Day: 28 September 2021

Labour’s deputy leader Angela Rayner has found herself caught in a scandal after she branded Tory ministers “a bunch of scum” at a Labour conference event.

Ms Rayner was reported to have made her remarks about Mr Johnson at a reception on Saturday evening. Asked on Sunday morning if she would retract the remarks, she said she believed the prime minister was a “racist, homophobic misogynist”.

“I think he needs to apologise for comments he has made in the past,” Ms Rayner told the BBC, adding: “I will apologise when Boris apologises for saying the comments he has made, I will retract that he is scum.”