JK Rowling defends Rosie Duffield against ‘numbskulls’

All is not well in the Labour party. Not only is Sir Keir still dealing with the freebie fiasco, Starmer also lost a longtime MP last week after she quit the party. Rosie Duffield left Labour with a bang, penning a scathing letter that blasted the ‘sleaze, nepotism and apparent avarice’ existing among the lefty lot, telling the Prime Minister: ‘I am so ashamed of what you and your inner circle have done to tarnish and humiliate our once proud party.’ Shots fired…

And now renowned writer JK Rowling has waded into the matter. Duffield’s resignation letter received immense backlash from her former colleagues – many of whom, alongside Starmer, have taken issue with her stance on women’s rights – with Labour’s Nadia Whittome even tweeting that the gender critical politician had ‘made a political career out of dehumanising one of the most marginalised groups in society…Labour should have withdrawn the whip long ago’.