Rosie Duffield has resigned from the Labour party, citing Keir Starmer's acceptance of gifts from Lord Alli as a reason for her departure. In her resignation letter, she accused Starmer of hypocrisy for accepting expensive gifts while upholding policies that harm impoverished families.
Labour MP Rosie Duffield has quit, giving up the party whip "with immediate effect". In a scathing resignation letter Ms Duffield attacked Prime Minister Keir Starmer over gifts he and his wife received from Lord Alli.
She wrote: “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.
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“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 said in an interview with the Times.
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