599\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/389600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}