Rosie Duffield resigns as Labour MP: ‘Sleaze, nepotism and apparent avarice are off the scale’

Rosie Duffield (Image: UK Parliament)

Rosie Duffield has quit her role as Labour MP for Canterbury, criticising the Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer‘s “cruel and unnecessary” policies in a scathing resignation letter.

Duffield said that since taking over as the leader of the Labour Party, Starmer had “used various heavy-handed management tactics” and criticised the PM’s “managerial and technocratic approach”.

“Since the change of government in July, the revelations of hypocrisy have been staggering and increasingly outrageous,” she wrote in reference to the ongoing ‘freebies scandal‘, which, among other things, has seen Starmer declare over £100,000 in free gifts and tickets.

“Rosie Duffield has made a political career out of dehumanising one of the most marginalised groups in society” – Nadia Whittome, MP

In her resignation letter, Duffield

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