Canterbury MP Rosie Duffield has resigned from the Labour Occasion.
The MP is the primary to leap ship because the common election and in her resignation letter criticised the prime minister for accepting hundreds of kilos price of presents.
She stated the explanation for leaving now’s “the programme of policies you seem determined to stick to”.
In her letter she talked about the current “treatment of Diane Abbott” – and “sleaze” allegations in opposition to the prime minister’s high staff.
Since December 2019, the prime minister obtained £107,145 in presents, advantages, and hospitality – a particular class in parliament’s register of MPs’ pursuits.
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Rosie Duffield. Pic: UK Parliament/Jessica Taylor/Handout by way of Reuters
Ms Duffield, who has beforehand clashed with the prime minister on gender points, accused the federal government of pursuing “cruel and unnecessary” insurance policies.
She criticised the choice to maintain the two-child profit cap and means-test the winter gas fee, and accused the Prime Minister of “hypocrisy” over his acceptance of free presents from donors.
“The sleaze, nepotism and apparent avarice are off the scale. I am so ashamed of what you and your inner circle have done to tarnish and humiliate our once proud party,” she wrote.
“Since the change of government in July, the revelations of hypocrisy have been staggering and increasingly outrageous.
“I can not put into phrases how indignant I and my colleagues are at your whole lack of expertise about how you could have made us all seem.”
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