Is Angela Rayner Really Plotting to Become Leader of the Labour Party? The I Paper Experts’ Verdict

Is Angela Rayner really plotting to become leader of the Labour Party? The i Paper experts’ verdict

News that Angela Rayner privately demanded the Chancellor deliver a suite of tax rises on wealthier households rather than cut spending has caused an immediate headache for the Prime Minister.The document, leaked to The Daily Telegraph, gives the clearest suggestion of Cabinet tensions, as unrest in the rank and file grows over benefit cuts and means testing the winter fuel payment.Speculation is now rife that Rayner is willing to step beyond he…

Angela Rayner to position herself as 'credible alternative to Keir Starmer' as PM faces backlash from own MPs

Angela Rayner is being positioned as a "credible" alternative to Sir Keir Starmer as the Prime Minister faces concerns about a backlash from his own backbenchers

Is Angela Rayner positioning herself for a Starmer succession race? - NewsGroove Uk

What is Angela Rayner up to? To every Labour MP reading the leaked memo in the Daily Telegraph setting out the deputy prime minister’s alternative tax-raising measures, it felt like firing the starting gun on a race to succeed Keir Starmer as leader. It has infuriated Starmer loyalists because of long memories of the breakdown in relations after Labour lost the Hartlepool byelection just a year into Starmer’s leadership, when he considered quitt…