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Those patterns continue: reward, punishment, promises of happy ever after, alternating with abject rage, menace, silent treatment and coercive control.

— Rosie Duffield Labour MP moves colleagues to tears with domestic abuse story (2019)

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You learn that "I’ll always look after you" and "You’re mine for life" can sound menacing, are used as a warning over and over again.

Labour MP moves colleagues to tears with domestic abuse story (2019)

Being shouted down in the chamber by Labour men who clearly don't want women to speak up for our rights to single-sex spaces. How very progressive.

How dare you take our longed-for victory, the electorate’s sacred and precious trust, and throw it back in their individual faces and the faces of dedicated and hardworking Labour MPs?

Resignation letter from the Labour whip (2024)

The sleaze, nepotism and apparent avarice are off the scale [...] I am so ashamed of what you and your inner circle have done to tarnish and humiliate our once proud party.

Resignation letter from the Labour whip (2024)

It’s ridiculous and nothing about me is a dinosaur. I’m angry at colleagues chucking me on the railway tracks. I’m even more determined. I’m not a transphobe, I never have been and I never will be. I simply want to use the word women.

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