Angela Rayner was introduced to the stage at the annual conference of the Trades Union Congress (TUC) as “one of us”. Labour’s deputy must be feeling very enthusiastic right now, having once again emerged from a Keir Starmer reshuffle with more power than she had before.
After being promoted to shadow levelling-up secretary – a fitting platform for a politician with a compelling story of social mobility – and with her position as deputy prime minister in a possible Labour government confirmed, claims she would be sidelined were wrong.
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