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Beth Winter resigns from Labour, attacking party's loss of values
SOCIALIST PRINCIPLES: Welsh Labour Party MP Beth Winter (right) with General secretary of the Public and Commercial Services (PCS) union, Mark Serwotka and Labour MP for Liverpool, Riverside Kim Johnson, join union members of the on the picket line outside the office of HM Treasury, in Westminster last year

FORMER Labour MP Beth Winter resigned from the party today with an excoriating attack on its values and policies under leader Sir Keir Starmer.

The socialist MP represented Cynon Valley after the 2019 general election and paid tribute to expelled Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn for the radical manifesto she was elected on.

She said: “It has been the greatest honour of my life to serve as the MP for my home, Cynon Valley, elected on the transformative Labour manifesto of 2019.

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