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The Labour parliamentary candidate for Canterbury has announced she will not be attending local hustings ahead due to constant trolling. Rosie Duffield, who was elected to the south east Kent seat in 2017, said in a statement today that she has made the “difficult decision” not to attend the events ahead of the general election. It comes after a court case earlier this month in which a man who threatened online to kill the former MP and author J.K Rowling was spared jail. In her statement on X, formerly known as Twitter, the parliamentary candidate said: “I have made the extremely difficult de…