Canterbury MP Rosie Duffield tells leader she is ‘ashamed’ of how ‘inner circle had tarnished and humiliated our once proud party’

Rosie Duffield has quit as a Labour MP, attacking Sir Keir Starmer ’s “cruel and unnecessary policies” and the freebie row engulfing the party. The Canterbury MP will sit as an independent after resigning the Labour whip “with immediate effect”.

When Keir Starmer entered 10 Downing Street as the UK’s new prime minister on July 5, the customary line-up of officials and aides was there to clap him in following the Labour Party’s resounding electoral success.

During a speech at the Labour Party conference in Liverpool, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer was briefly interrupted by a protester shouting about Gaza. Starmer resumed his speech to applause, humorously remarking on the protester's entry pass from the 2019 conference and the changes in the Labour Party.

In a resignation letter to Mr Starmer, the Canterbury MP criticised the government’s decision to keep the two-child benefit cap and means-test the winter fuel payment, and accused the Prime Minister of “hypocrisy” over his acceptance of free gifts from donors.

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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 Canterbury 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.

Rosie Duffield has resigned as the Labour MP for Canterbury. In a resignation letter to Sir Keir Starmer, she criticised the decision to keep the two-child benefit cap and means-test the winter fuel payment,

MP Rosie Duffield resigns Labour whip over ‘hypocrisy and cruel policies’ - Rosie Duffield accused Sir Keir Starmer of lacking ‘political instincts’ and displaying ‘sleaze, nepotism and apparent avarice’.