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FORMER Labour minister Lord Warner was labelled an “arse” yesterday after he quit the party in protest at its move to the left under Jeremy Corbyn.
The former health minister resigned the whip saying: “I fear for Labour’s future” if activists loyal to the leader gain greater control of the party’s mechanisms.
He claimed Labour was no longer a “credible” alternative government.
However, the peer’s decision sparked a furious response from Labour politicians, with former minister John Spellar simply commenting: “He was always an arse.”
Former deputy prime minister Lord Prescott wrote on Twitter: “Lord Warner. A minister you’ve never heard of who wanted to charge people £10 a month to use the NHS. No credibility. No great loss.”
Shadow work and pensions secretary Owen Smith told BBC2’s Newsnight: “I think Lord Warner has been leaving us for quite a while. He voted with the Tories a couple of years ago … to privatise parts of the NHS.
“I’m not sure we will miss him too much.”
