Justice has been served for Rosie Duffield

The year has got off to a good start for Rosie Duffield. Back in November, the MP for Canterbury became the focus of an investigation by the Labour Party’s National Executive Committee (NEC), following allegations of anti-Semitism and transphobia. Now she has been, in her words, ‘completely exonerated’.

Duffield’s mistake, such as it was, had been to like a tweet by comedy writer Graham Linehan – who was himself responding to comedian-turned-parliamentary-wannabe, Eddie Izzard. Izzard has spent the past few years living in ‘girl mode’ and being referred to as ‘she’ or ‘her’. Izzard had told an interviewer: ‘If I’d been in Nazi Germany, I would have been murdered for saying that I was trans.’ ‘Ah, yes,’ Linehan remarked with fabulous understatement, ‘The Nazis, famously bigoted against straight white men with blonde hair.’ Never mind Duffield, I’d have liked this skewering of Izzard’s ego-centrism a hundred times over, were it possible.