Rosie Duffield, a survivor of domestic abuse and the current MP for Canterbury, a seat she won for Labour from the Tories in 2017, has described being in the Labour Party as akin to an abusive relationship. She wrote: “When I come home at night, I feel low-level trauma at my political isolation.”
One might ask why an incredible woman who was returned to Parliament with an increased majority is feeling the way she is, or what has she done to be facing so much abuse from her own? The answer to that question is a depressing one — in the Commons last week, she backed the Government’s decision to block the Scottish parliament’s gender identification legislation. She was unable to get through her speech because she was being shouted down by fellow Labour MPs.
