Rosie Duffield quits as Labour MP and blasts Keir Starmer

Rosie Duffield has resigned as a Labor MP, saying she is leaving the party over Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s “hypocrisy” over donations and government policy decisions.

Mr Duffield, who has represented Canterbury since 2017, announced he was leaving the party in a letter of resignation. Published in the Sunday Times On Saturday (September 28), she criticized Starmer for accepting controversial gifts worth thousands of pounds while keeping the winter fuel charge scrapped and the two-child allowance capped.

The current independent member of parliament (53) said that several “last straws” led to this decision, but the reason he is resigning now is “no matter how unpopular you are with voters and the people, you are determined to stick to it.” “This is due to a policy program that appears to be solidifying the situation,” he wrote. My own Member of Parliament.”

He said policies under Starmer were “cruel and unnecessary” and affected the most vulnerable people in society, and that since Labor won the general election in July, “the hypocrisy has been exposed”. ” has become “astounding and increasingly outrageous.”

She writes: I am very ashamed of what you and your inner circle have done to smear and humiliate our once proud party. ”

“People with far above average wealth choose to maintain Tory benefits restrictions that keep children in poverty, while buying branded suits that are too expensive for most people to understand. He has inexplicably accepted an expensive personal gift of glasses – which makes him completely unworthy of the title of Labor Prime Minister.

“Force a vote [on the winter fuel payment] “Why do you and your favorite coworkers make so many elderly people sick and callous while you enjoy free family trips to events that most people would have to work hard to save up for?” Why don’t you show even the slightest sense of embarrassment or remorse?”

Mr. Duffield went on to say, “It leads us to the following.” [her] While in office as an independent, he supported Labour’s core values ​​and concluded that he would like to return to the Labor Party once it began to resemble the party that I love again.

Duffield is well known for her “gender critical” views, having previously referred to trans women as “biological men in male bodies.” criticized gender-inclusive expressionsopposed the Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill, saying trans women should not have access to same-sex-only spaces, including changing rooms, toilets and domestic violence shelters.

Rosie Duffield’s comments about the transgender community have been condemned by members of her party. Several groups within the Labor Party, including LGBT+ Labor and Labor Students, had previously called on the party to remove Mr Duffield’s whip before he resigned over his comments about Susie Eddie Izzard.

Separately, the politician was cleared of charges of transphobia and anti-Semitism by his party in January, saying he was “totally exonerated”. It was after the Sunday Times. reported Mr Duffield became the subject of a Labor Party investigation after he liked a post by comedy writer-turned-anti-trans critic Graham Linehan on X/Twitter.