Labour MP Rosie Duffield has resigned the Labour whip with immediate effect.
In her resignation letter she has accused the Prime Minister Kier Starmer of having a lack of basic politics and attacks the revelations over the gifts of cloths and entertaining
Her resignation letter pulls no punches:
“As Prime Minister, your managerial and technocratic approach, and lack of basic politics and political instincts, have come crashing down on us as a party after we worked so hard, promised so much, and waited a long fourteen years to be mandated by the British public to return to power.
Since the change of government in July, the revelations of hypocrisy have been staggering and increasingly outrageous. I cannot put into words how angry I and my colleagues are at your total lack of understanding about how you have made us all appear.
How dare you take our longed-for victory, the electorate’s sacred and precious trust, and throw it back in their individual faces and the faces of dedicated and hardworking Labour MPs?! The sleaze, nepotism and apparent avarice are off the scale.
I am so ashamed of what you and your inner circle have done to tarnish and humiliate our once proud party.”
