Ms Hoey, 73, who will not be standing in the upcoming election, has said she will not be voting for Labour in London as it will be a “wasted vote” and instead will be casting her ballot paper in Northern Ireland for the DUP. Ms Hoey, who served as the Labour MP for Vauxhall for 30 years, has condemned the Labour Party’s Brexit stance and branded its neutral position “so confusing” and “so wrong”. The Brexiteer added the opposition party has “reneged on everything they promised at the last election”.
The 73-year-old revealed she will be voting for Arlene Foster’s DUP as the Labour Party is “so anti-democratic in Northern Ireland” and does not put up any candidates.
Ms Hoey told LBC: “I’m actually going to be voting in Northern Ireland and unfortunately the Labour Party is so anti-democratic in Northern Ireland that they allow people to join but they don’t put up candidates.
“So I’ll be voting for a pro-Union candidate in Northern Ireland.”
Ms Hoey added: “It will be DUP yes, where I am likely to be voting.
“I’m pro-Union. I would not dream of voting for Sinn Fein, I wouldn’t dream of voting for the SDLP (Social Democratic and Labour Party).”
LBC host Iain Dale then pressed Ms Hoey on her answer and said she could vote in the capital.
Mr Dale said: “But you could vote in London couldn’t you? If you did who would you vote for?”
The hardline Brexiteer then responded by saying it would be a “wasted vote” to cast her ballot in the Bethnal Green & Bow Constituency as Labour MP Rushanara Ali would win a “huge majority”.
Ms Hoey said: “Yeah its a kind of wasted vote, I’m living in Rushanara Ali’s seat.”
She added: “That seat is going to stay Labour by a huge majority it would be wasted vote one way or the other.”
Ms Hoey, who served as a Labour MP since 1989, revealed if she was voting in London it would be for the Conservatives or the Brexit Party.
Asked if she would have voted for the Brexit Party or Conservative Party if she was voting in London, she said “Yes I would”, adding that “the country comes before party politics in this election”.
The 73-year-old said: “Yes I would, people have to realise the country comes before party politics in this election.
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When pressed on who she would vote for between the Tories and Nigel Farage’s Brexit Party, Ms Hoey declined to give a definitive answer.
The 73-year-old insisted it would be for the candidate in the best position to honour the referendum in that particular constituency.
She said: “It genuinely would depend on who i thought was best going to best deliver the result in that seat.”
