Angela Rayner defends decision not to scrap two-child benefit cap
Angela Rayner has recognised that families are “frustrated” at Labour’s refusal to scrap the two-child benefit cap.
Week-in-Review: Labour’s Diane Abbott U-turn reveals the power of Rayner
What can we learn about Keir Starmer’s Labour Party from the botched handling of the Diane Abbott row?
Police drop investigation into Angela Rayner housing allegations
The Greater Manchester Police has announced it is taking no further action over allegations concerning Angela Rayner’s living arrangements before she was an MP.
PMQs verdict: The politics behind Angela Rayner’s ‘pint-sized loser’ jibe
The below content first appeared in Politics.co.uk’s Politics@Lunch newsletter, subscribe here and never miss this daily briefing. With the prime minister in Germany hoping to deepen defence ties with chancellor Olaf Scholz’s government, it was left to the B-team — composed of Oliver Dowden and Angela Rayner — to man the domestic front at PMQs today. […]
Police launch investigation into Angela Rayner over sale of council house
Police have launched an investigation into Angela Rayner. Labour’s deputy leader has faced questions about whether she paid the right amount of tax on the 2015 sale of her ex-council house due to confusion over whether it was her principal residency. A Greater Manchester Police (GMP) spokesperson said: “We’re investigating whether any offences have been […]
Angela Rayner: Keir Starmer has discussed with me how ‘I’d lead if he fell ill’
Deputy leader of the Labour Party Angela Rayner has revealed that Keir Starmer once discussed with her how she would lead if he fell ill. The conversation, Rayner told British Vogue, was proof the Labour leader “respected my position”. Rayner revealed she discussed the matter with Sir Keir at the time Boris Johnson fell seriously […]
Could Keir Starmer have given Angela Rayner’s TUC speech?
Those who have paid attention to British politics at all since 2020 will know that Keir Starmer and Angela Rayner are different politicians, both in style and in substance. Indeed, Rayner and Starmer’s relationship, the standard telling goes, is a marriage of inconvenience. That they have been forced together is regretted as an unhappy accident […]
Rayner receives standing ovation at TUC conference as she calls on labour movement to ‘come together’
Angela Rayner was given a standing ovation at the Trades Union Congress conference in Liverpool as she called on the Labour movement to “come together”. She declared the battle to win over voters at the next general election is “getting started” as she revealed Labour’s vision to boost workers’ rights. It comes as Labour had […]
Labour reshuffle: The promotions and demotions in Starmer’s shadow cabinet — as it happened
Sir Keir Starmer has finished his shadow cabinet reshuffle, begun this morning as MPs returned to Westminster following the summer recess. It came as Sue Gray, former partygate investigator and senior civil servant, starts in her new role as Sir Keir’s chief of staff. Angela Rayner, the elected deputy leader of the Labour Party, has […]
Labour vows to ‘turn page on Tory sleaze’ as it details plans for new ethics watchdog
Labour will today pledge to “turn the page on Tory sleaze” if it wins the next election, with deputy leader Angela Rayner set to flesh out party plans for an ethics watchdog for ministerial standards. In a speech to the Institute for Government, Ms Rayner is expected to renew a commitment to “stop the rot” […]
