The new government of UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer reeled from its first resignation Saturday, as lawmaker Rosie Duffield quit the Labour Party, accusing him of “hypocrisy” over his acceptance of free gifts. In a blistering resignation letter, Duffield denounced Starmer for pursuing “cruel and unnecessary” policies. “The sleaze, nepotism and apparent avarice are off the scale,” she wrote, after it emerged earlier this month that Starmer had accepted more than GBP100,000 in gifts and hospitality while cutting an annual GBP300 winter heating payment to some 10 million pensioners. “I am so asha…