“The sleaze, the nepotism and the apparent avarice are off the scale. I am so ashamed of what you and your inner circle has done to tarnish and humiliate our once proud party…..”  Sir Keir Starmer should be “putting the needs of many over the greed of the few” writes Rosie Duffield MP as she quits the Labour Party.

Michael Fabricant says “In all the 32 years I served in Parliament, I have never seen a Government collapse in sleaze so quickly.  Less than 3 months’ in. With its huge majority it will survive, but Starmer knows that with just 21% of the electorate voting for Labour, his was a love-less victory.  It will now limp on, shamed and humiliated with doubtless further gaffs to come.

“Lichfield’s new MP sought to defend the Government’s decision to U-turn on the Winter Fuel Allowance despite Keir Starmer’s pledge during the General Election to ‘protect our nation’s pensioners’.  He voted with the Government – unlike the Tamworth MP who at least abstained.  We haven’t heard from Lichfield’s MP other than that.  So I ask him:  Does he now seek to defend the tens of thousands of pounds taken by Starmer and his cronies, or will his answer be the usual one of politicians asked to defend the indefensible: simply to attack the Opposition?”

Rosie Duffield’s letter or resignation to Keir Starmer