Angela Rayner: ‘I get criticised for going on holiday. Am I not allowed to do that?’
Deputy PM on the Keir Starmer donations row, winter fuel payment cuts and missing out on grace and favour mansionKeir Starmer’s popularity ratings will bounce back, Angela Rayner insists. Nestled among Michael Foot’s “donkey jacket”, an empty can of BrewDog Barnard Castle Eye Test beer and a pike from Peterloo, there sits a new exhibit at the People’s History Museum in Manchester: the jacket Angela Rayner wore when she first stood in at prime minister’s questions against Boris Johnson. The now deputy prime minister donated the powder-blue Marks & Spencer fitted knit jacket to the museum, where it is displayed in a glass case alongside a range of other Labour Party memorabilia, this summer.
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