No serious political journalist should be taking Rosie Duffield's vindictive grandstanding at face value. She's a pariah in Labour for her transphobia and personally hates Starmer, while befriending Tories like Badenoch and Cates. She has faked a righteous justification for resigning.

And she effectively lied and misrepresented herself to the electorate by standing for Labour just a few weeks ago.

After reading up on her, I'd surprised that the party is not opening a bottle 🍾 to celebrate

Labour should decline to comment other than 'it happens, look at the record of 30p Lee' Don't give Duffield the oxygen.

The takeaway should be that you can’t appease transphobes. Any more than Nazis or the Daily Mail.

And [predictably] Owen Jones is delighted.

Thanks for the handy insight into the latest drama! I can’t keep up 🙃

Surely, this action (by anyone actually) automatically leads to an immediate by-election? I reckon the overwhelming majority of the electorate in this country vote 'Party' not Person?

And it’s so transparently faked too, because the reasoning is nonsense on stilts.