Following days of bluster and misinformation, the Deputy Prime Minister finally resigned when a report by the Government’s sleaze watchdog found she had broken the Ministerial Code by failing to ensure she paid the right tax on an £800,000 seaside apartment.
In a handwritten letter, Sir Keir hailed her as the ‘living embodiment of social mobility’ and told her he was ‘very sad to be losing you’.Despite her forced resignation for dodging tax the PM also hinted at a possible future comeback, telling her: ‘You will remain a major figure in our party.’
...and the jury's surely still out on that one, with the damage he's already done to it, and the prospect of a Muslim as Home Secretary, and a failed Mastermind contestant as replacement Deputy Leader.
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House of Lords need more BO caused by a prominent Neanderthal gene (gingers, you see). Send her there.
I wonder if we should issue MPs T-shirts with names and numbers printed on them so we can track all the labour MPs scrambling for a place in another party, and Conservative MPs doing the same. Perhaps they could all join the Monster Raving Loony Party (if it would have them) as a temporary home while they seek patronage elsewhere?
Oh dear, funny thick Ange shows typical Labour entitlement to ignore her own rules for her own benefit
I wouldn’t be surprised if that’s where she ended up. Would you?
The Monster Raving Looney’s are far too sensible for this lot.
It’s always the greed that gets them!
And now Louise Haigh has ‘told friends she plans to run for election as deputy party leader’ (Times). If Starmer doesn’t finish off the party, that surely will.
Meanwhile, on a more serious note, consider Rayner’s errors of judgement, odd decisions and lapses into vulgarity in the light of this from 2023:
‘Angela Rayner yesterday boasted of being 'proud' of 12-hour-plus 'rave' sessions and drinking super-strength booze. […] Ms Rayner said that she had just returned from a holiday in Spain where she had been drinking from mid-afternoon to sunrise the next morning […]
Referring to a recent supermarket trip, she said: 'I was ashamed the other day because I got three bottles of wine and eight packs of vapes and that was it, that's all I had in my basket and I did actually think 'I need to put some fruit in there’’.’ (Mail)
Not to mention the history of heavy cider drinking at the age of 14, the recent mega-glass of wine on the beach and the time when, visiting Starmer’s flat, she opened a treasured bottle of whisky when he left the room - the act of someone so desperate for a drink she couldn’t wait for her host to return?
It wouldn’t surface straight away, of course, for fear of undermining the policies she introduced but look out for a future bid for sympathy for poor Ange in the light of a long-standing addiction issue.
She should have gone after the Star Wars shoes thing.
She should have gone after the AirPods expenses thing.
Both were occasions where she thought the rules didn't apply to her and she could use her position for personal benefit.
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