JK Rowling tells Labour MP to ‘f**k off’ over response to Rosie Duffield’s resignation

Harry Potter author JK Rowling has hit out at Nadia Whittome after the Labour MP criticised Rosie Duffield, who announced her resignation from the party on Saturday (28 September).

Duffield, who has been the MP for Canterbury, in Kent, since 2017, announced she was resigning the Labour whip, in a letter published by The Sunday Times.

In the letter, she attacked prime minister Keir Starmer, criticising his “cruel and unnecessary” policies, such as scrapping the winter fuel payment for most pensioners and keeping the two-child benefit cap, and called out the “revelations of hypocrisy” that have been “staggering and increasingly outrageous” since Labour took power in July.

Duffield is known for her ‘gender-critical’ views, having repeatedly called trans women “male bodied” and saying transgender women should not have access to domestic violence shelters,

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