Former Labour MP quits party

Former Labour MP quits party Alice Mahon, MP for Halifax between 1987 and 2005, said she also felt "absolutely scandalised" by the Damian McBride affair.

Ms Mahon, 71, a vocal critic of Tony Blair and the Iraq War, has now written to Halifax Constituency Labour Party tendering her resignation, where 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."
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