Alice Mahon, MP for Halifax between 1987 and 2005, said she also felt “absolutely scandalised” by the Damian McBride affair. Mahon, 71, a left-winger who was a vocal critic of Tony Blair and the Iraq War, has now written to Halifax Constituency Labour Party tendering her resignation. She had been a member for more than half a century. In her letter, she said: “This has been a difficult decision to take as I feel I was almost born into the Labour Party. “However, I can no longer be a member of a party that at the leadership level has betrayed many of the values and principles that inspired me as a teenager to join.”
A VETERAN Labour former MP has quit the party, complaining that the leadership had “betrayed” the principles that inspired her to join.
Sunday, 19 April 2009
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