MP quits the Commons to join City Hall

A FORMER Labour frontbencher has announced she is resigning as an MP after being targeted by Momentum activists and facing calls of deselection.

Heidi Alexander, the former shadow health secretary, said she would be quitting to take over the “huge job” of deputy mayor for transport at City Hall.

The Lewisham MP left the shadow cabinet in 2016. She was this week branded a “bastion of the Labour Right” by her local party.

Meanwhile, Debbie Abrahams was sacked as shadow work and pensions secretary over bullying claims, which she denies.