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Jared O’Mara’s ‘Comms Team’ spectacularly resigns

Jared O’Mara, the former Labour MP (who was briefly suspended from the party in 2018 over a series of online comments) has been something of an enigma in Westminster of late.

Although he promised to fight for his constituents when he left the Labour party to become an independent, the politician has since missed a huge number of key votes in the Commons, leaving the residents of Sheffield Hallam furious, and with no effective representation in parliament.

Now it appears though that O’Mara’s staff have had enough of the MP as well. This evening, Gareth Arnold, who claims to be O’Mara’s ‘Comms Team’, took control of the MP’s Twitter page and released a series of tweets in which he lambasted his employer for being ‘the most disgustingly morally bankrupt person I have ever had the displeasure of working with’, before finally announced his own resignation:

If Arnold really did work for O’Mara, then that might be the most spectacular resignation Mr S has ever seen…

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