MP quits Labour over Keir Starmer’s ‘sleaze’ amid freebies and gifts scandal

Rosie Duffield has resigned arsenic the Labour MP for Canterbury, becoming the archetypal MP to leap vessel since the General Election.

In her resignation letter, she criticised Prime Minister Keir Starmer implicit precocious terms tag gifts he and his woman received from Lord Alli.

‘Someone with far-above-average wealthiness choosing to support the Conservatives’ two-child bounds to payment payments which entrenches children successful poverty, portion inexplicably accepting costly idiosyncratic gifts of decorator suits and glasses costing much than astir of these radical tin grasp – this is wholly undeserving of holding the rubric of Labour prime minister,’ she wrote.

She added: ‘Forcing a ballot [on the wintertime substance payment] to marque galore older radical iller and colder portion you and your favourite colleagues bask escaped household trips to events astir radical would person to prevention hard for – wherefore are you not showing adjacent the slightest spot of embarrassment?’

Her resignation, archetypal reported by The Times, comes aft years of being progressively isolated implicit her anti-trans views.

‘With my views, each I wanted was for those views to beryllium taken earnestly and discussed and I deliberation arsenic a question the Labour Party has shifted and we are talking astir those things now,’ she told The Times.

Duffield said that the Labour enactment volition ever beryllium her ‘natural home’.

‘I anticipation to beryllium capable to instrumentality to the enactment successful the future,’ she wrote, ‘when it again resembles the enactment I love, putting the needs of the galore earlier the greed of the few.’

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