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Former Labour Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner has ambition and she will NOT ALLOW a very public resignation to stop her.
Since resigning as deputy PM and deputy leader in September over THAT ministerial code breach, Rayner has been busy rebuilding her profile on the back benches and inside the Labour movement. New reports suggest she is renewing links with the party’s soft left and joining organising groups. She is seen by some MPs and unions as a potential “unity” candidate if Starmer’s position collapses after future elections. This will happen next May so not long to go.
Starmer has now gone on the record saying that Rayner WILL return to his Government.
Sir Keir added that Rayner, who grew up in poverty and left school at 16, was “the best social mobility story this country has ever seen”. Asked whether he missed her, he was quoted as saying: “Yes, of course I do. I was really sad that we lost her.”Pressed on whether she would be back in the cabinet, he replied: “Yes. She’s hugely talented.”
These are the remarks of a man who FEARS the threat Rayner poses to his leadership from her perch on the back benches. He obviously wants to keep his friends close and his competitors closer!
It’s not JUST Starmer that wants Our Ange – little Wes Streeting is also rumoured to be wanting her.
Angela Rayner has been forced to deny claims she has been invited to form a “joint ticket” with Wes Streeting to take over the Labour leadership. A source close to the former deputy prime minister insisted “there is no vacancy and there is no pact”, adding Ms Rayner will “not be played like a pawn”. It comes after there were reports that allies close to the health secretary were pressing for an alliance between the two Labour MPs, described by sources as “joint ticket” or “unity” pact.
She is shrewd to deny these rumours even if they were true.
Rayner does not want to just a Minister again and she does not want to be number two to Starmer OR Streeting.
She wants to be Prime Minister and I wouldn’t rule her out.
The Unions like her, she is media savvy and more charming than Starmer or Streeting. She would also give Labour its’ first female Leader and Prime Minister.
Rayner is also the bookies favourite at 4/1 odds to become the next Labour leader in the event of a challenge to Keir Starmer.
The small matter of her failure to pay £40,000 surcharge on her Brighton property is a minor inconvenience. Let them eat cake, says the Red Queen.
