PMQs: Sunak was missing, but was hardly missed
The Deputy Prime Minister Oliver Dowden did his best to copy the PM’s “blame Labour” routine.
ByAngela Rayner
Angela Rayner is the Labour MP for Ashton-under-Lyne and deputy leader of the Labour Party. Rayner, born in 1980, has a background in social care; she has worked as a care worker, has been a trade union representative with Unison and was appointed as party chair and national campaign coordinator for the 2021 local elections. She holds the roles of shadow deputy prime minister and shadow secretary of state for levelling-up, housing and communities.
Is there any hope for the Labour left?
Socialist MPs and affiliated trade unions will not stay quiet forever.
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You Ask Us: What next for Boris Johnson – and Angela Rayner
The NS podcast team answers your questions.
Angela Rayner drops hint about leadership ambitions
The Labour deputy would “never say never” about leading.
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PMQs today: Oliver Dowden outclassed by Angela Rayner
The Deputy Prime Minister struggled to justify the government’s obstruction of the Covid inquiry.
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PMQs today: lacklustre deputies fail to inspire
Oliver Dowden and Angela Rayner’s tired back and forth suggests the parties are suffering from post-local election fatigue.
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PMQs: Angela Rayner reads Dominic Raab his eulogy
The Labour deputy leader showed the power of her party’s focus on failures to tackle violence against women.
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Labour’s Bolton selection row puts Rayner and Starmer allies at odds
There is outrage over the exclusion of Leigh Drennan, an ally of the party’s deputy leader, from the Bolton North…
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PMQs: Dominic Raab on the ropes
In a battle of the deputies, Angela Rayner struggled to capitalise on bullying claims against the Deputy Prime Minister.
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Iain Dale’s Diary: My week at the Edinburgh Fringe, and a spellbinding chat with Angela Rayner
Still recovering from a bad fall, I hosted live podcast shows at the festival wearing a rather magnificent burgundy suit.
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Nadhim Zahawi quietly omits his links to Jeffrey Archer
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
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What Dominic Raab missed about Angela Rayner at Glyndebourne
Conservative class warfare is out of date.
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Angela Rayner: “The Tories fear me because I say it how I see it”
As deputy Labour leader, she has proved both an asset and a liability. Is she destined to lead her party?
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PMQs: Dominic Raab and Angela Rayner leave a stale taste
The two deputies offered nothing to inspire as they dragged up embarrassing quotations from their opponent’s past.
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Angela Rayner’s Diary: “The smear that I am behind Mailgate shows how desperate Tory MPs are”
The Labour deputy leader says she hopes experiences like hers don’t put young women off public life.
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The Mail’s Angela Rayner story exposes a sexism women know all too well
No matter how far we rise, we’re seen as women foremost; as hysterical and sexual objects of ridicule.
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What we learned from this week’s PMQs: Dominic Raab vs Angela Rayner
Neither stand-in is beloved by their party leadership, and today’s unedifying salvos showed why.
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Commons Confidential: No Drama Starmer
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
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Keir Starmer begins a reshuffle – and picks a fight
The Labour leader’s restructuring is an effort to finish what he started in May, when he unsuccessfully tried to sack…
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Angela Rayner seeks to fix a familiar problem with her big speech on corruption
Labour’s deputy leader tried to move the party from arguing for a policy position to a policy principle.
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