Fiona Onasanya was quickly made a Labour whip and had aspirations to become Britain’s first black prime minister

A Labour MP convicted of lying to police to avoid a speeding charge has been expelled from the party.

Fiona Onasanya, 35, was suspended by Labour last month on the day of her conviction for perverting the course of justice. Ian Lavery, the party chairman, has announced that she was expelled the next day after she refused to stand down and allow a new Labour candidate to fight a by-election.

Onasanya, who is now an independent MP for Peterborough, had said she would to continue as the city’s “representative in the corridors of power”.

In a review of her year in the Peterborough Telegraph she did not mention her conviction but expressed her determination to stay in parliament, saying there was “still much more