Labour's Deputy Labour Leader is a campaigning asset
Angela Rayner revels in being a ‘Marmite’ figure and she is feared as a threat by her Tory opponents, says Adam Boulton
In a round of interviews, she let it be known: “I don’t see any reason why Diane Abbott can’t stand as a Labour MP going forward,” adding emphatically: “I am saying that as Deputy Leader of the Labour Party.” Next she phoned Faiza Shaheen, the charismatic self-styled “socialist” who has just been barred from
If it comes to a showdown, Rayner has a vote on the NEC but it is far from clear that she will opt for open mutiny. Rayner’s sympathy provides cover for the party leadership whatever Abbott’s future as an MP turns out to be. When she says she speaks as “Deputy Leader” she is making it clear that she, like Starmer, has not been part of the disciplinary or selection process.
To his critics on the left Prescott was a double agent. An outspoken ambassador to old Labour while always bolstering “Tony” in the end. His subtle loyalty, and reformist New Labour credentials, earned him some licence. He famously likened Blair’s chief adviser Peter Mandelson to a crab, and survived an affair while in office and punching a protester on the campaign trail. Grasping the comparison gleefully, Rayner reassures that she has no “plans to punch anyone”.
with the Reeves-driven rebranding of her “New Deal for Working People” into “Labour’s Plan to Make Work Pay”
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