Rosie Duffield, MP for Canterbury (Picture: Jeff Gilbert/Shutterstock)
Rosie Duffield has resigned as the Labour MP for Canterbury, becoming the first MP to jump ship since the General Election.
In her resignation letter, she criticised Prime Minister Keir Starmer over high price tag gifts he and his wife received from Lord Alli.
‘Someone with far-above-average wealth choosing to keep the Conservatives’ two-child limit to benefit payments which entrenches children in poverty, while inexplicably accepting expensive personal gifts of designer suits and glasses costing more than most of these people can grasp – this is entirely undeserving of holding the title of Labour prime minister,’ she wrote.
She added: ‘Forcing a vote [on the winter fuel payment] to make many older people iller and colder while you and your favourite colleagues enjoy free family trips to events most people would have to save hard for – why are you not showing even the slightest bit of embarrassment?’
Her resignation, first reported by The Times, comes after years of being increasingly isolated over her anti-trans views.
‘With my views, all I wanted was for those views to be taken seriously and discussed and I think as a movement the Labour Party has shifted and we are talking about those things now,’ she told The Times.
Duffield said that the Labour party will always be her ‘natural home’.
‘I hope to be able to return to the party in the future,’ she wrote, ‘when it again resembles the party I love, putting the needs of the many before the greed of the few.’
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