A SENIOR Labour MP has quit her role in the party’s shadow cabinet with a veiled attack on leader Keir Starmer.
MP has quit her role in the party’s shadow cabinet with a veiled attack on leader Keir Starmer.
“It has been a pleasure to serve as the shadow cabinet minister for mental health over the last three and a half years,” she wrote in her resignation later. “As discussed previously, and in our call earlier, you made clear that you do not see a space for a mental health portfolio in a Labour cabinet, which is why I told you many weeks ago that I would not be able to continue in this role.
The doctor went on to say she’d continue to stand for Labour values from the backbenches – in a message which can read as a condemnation of Starmer’s recent approach to issues like the two-child cap and plans to continue using barges and military bases to house asylum seekers.