
Life
Shunned by my own party
“I should have been the perfect Labour MP,” says Rosie Duffield in UnHerd. I was a single mum on benefits, earning under £10,000 as a teaching assistant; on my first day in parliament, I had to borrow money for the train fare. And I won my seat by turning “true blue” Canterbury red for the first time in history. At first, Labour’s “leading men” were excited: they plastered my face on all the big screens at the party conference; they bragged about my victory in their speeches. “Then I liked a tweet.”