Labour’s list of vacant seats – inviting applications from potential candidates – has just been published. Rochdale is not on the list. Incumbent Simon Danczuk – suspended from the Labour party for sexting – yesterday signed a form to put himself forward to stand again for Labour. Simon Danczuk rides again, so to speak…
Dominic Raab wrote in his letter of resignation…
“This is, at its heart, a matter of public trust,” he told the PM, concluding: “I cannot reconcile the terms of the proposed deal with the promises we made to the country in our manifesto at the last election… I believe that the regulatory regime proposed for Northern Ireland presents a very real threat to the integrity of the United Kingdom. I cannot support an indefinite backstop arrangement, where the EU holds a veto over our ability to exit…”
