Member of Labour’s ruling body resigns after failure to restore whip to Corbyn

The former MP for North West Durham said the Labour frontbench under Starmer was ‘devoid of ideas [and] lacking vision’. Photograph: David Levene/The Guardian

The former Labour MP Laura Pidcock has resigned from the party’s ruling body, citing dismay at the continued suspension of Jeremy Corbyn and the defection of the Tory MP Christian Wakeford.

Pidcock, once seen as a candidate for leader by the left of the party, lost her seat in North West Durham at the 2019 election but was elected to the party’s national executive committee (NEC) in the following year.