Labour’s Rosie Duffield has revealed she has had no contact with Keir Starmer since she was heckled by members of her party in Westminster.
Speaking exclusively to Camilla Tominey on GB News she said: “I've had one meeting with Keir and that was in September 2021. When Keir stood for the leadership, he made a great play to the MPs about how he had run an organisation, and how he was really in touch with his staff, he was very hands-on and I thought that sounded great.
“But there are 195 Labour MPs with the whip at the moment, and not very many get the headlines and the kind of vitriol that I get, I mean, we all get horrible abuse. But it's been particularly horrible for me.
“It would have been nice, I think if he'd just messaged me or something.”
Labour’s Rosie Duffield has revealed she has had no contact with Keir Starmer since she was heckled by members of her party in Westminster.
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Ms Duffield, the MP for Canterbury, said she'd had no apology following the heckling she received.
She also claimed one of those hecklers, Lloyd Russell-Moyle, had messaged her saying he’s been told not to contact her.
“All women have had abuse, we know harassment when we see it, especially women of my age group. We've had it all of our lives in different ways.
“It just feels like it felt as though they were just trying to shut me up and that's not a great look from Labour MPs.
“Lloyd messaged me saying that he'd been told not to message me and his life had been made really difficult. Since then, he'd experienced lots of abuse and things but it certainly wasn't an apology.”
Outlining what she would like to see Sir Keir do she continued: “I’d like him to address women.
"I'd like him to meet more regularly with women's groups like Labour Women's Declaration, for example, who've signed a pledge saying they want an end to self-ID and they want single-sex spaces being protected.
“I think it would be a good idea to listen to them all. I think because we're desperate to get into government and it's a very difficult issue."
She continued: “Yes, we've got some really great women on the Shadow Cabinet and the front bench. Yet leadership roles like General Secretary, head of staff, head of comms, all of those kinds of things, and our leader, they're all still white men.
“The leader talks about how we've got over 50% of women MPs, but those are the women that clung on in 2019. We did that. That wasn't by design.
Sir Keir Starmer succeeded Jeremy Corbyn as the leader of the Labour Party
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“And we've managed to keep hold of our seats in the worst general election defeat that we've ever known.”
Addressing allegations that she is transphobic, Rosie said: “Absolutely not in a million years. I mean, why would I or anyone hate a group of people simply because they've got this gender dysphoria issue or issues about gender and sexuality?
“It's impossible for me to understand how people think I hate those people. I'm talking about women's rights. Trans rights are the same as every other human right I hope and they should be.
“And I have every sympathy for anyone going through those things. But women's rights sometimes clash with self-ID.
“I think it's a brand new thing for us to be talking about as politicians. There's an awful lot of reading to do."