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A former MP who resigned after facing allegations of sexual misconduct and cocaine use has died aged 59.

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00:00a metropolitan police spokesperson said on monday police were called by the london ambulance service
00:13at 10 47 hours on tuesday the 26th of august to an address at chelsea crescent in sand's end
00:21they added a man in his 50s was found dead at the scene and that his death was being treated as
00:30unexpected but not suspicious the man in question has now been identified as 59 year old former mp
00:39david warburton who represented the somerton and from constituency in somerset from 2015 until june
00:482023 warburton resigned after facing allegations of sexual misconduct and cocaine use he had admitted
00:59using cocaine but denied those claims of sexual misconduct against him and hit out at a
01:05parliamentary probe into the allegations which had taken 14 months at the time of his resignation
01:13he said he had been denied a fair hearing and left with no choice but to provoke the upheaval of a
01:23by-election which was won by liberal democrat mp sarah dyke former labour mp simon dutch zook who
01:32later joined reform uk posted on x formerly twitter that he was sad to hear of warburton's death
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