MP Rosie Duffield quits Labour over Starmer 'hypocrisy'

MP Rosie Duffield says she is quitting Labour over leader Keir Starmer's "cruel" policies and "hypocrisy" over 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 worth tens of thousands of pounds while scrapping the winter fuel payment and keeping the two-child benefit cap.

In the letter she said the “revelations of hypocrisy” since the change of government in July had 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."

She added: "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.”

The Sunday Times has called Duffield the fastest MP to jump ship after a general election in modern political history.

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