Rosie Duffield resigns as Labour MP with scathing attack on Keir Starmer’s leadership

Politician cites cruel and unnecessary policies' as she lambasts prime minister's managerial and technocratic approach'

A Labour MP has resigned from the parliamentary party after criticising Keir Starmer's cruel and unnecessary" policies and lambasting the prime minister's managerial and technocratic approach" to politics.

In a furious letter announcing her decision, Rosie Duffield, the Canterbury MP, said she felt relief in making the decision. She said the row over freebies handed to Starmer and his top team demonstrated that sleaze, nepotism and apparent avarice are off the scale".