A LABOUR MP quit the party tonight blasting Sir Keir Starmer over the freebie scandal engulfing his Cabinet.
Rosie Duffield tore into the new Prime Minister for accepting gifts worth more than £100,000 from Labour peer Lord Waaheed Alli.
Canterbury MP Rosie Duffield has resigned the Labour whip[/caption]
She blasted Sir Keir Starmer over the freebie scandal engulfing his Cabinet[/caption]
In a blistering letter to Sir Keir she also blamed his “cruel and unnecessary” policies.
“The sleaze, nepotism and apparent avarice are off the scale,” she wrote.
“I am so ashamed of what you and your inner circle have done to tarnish and humiliate our once proud party.”
She also attacked his decision to scrap winter fuel payments for millions of pensioners.
Adding: “Forcing a vote [on the winter fuel payment] to make many older people iller and colder while you and your favourite colleagues enjoy free family trips to events most people would have to save hard for — why are you not showing even the slightest bit of embarrassment?”
Ms Duffield said the revelations of “hypocrisy” were increasingly “outrageous”.
She said: “I cannot put into words how angry I and my colleagues are at your total lack of understanding about how you have made us all appear.”
Sir Keir is facing calls to come to Parliament and “explain himself” over the freebies scandal.
The PM is facing fresh pressure after his team admitted he received an additional £16,000 in clothes from Lord Alli.
It had originally been registered as money for his private office.
It means in total Sir Keir received £32,000 in clothes and glasses from the Labour peer and donor.
In total, he has accepted over £100,000 in free tickets to football matches, pop concerts and designer gear since 2019.
Tory shadow Cabinet minister Victoria Atkins said: “The secrecy and hypocrisy is galling – having promised a government of transparency and integrity, the Prime Minister’s freebie-grabbing of clothes, concerts, football boxes and a prime London apartment, all smells bad.
“He must explain himself to Parliament upon our return.
“As his government slashes winter fuel payments for pensioners with incomes of just £13,000, his over £100,000 of freebies looks awful.”
It comes as this newspaper reveals the sheer scale of freebies accepted by the Labour Cabinet over the past 18 months.
They accepted over £150,000 in tickets to football, Glastonbury, hospitality at major sports events and other swanky award-dos since April 2023, according to the Register of Members Financial Interests.
