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Labour MP Kate Hoey vows to fight deselection [View all]
To have been an MP for nearly 30 years and yet not get a single vote in support in a vote of no confidence from your own supporters is about as damming as it gets!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-44979281
Pro-Brexit Labour MP Kate Hoey has vowed to resist efforts to deselect her after her local party in Vauxhall passed a vote of no confidence in her.
The activists are calling on Labour to suspend her from the party and declare her ineligible to stand as a candidate. They have accused her of "colluding" with UKIP's Nigel Farage and "propping up a failing government".
The no-confidence motion, which received unanimous backing at a party meeting on Thursday, says defeat in that Commons vote could have toppled the government and led to a general election that Labour was "widely expected to win".
The motion also accuses Ms Hoey of "reneging" on Labour's manifesto pledge to oppose Theresa May's approach to Brexit and of "colluding" with then UKIP leader Nigel Farage during the EU referendum campaign. It also attacks her backing of causes "not compatible with Labour core beliefs" such as fox hunting, "elitist grammar schools", and her chairmanship of the Countryside Alliance.
The MP, who is currently in Zimbabwe as an election observer, has represented Vauxhall since 1989.
The activists are calling on Labour to suspend her from the party and declare her ineligible to stand as a candidate. They have accused her of "colluding" with UKIP's Nigel Farage and "propping up a failing government".
The no-confidence motion, which received unanimous backing at a party meeting on Thursday, says defeat in that Commons vote could have toppled the government and led to a general election that Labour was "widely expected to win".
The motion also accuses Ms Hoey of "reneging" on Labour's manifesto pledge to oppose Theresa May's approach to Brexit and of "colluding" with then UKIP leader Nigel Farage during the EU referendum campaign. It also attacks her backing of causes "not compatible with Labour core beliefs" such as fox hunting, "elitist grammar schools", and her chairmanship of the Countryside Alliance.
The MP, who is currently in Zimbabwe as an election observer, has represented Vauxhall since 1989.
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