Disgraced MP Fiona Onasanya has been released from prison after serving a third of her sentence for perverting the course of justice.

The MP for Peterborough, who was expelled by the Labour Party, was driven out of HMP Bronzefield in Ashford, Surrey, on Tuesday morning - four weeks after she was jailed.

She was sentenced to three months at the Old Bailey on January 29 after being convicted of perverting the course of justice by lying to avoid a speeding charge.

Onasanya sat in the back of a white Vauxhall with the closest window to her covered by a hi-vis jacket as it drove past photographers at speed.

She has refused to stand down and trigger a by-election in her seat and having been freed under an early-release scheme, the politician - now sitting as an independent - could appear in the Commons for tomorrow's crucial Brexit voting.

The Daily Mail reported that she would be made to wear an ankle tag as part of the programme.

The 35-year-old solicitor was jailed on January 29 after she was convicted at the Old Bailey.

News of her release comes a day after a complaint to the Attorney General's Office that the sentence given to her was unduly lenient was rejected.