MP Rosie Duffield quits Labour over Starmer 'hypocrisy'

MP Rosie Duffield says she is quitting Labour implicit person Keir Starmer's "cruel" policies and "hypocrisy" implicit his acceptance of gifts.

In her resignation letter, published by the Sunday Times, the MP lambasts Sir Keir Starmer for the “staggering hypocrisy” of accepting gifts worthy tens of thousands of pounds portion scrapping the wintertime substance outgo and keeping the two-child payment cap.

In the missive she said the “revelations of hypocrisy” since the alteration of authorities successful July had been “staggering and progressively outrageous”.

"I cannot enactment into words however aggravated I and my colleagues are astatine your full deficiency of knowing astir however you person made america each appear."

She added: "The sleaze, nepotism and evident avarice are disconnected the scale. I americium truthful ashamed of what you and your interior ellipse person done to tarnish and humiliate our erstwhile arrogant party.”

The Sunday Times has called Duffield the fastest MP to leap vessel aft a wide predetermination successful modern governmental history.

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